A three-hundred-year-old locust tree bears witness to the joys and sorrows of several generations.
In the spring of 1940, sixteen-year-old Sang Niazhen married into Huaiyin Hall from outside the city in a sedan chair. When the sedan curtain was raised, she saw not only her husband, Shen Peizhi, the young master of Silk Village, but also a maid who looked on with cold eyes - the maid had a strikingly similar face to hers.
Sixty years later, on New Year's Eve in 2000, an old man with white hair stood in front of the Huaiyin Hall, which had been designated as a cultural relic and was about to be converted into a museum. In her hands, she held a yellowed marriage certificate and a letter that had never been sent.
In the past sixty years, families with three surnames have lived in Huaiyin Hall. They have experienced the Anti-Japanese War, liberation, movement, and opening up. Some people died, some left, and some returned. And all the secrets are engraved in the growth rings of the old locust tree.
