Content: Chen Hongmou, a Second Grade Grand Secretary of the State and Secretary of Works of the Qing Dynasty, returns home on account of old age. On the way home, he goes by way of Shaanxi where he owes bitterly to someone for years. Unexpectedly, a murder exposes to him one of his post achievement projects which has won the emperors praise but done great harm to local peasants. He endures pangs of contrition and stands up to defy authority in a charter of conflicts concerning heaven, earth, army, relatives and masters.
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