The bandits came down from the hills to raid the kiln!
The Shen family compound fell into chaos in an instant.
Shen Changhe was the head of the Shen family. A steady, meticulous man all his life, he stayed calm and experienced in any crisis. His first reaction was to sweep his gaze around the courtyard, searching for his grandson, Shen Chengan.
After the Shen family had been raided by bandits and squeezed dry by the Japanese and their collaborators, life had become impossible. Old Master Shen steeled himself, took the little savings the family had left, and moved everyone north to Beiping to seek help from an old friend from his youth. Once they arrived, the family settled in with the support of their friend Wang Liben's household. They made a home in an alley where the Wang family lived. Grandpa told Chengan to marry and have children, and to take several wives to carry on the family line. From time to time, Chengan would secretly go out and raid the Japanese for supplies, storing them in his spatial storage to help support the family.
