Lu Chenzhou, a professor of history, was interpreting an official seal of the Han Dynasty when he received the news that his father had died in a car accident. The police determined it was an accident, but he recognized that the soil his father was clutching came from an abandoned mine recorded in the county annals of the Qing Dynasty that his family had guarded for generations. On his first day as the first secretary of a poor village, what awaited him was tampered poverty alleviation accounts and the hostile looks of the villagers. He calmly walked towards the abandoned ancestral hall in the village, where there was not only a family tree, but also a forgotten mine map engraved on the beam...
