[Historical romance + farming + land reclamation + healing + sweet romance + building a fortune]
After the Shen family falls from power, the entire household is exiled to Lingnan, a miasma-ridden land. With her lame younger brother and a group of awful relatives, Shen Shaoshao sets off on the road to exile with a wooden cangue around her neck.
No water? No food? And the guards are whipping them, too?
Shen Shaoshao wipes the mud from her face. “There isn’t a single word for ‘accept your fate’ in my dictionary!”
She binds herself to a Harvest System. No pointless points shop: she’ll earn everything with her own two hands!
They stop to rest halfway along the road. She plants a handful of wild vegetable seeds in a crack between some rocks, then pulls them up the next day to find not only tender roots and stems, but also a life-saving heart-protecting pill attached beneath them.
When they reach the place of exile and divide the family’s property, her awful relatives snatch up the finest paddy fields and leave her the driest, rockiest wasteland.
Shen Shaoshao scoffs, swings her hoe, and digs three furrows before sowing wheat. Other farmers depend on the weather, but she gets a thousand catties per mu and can even dig up wound medicine, ingots of refined iron, and even military treatises from the soil!
Before long, she has turned the most barren saline-alkali land into Lingnan’s largest fortified farmstead. The rough guard who watched her with a fierce scowl all the way there shamelessly dumps all his worldly possessions onto her kang. “Need a hired hand? I don’t need wages. Just feed me.”
