Tales of Strange Agricultural Affairs

After losing his job, Lin Yan found a strange new position. The Agricultural Affairs Consultancy specialized in agricultural advice, farm management, and investigations into rural affairs. The boss had just one thing to say: “If it’s an agricultural problem, we handle it.” Lin Yan had assumed the most he’d do was help farmers check their crops and deal with trivial matters. Then, at 3:17 a.m. on his first day, he got a phone call. “Do you handle cows?” The man on the other end said his cow could talk. What Lin Yan found even harder to understand was that the cow’s first words were his name. From then on, the “agricultural problems” the office received grew stranger and stranger. Rice paddies that rang out like bells at the stroke of midnight, a river no one in the village remembered, a fourth household in the mountains that didn’t exist, and a patch of green wild grass that always appeared near bizarre incidents. They thought they were investigating strange events. Until Lin Yan realized they all seemed to point to the same answer. Some things hadn’t disappeared. Everyone had simply forgotten them. But the land still remembered.