Yu Tao transmigrated and became a penniless orphan girl. She married a sickly man to bring him good fortune.
The good news: Her beautiful, frail husband survived, and her in-laws were kind and decent.
The bad news: There was a medicine jar in the house that drained the family finances, leaving them with nothing but thin soup at every meal.
What could Yu Tao do? She could only put her best skills to work.
Raising bees, making honey, beeswax, and honey wine...
At the time, honey and beeswax were as precious as gold because production was so low.
Yu Tao's eyes lit up. Traditional barrel beekeeping was too inefficient. Time to bring out the big guns!
She worked hard to make money and led the whole village to prosperity.
Before she knew it, beekeeping had become her hometown's signature industry, famous far and wide.
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After Yu Tao started making money, renowned doctors and precious medicinal herbs flowed into the household.
Her husband, once too ill to get out of bed, grew rosier by the day.
Yu Tao: "Hmm? This medicine is a powerful tonic? Quick, take it to my delicate, helpless ( ?) husband."
Zhou An stopped Yu Tao's hand, his voice hoarse. "No more tonics. Any more and something's going to happen."
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Also known as: I Got the Scholar Drunk on My Honey Wine (inspired by the song Honey Wine)
Reading guide:
1. A slow-paced farming and business story. The female lead's career is beekeeping.
2. Marriage first, love later. The male lead pursues a career through the imperial exams, but that part takes up less of the story.
3. An alternate-history setting, with dynasties mixed together. The beekeeping methods are based on the Tang and Song eras, while the imperial exams and official posts are based on the Ming and Qing eras.
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Theme: Keep striving and create a better life through hard work
Old Jiang really... Pretends to say that this is a litmus test. But if they agree, you will say that they are greedy for profit. If they don't agree, you will say that you, a peasant, are not afraid of offending me. Jiang Yuniang has double standards, and old man Jiang has even more double standards. The family tradition is not right, and it feels like the Jiang family has become too good at being an official for a long time. The emperor is only in his thirties, and the emperor's own younger brother is as shrunken as a quail. If you just hang out in small groups every day, sooner or later you will be suppressed by the emperor, and the whole family will be conspicuous.
Hahahahahaha, this Hu businessman has the characteristics of an Italian businessman.
It's quite cool to name others.
Hahahaha, honey water is also very good. It means that life after marriage is as sweet as honey.
Women's clothing: Good guy, if you just compliment me on your beauty, I'll pay 300 taels of silver for a bracelet!
Once the door is opened for men to join a women's school, the women's school will gradually disappear and gradually become an all-male school.
Girls help girls
! Chen Shimei and Pan Jinlian
Ahhhh, Xiong Zhuangtou is so angry, I must slap him in the face hard
When will the author come back?