剧情介绍
1970年代末，中国大陆某北方乡村。 陈家这日正为仁武（马晓伟）与薛水莲（温玉娟）的新婚欢天喜地，仁武嫂子王强英（王书勤）见新婚排场及新娘子行头均强过自己当年，一面怨婆婆（王玉梅）偏心，一面吵着丈夫仁文也要水莲穿的涤纶绸裤，后又见小姑仁芳（洪学敏）也有涤纶绸裤料（仁芳男友所送），她更认准了婆婆眼里没她，吵闹着要婆婆一视同仁，婆婆无奈欲借钱买料好求媳妇定心，善心的水莲拿出自己的钱帮婆婆解围。这是强英无理取闹的第一步，其后她更做出试图拆散仁芳与男友、分家时强夺硬抢、分家后虐待爷爷（于绍康）等事，以致顺从听话的仁文也不再能将她忍受；但也是水莲体人顾家的开始。In a north China village, Renwu Chen gets married to Shuilian Xu. She presents quite a contrast to his elder brothers wife Wang Qiangying, a selfish woman who tries to get all she can from her mother-in-law. With the arrival of the new bride, this extended familys situation grows more complex. Qianying tries to arrange a marriage for her husbands younger sister without her willingness since she doesnt like her. Qiangying pushes the extended family to live separately so she can get a bigger house and have fewer burdens of taking care of her parents-in-law. But her husband slaps her after finding her offering poor food to her father-in-law when preparing good food for her kids. Qiangying goes back to her parents who support her, which causes a bigger conflict between the two families. Shulian convinces her sister-in-law to apologize to their father-in-law, and they eventually become a happy family.