[Farming + System + Romance + Daily Life + Building Wealth]
Lin Wan, a graduate student in agricultural sciences, transmigrated into the body of a peasant girl during a drought in ancient times.
When she opened her eyes, the house was bare, the pot had no rice, and her parents were discussing marrying her off to the village butcher's foolish son in exchange for three dou of coarse rice.
Lin Wan looked at the cracked fields and the withered hillside behind the house, then quietly wiped the dust from her face.
"Father, Mother, I'm not getting married. We'll grow our own food."
Relying on her memories, she dug up several wild plants growing beneath a rocky slope on the hillside. They had purple flowers and bore strange little "earth eggs."
"This is called a potato. It can withstand drought, and yields... up to a thousand catties per mu."
The whole village laughed at her, until three months later...
More than three hundred catties of heavy, golden tubers were dug up from the Lin family's three mu of poor farmland.
Steamed, boiled, roasted, or fried, they were soft, filling, and delicious.
The starving villagers held their potatoes and wept.
Lin Wan rolled up her sleeves, picked up a fire poker, and used it to draw furrows in the stove ash. "If you want to learn, follow me."
From then on, they dug trenches, cut tubers into pieces, sprouted them, and covered them with soil...
A stubborn green spread little by little across the dry, barren land.
The tax collectors demanded grain, the powerful oppressed the poor, and the disasters continued.
Lin Wan clenched the last handful of potato seeds she had against her chest, her gaze reaching across the desolate fields.
"With these, the sky won't fall."
Starting with a single potato, she would grow a year of peace and plenty in this desperate world.
