Lu Ze, a partner of Shanghai TOP2 Firm, is an elite architect who believes in "efficiency first" and is accustomed to being a "useful" person. In order to work on a rural revitalization project, he stayed at late Qiusheng's farm, but unexpectedly broke into the world of the farmer Jiang Du.
Jiang Ye is an agricultural student who gave up his PhD and returned to his hometown. He is gentle and silent, and is more patient with plants than people. He is always easy to talk to others, but when it comes to Lu, he retaliates venomously and hides his possessiveness. Lu Ze used "measurement of land" and "meeting" as excuses to get closer, saying that he disliked "unpalatable", but ate all the pickled plums made by Jiang Ye; Jiang Ye was not good at words, and used to "pass things" instead of confession - the ice water means that I care about you, and sewing buttons means that I will not chase you away.
Two people who were originally parallel, between the old farmhouse and the grain drying field, went from testing each other to taming each other. Lu Ze realized for the first time in Jiang Ye that "I may not need success so much", and even wanted to pawn the plain ring left by his grandma into the opponent's hand; and Jiang Ye, with Lu Ze's company, went from guarding his dead father to allowing another living person to live below his ground level.
When the local project opens and the business comes to an end, it is also the time for their emotions to return home. This is a two-way redemption between elites and returnees: Lu Ze learned to be gentle, and Jiang Du learned to reach out. In the countryside, where the sound of cicadas is quieter than Party A's, they have found a home that is more permanent than the building.
Purpose: "When the 'useful' elites take off their medals and learn to pawn their hearts in the 'useless' countryside, they can accept the settlement of another soul."