Exiled to the Border: the Farmer's Sister Travels Across Time to Open up Wasteland

Shen Qingwu, who holds a master's degree in modern agriculture and water conservancy, transformed into the poorest military household eldest sister in Danshan County overnight. My father died in the war and my mother died of illness. My aunt and my eldest aunt led tax collectors to block the door and steal the pension. They also sold my ten-year-old sister to my grandmother to offset the tax. With her forehead covered with blood, she opened up the family's bad debts in public in the dilapidated temple, bet her family's lives, and signed a lease for 300 acres of wasteland in Danshan'ao. They were given double taxes and grain for three years, but if they couldn't pay, the whole family became slaves. Everyone in the village said she was crazy. Shen Qingwu went up the mountain carrying a broken shovel. Dig water, collect alkali grass, change salt soil, and pile green manure. Others spit in the cracks of rocks, but she grew double the yield of corn in the cracks of rocks. From the ancient songs sung by a mute woman, she heard the water map of Danshan that had been hidden for hundreds of years. The cold-faced inspector Xiao Li initially thought she was a life-threatening unruly citizen, but later he discovered that every canal built by this woman was stuck on the border lifeline. When the imperial court wanted to take over her land, she united with the three northwest states to cut off grain roads; Beidi's cavalry pressed on the border, so she opened the gates and released water to flood the enemy's main force. From a load of wild vegetables for old rice, to holding a land of five hundred miles; from three mouths in a cold kiln, to a large granary that feeds all people. Everyone said that Shen Qingwu was lucky. Only she knew that this Danshan ballad was not finished by singing, but was completed by her spade by spade.