In the autumn of 1980, in Huaihua Village, the eastern suburbs of Beijing, thirty-year-old Zhou Zan (zàn) was reborn to the age of eighteen due to an accident. In her previous life, she was the most disliked second daughter in the family. She was sold by her own mother as a gift to her eldest brother as a wife. She married a domestically violent drunkard and lost one eye. She died at the age of forty.
After returning from rebirth, the first thing Zhou Zan did was to bury the cowardly and timid self in his previous life under the locust tree in the back mountain.
In this life, she will not marry, accept her fate, or accept weakness. Taking advantage of the spring breeze of reform and opening up, she dug out a book "Secret Records of Beijing-style Pickles" left by her grandmother and set up a pickle stall at the entrance of the village. No one expected that this girl, who was called "Silly Zanzi" by the whole village, could pickle pickled cucumbers into an emerald color, and the eight-treasure pickles could be fragrant throughout half the street.
No one would have thought that her "rightist neighbor" Shen Yi (sè), who was sent to the countryside and shunned by everyone, was actually the descendant of the century-old "Tianfu Zhai" brand in the capital. One knows how to farm, and the other knows how to make soy sauce. The two went from hating each other to jointly opening a shop, and the pickles spread in the alley became the "No. 1 Flavor in Beijing" where Wangfujing queued for three hours.
But the bad fate in her past life will not let her go easily - the drunkard who was supposed to marry her, the greedy mother-in-law, and the jealous neighbors all appeared one after another. This time, Zhou Zan no longer hid. She wanted to use her pickling hands to pickle everything she owed, betrayed, and bullied her in her previous life into a jar and return it all together.
