In the second year of Chongzhen, the cold and snow were about to come, and the Ming Dynasty was already in turmoil.
When Chen Mo, a disaster relief volunteer, opened his eyes, he turned out to be a poor scholar in a shabby courtyard in eastern Henan. His mother had just starved to death, and he still suffered from blunt injuries from a police officer, and the Liao wages and taxes that were driving him to his death were like a knife on his neck. He is not a kind-hearted Madonna, but he cannot stand aside - looking at the children chewing Guanyin's soil and the homeless refugees, he finally hides some edge, uses the wisdom of modern disaster relief to filter water to save lives, and uses the calculation of insight into people's hearts to persuade evildoers to retire.
A deal based on survival brought Zhao Daniu, a strong man on the run with hunting skills, to follow him every step of the way; a soft-hearted shelter made the lonely and helpless young man Xiao Shitou give up his mind. There are no golden fingers, only down-to-earth struggles: digging wild vegetables, setting traps, copying books in exchange for food, struggling to collect food under the exploitation of corrupt officials; making friends with refugees, finding allies, and staying together to stay warm in the quagmire of troubled times.
When the ingenuity of a poor scholar meets the fists of a strong man, and when the makeshift "family" encounters gangsters and gangsters and officials making things difficult for them, can they survive these three days? Can General Zhongliang, who has retreated to the north of the city, be the key to breaking the situation? The snow in Meishan Mountain has not yet closed the mountain. Is there still a chance of being rewritten in this precarious Ming Dynasty?
This is a story about survival and perseverance. In a troubled world where hunger and death are everywhere, there are no natural heroes. There are only a group of ordinary people who use calculation and warmth to ignite a glimmer of light in the darkness and step by step find their own way to survive.
