A female lead reincarnated as the Golden Hoe, single-mindedly pursuing heresy VS a male lead who's a jack of all trades, master of none, yet insists on serving the people
Tongzhou is mountainous, and its mountains are full of bandits. The region has suffered from them for years. The previous prefect failed to suppress them, slunk back to the capital to report, and never returned.
Soon, the court issued a new decree: He Jingshan, a famous figure in the capital, was coming to take office.
Word had it that Lord He was decisive and ruthless, and had earned the emperor's favor. Surely he was coming to wipe out the bandits.
Some people in Tongzhou were pleased, others worried, but everyone was curious about Lord He.
The day He Jingshan arrived in Tongzhou, the streets were packed. Everyone craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the new prefect. After all, the road here had been anything but safe.
Rumor had it that as soon as He Jingshan's party entered Tongzhou, they ran into bandits. The prefect and his wife were kidnapped one after another. People searched for them for days without success. Just as everyone thought the prefect had gone to the underworld, the couple returned unharmed.
In an instant, the new prefect was surrounded by an air of mystery. All kinds of stories spread, so at the welcome banquet, everyone questioned him at length, but got no answers.
Some said that the news from the capital made the new prefect seem highly suspicious. There was probably something odd about him.
He Jingshan's son and daughter overheard this and grew suspicious too, so that night they quietly crept outside their parents' room to spy.
They saw two hemp ropes hanging from the rafters, each tied into a noose at the end. Their parents were sticking their heads into them.
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Chen Yaoyun and He Jingshan had been married for half their lives. Their days were full of ups and downs, but never dull. Then an accident caused them to transmigrate to the Jiajing era of the Ming dynasty, where they became a prefect and his wife, assigned to Tongzhou to suppress the bandits.
But how could Chen Yaoyun possibly act like a dignified lady? And how could He Jingshan possibly govern or suppress bandits? As they reached Tongzhou and faced a crowd of ill-intentioned people constantly testing them, the couple finally reached their breaking point. They decided to die once more and transmigrate back home.
But their son and daughter wouldn't have it. They cried, begged, and kowtowed, trying every trick until they finally persuaded their parents to stay.
But what were they supposed to do now that they had stayed?
They would just have to grit their teeth and do their best.
And so the real married couple, pretending to be a prefect and his wife, began getting into one ridiculous, laughable predicament after another in Tongzhou.
Theme: A long-married couple's sweet life together.
