"The spring tea of the seventh year of Xining is bloody." When Lu Mingqing, a junior official in Mengding Mountain, took over the hot official certificate, he didn't know that the thirty-six baskets of tribute tea contained the national destiny of the Song Dynasty. The lame craftsman who reinforced the tea box on a rainy night became a corpse at the bottom of the Jialing River at midnight; the bandits who robbed the Jianmen Pass were armed with crossbows, and their swords were engraved with the secret marks of the Hebei frontier army; the poisonous tea smoked out by the miasma in Lingnan actually turned into ambergris under the silver needles of the Hanzhong Station - this fatal basket of "Ruiyun Xianglong" had long been cooked into human blood tea soup by various dignitaries.
Lu Mingqing held the cracked green bamboo box and shook out the private salt ticket from the tea tray. There are knife marks on the bottom of the Bian River canal boat. A floating corpse in Tongguan holds half a discarded tea guide. On the black market, blank documents stamped with official seals are being exchanged for South Sea pearls. When he finally got closer to the truth, the scene of the tea inspection in Chui Gong Hall suddenly changed: the woman with the jade forehead ornament betrayed her in court, and in the steaming smoke of the three-boiling tea soup, the spots on the body of the Liao envoy who died suddenly were exactly the same as those of the Lingnan magistrate...
"This tea game of life and death across the territory of the Song Dynasty".
- Five thousand miles of post road, thirty-six baskets of poisonous tea hide the secret of the late emperor's death
- Eighty tea citations, the number coincides with the number of horses killed suddenly in the northwest
- Nine-turn miasma roasted tea method, allowing Qiongzhou poisonous betel nut buds to be mixed into Mengding tribute
- A Pisces jade pendant brings out the century-old feud between the Shipping Department and the Salt and Iron Envoy
When Lu Mingqing smashed the tea cup at the Jinmingchi Banquet, and the yellow bud tea soup showed the private seal of blood on the blue brick floor, the edict that had been hidden in the tea basket for 20 years was seeping out ink marks - it turned out that the murder that started in the mist of Shu Road had been settled as early as the day the ship set sail during the Qingli Period.
