The Secret Cache of Guandong at White-Haired Cave

White-Haired Kiln: Secrets of Kanto

Genre: Folk Adventure / Mystery Adventure

Historical setting: Winter of 1947, after the Anti-Japanese War had just ended and the campaign to suppress bandits in the Northeast was nearing its close

Story Premise

In the winter the tide of "venturing east" ebbed, Ma Fengshan, a veteran from Shandong, returned to Xiaobai Mountain, where he had once led a platoon. He carried a topographical map stolen from a surveying team abandoned by the Japanese. The map marked an abandoned charcoal kiln called "White-Haired Kiln." The locals avoided talking about it, saying only that it was "the Yellow Immortal's den," and that anyone who went in never came back.

Ma Fengshan wasn't looking for treasure. He was looking for a person. Thirty years earlier, his father had gone into Xiaobai Mountain with a band of ginseng hunters. Before leaving, he had said, "If I don't return, look for me at White-Haired Kiln." After that, he was never heard from again.