Paper Kite Pendant

Paper kites have been released in Zhiyuan Village for sixty years, and every one of them has flown away. This year, all seven fell to the ground. Lin Shen, a graduate student in folklore, received an anonymous letter with only a photo and a bamboo strip in the envelope. There are four words written on the back of the photo: The seventh one landed. He recognized the bridge in the photo - it was the place where his mentor had disappeared three years earlier. He decided to go. On the day he entered the village, an old man burning paper money by the bridge said to him: "You are the seventh." That night, Lin Shen saw a paper kite as tall as a man standing on the bridge in front of the inn window. Zhiyuan's face is his own face. The kite ignites spontaneously, and in the blue flames, the face is smiling. Early the next morning, only a burnt bamboo strip was left on the bridge, with three words engraved on it: Shen Henian. —— This is a story about a paper kite. Paper kites are not meant to send the souls of the dead to heaven. The kite is a prison. Those souls that flew into the sky never left. They were trapped in heaven for six hundred years. This year, they're back.