Notes of an Undertaker: Rules That Cannot Be Broken

There are rules in the business of being an undertaker. The buttons of the shroud must be in an odd number, the steps of carrying the coffin cannot be turned back, and the light for the wake must not be extinguished for three days - the master only asked me to remember, and never asked me why. Until that rainy night, I saw with my own eyes a rule that had been deliberately broken and "revealed its shape" on the body of the deceased. Only then did I understand: these old rules that have been passed down for hundreds of years are not superstition. They are patches of this world. Every time a piece is added, it is blocking something that an ordinary person cannot see; every time a piece is broken, someone is writing a line of virus into the world. And I am one of the few people who can understand this set of rules. ——They broke the rules to make profits, take lives, and change lives. I follow the rules, finish things off, and then change the rules back.