Peaceful Joy: Mountain Living

Xie Ye transmigrates into a book, landing right in the middle of a "massive car crash" scene: she's about to get caught on a date with a scumbag.

To get away from him and prove her innocence, she chooses to jump into the river.

But a mountain man comes charging out of nowhere to play the hero.

Now she's escaped the fate of becoming a concubine, only to be forcibly married off to a mountain man who lives deep in the wilderness and makes his living hunting.

After following Bai Cang home, Xie Ye discovers that mountain folk don't live nearly as poorly as people say. It's just that some of their bad habits are really...

Later, every household in Baiyun Ridge has a brick-and-tile house, and the village becomes a famous mountain market known far and wide.

Traders and peddlers flock there, while hunters and mountain folk from deeper in the hills come to sell their local goods and pelts.

Xie Ye and Bai Cang take the village children to the prefectural city to study. When the group reveals they're mountain folk from Canglong Mountain, a waiter asks, "I heard there's an immortal deep in Canglong Mountain. Have you ever seen one?"

Xie Ye: "No immortal, but there was a spirit medium. She ran off after I gave her a good beating!"

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Though Jiang Li has memories of a past life, she feels no different from the other women of her time. As a child, she was doted on by her parents. When she came of age, she got engaged and married, then helped her husband raise their children and cared for her in-laws... Wait, she doesn't have in-laws. Her fiance is just as lacking in family as she is.

Hold on. Maybe, just maybe, her fiance isn't as lacking in family as she is. She's the only one left in her family, but he has an older sister, two younger brothers, and a younger sister. When she thinks about it that way, Jiang Li doesn't feel so alone anymore. Once they're married, they'll all be one family!

Since they're one family, Jiang Li rubs her chin and grins from ear to ear.

At last, she won't have to pay someone to do the hard work of cleaning the pigsty. She can leave little errands and messages to her four-year-old brother-in-law.

Her eight-year-old sister-in-law is sweet and thoughtful, so she'll reward her with steamed egg custard tomorrow morning. As for her second younger brother-in-law, well... he's quick-witted. The Dragon Boat Festival is coming up, so she can make some mung bean cakes for him to sell at the market...

What? Her older sister-in-law is being mistreated by her husband's family? Hmph, do they think she has no family to stand up for her? Get a divorce! My family can support you!

In the little farmhouse, the big watchdog lies sprawled out like a pancake, flicking its tail now and then while the tabby cat naps on its head. Beneath the lush grape trellis, a little child squats beside a small stone mill, eyes wide with curiosity. "Big Sister-in-law, have you eaten sweet tofu pudding before?"

"Yes. I'll make you some sweet kind tomorrow morning." As Jiang Li grinds the beans, she thinks to herself that she's eaten more than sweet tofu pudding. She's even had mooncakes filled with dumpling stuffing!

Theme: When the granaries are full, people understand propriety; when food and clothing are abundant, they understand honor and shame.