Coming soon: Max-Level Fusion Master Returns to the Apocalypse to Seek Treasure, The Flower Seller's Daily Life in Bianjing, and Fleeing Famine in Ancient Times to Farm in the Mountains. Please add them to your collection, and thank you, sweet readers!
Blurb:
Yun Yin transmigrates into the Great Zhao dynasty as a refugee. To avoid being arbitrarily married off, she needs to register her household quickly and find a way to survive in this unfamiliar era.
Fortunately, she has a skill or two, enough to run a food stall. Seeing the official road nestled between mountains and water, she decides to set up shop there.
Yun Yin goes from selling noodles to making fish with pickled vegetables. She makes the most of the mountains and the water, and her business grows better and better.
Many students come from far and wide just to taste one of Yun Yin's dishes.
Yun Yin buys the nearby wasteland, grows straw mushrooms and watermelons, and searches for ingredients. She even raises crabs and shrimp. Mushroom sauce, crab-stuffed oranges, salt-and-pepper shrimp, and squirrel-shaped fish: her many fresh, fragrant, delicious dishes leave diners unable to stop eating.
As more and more diners arrive, Yun Yin builds an inn to accommodate traveling merchants.
Looking at her increasingly bustling inn, Yun Yin sighs. "It's a shame I still haven't found so many ingredients. I really want chili-fried pork, tomato and egg stir-fry, and hot-and-sour shredded potatoes."
Passing by the inn, Fu Wang hears her muttering and asks, "What are you looking for, Madam Yun? You can ask me."
Yun Yin looks up at the imposing young man before her, and her eyes light up. How could she have forgotten? He runs an escort agency and can travel to the Western Regions and the coast. He could search far and wide for seeds that haven't yet appeared in this era.
As all kinds of never-before-seen foods appear, Yun Yin's inn becomes famous far and wide, and the ingredients spread throughout Great Zhao.
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Fu Wang was discharged from the army after being injured. He started an escort business with his fellow soldiers who had returned home with him, and spent years traveling back and forth across the country.
Then one day, while passing along a desolate official road, he discovered not only a teahouse up ahead, but also a young woman inside who was a fine cook.
As Fu Wang ate the delicious food and watched the cheerful woman by the stove, his expression softened. Perhaps it was time to settle down.
Reader's Guide:
1. Fictional ancient setting, with plenty of invented details.
2. A food-business and farming story, with no court politics.
3. Hunting wild animals is illegal. It appears in the story only because the plot requires it.
4. References: Recipes from the Garden of Contentment, The Culinary Treasury, Mountain Home Delicacies, and Baidu.
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Coming Soon:
Fleeing Famine in Ancient Times to Farm in the Mountains
In the final years of the dynasty, disasters were frequent and the people lived in misery. When Lu Man woke up with the memories of her past life restored, she learned that she wasn't a native of this world. She had transmigrated, and into a year of famine at that.
After three years of severe drought, neither the fields nor the mountains could produce anything. Everyone was on the brink of despair. Lu Man knew she couldn't just sit and wait to die. Since she'd been an agricultural student in her previous life, she could find a suitable place to live in the mountains and farm, keeping herself safe from disaster.
She discussed heading south to escape with her family, then called on Luo Ling, the childhood friend who lived next door. Together, their families set out south to seek refuge.
Along the way, they witnessed the horrors of parents exchanging children for food, people eating tree bark and grass roots, and even people eating clay. Some people went further and tried to steal their food.
Fortunately, Lu Man's group had plenty of able-bodied workers, and she was as strong as an ox, so they were relatively safe on the road. But when war broke out in the Central Plains, they had no choice but to find somewhere more suitable.
Lu Man and Luo Ling had grown up together and often went into the mountains to hunt. Even after Lu Man remembered her past life, she hadn't forgotten how. The mountains and forests of Shu were steep and easy to defend, making them perfect for escaping the turmoil.
After searching for a long time, Lu Man and Luo Ling finally found a suitable place. They opened up a valley, gathered wild vegetables, and grew grain and mushrooms. At last, Lu Man's training in agriculture had come in handy.
As the valley flourished, life began to look up for Lu Man's family, except for the childhood friend who had followed her all along.
Lu Man: "Why do you keep following me? Have you caught any chickens or ducks alive? Have you started raising cattle and sheep?"
Luo Ling looked at Lu Man quietly. "What about the promise you made me?"
Lu Man looked up at the sky, then down at the ground, anywhere but at him. Ever since she remembered her previous life, she'd treated him like a younger brother, even though they'd grown up together, and had long since forgotten the promise she'd made.
From then on, Luo Ling stuck close to her, determined to make her keep her word.
Lu Man: "..."
Reader's Guide:
1. Fleeing famine in the first half, farming in the second.
2. A fictional dynasty, with no historical research intended.
Theme: Love life and stay positive
I like Wearing. The first time-travel novel I read was Wearing to the ancient world of martial arts, and Xi Juan's time-traveling love story.
I feel like the heroine is a bit naive. Can one person take on many bandits? Moreover, the heroine has only been in martial arts since she was a child. She opens a restaurant in such a deserted place.
It was written about traveling to an ancient rural area. From the beginning, the heroine was able to cook all kinds of delicacies. Those who didn't know it thought it was too easy to jump into the modern world where raw materials are abundant.
It's quite beautiful! Why is there no one [covering face and laughing and crying] [covering face and laughing and crying]
"Especially Grandma Sun. I heard that she wanted to learn how to make mushroom sauce. She didn't hide her secrets at all, and she didn't even want the money she gave her. So she didn't want to have a bad impact on the small village because of herself." Catch a bug for the author~ I said it was Grandma Su
The braised pork in my house is all sweet, but this is the first time I heard about the spicy one. I'm so greedy, hahaha, so I'll eat braised pork today!
Hey, I haven't tried Yu Qian and Chinese Toon before, so I'm curious about the taste 🤩
Very well written, come on, teacher [make me healthy]
In ancient times, let's not talk about one thousand wen. One thousand wen equals consistent/high money. When finances are tight, 800/850 wen is consistent.