Li Yao, a retired assassin, woke up one day to find herself transmigrated to ancient times and became a famous shrew far and wide.
With hands on her hips, she wailed loudly. Villagers called her the bane of ghosts, and even dogs would circle around when they saw her.
She had four children, her husband had passed away, and it was a disastrous year, leaving them poor as church mice.
Fortunately, River Bay Village was nestled against a big mountain, with wild chickens, wild boars, wolves, tigers, herbs, spices, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes… it seemed to have everything.
Rely on the water to eat, and rely on the mountain.
With her skills that exceeded the times, Yao Li quickly became the wealthiest person in River Bay Village.
She was determined to stick to her original aspirations – retire and live out her remaining years in peace.
But as a widow, there were many things at her doorstep.
Her maiden family coveted her wealth; local ruffians lusted after her beauty; the magistrate admired her talents; the prefect wanted to rely on her to build up his political achievements; the scholar admired her literary talent; the chancellor respected her breadth of knowledge…
Wave after wave, wearing down her doorstep.
Even a Prince was amazed by her, finding all kinds of excuses to frequently visit and neglect his palaces.
Li Yao adapted to the circumstances, sparring back and forth, just wishing her retirement life would remain undisturbed.
But unknowingly, the world was changing because of her.
- Chapter 1: The Beginning of the divorce
- Chapter 2: Wait till you’re Full
- Chapter 3: Good Luck Eating Chicken Tonight.
- Chapter 4: First market
- Chapter 5: Lu Bao
- Chapter 6: Make Money
- Chapter 7: Eat braised Pork Today
- Chapter 8: A disgrace to the gentry
- Chapter 9: Puxin Man
- Chapter 10: Grass Paste
- Chapter 11: There’s Water
- Chapter 12: Water in Our Village
- Chapter 13: As I Die
- Chapter 14: Tender
- Chapter 15: Do wholesale
- Chapter 16: Spiced Geese on the Market
- Chapter 17: To Me and to You.
- Chapter 18: Hunger Marketing
- Chapter 19: The First Rich Woman in Hewan Village
- Chapter 20: Want to Read
- Chapter 21: Lu Xiucai
- Chapter 22: Six Rites of Worship
- Chapter 23: Money Must Be Spent
- Chapter 24: Refaeli and the Tractor
- Chapter 25: The Rumored Lee
- Chapter 26: Collecting Tea Seeds
- Chapter 27: Springcotton
- Chapter 28: Goose Blood Tofu
- Chapter 29: Healing the Wound
- Chapter 30: The Buyer
- Chapter 31: The Long Worker
- Chapter 32: Hatching
- Chapter 33: How Luck Turns
- Chapter 34: Have it her Way
- Chapter 35: Fast and Urgent
- Chapter 36: The Test
- Chapter 37: The Boutique
- Chapter 38: A dead man’s Door
- Chapter 39: The Future is Bright
- Chapter 40: Know People and Use Them Well
- Chapter 41: Cutting the Ribbon
- Chapter 42: You Wait for Me
- Chapter 43: Immortals Descend to the Earth
- Chapter 44: Buying Land
- Chapter 45: Buy the Mountain
- Chapter 46: Building a House
- Chapter 47: Gosling Well
- Chapter 48: Great Work
- Chapter 49: A Couple of beatings and then you’re cool.
- Chapter 50: What a good thing.
- Chapter 51: The Most Annoying Moral Kidnapping.
- Chapter 52: A Letter from Home
- Chapter 53: Upper Beam
- Chapter 54: Lucky Hour
- Chapter 55: The Six Relatives
- Chapter 56: Steam
- Chapter 57: Soap
- Chapter 58: Shanghai New Product
- Chapter 59: He Deserved to Get Rich
- Chapter 60: Who Backs Who
- Chapter 61: Framed
- Chapter 62: Be Envied
- Chapter 63: Catch a Fish
- Chapter 64: Explore the Canyon
- Chapter 65: Cumin Potatoes
- Chapter 66: Mother is Always Right
- Chapter 67: He’s Got a Crush on Her
- Chapter 68: Roast Beef brisket with Potatoes
- Chapter 69: I Have an Idea Now
- Chapter 70: Valley of the Dead
- Chapter 71: Digging Medicinal Materials
- Chapter 72: By Man
- Chapter 73: Sweet Potato
- Chapter 74: Green Waters and Green Mountains
- Chapter 75: She Looks like a Chivalrous Woman
- Chapter 76: Faux pas
- Chapter 77: Gay Construction
- Chapter 78: Justice
- Chapter 79: Exile
- Chapter 80: One Hundred Minds
- Chapter 81: Feed Me
- Chapter 82: Eulogy
- Chapter 83: Wild Words
- Chapter 84: This Woman Is Really Evil.
- Chapter 85: The Vision
- Chapter 86: Can’t help But Rejoice
- Chapter 87: Do What You Want To Do
- Chapter 88: The Dam
- Chapter 89: Just Believe
- Chapter 90: Listen to Li Yao
- Chapter 91: Dumb Rabbit
- Chapter 92: Tea Seed
- Chapter 93: Hot Pot
- Chapter 94: Punishment of Crimes
- Chapter 95: Arson
- Chapter 96: Good Phenomena
- Chapter 97: Annoyed
- Chapter 98: Dull
- Chapter 99: Can’t Get in
- Chapter 100: Laughable
- Chapter 101: Small Belly
- Chapter 102: Honest Lang
- Chapter 103: Three Years of pregnancy
- Chapter 104: Buy a Horse
- Chapter 105: The Wandering Blacksmith
- Chapter 106: Go Home with Your Daughter-in-law
- Chapter 107: A made-up image
- Chapter 108: Bad Taste
- Chapter 109: Bonus
- Chapter 110: The Game
- Chapter 111: Yaoyao Leads
- Chapter 112: The Bicycle
- Chapter 113: Big Farmer
- Chapter 114: Primary school Textbook
- Chapter 115: No Shame
- Chapter 116: It’s All on You
- Chapter 117: Thinking of Change in the Face of Poverty
- Chapter 118: Fall for the Trap
- Chapter 119: Assassination
- Chapter 120: The First Bitch
- Chapter 121: Return Home
- Chapter 122: The Matchmaker
- Chapter 123: Talk about Marriage
- Chapter 124: Published Results
- Chapter 125: Cheating
- Chapter 126: Fake
- Chapter 127: Debunking
- Chapter 128: Heavy Rain
- Chapter 129: The Life I Want
- Chapter 130: The Capital
- Chapter 131: Song An
- Chapter 132: Point a Deer to a Horse
- Chapter 133: Outside the Customs
- Chapter 134: Unknown to the World
- Chapter 135: Fake Business for Personal Gain
- Chapter 136: Eyes Open
- Chapter 137: The Sky is high and the Emperor is Far Away
- Chapter 138: It Wasn’t Like This Before
- Chapter 139: I wish it were all Cavalry.
- Chapter 140: Guilty
- Chapter 141: Dead Men Tell no Tales
- Chapter 142: Kill at Random
- Chapter 143: Concubine
- Chapter 144: Kiss Rejection
- Chapter 145: Pickled Peppers
- Chapter 146: Nanzhao
- Chapter 147: Endure the hard work
- Chapter 148: The Meat needs to be cut.
- Chapter 149: Capture Wu Ling
- Chapter 150: Stealth
- Chapter 151: Where’s My Hair
- Chapter 152: This is not a Place to Stay.
- Chapter 153: You can’t trap a Wolf.
- Chapter 154: A Mountain of Sickness
- Chapter 155: Messing with the Wrong People
- Chapter 156: Pardon Your SINS
- Chapter 157: Go Home and lie Flat
- Chapter 158: The Retired Man
- Chapter 159: Practice Gong
- Chapter 160: More difficult than the Four Books
- Chapter 161: Beggars Festival
- Chapter 162: The Celebration
- Chapter 163: Shocked
- Chapter 164: Fireworks Show
- Chapter 165: The second brother was Bullied
- Chapter 166: Literary People are Light to each Other
- Chapter 167: I Really Can’t
- Chapter 168: A False name
- Chapter 169: Quatsu
- Chapter 170: Town Clothes
- Chapter 171: We’re Having a Baby
- Chapter 172: Who says I can’t get it
- Chapter 173: Let’s Take a Name Together
- Chapter 174: The Concubine
- Chapter 175: The Maiden Family
- Chapter 176: Play with Him
- Chapter 177: The Locust
- Chapter 178: Summer insects cannot be spoken of ice
- Chapter 179: Locust Annihilation
- Chapter 180: High-end Locust Control
- Chapter 181: A Hard Fight
- Chapter 182: It’s Too Late
- Chapter 183: Autumn Harvest Time
- Chapter 184: Thresher
- Chapter 185: All Hell is Breaking Loose
- Chapter 186: A King
- Chapter 187: Where does the Money Come from
- Chapter 188: School Hall
- Chapter 189: A Rich Man’s World
- Chapter 190: Curfew
- Chapter 191: The Main theme is a foreign trend
- Chapter 192: Haunted
- Chapter 193: Buying a House
- Chapter 194: The Real Ghost
- Chapter 195: Pretending to be a Ghost
- Chapter 196: Avoid Suspicion
- Chapter 197: Dividing up the Place
- Chapter 198: Yangming Academy
- Chapter 199: Come Prepared
- Chapter 200: Bye or No Bye
- Chapter 201: Wall of Merit
- Chapter 202: Rejection
- Chapter 203: Thinking about Students
- Chapter 204: The Wicked
- Chapter 205: A Thousand Days against Thieves
- Chapter 206: It’s Really Him
- Chapter 207: The Mole
- Chapter 208: It’s no Small Deal
- Chapter 209: Watch the List
- Chapter 210: How to Obtain a Son-in-law
- Chapter 211: Get Married
- Chapter 212: There will Never be a Shortage of Food Again.
- Chapter 213: War in Northern Xinjiang
- Chapter 214: Descent North
- Chapter 215: In Depth
- Chapter 216: Fire Wave
- Chapter 217: Breakout
- Chapter 218: Cast a net to Catch Fish
- Chapter 219: The Prince
- Chapter 220: The Making of a City
- Chapter 221: Invincible
- Chapter 222: A Reward for the Army
- Chapter 223: Click a Click
- Chapter 224: In the Bag
- Chapter 225: Walk with Something.
- Chapter 226: To Come but not to Go, not to be polite.
- Chapter 227: I’m here to save You.
- Chapter 228: Offering Suggestions
- Chapter 229: Give it Your Best Shot
- Chapter 230: After Tonight
- Chapter 231: Night Break into the Palace
- Chapter 232: Officially Retired
- Chapter 233: The End of the chapter