Before the imperial envoy arrived, the chief clerk died first.
Shen Qingya went south to investigate the Qingmiao fraud case on Jiangnan East Road under the orders of Yushitai and Dali Temple. The Qingmiao loan book submitted by Jingxian County is too clean to be true, but the nameless note sandwiched in the account book points to the old case of forced loans by the county captain, invasion of the people by the wealthy gentry, and the Zhang family's investment in the river.
One night after he entered Jingxian County, the news of Zhou Muzhi's death came.
The doors and windows of the study were locked from the inside, the transom was only open for two fingers, and there were poisonous needle marks on the side of the body's neck. The county magistrate's sleeves were stained with green ink that shouldn't have appeared. The richest man Fang Chongli was sitting firmly in the flower hall. The county captain Ma Dechang kept saying that he only recognized smashing stoves but not killing people. Madam Liu, the wife of the bookkeeper, was holding a broken hairpin, as calm as if she had waited for this day.
Shen Qingya investigated to the end and found that the real murderer was indeed someone.
But what's even more frightening is that the deceased Zhou Muzhi is also planning it.
He left behind notes, account books, diaries, secret boxes and a letter with "Mother's Personal Letter" written on it, just to turn his death into an imperial envoy case, and to have a wiped-out Qingmiao account finally be sent to the political hall case.
The secret room can be opened.
Human lives can be decided.
But the blood on Qingmiao's account cannot be attributed to just one murderer.
