Joining the Army in the 1970S, I Beat Famine by Growing Bumper Crops in Saline-Alkali Soil

(Reborn, famine, following the army, farming, advancing agriculture through science and technology, no spatial dimension, face-slapping) In her previous life, Su Wanqing, chief expert at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, worked herself to death. When she woke up, she found she had been reborn in the 1970s as a "fussy" city wife who had followed her husband to a remote rural village. The original owner couldn't stand the hardships of rural life or the many rules imposed by her husband's family. She fussed constantly about returning to the city, and when a devastating famine swept through the village, her in-laws were the first to abandon her. She starved to death. Su Wanqing was reborn just after getting off the train. Before her lay a desolate landscape and the despairing faces of the villagers. Everyone was waiting to see how this city girl, who "couldn't tell the difference between the four limbs and the five grains," would wail and carry on. But when Su Wanqing looked at the cracked earth, an unusual light gleamed in her eyes. "This salty, alkaline land isn't useless. It's a treasure!" She ignored the doubts and rolled up her trouser legs, heading straight into the fields. Diverting water to improve the soil, cultivating new varieties, introducing scientific farming... While others were still gnawing on tree bark and digging up roots, drought-resistant crops were already growing heavy with grain in Su Wanqing's fields. The brigade leader who had once looked down on her now showed up at her door every day, hoe in hand, begging for advice. Her mother-in-law, who had once called her a spendthrift, pressed the first freshly steamed white-flour bun into her hands. "Good daughter-in-law, eat up. You're the lucky star of our whole village!" When her soldier husband returned home on leave, he saw that their granary was nearly overflowing. Then he saw his wife, whom the whole village treated like a treasure, and was completely dumbfounded. Su Wanqing: "Don't fall for me. I'm just a legend... After all, when it comes to farming, I'm the professional!"