After being hit by a dump truck, food deliveryman Chen Ping opens his eyes to find himself back in 1968, as the "black-category brat" everyone in Liuxi Brigade looks down on.
With a bad family background, a sick father and a frail mother, he has his work points docked, and even his chance to be recommended for school is snatched away by someone with connections. Everyone thinks this kid's life is over.
But no one knows that this seemingly honest country bumpkin, who offers people a cigarette as soon as he sees them, has the peerless medical arts of The Secret Record of the Green Satchel in his mind, along with knowledge of what will happen over the next few decades.
He plays dumb, acts timid, and pretends to have no temper. The brigade's work-point clerk docks his points? He smiles and nods, then sticks in three needles and makes the bastard kneel outside his courtyard, begging him to save his life. A commune official looks down on him? He casually pulls out a prescription that can cure the official's mother's chronic illness. A famous doctor at the county hospital says he's messing around? He brings a dead old man back from the brink of death in front of everyone without breaking a sweat.
In private, he grows medicinal herbs, opens a clinic, raises free-range chickens, and takes on sideline businesses, living a thriving life. The women who admire him include a female educated youth sent down from the city, a cool and aloof doctor at the commune clinic, a feisty and capable young widow from a neighboring village, and the star performer from the county song and dance troupe, famous for singing The White-Haired Girl...
One after another, they come running to Liuxi Brigade, openly and covertly. It's hard to say whether they're there for treatment or to see him.
But Chen Ping knows exactly how things work in this era: hard skills beat hard fists, and a fat wallet beats great skills. He is determined to build a life that makes everyone green with envy, one step at a time.
Tags: Reborn / Era / Farming / Barefoot Doctor / Multiple Female Leads / Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger / Feel-Good Fiction
