Gu Yanci, a doctor of agricultural sciences, traveled through time and became a small landowner disguised as a man. He guarded a hundred acres of thin farmland and was watched by his clan members.
She gritted her teeth and begged to marry Xiao Yuheng, a talented girl from a neighboring village: "For contract marriage, I am actually a woman."
On their wedding night, the two slept on separate couches. During the day, she rolled up her trouser legs and dug for fertilizer in river mud. She was teased that "the husband of the Gu family does all the dirty things."
On a rainy night, Xiao Yuheng rushed into the rain with a broken lantern and saw Gu Yanci kneeling in the mud and shouting: "Seedlings! Seedlings have emerged!"
Young green shoots pierced the darkness, and tenants came from the mountain col holding torches, and the firelight illuminated two young faces.
Many years later, Gu Langjun caressed his lover's hairpin: "That stinking mud from back then was our Yue Lao?"
