Daozu Is Watching You

The bell in Bai Yujing rings at Mao hour every day. Thousands of people kowtowed under the bell and sang in unison, "In this world of great light, there is no darkness." Wen Yan has been knocking with a stone for eighty-one years, and he knocks more regularly than anyone else. He works as an errand in the school's Bible office, doing the safest job in the world: scraping words off jade slips that should not be left in the world. Scratching, he noticed a few small things—— No one who ascended came back. The name of a person who has passed away cannot stay for one night. The senior brother who was leading the singing in the morning class three days ago is "never the same person" today. Later, he went to the mortal world on errands and spent twenty coppers on a half-square inkstone at a second-hand goods stall in the mortal world. From that night on, he scratched words during the day and carved words at night. Engraved in a place where no one can find it, engraved for people who don't know how many years later to see. According to Shouyuan's account, he still has twenty-three years left. He didn't think about turning the world upside down. He just suddenly felt that - words can be scratched off the slip, but there must be one place that cannot be scratched off.