In the fourteenth year of Taiping, Linjiang Town in the south of the Yangtze River. Shen Zhiwei, the owner of the bookstore, is interested in the study of punishment and law, but he is just a scholar who clings to his ancestral property and failed the provincial examination three years ago. Three seemingly ordinary small cases in the town fell in front of him one after another——
At the salt merchant's Hundred Flowers Banquet, the only copy of "Linjiang Water Conservancy Map" disappeared out of thin air in a locked brocade box; the jade bracelet that was given as a dowry to a girl married in a silk and satin village was exchanged; the tea merchant Chen Shouyan, who "died of illness" six years ago, returned to the town intact.
The book was not lost after being locked, the bracelet was not stolen but "protected", and the old friend was not fake but really came back. Shen Zhiwei uses dialogue to deduce people's hearts, not torture, but only details and reason. The three cases were closed, but he found the end of another hidden thread - his father did not disappear many years ago, but was "invited away".
A book of "Mountains and Rivers Geography" with my father's personal annotations, and a hand-drawn route map to Lingnan. In the late autumn night, the lights in Zhiweitang went out, but the lights in front were on. He picked up his robe and followed the clues to find out the truth behind "Don't think about it, don't look for it".
Three cases, a journey to find his father. In the world of human relationships, there are not so many evil people, only desperate young men, maids guarding their old masters, and returnees who have paid off their debts.
