Chu Xi had to drop out of college before finishing because his old man fell ill and he had to go home. What would he do there? Farm and raise silkworms. He hadn't been back to his hometown in a long time. When he finally returned, he expected life to be tough, but then he got hold of a little treasure: Xi Rang.
From then on, everything he planted grew better than everyone else's, and everything he raised thrived better than everyone else's.
Other people's mynah birds could talk; his could hold a conversation. Other people's silkworms ate mulberry leaves; his ate mint. Other people raised dogs, and he picked up a mutt too, only to discover when it grew up that it was a fox. Other people kept cats to catch mice; his big cat caught rabbits. Other people had monkeys that made mischief; the ones he raised helped out with the work in the river... Other people farmed and raised fish. Besides farming and raising fish, he also raised bees, butterflies, scorpions, centipedes, and spiders. Have you ever seen a mantis that could cut through steel wire, or a crayfish thirty centimeters long?
Many were memories from childhood, and many came from stories told by the elders. These memories in Chu Xi's...
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
