Back to 1984: I built a chicken farm on a barren mountain.

The door to the main room was half-open, and Chen Wenfeng saw a familiar figure in front of the stove.

"mom!"

Chen Wenfeng pushed open the door and went in. His mother, Wang Guizhi, was wearing an apron and ladling porridge from a large pot into porcelain bowls.

Wang Guizhi had gentle features, and her two thick, black braids cascaded down her shoulders like a waterfall.

Chen Wenfeng was overwhelmed with emotion and his heart was filled with unease.

"mom!!"

Hearing her son call her loudly, Wang Guizhi said with a hint of reproach:

"Hurry up and wash your hands and eat. I haven't seen you come back for meals for days. Is it cold at the melon patch? If so, bring another blanket!"

"Mom, you look so young!"

Chen Wenfeng said this from the bottom of his heart.

Honestly, Chen Wenfeng felt it was all worth it to be reborn and able to see his parents when they were young.

Wang Guizhi suddenly felt a little embarrassed after her son said that:

"Oh, by the way, your third aunt is here because of the land allocation this afternoon."

Chen Wenfeng was not surprised by his aunt's arrival. He quickly washed his hands and took the spoon from Wang Guizhi's hand.

Wang Guizhi glanced at her son a few times but didn't notice anything different.

But I don't know why he suddenly said he was young.

She was too embarrassed to go back inside to look in the mirror, so she quietly slipped away to the water tank in the backyard and looked at herself again and again.

Is she young? She's already a mother of three.

Maybe they're just really young!

Chen Wenfeng secretly noted down Wang Guizhi's happy expression.

It turns out that making Mom happy is so simple; I must never be stingy with praise for my family from now on.

A round wooden table was placed in the east room, against the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), with four stools around it.

One person can sit on the kang (heated brick bed), and one person can sit on each of the four stools.

On the table was a plate of stir-fried green beans, a plate of pickled vegetables, and a large bowl with a stack of flatbreads made from a mixture of wheat flour and sweet potato flour.

Five porcelain bowls stood guard around the perimeter, their contents of golden corn porridge steaming hot.

According to the custom of Chenjiazhuang, dinner is the most sumptuous meal of the day.

The younger brother, Chen Wenshui, and the younger sister, Chen Xiaofang, had already been sitting quietly waiting.

Chen Shouyi leaned against the headboard, frowning as he smoked, the air heavy with tension.

Third Aunt Han Qiuyue sat on the stool near the front with her head down, constantly rubbing her hands together:

"Brother, today when the land was divided, our two families received a total of three mu of irrigated land. How come the third brother said it all belongs to your family, and our family didn't get a single mu?"

"Third son's wife, this..."

Chen Shouyi was never good with words, and he didn't know how to deal with his sister-in-law's pitiful appearance. Since the division of the family property, Chen Shouyi had been at a disadvantage in every way, while Chen Shouxin had always benefited.

"Third Aunt, my third uncle didn't say anything about this, so why are you disagreeing? Are you in charge now?"

Chen Wenfeng doesn't tolerate Han Qiuyue's behavior, because in her previous life, Han Qiuyue particularly liked to act pitiful in front of others.

After Han Qiuyue married into the family, she was beaten and scolded by her husband and made things difficult by her mother-in-law. Every time, her parents would speak up for her and help her out. But in order to win over her husband, she would betray those who helped her.

She appears simple and honest, but she's not exactly a saint inside.

"Wen Feng, why are you talking so rudely..."

"Alright, Third Aunt, stop talking. You're just a woman; let my Third Uncle handle this!"

"Wen Feng, you..."

"If anything happens, have my third uncle handle it!"

"you......"

"Third Aunt, since the head of the household can't manage the household, why not let him? Wouldn't it be better to use that energy to find the lost silver bracelet?"

Han Qiuyue was speechless after Chen Wenfeng's words, and unconsciously touched her empty wrist.

She had a silver bracelet that was part of her dowry when she got married. Later, Wang, the accountant's wife, took a liking to it, so Chen Shouxin stole it and gave it to Wang's wife.

Women have a sixth sense, and Han Qiuyue suspected that Chen Shouxin might be having an affair, but she didn't dare to confront him directly and pretended not to know.

She knew that Chen Wenfeng had learned a lot of reckless behavior from Chen Shouxin, and that she would be at a disadvantage if he acted like a scoundrel. Seeing that the conversation was not going well, she made an excuse to get up and leave.

"Qiuyue, aren't you going to eat something here? We made pancakes today."

Wang Guizhi called out from behind her.

"No, sister-in-law, I'm going back to find the silver bracelet."

Chen Wenfeng looked at Han Qiuyue wiggling her big buttocks. Everyone says that big buttocks are good for childbearing, but Uncle and Aunt still don't have children!

Seeing that Chen Wenfeng had dismissed his sister-in-law with a few words, Chen Shouyi cast an approving glance at him. This kid was unreliable in his work, but he was good at talking.

Chen Shouyi was smoking his cigarette even more leisurely than before.

My younger brother, Wenshui, is thin and tall. He is a good student and will be starting junior high school after the summer vacation. He will be living at the school in town.

My younger sister, Xiaofang, has a chubby face. She's in third grade, lively and adorable, but her grades are just average.

Chen Wenfeng patted his younger brother on the shoulder and then patted his younger sister on the head.

"elder brother."

"Big brother, big brother!"

Compared to her younger brother's quietness, her younger sister Xiaofang suddenly pounced on Chen Wenfeng, and Chen Wenfeng picked her up.

Is this the burden of happiness? Ouch, it's so heavy!

Thinking of how his younger siblings had also dropped out of school early to work and struggle for a living because of him, he couldn't help but feel ashamed.

Chen Wenfeng lifted his sister up even higher.

"Xiaofang, get down. Is your older brother still able to carry you, you're so heavy?"

Wang Guizhi carried a plate of sliced ​​duck eggs into the house and called out to her younger sister, Xiaofang.

"I can carry you, I'm very light!"

"It's very gentle, so let's hug you after we finish eating."

Wang Guizhi pulled her younger sister down to sit properly.

Chen Wenfeng shouted at his father:

"Dad, eat! I'm not waiting for you!"

Chen Shouyi said:

"How can the younger generation start eating if the elders haven't started? There's no such rule in the Chen family!"

But he was always smiling, and didn't act like a father at all.

During the meal, everyone talked about the land allocation that afternoon. After all, they were all allocated three acres of irrigated land, so how could they not be happy?

When Han Qiuyue came over just now, although she seemed to be there to interrogate him, she ultimately couldn't cause any trouble.

They then mentioned that Zheng Dali paid 250 yuan a year to contract barren mountains.

Wang Guizhi said:

"It's so expensive! What can you grow in those barren mountains and wilderness?"

Chen Wenfeng felt ashamed upon hearing this, because in his previous life they had contracted the land for 380 yuan a year...

Chen Shouyi said:

"Wasn't Wen Feng also thinking of taking over the contract yesterday? Stop dreaming of getting rich quick. It's more reliable to earn money one dollar at a time."

Chen Wenfeng was extremely grateful that he was able to be reborn before the contracting meeting; it was truly a second chance given to him by God!

I will try my best to cherish the happy times we share as a family.

"Actually, there was a change in the contract for Jiming Mountain this afternoon."

Chen Wenfeng added.

"What changes?"

Neither of Chen Wenfeng's parents expected him to say that.

"It's very likely that Zheng Dali will not take on the contract."

Zheng Dali had doubts about the Jimingshan ore, but seeing everyone scrambling to buy it, he joined in. Unexpectedly, no one else bid after he placed his offer.

However, Zheng Dali found an excuse not to sign immediately, and afterwards he immediately inquired about where the rumor that Jiming Mountain had minerals came from.

After making inquiries, they found out about Chen Shouxin, and the two started arguing at the village chief's house.

As a result, Zheng Dali reneged on the contract. Because of his change of heart, he was willing to donate 300 yuan to the village committee.

But he only contributed 100 yuan, while Chen Shouxin contributed the remaining 200 yuan.

Zheng Dali has given up on renting it, and Jiming Mountain has been put on hold again.

Chen Wenfeng has an emotional attachment to Jiming Mountain, and if no one else rents it and the price is right, he would be willing to lease it again.

This is certainly not because he has any obsession with "getting back up wherever he falls".

It wasn't because he had a mental breakdown and wanted to plunge his family into trouble again.

In his previous life, the high cost of the lease plunged his family into financial difficulties, so he eventually transferred the barren mountain to a retired teacher in the city.

The retired teacher was very particular about food, and he fenced off Jiming Mountain to raise chickens.

The chickens are free-range and have been specially named "Mountain Golden Chicken," which he sells using his connections in the city.

At that time, the market mainly consisted of white-feathered broiler chickens, while the free-range mountain pheasants, which ate grass when hungry, drank mountain spring water when thirsty, and ate grasshoppers when hungry, naturally met the users' demand for health.

The golden pheasant quickly gained recognition, and city dwellers were willing to pay three or four times the price of a regular chicken to buy it.

City dwellers say that wild pheasants are healthy to eat and taste like they did when they were kids.

For a time, giving pheasants as gifts to relatives and friends became fashionable in the county.

A saying circulated at that time: "No gifts this Chinese New Year, except for golden pheasants."

Besides food, the retired teacher built a guesthouse called "Starry Night" next to a stone cave at the foot of Jiming Mountain, and occasionally invites friends to come and experience rural life.

It is because of these connections that Chen Wenfeng is preparing to make Jiming Mountain his starting point!