The Silver Bowl Mystery

The only son of the wealthy Wu family in the county town suddenly drops dead. Poison in a tonic soup points to an innocent cook. The witnesses and evidence seem conclusive, and a wrongful conviction is all but certain. At that moment, Gu Qingfeng, the elderly master of the Xinglin Chun pharmacy, is called upon in a crisis, armed with his “Medicinal Spirit's Eye.” At a glance, he can tell the herbs are harmless, but on the inside of a silver bowl, overlooked by everyone else, he spots a faint scratch, barely visible to the naked eye. As Gu Qingfeng investigates, he discovers that the Wu family recently had a bitter falling-out with a medicine merchant. Drawing on his profound knowledge of medicinal properties and the keen insight of his “Medicinal Spirit's Eye,” he reconstructs the merchant's shocking scheme to apply poison to the scratch. A carefully planned revenge and a terrible miscarriage of justice are laid bare by the old master's sharp eyes and wisdom. He must not only clear the dead man's name, but also exonerate the innocent and expose the tangled power and money struggles beneath the county town's peaceful surface. This is not merely a contest of medical skill, but a battle of wills. With his own strength, Gu Qingfeng turns the tide and makes a name for himself across the land!