Ji Qingyang's father and Fang Jingshu's husband. A burly man who is a heavy drinker and abusive toward his wife and child. He was demoted from factory committee official to workshop employee, which he blamed on his father-in-law. He threatened Fang Jingshu with her father's letters to foreign friends. He was adopted by his uncle in Jiangcheng at age thirteen from Fengshan County. He is devoted to his birth parents and sent them all his adoptive father's property. He stole his wife's job for his youngest brother. He feared Mother Jiang's well-connected family in Fengshan more than her official position.
