Police attempt to stop Nationalist agents from destroying public buildings in Ruancheng after the Red Army occupies the city.

In early 1980s Hong Kong, three unemployed friends—Ah Long, Hai Zi, and Zhu Zhu—launch a fish stall on Longzhu Street but soon see their booming business collapse under Hai Zi’s small-time profiteering and poor ethics. When they fall apart and drift into hardship, Ah Long finds a second chance under street-vendors’ leader Kui Mei, learns the true value of hard work and integrity, and reunites with Hai Zi and Zhu Zhu to merge their stalls into a principled partnership.

A 20-year old young man who has been brought up by a foster mother in the countryside has fallen in love with another foster child in the same "family" and the two have decided to get married. Just after this decision, the young man's real mother contacts him and asks him to come and stay with her and his father (she is a high-ranking Party official). She is against his marriage but her husband is not. In the end, the young man decides to marry at the home of his real parents, and when his foster mother shows up, his real mother treats her like dirt - it turns out that the foster mother was a concubine for awhile. Before things deteriorate any further, the husband has some news for his wife that helps her to see the foster mother in a different light.

Xinjiang Kid coming to Guangzhou to work