In the third year of Qingli in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a severe drought in Mizhou and the red land was thousands of miles away. Zhaojiacun was in a desperate situation - the fields were dry and the wells were drying up. The villagers were hungry and had no way to escape. Despair enveloped the whole village like dust.
At this time, Lin Yan, a doctor of ancient literature from later generations, accidentally traveled through time and became a down-and-out scholar with the same name in the village who fainted due to hunger. With modern knowledge and historical data and memories, he looked at the miserable situation of the people in front of him and the numbness and despair in the eyes of the villagers. He determined not to be a bystander anymore and to use his literary talents to overcome the difficulties of farming.
He saw through the mysteries of geology and led the villagers to find water veins in the Nanshan Col. He taught everyone to strengthen the well walls and dig seepage wells to solve the deadlock of water shortage. He cared about the remaining crops and invented the drip irrigation method. He took the lead in setting up a seedling protection team to preserve the hope of the whole village in the coming year. He faced the food shortage crisis and led the villagers to collect wild potatoes in the mountains, search for dried beans in the fields, and dry wild vegetables, carving out a way out of a desperate situation.
From being a "sick scholar" who was initially questioned by the villagers, to becoming the backbone of the whole village's trust, Lin Yan solved difficulties with his knowledge and gathered people's hearts with his sincerity. Not only did he have to fight against raging droughts and thorny food shortages, but he also had to deal with unknown natural and man-made disasters. He also had to integrate modern farming wisdom into the fields of the Song Dynasty, teaching villagers to improve farm tools and optimize planting, so that hope would grow in this barren land. Under his leadership, Zhaojia Village, which was on the verge of despair, could step out of the gloom step by step and usher in a year of abundant harvest full of vitality.
A journey spanning thousands of years, a collision between literature and farming, let's see how a doctoral scholar used his own efforts to protect the people and change the fate of a village in the troubled times of the Song Dynasty.
