The man's family came from a remote little mountain village, and he weighed eight jin and eight liang at birth! Fortunately, his mother had already given birth several times before. She'd been working in the fields the day before he was born, and she was in good health. Otherwise, she surely would have suffered a difficult labor and hemorrhaged to death, taking both their lives.
He was born with an enormous appetite, and he grew at an astonishing pace. Before he was ten, he was already as tall as an ordinary adult, with frightening strength.
The world was still relatively peaceful then. He began helping his family farm when he was very young, and during the slack season, he either learned to hunt from the village hunters or hired himself out for odd jobs.
No matter how hard he worked, as he grew older, so did his appetite, and it became hard to feed himself. On top of that, the harvests were poor, and his parents could no longer support the family. With no other choice, they sold their son, who'd been doing odd jobs, to a broker. The broker then sold him to the Prefectural Government of the previous governor, where he worked as a servant.
That was where the story began.
The previous governor was a simple man, but his family was anything but simple. He had a younger sister who was a beautiful widow living at home.
Even while she was unmarried, his sister had been uninhibited, entangled with all sorts of scholars. Marriage hadn't made her mend her ways, and after her husband died, she'd only grown bolder. She stopped hiding her affairs and openly kept lovers, until her husband's family elders could no longer bear it and drove her back home.
The previous governor had