被上级训斥的得福没了好脾气，与父亲马喊水争吵起来。村广播的大喇叭里传出了得福妹妹得花的声音，她大声说出了村里孩子上学面临的困难，表达了年轻一辈想要改变命运的态度，问老辈人为什么要让后辈一起受穷。马喊水制止了得花的广播，让他给老人们赔罪，李老太爷却表示得花说的没错，他同意整村搬迁，却让得福把十几个老人和村子留下来。马喊水带得福去祖坟祭拜，向他讲述了一百多年前马家祖先逃难至此被李家祖先收留的往事。得福去探望李老太爷，李老太爷却不愿再听他多说，回到家后，得福压力太大发了两天两夜的烧。李老栓愿意搬迁，还托人把水花也叫回了涌泉村，水花传话给得福，说村里很多人都想搬只是不愿出头，让得福坚持住。得福又去找李老太爷，发现他喝了农药，众人赶忙用拖拉机把他往医院送。拖拉机在崎岖的土路上缓慢行驶，多亏马喊水喂李老太爷喝下的肥皂水拯救了他的性命。搬出去不是要断根，是要把根移到更肥沃的地方，后人到了哪儿，根就在哪儿，得福的真情流露终于打动了大家。
Defu lost his temper after being reprimanded by his superiors and quarreled with his father Ma Hanshui. The voice of Defu's sister Dehua came from the loud speaker of the village radio. She loudly spoke out the difficulties faced by children in the village to go to school, expressed the attitude of the younger generation to change their fate, and asked the older generation why they let the younger generation suffer poverty together. Ma Hanshui stopped Dehua's broadcast and asked him to apologize to the old people. However, Old Master Li said that Dehua was right. He agreed to relocate the entire village, but asked Defu to leave more than a dozen old people and the village behind. Ma Hanshui took Defu to the ancestral tomb to worship and told him about the past when the ancestors of the Ma family fled here and were taken in by the ancestors of the Li family more than a hundred years ago. Defu went to visit Old Master Li, but Old Master Li was unwilling to listen to him more.
