System farming | Comfort food | Cozy infrastructure-building | Surviving disasters through all four seasons
Li Xu was an ordinary office worker whose life had always been stuck in the dull middle ground between making do and getting by. Nothing was especially good or bad.
Then an accident changed everything. While on vacation with her parents, she and her whole family were trapped in a secluded farmhouse in a valley, cut off from the world!
All contact with the outside world was severed, and a post-apocalyptic survival System forcibly bound itself to them!
The seasons keep turning, disasters strike one after another, and the challenges of survival draw ever closer.
The System's wording is cold yet fussy, and it never wastes a word: [Flood in three days.]
Li Xu can't help complaining: “Can you speak like a normal person? How big is this flood, exactly?”
System: Message read, no reply!
In this desperate situation, the only people they can truly rely on are each other! Everyone unlocks a talent, takes on their own role, and bands together to survive!
Her dad is a veteran of the manufacturing industry with decades of experience and astonishingly skillful hands. With nothing but the lush bamboo growing all over the mountain, he can build a fully automated irrigation system and repair the farmhouse's infrastructure.
Her mom is a sales superstar with a trading platform at her fingertips. She's a master at bargaining and bartering, turning their limited supplies into limitless resources.
As for Li Xu, she's a product manager seasoned in the corporate world. At last, her exceptional planning skills can be put to use as she carefully maps out every inch of land!
They clear fields and plant crops, make tofu and rice wine, dig a cellar, and renovate the little courtyard, building a perfect home from scratch.
They brave scorching summer days of forty degrees, endure bitter winter cold of minus twenty, and weather one disaster after another, from floods to frost and wind.
They grow their own food, make comforting dishes, upgrade their house and courtyard, and stock up on ample supplies.
There's no perilous fighting, just the comfort of a family staying together and the healing satisfaction of working the land with their own hands.
Leaving behind the frenzy of city life, the family finally understands: the best life is one built with their own hands, with the family safe and sound, year after peaceful year.
How should I put it, before reading this book, I thought it was the kind of system writing routine-Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining XX skills, and then the protagonist cheats. When I clicked on it, I saw, my dear, they are really living their lives seriously. A family of three is trapped in a farmhouse in the mountains. They don't have a golden finger to save the world. They just figure out how to grow vegetables, how to divert water, and how to make a fish delicious. You can feel that the author really checked these things, how to connect bamboo pipes, how to peel bamboo shoots, and how to control the heat of the earthen stove. There are so many details that I doubt the author himself has lived in a farmyard. The top one is a family conversation, which is very real. The mother talks about hating the father but never stops working. The father is busy working and occasionally makes some cold humor, while the daughter is complaining madly in her heart. Just the kind of... Atmosphere you get when you go home for dinner during the Chinese New Year, noisy but cozy. The pace is not fast, so it is suitable to be read slowly before going to bed. After watching it, you will feel like "I really want to eat a home-cooked meal". Recommended to friends who like farming stories but can't stand the fake stuff.
I like this kind of life, bit by bit of labor, a paradise [please ask for more updates][please ask for more updates]