In the winter of 1983, Zhou Xiangnan is reborn and finally comes to his senses after seeing his wife and daughter going hungry. He gives up drinking, publicly settles the accounts and exposes Hu Erlai's fraudulent bookkeeping. He earns money to support his family by repairing bicycles, buying food and medicine, and getting his daughter a pair of cotton shoes. He collects local mountain produce and helps his wife make mushroom sauce and establish a small workshop. Together, they overcome his sister-in-law's hostility, counterfeit products, a workshop fire, and other challenges, steadily building their business. The couple eventually turns their workshop into a food factory, and their daughter gets to attend school. Years later, with life finally stable, the whole family takes their very first family photograph.