[Farming in the 1970s] [Clear-Eyed Heroine] [Household Separation and Prosperity] [Ensemble Cast Entrepreneurship] [Face-Slapping the Villains] [Rural Development] [No Romance-Addled Leads]
When Jiang He returned to the 1970s, the first thing she did upon waking was lock away the two hundred jin of grain coupons her husband's family had planned to give to their relatives in the city.
In her previous life, she raised her husband's younger brother and her mother-in-law's nephew. Even when she was seriously ill, she couldn't bring herself to eat a single egg. In the end, all she got was a divorce paper and the words, "A woman should always put the bigger picture first."
This time, she separated the household first, then settled the accounts.
No one wanted the wasteland, so she led the village women in growing medicinal herbs. The irrigation channels leaked every year, so she traded work points for materials and repaired them herself. When the supply and marketing cooperative wouldn't take their farm eggs, she salted them and sold them to a food factory.
The man she had once supported showed up. "What can a woman like you possibly achieve?"
Jiang He opened her ledger. "First, pay me back the grain coupons, work points, and medical expenses you owe me."
When she led the whole village to collect their first dividend, everyone realized that the woman they'd taken for a simple soul had long since prepared a way out for herself.
