People who fish for corpses along the Yellow River have followed three iron rules for generations - don't fish if the whole corpse is not left, don't fish if the first seven days have not passed, and don't fish if the paper figure cannot sink. Before he died, my grandfather repeatedly told me, "If you break the taboo, the Yellow River will come to you." Until I picked up a female body in red on a rainy night. She smiled at me with her eyes open, and then sank back. Three days later, I saw my face in the river.
