The time was around 1921, less than a decade after the overthrow of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China. The father of the Ren family of Panzhi Island had a small boat, which he used to transport goods for farmers among the nearly 100 small islands of Zhoushan. That is how he got to know the Cen family.
那時，滿清改了民國才十多年，住在舟山盤峙島的任家老太爺有著一條小船，在舟山那大大小小近百個小島間幫農家們載些農作出去賣，也就這麼的和岑家熟悉了起來。