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This book is about a man walking. The road was very long. It took four years to walk from Lin'an to Yashan. The man walking was called Changsheng. He was the commander of the infantry army in front of the palace and was in charge of fifty people. He was illiterate, could not read official documents, and did not understand any major military affairs. He doesn't know how to say nice things. When people ask him anything, he either hums, says "I don't know," or says nothing. He is not good-looking either, he is not very tall, but his arms are very long, which he gained from forging iron since he was a child. He is not smart, he cannot hear the pronunciation of the words that others can hear, he cannot calculate the benefits that others can, and he cannot go around the detours that others can make. He finished that journey, not because he was brave, but because he could only walk. In the last few years of the Southern Song Dynasty, many people took different paths. Changsheng goes south. To the south is Yashan. Yashan is the end of the road. When you get there, you can either jump into the sea, surrender, or, like him, walk into the south and keep walking until you can't walk anymore.