Outside the Medical Clinic

There is a female shopkeeper at Huichun Hall in Beijing, whose surname is Shen and whose name is Zhiwei. Outsiders only know that she can rejuvenate with silver needles, but they don't know that she is better at talking to the "voiceless" - those old friends who can no longer speak, leaving their last testimonies on her fingertips. She charges five cents for diagnosing the pulse of a living person; she charges two hundred taels for finding the truth for the voiceless. Others laughed at her for being a philistine who is afraid of ghosts, but she said: "A living person will cry out in pain, but a silent person will only give me nightmares, so of course I have to pay more." One after another, bizarre past events emerge one after another: the disappearance of the oiran's scent, the madness of the top scholar, the failure of the tribute, the nightmare of the queen mother... On the surface, it is ghosts and gods who are causing trouble, but in fact, the human heart is hiding secrets. Shen Zhiwei read the poison from the bruises on his fingertips, glimpsed the palace from the silver needle behind his ear, and pieced together the buried truth from every scar disguised as an accident. Xiao Heng, a young minister from Dali Temple who claimed to be idle, thought she was a philistine and afraid of ghosts when they first met, but later he always carried a lantern for her late at night. When she was checking the case, he frowned and handed over the veil. When she was afraid of the dark, he stood guard at the door. The two of them, Party A and Party B, had a life-or-death quarrel. And when all the clues pointed to the old East Palace case fifteen years ago, Shen Zhiwei discovered that the truth she was looking for was the secret her father protected with his life. The word "surprise change" was written on the case file, but she clearly saw that it was a trap that only an imperial doctor and a widower could set up. The external journals of medical clinics do not record prescriptions, but only record people's hearts. [Unit: Strange Case·Light Comedy·Strong Female Detective·Mutual Conflict]