From the Start, I Had a Talking Pen: Fleeing Famine, Raising a Child, and Getting Rich

(Farming + fleeing famine + stockpiling supplies + ancient romance + raising kids + transmigration + golden finger + everyday life)

Jiang Xiaomai, a nursing intern who had worked overtime for three days straight, transmigrated into the body of a young peasant woman five months pregnant in ancient times.

When she arrived, the whole village had gathered beneath the big tree at the entrance to hear the village chief announce that the river had dried up, the northern frontier was about to fall, and bandits had looted the county yamen next door three days earlier. Ping’an County was no longer safe, so the whole village had to flee the famine...

Before the chief could finish, cries rang out from the village entrance. “Run! The bandits are here! Run for your lives!”

Jiang Xiaomai ran home, grabbed her frail mother-in-law, and fled into the mountains with her.

But her mother-in-law insisted on waiting at home for her son to return from forced labor before she would leave...

Jiang Xiaomai thought that once they escaped into the mountains, everything would be fine. She would hide there until the baby was born, get a divorce, and live on her own. She would make money, open a shop, and become a carefree transmigration expert.

But then...

Drought, locusts, floods, plague, and war followed one after another. In those chaotic times, human lives were worth no more than weeds.

To her surprise, her husband, Zhou Musheng, followed the marks his mother had left along the way and found them, searching all the way into a perilous land teeming with wolves, tigers, leopards, and bears.

“I’m sorry I’m late. You’ve suffered so much.”

“Once the baby is born, we’ll divorce and go our separate ways.”

“You’re pregnant and malnourished. Here, have a cup of formula morning and night.”

Jiang Xiaomai froze...

“What about this talking pen? Do I tell him or not?”