Agronomy professor Shen Yun stayed up all night finishing her thesis. When she woke, she had become a poor old matriarch in a year of famine.
She opened her eyes to an almost empty grain jar and grandkids so hungry their eyes were glowing green.
Her eldest son said, “Mother, people in the village have started selling their children.”
Her second son said, “Mother, our family won't make it through the winter either.”
Looking at her gaunt children and grandchildren, Shen Yun quietly rolled up her sleeves:
What was there to fear? She'd spent forty years tending experimental fields. Surely she could feed her own family!
While people in other villages starved, out-of-season vegetables grew in her fields.
While others sold their land to survive, her family cleared more land and built an estate.
While others fled famine and begged for food, every one of her children and grandchildren had the chance to go to school.
Later, officials from the imperial court arrived.
After the imperial decree was read, her eldest son was stunned. “Mother, I'm an official now?”
Shen Yun brushed the dirt from her hands. “What's there to panic about? I can make you an official by teaching you to farm. Do you think making you rich will be any harder?”
A farming-family matriarch + serious farming + the whole family thriving
See how this old matriarch uses a handful of seeds to feed her whole family and bring honor to their ancestors along the way!
Very real...! The ground is planted! Food can be harvested abundantly! Only when you eat can you be full! This has been the case since ancient times...!
Really farming, I like it