[Period]+ [Mountain adventures and treasure hunting]+ [Easygoing daily life]+ [System]+ [No forgiveness]
Back in 1982, in a small mountain village in Northeast China, Lin Yuanzhou binds himself to the Work-Rest Balance System.
All he has to do is lie flat and relax, or banter with a girl, to trigger all kinds of rare rewards.
[Strike up a conversation with the aloof educated youth girl, trigger a clue: A century-old wild ginseng beneath the old elm tree!]
[Cool off under a tree for ten minutes, trigger a reward: Beginner-level trap mastery. Tonight, the wild boar king will walk right into your trap!]
And so, in an era when everyone was tightening their belts and working themselves to the bone, Qing Shan Village got itself an oddball.
Every day he went fishing with a shabby bamboo pole, yet he ate braised pork at every meal. He wandered into the deep mountains as if strolling through his own backyard, and every time he came back, he either brought rare mountain delicacies or rescued some powerful bigwig.
His ex-girlfriend’s family mocked him for being a good-for-nothing who would starve to death sooner or later.
That is, until the manager of the county’s state-run restaurant drove into the village in a jeep and respectfully offered him a cigarette, while an elderly doctor from the provincial capital arrived with tens of thousands in cash, begging for a single ginseng rootlet from him...
Lin Yuanzhou’s take: “Making money? I earn it on the side while lying down. Why work yourself to the bone?”
