Stepmother in charge: Making a fortune through farming and raising her children to fight back

Ten years after the founding of the Wei Dynasty, the Yuzhou region should have been filled with summer in July, but it was hit by an unprecedented drought.

The heat wave is rolling, and the mountainside is all yellow. Plants can wait patiently, but people cannot.

In the past, at this time of year, the entire Daqin Village was preparing for the autumn harvest.

However, since the Double Ninth Festival last year, there has been no rain in the entire Yuzhou, and the soil in the fields has become hardened. I don’t know whether there will be a harvest this year.

At this time, the gate of a house in the village was wide open, but it was silent inside.

"Mom...Mom, are you okay? Brother, what happened to Mom?"

"It's best if you have something to do. Don't call her mother. Didn't I tell you, she is not our mother."

"Oh." A soft voice came.

hiss--

A splitting headache.

There was a whispering sound in my ears.

Yun Zhenzhen thought it was an illusion caused by staying up late, so she turned over and prepared to take a nap.

"Brother, did Mom move just now? Is she okay?"

"Don't go over there, she hasn't beaten you enough, has she?"

Hearing intermittent sounds, Yun Zhenzhen suddenly opened her eyes.

There were mottled mud stains on the yellow mud walls, and there was tattered thatch above the head. A rag was pulled to block the falling water drops. The whole house was pitch black and visibly tattered.

She saw two children standing not far from the bed, wearing dirty coarse clothes, one with dull eyes and the other timid. They looked less than ten years old, and they actually called her mother?

"Brother, she...how come she woke up so quickly?"

The little girl hid behind the big boy, tugging at his sleeve, her voice trembling. When she looked at them, the boy in front put his hand to block her, his face defensive.

No!

I'm unmarried and childless, so how could I have two children this big?

In an instant, some memories that did not belong to her suddenly flooded into her mind. After accepting the memories, Yun Zhenzhen almost lifted the bed.

Gan!

I'm a research monk who stayed up late to do experiments, but the day before graduation, I unexpectedly traveled back in time to be a rural stepmother in ancient times!

She is only 26 years old, unmarried and childless, in the prime of her life. Does she know how difficult it is to survive until graduation?

The original body was only 19 years old and married Qin Shouze, a divorced bachelor with two...three children. She was forcibly taken away by conscripts before her wedding night, leaving her with several hungry children and not returning for five years.

Two...three kids!!!

The eldest boy, Qin Li, just turned fourteen this year. He is honest and simple, and was ordered by the original body to go out and find food.

The second child, Qin Wen, is eleven years old this year and is the smartest among his brothers.

The third child, Qin Nan, is a girl who is only five years old after the Chinese New Year. She is thin and small, and it is obvious that she is malnourished.

Yun Zhenzhen had a severe headache and collapsed on the bed with her eyes closed.

I really hope this is a dream, but the vague pain in my body reminds me all the time that this is really happening.

"Brother, what's wrong with her?"

"Don't say anything. We don't know what tricks she's up to. Be careful she might jump up and hit us again."

The two little ones stared at her warily, and there were many villagers outside the yard watching the fun.

"Aunt Qin went back to her parents' home to borrow food, but she came back covered in wounds. I'm afraid she got beaten up again!"

"When Aunt Qin married into the Yun family, she gave them a betrothal gift of five taels of silver, but it was all taken away by the Yun family. Now they won't even lend us a little life-saving food. What a sin!"

"This Aunt Qin is the same, lazy and overbearing, she doesn't look like a daughter-in-law at all."

The people outside kept calling her Aunt Qin, enjoying the fun and making trouble. It gave people a headache just listening to her.

The original body was virtuous in the first two years after her marriage, but her temperament changed drastically after the news of Qin Shouze's death in the battlefield came back. She insulted her mother-in-law and treated her children harshly. After the family was divided, she even asked for everything and ordered the children to do chores to make a living.

Alas! There is nothing I can do.

They come, the security.

Yun Zhenzhen slowly opened her eyes, checked her body, and found that there was no major problem, so she lay down with peace of mind.

She didn't want to get up, but her stomach was rumbling, so she had to get out of bed reluctantly and limped to close the gate. Only then did everyone slowly disperse.

According to his memory, he skillfully groped his way to the dry toilet in the backyard.

Yun Zhenzhen held her breath, quickly untied her belt, squatted down, covered her nose with her clothes, and wrinkled her little face.

After finishing the work, Yun Zhenzhen wanted to find some toilet paper, and her eyes suddenly swept across the bamboo tube standing on the ground.

She gritted her teeth, silently took out a few bamboo sticks from inside, and reached behind her...

孽 孽!

After more than twenty years of studying, I finally graduated from graduate school and even passed the plagiarism check for my thesis!!!

Just wear it, why do you want to be a mother painlessly?

Yun Zhenzhen shed a handful of bitter tears for herself, threw away the used bamboo pieces in her hand, and her whole body was about to break apart.

After coming out of the dry toilet, Yun Zhenzhen looked at the two little ones standing in the yard. They were wearing patched coarse cloth clothes, and the cloth shoes on their feet were so tattered that they couldn't cover their feet. They looked like they were fleeing from famine.

Yun Zhenzhen was still somewhat uncomfortable with the situation and was just wondering how to start the conversation when she heard two rumbling sounds coming from the stomachs of the two people in front of her. She walked over to them and wanted to ask if they were hungry.

The two kids silently took two steps back, and Qin Nan behind them explained in a panic.

"We're not... not hungry. Our stomachs made noises accidentally. It won't growl again..."

Before he could finish his words, his stomach growled twice.

Both of them held their stomachs, their faces flushed, but hunger was something no one could control.

Seeing this, Yun Zhenzhen didn't say much. She looked for the kitchen according to her memory. There were only two rooms in the whole yard. She lived in one room, and the remaining room was shared by her two sons and a daughter. They ate in the yard. There was a small corner with straw on the side, which could barely be considered a kitchen.

When she walked into the kitchen and looked at the empty rice jar, she finally remembered.

The harvest was not good this year, and she was lazy and gluttonous on weekdays. She relied on the children to pick wild vegetables outside to make a living. Today, she came back injured, and the eldest child was not back yet. Where is there any food at home?

She could only go out and look for it by herself. When Yun Zhenzhen walked out of the courtyard gate, she could see the geographical features of the entire Qinjia Village. A river meandered through it, separating Qinjia Village and Chenjia Village. However, due to droughts every year, the river dried up, revealing the cracked riverbed.

There has been no rain for half a year, and the villagers have not harvested a single grain of grain. Many families have not eaten meat for a year, and everyone is complaining bitterly.

If there is no more rain, I am afraid that the food stored in the homes of all the villagers will not be enough.

The wild mountains behind the village seem to have no end in sight from afar. One mountain is higher than the other, and the highest peak is like a stone pillar reaching into the sky.

Yun Zhenzhen sighed deeply, stood at the foot of the mountain, looked up at the emerald green forest, and tightened the backpack in her hand.

She looked around, searching for something to eat, but the edge of the field was bare except for a few unwanted wild vegetables.