The hero of this play is Liu Jianguo. His father, Liu Zongye, is a cadre sent by the army to build a garage in the local area. It is this energetic and straightforward father who erected the heroic image of a tall man in Liu Jianguo's heart, cultivated his childhood heroic complex and fantasized about defending the motherland. However, ten years of turmoil broke his worship of his father's tall image and made him draw a clear line with his father, leave his family and go to the Inner Mongolia prairie to jump the queue. Sun and Xiaoxiao also came to the grassland to jump the queue together. Sun has a secret crush on Xiao Shao, but Xiao Shao has always liked the dashing Liu Jianguo she admired since she was a child. However, on the day when Xiaoxiao was herding sheep instead of Liu Jianguo, a rare white-haired snowstorm suddenly blew on the grassland. Xiaoxiao is lost. Although all the herdsmen searched the grassland all night, they couldn't find her. Xiaoxiao was frozen into a statue to protect the flock of the commune. Herdsmen buried her as a martyr on the grassland. Liu Jianguo was heartbroken. From then on, he silently vowed in his heart that he would wait and laugh all his life on the grassland. Until the educated youth on the grassland, including Sun, returned to the city for many years, he still refused to leave. It was not until his smiling father came to the grassland himself that he returned to Beijing after a long separation in tears.
Back in Beijing, his heart was still numb, and he lost his enthusiasm for life. It was his friend Sun who helped him break away from the past, became a cleaner, and married a girl named, who was engaged in a small clothing business and had children. Although she was poor and tired, she finally became normal. However, there is always a shadow of the past in Liu Jianguo's heart, so he lacks real love and enthusiasm for Juanzi. This also laid a hidden danger for future contradictions …
After the reform and opening up, Liu Jianguo's father was old, retired at home, and formed a bicycle team with the old workers in the factory. People are still used to recognizing him as the boss. At that time, it was catching up with the stock market fever. When the old workers heard Liu Jianguo's younger brother David boasting that he could make more money in stock trading, they all moved their minds and invited Jianguo's father to entrust Jianguo's younger brother David to help them in stock trading. Jianguo's father didn't trust David, so he handed it over to Liu Jianguo. I didn't expect Liu Jianguo's stock to get stuck. He was afraid to tell his family and the old workers. I have to use my own money and even sell my property to give everyone a "dividend". Thanks to the help of an old educated youth who met by chance, he was freed from this crisis.
Liu Jianguo opened a small restaurant. Because he is kind and modest, he is very human to the staff, and the small restaurant is well run. The days are getting better every day. He and Sun have been secretly taking care of their smiling parents. The smiling father was in poor health, and the mother became nervous after learning the bad news of her daughter. The couple's life is very difficult.
Liu Jianguo gradually gained some capital, but also gradually became secular. The pressure of business makes him not as peaceful as before, his temper is getting worse and worse, and he is loud to his friends and family. His father has always told him to respect himself, not to take money too seriously and human feelings too lightly. He agreed, but in fact he went his own way. This good feeling of being on cloud nine did not bring him happiness, but raised a sense of inferiority in his heart. Especially in front of intellectuals, he always feels that his life has problems. It was not until he met Zhong, an associate professor who taught in a university, that he realized that he was just a little rich and had a tacky personality because of quarreling in the street. He was attracted by Zhong's personality, as if he saw another person who was mentally superior to himself. Since then, I have been distracted by this German returnee girl, leading to family conflicts. At this time, he basically ignored his career and business and did not listen to the advice of Sun Hongqi and his family, which eventually led to the breakdown of his family and the closure of his business. His father had a heart attack and died in a rage.
Liu Jianguo owed his conscience again, and life returned to the starting point of life. The difference is that this time, he didn't have the enthusiasm and confidence to start again, and finally played cards in the street and drifted away. Educated youths learned everything from the banner of Mao Sunzi in Liu Jianguo. He extended a warm hand at a critical moment and helped the founding of the country out of the whirlpool of life. Liu Jianguo participated in a charity performance organized by Prairie Love Choir for the drought in pastoral areas. He came to the grassland again and came to Xiaoxiao's grave. I didn't expect to meet my wife Juanzi there. It turns out that after the divorce, Juanzi still misses Liu Jianguo. Help him quietly in the dark. ...
Facing the smiling tombstone, Liu Jianguo's heart was excited. 60 years of life can be described as mixed. Now he finally understands the true meaning of life: what is the most precious thing in this world.