A contract, two strangers. Zhan Zhiwei is a well-known honest and rough guy in the village. He has a strong body and a dusty face. He does not understand romance and only immerses himself in farming. Liu Zheng, a handsome and decent primary school teacher, has a cold temperament and doesn't talk much, but he always has poems and distant places in his heart.
Everyone said that this marriage was ridiculous - one was too rough, so rough that he could only express his care through sweat; the other was too cold, so cold that it seemed like he could never keep warm. But later, people in the village gradually couldn't understand it.
They saw that the rough man would ride twenty miles before dawn just to get a bag of fine white flour, while he gnawed on the hard corn tortillas and giggled. They saw that the cold room of the primary school teacher was equipped with the brightest glass windows in the village, so that no cold wind could enter in winter. They saw a rough man carrying a soaked teacher home on a rainy night. The teacher would have red eyes and carefully apply medicine to the blood blisters on the soles of his feet. He knitted clumsy rabbit-skin gloves for him, and he taught him to write each other's names stroke by stroke. From a bowl of silent noodles to an earthy kiss. From back-to-back alienation, to the familiarity of hugging each other for warmth in the cold night.
Zhan Zhiwei doesn't know what gentleness is. His kindness is solid, with the weight of soil and sweat. Liu Zheng once thought that marriage was just a formality, but he didn't know that love had already quietly taken root in the simple meals and trivial matters in the morning and evening.
This is a contract that started with profit, but was eventually watered by a sincere heart and became the toughest and warmest relationship on the loess slope.
Intent: Intent: To live tenderness in rough places, to see broadness in being together. This story is set on a special "marriage first, love later" marriage on the Loess Plateau, but it goes far beyond the scope of a love story. The core of what it attempts to explore is: In the dual rough reality of material scarcity and conceptual shackles, how individuals can build an emotional community that transcends worldly definitions through the simplest actions and the most tenacious goodwill. In this daily persistence of mutual support, they can achieve self-growth, mutual redemption, and ultimately expand the meaning of life that is richer than survival itself.