Book of Ember Bones

In the twelfth year of the great cause, the Sui Dynasty was about to collapse. Under the Grand Canal, the bones of millions of slave laborers sank into the river; in the dragon veins of Kyushu, the destiny of the old dynasty was decaying. In Guhe Town, east of Hedong, the dead began to return home. Covered in mud and with iron chains on their feet, they knock on the door of living people every night, just to get back a life that was borrowed ten years ago. Young Shen Jin has been regarded as a disaster star since childhood. His father died while working on a river, and his mother disappeared mysteriously. Everyone in the town said that the Shen family was ill-fated and attracted evil spirits. Until that night, he cut out a human bone with the word "Jin" engraved on it in the belly of a dead fish. The black bones in his chest came to life, and he completely revealed the old accounts buried in Bone River Town for many years. It turns out that people who are written into the service book will not have peace after death. From Guhe Town to Luoyang Ghost Market, from Wagang rebels to Jiangdu dragon boats, Shen Jin saw step by step: The rebels can eat people, the nobles can eat people, and the government can eat people. This was true in the old dynasty, and it is also true in the new dynasty. Some people use household registration to eat people, some people use etiquette to eat people, and some people use destiny to eat people. The so-called righteousness of the world is nothing more than a rhetoric written by the winner on behalf of the corpse. When the old books of Huang Quan were reopened and the corvee soul returned from the bottom of the river, Shen Jin finally understood—— The scariest thing in the world is never ghosts. But those who are still alive but have long been accustomed to cannibalism.