Kanto Night Traveler

There are several rules for the changing room in Beiguan: 1. One ring at the first watch, five rings at the fifth watch. If you knock more, it means "over there" is urging you to update. If you answer it, it's none of your business. 2. The night road is only open from Chou hour to Yin hour (1-5 am). At other times, the sound is not loud but loud, which may disturb things that shouldn't be disturbed. 3. Three no's: don't look back, don't answer, and don't pick up things on the ground. When you hear someone calling your name, answer the call and someone will walk the way behind you. 4. Look at the lights but not the people on the road at night. When the light is on, the person is there, when the light is off, the person leaves. But when the light is on, the person is "not there". It means the lamp was borrowed by "over there", and he wants to get it back. 5. People who have had a funeral do not knock the clock, and they do not knock the clock on rainy or snowy days - rain is "tears" and will attract things that should not come down. 6. The lights of each household are recorded in the watch book. The number of lamps did not match up with the clock book, so I went to the door of that house that night to reconcile the account. Behind every watch, there is an old case (which watchman died on this stretch of road, which house's lamp has not been extinguished for decades). Rules are not rules of heaven, but "agreements" that living people exchange for their lives. Beiguan here: a small town left behind by the times at the junction of Inner Mongolia and Northeast China. Winter nights are long, it gets dark early and dawns late. The old watch room was once the oldest establishment in the city, but now there is only one room, a watch book, and a watchman left. The so-called night road: a street where the city of living people overlaps with the city "over there". They leave during the day and go "over there" when they are ugly. The watchman is a street patrolman between the two cities, stopping those who should not cross the border and sending away those who should go.