A novel about the Republic of China. The protagonist Liu Qingfeng is a famous scholar in Huaihai and has five generations of ancestors. From being a peddler to thousands of hectares of farmland, from thatched huts to deep courtyards with three entrances and three exits, a handful of loess and a ladle of Huai water have nurtured the roots of the Liu family for five generations. And Liu Qingfeng is the helmsman of this five-generation family business, and the ferryman who is most helpless in troubled times.
