In September 2003, shortly after the SARS epidemic, Zeng Fan and Gu Ming entered Shanhe Middle School from Shanhe Primary School. Shanhe Town is located between the edge of the Loess Plateau in the northwest and the hilly areas of the Qinling Mountains. It has 16 villages under its jurisdiction and 24 schools of various types. Shanhe Middle School is the largest middle school among them and the only middle school in the town with a high school section. The sky is high and the emperor is far away here, the living conditions are poor, the teaching staff is weak, and the quality of teachers varies between good and bad. Therefore, in this school, various teachers and students were born. Some of the teachers are strict, some are gentle, some are violent, and some are peaceful; some of the students are motivated to get into Tsinghua University and Peking University, and come from poor families, while some just want to get a junior high school diploma so that they can go out and work. As a result, "conflicts" inevitably occurred again and again between teachers and students, which either made people laugh or cry, or made them think a lot. But one thing is the same. They all exist strongly in this bitter cold land and live enthusiastically...
