After three years of drought, people died of hunger all over the land. Mi Sanniang, the proprietress of a rice store, wanted to hang out with her last three warehouses of old rice. However, things went wrong during the disaster years - ruffians robbed grain, squires pressed for debts, refugees surrounded the gates, and officials extorted money... She went from a state of "hiding when she could" to being He was forced to use the wisdom of the market to deal with it: when hoarding grain, he mixed sand to make up for the quantity, when selling grain, he divided the grain according to people, when protecting grain, he teamed up with neighbors to set up a trap, and even used the fallacy of "half a bag of rice for a life". In the chaos of the end of the world, he not only saved the rice line, but also protected a city of dying people. It wasn't until she discovered that there was a man-made conspiracy behind the famine that she realized that her "mud" had already become the hardest brick in troubled times.