After a sudden death, Su Wan's soul transformed into Lin Xiu'er, a peasant girl whose parents both died, and took her four younger siblings to live with others. Seeing her aunt coughing up blood and working hard, she decided to separate the family, just to not drag down her relatives.
In late autumn, she led her younger siblings into the uninhabited mountains. The wild chestnuts all over the ground saved her life. From then on, she took her whole family to hunt for treasures in the mountains and forests—chestnuts, yams, lotus roots, and wild fruits, and stocked up on food for the winter.
Unexpectedly, a hundred years of heavy rain destroyed their homes and the whole village embarked on the road to escape. Floods, wolves, bandits, plagues... Xiu'er relied on modern knowledge to find water sources, identify herbs, and set traps, escaping from death time and time again, and leading the villagers to find a way to survive.
In the government resettlement site, she started by clearing wasteland and farming, taught composting, raising chickens and rabbits, and making tofu, and led everyone to rebuild their homes. The business grew bigger and bigger, but she was plotted by profiteers, blackmailed by bullies, and robbed by bandits. She worked step by step and outsmarted her, transforming from a peasant girl into the richest man in the country.
The younger brother was admitted to Jinshi, and the younger sister became a talented woman. She gained true love and even won a title from the court. Looking back on half her life, she said: "This life is worth it as long as you don't give up."
This is a story about survival and dignity, looking at how a weak woman can hold herself up in a desperate situation.
Fascinating and addictive, I like it very much