Back to 1982: Life in a Little Village

[Handcrafted with traditional methods, no System, no golden finger, rural period piece, farming and animal husbandry, everyday family life]

At sixty-five, Fu Xinhua was reborn in early summer of 1982. All his regrets, all the injustices, and all the tragedies had yet to happen. There was still time to change everything.

The barren hills and fields in the village that lacked water were mostly unwanted. The day the household responsibility system began was the starting point for Fu Xinhua and his family to combine farming with animal husbandry, turn their fortunes around, and grow rich.

He tended orchards and vegetable plots, fed spoiled fruit and vegetable leaves to pigs and chickens, fermented manure into biogas, and used the leftover sludge as fertilizer to nourish the orchards. He lit biogas lamps above the fishponds, attracting flying insects from the mountains at night to give the fish a feast of roasted bugs. Fish droppings at the bottom of the ponds could also be used to water the fields...

Thirty years ahead of his time, Fu Xinhua introduced an ecological farming and animal husbandry model, gradually expanding his business to capture market share across the country and around the world...