Mountain Keeper of the Eighties: I Tame the Wild

In 1982, Qin Shan is reborn into a poor mountain village. His father has just died, the family owes 37 yuan in debt, and the whole village is waiting to see his family's downfall. He doesn't run away; instead, he takes over a barren mountain that no one else wants. No system mall, no portable space, just a pair of hands and a life. After saving a lame stray dog trapped in a snare, he discovers he can feel its pain, its thirst, and what it's thinking. The feeling is strange, but he doesn't say anything. Later, sparrows tip him off, wild rabbits scout paths for him, chickens he raises become a fine breed, and bees brew honey all over the mountain. While others move to cities or engage in speculation, he stays in the mountains, talking to birds and consulting with dogs, step by step turning the barren mountain green. When poachers come up the mountain, he knows in advance; when disasters are coming, the forest stirs first; when neighboring villages try to seize the mountain, he blocks them at the pass with his dogs. Villagers call him a fool, townsfolk call him a weirdo, but when county officials come to inspect his seedlings and chickens, they fall silent. "How is your mountain more alive than others?" Qin Shan doesn't look up. "It's not that I keep it well; it's that they help me." This mountain, from a barren ridge in the past life to a place full of crowing roosters and barking dogs in this one. He never left, but everything came back. — Description from novelcodex.org