Post Road: Those Who Stop Will Never Return

The road is still there, but the people walking on it are gone. What is passed on is still passed on. Lu Chen, the last-class postman of Qingxi County Post, believed in "if I don't stand out, it won't be my turn" throughout his life. He kept his sense of existence to a minimum and remained a transparent person on the record. An urgent message from the abandoned post station "Ping'an Post" was delivered on a rainy night. The messenger disappeared immediately after delivery, leaving only a line of unturned footprints on the official road. When Lu Chen checked old files, he found that the same document had been delivered four times, with the interval shortened from forty-five days to six hours. And his brother, Lu Yuan, the lost messenger ten years ago, was the first person to sign for it. At the same time, a third name seeped out from the margins of the page: Lu Chen. A person with fewer records disappears faster - instead of being safe, he is becoming next. Shen Zhiyan, a state clerk who had been tortured by tampered records for three years, returned to Qingxi County Station with the only copy of the transcript. The two checked the accounts across the table and found that there were records in the system that Lu Chen had signed for but he had never written. "I'm checking against a wall that can rewrite itself." Shen Zhiyan said. Lu Chen embarked on the official road heading north to chase the brother he was not ready to recognize. Luo Ma Post is empty, Songting Post has been cleared away, and people at Hanshan Post are still sweeping the floor, but the bookkeeping has been stopped for three months. The three stations are three progresses on the same line: what is happening in Qingxi County Station has already ended in Luoma Station. And the line of words on the margin of the page is still getting longer.