[Travel between two worlds + adorable kids + farming + cozy everyday life + building wealth]
With her father-in-law missing, her cold-hearted brother-in-law’s family sent the younger uncle away and planned to sell her and the other women.
Luckily, Song Shutong was clever. She had the neighbor Zhang the carpenter’s child go fetch the village head in advance, saving them from the family’s clutches.
Song Shutong proposed splitting up the household. Everyone thought she was foolish for leaving a good house to live in a little grass hut that could collapse in the wind.
Fortunately, the village head was a good man with a sharp tongue and a soft heart, and the villagers were kind too. They lent a hand and donated grain, and at last the little hut was ready.
At last, the sisters-in-law had a home of their own.
Song Shutong wanted to make money, but a jade pendant took her to a marvelous country.
Grain there was dirt cheap, but seafood sold for a fortune!
Song Shutong looked at the giant crabs that appeared everywhere at night and the countless goat’s-foot limpets clinging to the reefs…
She rubbed her hands together. “I’m about to get rich!”
What? Her younger brother-in-law had caught the eye of a wicked woman, who schemed to saddle him with a debt of two hundred taels? No problem, she’d pay it off!
What? The county magistrate, who had only been in office for a little over a month, wanted her advice on farming, cultivating better seeds, and improving saline-alkali soil?
No problem, she’d go to the modern world and find some help!
And make money, of course!
One day, Song Shutong was astonished to discover that she owned property and shops everywhere, and that all the saline-alkali land had turned into fertile fields, full of fruits and vegetables.
