The male members of the Fang family have never lived past their thirties.
When Fang Shiyu was twenty-four years old, his grandfather passed away. In the mourning hall, what lay in the coffin was not my grandfather's body, but a paper man who looked exactly like him. The locust tree at the entrance of the village is covered with wooden signs with names written on them, but his name is not included. The coffins are carried by paper figures, and the mourners sing nursery rhymes. The whole village knelt before the spirit, forcing him to stay.
They said: The blood of the Fang family was born to be sacrificed to Zhenyin. If you don't come back, the whole village will die.
But the text message my grandfather sent before his death clearly said - don't come back.
The truth is buried under the roots of the locust tree, and the suppressed things under the Yin veins are awakening. Fang Shiyu held a paper knife and stabbed himself into a substitute.
"If you want me to be the scapegoat, then I will make all the paper figures come alive."
