Lin Zhaoning, a master of agriculture, woke up and became a widow in Qingzhou Prefecture during the Chunhua Period of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The crime was adultery. The evidence is a shoe. The executioners were the mother-in-law and the elders of the clan.
When the river water reached her waist, she suddenly smiled.
"Article 1 of "Song Xingtong: Breaking the Prison" - A lynchman shall use an eighty-foot rod. Who among you dares to take action today?"
There was dead silence.
From the moment she crawled out of the pig cage, she had one thing in mind: if the world said that widows deserved to die, then she would live, and she would live with more weight than anyone else.
Thirty acres of thin fields, a handful of wild wormwood, an old tenant, and a blue-gray bullock. Others exchanged their dowry for clothes, but she exchanged it for seeds and fertilizer. The villagers laughed at her as she was crazy—a woman farming? A widow in business?
She doesn't argue. She improved winter wheat, doubling the yield per acre; she brewed sake, and the largest winery in Qingzhou Prefecture was clamoring for it; when the locust plague passed through, others failed to harvest, but her fields still had 70% of the harvest. Those who laughed at her later came to ask her to borrow seeds.
From soaking pig cages to being a master of the world, from being a widower to admonishing farmers and children.
She spent ten years telling everyone——
You think he is a woman, but in fact he is a Shennong.
