Strange News About Yu Lou

In Shangcheng County deep in the Dabie Mountains, some names will never really disappear once they are forgotten. Chen Zhao, the relic organizer, returned to his hometown from other places because of the death of his grandfather Chen Shouhe. Before the funeral ended, a strange old man with soaked trousers stood outside the door and asked him: "Old Chen is gone, who will drive the boat tonight?" But everyone in the courtyard said that they had never seen this man before. Later, in an old ferry account book left behind by my grandfather, there were records of the ferry that had been out of service for many years; there were always more sets of blue-rimmed dishes and chopsticks in the house than there were actual people; there were only wet footprints on the river bank with no way out; the people who were supposed to die in the drowning accident twenty years ago were gradually forgotten by classmates, files and even relatives. Whenever someone by the waterside calls Chen Zhao's childhood nickname "Zhaozhao", there will always be another voice under the water who agrees earlier than him. Chen Zhao soon discovered that the people his grandfather ferried might not just be living people.