Shen Zhisui was originally the daughter of a criminal official in the capital. She was exiled to Hanshatun in the north because of the Shen family's old grain and grass case, and she became a criminal girl that everyone shunned.
The soil in Hanshatun is cold and hard, and military households are short of food. The Pei family controls grain crops and account books. Bad seeds are planted in the fields and old accounts cover the sky. The people of Hanshatun work hard year after year, but they starve every year.
Shen Zhisui was forced to marry into the Qin family, a down-and-out military family. Faced with the hard-spoken and soft-hearted mother-in-law Huo Sanniang, the impulsive Qin Xiaoman who protected the family, the timid Qin Yueya, and the silent and cold Qin Liechuan, she did not cry for help, nor did she accept her fate and wait for death.
With the help of a scroll called "The Chart of the Growth of All Things" that can see the vitality of all things, she started from breaking the ground three feet away, identifying bad seeds, checking grain records, sealing samples and keeping certificates, and planted a way to survive step by step in Hanshatun.
