The Ancestral Medical Compendium of the Old House

The ancestral home in my hometown was old and run-down, so I returned to clean it up and get it ready for renovation. While clearing out the cellar, attic, and old wooden trunks, I found a yellowed thread-bound book. It was a secret manual left behind by my late great-grandfather, never meant to be passed on. It recorded long-lost crafts such as ancient medicine, improved cultivation methods, reading mountain and water veins, and medicinal cooking and animal husbandry.

At first, I only flipped through the old book casually. Then I happened to try one of its methods, and soon I was curing illnesses, growing vegetables, and cultivating fruit trees with one success after another. From then on, I put down roots in the countryside, using the ancestral manual to help the village prosper. I lived a peaceful rural life while protecting the legacy my great-grandfather left behind.