[Transmigrate + Pocket Dimension + Comeback + Farming + Red Army]
Su Yun, a modern agricultural sciences graduate student, transmigrates into 1934 by the Xiang River and becomes a landlady everyone loves to hate.
Her husband has run off with all the money, leaving behind six children who have fainted from hunger. The Red Army wants grain, and the villagers want to put her on trial.
“Heartless landlady! Hand over the grain you've hidden!”
Su Yun grips a fire poker and sneers inwardly: Grain? I've got a pocket dimension, with corn, sweet potatoes, and a spirit spring. Whatever I need, I've got it!
But if she shares it, the whole village will get jealous. If she doesn't, the children will starve.
She grits her teeth, hides cornmeal in the stove ashes, and serves a pot of “wild vegetable mush” to save the wounded Red Army soldiers.
A soldier takes a sip. “This mush has a nice bite to it!”
When villagers report that she's hiding grain, she turns around and holds up some chaff and ashes. “This is all I've got. Take it as rations!”
Who would have thought that on the night fleeing soldiers came to seize their food, she would scatter ashes and yell “Red Army, help!” and catch the attention of the commander? “This sister-in-law can cook. Put her in the mess squad!”
From then on, she takes her children and her cooking pot and follows the Red Army.
She secretly sows the corn seeds from her pocket dimension in the red earth, feeding the entire unit.
When a traitor reports her for using “sorcery to hide grain,” she sneers. “I'm just a cook. Believe what you want!”
Years later, at the founding ceremony of the People's Republic, the commander takes her hand. “Comrade Su Yun, you helped build this country with every grain of rice you gave us.”
[Smoke rises from cooking fires in troubled times, and the people's hearts are won at the stove! Even a landlady's spatula can help build a nation!]
