A failed marriage separated mother and son Bai Suzhen and Wang Jiagan. Bai Suzhen took her three-year-old daughter back to live with her parents' family and has been a single mother for eleven years. Later, she remarried Ma, a soldier who had three children, and gave birth to a daughter. In order to raise her five children and deal with the conflicts of reorganizing her family, Bai Suzhen struggled a lot... Wang Jiagan passed the college entrance examination and entered a secondary normal school. After graduation, he became a rural middle school teacher and gained love. After getting married and having children, he was forced by the pressure of life and hoped to change the status quo through his own efforts. After several failures, I finally changed my career to a bank clerk. While working in the bank, he caught up with the reform of the administrative structure and encountered a bottleneck in his career development. When the Asian financial crisis broke out, China's banking industry began to shrink its institutions and personnel on a large scale. His career was hit again, and he faced the test of being laid off and unemployed... The novel takes the ups and downs of ordinary people's life experiences as the main line, explaining that happiness is obtained through struggle; through the description of the local customs and customs of the Jianghan Plain, it shows the changes in urban and rural society in the early days of China's reform and opening up.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.