Dreaming Back to Qinghe

In the water town of eastern Zhejiang in the late 1930s, in the new house in the Shi family compound, Wang Meiyun, who was forced to marry Shi Fool by her stepmother Lin Dexian, was pitiful and helpless. Shi Zizi, who did not know anything about men and women, tortured Wang Meiyun. Cousin Lin Guoyi, who was hiding outside the room and listening to the noise, broke in desperately and rescued Meiyun from the tiger's mouth. On a rainy night, a handful of beautiful clouds hid under a culvert in the wilderness, attracting many of the Shi family members who came to pursue them. Lin Zongyi, the terminally ill elder, realized that Meiyun was missing from his younger generation, so he blamed his eldest daughter Dexian for marrying off Meiyun just to embezzle the property left by Meiyun's father. The doctor told the whole family that Mr. Lin might not survive tonight. The second child, Lin Dexuan, rushed home from Shanghai. He preached the principles of resisting Japan to his family. The Shi family broke into Lin's house to demand someone, and when Dexuan and others were at loggerheads with them, Japanese soldiers captured Zhenhai. Mr. Lin, whose life is about to expire, decides on the marriage between Guoyi and Dingyun's uncle. Dingyu secretly rejoiced, but Guoyi felt surprised. To his second son Dexuan, who rushed back from the Anti-Japanese War, Mr. Lin quietly told him the secrets about the family property. Zhao Junming returned from Shanghai with the dancer Cuixian. Mother and daughter Dezhen and Dingyu would inevitably feel resentful. Old Mrs. Lin used an excuse to abuse the girl Gui Ju. Junming complained, but Old Mrs. Lin retorted, saying that he had no right to say anything to her.