Yellow River Crossing

Chen Sanshui is a ferryman in Liujindu Village on the Yellow River. He has something wrong with his ears. It's not deafness - it's that you can hear sounds you shouldn't hear. The sound of water in the river, the wind blowing through the reeds, the sound of the boat planks - he could tell there was something else inside. For example, there is breathing sound among the sound of water, but there is no one nearby. He has a pair of old copper headphones that were left behind by his father. When worn, it can filter out what should not be heard. It's too noisy when not worn. He wears it most of the time. A hydropower station is to be built upstream, and the village will be flooded in three months. The construction team dug the foundation on the hillside and dug out a copper coffin. The coffin had no rust and was empty when opened. But the inner wall is full of names, all of them people from Liujindu Village. Some are still alive, some are dead. Lao Yuan, the contractor, wanted to dispose of the coffin secretly. The next day, there was a new name in the coffin: Lao Yuan's own. Lao Yuan is dead. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.