Lin Zhihe, president of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, suffered a car accident and woke up as Zhao Xiaohe, a six-year-old girl who was sold to Orion.
The family was so poor that only four stone walls remained. The adoptive father, Zhao Tieshan, was as silent as a mountain. He broke his leg for a wild boar and said he "eat it in the mountains" when he was hungry. The adoptive mother, Li Shanmei, had a loud voice. She distributed the rice soup to the three bought children and secretly drank the diluted rice herself. All three children were sold - the eldest brother Zhao Dongsheng was pushed out of the house by his biological mother, the elder sister Zhao Maisui was paid off her gambling debts by her biological father, and Zhao Xiaohe himself was bought with two ounces of money.
Zhao Xiaohe rolled up his sleeves. Starch was washed out from kudzu root to revive a family who had lost food. Hemostatic grass was exchanged for three coins of silver. Licorice was grown on the saline-alkali land to break the curse of "ghosts seeing sorrow". She taught her brother to pick seeds, taught her sister to write, and turned the cooking skills she had honed over more than ten years of living alone in her previous life into a confession of her family - wild onion pancakes, fermented glutinous rice stewed eggs, bacon and radish, cumin barbecue, and longevity noodles. Each dish made these five people who were put together by fate become more and more like a family.
It's just that her sister Zhao Maisui has been looking at her. Watch her blow before drinking rice soup, watch her stop and observe in front of the vines, watch her posture of holding the pen change and then change back. Maisui kept the pieces in her heart, without saying anything or asking. She just slept outside her sister at night, facing the door, and the old scars on her wrists glowed silver.
Until one day, she would say those words to her sister.
The five abandoned people became each other's closest family members in the troubled times.