A female body was fished out of an ancient well in Macheng.
The government ruled that Su Jianbai committed suicide by throwing himself into a well, but Su Jianbai found three doubts:
There is mud under the fingernails, there is a wound on the back of the neck, and there is a wisp of silver dust caught in the sole of the shoe.
The deceased Ms. Liu had picked up an oilcloth bag before her death. After that, the warehouse clerk died violently, the old silver furnace craftsman was brutally silenced, and an incense account from Bailongan that had been dusty for ten years also appeared.
There is no money in the account, only five words:
Well, disease, earth, move, clear.
Ten years ago, for every official silver missing, a person in Macheng disappeared silently.
After the dust settled on the old silver case, a heavy rain washed away Baigudu again. The numerous bones on the river beach all belong to missing children.
They were lured away by Yapo, transported by black ships, and written into forged food relief books. There are no names on the account, only numbers such as "Liu Que", "Dou Er" and "Tao Qi".
Those that can be sold will continue to be sent away; those that cannot be sold will be recorded as——
Water recedes.
On one side is old silver that has been remelted, and on the other side are the bones of a child whose name has been erased.
Su Jianbai and Ye Zhiwei followed the corpse injuries, silver ashes and incomplete books, but found that hidden behind the bank accounts and relief books was not just stolen money.
But a life that no one dares to remember.
Accounts can be changed, but corpses cannot.
Silver can melt, but bones still leave traces.
The second book in the series can be read independently. The book contains two long cases: "Gujing Jiuyin Case" and "Baigu Ferry Case".
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Rich in details, progressive and logically adjusted
Rich in details, progressive and logically adjusted