In 1983, drought ravages Hongxing Township. Lin Wan takes up her father's dying mission and vows to save this land. The Xunpu silver hairpin in her bun suddenly reveals itself as an interstellar terminal, letting her trade intangible cultural heritage crafts for alien technology.
Irrigation equipment and improved seeds rain down from the sky, but neighboring villages report her, and the villagers doubt her. Shen Yuan, a sent-down youth, quietly appears. He is skilled with machinery, and his gaze keeps returning to her silver hairpin.
It turns out he is a cultural official from Alpha Centauri, sent to save his spiritually barren homeworld. The warmth and bustle of life on Earth is its only cure.
Dried radishes for iron gadgets, embroidered handkerchiefs reaching across the stars: an extraordinary interstellar commerce venture begins. They grow crops and build wealth, take intangible cultural heritage overseas, and join forces as an unstoppable pair to build a celestial river on Earth.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
