1983 Chinese rural comedy film, directed by Xie Tian, starring Zhao Ziyue, Chen Qiang, Ling Yuan, Ma Shuchao, Yu Li, and Cai Ming.
In the rural areas of Jiangnan in the 1980s, the household responsibility contracting system had just been popularized, and every household regarded labor as the main productive force, which was the key to making a fortune, at the same time, agricultural machinery had also risen, and villages were publicized and promoted to encourage the purchase of alternative labor.
Ren Laole and Boss Li are a pair of old men, the only daughter of the Ren family, Qiaolan, and the second eldest of the Li family, Gui Xi, are in free love, and they have already discussed marriage, and Gui Xi has entered the Ren family, Ren Lao Le has proposed a set of relatives to send to the Li family, ready to discuss the marriage date, not to think that Boss Li will change his mind at this time, saying that the previous big pot of rice is now the responsibility system, labor is the capital to get rich, can not be cheap in vain, should marry the daughter-in-law back so that he will not suffer losses, saying that he will carry things back to the old Le family.
When the two met, Boss Li explained his intentions, changed to marry, and promised not to treat his daughter badly, Lao Le did not care as long as it was for the happiness of his daughter, but Lao Le's daughter-in-law was unwilling, she knew what Boss Li was thinking, and she quarreled with him on the spot, saying that my daughter cannot be a laborer for you. Just such a good marriage has made waves, and the most anxious is Still Guixi, because of his father's strength, he does not dare to directly disobey.
Guixi found Lao Le Uncle to find a way, Lao Lesi came and went, asked Guixi who worked at the agricultural machinery station to help the tractor can reach several laborers, Guixi listened to the iron bull, confidently said, one can top two laborers, Lao Le listened to a pat on the thigh, then buy an iron cow, rural people want to get rich and have to rely on modernization, we two families each buy one, there is no need to fight for labor.
Unfortunately, this is Lao Le's wishful thinking, Boss Li doesn't think so, he knows that the iron bull is not cheap, the little two thousand, his family has two sons, does not want to spend this unjust money, so said Lao Le is speechless. But he did not give up, the two families can not then his family to buy alone, with the support of his daughter, Lao Le embezzled the money to build a new house without authorization, gritted his teeth and bought a hand tractor, ten miles and eight villages are novel, come to see the liveliness, even the villagers who built a house for Li Lao also heard the noise, the firecrackers of the new house were also used here, the scene was not lively, but also the Old Man Li was not light, and directly pulled Gui Xi away.
It was not easy to get the iron cow home, after the old music learned to come, officially saw the ability of the iron cow, the father and daughter dug the pond mud easily back and forth several times, the li family of four did not complete a trip, but repeatedly urged his eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law to go quickly, completely unaware that the eldest daughter-in-law was pregnant again, he only treated the children as livestock.
The old Le couple had a few days of awkwardness, he was not obsessed with who to marry, anyway, there was an iron bull, but also advised the wife to marry the daughter over, the wife did not do it when he heard it, who did not know that Boss Li was eager to break his family into two petals, forcing them to get up early and greedily do it, she did not want to marry her daughter to suffer, unless Boss Li was willing to pay half the money, and the two families shared the iron bull. However, Boss Li still disagreed, believing that Lao Le had spent all the money and wanted to use his money to make up for the deficit, so the matter of the two children was shelved again.
In the spring, Boss Li waited for people to come to him to plow the land to earn money as usual, and did not want to hire him this year, and when he asked, he realized that he let Lao Le rob the job, and the price was not high. Boss Li went to find Lao Le to reason, just happened to bump into the iron cow leaking oil, bad in the ground, he had a bad thought, hurriedly ran home, sent his son Guixi out of the village to go to relatives, Ren Lao Le could not find Guixi to repair the car, had to find someone to pull the iron cow home first. At this time, Boss Li was schadenfreude, waiting for someone to beg him to use his buffalo to plow the land, which was not counted, and he actually sat on the ground and started to pay before working. His behavior of drilling into the eyes of money is really chilling, but the time is rushing, and it must be ploughed and planted, just as he intended.
Guixi sneaked back to repair the iron bull, so that Lao Le cut off the boss's job of making money, and the angry boss scolded, bluntly saying that he did not recognize his family, and wanted to tell Guixi another family affair. It is said that the blind date is five big and three thick, and it is a good laborer at first glance, and the point is that people are willing to marry a cow with cubs. Boss Li agreed with a full mouth and forced Guixi to get married.
Lao Le panicked, he decided that Boss Li did not hit the south wall and did not turn back, so he wanted to attack the poison with poison, and gave GuiXi the idea to take QiaoLan to deceive his father to get the marriage license first, raw rice cooked to maturity, he wanted to stop it. At this time, his eldest son was sick and sick in bed, and the eldest daughter-in-law Qingxiu directly turned her face to her father-in-law, saying that in this family, she was regarded as a pulling cow, a chicken laying eggs, noisily separated from his family, and ran back to her mother's house in one breath.
At this time, no one worked to plant seedlings, and Boss Li had to pull down his old face and ask Lao Le for help, and as a result, Lao Le came to a trick to treat his body in the way of others, and clearly marked the price, just like he asked for the price to others. Boss Li felt insulted and went to the commune to complain, saying that this was a sky-high price, and completely disregarded the fact that he had treated others in the first place.
What Boss Li did not expect was that this complaint was reported to his head, and it turned out that the president had already heard about his affairs and advised him to be as good as a stream. Boss Li slipped home and was trying to make himself look at himself, but was pleasantly surprised to find that the new house had been arranged, the eldest son's family had also returned, and the two families were planting seedlings in his family's field.
Boss Li was ashamed and embarrassed, realized his mistake, and reconciled the two families.