Knowing full well that a late-spring cold snap will wipe out the entire village's tea harvest in four days, Chen Mo returns to his village with five million yuan in cash to buy up the tea leaves before disaster strikes. But his childhood friend, Zhao Dafu, wants to monopolize the business. He offers villagers double the market price, tricks them into tearing up their contracts, calls Chen Mo a liar, and drives him out of Qingfeng Village. While Zhao Dafu paints a rosy picture of making a fortune by selling tea for 1,000 yuan per jin, Chen Mo turns around and buys up all the pre-Qingming tea from two neighboring villages. When frost blankets the tea mountains and the tender buds crumble at the slightest touch, Zhao Dafu flees overnight. The very people who once looked down on Chen Mo gather in front of his vehicle, begging him to buy their tea. Looking at the frost-covered fields and his fellow villagers, Chen Mo cannot bring himself to turn them away and decides to help them through the crisis.