Answer: This story takes place in Chinatown, New York, where a drought has caused a famine, resulting in everyone starving to death and suffering. The townspeople, Aurora, Bing, Bo, Bojing, Chao, Wohang, Malana, Uett, Wong, Ilan, muhang, Jing, Hing, Aya and many others were in danger and fearful of what the future might hold for them. Their spirits were helpless and when the lord came, things only got worse for them. This is a story about finding hope through the worst of times.
1. A lord by the name of Ozawa, who looked well-fed and in expensive clothing, visited the village with his army to ask the townspeople to hand whatever money they had. A man by the name of Bojing, dressed in brown rags, went up to the lord and tried handing him 3 dimes, but his hand got pushed away by one of the guards, dropping the money. The lord, with a confused look on his face, thought he was being attacked so he told his men to seize Bojing The guards, dressed in intimidating armor, intervened and arrested the man.
2. A few days after he was arrested, his friends visited him and tried to explain to the jailer what had happened. The jailer didn't believe what they had to say and turned them away saying “Bojing had to serve his 2 month sentence”. Bojing, however, never gave up hope and spent the time in jail planning his revenge against Ozawa. He believed that if he could make the lord pay, it would help the village.
3. Bojing was pacing in his jail cell thinking about reasoning with the lord in order to get him to help the village. His argument would be, “if the villages under your control were poor and starving, you will appear useless, weakening your rule.” Bojing was planning to use the lord's confidence against him to control him into helping the village and possibly making him give up his power.