The countryside in the 1970s was battered by hardship and uncertainty. The Lin family got by in a few ramshackle mud-brick rooms. Their life was poor, but filled with the warmth of home. Lin Chunning, the eldest daughter, knew how to identify medicinal herbs, and that skill became the starting point for the whole family's rise. With grit as her guide, she shouldered the burden of keeping the family afloat.
With her help, her father's carpentry skills found new life, and his furniture became highly sought after by the neighbors. Her elder brother traveled far and wide in a small truck. Her younger brother graduated from a prestigious university and founded a company that soon gained a foothold. Her nimble-fingered younger sister devoted herself to embroidery, stitching out a livelihood one needle at a time. Meanwhile, their mother turned her pickling skills into a signature business, filling jar after jar with the sweetness of life.
Each family member put their talents to work, all pulling in the same direction. They went from scraping by, gathering herbs in the mountains to trade for grain, to thriving with several businesses running side by side, taking steady steps amid the tides of the times. There were no earth-shattering feats, only the love and hard work found in everyday life. In the end, they earned a happy ending of
