Descendants of a Common Family

Born as a concubine of the Chen family, Chen Zhengqing's name seems to be a footnote to his fate - poor, humble, and not taken seriously. He and his aunt huddled in a corner of the family, guarding twenty acres of barren dry land that even tenant farmers shook their heads, struggling year after year to make ends meet. The turning point began with a broken agricultural book that I got by chance. When his direct descendants were reciting poems and books in the clan school, he silently bent over the fields, working with manure and soil. According to the sporadic records in the book, he persistently experimented with the method of composting that no one was optimistic about. A little bit of green finally sprouted on the hardened land. However, the modest success of the technology did not win favor, but instead touched the sensitive nerves of Shenzhai Compound. The housekeeper Qian Changsui's greedy prying, the aunt Zhou's indifference and suppression, and even the scorn and ridicule of his brothers follow him like a shadow. He not only improved the soil, but also challenged the inherent order. Faced with strife, he could only deal with it more cautiously. On the surface, he was shrinking and giving in, but secretly he moved the tofu workshop underground to accumulate strength in a more secretive way; he united the similarly neglected poor people and formed the most primitive alliance under the bond of interests; he continued to draw wisdom from agricultural books and practice, raising seedlings, preventing pests, and breeding... Bit by bit broadening the boundaries of survival. This is a counterattack that starts in the dirt. Chen Zhengqing not only competes with heaven and earth for time and profit, but also competes with people for a chance of survival. In a family with a strict hierarchy, can a child of a common family break the shackles of his origin and earn a foothold for himself and his followers by relying on his skills and his inner plans?