Tong Huaqiong transmigrated to ancient times into the body of the malicious widow Tong Dajiao and witnessed the execution scene where the malicious widow and her children were wiped out. She returned to the year Tong Dajiao had just become a widow.

At the age of forty, she was already a grandmother, embodying the roles of both a wicked stepmother and mother-in-law. Naturally, the children she raised were bad bamboo shoots.

The only slight comfort she felt was that, as a widow, she didn't have to serve an old husband.

In this transmigration story, she lacked all the golden fingers like systems or noble birth.

She didn't even have the chance to rise through marriage. Who could a widow marry? Especially with a bunch of burdens.

She could only rely on herself and her bunch of bad bamboos at home.

Revitalize the family reputation, correct the children's behavior.

Treat stepchildren, daughters-in-law, and granddaughters kindly, dismiss the plan of her youngest son to sell his granddaughter to a wealthy family in exchange for tuition fees, force the youngest son to strive through education on his own, use a stick to awaken the second son from being lazy and spoiled to becoming the family's backbone, and rid the youngest daughter of laziness, greed, and love-brain.

Reclaim wasteland and plant crops using modern scientific knowledge, turning saline-alkali land into fertile fields, leading the whole family towards a moderately prosperous life; start a business from street vending, selling steamed buns, pastries, marinated dishes, raising pigs, beekeeping... gradually expanding their commercial territory.

Tong Huaqiong directed her two sons skillfully as they pulled her opposite the Crispy Food Garden. Once the cart stopped, Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe unloaded the pastries, and Gu Taohua unfolded the "Taohua Dessert" sign.


The first batch of pastries from the Crispy Food Garden was freshly out of the oven, filling the market with a mouth-watering aroma.


"Mom, will you and Taohua be fine here?" Gu Dashu unloaded the last basket of pastries, wiped his sweat, and asked.


He worried about his mother and sister competing for business right in front of Crispy Food Garden's entrance. What if the Crispy Food Garden people plotted against them? If conflict arose, without a man around, how would they handle being bullied? He wanted to stay and support Taohua Dessert.


Chapter 71 - Chapter 71: The Wealthy Scholar