The Famine-Fleeing Wet Nurse Who Speaks Baby: The Powerful Beg Me to Take Their Children

[Fleeing famine + herbal medicine space + max-level understanding of baby talk + raising children + beloved by powerful nobles + political intrigue + no romance + satisfying read]

Shen Yaohe, the last inheritor of a traditional Chinese medicine family, transmigrates into the war-torn Great Yan Dynasty and becomes a medicine shop apprentice on the verge of death in a refugee group.

From the start, it's three years of severe drought and corpses everywhere, and she's holding a baby who has cried itself half to death from dehydration.

At this critical moment, she awakens the Hundred Herbs Spirit Realm she carries with her: a pocket dimension where she can grow every kind of medicinal plant, plus... the ability to understand baby talk?

The baby's cries translate automatically in her ears: “My stomach hurts. I drank untreated water!”

She gives the baby a bowl of herbal medicine, and the child survives.

And this child turns out to be the lost legitimate grandson of the Marquis of Zhenbei.

From then on, when the young son of the Minister of War won't stop crying at night, she understands: his congenital toxins haven't been cleared.

When the Grand Tutor's daughter loses her appetite and grows thin, she checks her pulse: congenital spleen deficiency.

When the Left Chancellor's twins cry whenever anyone touches them, she sees what's going on: they've been given a slow-acting poison.

Shen Yaohe had planned to quietly grow herbs, sell prescriptions, and save money, but she can't stop the powerful families of the capital from lining up to leave their little ones with her.

So she opens the Hundred Herbs Hall, selling medicine in the front and raising children in the back.

Fifteen years later, the children she once snatched back from death have grown up. One is a young general guarding the border, another is a trusted imperial aide who has risen to the cabinet, and another is a senior official in the Ministry of Revenue who controls the empire's finances...

Shen Yaohe wants to retire and travel the mountains and rivers, but bandits ambush her as soon as she leaves the city.

Bandits: “Your money or your life!”

The next moment, an urgent imperial decree arrives, and three armies surround the mountain.

Bandits: “...Wait, I was only robbing an old...”