[No Romance, Just Farming + Food + Helping the Countryside Thrive, with a Badass Heroine Building Her Career!]
Jiang Zao quits her secure city job and returns to the barren sands of the Northwest to inherit a ruined orchard. The whole village laughs at her: "Can you grow gold nuggets in sand?"
Then she accidentally activates the spiritual spring inside her family's heirloom silver lock.
Dried goji berry branches touched by the spring water sprout new buds the next day.
Watered with the spring, apples from the sandy soil reach a sweetness of 18 Brix. One bite is so sweet it'll make you stomp your feet.
Even the drought-resistant sea buckthorn berries grow bigger than fists!
At first: "Girl, stop messing around and come to the city with your aunt to find work."
Later: "Zaozao! I want to plant your saplings on my three mu of land too! Please take me along!"
City merchants squat in the orchard to snap up the produce. Food bloggers chase after her to film "Desert Kitchen," and even the village chief brings wine to ask her to be his teacher.
While Jiang Zao secretly waters the fruit trees with spring water, she steams red date cakes and simmers sea buckthorn jam. "No pushing. Get in line!"
No one knows her secret is hidden inside the silver lock.
This spiritual spring can grow more than sweet fruit. It can grow an entirely new Shazao Village.
