The poor woodcutter's wife, Su Wannian, disregarding the gossip of others, rescues a despised and discarded clay statue of the God of Wealth from the river. With her household impoverished, she does not worship it with incense, treating the clay statue merely as a guest. She uses the twelve copper coins intended for her husband's medicine to help a stranger in distress, and the clay statue speaks to enlighten the couple. Under the guidance of the God of Wealth, her husband Matai, paralyzed for three years, grits his teeth to undergo rehabilitation and struggles to stand up again.