There is an ancient ferry crossing on the lower reaches of the Yellow River called Qingni Crossing.
There is an ancestral saying there: you are not allowed to go to the forbidden area. Don't look at things underwater. After finding the body of a woman wearing a red wedding dress, she immediately attached a charm to it and sank it back to the bottom of the river.
Chen Nian'an, the third generation of the Chen family to retrieve corpses, didn't believe this at first. Until the night when my grandfather disappeared, he saw a bronze lotus lantern on the water in the restricted area.
The lamp floated up on its own from the bottom of the river. The wick burned with a pale light, and an ancient stone door was reflected in the light - Grandpa stood in the crack of the door, covered in blood, and the sisters trembled, saying two words: Don't come.
Chen Nian'an picked up the body from the water, which was covered with the corpse of a woman who had been married for several years. Her eyes were all black, with no whites.
The paper lanterns sent to the river god floated to the edge of the restricted area and gathered together. In the middle of the water in the forbidden tourist area, someone used magic to raise a set of "soul-inducing corpses" for hundreds of years. And the owners of this ferry - Mr. Zhao who runs the ferry, Mr. Liu who runs the inn, and Mrs. Wang who does the business - everyone knows what is under the water, but no one tells the whole truth.
Chen Nian'an knew: Where is grandpa? Who put that light? What's locked behind that stone door underwater?
The answer lies at the bottom of the Yellow River for four thousand years. The mechanism of thirteen lotus lanterns, the dragon body bead that can control the water level of the Yellow River, a three-thousand-year-old "Suppressing the River" - and a man who laid it out for three generations and waited for forty years.
Find corpses, turn on lights, enter water, visit graves.
Some people want to control the river, some want to rob tombs, and some want to tame the Yellow River. In the end, what Chen Nian'an faced was not ghosts - he faced a history that was submerged by the Yellow River and was older than the pre-Qin Dynasty.
The Yellow River returns to the river, and people return to others.
