short series

Back to 1981: The Pauper's Counterattack

share time: 2025-10-20 06:02:58

Lin Xiaoman, a modern delivery rider, dies from an electric shock while delivering food in a rainstorm. She wakes up in 1981 in a rural village in eastern Henan, reborn as a 16-year-old girl with the same name. Her new home is in shambles: a mother bedridden with tuberculosis, three siblings starving enough to eat clay, and a father who drinks all day after being cheated out of money for a cow by the village bully Zhou Laocai. With only 50 cents in her pocket, Lin recalls a neighbor’s story—back in 1981, the county supply and marketing cooperative had unsold dacron fabric. She hikes two mountains to the county town, buys 3 meters of defective fabric, sews small dresses, and sells them at the market for 2 yuan—her first earnings. But trouble strikes immediately: Zhou Laocai smashes her stall, accusing her of “stealing his business”; her father is falsely accused of gambling debts and ordered to sell the family’s land; even Chen Jianguo, the boy who once helped her pick firewood, stares at her with a strange, distant look. In her past life, Lin learned on her deathbed that Chen had saved for half a year to buy her a floral cloth, but she was too insecure to accept it. Now, she’s determined to make money to save her mother, take down Zhou Laocai, and tell Chen: “This time, I don’t want to miss out.” But when she hands the money to her mother, the woman grabs her hand weakly: “Xiaoman, you’re exactly like I dreamed…” Could this rebirth be a “miracle” her mother prayed for countless times while sick?

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