A Village Girl's Everyday Life of Farming and Raising Children in Ancient Times

When Su Zhaoning woke up, she had become a young girl in a farming family in the mountains of ancient China.

Mountains rose in layers above her, while a few meager plots of land lay below. Her parents were both dead, their home was bare, and she had a younger brother and sister to raise.

Fortunately, the green mountains never let anyone down.

When spring came, she went to the back mountain to gather a basket of tender bamboo shoots, blanching and dressing them for a fresh, sweet, crisp treat.

In summer, she picked wild mushrooms that had sprung up after a thunderstorm and simmered them with potatoes into a rich soup.

In late autumn, she dried and stored wild chestnuts and mountain persimmons from across the hills, making the sweetest snacks.

When winter snow sealed the door, they gathered by the stove and roasted a sweet potato from the cellar, basking in its warmth.

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Xie Qi was born to royalty, but now his family had fallen into ruin, and he was an expendable pawn living under an assumed name in the mountains.

In the end, he hid in these bitterly cold woods, surviving in the green mountains with his skill as a hunter.

Silent and solitary, his body covered in scars and his former glory hidden beneath coarse clothes, he became the "fierce hunter who keeps to himself and is best left alone" in the villagers' eyes.

His days were a gray stretch with no end in sight, until he met Su Zhaoning.

Where the cooking smoke rises, there is home.

Later, an imperial decree of exoneration capable of shaking the entire court arrived...

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Theme: Strive and persevere.