The fifteenth year of Wanli, the fifteenth day of the seventh month, is the Ghost Festival.
A heavy rain washed out a skeleton in a mass grave in Wanping County, Shuntian Prefecture. The deceased was a female. Her skull showed signs of being hit by a blunt instrument. She died about five years ago.
The county magistrate was about to be promoted and just wanted to hastily close the case and classify the nameless bones as "died of illness". But Jia Mengli, the Wenpo who had just been recruited into the Yamen, discovered a detail during the bone examination——
This skeleton's little finger is missing a section.
Jia Mengli's hands began to tremble.
Because her mother, who disappeared five years ago, is also missing a section of her left little finger.
Back then, it was in this county government office that my mother, as a "body-examiner and stable mother-in-law," tested the innocence of a noble daughter, and then vanished from the world.
For five years, everyone said that my mother "ran away with someone."
But Jia Mengli knew that her mother would not. Because she saw with her own eyes that her mother hid a bronze medal with a black magnolia flower in her pillow on the night before she disappeared.
After that night, Jia Mengli never saw his mother again.
It took her five years to learn to examine bones, injuries, and poisons, and learn to use her mother's skills to enter the yamen that swallowed her mother.
What she wanted was never justice, but——
Find the owner of the bronze medal.
