Stand-In Paper

There are three things that cannot be touched in Huaiyin Town: old locust trees, water from the locust river, and boys and girls tied with paper. I have been running a paper-making shop for ten years. I can tie anything, except boys and girls. Before she died, grandma said that my great-grandfather took over a couple of boys and girls, and the whole family almost died. Three days ago, an old man without feet came into the store to place an order. The IOU is from eighty years ago. The creditor is the thing in the third pier of Huaihe Bridge. I saw a paper man in the bridge pier. A living paper figurine. Its face is exactly like mine.