Name: Hunting in the Greater Khingan Range: A Hunter's Life in Northeast China
Author: Old Friends from Dragon City

Synopsis

Cao Erxi, a 61-year-old nightclub security guard in Dongguan, gets drunk and is reborn at the end of his life, back in the Greater Khingan Range in 1983.

That year, at nineteen, he took his younger brother into the mountains, where they encountered a wild boar. His brother died a tragic death, his elder sister froze to death, and he ended up drifting through the underworld.

Now that he has returned to the past, hunting knife in hand, he swears to rewrite his fate!

From shooting squirrels with a slingshot to fishing in ice holes, from selling furs on the black market to searching for a gun on snowy nights, Cao Erxi uses forty years of underworld experience

to carve out a way to survive between a planned economy and the laws of the wilderness.

The loyalty of Scarface Brother Guan, the secrets of one-eyed Old Wu,

and the hidden pain behind his elder sister’s bloody cough all slowly come to light in this frozen wilderness.

This is no simple hunting story. It’s about a man awakening to his responsibility toward his family.

As the crack of a Water-Linked Rifle echoes across the snowy forests,

and deals in gray squirrel pelts conceal the codes of an era,

Cao Erxi uses the plainest Northeastern wisdom to prove:

Being reborn isn’t about becoming a king or dominating the world,

but about making sure the people who should live can keep on living.

Stats

120Chapters

4.8kReads · 30 days

51.8kReads · all time

105Shelf adds, last 14 days

6.0Score

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