Chen Lizheng’s daughter Xiaoli is tall and beautiful and has been admitted to the fashion department of a prestigious university. This was a rare event in Sansheng Street where Chen Lizheng lived. It could be said that a golden phoenix flew out of the henhouse. Everyone decided to have a good celebration. However, during the banquet, Xiaoli was taken away by two police officers.
After many inquiries, Chen Lizheng learned that Xiaoli was involved in a major drug trafficking case. He was convinced of his daughter's innocence, but he didn't know how to save her. At this moment, Liu Sichang, Chen Lizheng's friend who had died since childhood, came to the door and said that he could help Xiaoli hire a famous returnee barrister, and he would definitely win the case. However, the lawyer's fees plus some administrative expenses will cost about 100,000.
Hearing this, Chen Lizheng was immediately discouraged. Even if he robbed him, he wouldn't be able to get so much money. When Liu Sichang saw this, he proposed to do a business partnership with Chen Lizheng. As long as Chen Lizheng could raise 300,000 yuan for him to use for a month, he could hand over 400,000 yuan to Chen Lizheng. Chen Lizheng was grateful to have a friend like Liu Sichang alive in this life. By doing so, he could save his daughter without having to bear debt, so he immediately made up his mind to start borrowing money. Yu Wenying, who helped Chen Lizheng's clothing store, expressed doubts about this, but Chen Lizheng disagreed. He believed that Liu Sichang had been in business for many years, was strong, and was such a good friend with him, so there could be no problem.
Most of the families living on Sansheng Street are employees of the former Shuanghe Machinery Factory. Most of their children are students of Chen Lizheng, so they trust Chen Lizheng and spend their own money to press the boxes. Leave it to Chen Lizheng so that he can hire the best lawyer to win the case. Courtyard No. 76, where Chen Lizheng lived, mobilized the entire community and became the main force in this loan movement. But even so, Chen Lizheng still couldn't raise 300,000 yuan. In desperation, he had no choice but to find Zhu Ting, who owned an auction house, and borrowed a loan at a high interest rate.
Chen Lizheng's wife, Qian Jiazhen, was laid off at home and was indifferent to her daughter's affairs. Not only did she not help borrow money, she also made sarcastic remarks. In contrast, Yu Wenying took out the pension from her dead husband, which made Chen Lizheng have mixed feelings.
The day for Xiaoli to appear in court arrived, but Liu Sichang had no news after leaving Shuanghe City with the money. Chen Lizheng was dumbfounded and everyone was panicked. Fortunately, Director Bao from the street invited his distant uncle, Mr. Zhong. Mr. Zhong was the vice-principal of the Provincial School of Political Science and Law before he retired. Seeing that Chen Lizheng was really pitiful, he said that he would clear Xiaoli's name even without charging legal fees.
With the efforts of Mr. Zhong, the court finally determined that Xiaoli was used for drug trafficking without her knowledge. But in any case, the fact of drug trafficking was established. Taking into account Xiaoli's proactive confession attitude, she was sentenced to five years in prison lightly.
The sentencing of his daughter was a huge blow to Chen Lizheng, but bigger blows followed one after another. When the day came to pay back the money, Liu Sichang never returned, leaving no trace. Chen Lizheng didn't know how to face more than 500 creditors, and he was under tremendous psychological pressure. What's even more terrible is that although the old and young men on Sansheng Street had no intention of embarrassing him, Zhu Ting and Chen Lizheng had no sympathy and vacated the clothing store. Chen Lizheng, who had lost his source of livelihood, could only change his job to selling goods on a three-wheeler, and his income was pitiful. Chen Lizheng had to support his family and repay his debts, so one can imagine the burden on him. His wife Qian Jiazhen not only refused to help share his worries, but also intensified her cynicism towards him. The middle-aged Chen Lizheng couldn't see any hope for the future. The huge debt was like an endless mountain, weighing him down. In despair, Chen Lizheng decided to end it all in an extreme way. .
The neighbors accidentally discovered Chen Lizheng who had committed suicide and rushed him to the hospital in a hurry. When Chen Lizheng woke up, he saw signs and banners from his neighbors demanding debts. Everyone told him with tears in their eyes that they were not trying to force Chen Lizheng to live, but to force him to live. Chen Lizheng was very excited and said that everyone gave him a reason to live. Even if he works hard in this life, he will work hard to make money and pay off his debts!
Since then, Chen Lizheng has been working hard every day to make money. Although he is far from his goal, his life has finally made progress.
At this moment, someone told him that Liu Sichang was arrested by the police for participating in smuggling and would be released after cooperating with law enforcement agencies to report others. Of course, all of Liu Sichang's assets, including Chen Lizheng's 300,000 yuan, were confiscated by the government as stolen money from his involvement in smuggling, and there is no possibility of getting them back.
Chen Lizheng went to the detention center to block Liu Sichang, but when he saw Liu Sichang's desolate appearance, his anger quickly calmed down, and instead he sympathized and took the homeless Liu Sichang back to his home.
The residents of Sansheng Street were very angry when they saw Liu Sichang. When Chen Lizheng saw this, he suddenly felt a huge force and pushed away several people who were about to beat Liu Sichang. He raised his chest and said loudly: You can't You have no right to hit him. It is I, Chen Lizheng, who owes you the money, not Liu Sichang. If you want to beat me, all come towards me, Chen Lizheng!
While Liu Sichang was recuperating at Chen Lizheng's home, he deeply felt how much disaster he had caused for Chen Lizheng. After recovering from the illness, Liu Sichang said that Liang Zhongtian, who had defrauded him of money for smuggling, had surrendered and was fined. After paying the money, he released it. He was going to Zhanjiang to get the money back from him. After paying off the debt, he would also get some money to open a shop for Chen Lizheng. After hearing this, Chen Lizheng had some hope again.
Not long after Liu Sichang left, Chen Lizheng’s wife Qian Jiazhen met Dr. Xiong, a retired single old Chinese medicine doctor at the mahjong table. After some contact, Qian Jiazhen, who had long been tired of the poor life, decided to Divorce Chen Lizheng and start a new life for yourself. At the same time, Chen Lizheng was fired from the transportation company for illegally transporting dead pork and lost his job as a three-wheeler. Faced with this double blow, the neighbors were all worried about Chen Lizheng, fearing that he would not be able to bear it anymore and would commit suicide again. But at this time, Chen Lizheng will not die, he will live, and the reason for living is to make money and pay off debts!
A few years later, Chen Lizheng opened a fruit stall and paid off a debt of more than 25,000 yuan. At this moment, Liu Sichang came back again after his debt collection failed and he was desperate. Without saying anything, Chen Lizheng accepted Liu Sichang again and partnered with him to sell fruits. Liu Sichang has a flexible mind, and under his management, business is much better than before. At this moment, Zhao Tianjun, who had always been in love with Xiaoli, bought Chen Lizheng a train ticket and asked him to go to Xinjiang to celebrate his daughter's birthday in prison. During this meeting, Chen Lizheng found that his daughter seemed to have grown up suddenly, which made him extremely happy.
The good times did not last long. Shuanghe City wanted to build a national sanitary city. Chen Lizheng's fruit stall was cancelled, and Chen Lizheng lost his source of income again. Eventually, with the help of Yu Wenying's cousin Zhao Wenli, Chen Lizheng became a nurse at the Municipal People's Hospital. With the help of his old subordinates, Liu Sichang is determined to re-enter the market and create greater glory.
At this time, Xiaoli was released from prison early because of her good behavior during her sentence. In order to prevent his daughter from worrying, Chen Lizheng had been hiding what happened at home from her. Xiaoli couldn't help but feel her heart break when she saw her father's haggard and tired look and the fragmented and deserted home.
Chen Lizheng works hard and treats his patients as his own relatives, so he is very popular and his income is rising. After my daughter came back, she cleaned the house inside and out, washed and cooked meals, and made the home full of life again. All this made Chen Lizheng's life suddenly full of hope. Unexpectedly, when Zhou Ting heard that Sansheng Street was going to be renovated, he wanted to buy Chen Lizheng's house at a very low price in the name of debt collection so that he could make some money. Fortunately, Yu Wenying came to help, mortgaged her house and paid off Zhou Ting's debt, so Chen Lizheng did not have to live on the street. Chen Lizheng understood Yu Wenying's affection for him, but when he thought about his own situation, he felt that he could not harm others. On the contrary, Yu Wenying could not hold back and expressed her love directly to Chen Lizheng. After being declined, she angrily married Wang Dakang, who had been pursuing her.
Because Xiaoli had been in prison, she encountered obstacles everywhere in her job search. Being physically and mentally exhausted, she was lured by bad guys and became addicted to drugs, and she gradually fell into depravity. Zhao Tianjun, who has always been in love with Xiaoli, does not care about Xiaoli's past and will never leave her. And Chen Lizheng was even more desperate to save his daughter from the fire pit. Infected by love and affection, Xiaoli slowly began to cheer up again.
On the other side, Liu Sichang's business failed again, and his last bit of capital was confiscated by the police on the gambling boat. This time, Liu Sichang was completely decadent. He complained loudly about his bad luck and bad luck, and that God was unfair. At the same time, he believed that there was really no hope of repaying Chen Lizheng's money. From then on, he wandered the streets in rags all day long, just like a homeless man. Chen Lizheng used the provocation method to force Liu Sichang to cheer up again.
When Chen Lizheng was taking care of the patient "Nine Eunuchs", he accidentally got an ancestral secret recipe for making bean curd. After he tried it, everyone who tasted it was full of praise. Chen Lizheng was greatly inspired and began to use this secret recipe to start a business, which was finally successful. At the same time, Yu Wenying, who has never been able to forget Chen Lizheng, divorced due to emotional discord with her husband. After so many years of stumbling, the two lovers finally got married.
Just when Chen Lizheng was planning to make the "Jiu Gonggong" brand bigger and stronger and go global, he was suddenly struck down by the disease. According to the doctor's examination, it was late-stage gastric cancer. Chen Lizheng did not panic. He had already noticed the changes in his body, but his strong desire to pay back the money kept him from facing this problem. In the end, Chen Lizheng transferred the trademark rights of "Jiu Gonggong Bean Curd" to a canned food factory for a price of 400,000, fulfilling his long-cherished wish to pay back the money and ushering in the climax of his life.