Famous on the Bone

When a person dies, his soul must return to the place of birth and be buried. What cannot go back is called stagnation. Xu Qinghe is seventeen years old and the last soul-bearer in Shiqiao Village. He is illiterate and relies on the inscriptions on the wooden boards to keep accounts. The master died on the road, leaving him with a bone burden, 437 names, and a bone without a name - everyone he carried remembered their home, but he did not know where his home was.