[Feel-Good Farming] [Whole-Family Entrepreneurship] [Face-Slapping Comeback] [Rural Prosperity]
Everyone said the Tang family had inherited a hopeless mess: ancestral wasteland, salty and barren, where not even weeds would grow. Tang's father planned to sell it off cheaply to pay his debts, but five-year-old Tang Yuanyuan lay on the ground and said, "Dad, there's water singing beneath the earth."
She could hear the sound of underground channels flowing deep beneath the soil, tell which crops would thrive in each patch of earth, and sense the tiniest rhythms of plant growth. This was the "earth-listening" gift passed down through generations of Tang women, now nearly lost. Yuanyuan led her family in digging channels, burning limestone, and composting river mud, bringing the dead land back to life inch by inch. They didn't plant grain for their first crop, but valuable drought-resistant medicinal herbs. They sold the herbs for silver, then planted fruit trees and spices and raised silkworms, bringing in harvests all year round.
The village bully coveted the land and tried to seize it. Local gentry secretly sabotaged them, and some even destroyed their water channels and poisoned their seedbeds at night. Time and again, the Tang family's little courtyard was pushed to the brink, only for Yuanyuan's skills and the whole family's grit to turn things around and leave their mockers speechless.
But just as the Tang family farm became famous throughout the county, an old, yellowed land deed suddenly surfaced. The wasteland had never been the Tang family's ancestral property at all. It was a prime military farm that someone had maliciously switched out thirty years ago.
What earth-shattering secret lies behind the deed? Where do the Tang family's roots truly lie?
