Country Life Is Full of Fun

When Li Weidong, a university graduate from the city, crosses paths with the wildest village in northeastern Yunnan...

Accountant Wang Ergou’s booming loudspeaker voice can be heard for miles. Aunt Cuihua, the sauerkraut goddess, hides all kinds of secrets beneath her apron. And one shout from Chen Laonian, the quiet firecracker, can set the whole village trembling!

Want to build a road? First ask whether the shrewd businessman Zhang Laoliu will let it pass through his peach orchard, whether scorpion expert Sun Mazhi will agree to move his clay jars, and whether stubborn old Uncle Liu’s goats will give their nod!

Over here, the bulldozer nicknamed “Iron Ox” has just chewed through the rock, and the taciturn Zhao Tiezhu becomes the whole village’s hero.

Over there, Sun Mazhi’s poisonous scorpion farm is exposed, scaring Wang Ergou into a midnight ghost-hunting horror show!

Rumors of a “secret recipe” turn up in a bowl of sauerkraut, and a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law’s war smashes a three-generation-old clay pot...

Every day in Qingshigou is a lively whirlwind of chaos.

See how this university-educated village official:

Uses an abacus to solve a crisis in the road-building accounts

Calms “scorpion panic” with sauerkraut buns

Settles a century-old mother-in-law and daughter-in-law feud with half a jar of honey

Between the terraced fields and their cooking-fire smoke, he writes a rural survival guide that will make you laugh and cry!

Here you’ll find:

More outrageous clashes of dialects than in Country Love

More hilarious daily struggles than in Minning Town

Seven unforgettable characters and 365 days of fresh mischief

Open this book and tumble into the vivid, down-to-earth world of northeastern Yunnan. Life is more vibrant when it’s full of bickering and bustle!