The Night Burial God

Chenjiagou has a rule that has been passed down for decades. Every year at the end of autumn, there will be a moonless night, which the villagers call "Weird Night". Before the strange night arrives, strange things must happen to one family in the village. On the first day, dogs barked at the door. The next day, wet footprints entered the house from the well. On the third day, the mirror will not reflect anyone in the home. And the person abandoned by the mirror must put on a shroud, put it in a black coffin, and be sent to Beishan alive on the night of the strange night. People in the village said that it was not death, but going to the mountains to "serve God." This year, the person who cannot be seen in the mirror is 19-year-old Chen Ping. He was idle, stealing money, and was the most hopeless young man in the eyes of the whole village. The villagers prepared a coffin for him while urging him to accept his fate. But Chen Ping didn't want to die. In order to escape from the village, he began to track down the people who had been sent to Beishan over the years, but found that his coffin had been prepared nineteen years ago, and the person who was supposed to lie in it was originally him. What's even weirder is that my sister who has been "married to another village" keeps appearing in the mirror; my father, who has been missing for many years, still seems to be knocking on the coffin deep in Beishan; those who have been sent away have never really died. When the black coffin came to the door and the paper man answered for him for the third time, Chen Ping finally understood—— There has never been any god in Chenjiagou. The so-called burial of gods is nothing more than a living funeral that lasts for many years. But this time, what was hidden in Beishan had been waiting for him for nineteen years.