Root: Blood Fire Cave

In the 22nd year of Hongwu, the imperial court issued a relocation order, and Li Qing's family in Hongdong County, southern Shanxi, was included in the list of moving north. Seeing that the villagers were forced to leave their hometowns, but the officials secretly hid the immigrants' money, Li Qing's father and brother reported the matter in anger, and were beaten to death in the county government. My mother sewed warm clothes overnight and warned with choked sobs: "Go north and don't look back. Our roots are not in Hongdong, but in our living blood." Carrying half a piece of dough cake and blood-stained paper, Li Qing stepped into the northbound team. Behind him was the burned ancestral home, and in front of him was the vast wilderness. He looked back at his hometown and clenched his fists: "When I go here, I must recover my blood debt, and let the blood of the Li family take root in a foreign land!"