Fleeing Famine with a Young Heiress, I Fill My Granary with Food and Meat Through Divination

Chen Mo transmigrates one day and becomes the most inconspicuous little guard under the Northern Pacifying General. From the start, the general hands him a real hot potato: Shen Zhiyi, the former duke's daughter, exiled after her family was destroyed.

The general gave a vicious grin. "Take her tonight! Fail, and you'll face military discipline!"

Chen Mo: ...I'm just here to watch the show!

With death waiting either way, he chooses a third option: run away with her!

Luckily, there's always a way out. The Divination System suddenly awakens:

[Omen: Great misfortune! There are ears outside the tent. If you cross the line before the third quarter of the Zi hour, bloodshed will strike at your throat.]

[Variable: At midnight, metal will clang at the door, and water and fire will clash. In the chaos, there may be a sliver of life, but the odds are nine to one against survival.]

An enemy attack strikes without warning, and flames shoot into the sky! Chen Mo promptly hoists Shen Zhiyi onto his back and disappears into the night.

On the road as refugees, they face starving corpses everywhere and danger at every turn. But with the System's divinations, Chen Mo repeatedly avoids misfortune and finds good fortune:

[Conflict ahead, inauspicious. Detour to the rocky shoals on the left, auspicious.]

[Wharf: Inauspicious. Refugees are gathering, and an epidemic is about to break out. Head southeast and follow the Cang River for three hundred li to find temporary safety.]

He also causes a sensation among the refugees with his utterly bizarre "lazy man's fishing method": fish traps!

While everyone thinks he's sure to die, Chen Mo has quietly saved up his first fortune. With the once lofty daughter of the duke's family by his side, he sets out on a journey southeast toward a land overflowing with grain and meat...