Guardian of Qingshan Village

Chen Santu lives in a ruined temple at the entrance of the village. The villagers called him San Fool. No one had ever entered his temple or had a bowl of rice with him. He grew up eating food from hundreds of families - each household took turns delivering food, and left after it was delivered outside the threshold. It's unlucky. His father is also a village guard. He died on the river beach thirty miles away without closing his eyes. A cow in the village killed a man. There was a dark red handprint on the dead man's shoulder. Village chief Zhao Wuye said he saw something he shouldn't have seen. Mr. Ma, who came from outside, said that the village guard was dirty and wanted to "replace" him. But Chen Santu squatted under the altar table and dug out half of the notebook left by his father. There is a line written on the first page: "The village guards are not to prevent disasters. The village guards are to keep accounts. What everyone in the village has done is recorded in my eyes. If I die, the accounts will not be cleared. Someone must continue to keep records." The mudra is light. The heavier ones were underneath - buried on the river beach for fifty years, waiting for someone to dig them up. The old village chief's family of seven died fifty years ago. The Zhao family became the village chief overnight. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.