After noon that day, a baby's cry came from the big house, and bursts of crisp and loud firecrackers broke the tranquility of this small mountain village.
In the main room on the left front, the midwife Aunt Liu told the baby's mother with a happy face: "I will only bring a handful (a boy) with me after the birth!"
I had known for a long time that the He family was about to have a baby. After hearing the sound of firecrackers announcing the good news, after a while, the neighbors and clan members came to congratulate him.
He Peizhen, a political official of the Qing Dynasty, was delighted to have his eldest son, which indeed added a lot of joy to this small mountain village. But at this time, He Peizhen, who was already a father, was serving as Tongzhi of Qingyuan County, Zhili, thousands of miles away...
