Two Rivers Crossing the Shadow

In Yuzhou of the Republic of China, heavy fog blocked the crossing of the Liangjiang River. Ferryman Su Bohuai is guarding a dilapidated ebony ferry. After his parents were killed in a river disaster, he inherited the old riverside custom of his ancestors, ferrying living people to and from the river, salvaging sunken bones from the river bottom, and appeasing the souls of people who died in vain. He has no access to heaven, and only relies on an ancestral copper coin and the oral taboos passed down from generation to generation in Sichuan and Jiangxi, wandering between yin and yang. What floats under the surging river are not just corpses, but also the homeless people displaced by the harsh regime of warlords, and the people who have no way out due to food shortages. Foreign merchants colluded with officials to monopolize the river transporting grain roads, and private people's private ferrying and retrieval of bones were regarded as causing harm to the market. One after another, strange news about the river fog emerged one after another, and behind every strange shadow were the obsessions of blood and tears caused in the world. In troubled times, the ferry is in danger. Su Bohuai dealt with the real suppression of profiteers by the government while dismantling old cases that had been buried in the river for many years. Those injustices buried under the river by the Republic of China also became the remote source of various strange rumors about Shibanpo and Caiyuanba Yangtze River Bridge decades later. A boat of mortals can ferry wandering sentient beings, and it can also cross two rivers with thousands of treacherous shadows.