Back to the Hard Years: I Used Knowledge to Put Food on the Table

Lin Mo, an ordinary modern person, unexpectedly transmigrates to 1961 during a time of hardship and becomes an orphan girl in Hongqi Production Brigade. Faced with food shortages and a desperate existence dependent on the weather, she uses the knowledge notebook she carries with her to break with traditional farming through scientific methods. She improves seeds, promotes plastic-mulch cultivation, and organizes cooperative planting, doubling the winter wheat yield per mu and raising corn production past 400 jin, helping the brigade members secure enough food to eat first.

Not content with growing grain, Lin Mo also explores the potential of sideline businesses. From sweet potato noodles and mung bean cakes to handmade cloth baskets, she builds the Hongqi Good Things brand and opens up sales channels through both the black market and the supply and marketing cooperative. She even joins forces with educated youths to create a sales network linking town and country. She turns barren slopes into orchards, builds greenhouses to grow vegetables, and develops fruit-drying and canning businesses, forming an industry chain from planting to processing to sales and steadily increasing the brigade's income year after year.

Along the way, she tackles floods and droughts, and promotes joint disaster relief among six brigades. She also spearheads cooperation between schools and enterprises to improve fruit tree varieties and launches winter training classes to cultivate skilled workers. From an outsider whom people doubted to a trusted backbone for everyone, Lin Mo uses knowledge to make the land more productive and unity to bring people together. In a special era, she not only turns Hongqi Brigade into a model commune, but also plants the belief in every hardworking person's heart that, with their own hands and wisdom, they can eat well and build a better life.