Long Tracks of Time: The Eight Brothers of the Yellow River

A courier working as an underground liaison dies at the Yellow River ferry crossing. His son is taken in by a lonely old man, and on the riverbank the boy and seven beggar children bow their heads and swear brotherhood. The eight of them trade their lives for a single phrase—"those eight brothers by the Yellow River"—and it will take four generations and a hundred years before that phrase can finally be set down on paper. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Long Tracks of Time: The Eight Brothers of the Yellow River — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠