Lin Weidong, a researcher of modern agricultural technology, accidentally traveled to Huangtupo Village in 1977 and became a frail and sickly boy with the same name. At this time, news of the resumption of the college entrance examination spread throughout the country, but his poor family and weak body did not even have the courage to register.
The villagers in Huangtupo Village did not abandon him - the village head Zhao Tiezhu took the lead in collecting food stamps, Aunt Wang Guilan mended old cotton-padded jackets all night, and even half-year-old children saved the roasted sweet potatoes in their mouths to use as dry food for him. The whole village pushed him into the examination room with the simplest kindness.
On the rainy night at the end of the college entrance examination, Lin Weidong not only awakened the memory of his past life, but was also bound to the "Rural Revitalization System." The system's tasks are directly aimed at improving the life of the whole village: cultivating high-yielding crops, building irrigation canals, setting up village-run factories...
Armed with modern agricultural technology knowledge and systematic golden fingers, Lin Weidong started by transforming one-third of an acre of his own land, and gradually led Huangtupo Village out of poverty. In the process, he supported each other with his childhood sweetheart, the gentle and tough Su Xiaomei, discussed his ideals with the open-minded Lin Qingyue, an educated youth who went to the countryside, and also interacted with the fierce and straightforward Zhao Yazhi, a salesperson in a supply and marketing cooperative.
From the top scorer in the college entrance examination to an agricultural expert, from a run-down village to a wealthy model village, Lin Weidong also gained three completely different and sincere emotions while changing the destiny of the whole village. In that era full of hope and challenges, he used his knowledge and sweat to write a legend of struggle that spanned time and space.
