This work contains AI-generated content. Gu Yu, an agronomy graduate, gave up a city job to return home, determined to improve the low-lying, waterlogged paddy fields of Riverside Village and try growing ecological rice. Facing doubts from his father and villagers, he started from a small-scale experiment, weathered rainstorms and market sales difficulties, and formed a villagers' mutual aid group to cultivate and increase income together, realizing the transformation of the depression through practical work, telling the rural story of a youth returning home.