Su Ye arrived in 1965, having just become a new bride from a family with a bad class background, married off to an officer stationed on a remote island.
Everyone said life on the island was hard. It lacked medicine and medical care, they couldn't even get fresh vegetables, and supplies couldn't be delivered during typhoons. Marrying an officer stationed there was as good as becoming a widow.
But Su Ye wasn't worried at all. In her previous life, she was a top student at a university of Chinese medicine, and she also carried a small pocket dimension with her.
It held the common medicinal herbs and food seeds she had stockpiled, a few medical books, and plenty of everyday medicines.
As soon as she arrived on the island by boat, she encountered a military wife suffering from a difficult labor.
The medic was frantic, unable to find labor-inducing medicine. Su Ye took out the silver needles and herbs she'd brought with her and saved the woman on the spot. She became the island's benefactor the moment she arrived.
She cleared a patch of land in her yard and planted vegetables and common medicinal herbs. She treated the soldiers and their families for headaches, fevers, and other everyday ailments. When someone was injured by coral while diving or bitten by a sea snake, a few doses of her medicine were enough to cure them. She released the fish fry from her pocket dimension into the nearby waters and taught everyone to gather seafood at low tide.
She also taught them how to salt fish and dry kelp. Even when typhoons closed off the island, no one had to worry about food or supplies.
Her husband, Captain Zhou, who had once worried she couldn't handle the hardship, now came straight home to help water her herb garden as soon as he finished training each day. When someone said his wife had a bad class background, he dragged them aside and scolded them. "My wife is the benefactor of this whole island. If anyone badmouths her again, they'll have to answer to me."
Later, Captain Zhou became a Navy admiral and never let Su Ye suffer a single grievance for the rest of her life. He proudly told everyone that he had married a treasure.
