19-Year-old Xie Huijie was forced to go to the countryside to join the queue. Before leaving, he took back the precious mutton-fat jade left by his mother from his stepfather Shen's family, and demanded 2,000 yuan in cash and 200 kilograms of national food stamps as a "dowry." Shen Qingqing, the daughter of the Shen family, was so jealous that she was assigned to the most miserable pig-raising group.
When he first arrived in Liujia Village, Xie Huijie had a confrontation with Liu Angong, the cold and stern production team leader. She refused to live in Datongpu, an educated youth area, and insisted on building her own house. She refused to eat coarse grains and insisted on buying white flour in the city. She worked neatly, but was always criticized for her "bourgeois behavior." The two were in tit-for-tat confrontation, with no one convinced of the other.
It wasn't until a flash flood caused Liu Angong to be injured while saving Xie Huijie that she discovered that there was an unknown secret hidden behind this seemingly old-fashioned man. And as the truth about mutton-fat jade gradually emerged, the Shen family's conspiracy and the Educated Youth Office's plot followed one after another...
