There is a Heishui River in Linshui Town, and there is an old ferry on the river bank called Sandengdu.
There is a saying that has been passed down from generation to generation in the town: at the first watch, you ferry the living people, at the second watch, you ferry the returning guests, at the third watch, the bell rings, and the river god comes to call your name.
Twenty years ago, a "River God Marriage" took away seven women. The sacrificial boat went into the fog and never returned, leaving only a wet embroidered shoe. Twenty years later, the copper bell rang again at midnight, and the river lantern floated upstream. The corpse of a woman in wedding dress emerged from the water, but the name of a living person was written on the lamp.
Shen Zhaoshui, the widower of Yizhuang, does not believe in ghosts and gods, but only believes that corpses can talk.
Liu Wenxi, a female patrol officer from the provincial capital, came to find her missing sister, but she was the first to be named by the river god.
The female corpse in the river lantern, the paper-tied bride, the bleeding statue, the ghost boat crossing at night...
Behind each case, they all point to the unsinked sacrificial ship twenty years ago.
The so-called river god was never a god.
It is the most invisible evil hidden deep in the human heart.
