A Branch of Pinellia, a Copper Coin

In the autumn of the 17th year of Jianning in Dashuo, Shen Zhixing, the Minister of Rites, impeached Pei Yan, the chief minister, for colluding with the enemy and being corrupt. Pei Yanzhi confessed his crime and handed a copper coin back to Shen Zhixing before drinking the poison. Copper coins are round on the outside and square on the inside. On the outside, he is powerful, traitorous and greedy, but on the inside, he is upright and honest. After Pei Yan died, it took Shen Zhixing half his life to understand: The man he had impeached for seventeen years had been protecting him with his life. At the same time, Xiao Buyu crawled out of the dead, Lu Qingyang sewed three strands of his wife and daughter's hair into his collar, Zhou Wenhuan acted next to his mother-killing enemy for three years, Gu Huaijin brought a bunch of white peony to his sister's well every year, Shi Jiu exchanged a pair of legs for his younger brother and walked out of the north, and Pei Zhong stood by the door waiting for "Pei Zhong, tea" who would never come again. Nine people, nine medicines, nine choices. They have tried carrying, returning, guarding, living, hoping, enduring, thinking, changing, etc. Every road is dead. But they found the only thing left to do. Copper coins are buried in the soil, and pinellia grows on the ground.