With You Here, Anything Is Possible

Zhang, a traveling peddler whose ancestral home was Heyang County, Shaanxi, used a slender shoulder pole to carry hundreds of mu of farmland hundreds of kilometers from home, and to build the large family he left behind, with more than a hundred people in it... Even as he lay dying, his wealth was scattered and his land divided, he remained full of hope: As long as there are people, anything is possible!

One day, my husband's great-grandfather appeared to me in a dream. He said his soul had lingered above the family for nearly a hundred years, unable to leave. He had been a peddler fleeing famine, yet managed to build such an impressive estate where he settled, and leave behind so many descendants. He still wanted to watch over them...

As the wife of Zhang the peddler's fourth-generation great-grandson, I want to portray the ups and downs of his life as it truly was. First, to do my small part for the Zhang family, and second, to leave a remembrance for all the Zhang children and grandchildren.