Kicked Out of the Family, Then Spoiled by a Rugged Man's Whole Family

(Ancient setting + farming + food + alternate world + no golden finger + family life + building wealth + heartwarming + face-slapping wicked relatives)

No System, no spatial dimension, no golden finger.

The early focus is on building a career. Without a golden finger, progress is slow, and most of the story is heartwarming and unhurried.

Tian Chunniang was a poor village girl, but the wealthy Shen family took her in as a bride because she was pretty, strong, and good-natured. Little did she know her husband was in the late stages of tuberculosis.

The Shen family had hoped Chunniang would give them a big, chubby grandson. But after two years with no sign of a pregnancy, her grandparents-in-law started scheming.

Chunniang refused to go along with them and was sent packing with a divorce notice. To her surprise, even her own mother refused to let her through the door.

With nowhere else to turn, Chunniang climbed a barren mountain. She accidentally fell from it and was rescued by a young farmer named Chen Qingquan, who took her home.

At her benefactor's urging, she stayed with the Chen family, but he was having a hard time too.

Wicked relatives had seized the family's property, leaving the three siblings with no choice but to settle in an abandoned house at the foot of the mountain.

The frail older sister, the young younger sister, and their brother had only one another to rely on.

Chunniang had been homeless, but suddenly she had a warm, loving family.

But all four of them were desperately poor, and even putting food on the table was a problem.

How could the meager crops from their fields feed four mouths?

Fortunately, Chunniang knew both farming and cooking.

They started eating bamboo shoots, bamboo worms, pumpkin blossoms, walnut cakes... Why not open a food shop and make some money?