A Commoner’s Daughter in Ancient Times

The main story is complete. The extras are posted next door, and I'll add more whenever I write them. My next novel will be "Rent Collection in Bianjing"~ * A transmigration farming story about the everyday lives of ordinary townsfolk, with a side of getting rich. * After twenty years of study, Zhang Zhiyu suddenly died at work. When she opened her eyes, she was in the gentle, wealthy Jiangnan region, in the bustling, flower-filled city of Gusu. Though they weren't part of a family of noble banqueters, even a townswoman with a little extra grain could enjoy a lively, happy life. A grandfather with mediocre medical skills, a grandmother who embroidered despite her failing eyesight, loving parents, a mischievous aunt and little sister, and a soft-hearted but crafty Granny Sun: all ten members of the Zhang family worked together to make a quiet fortune in this land of fish and rice. By the time Sister Yu had become a renowned doctor throughout Jiangnan, Zhang Daliang had become a chivalrous hero, and the Li family's boat dishes were selling in Jinling, the neighbors gradually began to realize something was up: the Zhang family was getting rich! May the family prosper and their livestock flourish. Life in the Zhang household steadily improved, and even after the matchmakers wore down the doorstep, Sister Yu still shook her head. She pointed at the sickly neighbor next door, who was studying, and said, "That one. He'll do~" * * A few notes: First, all the medical knowledge in this story is made up, based on theory. Since the characters have transmigrated, the author assumes every last bit of it works (Xiao Guo's smiling face). If you're ill, please go to the hospital and follow your doctor's orders. Second, don't try making any of the medicines described in this story yourself~ Every seemingly casual success of Sister Yu's has the author pulling strings behind the scenes with a golden finger. Third, the implausible medical elements aren't meant to be taken seriously. This is a low-martial-arts setting, so please don't read if that bothers you. Fourth, some characters were inspired by historical figures from the Tang and Song dynasties. The heroine was inspired by Zhang Xiaoniangzi, a renowned Song-era acupuncturist and surgeon, and Tan Yunxian, a famous Ming-era gynecologist. All the couples in the story were childhood friends, and the main characters all come from humble backgrounds. …Upcoming Novels Begin Here… Upcoming novel: "Rent Collection in Bianjing," a transmigration farming story. A lively record of everyday life among the common folk of Bianjing, with a leisurely pace. Zhou Yuzhu transmigrated into Bianjing, a city of a million people, as the impoverished descendant of a meritorious official. Flowers blossomed everywhere, silk robes wafted with fragrance, beauties were as numerous as clouds, and carriages filled the streets. Behind embroidered doors and pearl curtains, the city bustled with life. Bianjing was flourishing like a dream, right in the middle of its golden age. Zhou Yuzhu roamed the streets with her older sister and younger brother, tagging along after her spendthrift parents. She visited the imperial gardens in spring, drank cooling tea in summer, watched the monks of Daxiangguo Temple set up stalls, wandered the streets waiting for ten thousand pigs to enter the city, listened to peddlers hawk their wares, and gossiped about the households of princes and nobles. Then one day, while eating a flower cake, Zhou Yuzhu suddenly realized that her family had already gone bankrupt. Her older sister's marriage prospects were full of trouble, her younger brother wanted to sacrifice himself for his country, her father couldn't stay away from the pleasure quarters, and her mother spent money like water. Every last one of them was a genuine spendthrift. When the family was nearly out of food, her parents finally came to their senses and vowed to turn their fortunes around. So, behind Daxiangguo Temple and among the pleasure houses and theaters, her father, Master Zhou, who had squandered the family fortune, had a sudden brainwave. He divided their ancestral home, which the authorities desperately wanted to reclaim, into multiple units and turned it into a shared rental house, making a tidy profit right under their noses. Zhou Yuzhu lived in constant fear, worried that one day the authorities would decide to do a cleanup, specifically to exterminate the Zhou family's rat spirits. At the end of the month, Zhou Yuzhu hugged a basket of copper coins and prayed fervently: My Buddha, if there is a next life, please let me have this much fun again. -- In late spring, as the blossoms were fading, the ninth-rank official Rong Bai went on a spring outing with a friend and saw Second Miss Zhou. Rong Bai looked away from Yuzhu and turned to leave. His friend asked in surprise, "We have a rare day off. Why are you going back already?" Rong Bai replied, "Because I've already seen the finest flower in Bianjing." Reader's note: A daily-life farming story centered on the Zhou family. The career plot won't take up much space, but they will definitely get rich. It's the same story, but I've set it in a fictional dynasty to avoid distorting history, so it's loosely based on the Song dynasty. Please don't read if you expect rigorous historical accuracy. Upcoming novel: "Back to 1997" The oil factory went bankrupt, the teahouse changed hands, her scumbag father took her younger sister away, and her mother fell ill with depression. Her family was scattered and their fortunes faded. Lin Wei had known nine parts of life's bitterness out of ten. One day, Lin Wei woke up in the summer of 1997. On the table lay her copy of Children's Fairy Tale King and her mother's Xi Juan novels. Her little sister was fast asleep, hugging Xiao Bai. Lin Wei grabbed her sister and ran to their maternal grandmother's house as fast as she ever had in her life. Amid the summer cicadas, a deep, powerful voice rang out from far away. "You may be laid off, but we'll take up our posts!" Those words seemed to flip a switch. Lin Wei suddenly remembered: this was the day Hong Kong returned to China, and it was also the day her parents got divorced. This was when the Lin family began its irreversible decline. Lin Wei opened the door and went from forty years old back to ten, returning to the Lin family courtyard from thirty years earlier. Her maternal grandfather, who hadn't yet died of alcoholic liver disease, spoke animatedly to the television. Her maternal grandmother, her hair still completely black, embraced Lin Wei's young and beautiful mother and smiled. "Hong Kong is the nation's precious jewel, and you're my precious jewel. Now both jewels are back. That's wonderful." Bright clouds scatter easily, and crystal glass is fragile. The good things in life don't last. But there was still a chance to make everything whole again. I'd also like to recommend a friend's ancient-times transmigration and imperial-examination farming novel, "I Become a Top-Ranked Tutor in Ancient Times." The moment Song Chuxia opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into the home of a poor peasant family in ancient times. Her awful father was useless, her meek mother had no say in anything, and her sickly older sister couldn't afford medicine. Song Chuxia had no choice but to pull the family together. Question: How do you pull a family together? Teacher Song's answer: Share the truth, teach, and answer questions. In plain words: farm, make some money, return to her old profession from her previous life, and become a woman who teaches and nurtures students. By the time candidates from poor villages were everywhere, the women were harvesting bumper crops of silk and cotton, and the students who had been buried in exam prep finally looked up, Jiangling had changed from the gentle, slow-paced place it had once been. Even the slackers were getting competitive! Teacher Song became famous far and wide. Follow a peasant girl as she makes her way to become the Jin Dynasty's imperial, gold-medal-winning female teacher and the Imperial Academy's top instructor for the civil service examinations. Theme: The most important thing is for the whole family to be together.