Head of the Household [Farming]

Nineteen-year-old Lin Musheng worked hauling bricks at a construction site. He died when a collapsing wall crushed him as he tried to save an older coworker.

When he woke up, he found himself in ancient times, and bound to a farming System.

His family was dirt poor.

His paternal grandmother controlled the family purse, stingy and eccentric.

His four-year-old younger brother was near death from a high fever, and they couldn't afford treatment.

His biological father was gaunt and constantly in tears.

To make matters worse, his father was a mama's boy who let his mother bully his husband and children...

In the middle of this mess, the pitiful little blind boy betrothed to the original owner showed up at his door, begging Lin Musheng to take him in.

Lin Musheng: ...

With the thirty taels of starting capital given by the farming System, Lin Musheng argued circles around his eccentric grandmother, cut ties with his mama's boy father, and quickly bought a little earthen house in the village. He took his family of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled members and set up a new household, becoming its head.

The seed shop and virtual farm opened next, and System 110 arrived belatedly, bringing with it a prophecy that a three-year famine would come in the future.

Lin Musheng became an emotionless farming machine, planting every crop in the seed shop: potatoes, chili peppers, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, cucumbers...

Fried potato sticks, spicy hot pot, cucumber salad, steamed sweet potatoes...

Lin Musheng set up a food stall in the county town.

Passerby: What's that amazing smell? Fried potatoes? Never heard of them. Might as well try a free sample.

After tasting it:

!!!

Boss, I'll take a bowl! No, three bowls. I want my mother and wife to try some.

Spicy Hot Pot Shop owner: This spicy broth is a family recipe. You think your hot pot can beat mine?

After tasting Lin Musheng's hot pot broth made with heaven-facing peppers,

the owner stood dazed, rubbing his swollen, chili-red lips.

In the blazing summer heat, the stall also started selling chilled watermelon and lemon fruit tea to beat the heat.

Affordable prices, first come, first served.

People started lining up outside the Lin family's stall at midnight, all hoping to try the owner's endless stream of new delicacies.

Whenever he had money, he bought seeds from the shop and planted them. Once he had enough, he bought finished grain products directly.

In the storage box of Lin Musheng's virtual farm, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and rice were stockpiled by the ton.

Lin Musheng was busy farming and running his stall. When night fell and all was quiet, he also traveled to various places to deliver all sorts of crop seeds to the people.

The people of the Great Xia Dynasty began building temples to worship the Seed Immortal.

This immortal was known as the Seed Immortal, and legend said he was a descendant of Shennong.

As long as people prayed with devotion and offered the appropriate incense money, miraculous crop seeds would appear in their homes the next day.

Even the emperor held a ritual to express his gratitude to the Seed Immortal.

Legends of the Seed Immortal spread among the people. They had no idea that the chilled watermelon juice they held in their hands had been made by the very immortal they revered.

*

The Lin couple's first meeting.

Freshly transmigrated, Lin Musheng said fiercely, "If you want to stay with me, you have to do everything I say. Understand?"

The sixteen-year-old blind boy, Xu Yu, replied nervously, "I don't eat much, and I can do lots of chores. I'll be good."

Xu Yu obediently put on the thick clothes Lin Musheng bought for him, obediently ate the meat and vegetables Lin Musheng served him, and obediently let Lin Musheng protect him from every bit of mistreatment.

Xu Yu: ? Something seems a little off.

*

When the Lin couple first fell in love.

On the night Xu Yu turned eighteen, he hugged Lin Musheng and acted coyly. "Brother Musheng, I'm eighteen now, and I weigh 120 jin. I can have a baby."

Lin Musheng was a little drunk, laughter in his voice. "Have what?"

"A baby!"

"Who are you having it for?"

"For you."

"Why would you have one for me?"

"Because I like you." Xu Yu kissed Lin Musheng on the lips and murmured, "I like you so much."

Lin Musheng rolled over on top of him.

When Xu Yu was crying and couldn't think straight, Lin Musheng leaned close to his glistening pink ear and bit him.

"I love you too."

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