Hometown

This book won the second prize in the category of the 2023 Third Qimao Chinese Network Realistic Essay Contest. The 200 acres of farmland in Erli Village in southern Henan gradually became deserted after the reform and opening up, and was later contracted by Ma Jie to develop a peach orchard. In the second year when Taoyuan entered the fruiting period, it suffered from a month of continuous rain, and the peach trees were infected with gray mold, causing overall losses. Ma Jie transferred the Taoyuan. Production captain Li Guoqing witnessed Ma Jie's entire process of running the Taoyuan and believed that the opportunity was not to be missed, but the villagers still did not dare to take over. Li Guoqing personally went south to Dongguan and then north to Hangzhou, encouraging his son Li Tao and villager Liu Zhongyi to join forces to take Taoyuan over. Li Tao and Liu Zhongyi encountered various difficulties in the process of running Taoyuan, and their respective families also faced tests. But they never looked back, and finally overcame many difficulties and opened up a battlefield. Encouraged by Li Guoqing, they contracted another thousand acres of land, expanded the Taoyuan, and let the whole village become shareholders, achieving a double leap in personal value and social value. Several of the protagonists in the book love ancient poetry and are quite literary youths. How do they find the poetry of life when they return to their hometown from prosperity?