He is the most idle idle man, but he has weaved the densest network in the world.
Su Jingyao did not use martial arts or stand in court. He only relied on a fake approval document, a grass stem, and a smiling face to eat in the stone village in the west, pour night fragrance in the plague area in the north, become a distant relative in the deep courtyard in the south of the Yangtze River, and feed the horses in the examiner's office for three months. He specializes in buying people's hearts in the dark, recording evidence of guilt, and creating public opinion. He works for those who kneel and collects accounts from those who stand.
He "picked up" seven people along the way - Lin Shuyao who held the pen as the blade, Xia Zhi who opened the way with the light of the sword, Wen Zhiyu who asked the question of the heart with a silver needle, Su Wanhe who entered the game in disguise, Shen Ling whose throat was sealed by the law, Chu Yanqiu who was a scholar and sword, and Ruan Lingxi who determined life and death with an abacus.
Seven strings, seven swords, seven sections of road.
From small border villages to canal commercial ports, from unjust prisons to poor families to the shady secrets of imperial examinations, from counterfeit plague medicines to smuggling of salt and iron. When all the threads point to the "Qingliu Leader" in the court, it is finally the turn of General Xianhan in this three-year chess game.
When the new emperor asked him what reward he wanted, he only asked for a pen, an inkstone, half a seal, a knife, a needle, a medicine box, a book of laws, and a deserted village by Taihu Lake.
"I don't ask for peace in the world, I just ask for the return of the seven strings, which is my hometown."
