Mind Reading: Time Traveling with a Rental Home and Making the Whole Village Jealous

Jiang Fubao, a twenty-two-year-old woman who died from overwork in her rental apartment, transmigrates into the body of a three-year-old girl with the same name in a fictional historical setting called the Tianling Kingdom. The original Fubao drowned in a river after being pushed in by a malicious seven-year-old girl named Jiang Sanniu. Upon waking, Jiang Fubao learns she has joined the Jiang family, the poorest household in Jiang Family Village, which is ranked as the poorest village in the entire province. The family consists of sixteen members, including her grandparents, two uncles, their wives, five cousins, her parents, and her two older brothers. Despite their extreme poverty, characterized by a diet of watery coarse rice porridge and bitter wild vegetables, the family dotes on Fubao as their only granddaughter and youngest member.

The central conflict arises from the family's desperate struggle against starvation and the harsh economic conditions caused by a severe drought and high grain prices. After the incident, the Jiang family confronts the clan leader, Jiang Sanniu's grandfather, and successfully demands compensation of thirty chicken eggs and half a tael of silver. This compensation provides a temporary respite, allowing the family to eat steamed egg custard, a rare delicacy. However, the underlying issues of poverty, rising food costs, and the need for income remain unresolved. Jiang Fubao, retaining her adult consciousness, navigates the challenges of being a young child in a feudal society while trying to improve her family's livelihood.

A key turning point occurs when Jiang Fubao discovers she possesses two supernatural abilities. First, she finds she can enter a spatial dimension that resembles her former rental apartment. This space contains a fully stocked refrigerator, pantry, and bathroom, with items that do not expire and restock automatically once a day. This allows her to secretly provide better food and resources to her family without immediate detection. Second, after accidentally cutting her hand in the mountains, she gains the ability to hear the thoughts of animals and plants. This "golden finger" enables her to locate valuable wild resources, such as bird eggs and hidden springs rich in wild vegetables, by listening to the creatures and flora around her.

Using these abilities, Jiang Fubao begins to subtly improve the family's situation. She secretly adds millet and flour from her space to the household grain stores, masking them as natural occurrences. She also leads her grandmother and mother to a hidden spring in the deep mountains, where they discover abundant wild vegetables and pigeon eggs, which sell for a significant profit. Her actions bring temporary relief and joy to the family, who view her as a lucky charm or blessed child. However, she must carefully balance her interventions to avoid suspicion, especially given the superstitious nature of the villagers and the strict household management of her grandmother, Zhang Jinlan.

The story continues to follow Jiang Fubao's efforts to uplift her family from poverty. She plans to use her space to provide consistent food supplies and her telepathic ability to find more valuable resources. The narrative explores the dynamics of the large, multi-generational household, the economic hardships of rural life in the Tianling Kingdom, and Jiang Fubao's determination to protect her new family while securing a better future for them. Her journey involves navigating social hierarchies, dealing with village gossip, and managing the expectations of her loving but struggling relatives, all while hiding her supernatural advantages.