In the 14th year of the Republic of China, Fengjun entered the customs and the banner was just changed at the top of Tianjin city.
Three people were killed one after another at a rotten meat noodle stall in the area, and Jin Yuchen, a former member of the Qing clan, became the number one suspect. He guarded a half-lived "Jinji Information Office", relying on writing for others and finding people and things to earn a living. His specialty in life was observing people's emotions and talking about horses. His reasoning relied entirely on human sophistication, and he often relied on crooked answers to solve cases. He was so poor that he insisted on following the old rules of the bannermen.
Shen Yanqing, the Chinese assistant in the patrol room of the British Concession, is a top forensic medicine student who has returned from studying abroad. His suit is always neat, and he always talks about evidence. He has a disdain for the world. He is prone to bleeding and has a sharp tongue. Before the autopsy, he has to stuff three mints. After the autopsy, he always hides in the alley to retching.
Two incompatible people were tied together because of a murder case. From lost treasures in theaters and heads in the ghost market to foreign goods and the Hongmen Banquet at the Governor's Mansion, seemingly unrelated strange cases in the city have actually led to half a volume of a lost ancient painting from the Song Dynasty - "Journey to the Jinshan Mountains".
It is rumored that the secret key to the former Qing palace is hidden in the painting, which attracts warlords, foreign companies, gangs, and veterans of the former dynasty to swarm in. Everyone said that Supervisor Zhang of the Tianjin Guard was a murderous king of hell who set up obstacles and made things difficult for him at every turn, so he must be the mastermind behind the scenes. Everyone praised Sato, the boss of the Japanese Concession, as a kind-hearted business gentry who was willing to do good and could set an example for the business community.
True and false, false and true.
Jin Yuchen carries half of the ancestral talisman, and Shen Yanqing holds on to the old case of his father's death, stepping on the tightrope in the ten-mile foreign market where China and foreign countries intersect, looking for the truth in a world of war and chaos.
