Zhou Hehe, a graduate in fruit and vegetable cultivation, turns down a stable job at an agricultural supply shop in the city and returns to the old country house her grandfather left her.
The old house comes with a courtyard of over four hundred square meters and an orchard that has been abandoned for nearly two years.
She only wants a quiet life, selling vegetable seedlings at a stall, tending the orchard, and making short videos on a small scale, without getting caught up in the rat race of city life.
Her neighbor, Chen Dachuan, is the town's agricultural technician assigned to the village. He looks after fruit trees and livestock disease prevention. His hands are covered in scars from orchard work. He is quiet, practical, and no good at small talk.
The courtyard leaks, the fruit trees catch diseases, and pheasants and wild boars take turns causing trouble. Every step of starting her business is an uphill battle.
Zhou Hehe: "Brother Dachuan, I'll hire you to work for me and pay you wages."
Chen Dachuan: "No need for wages. Just let me share your meals."
One meal leads to another, and he helps with more and more work.
He secretly reinforces the fruit tree supports, covers her seedlings when it rains, picks up supplies for her when he's going to the market, and carries her to the township clinic when she comes down with a fever in the middle of the night.
Zhou Hehe: "We agreed this was just a meal-sharing arrangement and an employment relationship."
Chen Dachuan: "An employment relationship can be upgraded to a long-term meal-sharing contract, the kind that lasts a lifetime."
