An ordinary Chinese friendship story
In December 2016, I had been away from home for a year and a half, working on the remote Cook Islands. One day, feeling intensely homesick, I opened my computer and searched for the map of my hometown. I discovered that the water flowing out from the main dam of Dongting Reservoir traveled past Huitang, down toward Ningxiang, gradually becoming a river called Wu River. At the edge of the county town, Wu River joined the Wei River. Near its end, it branched off again, looping around a place called Tiaomizhou before rejoining the main river, with a dam built at the point of convergence.
