[Strong heroine + System + farming and business + play the pig to eat the tiger + political intrigue + mutual salvation]
Zhang Xiaoman transmigrates into the body of a farmer’s daughter and gets bound to the [Copy Everything System].
She can learn anything after seeing it once, up to three times a day. Go over the limit, and she becomes sleepy.
She copies an assassin’s martial arts, a chancellor’s political skills, and a general’s strategies.
Then she uses those skills to farm, do business, and open a chain of shops.
One day, she finds a badly wounded man at the foot of a mountain and thinks she could use a hired hand.
Covered in blood, with a coiling-dragon tattoo across his back, the man asks who she is.
She tosses the carrot in her hand. “A vegetable grower. I could use a hired hand. Work off your debt.”
The mighty General of Zhenbei is forced to haul manure to fertilize vegetables, chop wood, feed pigs, and learn the Eight Brocades.
After she makes him drink a bowl of medicinal food, its precise proportions, more exact than those of the Imperial Medical Academy, arouse his suspicions.
“Who are you, really?”
She turns a page in her ledger without looking up.
“A vegetable grower.”
Only when the commander of the Imperial Guard kneels before him and says, “This subordinate pays his respects to General Gu!” does she look from the shoulder pole in her hands to the man.
“You... can tell me after you finish hauling this load of manure.”
Gu Beichen: “This general doesn’t want to work hard anymore.”
Zhang Xiaoman: “Fine, then keep working.”
Gu Beichen: “...”
Later, he kneels before her on one knee and offers her a wooden hairpin carved from his military medal:
“My entire fortune and the rest of my life are yours as a bride price. Zhang Xiaoman, will you have me?”
She takes the hairpin and places it in her hair.
“Barely enough. I’ll collect the principal after we win this battle in Liangzhou City.”
The interest comes first, doubled.
