In 2026, Wang Hui, a development zone cadre who had a drink at a wine bureau, returned to the Huaihe River Beach in northern Anhui in 1980 when he opened his eyes and became the eight-year-old urchin Wang Huaigen. With forty-six years of life experience, he climbed up from the dunghill, faced the adobe house, the responsibility field, and his angry mother, and started his journey of rebirth without laughing or laughing.
Here, he is the most "precocious" clay kid on the Huaihe River beach: blowing bubbles to his friends with condoms and being watched by the whole village, relying on "prediction" to help his family avoid rising food prices, secretly repairing and turning the radio to listen to Teresa Teng, and using sweet potato starch to trick Lin Sui from the next village into playing "slime" in class. From the village to the town, he rode on the dividends of the 1980s, pretending to be young and funny, while quietly saving his first pot of gold; from the military camp to the officialdom, he took the "wild road" of the Huaihe River beach, turned flood fighting and disaster relief into a "tactical show", and used the wisdom of mediating homestead disputes to play with grassroots governance.
Lin Sui from the next village, the girl who always wiped his nose and sewed his trousers crookedly, from braids to a slim figure, became his warmest concern on this journey of rebirth. The starting point on the dung heap, the journey of the green leather train, the distance from the adobe house to the office building, Wang Huaigen stepped on the mud of the Huaihe River, and turned the road to rebirth into a legend of the times that was full of laughter and tears, and full of joy - after all, who can reject a "prophet" clay child who brought memories of the future and killed everyone in northern Anhui in the 1980s?
