From the Start, I Was a Fool: Farming, Hunting, and Feasting with My Sister

Feel-good fantasy + farming + hunting + making a fortune + gathering + business + imperial examinations Zhang Manhe works on a fourteen-hour-a-day death-line assembly. He’s so busy he doesn’t even have time to hang himself. He diligently saves up 300,000 yuan, bringing his dream of buying a home and getting married one step closer. Then fate throws him a curveball: he transmigrates to an ancient age so poor even ghosts wouldn’t want to stay, and becomes a fool. There’s also a little sister he has to support… To the rich, this place is a beautiful, unspoiled paradise. To a man as poor as he is, it’s nothing but dirt. Fortunately, his phone comes along with him. The 300,000 he saved has been reset to zero, though, in exchange for a chance to live again. The phone needs a top-up to turn on, a top-up to connect to the internet, and a top-up to shop online… But topping it up is damn expensive. Should he do it? Do it! Just work like crazy and make money. As long as he has cash, he can buy all the wonderful things from the modern world. But dung is hard to swallow, and money is hard to earn. Watch how he uses his clever mind to give himself and his little sister a life above the rest in this ancient world. Before he knows it, he passes the imperial examinations as the top scholar and becomes the widely acclaimed Grand Secretary. Other court officials reach the palace and engage in schemes, verbal battles, and physical fights. At the peak of power, he simply brings out one pile of strange but practical inventions after another, leaving everyone from the emperor to the ministers looking up to him. “Grand Secretary, this air conditioner is so cool!” “Grand Secretary, I want a washing machine, the fully automatic kind. My wife says she’ll never have to wash underwear by hand with a sour look on her face again.” “And I want that car…” …