Countryside Cooking: Two Farm Sisters Take on the Ancient World

When they woke up, 21-year-old food blogger Li Xiaoxiao and agricultural college top student Li Lele had somehow become sisters in an ancient farming family, so hungry they were seeing stars! The earthen bed leaked cold air, their coarse clothes chafed, and they could only pinch a few grains of salt into their stir-fry. They couldn't go on like this!

Luckily, Xiaoxiao had a talent for creative cooking, and Lele knew everything about farming and animal husbandry! They dug up shepherd's purse to make pancakes, picked wild fruit to cook into jam, and even turned the bean dregs by the stove into fragrant cakes. First, they made their greedy little brother their number-one fan, then used a bowl of chilled hawthorn soup to make their stern grandfather eat his words in a face-slapping moment!

Salt was expensive? They made their own soy sauce, oil, fruit preserves, and vinegar. Not enough vegetables? They reclaimed land, made compost, and grew out-of-season produce. No money? They sold braised snacks at the market and opened the Little Food Time Shop. From humble street vendors, they became famous food gurus throughout the surrounding villages!

The backyard was full of chickens and ducks, and the pond teemed with fish and shrimp. Even the village women came begging to learn how to pickle vegetables, joining the sisters to make money! But just as their business was booming, how did a gentle young man who ran a bookshop and a talented young carpenter show up?

The sisters exchanged a glance: business first, romance later! Watch as two modern-day best friends use food to bring an ancient farmstead to life and turn hard times into a happy life full of the warmth of home.