[Mountains and Rivers in Reflection: Historical Fiction Contest | No System | Serious Farming | Slow Burn]
Other people transmigrate to enjoy the good life. He transmigrated to pay off debts.
The soul of a fifty-year-old man was forced into the body of a sixteen-year-old.
He never wanted to come, but he can't go back. An orphaned family, a widow and her child, a household in decline, and vicious servants in the clan who lord it over them. Above all, a towering tree casts a shadow over everything. Unless he cuts ties, he won't survive.
The woman who gave birth to this body is only thirty. He has to call her Mother.
He'll never get beyond being a scholar. He won't sit the provincial exams or become an official.
Relying only on what he learned about chemical engineering in his past life, he struggles to survive one small step at a time in the quagmire of Songjiang Prefecture: selling recipes, making mosquito coils, distilling floral water, brewing perfume...
Fifty years of experience have taught him more about human nature than the ancients.
With laughter, curses, and everything in between, he navigates the worlds of merchants, gentry, and the powerful. The marriages of his two older cousins are an even more tangled mess, drawing him all the way from Songjiang Prefecture to the capital.
He belongs to no one. For the rest of his life, he'll serve only as his own adviser.
The nonsense begins in the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing. Thirty-six years later... the Great Ming can no longer do without the shadow of a scholar-merchant.
Witty, humorous, rough and energetic
That's interesting, why is it so nonsense? The happiness here is different from the traditional understanding. Hardcore farming is worth looking forward to. A room full of understanding people, but each has his or her own obsessions