Yan Zhao, a former special forces soldier, activates a device he developed himself at the end of his life. His consciousness transmigrates to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, where he becomes a foot soldier in Northern Han. As the city falls, he is entrusted with a secret letter and ordered to break through enemy lines. But he discovers that the letter conceals a treasure map to four hundred thousand taels of silver, throwing him into the struggle between Northern Han, Later Zhou, and the Khitan. Forced to flee south with his family, he unexpectedly awakens a portable space. He can take items from the modern world and trade them for silver, but doing so also draws more pursuers. Can he and his family survive the chaos and escape? What fate awaits him in this other world?
To be honest, I came here because of the title of the book, but I cried several times. Shui Ling's eyes couldn't move when she saw the candy man, her father's hunched back while carrying the bucket, his second uncle's trembling hands when he took the food... These details were too heartbreaking. There is also the scene where the protagonist wakes up and finds that he has changed into a younger body and is staring at the river in a daze - "Twenty years old, how good it is." With this sentence, I broke my guard. In troubled times, a family protecting each other and moving forward is more touching than any golden finger.
Say something different. What impressed me most about this book was the protagonist's "identity". A seventy-three-year-old man travels into a twenty-year-old body with modern memories, and faces his original father and sister. The trance of "who am I" is so real. The scene where you look at your own reflection in the river, "Twenty years old, it's so good" - how much complexity is there in this sentence? The comfort of "my past life is still alive" is more pricking than any golden finger.
After reading this, say a few words. What struck me most about this book was not the golden finger, but the sense of troubled times. The author has a good understanding of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms - not memorizing textbooks, but writing about human feelings. The emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty was confused, Guo Pixian pretended to be dumbfounded, the Liao envoys were aggressive, the three parties had their own agendas, and a treasure map stirred up trouble. The protagonist is forced to get involved, the kind of small character who can't help himself in the general situation, which is written thoroughly. Just for this historical quality, pursue it decisively 👍
It must be given a five-star rating, the writing is thrilling and touching.