Food Journal: The Cui Family’s Daughter Comes of Age

[Farming + Business + Getting Rich + Vindication + Food + Alternate World]

She has a small golden finger, and the story features a modest ensemble cast. The heroine has no special status; everything she has comes from her own hard work.

Shitou Village is desperately poor, so poor that the villagers can barely put food on the table.

All the able-bodied men in the village have been taken off to war, leaving behind women, children, and the disabled.

The common people don’t care who sits on the throne. All they care about is when the war will end.

They want enough to eat. They want their families back together.

When Cui Xiahe wakes up, she discovers that her father is a successful scholar, her mother is tall and sturdy with plenty of strength, and she has three loving sisters. She thinks she’ll live a carefree, happy life, but natural disasters and human calamity bind her fate to the villagers of Shitou Village.

First, she has to find a way to get enough to eat. Then she can gradually improve the fields and increase the harvest, and after that, find a way to make money.

The houses in Shitou Village go from thatched huts to brick homes, and eventually every household has a hitching post outside its door.

There are no peaceful havens in a chaotic age, but there can be sturdy fortresses. Shitou Village eventually becomes a refuge for everyone.