She Asked for a Long Tassel in Quancheng

On May 3, 1928, the Japanese army bombarded Jinan. A postman stuffed a stack of novel manuscripts into the cracks in the city wall and jumped into Daming Lake. He said three words to the injured female student behind him: "Live." The female student's name is Mingyi. She spent seventy-four years surviving for the postman - teaching, revenge, protection, and silence. She hid the manuscript on the beam, carved the word "live" on the lid of the camphor box, and spent her whole life writing an answer to the remaining page of the manuscript that is longer than any novel. Ninety-eight years later, her great-granddaughter Song Qingci opened the camphor wood box in the attic of the old house. A yellowed map, six cinnabar anchor points, and a line connecting seven stars - the seventh star is empty. Song Qingci is a descendant of Li Qingzhao and an AI engineer trapped in an algorithm. She was asked to use a code to "resurrection" Li Qingzhao, but was led into the depths of a city's springs by a map. A Valkyrie who carries Qin Qiong's iron mace, a restorer who can hold a thousand-year-old ancient book with his fingers, a mute chef who uses the tip of his tongue to distinguish the water quality of seventy-two springs, a descendant of Bian Que who feels the shape of longing from his pulse - together with her, they completed this search under the searchlight of capital demolition, on the bluestone of the old street, on the autumnal equinox sealed in the time capsule. What was found was not a posthumous manuscript. It is a question: How can a person prove that he has survived in the torrent of time? Lao She's unfinished "Da Ming Lake" describes a city that has been able to survive to this day with spring water for nearly a hundred years.