My Village, My Fortune, My Love

Zhou Ting's father catches her meeting a boy at night and tells the two of them that they are not of the same standing. The boy is Zhao Baliang, a poor young man from the same village who has loved her for years and has nothing to offer her family. He goes up the barren mountain after that and digs up wild ginseng, and the sale of it is the first money he has ever made. On the road he helps a herb dealer named Li Shiyun, and she gives him a standing contract to supply her. Zhou Ting and her father start to soften toward him. Other people work against him in secret, and he has to get past each scheme as it comes. His money draws more enemies as it grows. He pays for a road and a school in the village, and the village starts to do well.