Exiled to the Frontier: The Farmer's Eldest Sister Transmigrates to Reclaim the Wasteland

Name: Exiled to the Frontier: The Farmer's Eldest Sister Transmigrates to Reclaim the Wasteland
Author: Equatorial Tree

流放边关：农家长姐穿越开荒

by Equatorial Tree (赤道树)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 275k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Slice-of-Life Farming
Updated: 1d ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

[Transmigration + farming + satisfying read + infrastructure building]

Shen Qingwu, a modern woman with master's degrees in both agriculture and water conservancy, transmigrates overnight into the body of the eldest sister in the poorest military household in Danshan County.

Her father died in battle, her mother succumbed to illness, and her aunt arrives with tax collectors to block the door, seize the compensation money, and sell her ten-year-old sister to a procurer to pay the taxes. Blood running down her forehead, Shen Qingwu tears apart the clan's crooked accounts in front of everyone at a ruined temple. Betting the lives of her whole family, she signs a lease for three hundred acres of wasteland in Danshan Hollow. For three years, she must pay double the usual grain tax. If she can't, her entire family will become slaves.

The villagers all say she's crazy.

Shen Qingwu shoulders a battered iron spade and heads up the mountain.

She digs for bitter water, gathers alkaline plants, reclaims saline soil, and piles up green manure. While others spit into the cracks between the rocks, she grows millet there at twice the usual yield. From an ancient song hummed by a mute old woman, she hears a map of the water veins hidden beneath Danshan for a hundred years.

At first, the cold-faced inspector Xiao Li thinks she's just a reckless troublemaker. Later, he discovers that every canal she builds lies at a vital point along the border. When the court tries to seize her land, she joins forces with three northwestern prefectures to cut off the grain routes. When the Northern Di cavalry bears down on the border, she opens the sluice gates and floods the enemy's main force.

From trading a basket of wild greens for old rice to commanding a fief stretching five hundred miles; from three mouths in a freezing hut to a great granary that feeds the masses.

Everyone says Shen Qingwu is lucky.

Only she knows that the Song of Danshan wasn't finished by singing it. She completed it one shovel at a time.

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