
Yizhuang Chronicles
by Tie Up
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In the twenty-third year of Guangxu's reign, Shen Huai'an, a failed scholar, fell into decline and was hired as the manager of Shen's charity village. On the first night when I first entered Yizhuang, I encountered rumors of "corpse transformation" - a corpse in a coffin had its nails lengthened and its hair turned white. The night watchmen all said they had seen ghosts. Shen Huaian did not believe in ghosts and gods, so he opened the coffin for an autopsy, only to find a mysterious lotus mark on the collarbone of the deceased, and the cause of death was not natural. Coincidentally, a headless male corpse floated up from the canal. The government hastily concluded that the murder was caused by water bandits. However, Shen Huaian judged from the calluses on the deceased's right hand that this man was no ordinary commoner. He, the old man Song Qiye, and the night watchman Afu secretly investigated and found that the two murders were actually related to the grain fraud of the clan patriarch Shen Dezhang and Mi Xing's boss Gu Shantang. All the secrets were locked in the black coffin in the backyard of Yizhuang that was strictly forbidden to be opened...
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