A Rural Life of Farming and Good Food

New fic: "Exiled to the Western Regions: Daily Life of Farming and Food." Dear readers, please give it a little tap to add it to your wish list. *bows*

Blurb

Liu Qingqing struggled to survive in the apocalypse. After going through countless hardships, she awakened an ability: a little water gun that went pew-pew-pew. The dazed zombie, drenched in the face, came to its senses and felt insulted. It unleashed a furious attack on her, and as Liu Qingqing lay dying, a herd of expletives galloped through her mind.

She closed her eyes, then opened them, and became a country girl from a remote mountain village. The mountains were green, the waters clear, the animals frolicked gently, the insects quietly ate grass, and the plants didn't suddenly bare their sharp teeth. As for little problems like a leaky house, eating tree bark, and having clothes that barely covered her body, they were really nothing worth mentioning.

Of course, the leaky house had to be fixed. In the mountains, blue bricks cost as much as gold, but there's always a way around every difficulty. A stone roof would keep out the wind and rain, stay warm in winter and cool in summer, and even come with its own energy-saving air conditioner.

Her stomach was painfully empty, and she was small and weak. She couldn't catch ferocious wild boars or outrun burrowing rabbits, but surely she could catch the sparrows all over the mountain, the hopping grasshoppers, or the clams that couldn't swim. Lightly roast them over the fire, and she'd have a fragrant, nutritious, balanced meal.

Like a whale returning to the sea, like a bird returning to its nest, Liu Qingqing was as hardworking as a little bee. Every day she diligently went pew-pew-pew with her little water gun, watering crops, creating delicious food, and building infrastructure. Before she knew it, she had become the richest person in the area.

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Guo Shouyun was a wolf child in the truest sense. His biggest worry used to be that the little white wolf with the silkiest fur in the pack ignored him. By a twist of fate, he returned to human society and became a live-in son-in-law. With food on the line, a wolf under someone else's roof has to bow his head, so he carefully tried to please his wife, Liu Qingqing: making strange sounds for her (learning to speak), drawing complicated pictures (writing), and crossing the farthest mountain peak (delivering parcels).

The more he tried to please her, the more he realized: huh, this is actually pretty great.

A hardworking farming village girl & a little wolfdog who gets prickly from time to time

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"Exiled to the Western Regions: Daily Life of Farming and Food"

Qian Duoduo transmigrates and becomes Qian Duoduo, who is about to be exiled.

A long journey of ten thousand li lies ahead. How is she supposed to manage with no money at all?

Luckily, she's far-sighted. She secretly kept her marriage contract. It wouldn't be unreasonable to trade it for a few hundred taels, would it? After all, her fiance is the woman lead's beloved.

What? Her fiance is a stuffy, chaste man who isn't interested in women, and he'd rather be exiled with her than live off the woman lead?

Tch!

She'll just have to put in a little extra effort. She casually digs a hole and empties a field mouse's nest, finds some bird eggs to make egg-stuffed pancakes, gathers mushrooms after the rain to make soup that leaves the children in her group drooling, catches loaches in the river to braise with wine, and casually scores a roadside tree. To her surprise, clear, sweet liquor flows out, and she can sell it for a fortune in the county town.

Everyone else is in exile, but she's having a picnic. The officials escorting the prisoners promote her to cook, so she doesn't have to walk and can ride in the donkey cart packed with pots and bowls.

When they arrive in the Western Regions, said to be a land of people who eat raw meat and drink blood, everyone discovers it's not what they imagined:

Eating raw meat: They wear furs and can sleep in the bitter, biting wind.

Drinking blood: They eat medium-rare roasted meat, charred on the outside and tender inside, with juices running everywhere.

Qian Duoduo: What kind of miserable life is this? Let me handle it!

But has that stuffy man lost his mind? Why is he shamelessly squeezing into the carriage with her and begging to press his face against hers?

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Shen Yue, the most handsome man in the capital, is the eldest grandson of the Minister of Revenue. He has read widely, follows propriety, and keeps himself in check. When his grandfather's accounts were found to be in order, the whole family was exiled. By the grace of the emperor, the Shen family may regain its former glory if they repay what they owe.

Shen Yue has no choice but to set aside his former manners and dignity and chase after money. But he discovers that a month of copying books earns less than his fiancee makes from one day of running a stall.

With a fiancee like that, why should he bother copying books? Of course he'll just follow behind her as her sidekick.

But as he does, why does his heart pound and his face turn red whenever he sees her? Why does he get so nervous that his arms and legs seem to move on the same side?

A bold, lively, food-loving village girl & a proper, restrained young gentleman down on his luck

Theme: Do it yourself, and you'll have enough to eat and wear