Rising to Success in the Countryside

[Transmigration + Farming + Imperial Exams + A Poor Family's Rise, an Alternate World with No Golden Finger, Relying Entirely on Wits and Grit.]

Cheng Man, a modern man who died of illness and was reborn, became five-year-old farm boy Cheng Xiaoman. His father was dead, his mother was sick, his three-year-old sister cried from hunger, and his uncles had seized the family's only few acres of farmland.

In this world, staying alive was hard. But Cheng Man wasn't afraid...

He dared to catch venomous centipedes no one else would touch, and snakes that sent everyone else running. To pay for his mother's treatment, he traded these “dangerous creatures” at the apothecary for the money that saved her life.

From digging wild vegetables to stave off hunger, to copying books at a bookstore; from selling snake gall for next to nothing, to passing the imperial exams and entering government service. Cheng Man led his whole family and carved out a way to survive in this brutal world!

Who says a poor boy has to accept his lot? He would climb past poisonous snakes and centipedes to carve out a glorious future.