During the Kangxi period, Cheng Shuisheng, a tenant servant in Huizhou, farmed the fields for the Hu family for generations. After Hu Wenqing, the young master of the Hu family, was elected, he wanted to abolish this hereditary contract. However, when Hu Wenqing announced that he would give the Cheng family freedom, Shui Sheng's grandfather Cheng Shuisheng burst into tears. He held the 150-year-old deed tightly and trembled: "Master, the field is our root. How can the Cheng family live without it?" The road to breaking free from the shackles is far longer than they imagined.
