On New Year’s Eve in 1982, his sworn elder brother knocked on his woodshed door and coaxed him into transporting contraband, intending to make him take the fall.
In his previous life, he became a prisoner, his father hanged himself in despair over a false accusation, and his sister was forced into a marriage.
Reborn, Gu Beichuan pretended to injure himself, then headed straight to the commune office to report the crime.
His sworn brother wanted him behind bars? Then Gu would make his brother’s cousin take the blame and face the firing squad.
With heavy snow blocking the mountain roads and food running out before the New Year, he shouldered his battered peddler’s pack and went from village to village trading goods.
He understood policy and knew how to seize the moment, going from intercepting goods without permits to running a hundred-billion-yuan industrial empire.
"Zhenguo, the debt you owed the Gu family back then? We’ll settle it slowly, with interest."
