A Fifty-Year-Old Woman Exiled? My Whole Family Reclaims the Wasteland While I Take It Easy

Reborn as the fifty-year-old matriarch of a marquis's household, she opens her eyes on the road to exile. Her sons and daughters-in-law are at each other's throats, and each grandchild has their own agenda, but Zhang Hongying stays calm.

So what if the whole family is full of villains?

She kicks off the Villain Reform System with a vengeance.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

If one round isn't enough, give them a few more!

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With the System's help, Zhang Hongying develops crops that yield ten thousand mu a month, rice that grows in saline-alkali soil, tea worth tens of millions of taels of silver, and medicinal remedies thought long extinct.

She grows crops and trees, and tends flowers.

Before long, she's living a blissful life everyone envies.

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Merchant: What do you do?

Matriarch: Farm.

Merchant: What kind of farming can make you the richest person in the land and bring the powerful to their knees?

Matriarch: A fifty-year-old big shot's business is none of your concern.

Merchant: Your cherries are delicious, but expensive: ten taels of silver a jin.

Matriarch: Those cherries are for feeding the cattle and sheep.

Noble: This ginseng is excellent. A hundred taels of silver. I'll buy it in bulk.

Matriarch: Sorry, it's for tonics and bathwater.

Empress Dowager: A country retreat? It can improve my health and restore my youth, too? Let me stay a few days!

Matriarch: Goodbye.