In a desperate situation, what he wants is not to survive, but to bring everyone together to stand up.
Lin Xiuyuan, a dying young man who traveled thousands of miles across the red land, faced a dry riverbed, starving villages, and the sour scholarly sighs of "life or death depends on fate."
But he didn't believe in fate.
No water? He led people to cut down mountains and divert canals! No food? He created a "dirt lump" with a yield of thousands of kilograms per acre! Being ridiculed for "strange and obscene skills"? He turned sweet potatoes into the popular "crystal powder" and made a lot of money. Being laughed at as "people with muddy legs are not qualified to be literate"? He opened elementary schools in the ancestral hall, and even taught the cowherd boys he picked up to become imperial examination geniuses who shocked the academic community!
Lin Xiuyuan originally wanted to farm in a low profile and get rich steadily, but what happened: the jealous landlords secretly interfered, the greedy wealthy businessmen colluded with the government, and even the sour scholar who failed to pass the exam spread rumors in the village...
He gradually discovered that this small Linjia Village had become a microcosm of the competition between various forces. And his own seemingly ordinary "modern memory" seems to have a deeper secret hidden behind it.
This is a story about how a young man rises from the fields with wisdom, kindness and a bottom line that cannot be trampled, and ignites a prairie fire in the smallest place.
He has held the hand of the hoe and will eventually control his own destiny. The only question is - when the imperial edict comes on the waves and the road to success is right in front of him, does he still remember his original intention of just letting his family have enough to eat?
