In his previous life, he was a well-known "sick man" in the commune. He could not do heavy work and received the lowest work points. Su Mei thought he was a coward and hooked up with Zhao Hao, the nephew of the commune secretary. The two teamed up to frame him as a "speculator" and stole the spiritual jade passed down by his grandfather (which Su Mei regarded as ordinary jade in exchange for food stamps). They also arranged for their good brother Chen Feng to be criticized for "covering counter-revolutionaries" and his legs were broken. In the end, Lin Feng himself died of cold and starvation in a broken kiln in the back mountain.
