sbdcsierra Chapter 140 140
Chapter 140 140
"I'm a middle school teacher. Today I showed this video to my students. A few boys who usually can't sit still in class watched it quietly the whole time. After class, they asked me if I could teach them how to make bamboo tiles. I plan to take them to the school's vegetable garden next week during our labor class to try it out."
The sixth most popular comment reads: "When I saw her smile at the vegetable patch at the end, I smiled too. That smile wasn't a performance for the camera; it was a genuine feeling that the land was beautiful, the ridges were beautiful, the bamboo signs were beautiful, and the seeds hidden in the soil were beautiful. The satisfaction after labor is incomparable to any other kind of happiness."
The Magic Book app was also generating a lot of buzz, with even more activity on the platform than on Bilibili. On the homepage, several users were spontaneously creating "replica" content—some made handwritten labels on A4 paper and placed them in flowerpots on their balconies, others grew scallions in yogurt containers in their dorm rooms and posted illustrated notes, and still others made tutorials for knitting mini bamboo baskets with yarn and straws. Wei Min said in the group chat that after the planting videos were launched, Magic Book's daily active users jumped again, and the number of content posts in the food, crafts, and gardening categories doubled overnight. Lin Ran glanced at the backend data and moved the schedule for the specialty product map feature sent by He Biqiong forward by another week.
The video also trended on Weibo, with the hashtag "#TheSeedsAreSleepingWaitingForItToWakeUp" garnering over 20 million views in less than twelve hours after its release. Someone created a nine-grid image of the planting process: a close-up of Su Peixue squatting at the edge of the field with seeds in her palm, an overhead shot of the five rows of shallow furrows, a close-up of the handwritten bamboo sign, a contrast in the soil color as she waters, and finally, a distant shot of her standing at the edge of the field, smiling at the vegetable garden. The caption for the nine-grid image was simply: "Waiting for it to wake up."
One long comment in the top comments section was pushed to the top: "I grew up in the city and have never farmed. But after watching this video, I suddenly understood why the older generation has such a deep affection for the land. Because the land never lies. You till the soil, and it becomes loose; you fertilize it, and it becomes fertile; you sow seeds, and it grows. The effort you put into it is what it will reward you with. This return is certain and visible. In this fast-paced and uncertain era, this certainty is probably the greatest cure."
When Lin Ran came across this comment, he handed his phone to Su Peixue. After reading it, she was silent for a moment, then said that the land never lies. Lin Ran asked her how she knew, and she said it was because she had spent an entire afternoon tilling the land, let the soil dry for a whole week, spread sheep manure as base fertilizer until her hands ached, and drew five white lines when ridging the soil. The effort she put in was reflected in the land's appearance. Every stroke of the hoe echoed. She returned the phone to Lin Ran, rested her head on his shoulder, and said she would take pictures when it sprouted. Lin Ran said, "Of course, we should take pictures of the sprouting once the seeds wake up." She hummed in agreement, adding that tomato seeds are so small, she didn't know what they would look like when they sprouted. Lin Ran said, "Then take pictures, so everyone can see how a tomato seed the size of a speck of gold dust becomes a seedling."
In the early morning, the corner of the courtyard had already been leveled. The pebbles and weeds had long been cleared away, and the soil was...