In the winter of 1975, in front of the college recommendation list of the Hongtuwa Production Team, Yang Erxi watched his fiancée Ga Mei fall off the Eagle's Mouth Cliff.
She held the tampered recommendation form in her blood-stained palm, and "Yang Erxi" turned into Zhao Baojun, the son of the director of the Revolutionary Committee. During the forensic autopsy, the Codonopsis pilosula residue in Gamei's stomach was found to contain pesticide 666 powder—the code for the sewage pipe of the chemical plant controlled by the Zhao family.
Ten years later, when Yang Erxi planted black-spotted wheat in the contracted fields, Zhao Baojun had already returned in the county's first Santana.
"This wheat is too disgusting for livestock!" Zhao Baojun crushed the ears of wheat and laughed, but did not see the data on the test report - the cadmium content in the wheat grains exceeded the standard by a hundred times, and the source of the pollution was the chemical plant that took his place in college.
In this revenge that involves bloody youth and the pain of the land:
- Gamei's autopsy report is hidden in the handwritten "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook", and the margin notes refer directly to the shady story of Zhao Family Pharmaceuticals
- Yang Erxi buried a pollution detector in the contracted fields, and the data fluctuations were perfectly synchronized with Baojun's bribery records.
- The pathological characteristics of the old donkey after accidentally eating contaminated pasture were exactly the same as Zhao Jindou's final symptoms
When a convoy from the Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau entered the village, Yang Erxi burned the account books that could send Bao Jun to jail, and sowed drought-resistant wheat seeds from Xinjiang Agricultural University in the ruins of the chemical plant. He knew that Ga Mei's blood was still seeping in this land, but that blood would eventually condense into the moisture of a new era - just like when she fixed her youth forever on the crescent moon night when she was nineteen years old in order to protect her recommendation form.
Purpose: Through the entanglement of the fate of two generations in the northwest rural areas, it shows the individual awakening and ecological salvation under the wave of reform and opening up, and leaves the mark of the times of the difficult transformation of Chinese rural areas in the depths of the loess.