After coming down with a high fever, Lin Wanqiu suddenly finds she can understand animals.
In the rural north of 1976, every household is scraping by. But thanks to the "inside information" from the swallows nesting under her eaves, she finds a wild rabbit that saves her life. Thanks to the old ox's "cries for help," she saves the team's most important plowing animal. She can even understand a Persian cat's complaints, which earns her family enough grain coupons to get through the winter.
"That girl must be possessed!" Wang Cuihua shouts at her in the threshing ground, hands on her hips. Then Wanqiu's dog chases her all the way up the mountain.
Only Gu Changfeng, the veterinarian who always wears an army-green jacket, watches her accurately explain why a ewe is having a difficult birth. His gaze grows ever more intent. "I'll keep your secret for you."
From secretly bartering for grain to establishing the village's first farm, then leading the villagers in starting a cooperative, Lin Wanqiu moves with the rhythm of the times. With ears that understand the language of birds and beasts, she makes a fortune on the yellow earth.
But nobody knows that late at night in the chicken coop, she crouches on the ground bargaining with the hens. "Lay one more egg and I'll give you extra fine grain tomorrow!"
Behind her, Gu Changfeng folds his arms and smiles. "Need help negotiating?"
When a special ability meets the fresh winds of reform and opening up, and a country girl crosses paths with an upright veterinarian, watch this young couple make a golden life for themselves amid the tides of the collective era.
Good-looking, good-looking, so good-looking