From 1960 to the present, through the changes of the times, in a small county town and a small rural village in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, the daily trivial, ordinary, real and simple life stories of Li Cuihua and the people around her happened.
Li Cuihua and Wazhong only got together for three or four years before their first marriage ended due to fertility problems. She was introduced by a matchmaker to marry Zhang Zhuzhu, and adopted a daughter named Zhang Qingcao. Later, she became pregnant and gave birth to her second child "Zhang Mingguang" and her third child "Zhang Qingniao".
Qingniao is beautiful, kind, smart and cute. Teacher Zhang from Zhangjiabao Primary School loves her very much and often takes "special care" of her. After feeling this, the little Qingniao feels a sense of attachment in her heart. Zhang Shicheng, the "beautiful man" in the village, was deeply in love with her and tried to pursue her, but because the young girl Qingniao was shy and afraid, she often avoided him.
Because Cuihua could not afford the excess tuition for her three children, Qingcao stopped in high school. Qingcao went out to work after graduating from junior high school. Through the rebellion of adolescence and the ups and downs of experiencing the sophistication of the world, the green grass and green flowers gradually become unfamiliar. She broke up with her first boyfriend, got pregnant before marriage after a blind date, and entered marriage hastily, paving the way for an unhappy life in the future.
Mingguang is the "King of Children" in Zhangjiabao Village, the initiator of the "Police Catch Thief" game, and the "chess master" on the junior high school campus. Children who were originally smart and clever lacked correct guidance and lost interest in learning, thus abandoning their studies. Because the learning atmosphere in the vocational high school was so poor, he dropped out of school to study computer pattern making, and became obsessed with lottery tickets and stocks. His best youth was wasted.
Concept: The years are very long, like an endless river; life is also very short, and in the long river of years, the passage of time catches people off guard. Everyone in the ordinary world has a different story.