During the spring famine of 1962, Su Qiao woke up from a nightmare of cold and hunger. The faint aroma of dried sweet potatoes in the adobe house lingered on her nose, and the food stamp ration table on the wall made her heart ache - she was reborn at the starting point of the destruction of her family. In her previous life, she was driven crazy by hunger and cold, and sold her neighbor's stored grain for half a bag of cornmeal. Eventually, her parents starved to death, her younger siblings were sold, and she froze to death in the wilderness.
With regrets from her previous life and obsession with protecting her family, Su Qiao clutched the few food stamps she had and looked at the emaciated family around her and made an oath: In this life, she will protect her family through the famine years with both hands. She put away her cowardice and worked hard to earn work points in the production team. She avoided crowds to dig wild vegetables and dried goods. She made cloth shoes with her mother and secretly went to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange for food stamps and scarce supplies, trying to find a way for her family to survive on the edge of the rules.
In this predicament, Lu Chen, a young man living alone, has always been silently guarding her and the Su family - helping her repair the courtyard wall, fetching water and cutting firewood, and delivering prey as soon as possible. During commune inspections and villain reports, he stepped forward to rescue her again and again. Su Qiao gradually let down his guard, and the two warmed each other in the barren years, completing two-way redemption.
From the desperate situation of spring famine to the hustle and bustle of summer planting, from dealing with droughts and floods to resolving the villain's troubles, Su Qiao relied on his past life memories and tenacity to save food and votes step by step to stabilize his family. But she knows that greater challenges of the times are still ahead, and her relationship with Lu Chen will also face new challenges amidst the ups and downs (full text not yet completed).
