A New Life in a Fertile Soil

The story begins in the 1980s when the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew across the land of Southern Shandong. Taking Ning Xiuxiu and Feng Xiaohe, the daughter of Feng Dajiao, and Fei Yuanfan, the new generation leader trained by Fei Zuo, as the protagonists, it depicts how they carry forward their fathers' affection for the land and start a new journey in the hot land of Tianniumiao Village. Facing the opportunities of the household responsibility system, the rise of township enterprises, and the wave of migrant workers in cities, they not only continue their blood connection with the land, but also seek new possibilities in promoting agriculture through science and technology, cultural inheritance, and ecological protection. Through the collision of concepts and emotional entanglements between two generations, the novel profoundly displays the magnificent epic of China's rural areas from tradition to modernization, and writes about the new hopes and dreams of the land. The book spans more than 20 years until the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy in the new century. It is a hymn of the times that pays tribute to the perseverance of the fathers and praises the struggle of the youth.