The vicissitudes of Shanghai

In 1899, at the residence of Tang Tongshu, a prominent family in Shanghai, Tongshu's wife was about to give birth. At that time, a fast horse galloped to Tang Mansion. The visitor is a friend of Shanghai Daotai, known as "Yan'er Gege". The reason why she came in a hurry was to urgently report to her sweetheart Tang Tongshu: Tang Fenghua, the father of the Tang family, was involved in anti-Manchu activities, and his death was imminent. In the rush, the housekeeper took away the two sons, Tang Dapu and Tang Erpu. Tang Yang gave birth to the third son in front of a Four Treasures shop in the heavy rain. Tang Tongshu, who is about to graduate from St. John's University, is planning to study in the United States. Yan'er hopes to fly away with him. Fenghua was imprisoned, all the Tang family members were kicked out of their homes, and all Tang family businesses were confiscated. In the bathhouse, Tang Tongshu met Henry, a bankrupt and homeless British banker, and transferred the eight hundred taels of silver notes to this strange foreigner in an inexplicable way. After he sobered up, he simply worked as a coolie tea worker in a Laohuzao restaurant incognito. But right there, Tongshu was discovered by an old tea guest who originally worked for Tang Fenghua, so he deliberately introduced Tongshu to the British coal merchant Manji. Tongshu was promoted from streetwalker to comprador, and the Tang family began to see a turn for the better. Yan'er brought Shen Yiqi to ask Tongshu for help. The five-year-old Shen Yiqi's daughter Shen Kunping and Tang Sanpu, the third son of the Tang family, hit it off immediately and became particularly close to each other.