In 1982, in the family home of the Northern Red Star Machinery Factory, Lin Xiaoyan, who had just failed the college entrance examination, was facing a dilemma in life. The stepmother is mean and wants to marry her off in exchange for a bride price for her stepbrother. The father is cowardly and silent, and there is no place for her in the family.
In a desperate situation, Lin Xiaoyan remembered her mother's old recipes and good cooking skills. Despite rumors that she was not doing her job properly, she secretly set up a stall in the morning market and sold her mother's original egg-filled pancakes and red date porridge.
From running a mobile stall to avoid market managers, to contracting factory cafeteria windows, to opening her own home-cooked restaurant, Lin Xiaoyan used her skillful hands and unyielding tenacity to break prejudices step by step in the spring breeze of reform and opening up, earn her first pot of gold, and get rid of the shackles of her original family.
During this period, she met Chen Mo, an upright and warm educated youth who had returned to the city. The two supported each other and tided over the difficulties together. In the end, Lin Xiaoyan not only achieved financial independence and found a happy love, but also led her neighborhood sisters to get rich together, and build a prosperous life of her own in the hopeful 1980s.
Reader comments
The writing is good, but it doesn't live up to the title of the book. The heroine is miserable and cowardly, and it's simply a difficult life.
The heroine is really too weak. She is just a thoughtless NPC who only cries when she encounters problems. Her only skill is the recipe left by her mother. However, the heroine's cooking skills are not particularly good, she relies on the help of other characters.
The heroine is useless and frustrated, she cries when her stepmother bullies her
The writing is good, but it doesn't live up to the title of the book. The heroine is miserable and cowardly, and it's simply a difficult life. The heroine is really too weak. She is just a thoughtless NPC who only cries when she encounters problems. Her only skill is the recipe left by her mother. However, the heroine's cooking skills are not particularly good, she relies on the help of other characters.
The heroine is useless and frustrated, she cries when her stepmother bullies her