In the winter of the fifth year of Tiansheng's reign, it snowed heavily in Bianjing.
In the privy cabinet of the Privy Council, an official from the ninth rank was transcribing an ordinary grain and grass allocation order. His name is Qian Mo, a concubine from a branch of the Qian family in Wuyue. His monthly salary is three to four hundred cents. He wears a blue cloth official robe and lives in an official's house. During his three years in Jiageku, he handled thousands of files, and transcribed each one three times—the first time to see the words, the second time to see the facts, and the third time to see the flaws. He couldn't tell what the transcript meant. He always felt that some things would surface on their own if he looked at them too much. Tonight, he finally saw the gap - the name of a company appeared in the files of three different years and three different industries. He wrote a word in a private book: Ding.
From then on, he was no longer just a transcriber.
The words on the beams from Shunheji to the transfer envoy, from the transfer envoy to the deputy privy envoy, and from the deputy privy envoy to the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace were carved by the acceptance officer five years ago. He held up a candle and shone them one by one, and found that the same words were engraved on the six sub-beams: Insufficient diameter, return for another selection. As for the acceptance officer who carved the words, his right hand had been broken and he could no longer write. Someone wiped out all the witnesses, someone canceled the business name, and someone buried two old beams under the scrap pile in the deepest part of the forbidden wood warehouse, and no one cared about it for five years. But the wood is still there. Wood cannot speak, wood cannot die.
On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Queen Mother set a deadline for closing the case. Lu Yijian was closing the net—not Qian Mo's, but his. The five bullets are progressive: trespassing, unauthorized access, private archives, bastard trespassing, forming a party and destroying evidence. And Qian Mo's clan uncle Qian Weiyan, with Shu
