Episode Description:
Episode 1
The eldest son of Zhao Fangyuan's family, Zhao Jiaren, got married, and the bride was a girl from the north, Na Hong. After the wedding, Na Hong impulsively told Jiaren that she was in fact a counter-revolutionary, and this scene was touched by Zhao Fangyuan and Peng Shizhong, the head of the Workers' Propaganda Team of Jiefang Lane. It turns out that Jia Ren met Na Hong at the Bright Brigade where he went to the countryside. When Na Hong suddenly appeared at the Bright Brigade, Peng Xinhua, who was "positive", said that she was a secret agent lurking in the countryside. Afterwards, Pang Xinhua was obsessed with Na Hong, but Jia Ren gave up the condition that he would go to the University of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers, so that Pang Xinhua would give up his pursuit of Na Hong for the time being.
Episode 2
Peng Shizhong came to Zhao's house and asked Tang Miaoxiang to take care of an ancient painting that Ye entrusted them to keep. Zhao Fangyuan was afraid of failing Ye's trust, and anxiously approached Ye Wenxiang to discuss the matter, but Ye was afraid of getting burned and denied that the painting had anything to do with him. Zhao Fangyuan had no choice but to temporarily deposit the painting with Peng Shizhong, and made an appointment to exchange the money for the painting in the future. Peng Shizhong happily accepted the painting, but told Zhao that the Beijing public security bureau would soon arrive, so that the red to hurry to escape.
Episode 3
Nahong reluctantly left amidst the Zhao family's farewell, and Jiaren returned home with a sense of disappointment. In the blink of an eye, the good news of the crushing of the Gang of Four has come, and the whole country is celebrating together, while Peng Shizhong, the former leader of the rebels, who used to flaunt his power and authority, is very unpopular under the new situation, and is very depressed. Jiahui reunites with Ouyang, a young man who went to the city for work. Seeing that Ouyang can't even enter his relatives' house because of his origin, Jiahui takes the initiative to invite Ouyang to his house for dinner.
Episode 4
Zhao Fang Yuan reluctantly tells his family that the Zhao family was entrusted by Master Ye to preserve the ancient paintings, and that they were blackmailed by Peng Shizhong. Faced with the straitened family situation, Jia Ren goes to work as a porter at the pier while the other children glue matchboxes to subsidize the family. One day, Jiaxin invites Ye Zhihuo, Ye Wenxiang's eldest son, to go swimming in the river, but to his surprise, Ye Zhihuo drowns and dies. Ye Wenxiang and his wife Tao Yali were devastated. The death of Ye Zhihuo also made Ye Wenxiang angry at his youngest son, Liaoyuan, who had planted hatred for his father in his young heart.
Episode 5
Laoyuan brought Jiaxao to the train tracks to play, when a train came speeding, in the nick of time, Laoyuan from the side of the railroad tracks to hold open Jiaxao rolled to the side, Jiaxao fainted, and the rain fever, resulting in deafness. Ye Xingxing, the eldest daughter of the Ye family, learns that Liaoyuan did all this, but Ye Wenxiang forbids Xingxing to say anything. Star was originally in love with the "married" Jia Ren, but now she can only keep this love deep in her heart.
Episode 6
Ouyang is impressed by Jiahui's seriousness and persistence, and their feelings for each other warm up. Jiahui saw the pain of her brother Jiaren and Na Hong being separated from each other, and decided not to be like her brother. Despite the obstruction of Ouyang and her family, she was ready to exchange her brother Jiaren's chance to return to the city by going to the countryside as an intellectual youth, and took the initiative to go to the street committee to sign up for the program. Ouyang was y moved when he saw that Jiahui really came to the countryside for herself.
Episode 7
The news of the resumption of the college entrance examination spreads through the streets and everyone is excited. Jiaren, who originally had the best hope of going to college, refuses to take the entrance examination in order not to burden his family. Zhao Fangyuan encourages Jiaren to pick up his textbooks and take the college entrance exam, so that he can get into a university in Beijing and go there to look for Na Hong, and Xingxing also inspires Jiaren to prepare for the exam, and the two of them support each other in their tuition.
Episode 8
Jiaren and Xingxing both get into the medical university as expected, and both Ye and Zhao are overjoyed. Jiaxin shows the money he earns outside the home and tells his brother not to worry about going to college, saying that he will take care of the family's financial problems. Jiaren and Xingxing went to Beijing to start their campus life, and the first thing Jiaren did was to rush to find Na Hong.
Episode 9
Jiaren finally found Na Hong, but Na Hong refused Jiaren's request to continue the relationship. The unmarried Xinhua is pregnant with the child of a brigade cadre He Guilong, who says he will let Xinhua have the baby even if he loses his official position. Before Ouyang returned to the city, he and Jiahui drank and dallied with each other. Jiahui hurriedly left before dawn, but Xinhua waited for the opportunity to lie on Ouyang's bed and planted a rumor that Ouyang had a relationship with her. Ouyang felt ashamed to see Jiahui again, and sadly left the countryside to return to the city.
Episode 10
When he learns that Ouyang has knocked up Xinhua in the countryside, the crowd is in an uproar and condemns Ouyang, who is helpless in front of everyone. Xingxing goes with Jiaren to the hospital to work as an escort to earn money to subsidize the Zhao family's household, and Jiaren is once again impressed.
Episode 11
He Guilong comes to the city to ask Xinhua for his son, and Xinhua is very nervous. After the Gang of Four was crushed, various policies were implemented, and more and more intellectual youths were given the opportunity to return to the city. Jiahui finally made it back to the city, but she didn't have a job after she returned to the city, and in order not to burden her family, she took her own pickles to the street to sell them, and the business was surprisingly good. Peng Xinhua repeatedly tried to get close to Ouyang, but Ouyang tried his best to avoid him, causing Xinhua's dissatisfaction.
Episode 12
He Guilong once again went to the city to chase Xinhua for his son, and found Ouyang and Xinhua, angrily telling the truth that Pingping is his own flesh and blood, Ouyang was shocked, and hurried to find Jiahui to tell him about it. Xinhua is so anxious to see things fall apart that she begs her father to use the painting in his hand to blackmail the Zhao family and forbid Jiahui to get involved with Ouyang again. Ouyang asked Xinhua for a divorce, but was criticized by the leadership.
Episode 13
Jiahui found Ouyang and told him that Xinhua had threatened her with the painting. She told Ouyang how important the painting was to her father, and that she was worried that Xinhua would destroy the painting, which would make her father suffer from eternal regrets.
Episode 14
Xinhua learns that her father is still playing the idea of exchanging the painting for money, and makes a big fuss, firmly opposing it, but Peng Shizhong persuades him. Ouyang, who has been waiting for a long time, suffers from the depletion of his artistic inspiration, while Xiao Yao, a young woman of literature and art, has been admiring Ouyang for a long time, and Ouyang finally can't help but throw himself into Xiao Yao's embrace. When he learns that his daughter is in love with the eldest son of the Zhao family, Ye Wenxiang resolutely opposes it. Ye Wenxiang is full of expectations that the organization will remove his hat, but he finds out that he is actually not a rightist at all.
Episode 15
Peng Xinhua intentionally tells Jiahui about Ouyang's affair with Xiao Yao, and Ouyang confesses to Jiahui, promising not to do such things again. Faced with Peng Shizhong's aggravation, Zhao Fangyuan had to sign a 2600 yuan note with Peng Shizhong again. Xingxing and Jiaren finally graduate and both return to work at the hospital in their hometown. Meihua follows Spoon, who has returned from Guangzhou, around to show off the freshness of the south, irritating Jiaxin, who is still trading eggs for a small business.
Episode 16
The children of the Zhao family thought that the family had settled the debt with Peng Shizhong, but Jiaxin inadvertently found the 2600 yuan note in the drawer. He hurriedly approached his elder brother Jiaren and his second sister Jiahui to discuss the note, but he did not expect them to acquiesce to his father's action. Star and Jia Ren finally held their wedding as scheduled, but Jia Hui was a bit gloomy in the face of such a scene.
Episode 17
Zhao Fangyuan rushes to redeem the painting from Peng Shizhong with the money he's scraped together. Peng Shizhong is hesitant to buy the painting, but Meihua proposes that she and her father promise to return the painting to the Zhao family as long as Zhao Fangyuan can also come up with the price offered by the Taiwanese businessman. Peng Xinhua rushes to the house, furious that her father and sister are concealing the painting from her to be sold. Ouyang would not dare to divorce herself easily.
Episode 18
Faced with Peng Xinhua's unreasonable pestering, Ouyang proposes to Jiahui to elope, and Jiahui happily agrees. Claiming that he has found the ancient painting at home, Peng Xinhua makes an offer to Ye Wenxiang and Zhao Fangyuan. Xinhua's son Pingping quietly takes the painting to Ouyang. Upon hearing the news, PENG Shizhong rushes to catch up with him, but in the process of fighting with Ouyang for the painting, he is pushed down by Ouyang's hand and hits his head on the stone steps and dies. During the argument between Mei Hua and Xin Hua, Ping Ping is surprised to learn that her real father is not Ouyang.
Episode 19
With Ouyang temporarily imprisoned and Xinhua unable to care for Pingping, Jiahui silently takes care of the runaway Ouyang Ping. Ye Wenxiang receives a letter from Taiwan and is worried when he learns that his father has had a stroke. When Ye Wenxiang falls asleep in the courtyard of his house, he is awakened by a fire. Everyone is busy putting out the fire, but the fire still affects the Peng family, and Jiahui rushes into the fire to save Pingping regardless of the danger. Meihua comes home to find her house burnt down and exclaims that the ancient painting is also at home.
Episode 20
Ye Wenxiang rushes to find Liaoyuan with Xingxing, who deliberately admits that he set the fire. Ye Wenxiang has to find a way to help Liaoyuan cover up his crime. In order to get Meihua to withdraw the case from the Public Security Bureau, Ye Wenxiang claims that he is willing to take the responsibility for the fire and promises to pay a large sum of money to the Peng family.
Episode 21
Mei Hua asks Jiaxin to meet her at a cafe, and she twists and turns to tell her that the ancient paintings were not burned, but sold by herself. Jiaxin is furious at Mei Hua's action, but Mei Hua teases Jiaxin that she would have done the same thing if it was him. When Jia Ren is on duty at the hospital one night, he accidentally discovers a familiar figure, and it turns out that Na Hong is back.
Episode 22
Na Hong carefully tries to find out if there is still a possibility for her to start over with Jia Ren. Jia Ren returns home and finally asks Xing Xing for a divorce. Star finds Na Hong and tells her that it was because she had to save her that the Zhao family was burdened with a huge debt in the first place. Star rebukes Na Hong for not having the right to talk about her and Jia Ren's spiritual world. Star confesses to Jia Ren that she will endure all this for the sake of her child.
Episode 23
Star asks for help from many people and finally finds a stable job for Liaoyuan. However, Liaoyuan is not interested, and Xingxing tells Liaoyuan that if it were not for her father's hard work, she would not have given him a job in her busy schedule. Prairie Plains obeys his sister's arrangement to work as a letter carrier, and he realizes Jia Hao's love for dancing and decides to find her a dance teacher.
Episode 24
Hua told Zhao Fangyuan and Ye Wenxiang that the ancient painting was not burnt in the fire at all, but was secretly taken by her sister Meihua and sold to the Taiwanese, and she alone swallowed the money from the sale of the painting, and that's how she opened the factory to become a big boss, and the crowd was very shocked. When Ye Wenxiang was depressed, he asked Xinhua for the two houses that were possessed by the Peng family, but Xinhua scolded Ye Wenxiang.
Episode 25
Ye Wenxiang takes matters into his own hands in order to get his ancient paintings back soon. Meihua tells Jiaxin that she sold that painting to the Taiwanese at a loss, and Jiaxin is shocked. Zhao Fang Yuan redeems the house for Ye Wen Xiang and promises Ye Wen Xiang that he will be responsible for the painting. In order to get enough money as soon as possible, Jiaxin prepares to produce fake brand names.
Episode 26
Laoyuan argues with his father over Jiaxiao's affairs and at the same time begins to doubt his own origins. Xinhua discovers that Jiaxin's factory is counterfeiting and reports it to the industry and commerce department, but he doesn't realize that Jiaxin is prepared for it and copes with it. Liaoyuan loses his job and follows Jiaxin for a while. On his way to deliver goods for Jiaxin's garment factory, he has a car accident, which leads to the exposure of Jiaxin's factory's production of fake goods, and Jiaxin and Meihua argue again about whether to run away.
Episode 27
Shin is disoriented after losing his factory. At Tao Yali's and Ye Zhihuo's graves, Ye Wenxiang asks Lao Zhao to kneel down for his dead wife to end the feud between the two families, and the crowd is shocked when Liaoyuan loses control and tells the truth about how he caused Jiaxao to become mute.
Episode 28
Jia Hao's parents left a long letter and followed Liaoyuan away from home, which made Jia Yi very sad and worried about his sister's situation. When they went to Jiaxin's place to help clean up, they were surprised to find Tang Miaoxiang sitting on the sofa and died peacefully.
Episode 29
Jiaxin's flexibility and resourcefulness helped him meet businessman Tan Fuli, who favored him. Meanwhile, Jiayi successfully graduates from the police academy and is assigned to the police station as a police officer. Jiaxin receives financial support from Tan Fuli and discovers that Meihua is also in Tan Fuli's company. Tan Fuli transfers Meihua from his headquarters in Shenzhen to Jiaxin's side, so that the two of them can work side by side in the liquor business.
Episode 30
Zhao Fangyuan receives a letter from Jiaxin from Malaysia and reads it with Ye Wenxiang, finally feeling relieved to learn that they are now living in peace. Out of her feelings for Jiaxin, Meihua secretly hands over the illegal evidence of Tan Fuli's illegal fund-raising to Jiaxin. Jiaxin secretly reports Tan Fuli on the evidence and information given to him by Meihua, and Tan Fuli is taken away by the police for investigation, and his Huan Yu Group empire collapses.
Episode 31
In the blink of an eye, in 2001, the Zhao family is preparing for Zhao's birthday party, when they learn that Jiaxin, as a developer, is going to develop this old street, and Jiahao and Liaoyuan are about to return to Malaysia from Malaysia, so Jiayi goes to the train station to pick up Jiahao and Liaoyuan. The whole family sits happily around a table to celebrate Zhao Fangyuan's birthday. After the incident, Jia Yi discovered that Liaoyuan has a tendency to use drugs, and followed them to find out that Liaoyuan and Jia Hao are actually working with drug dealers.
Episode 32
Laow Yuan is being chased by the police, Jia Hao chooses to sacrifice herself in order to assist him in escaping, Jia Yi hugs his sister in grief. Ye Wenxiang can't help but ask Xingxing about Liaoyuan's whereabouts, but Xingxing fools him. Jia Yi stumbles upon Liaoyuan's whereabouts and pursues him. He still can't forget his sister's tragedy and will never forgive Liaoyuan again. Jia Hui goes to the prison to pick up Ouyang, who has been in prison for many years and is not used to life outside the prison.
Episode 33
Ouyang realizes that he is no longer good enough for Jiahui. At this time, Xinhua has already had a successful career, and not only has he opened his own teahouse, but he has also changed his mood and started to eat fasting and praying to Buddha. Xingxing asks Jiaren for a divorce, but Jiaren doesn't accept it right away. On the contrary, his calm attitude annoys Xingxing even more, and the two of them argue again and part ways. The two of them had another argument and broke up. Xingxing felt sick in her stomach and went to the hospital to see a doctor, but she didn't realize that it was the early stage of gastric cancer.
Episode 34
Ye Wenxiang receives a letter from Taiwan and learns about the death of Ye Elder, and tells Zhao Fangyuan about it. Zhao Fangyuan is y saddened by this news, and at the same time, he is more concerned about the Ye family's ancient painting. Star left a letter to Jia Ren before the operation to reveal his heart, Jia Ren has mixed feelings, but the good thing is that Star finally completed the operation successfully. Jiahui wants to sell her house and start a new life with Ouyang, and Ouyang is finally impressed.
Episode 35
Zhao Fang Yuan suddenly falls ill and in order to fulfill his father's lifelong wish, Jia Xin vows to step up his efforts to retrieve the ancient painting. Finally, he ransoms the painting at the cost of his entire company. When Zhao Fang Yuan saw the painting being handed over to Ye Wen Xiang, he finally left in peace. Liaoyuan surrenders himself to Jiayi in front of Jiaxao's grave and surrenders himself with his hands tied, only asking Jiayi to allow him to be buried next to Jiaxao after his death. Star, recovering from surgery, and his father Ye Wenxiang comfort each other and encourage each other to cherish the remaining years. On the eve of the demolition of Liberation Lane, Jiaxin returned to the entrance of the lane to take family photos for everyone, and people seemed to have recovered the happy times of the past.