In 1978, in the Qingshan Production Brigade, Lin Wan just suffered the unexpected death of his parents. His fiancé Zhang Jianjun took Bai Lian, the daughter of the brigade's accountant, to break off the engagement in public. He was also ridiculed for being "unworthy of being a clerk"! Unexpectedly, she, who had been dull in the past, suddenly became strong-willed and demanded 20 yuan of life-saving money while clutching the IOU, causing the Zhang family's iron cock to lose face on the spot.
In a desperate situation, she revealed the secret recipe of traditional Chinese medicine and cooking skills left by her parents. The fragrance of soybean paste spread throughout the village, which not only attracted the retired old traditional Chinese medicine doctor Granny Chen to become her apprentice, but also asked Shen Yan, a "problem youth" who was decentralized, to secretly provide tips on wild ingredients from the back mountains.
Faced with Bai Lian's troubles of adding salt to ruin the sauce and Zhang Tiezhu's cutting off water and electricity, Lin Wan saw what he could do: he transformed the bad sauce into hot-selling spicy bean sauce, gained respect from the villagers for his medical skills, and even recruited his best friends to form a team to make pickles; he teamed up with Shen Yan to investigate the cause of his parents' death, and unexpectedly uncovered the old case of the Xiangyang Factory and the villain's conspiracy.
From a handicraft workshop to winning the first prize in the county evaluation, to building a factory across the country, the dull orphan girl counterattacked and became an expert in the Wang family. She even found out the real culprit was her parents Zhao Xue. She also rode side by side with Shen Yan in the tide of the times, turning her hard life into the most prosperous life in the 1970s!
