The young哥儿 of the Zhong family, seventeen years old, son of Zhong Lao'er (Zhong second son). Beautiful with peach-blossom eyes, slender build, dressed in plain mourning clothes. He escorted his father's coffin back to Liushan Village alone. Raised in prosperity after the Zhong family's rise, he was cherished by his parents. His father taught him kindness but also warned him that in the village people can devour people. He was sent back to Liushan Village by the family elders as punishment to calm down and reflect, with no servants left behind. He gave his mother thirty taels worth of silver and jewelry, and later learned his mother had a hidden banknote of three hundred taels in a hollow silver bracelet that his father had prepared for her.
