In the late spring at Jiang Pier, a black coffin with a lead seal and a sealed eye broke the peace. The bizarre death of the water transport worker Lao Zheng led to horrifying rumors about the "sacrifice of the God of the River". Xie Wujiu, who once worked in the Qianlin Department, did not believe in the theory of ghosts and gods, so he investigated secretly. However, when he pried open the second coffin, he encountered the obstruction of Han Lie, an important water transport official.
As the investigation deepened, Xie Wujiu met Shen Yuan, the daughter of the Shen family mint who disguised herself as a man to reverse the case of her father. The two of them peeled off cocoons from the copper coin patterns, undercurrents of strength, and the secret words of the lead corpse in the coffin, and discovered that the so-called "Cat God" was just a lie fabricated by Han Lie to cover up his crime of embezzling Cao Yin and adding lead to official money. The dead who were "sacrificially sacrificed" were all insiders who uncovered his conspiracy.
They narrowly escaped death several times in tide wells, mold warehouses, and water prisons. Together with the old Qianlin Department and the people at the dock, they finally exposed the truth about Han Lie's murder in crocodile skin, and brought him to justice with irrefutable evidence such as account books and bones. When the sound of the tide gradually calmed down and the injustice was redressed, Xie Wujiu and Shen Yuan embarked on a new journey. Finally, only the echoes of peace and justice remained in the river wind.
The whole story is intertwined with suspenseful detective stories and confrontations between good and evil. It uses river coffins, tides, coins and other elements as a guide to uncover layers of lies in a strange atmosphere, and eventually the truth is revealed like the ebbing tide, reflecting the greed and perseverance of human nature.
Purpose: The work takes the strange murder case in Jiang Pier as the entry point, and uses the puzzle of "Sacrifice of the God of the God" to delve into the undercurrent of human nature under the surface: on the one hand, it exposes how power and greed weave lies and trample lives, and criticizes the hypocrisy and cruelty of using "divine power" for self-interest; on the other hand, through Xie Wujiu, he examines the truth The persistent pursuit, Shen Yuan's tenacity to overturn his father's case, and the awakening of the old Qianlin Division and the people show the resistance of justice to evil, the disintegration of truth to lies, and ultimately convey the core of "superstition originates from deception, and only by adhering to conscience and courage can the fog be pierced, and justice can be as unstoppable as the tide."