Looking for Stories About Ordinary People, Street Life, and Rural Life in Ancient Times

1 架 Alternate Ancient China: Building a Fortune in Jiangnan Rain on Riverside FlowersAncient Romance2.3M WordsOngoing 71.3kReads9.2Score7kShelves

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Regardless of the ratings, these two books are very comfortable and lead an ordinary life. The first book about a family getting rich, "Family on the Water", is quite interesting and the characters are very distinctive. The emotional line in the second book is very good, and the writing is more detailed than in the first book. The first one is more general, the two writing styles are different, it depends on what you like.

3 农 Everyday Ways to Prosper on the Farm Rain Falls Over JiangnanAncient Romance2.7M WordsCompleted 15.1kReads9.0Score1.4kShelves

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🔥🔥🔥! The first book is highly recommended to everyone. It tells the story of a big family working hard and making money step by step. There must be a place for me, Xiaoshanzi, in ancient literature.

4 周 The Unusual Little Wife of Constable Zhou It's Boss LiAncient Romance290k WordsCompleted 982Reads8.0Score—Shelves

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This is a good book. The male protagonist is a policeman and the female protagonist is a stall owner.

5 我 I'm a Bad Boy, the Girl I Tied up Is Not Right Come and See the MoonHistorical853k WordsOngoing 76.1kReads8.6Score9.5kShelves

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An ancient version of the underworld, a market novel, telling the growth history of a gangster!

6 穿 Transmigrated to the Deep Mountains: Farming, Foraging for Mushrooms, and Selling Herbal Jelly Cheng SiyuanAncient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted 11.3kReads8.9Score1kShelves

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💐①The female protagonist tells the story of life in an ancient village. The biggest official she has ever seen is the county magistrate. The tone of the whole book is very comfortable, just like a picture of rural life. 💐②Shuang Nanwen was a man in Yihongyuan in the early stage, fled the war in the middle stage, and lived in farming in the later stage.

8 市 The Everyday Lives of Ordinary Folk Riverside FamilyAncient Romance794k WordsCompleted 879Reads7.3Score102Shelves

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The atmosphere of ordinary people's life is coming to my face. Anyone who doesn't read this book will be sad, okay? ! ! It's finished, feel free to eat [Blow a kiss][Flow a kiss][Flow a kiss]

9 寒 Fan Jin, a Young Man from a Poor Family, Passed the Examination FengxianjunHistorical141k WordsCompleted 23Reads—Score—Shelves

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Long and short stories, the history of making a fortune!

10 开 He Bought Me to Take Home from the Start, and the Rugged Hunter Struck It Rich October Maple SugarAncient Romance288k WordsCompleted 3.1kReads9.2Score292Shelves

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The male and female protagonists manage their own warm little lives in an ordinary way🥰

17 奴 A Servant’s Nature Simple Mountain BirchAncient Romance307k WordsCompleted 3.5kReads8.7Score282Shelves

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It is very realistic. Although the male protagonist is unclean, he is real. How many men can sit still in love? The author's writing is good and he writes about the living conditions of the people at the bottom of that era.

18 荒 The Whole Village Survives on Chaff in Famine, While My Granaries Overflow with Grain and Meat Sugarcane Is Too Tough to ChewHistorical2.9M WordsOngoing 49.6kReads8.5Score3.7kShelves

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These two books are not the kind of books you should read at the beginning. They are relatively new. Those who are tired of reading the imperial examinations can try these two books.

20 你 You Retired Too? What a Coincidence, So Did I! Qian Jin naAncient Romance340k WordsCompleted 2kReads8.8Score152Shelves

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Aboriginal ancients - the warm stories of retired palace maids and retired soldiers' daily life in the countryside

21 曲 Qushui County: A Foodie Mother's Daily Life Raising Her Children Lucky Matcha IceAncient Romance400k WordsCompleted 4.3kReads8.9Score477Shelves

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A modern girl travels from childhood to ancient times and becomes a maid for the second girl of the Hou family. After returning to freedom, she takes the second girl's posthumous son with her and sets up a stall in an alley to do business. Her life is ordinary. She uses the skills taught by the heroine in modern society to support herself and her baby in ancient time and space. She also falls in love with the young man next door, gets married and raises her baby. [Grass has been planted]

22 从 From Maid to Magistrate’s Wife: A Native Woman’s Journey Zhuang Sheng MiAncient Romance769k WordsCompleted 7.2kReads8.9Score777Shelves

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The first book [Indigenous male and female protagonists, no space, no system, no golden fingers] The powerful and beautiful maid Ren Qingmiao x the unlucky weakling Qingjun scholar Lin Yanchu, the most important thing is that a lucky baby is born who is completely opposite to his father. The second book [Ancient-Style Business to Get Rich] + [Jiangnan People] + [Paradise] + [Easy and Sweet] is an easy-to-decompress article. It describes the daily life and business of a small family in Jiangnan in the peaceful and prosperous times. It is warm, joyful, and benevolent. It tells the life of ordinary people in ancient times. The third book is about the daily lives of ancient indigenous couples who worked hard to save money and chicken babies! The village beauty embroiderer from all over the country x the accountant who can speak well x the smart and well-behaved son!

23 古 The Struggles of a Small Household in Ancient Times Zhuang Sheng MiAncient Romance735k WordsCompleted 11.9kReads8.6Score909Shelves

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The following books are all about the market/farming life of small people in ancient times. Each has its own characteristics. You can choose from them. They are all read by me!

24 逃 After Fleeing Famine, My Sister and I Married the Brothers Next Door The Running GarfieldAncient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted 3.6kReads8.0Score433Shelves

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It tells the story of a pair of twin sisters who escaped from famine and fled to a village. In order not to be separated, they married brothers from the same family. With their efforts, their lives got on the right track.

32 苟 I Am Farming in Yougui, and I Am Cultivating a Good World. The Big Pig Wants to Fly FirstEastern Fantasy350k WordsCompleted 13Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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Basically what you said.

34 花 When the Flowers Bloom In an Old Friend's HeartAncient Romance1.7M WordsCompleted 8.1kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves

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Little people, urban life, warm daily life. The writing is very good. The heroine is intelligent, self-respecting, self-reliant, and self-reliant. As a time-traveling woman, she does not have a golden finger or the kind of exaggerated super behaviors written in other books, but she uses her own intelligence to do things that are in line with this dynasty. The heroine's younger brother was well educated by his grandfather. He is smart, precocious, and independent. He is a small child who has the belief to "take care of his sister and prevent her from suffering and being bullied." He studies hard and stays with his sister. Every character in the book is written vividly.

35 六 60: After Being Admitted to Technical Secondary School, I Firmly Held the Position of Cadre CowardlyModern Romance995k WordsCompleted 17.8kReads8.6Score1.5kShelves

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This book is a huge and beautiful period article ➕Farming article [The Masterpiece of Bird Food]. The author's writing style is exquisite and the picture is astonishing. The prices are reasonable and accurate to a few cents. [Already Planted] is anti-routine, there is no stepmother in military marriage, life in the market, parents are short-sighted, women I am taking the exam for a technical secondary school and I am not going to the countryside. [Bookshelf plus one] The rating is a bit low because there are few people who rate it. [Like] Another advantage of this book is that it has a strong sense of the times, life is hard, and materials are scarce. Unlike some literature written in the era, it is no different from the present.

36 古 A Modest Family in Ancient Times Spicy BarbecueAncient Romance228k WordsCompleted 7.7kReads7.0Score1.1kShelves

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Ordinary people in ancient times, daily life, the whole family worked together to live a good life [Chigua] [Chigua]

37 斩 Cutting Spring Chinese Loropetalum in the SouthAncient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted 50.8kReads9.5Score9kShelves

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The urban life of little people [Chigua] [Chigua]

38 青 The Childhood Sweethearts Had an Adorably Mischievous Little One Wen XixiAncient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted 9.3kReads8.9Score635Shelves

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This book is about small people in ancient times, it's very interesting👀

39 北 Daily Life of a Maid in the Northern Song Dynasty Have You Ever Seen the Cat King?Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted 14.7kReads7.1Score2kShelves

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This literary heroine was born into the family of an official in the Northern Song Dynasty and gave birth to a child. She seemed to be stable, but she saw that the life of a slave was like a piece of grass. She saved money by relying on the golden finger of plants to learn how to make tea. She wanted to leave her country and seek freedom. The family was very good and would not hold her back.

40 现 The Stable Life of Modern Cattle and Horses in Ancient Times Danma Loves to Eat DurianAncient Romance298k WordsCompleted 5.8kReads8.3Score696Shelves

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This is a highly recommended novel about country people and ordinary people. There are no princes or princes in it.

42 阳 Pingyang Mansion Under the Sun Yu RunliangHistorical1.2M WordsCompleted 3kReads9.2Score407Shelves

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This book can be called the Ming Dynasty version of the ordinary world.

43 清 A Quiet Country Home: Life in the Countryside Mu from Envious, Ze from MunzeAncient Romance5.3M WordsOngoing 172.3kReads9.1Score17.7kShelves

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No rebirth, no time travel

44 小 A Family in a Little Village Fei QingAncient Romance283k WordsCompleted 520Reads7.1Score—Shelves

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She was born as a peasant girl and was loved by the group. She had no worries about eating and drinking but had no money to spare. Farm the fields to save food, set up stalls to make money, and lead the whole village to become rich. No cp

45 和 After We Separated from the Loading Mother, My Warehouse Was Full of Grain. The Red Bean Bun Has No FillingAncient Romance304k WordsCompleted 406Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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This book is quite good. It tells the story of pure farming and the leisurely life of a farm family. The parents are short-lived and don't have any golden fingers. You can read it when you are short of books.

46 穿 Transmigrating into the Mountains: A Farmer Widow’s Easygoing Life Green RobeAncient Romance331k WordsCompleted 2.1kReads8.8Score232Shelves

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①Ancient-style management + Jiangnan people + warm daily easy-to-decompress article, the heroine is a real child, very cute but not super. ②No CP, no top quality, no hell. The heroine dresses as an ancient widow, becomes a mother without pain, and takes her family to farm, buy herbs and grow fungi. ③The village beauty embroiderer + the accounting clerk, the ancient aboriginal couple worked hard to save money and have children every day, thus achieving a class jump.

48 槐 The Little Embroideress of Locust Tree Village: A Former Maid's Road to Riches Autumn Grows Deeper 24Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted 4kReads7.3Score290Shelves

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The ordinary life of a small person in ancient times was plain and warm. Although there were minor setbacks in life, it was more about the family working together to become rich.