The 78-year-old Yang Xiangyang died of cold and starvation in a leaky earthen kiln. He was full of regrets throughout his life - his sister died of depression after being blinded by wind and sand. He had his waist broken by the village bully and his cousin deceived him into taking away the family water for irrigating the land. He lived in poverty all his life. But when he opened his eyes again, he was reborn as an 18-year-old boy in Yangjiawan in 1960, and accidentally activated the "memory space" hidden in the old scar of the tiger's mouth.
In this space, there are fresh herbs that can cure my sister's eye disease, millet noodles for emergencies, and memories of all the disasters in the past life - the severe drought in 1961, the "tail cutting" crisis in 1964, and the raging "White Disaster" in 1965. Faced with the desperate situation of yellow sand and water shortage, as well as the village bully Zhao Hu's arrogant road blockage, his cousin Yang Jianjun's plot to seize land, and the vanity frame-up of his ex-lover Lin Xiulian, Yang Xiangyang grasped space and memory and worked step by step: first saving his sister's eye disease and protecting his grandmother through the winter, then looking for an old water cellar to break the water shortage crisis, uncovering fake land deeds to protect the family business, and borrowing from the commune to "dig wells to fight drought." The policy-led mutual aid group taught villagers to plant seabuckthorn to stabilize water and use drought-resistant seeds to increase production, and led Yangjiawan to fight against disasters and control desertification, transforming it from a poor village that "depends on the sky for food" into a commune model village.
In the end, he not only made his family healthy and prosperous - his sister became a village doctor and his grandmother lived a peaceful life, he also married a wife and had children, built a sand-resistant brick house, and completely rewritten the tragic fate of his previous life, becoming a legend among the people of Yangjiawan that he "climbed out of the sand, protected his family and saved the whole village."
