The Red-Hot Years: Building My Own Business Through Livestock Farming

[Handmade, no System, rural farming story. Work the fields for work points, raise livestock, and support the family with practical skills.]

In the winter of 1970, after once again facing his family's schemes, Ma Jianwen resolved to set up his own household and defy fate.

There wasn't enough food for the new household, so he went into the mountains to dig up kudzu roots and make noodles.

The fields lacked fertility, so he raised earthworms to make fertilizer.

The private plot was too small, so he practiced intercropping.

Raising pigs to fulfill the quota was a losing business? That was true for other families. Learn to raise pigs scientifically, and you can turn a loss into a profit!

Working the fields for work points? Absolutely not!

But to keep his wealth hidden, he had no choice but to keep up appearances...

With his own skills, he kept his whole family fed and clothed, carving out a way to survive for his household alone in the planned-economy era.