Rural Food Diary: The 1970s

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"The Little Vegetable Farmer's Daughter in Tokyo"

Inspired by the Song Dynasty / Anything that doesn't match is my own invention / Pure farming / Slice of life / Food

Ten li outside the city of Tokyo lived the Ji family.

They had ten mu of land and grew vegetables instead of grain. How peculiar! How very peculiar!

The Ji family had a young daughter named Ji Wenjiang. She was sweet, beautiful, and quick-witted.

She praised the vegetables in her fields as green jade, and somehow managed to open a shop in Tokyo with the proceeds!

When Miss Ji came of age, so many people came to ask for her hand that they wore down her doorstep. But she had already given her heart to someone.

Who could have known that he would be so cold and heartless? The young lady's heart cooled, and she thought: Better to make money than get married. Making money is best.

Who would have thought that the cold and heartless one would later toss and turn, unable to sleep?

Synopsis from the female supporting character's perspective

Ji Wenjun looked back on her life. She had been the granddaughter of an ordinary vegetable farmer outside Tokyo. Her childhood had been carefree, her family had cherished her, and her siblings had worked themselves to the bone. Those were the happiest days of her short life.

But when she was eight, her family was falsely accused by the villagers and thrown in prison.

The Ji family was torn apart, and their home fell into ruin.

Given another chance, she would keep her family safe and make her enemies pay in blood.

Most importantly, her older sister...

She had been a burden to her sister in her previous life. This time, she wanted her sister to live a happy, fulfilled life and marry a good young man she could love.

1. A female supporting character is reborn. There is a touch of an ensemble cast, but Xiao Jiang is the only heroine.

2. The male lead is five years older.

3. Please encourage the author by adding this to your library and letting it build up~

Inspired by Tao Gu's "Qing Yi Lu: Bronze Sea": "Ji Sheng, an old gardener in Bianliang, supported thirty people with a single hoe. When he was gravely ill, he warned his descendants: 'These ten mu of land are a sea of bronze.'"

Synopsis:

Jiang Wenqing from 2023 got into a car accident. When she opened her eyes, she had become Jiang Zhaodi from 1970.

Jiang Zhaodi's life was just as bleak as her name suggested. Her family planned to marry her off to an old widower to pay for her younger brother's wedding, so after much thought, she decided to drown herself.

Jiang Zhaodi drowned in the river. Chen Muwen, a man from the village, rescued Jiang Wenqing.

She was unconscious for three days. When she woke up, she found that the Jiang family had packed her off to the Chen household and extorted a sum of money from them...

Jiang Wenqing's vision went black. She would have loved to get into another car accident.

Too bad there wasn't even a bicycle on these country roads.

Before coming here, Jiang Wenqing had been an office drone at a big factory. After an argument with her boss went nowhere, she'd angrily threatened to quit and go home to raise pigs.

After coming here, she found that she didn't even get to raise pigs.

Fortunately, there was always work to do in the countryside through the seasons, and Chen Muwen would never let her go hungry.

Theme: The only cure for sorrow is good food.