My name is Lin Zhao, and I am the relic organizer at the Qingchuan County Funeral Home.
On my first day of employment, veteran employee Chen Laogou told me three rules:
Relic bags cannot be placed upside down.
Dead man's shoes cannot be taken home.
When an unknown corpse is delivered in the middle of the night, don't look at its feet first.
I didn't believe it at first.
Until early that morning, the police station sent an unknown female body.
The female corpse had no feet and was wearing an old red dress, but there was a red embroidered shoe in the relic bag.
And I just saw this shoe in the coffin where my grandma moved her grave during the day.
What's even weirder is that when the female corpse was cremated, the cremator went out three times in a row.
In the cold storage room, there is an additional No. 3 Cabinet that was out of service ten years ago.
The cremation application form was signed with my grandfather's name.
But my grandfather has been dead for ten years.
Later, in the black notebook left by my grandfather, I saw a record from sixty years ago:
"In 1963, in Huangquan Village, a female body was found. It had no legs and was dressed in red. It must not be burned."
Since then, strange things have come one after another, including red embroidered shoes, shady marriages, paper figurines, mourning, Nuo noodles, and sealed money.
All the clues point to a place that cannot be found on the map, has been erased from the county annals, and where the old man shuts up when he hears the name——
Huangquan Village.
Only then did I realize that dead people are not terrible.
What is really scary are the living people who use the dead to harm others.
And the "Yin Tomb Book" guarded by three generations of my Lin family does not remember ghosts.
They are the dead whose names have been erased by the living, hidden in graves, and written as "Chong Xie".
