In her previous life, Lin Chuntao was driven out of her home by her mother-in-law and died in poverty. Reborn at the family-splitting scene in 1978, she overturns the account book and fights to reclaim her share of grain. Using traditional herbal remedies, she saves piglets and exposes the scheming of the shrewd abacus man, who spreads rumors about diseased pigs. When an order for braised meat arrives from the county food station, she organizes the village women into a cooperative workshop where earnings are distributed according to work. Facing the abacus man's attempts to monopolize sales at rock-bottom prices and frame her with fake meat, she strikes back time and again with account books and notes from educated youth Qin. In the end, she hangs up the sign for the Zhoujiawan Cooperative Workshop and leads the entire village to prosperity through braised meat.