No time travel, no rebirth, no golden fingers. The tragic and joyful lives of several ordinary rural youths. Xie Yunkai, the unfavored second son in a family worth ten thousand yuan, worked his way up the ladder from a private teacher without the qualification to transfer from private to public; Xu Zhiwen, a handsome young man who married after his mother died, was admitted as a contract worker and was replaced, and went through hardships in pursuit of happiness; he married after his mother died and his father died. Lin Xiufang, a fierce girl who wanted to have a small family of her own, had a rough life because she was pregnant before marriage; Lin Jianguo, whose life dream was to have a wife and children on the hot bed, opened a small shop and got married at the age of nineteen, but he did not feel that his life was complete.
The story was written from 1986, and the time span is temporarily undetermined.
