In the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, the Shen family, the most wealthy silk merchant in Suzhou City, gave birth to a demon king who was famous in the south of the Yangtze River - the second young master Shen Yanzhi. This dandy young man who returned from studying abroad did not touch abacus but preferred to play with crickets. He wore a suit and leather shoes but loved squatting in front of Xuanmiao Temple to chew on crab shells. Twenty-four mahogany abacus were smashed around the courtyard.
"Sooner or later, the century-old foundation of the Shen family will be defeated by your hands!" The eldest young master of the family chased Sanjin out of the courtyard with a cane, and an enamel snuff bottle broken into eight petals rolled on the blue brick floor. Shen Yanzhi carried the ancestral purple sand cricket jar and escaped over the wall. The moon-white gown was hooked on the golden osmanthus tree on the wall, revealing half of his Western underpants embroidered with Tang Bohu's erotic pictures.
Unexpectedly, this free-spirited second young master actually pretended to be a fortune teller at Changmen Wharf, and with three witty words he persuaded the Qing Gang to fight against the water transportation; he used a cage of crabmeal soup dumplings to redeem the detained embroiderer from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce; and at the Hanshan Temple Poetry Festival, he made the rotten scholars jump to their feet: "The rhyme of your poems is mediocre, but it is more entangled than the foot-binding cloth of the grandmother on Guanqian Street!"
When the Japanese merchant ship approached Taihu Lake that night, the entire city of Suzhou saw the red lantern of the Shen family that never goes out suddenly fall. The second young master who usually made jokes stood on the tallest Tingyu Tower in Shen Garden. The young man's eyes were shining with blazing torches, and he actually held in his hand half of the Hetian jade abacus that the eldest young master gave him before he died...
[This is the story of a dandy young man who hides his edge in Wu Nong's soft words and guards the rivers and mountains along the winding paths in the garden. Here there is the bloody romance in the singing of Pingtan, the business war at the feet of Su embroidery needles, and the most generous second young master in Suzhou City, how to use crickets
