In the middle of the 19th century, the ancient land of China was still under the rule of the Qing government. In order to cope with the encroachment of Tsarist Russia on my country, the court revoked the nearly two hundred years of ban policy in the Northeast, and encouraged the people in the interior to go to the Northeast to reclaim wasteland. Zhu Kaishan (played by Li Youbin), a native of Shandong, was one of these early pioneers. When he left the customs, the Qing Dynasty had already ended. This reckless man who participated in the Boxer Rebellion in his early years settled outside the customs after many twists and turns, and his wife (played by Sarina) took the children on a journey to find her husband when she learned of her husband's news. It was a time of war and chaos, with foreign powers fighting each other, warlords and bandits inside, and natural and man-made disasters causing the Chinese people to be displaced and miserable. Although the Zhu family reunited, there were still countless hardships waiting ahead on this vast and barren black land, and Zhu Kaishan, his wife and three sons would each taste the bitterness, sweetness, sourness and spiciness of life...