North-South Road: from a Farm Boy to Counterinsurgency at the Border

A child from a poor family at the bottom of the countryside. My father was in prison, my mother remarried, and my grandmother only left one sentence before she died: "I want to study." He read it. From village school to Fucheng academy, from being ridiculed as "the son of the prison chief" to being praised by the mountain chief himself. He thought that passing the imperial examination would help his whole family live a good life. But the officialdom is not an examination room. His mentor was convicted of hiding an orphan from the previous dynasty, and the emperor ordered him to be executed. A plaque reading "Loyal to the Emperor and Patriotic" smashed down, shattering all his innocence. In the Yellow River, the lover fell into the water and his life or death was unknown. How to take revenge when the entire village of your new best friend was massacred. At the northwest border, someone is plotting a rebellion. Eight classmates, from the academy to the battlefield, dispersed across the world, each going to life or death. Jing Yao had no way out. He only had a strong character and a pair of legs that would never kneel down after standing up from the mud. This is the story of a boy from a peasant family who relied on reading and perseverance to reach the world step by step.