One Divination a Day in the Famine Years: Why Does Your Courtyard Smell of Meat?

[Farming] [Historical What-If] [Foraging in the Mountains During Famine] [A Prodigal Reformed] [Daily Divination] [No Female Lead or One Female Lead] [Sweet Family Life] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Stockpiling Supplies and Eating Well] [Foraging in the Mountains During Famine + Daily Divination + A Prodigal Reformed + Decisive and Ruthless + Family Life]

In the twelfth year of Yong'an under the Great Qian, a once-in-a-century deep freeze swept across the northern frontier, leaving the land strewn with the dead.

Lu Zheng woke up to find he'd become the infamous, utterly despicable wastrel and lovesick fool of Kaoshan Village!

To win over Wang Jinlian, who looked down on the poor and fawned over the rich, his predecessor had sold the family's last lifeline: their food stores.

As his disreputable friends tried to keep swindling him, Lu Zheng touched the [Xuanhuang Copper Coin] that had awakened in his chest.

Shake it once a day, and it gives him three fortune sticks!

[Minor Auspice (Green): In a hollow tree on the outskirts of Little Cang Mountain, there's a plump snow hare frozen stiff. Go before the hour of the tiger and you can take it for free.]

[Moderate Auspice (Blue): On the sunny slope of Soulbreak Cliff grow three hundred-year-old, top-grade blood lingzhi mushrooms. Pick them at noon and you can exchange them for thirty taels of silver!]

[Great Misfortune (Black): A lone, blind old wolf king prowls the woods of Second Cang Mountain. Its pelt is worth a hundred taels, but if you go now, you'll die for sure!]

Avoid danger and follow precise directions!

Lu Zheng drew his woodcutter's knife and held it to his fair-weather friends' throats, demanding they repay the money he'd given them for grain.

From then on, while others chewed tree bark and clay during the famine, Lu Zheng carried his hunting bow into the mountains, bringing home plump rabbits, silly roe deer, wild boars, and rare medicinal herbs in endless supply.

“Dad, stop trying to borrow from loan sharks. Our granary is full of polished rice and white flour!”

“Brother, sister-in-law, if you don't finish this pot of meat soup, you're insulting me, Lu Zheng!”