Everyday Ancient Farming and Raising Children

Sheng Xia realized she was a transmigrator after she had already spent twenty-five years living in ancient times. She had been married for ten years and had a son and a daughter. Her family owned a house, a mule cart, fifty mu of good farmland, a small hill, and a pond. In the village, they counted as fairly well-off small landowners. But Sheng Xia couldn’t bring herself to be happy. She rubbed her forehead and looked out the window. In the spacious courtyard, seven little gourd babies ran around like wild dogs, while her handsome scholar husband looked utterly helpless. Sheng Xia felt just as helpless. She was only twenty-five! Seven children? ** Cheng Du was a well-known scholar in Xiao Cheng Village. He had passed the entry-level imperial exam at fifteen and become a licentiate at nineteen. His future looked boundless, if only he hadn’t married so young. At nineteen, he took the provincial exam for the first time and placed in the middle ranks, with every chance of passing. At twenty-one, he missed passing by two places because he had to care for two children with high fevers before the exam. At twenty-four, he missed by one place because the children came down with smallpox. At twenty-seven, Cheng Du looked at the family’s dwindling fields and their seven children of all ages, then spoke to his wife about giving up the exams and teaching instead. He thought his wife would be angry, but she would understand. After all, even if he stopped taking the exams, they still had seven children who could take them in his place. He never expected her to simply look at him in silence, then pull out a box of silver ingots from beneath the bed. Cheng Du: !!! Had he really driven his wife to become a bandit? Both leads are each other’s first and only, one-on-one romance, lots of relationship development Farming, raising children, and pampering a handsome husband Upcoming story: “The Daily Struggle in Ancient Times” Qin Sheng transmigrated. One second, she was an unlucky sixteen-year-old high school student in the prime of her youth. The next, she had become an old woman in ancient times No, wait. She had finally remembered her past life. But now she was nearly fifty, with a houseful of grandchildren, each more disobedient than the last. The eldest was simplehearted and cheerful. If the sky fell, he’d just get crushed beneath it. He spent all day grinning, blissfully carefree, until the sight of him made her head ache. The second was a carefree playboy who flirted with women wherever he went. He’d just had his leg broken, but even limping, he still insisted on showing off. The third was reckless and fierce. Nobody knew which mountain he’d run off to, trying to fight a tiger or a bear. Just thinking about it made her worry. The fourth was a licentiate, with a bright future ahead of him, but he suddenly gave up, grew addicted to drink, and turned into a hopeless mess. He refused to open a book no matter how much they beat him. Her only daughter had also returned to her parents’ home with her two granddaughters, insisting on a divorce. Qin Sheng had remembered her past life because her children had argued about splitting up the family, and someone had knocked her over, making her hit her head. She woke to the sound of a whip cracking. With her head wrapped in bandages, she looked at her normally mild-mannered but now furious old man, then at the bunch of useless good-for-nothings outside, and listened to the inexplicable System voice in her head. She said to the old man, whose hair had gone white, “All right, stop beating them. If the fourth one won’t study, then you go study!” Fifty is the perfect age to make a go of it! The old man’s eyes widened. The imperial exams? Him? Theme: Self-reliance and hard work