Bark River

Zheng Qi grew up among the ledgers, goods and dead people of the Salt Gang. He has no destiny and does not understand the world. He just takes one more look and remembers one sentence more than others. It wasn't until troubled times approached, and everyone around him became a bargaining chip for interests, fear, and power that he gradually understood: What is really difficult to calculate is never the accounts, but the people. Starting from a corpse in Zhengjiaji, a young man from the bottom will enter a broader troubled world - learning to recognize, employ and lead people. After holding the life and death of others in his hands, he will re-ask what it means to be a human being. "Barking River" is a long group portrait novel about troubled times, power and human hearts.