Root Vein

The Sui family maintained its glory for hundreds of years in the Qing Dynasty with its strict family education. Sui Shouye, the last head of the family, made a secret decision on the eve of the land reform storm: he turned the wealth of his family into thirty silver coins buried deep in the ground, drew a "treasure map", gave it to his son Shaozu, and ordered him to flee south. He himself went down with the old era. This is the last "road" a father leaves for his descendants. This route of escaping south unexpectedly caused changes in the family. The grandson Sui Dajue grew up in a rough life, and the family's rigor and responsibility were completely lost on him, turning into a philosophy of life of "there is wine now, and now you are drunk". He was obsessed with seeking all his life, and eventually became a desolate footnote in the gap between the times due to poverty, illness and stubborn longing for old-style family affection. Fate turned and fell on the great-grandson Sui Kuwa. He grew up silently in the hustle and bustle, being self-disciplined, diligent, and fighting against his fate alone. He went into business and set up factories, suffered repeated defeats, got divorced in middle age, and depended on his young son for life. In the end, he used all his life experiences to light up his son's path to the new world, and also fulfilled the family motto of "walking the road by yourself", which spanned a hundred years and was truly delivered after the glitz faded away. From the late Qing Dynasty to the 21st century, from the deep mansion to the modern business world, the Sui family has been in turmoil for hundreds of years. Does that treasure map soaked in time point to the silent silver dollar in the mountains, or does it point to the immortal tenacity hidden deep in the blood? This is a story about loss and inheritance, discontinuity and renewal - when the external reliance is eroded one by one by the torrent of the times, what can a family ultimately pass on to its descendants...?