in the 1970s, zhou qing, the commander of heshan guard corps, was involved in a political storm. aaa。 in order to preserve the five children, zhou qing's wife shizhu was forced to divorce her husband. at the same time, she forced her eldest son xiaoyang to break up with her in love with her girlfriend. she went to the frontier to join the army. she stayed in a small town in liaobei and raised the other four children with difficulty. unfortunately, xiaoyang died heroically in the battle. with guilt that he would never be able to calm down for life, shizhu accepted xiaoyang's lover yingtong and the orphan yaoyao. soon, the spring breeze of reform blew the ice of politics, and zhou qing took on the heavy responsibility when he arrived in the provincial capital. in order to protect yingtong and her daughter, shizhu gave up the opportunity to reunite with her husband and insisted on raising the child alone. she helped her domineering daughter and her son-in-law who had lost her family to develop a catering career; she sold her blood to support the third child in the "seedling" to continue her studies and became a pioneer in scientific research: she used patience and tolerance to influence the fourth child who was imprisoned for corruption, so that she could return to the right path of life; she despised secular etiquette and law, and supported the shocking love affair between the fifth child and his sister-in-law yingtong... time flies. on new year's eve of the millennium, two generations of children and grandchildren gathered in the small town of liaobei, where there was a mother who had been waiting for her children's lives.