After achieving financial freedom, renowned landscape designer Li Ying retired to the countryside to document his everyday life: renovating his house, transforming his courtyard, raising chickens, and growing vegetables.
His videos went viral, and he became an influencer with tens of millions of followers.
He was happily running a farmstay when he woke up one day lying on a shabby bed. An old man held him and wept with joy. "Abba abba abba."
The old man took him to a mango orchard.
Li Ying understood. A fixed annual income of 20,000 yuan. If he lived frugally and stayed healthy, it would cover a year's basic expenses.
The old man took him to see ten mu of land.
Li Ying understood. The harvest would be enough to eat and drink for a year, with a little left over to sell.
The old man held a baby boy wrapped in swaddling, a large blue birthmark on his face, and looked at him hopefully. "Abba abba."
Li Ying: "..." Then let's call him Li Haoming.
The old man's house and courtyard were both spacious, and he had farmland and an orchard, too. Li Ying was quite content.
He diligently documented his life every day, and went viral again.
From then on, the village's farm produce was never short of buyers, and Li Laosan's bamboo-woven crafts were suddenly flooded with orders.
The young people of the village began returning home in droves.
Li Ying thought that attracting some investment and making the village look nicer wouldn't be a bad idea.
They found an investor who looked vaguely familiar, a bit like the beggar he'd saved a few years earlier.
This investor kept wanting to share a room with him, saying it was too dark at night and he was scared.
Li Ying looked at the big, muscular man and reached a conclusion: all show, no substance.
In the end, the little mountain village was transformed into the most beautiful vacation destination, with abundant crops and thriving livestock.
Later, the village even attracted variety shows and film crews looking for shooting locations.
After his birthmark was removed, Haoming grew up chubby and rosy-cheeked.
Wearing a diaper, he wandered into a film crew's shot while feeding chickens and gnawing on a chicken leg. The film came out, and he unexpectedly went viral.
The villagers got rich. The investor pointed at Li Ying and said, "You all don't mind if I claim this man for myself, do you?"
The villagers thought the big boss was going to help Li Ying rise to success, and they all congratulated him.
Li Ying couldn't say what was really going on: the man was insatiable! He'd thought he was all show and no substance, but it turned out he was a real wolf in disguise.
Theme: Enjoy the gifts nature has to offer.