The 1980s: The Mountain God Returns a Mountain to Me

About the story

In the 1980s, Xu Qingshan of Kaoshantun is pushed off Eagle’s Sorrow Cliff by his foster elder brother Han Dayong. He unexpectedly receives a mountain god’s tiger fang, giving him the ability to sense everything in the forest. Returning from the brink of death with wild ginseng, he reclaims the old camp, hunting rifle, packhorse and ginseng-growing land left by his father. He forms the Qingshan mountain-foraging team and uses his skills to build a path to prosperity. Driven by jealousy, Han Dayong repeatedly tries to harm him, while Shen Fengyi, a medicinal-herb merchant from the provincial capital, engineers a blockade to monopolize supplies from Black Pine Ridge. As poaching traps, poisoned arrows and the truth about his father’s death emerge, Xu Qingshan realizes he is protecting more than the family business: he is protecting the entire ridge. In the end, he leads the villagers in conserving the mountain and developing their livelihoods, truly restoring the mountain god’s blessing.