A modern family of four accidentally travels back in time to ancient Kaoshan Village, becoming the second branch of the Lin family's Changsong household. After dividing the family property, they lack food and a proper house, but each possesses unique skills: the father understands farming, the mother excels at pastries, the daughter is skilled at handcrafts, and the son loves reading. Starting from digging wild vegetables, gathering herbs, and selling straw weaving, the family makes rice cakes, pith paper flowers, improves farm tools, builds water-powered trip hammers and a tofu workshop, improving their lives through hard work and wisdom while helping neighbors, walking a warm and steady path to family prosperity.