No Monument City

Xu Jianshan is a tablet washer in Shiyang Town. When the dead are buried, the monument must not be dirty; if the monument is dirty, the names cannot be seen clearly; if the names cannot be seen clearly, the person seems to have died in vain. Until that winter, Hu Mancang, a butcher shop clerk, heard his name being called on a wordless tablet in Beigang. From that day on, strange things began to happen in Shiyang Town. The chipped bowl from the tea stall was missing. There is one less debt in the ledger. Some people are obviously still alive, but they are slowly forgotten by the neighbors. Qin Huai said that there are three kinds of steles in the world that cannot be washed: New soil overwhelms old monuments. A monument without an owner is called a living person. There is no word on the monument, but there is a name underneath it. Later, Xu Jianshan learned that the most terrifying thing in the world is not the dead people without monuments. But the living person has no name.