In 1920, there was a severe drought in the north, and the gangster Chen Ergou was reborn and returned to his hometown where he was starving and dying. Using the survival wisdom of his previous life, he started by secretly digging vole holes, leading the villagers to hunt and fish, improve farm tools, and dig canals to find a way to survive in the famine. When bandits snatched grain and the gentry squeezed them one after another, this former gangster became the backbone of the whole village.
