Frost Falls, and Spring Comes Early

[No pocket dimension + no romance + not a lucky charm + farming + business + no trip to the capital + everyday rural life]

After working so much overtime that she winds up in ancient times, Qiao Shuang opens her eyes to a crisis: the family has run out of food and medicine, and her uncle is about to sell her younger sister.

Burdened with debt, she has lost even the house to her creditors and is living in a shabby place at the edge of the village with a roof missing its tiles.

Once jilted, desperately poor, and without even a grain of food at home, the first thing she does is give her useless uncle a thorough beating.

Anyone who comes looking for trouble will get a beating. If one isn’t enough, they’ll get two!

With no food, she takes her sister into the mountains to gather herbs and hunt.

Under her fists, her lazy uncle obediently learns to weave bamboo goods.

Her second aunt is beaten nearly to death by her in-laws for helping her family. Qiao Shuang takes her uncle along to fight them, then brings her aunt and three little ones home.

With no land, she clears the backyard to grow vegetables, builds a small kiln to make pottery and worm towers, and fires roof tiles.

After saving up some capital from gathering herbs, she partners with the young widow next door to start a small food stall.

Qiao Shuang’s goal is simple: repair the house, buy farmland, settle down and live well, and be content with modest prosperity.