The father of the Zhou family, deputy director of the machinery factory. He appeared serious and honest on the outside but was secretly corrupt. He embezzled money over the years through reselling scrap parts, selling jobs, and giving gifts to superiors. He had a passbook with 10,000 yuan and an iron box containing five thousand yuan in big unity notes. He also kept an account book documenting his illicit activities and a box of fifty to sixty small goldfish.
