At the beginning of the 21st century, the Li family, the Chen family, and the Tian family lived along the Qinghe River. The arrival of the millennium did not seem to bring about the earth-shaking changes that everyone imagined. The calendar only gently opened a new page. The days remained the same, just like the water in the Qinghe River, just running forward day after day.
But little did they know, everything was like an undercurrent, and the wheel of history was sweeping towards this small mountain valley. The changes brought about by cage farming, family planning, returning farmland to forest, and SARS caught them off guard. Just when they were about to reflect on it, the road to households, the closure of coal mines, and the ban on fishing in Qinghe River once again changed their destiny.
Li Anping and Tian Xiaomei strictly followed the one-child policy of family planning and gave birth to only one daughter, named Li Shuran.
The two poor people just want to improve their lives with their own hands, but how can everything in life go as they wish? The two failed to raise fish first, and then Li Anping went to work in a coal mine. He experienced dangerous situations several times and narrowly escaped death.
In 2014, Li Shuran was admitted to college and became the first student of the Li family to be admitted to college. At that moment, Li Anping and Tian Xiaomei felt that all their efforts had finally paid off.
In 2017, the coal mine closed, and Li Anping once again stood at a crossroads of destiny.
In 2018, in order to protect the ecological environment of Qinghe River, the cages were dismantled and a ten-year fishing ban was launched.
The couple ran into obstacles many times, but fortunately they had a good discussion, and although their lives were poor, they became more and more prosperous.
At the same time, the neighbor's story is also going on simultaneously...
A few families on both sides of a river, 30 years, in the blink of an eye...
