Corpse Fisherman: Thank You from the Bottom of the River

Three generations of Fang family fishermen on the Yellow River have learned from their ancestors' motto: "When you fish for corpses, you don't fish for their souls; when you enter the water, you don't ask for their names." Fang Xiaoman took over the job of fishing out Liu Ruyan, a popular actress from the county theater troupe thirty years ago. When the body was fished out, it was holding his grandfather's compass. That night he said, "Your grandfather promised me that he will replace you in thirty years." Following the compass and old ledgers, I discovered that my grandfather had sacrificed himself in the mud to seal the thing at the bottom of the river - and the employer of the last order was the incarnation of the thing at the bottom of the river. In the ending, the compass is shattered, and Grandpa and Liu Ruyan settle their old debts. The phrase "thank you" is revealed by Liu Ruyan herself in the extra story.