The Village of Broken Trust

The story takes place in Xinzhuang Village in western Henan Province. Due to poverty, Heidun (played by Li Wangxiong) has not yet married and started a family at the age of 27. Ding Yunhe (played by Yu Shaokang) is a retired railway worker who has a unique skill in growing melons. In the 1950s, he was labeled as a rightist for making a mistake in saying something. Now, after being rehabilitated, he is invited to guide watermelon planting in various places. Heidun invited him to Xinzhuang as a technical consultant for growing melons. After Ding Yunhe came to Xinzhuang, he not only guided everyone to grow melons, but also brought a new life philosophy. Heidun became rich by growing melons and married a wife. The village party secretary Zhang Migui (played by Yang Zichun) initially objected to everyone abandoning the farm to grow melons. Now after the melon farmers harvested a good harvest, he refused to pay Ding Yunhe a large amount of remuneration according to the contract. He began to fabricate trumped-up charges against Ding Yunhe, and used everyone's small-farmer consciousness to deduct Ding Yunhe's due remuneration.