I Set the Rules in a Scholarly Family by Farming

In the 1960s, the capable and spirited Sun Pola marries into the Lin family, who pride themselves on being a scholarly household. Because she loves farming, her mother-in-law and husband look down on her as crude and unrefined. Facing family harassment, gossip from neighbors, and malicious schemes, she protects the fruits of her vegetable garden. Using a family pickling recipe, she contracts wasteland, connects with the supply and marketing cooperative, and overcomes rivals' suppression to build a pickling workshop, leading the whole village to greater income. In the end, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law reconcile, husband and wife unite, and she even earns a spot at the provincial agricultural and sideline products trade fair, beginning a new chapter in her career.