However, as for helping under the greater circumstances, she knew she was powerless. Could she have stopped the Famine of 1942, or the locust plague before it?
She had awakened right after the Spring Festival of 1940. Although there was still a year or two before the disaster, due to continuous war efforts, Henan constantly had to provide military provisions. Even without the famine, the local commoners lived a very grim life. The situation just hadn't deteriorated to the desperate eating of bark and earth yet.
Generation after generation, Ye Huan's family had been farmers, with no particularly capable ancestors to speak of. Eight brothers were sent off to the military one by one, but when the news of the eldest and second brother's sacrifice reached home last year, Uncle and Aunt aged a great deal overnight.
