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Northwest Stories, 1979

1979西北往事 · 羁中马

by Ji Zhong Ma

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Reborn in the Ili Valley the year a border war brews, a man starts a family fortune from a basket of willow twigs.

Zhou Weijun is reborn in 1979 Yili just as the border conflict sends the city into militia mode — and his household takes in a boy who, in the first life, died mysteriously in seven days and wrecked everything. This time he hunts the truth behind the death while lifting his family out of poverty one hand-woven willow basket at a time.

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