While Others Go Offshore, I Farm: I Become a Tycoon in the 1980s

[Period setting + pig farming + building wealth + selling vegetables + gourmet food + family favorite + comeback + everyday life]

Li Xiangdong woke up to find himself back in the 1980s, after dying suddenly from overwork.

As the villagers rushed to “go into business” and make a fortune, he instead bound himself to the New Hope Farming System, shouldered a hoe, and vowed to dig up a golden future right at home!

Everyone laughed at him. With so much money to be made, why insist on scraping a living from the soil?

But before long, they had nothing left to laugh about.

The oyster mushrooms he grew had county-run restaurants lining up in their cars to buy them.

The flue-cured tobacco he produced made old smokers exclaim after one puff, “It’s a real knockout, a rare find!”

The sweet potato noodles he made became valuable trade goods in every village for miles around...

They watched him win back Bai Xiaoyun, who then married in grand style. They watched his family’s ramshackle earth house turn into a villa. And they watched everyone who had looked down on him get their comeuppance. The whole village was dumbfounded.

While others were still striving to become ten-thousand-yuan households, Li Xiangdong gazed at his sprawling farm, processing plants, and trucks lined up waiting to load, then leisurely blew out a ring of smoke: With a hoe in hand, I’m the richest man in the world.

Now that’s farming!