Kai Lung’s Golden Hours

Kai Lung wakes beneath a wild fig-tree to find two maidens watching him; one stays when he promises a story of a minstrel chained to a passing star. Then a weary traveler arrives with news that makes the road ahead seem less inviting than the shade.

On the sun-struck road between Loo-chow and Yu-ping, Kai Lung earns his living by telling tales—and knows, he says, a story for every kind of listener. But banners of rebellion are rising, and the sandal-maker he meets warns that Mandarin Shan Tien is coming to Yu-ping, where the unseen hand of his official Ming-shu leaves little room for safety. Kai Lung would rather trust an old saying than fear the worst. Can a clever storyteller talk his way through a time when even silence may not protect him?

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