Fine, Break Off the Engagement! Why Blame Me for Working the Fields?

[1970s + Making a Fortune + Local Protagonist + Strong Farm Girl + Blessed with Good Luck]

He Maisui's engagement was called off, and her cousin swooped in to take her place!

A man who can be lured away isn't worth grieving over. He Maisui sees things clearly: better to rely on herself than on a man! She works hard in the fields and builds her wealth.

She's strong and blessed with the luck of a koi. Her crops and pigs yield bumper harvests every year, and there's meat on the table at every meal!

She supplies mushrooms and pigs to the country, helping spur its economic growth, and achieves financial freedom herself!

[Second blurb]

Hoeing at midday,

Sweat falls onto the earth below.

Her cousin believes in the stubborn idea that education can change one's fate, and devours books and studies with a ravenous appetite.

He Maisui believes in the stubborn idea that having land means you'll never go hungry, and spends every day bent over in the fields, facing the earth and the sky.

One studies, the other labors. She thought they could join forces and both live good lives.

But sadly...

Her engagement was called off, and her cousin swooped in to take her place!

From that moment on, her cousin changed. She no longer eagerly absorbed knowledge. She applied Snowflake cream, ate fine-grain rice, wore polyester, and spoke with mocking disdain.

Her cousin's mind had been corrupted by the lies men tell. She no longer believed that education could change her fate, but instead that marrying well was better than working hard.

Her grandfather once told her that as long as you have a few acres of land and a pair of hardworking hands, life will never be too bad!

Her grandfather raised three children on three and a third mu of land, and He Maisui thought he made a lot of sense.

Of course, hardworking children are lucky too!