The Farmer's Old Mother Was Reborn After Her Own Son Starved Her to Death

Reborn just before starving to death, Old Madam Shen pulled out three pieces of paper: The IOU for the five taels her eldest son owed: this time, he'd pay back principal and interest with a broken leg! The secret letter proving the Zheng family colluded with bandits: the scumbag son-in-law's path to officialdom was headed for the executioner's block! A map to the secret recipe for braised meat: famine in a chaotic age? One pot of fragrant meat would win over three thousand refugees! When government troops surrounded the house to requisition grain and her sons cowered, trembling beneath a widow's skirts, Old Madam Shen rode alone into the bandits' den. “A thousand tons of grain in exchange for exempting my sons from service. Refuse, and I'll stew your whole stronghold!” Salt merchants laying siege, an unfilial son stabbing her in the back, the prince's estate trying to seize her daughter? Old Madam Shen pulled a land deed from her crock of fermented black beans. “I hear you want to carve up the Shen family?” Firelight glinted on her bloodstained face. “Good. Line up nicely. It's time to bury you.”