Am I Too Easygoing?

Zhu Huaixing spent years working away from home, saved enough money to retire early, then returned to his hometown in the countryside to lie flat. He never expected to find a handsome, badly injured man on the verge of death while patrolling the mountain. The man looked familiar, but he was a huge pain, and once he showed up, he refused to leave. As if the heavens thought his life wasn’t busy enough, one lively event followed another. He planted a few things, and the mountain animals would periodically band together to “scrounge” from him. Hornbills, pheasants, and sparrows swooped down from the sky to “forage” in his vegetable garden. After he rescued a black-necked crane trapped in an icy lake and near death, it set its sights on his strawberry patch and started stealing berries. And it wasn’t just the ones that flew overhead. There were also the ones that walked on land and swam in the water. One day, an injured clouded leopard mother dragged her two hungry cubs to his door. The next, someone delivered a South China tiger cub as “compensation,” nearly scaring Zhu Huaixing to death. At last, he found time to go fishing, only for a group of big-headed turtles to burst through an array in the lake and volunteer to work at his farm raising fish! Good grief, when did you animals become spirits? Why didn’t anyone tell me? Whether they were spirits or not, every animal showing up to forage was a national treasure. He couldn’t chase them away, and he couldn’t afford to offend them. To keep so many hungry mouths from gobbling up everything in sight, Zhu Huaixing had no choice but to take over the mountain and become a farmer. To his surprise, he also helped the village escape poverty and prosper. In time, the remote, desolate, impoverished village of Puwu became the country’s leading example of ecological poverty alleviation! It also became an internationally renowned ecological conservation base and a research mecca for countless wildlife conservationists! A farming story with a varied mix of elements, including food, wildlife conservation, poverty alleviation, and low-key fantasy. Most of the animals in this story do not become spirits. Wishing all my dear readers good health and happy reading. Theme: Care for the Earth and humanity, and share what you have in excess.