A Landowner's Daughter and Her Farmhand on the Road to Refuge

During a severe drought in the twenty-sixth year of the Republic, the Shen family, landowners in Henan, goes bankrupt. Their eldest daughter, Shen Qinghe, is forced to flee the famine alongside Li Tiezhu, one of the family’s farmhands. Along the way, Qinghe sheds her pampered ways and learns to forage for wild vegetables and find her bearings, while Tiezhu uses his strength to protect her. They encounter starving refugees and bandits, and even rescue an orphan named Xiao Shitou. At last, they find arable land in Shaanxi and build a new family together.