Record of Mingfeng on Inkstone

During the Xuande period, Shen Yanqiu, a minor official in the Jiangnan Weaving Mansion, was exposed to shocking corruption due to a water transportation account book, and he was involved in the whirlpool of the court and the world. He protected widows and young children, fought against traitorous officials and villains, and formed an alliance with Su Wanniang, the female shopkeeper of the embroidery shop. He traveled north from the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, broke into the Cao gang, fought water bandits, and entered the capital to face the overwhelming power of the eunuch Wang Zhen. After the Tumu Fort Incident, the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil. When faced with danger, he opened up sea water transport to deliver life-saving food and grass to the capital. When the court was in conflict, he saw through the fame and wealth, declined the generous salary from high-ranking officials, and returned to the south of the Yangtze River. For half of his life, he guarded a sweet-scented osmanthus cake shop, watched dog eggs grow into clear water in the court, watched thousands of sails passing through the canal, and watched the endless fireworks in the market. In the wave of the great era, a small official protected the fireworks of the world with an innocent heart and wrote a legend of the Ming Dynasty hidden in the gaps in the history books.