I Feed My Whole Family by Picking Up Kitchen Scraps

[No CP + imaginative premise + famine + farming] Chen Shengfan, whose name means “leftovers,” lives with a family that is one last breath away from the extravagant dream of having leftovers. In their desperate situation, she digs up an ugly old clay vat, one that spits things out. Not gold and silver, but kitchen scraps! A moldy, furry cake? To the ancients, it’s a miraculous omen! Greasy, cloudy broth? That’s “immortal oil”! An expired baguette hard as a brick? Scrape and roast it, and it becomes a “golden battle helmet”!

While others gnaw on clay during the famine, Chen Shengfan’s family conducts research on green-fuzzed, spoiled slop: scrape off the mold, boil bone broth, mix rotten leaves with expired sauces... The process is like a biochemical experiment, and getting knocked out by the stench is part of everyday life. With this “sacred trash vat,” they somehow turn the hell of people eating their own children into a “garbage collector’s fantastical survival adventure.”

Soon, the rumor that “the Chen family has a secret treasure” spreads faster than news of the starving dead. Bandits surround them? Smear them with expired chili sauce, and they’ll be so spicy they’ll question their entire lives! Refugees try to rob them? Splash them with stinky tofu brine and turn them into “human bio-weapons” to scare everyone off! The followers they’re forced to take in treat the packaging as protective charms and offer milk tea cups at the shrine, eventually founding the “Leftover Gang.” Chen Shengfan only wants to stay alive, but somehow becomes the “Vat God’s spokesperson.” Every day, she rants inwardly: “Other people’s golden fingers can destroy heaven and earth. Mine is a picky kitchen-waste processor! Oh sacred vat, could you please spit out something... um... edible today?”