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.

Lian Hengruo said, "Aunt must think that because Aunt Tong arranged a marriage between me and Magistrate Yao, she is here to gain benefits from us. But have you thought that the Lu family is Aunt Tong's kin? What is twenty thousand taels of silver in the eyes of the Lu family? Aunt Tong is willing to give us this opportunity to spend money profitably, and it's a sure-win business, truly embodying the word 'loyalty'."


Aunt Tang said regretfully, "I considered it wrong."


Then she clapped her hands and said self-deprecatingly, "That's why I'm just someone else's concubine; my perspective isn't as broad as yours, Ruo'er."


Tong Huaqiong indeed intended to share part of the profit with Aunt Tang.


But she didn't offer it for free; having Aunt Tang invest money was the result of weighing pros and cons in her heart.


Chapter 582 - Chapter 582: Upstanding Character