A Spirit Spring in the Famine Years: Farming, Raising My Husband, and Bringing Prosperity to the Village

After three years of severe drought, not a single crop has grown. Meng Suihe’s parents die on the road while fleeing famine, and she faints from hunger along the way, on the verge of becoming another corpse by the roadside. When she opens her eyes again, she has been brought home by Xiao Yanyuan, a hunter from Qingniu Village. His rundown house is drafty, the rice jar is nearly empty, and the whole village is waiting to laugh as she starves to death. But just when all hope seems lost, she awakens a spiritual spring dimension. A few drops of its water from her fingertips make shriveled seeds sprout on the spot, and barren land turn instantly fertile! High-yield crops, sweet fruits and vegetables, rare medicinal herbs: whatever others can’t grow, she can raise with ease, turning a poor mountain ravine into a land of plenty. The honest hunter Xiao Yanyuan is always protective of her. He clears land and hunts, fends off refugees, rolls up his sleeves at the first sign of anyone bullying her, and puts every coin he earns into her hands. From half an acre of wasteland to a thousand acres of good farmland, from a leaky hut with an earthen bed to a spacious house of brick and tile, the two of them lead the whole village in growing crops, opening workshops, and building trade routes, transforming a poor hamlet into a prosperous village famous far and wide. Vicious relatives show up looking for handouts? She puts them in their place so thoroughly they can’t even find the door. Landlords and local strongmen try to seize her land? She beats them until they’re crawling. But as life grows more prosperous by the day, Meng Suihe discovers...