In My Rebirth, Tao Yuanming and I Are Neighbors

I became a small landowner in the late Jin Dynasty, but my neighbor was Tao Yuanming, the county magistrate who had retired to seclusion. Everyone laughs at his lack of sophistication, but I know that the Peach Blossom Land he wrote will eventually shock thousands of years. He thought that I had lost my original intention, and I ridiculed him for living in isolation and letting down the people. It wasn't until the flames of war burned down the thatched cottage and he watched his young son starve to death on the road that we knew what character it was in troubled times. When he shivered and shredded the manuscript of "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring", I grabbed the fragment and said, "This story must be finished." Later, in the Taixue lecture hall of the New Dynasty, students asked: "Sir, does Tao Gong really believe that there is a paradise in the world?" I looked out the window in the direction of Nanshan and chuckled: "Peachland is not outside this world - it is in every inch of land that we have saved with our own hands."