As a modern-day corporate drone, Sui Xi has always yearned for a life in the country, going home to farm a little, raise some pigs, and so on...
On his way back to his hometown after finally snapping, tearing into his awful boss, and quitting, he got into a car accident and won the transmigration jackpot!!!
Although this magical twist of fate was the exact opposite of his original plans, in some ways, Heaven had granted him his little wish! For instance, raising... um... castrating pigs~
Things had gone a bit off course, but in this life, his original self had learned to castrate pigs and support the family from his father since childhood. He was exceptionally gifted, daring to castrate pigs by himself at just eight years old. One pig-castrating knife had men across the surrounding villages quaking in their boots, their crotches feeling the breeze...
After his father died of illness, his original self had to support his lotus-blossom-hearted mother, look after his older sister and younger brother, and make do with poor food. After struggling to raise the whole family through the hardest years,
just before Sui Xi transmigrated, his mother's childhood sweetheart returned to the village in triumph. The two exchanged glances and played coy, drawing things out to the extreme. Then his mother remarried without a moment's delay, taking the younger brother with her.
Before she left, she even called in a favor to find his older sister a good match. Mother and daughter went out one after the other, heading straight for untold riches without looking back. They even took the last of the family's money, claiming it was for the wedding trousseau.
That left his original self alone and miserable in the dilapidated house. He coughed up blood from the depths of his heart and fell gravely ill.
Then the village cruelly stepped in to seize his house and land. As a ge'er, he couldn't establish a household on his own, and his only little brother had gone with their mother.
Under the double blow, his original self could hold on no longer. After a lifetime of hard work, he finally fell into a tragic end, leaving only a bloody handprint on the headboard to tell of his resentment.
After Sui Xi arrived and sorted through the memories, he angrily flung down the pig-castrating knife. To hell with them! Who dares take my house? Just as he rolled up his sleeves, ready to throw caution to the wind and fight, a ragged village across the river, where people didn't have enough to eat, sent over a one-eyed village chief who seemed to talk in riddles. He came in a leaky boat with a burly giant and tried to persuade Sui Xi to join their village as a skilled worker.
A skilled worker??? Castrating pigs counts as... as a skill??? Sui Xi was bewildered and got thoroughly bamboozled by the one-eyed village chief. By the time he came to his senses, he was already on the leaky boat. Looking at the water seeping through the bottom, he realized his life was in danger.
Could he kick that intimidating-looking man who'd been staring at him off the boat? Didn't they say the village across the river couldn't afford food? How was this man still so strong?
Amid an endless stream of questions, Sui Xi reached the other side and began his poverty-alleviation career. Didn't he want to farm? The saline-alkali soil here couldn't grow a thing. Absolutely nothing.
Didn't he want to raise pigs? The whole village couldn't scrape together a hundred copper coins to buy piglets. They couldn't afford them. They really couldn't afford them. Sui Xi broke down and silently asked the heavens: How am I supposed to help them????
A certain tall, muscular man patted his chest, which even his shabby clothes couldn't hide, and reassured him, "Don't be afraid, Xixi. I'm here!"
Sui Xi: ...
Theme: Work hard to build wealth and achieve lasting prosperity.
