Surviving the Drought, Starting by Saving a Poisoned Well (62 episodes) - AllShorts

When a great drought descends, the poor scholar Lu Chenzhou is publicly rejected by the richest family. Driven into desperation, he takes over an abandoned poisoned well and, with practical hard skills, turns bitter water into life-saving sweet spring water. Facing raging locust plagues and exploitation by officials and gentry, he builds water cellars, brings in ducks to wipe out locusts, and lays down the iron rule of “work for water” to establish Qingquan Stockade. Watch how a scholar from the bottom of society uses absolute laws of survival in a man-eating famine to snatch life back for the people and rebuild a new order for the living upon the ruins!

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