Just as his father was buried, his eldest uncle took away the fields, house, and silver jade. Gu Changhe, a poor carpenter, moved into a leaky old shed with his mother, yet insisted on writing a chipped bronze basin into the family division agreement. Relatives laughed at him for being foolish, and even his mother did not understand why he stubbornly chose this piece of junk. On the night they moved, rainwater leaked all over the house, but the bronze basin used to catch the water had changed place, and not a single drop of water was at the bottom of the basin. From then on, Gu Changhe kept the basin at home and allowed no one to touch it. Outsiders only knew that he had divided a broken bronze basin. But late at night after the doors were closed, when there were clearly only mother and son in the house, the voice of a third person sounded.