Returning to the twelfth lunar month of 1980, Zhang Hanling clutched the cold adobe wall and listened to the suppressed cry of Qingmei Xiuer next door - in three days, she would be forced to marry a gambler from the neighboring village. In his previous life, he watched Xiuer go through a lot of hardships after marriage, and he had no regrets but could do nothing. Now that he has been reborn, he clutches the hunting knife passed down by his grandfather and is determined to break through the snow in the back mountain: "Even if I break into the game reserve and resist the rules of the team, I will still earn enough gifts from hunting to protect you for the rest of my life!"
Unexpectedly, when he summoned Zhao Tieniu, Goudan, and Zhuzhu, three young boys, carrying their luggage and setting foot in the vast snow-capped mountains, they would bump into Xiu'er who had returned from "suicide" on her wedding night - it turned out that she also carried the memories of her past life and escaped from the Wang family with all her life. Four pairs of hands clutching the hunting knives, two hearts with the same regret, twisted into a rope in the wind and snow.
They braved the cold wind to set traps, fight wild boars, and exchange mountain goods for bills; they fought head-on with the Wang family to protect Xiu'er, and fought with gangsters at the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative; later they pooled money to open a buying station, selling treasures from the mountains to the county town, and even broke into cross-provincial sales. From the hunting team in the dense forest of the back mountain to the "mountain gang" that supported a party's livelihood, Zhang Hanling, his brothers and Xiu'er, in that era of lack of food and clothing but hot blood, used hunting knives to split thorns, warmed the years with friendship, and finally broke out of their own steamy era in the wave of reform and opening up.
