In a Famine Year, My Family Can Travel Between Two Worlds, So We Collect Bottles, Stockpile Grain, and Feed the Whole Village

[Ancient-to-modern transmigration + traveling between two eras to stock up + the regretful husband’s desperate pursuit]

During a terrible famine and drought, Zhao Huiniang’s awful mother-in-law sells her own five-year-old granddaughter to a butcher for meat. Zhao Huiniang grabs an axe and fights for her life!

A divorce! Whoever wants that spineless mama’s boy can have him!

But just after rescuing her daughter, Zhao Huiniang discovers to her shock that the broken wooden hairpin her husband made can take their family of three to the modern world!

Plastic bottles and scraps of cardboard that modern people casually throw away are priceless “treasures” here, worth trading for white flour and rice!

One bag of battered cardboard boxes gets three jin of polished white rice!

One truckload of discarded plastic gets a hundred jin of cornmeal that can save lives!

While famine leaves the land strewn with corpses, Zhao Huiniang and her family scour the modern world for garbage, eating so much rice and white flour they can hardly stand it, and helping the whole village enjoy a life of plenty.

Her wicked mother-in-law begs on her knees for a bowl of soup, but Zhao Huiniang kicks her away. “Get lost! I’d feed it to a dog before I fed you!”

A certain burly man hauls sacks every day until he’s ready to collapse. At night, he rubs his aching back and begs, “Wife, I’ll carry all the recyclables. You can keep every last banknote. Just please don’t leave me…”

Counting her money, Zhao Huiniang sneers, “We’ll see how you do. Tomorrow, you’re going scavenging again!”