On a rainy night, delivery boy He Xiaochuan received a strange delivery order.
Address: Thirty miles outside Yanmen Pass, Beacon No. 3.
Consignee: Wei Changgeng.
Note: Must be delivered before dawn, otherwise the beacon will not burn if you are late.
He Xiaochuan thought it was a prank until he rushed out of the city elevated road on a second-hand electric bicycle that was almost out of battery. When he looked up again, he saw the ancient border gate covered with wind and snow in front of him.
From that day on, he was forced to become a rider on the "Mountain and River Express".
He has delivered a bowl of hot soup outside Yanmen Pass, a water bag across the Hexi Corridor, a letter home from an old friend in Yangguan, a pass document in front of Hangu Pass, fire on the Chibi River, and disaster relief grain accounts on the Grand Canal.
Others' time-traveling is to become king and prime minister, while He Xiaochuan's time-traveling is to urge orders to expire.
While others are rewriting history, he just wants to ask the system: Can the power bank be reimbursed?
But he slowly discovered that what he was delivering was not takeout.
What he sent was the beacon fire that was about to go out in the wind and snow, the military reports that had not returned from the ancient road, the unspoken family letters of the border guards, and the people who were not remembered by the history books but had actually walked through the mountains and rivers.
The Great Wall is not a wall, the ancient road is not a road, and the city passes are not just place names.
They are places where people have guarded, walked, cried, and laughed.
What He Xiaochuan has to do is to re-deliver those things that have been delayed by sandstorms and time.
