If an Old Friend Comes

In the 27th year of Taiping's reign in the Liang Dynasty, Shen Yan, a doctor in Qingxi County, embarked on the northbound journey because of a strange dream, an old box and a post ticket for ten days. Ten years ago, his father Shen Henian disappeared among the mountains and rivers; ten years later, the notes, bronze fish charms and an indescribable map left by his father pointed back to the place that no one could explain - Bailu Wuxiang. Along the way, Shen Yan passed through desolate stations, ancient ferries, empty cities and deep mountains, and met the dead who refused to leave, travelers who had nowhere to go, people who kept old promises, and old friends forgotten by time. Some people asked him for directions, some asked him for medical treatment, and some waited for him for many years just to say a belated word. And he gradually discovered that his father's disappearance was no accident. The strange things in the mountains and rivers that were not recorded in the history books also vaguely lead to the same river, the same mountain, and a secret about "why the old friend returned." This is an Eastern fantasy novel with travel as its bones and old friends as its soul. The so-called long journey is just a constant reunion with the past; the so-called old friends may not always be people we have met before.