1978, the Year the College Entrance Examination Was Replaced

In 1978, the college entrance examination was resumed for the second year. Nan Si, a student from a poor family, had almost been admitted to the Agricultural University, but was secretly replaced. In a desperate situation, he obtained a "Handbook of Family Science Knowledge" and grasped the business opportunities of that era to get rich. Adhering to the belief that the talents we are born with must be useful, he specializes in the path that others are not optimistic about: he first earned his first pot of gold by setting up a stall and selling books; then he started a small fast-moving consumer goods business based on fish bait formulas and accumulated cash flow; when the trend of the times loosened, he delved into the compound fertilizer track and strengthened the local industry step by step. During the days when he walked around the streets, he insisted on taking what others gave away, low-key buying old objects and antiques that others disdained, and hoarding old puree wines that no one was optimistic about at the winery. In the years that followed, he washed away his stigma and stepped into the era of reform and opening up. He grew from a low-class outcast that everyone looked down upon to an industrial tycoon with roots in the countryside. From the perspective of individual struggle, the book records the social transformation, the collision of concepts and the various changes in people's livelihood on the eve of reform and opening up, and depicts the spiritual outlook of a generation that is unwilling to be mediocre and immersed in hard work.