What was it like to be a humble government official in ancient times?
Lin Mo was the most qualified to answer - not having enough to eat, not wearing warm clothes, being thrown cold water on someone, and being sent to guard Yizhuang. My predecessor lived like a dog, but after he came, everything was different.
Because what he brought was a complete set of modern criminal investigation knowledge.
The strangulation marks on the corpse, the gold ink in the fingernails, the direction of the footprints, the splatter pattern of the blood... These details that would be clueless to others were in his hands irrefutable evidence. In just one month, he solved the floating corpse case, the corruption case, the horse theft case, and the serial murder case. He rose from the stepped-down government servant to the rank of ninth-level Dianshi, and became the most trusted right-hand man of the county magistrate.
But he soon discovered that every case he solved pointed to the same dark web of interests. Behind the county magistrate is the general magistrate of the city, behind the general magistrate is the prince of the dynasty, and behind the prince is the prince who has taken the throne - and the evidence in your hand is something that can kill them.
Some people want to win over him, some want to get rid of him, and some want to use him as a pawn.
Lin Mo only did one thing: continue to investigate.
Because he was never anyone's pawn. He is the person handling the case and the person who speaks for the deceased. He would investigate whoever broke the law - no matter whether the other party was the seventh-rank county magistrate or the first-rank Taiwei. From a low-level government official to a ninth-level official, let's see how he walks on the edge of a knife and lights a lamp in the darkness.
Reader comments
I like the detective part. It's rare to see a male protagonist like this in ancient officialdom. It's so good.
I like the detective part. It's rare to see a male protagonist like this in ancient officialdom. It's so good.
It's okay, let's see again