Crossing the Strait Just to Find Roots

Lin Mingyuan, a young man from Taipei, received thirty-two letters from his family in the Qing Dynasty after his grandfather's funeral. He was shocked to learn that his great-grandfather Lin Xinyao did not die in a shipwreck, but was silenced for exposing smuggling. The sunken ship "Yiqi" is still hidden at the bottom of Penghu. In order to fulfill his grandfather's last wish, he crossed the strait and came to Pingtan. Under the guidance of Hui Lao, the guardian of Wufu Temple, he gradually uncovered a tragedy that had been deliberately obliterated two hundred years ago. From the South Street Arcade to the Wan Shan Tong Gui Cemetery, from the Keelung Cemetery to the Maobitou sea area, Lin Mingyuan met the descendants of Chen Asi, Hui Zhengqing, Zhang Afu, etc., And pieced together the lives and fate of seven navy squad members. He found reporting letters, account books, copper coins, and iron boxes, and brought to light the names that had been hidden under the sea for more than a hundred years. As clues emerged, the obstruction of the port group Zhou Haisheng, the silence of the clan association, and the battle to steal the iron boxes were staged one after another. The monument was erected, and the seven names were engraved in granite. Chen Nianzu, a young man from Taichung, guarded the monument alternately in the cold and summer. Descendants from all over the world came one after another with tokens. The objects gradually piled up on the base of the monument formed an emotional map across the strait. The lamp never goes out, the gatekeeper passes it on from generation to generation, and the sound of the tide never ceases.