Liu Dazhuang, a young man from modern times, unexpectedly travels back to the 1960s and becomes a poor 16-year-old boy with the same name. The original owner drowned while fishing in a river after being rejected in a matchmaking arrangement and facing a home with nothing in it. When Dazhuang awakens, he discovers a nine-story pagoda space inside his mind, containing a spiritual herb garden and a pool of spirit spring water. Crops mature in just two hours and yield five times as much. In an era of famine, when others chew tree bark and drink thin porridge, he uses his space to grow storehouses full of potatoes and grain, trading them on the black market for ration coupons and cash so his hungry parents and sisters can eat their fill. From a poor boy mocked by everyone to someone who turns his entire family's fortunes around, watch as he uses his pagoda space to carve out a path to a life free from hunger in difficult times.