The drama was set in the Pickles shop in Peking Qin Fangju. Yan Zhensheng owned the shop and his brother was killed in the robbery when heading for Hebei province to help buy soybeans. Yan had to help his father marry again to have generations and to show the filial piety. His father fell in love with Mu Chunhua. And with time passing by, Yan also developed love for Mu Chunhua. In 1950, a new marriage law was enacted, and Yan Zhensheng and Mu Chunhua had to divorce. In the following decades, they still supported each other and lived together in the family.