Transmigrate to the Mountains: Farming Life

[No pocket dimension, no System. Escaping the chaos by hiding deep in the mountains, buying a mountain, farming, and raising children.]

Lin Wan, a farm owner, transmigrates into the body of a young village bride whose family is forced to split up on the very day she gets married.

Rumor has it that her husband went missing on the battlefield. Her husband’s younger brother and sister have been foisted on her to raise by their scheming stepmother.

Lin Wan looks around the dilapidated, empty hut.

They need to split the household up again and get some basic supplies to survive!

She makes no claim to the fields when they split up again, asking only for a stretch of the mountain behind the house. With a mountain at her back, she refuses to believe she can’t provide for the three of them.

She takes her younger brother and sister into the mountains to gather jelly fig fruit, prickly pears, jujubes, bottle gourds, mushrooms, and white wax flowers... They keep earning money, building their fortune, repairing the house, and storing grain.

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She never expected to find herself in a time of turmoil, with dynasties rising and falling!

What begins as an autumn tax levy spirals into a chaotic forced conscription drive.

Looking at their village, burned to the ground,

she turns around, gathers her younger siblings and their stockpiled supplies, calls in her friends and relatives, and flees into the deep mountains to begin a life of seclusion.

They build a secluded cave home, clear land for farming, gather wild fruits and vegetables, catch wild ducks, raise goats, hunt wild boars, and trap chestnuts...

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One day, the man who went missing on the battlefield returns.

He brings news that the fighting outside has finally ended.

They return to the village and rebuild their home, farming, growing gastrodia, making paper, brewing wine, weaving and dyeing cloth...

They promote education, establish a clan school, and plan for the future.

Before they know it, their poor little mountain village has become the most famous village in the entire dynasty.

(The later story focuses on the male lead preparing for the imperial examinations and the female lead farming. There will be no household or palace intrigue, or political scheming. She will help develop rural communities in impoverished areas, buying a mountain, farming, and leading the villagers to prosperity.)

Writing is not easy. I’ve tried to use period-appropriate language, but the female lead is a transmigrator, so some things...