Mountains and Rivers Looking North

The protagonist Qiu Zhu went from the extreme prosperity of Bianliang to the shocking disaster of the Jingkang Incident; from the panic of Jianyan's southern crossing, to the impassionedness of Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, and finally to the grief and indignation of Fengbo Pavilion and the humiliation of the Shaoxing Peace... He was involuntarily involved in the torrent of history. He is no longer a bystander. He struggles, survives, and makes choices. From a privy council clerk who can only perceive danger but is powerless, he grows step by step into a witness who protects the glimmer of light in despair. He could not save the country from crisis, but he did his best to save the whole family in troubled times. The whole book is about: the life of a small person in the torrent of history!