Lin Wanyi, a modern agricultural technician, opens her eyes to find she has become a poor farmer’s wife in ancient times. Their dilapidated house is drafty, the granary is nearly empty, her sharp-tongued mother-in-law wants her divorced, and four scrawny children are crying with hunger. It’s hell mode from the start!
But she soon discovers that all four children are hidden lucky stars:
The eldest knows every herb and can identify poisons, picking out wild vegetables and medicinal plants in the hills with ease.
The second has a superhuman sense of taste, able to tell good ingredients from bad with a single bite and season food to perfection.
The third is born with incredible strength, able to move boulders at three years old and a force to be reckoned with when protecting the family and their fields.
The fourth, barely a month old, is even more extraordinary: the child’s cries make plants grow wildly and always warn them before disasters strike!
When greedy relatives try to take their land and the village bully comes looking for trouble, Lin Wanyi rolls up her sleeves and gets to work:
She clears land to grow high-yield potatoes, builds a workshop to make specialty vermicelli, and wins over the county with her medicinal dishes!
Her timid husband awakens his fiercely protective side, and his talent for carpentry shines.
Her sharp-tongued mother-in-law is transformed by the family’s good fortune into a capable childcare helper.
Then along comes a fifth child who can tell water quality, and the whole family joins forces to build their business!
From a starving, impoverished household to a farming clan rich enough to rival the nobility;
from a small farming family everyone pushed around to a first-rank noblewoman honored by the emperor.
Looking at her roomful of children and grandchildren and ten thousand mu of fertile fields, Lin Wanyi smiles. Who says farming can’t make you rich? With my brood of lucky kids, life is only going to get better!
