The Whole Village Starves and Chews Tree Bark, but Meat Fragrance Drifts from My Chimney

[Pure farming + food + street vending + business + making a fortune + building from nothing + no golden finger]

After dying from staying up too late, Lin Qingli transmigrated to ancient times into the body of a fourteen-year-old girl. The catch was that the girl was a compulsive gambler. After racking up a debt of three hundred taels of silver, she slammed her head into a millstone and died, leaving Lin Qingli alone in the cold wind to deal with her mess.

Lin Qingli had never won anything from buying lottery tickets or drinks. She couldn’t catch a break even if she tried. And then she just happened to run into the once-in-a-century drought and famine in Taohua Village.

Her family was so poor that even the mice had blacklisted them. Someone had even torn off their roof, and they had to ration a single bowl of rice bran every day.

Luckily, she found bracken roots and winter bamboo shoots on the mountain that no one else had noticed. She dug up the bracken roots, extracted their starch to fill her stomach and earn silver, then rebuilt the house.

After a month, the rain finally came. “Spring rain is as precious as oil.” The grasses that had survived the drought began to take root and sprout, and wild vegetables grew in wave after wave on the mountain.

There was no end to the digging, and no end to the selling.

Then summer came, bringing devastating floods. Giant insects with pincers appeared in the rice paddies, quietly burrowing through the banks and leaking water. They snipped the rice seedlings planted in the flooded fields. Every farmer was furious, but no one knew what to do.

When Lin Qingli saw the fields teeming with giant insects, dish after dish floated through her mind...

Spicy crawfish, garlic crawfish, and a cup of milk tea on the side. How amazing would that be!

When this “giant insect dish” was served at the table, it caused an uproar throughout the region...