Fleeing famine + farming + business + everyday family life + personal growth and a rise from adversity + romance
The heroine has no System and no secret identity. She is just an ordinary, poor peasant girl. She focuses on building a better life, while her family works together. Their family bonds are warm, and the romance is a slow burn. There are no hateful, scheming relatives. This is a grounded, uplifting tale of a family making its way in an ancient world.
On the road fleeing famine, Liang Xiaoman rescues a younger brother whose origins are a mystery. Their journey is full of danger.
At last, they settle in Lijia Village, only to find their relatives there cold and unfeeling. The whole family is crammed into two leaky mud huts, and they have no choice but to reclaim wasteland and farm it themselves.
The villagers are all waiting to laugh at the newcomers.
Her father is taciturn, her mother weeps, her elder sister is frail, and her younger brother is still a child. There are also two unknown tagalongs they picked up along the way.
Liang Xiaoman grits her teeth and sketches out their future in the stove ash: her father has carpentry skills, her mother can run a household, her sister is nimble-fingered, and her brother will grow up one day. As for herself, armed with a battered medical book she found and the stamina to roam the hills, she somehow turns wild weeds into medicinal herbs and field ridges into herb gardens.
From the first medicinal seedling she brings back to life, to the first money she earns selling herbs;
From clearing their first patch of wasteland, to buying their first acre of paddy field;
From famine refugees scorned by all, to respected owners of medicinal gardens.
Liang Xiaoman's goal is as clear as a mountain stream: free her family from hunger and cold forever, earn a hundred acres of fertile farmland, and sink deep roots in this once-unfamiliar land, roots that will stand firm through any storm.
As for those who once looked down on them and mistreated them...
Watch how this peasant girl, armed with medicinal herbs and an iron will, leads her family from poverty to prosperity, step by step, until their fields flourish and good fortune fills their home.
I originally thought it was a realistic farming novel with no time travel, no rebirth, no system, and no space. I kept reading smoothly until the end. I didn't expect that the ending was the biggest surprise. It was completed with such a reversal. It was really unexpected!!!
I quite like this story. The family is very harmonious, and they work together to make the family prosperous, which is very inspiring. I just feel that there are relatively few female protagonists handing over handkerchiefs, and I hope there will be more content about girls pursuing careers.
This book truly depicts the miserable situation of low-level farmers struggling in the face of natural and man-made disasters, which is more contagious.
The plot is written carefully. Suitable for people's mood
Now that I've seen it, I think it's pretty good. I think it's hard to give five stars because of the author's heavy handwriting.
The old bookworm passed by. This is a very well-written farming article. The story develops step by step and the characters are vividly drawn. It is worth reading.
It's great. I haven't seen such real and down-to-earth rural life in a long time.
It was good to make progress in the past, but I always thought that Zhao Qinghe would be the male lead, but I didn't expect that he would end up marrying Zhou Jianing 🤦