Fleeing Famine into the Deep Mountains: While Others Eat Dirt, I Feast on Meat

[Farming, gathering herbs, making a fortune, deep mountains, infrastructure]

No pocket dimension, no System, and a slow pace. Through hard work and knowledge, she gradually goes from having enough to eat to living in luxury.

Su He, a master's graduate in Chinese medicine who switched careers to become an obscure writer, dies from overwork after staying up all night researching. She wakes up as an ancient peasant woman with the same name.

The original owner was selfish and mean. She had just run off with the last of the family's coins, leaving behind her badly injured husband, young children, and a ramshackle hut even the mice despised.

Su He is stunned and calls out for her golden finger:

System?

Pocket dimension?

Nothing at all!!!

What a disastrous start.

Still, Su He is full of confidence. She rolls up her sleeves, ready to make her mark. Making soap and braising pig offal to get rich should be easy for someone who transmigrated, right?

But by the time her soap-making technique is perfected, the spices cost more than gold, grinding tofu nearly breaks her back, and she can't even scrape together half a copper coin.

Fortunately, she knows how to gather herbs, identify plants, and recognize minerals.

She boils tallow tree seeds into wax, makes starch from kudzu root, and trades medicinal herbs for grain... With her own two hands, she manages to feed the whole family.

But Heaven refuses to let her live in peace.

Snowstorms, war, and floods strike one after another. As the world falls apart, Su He grits her teeth and leads the villagers into the mountains.

They clear land, grow seeds, divert water, fire pottery, and make paper...

From their first mountain-clearing blade to their first brick house;

from their first vegetable patch to flocks of chickens and ducks and the sound of lessons in the school.

In these isolated mountains, they build a haven of their own, one that can weather any storm.