Everyone in Chang'an City knows two things, and they also know these two people:
The first thing is that Li Xun, the young minister of Dali Temple, has an eye-catching appearance. He has a male-female appearance, blond hair and a jade face, and picturesque features. He is twenty-six years old, but he looks like a boy of sixteen or seventeen. He is as cold as an ice ball in the twelfth lunar month. He opens his mouth with legal provisions and case-handling regulations, and has four words "keep away from strangers" written all over his body.
The second case is that Wannian County Lieutenant Qiu Yanhui is the most prodigal in handling cases in Chang'an City. He is tall and high-spirited, and his ability to handle cases is as fast as changing girls in Pingkangfang. If he solves a major case of stealing and selling official grain in three months, he can spend three days and three nights drinking in a brothel in Pingkangfang.
There is also a third thing that people only dare to talk about in private.
Li Shaoqing and Lieutenant Qiu are the most incompatible rivals in Chang'an City.
One abides by the rules to the point of being outrageous, the other does not abide by the rules to the point of being outrageous. When these two people met, it was more lively than a pot of water; the old officials of Jingzhao Mansion secretly made a bet on who of the two would be pissed off by the other first. The odds were very tight, and no one won.
That year, the peach blossoms in Chang'an City were in full bloom. It was also that day that Qiu Yanhui threw the case files that Li Xun had worked hard for half a month on the public case in Dali Temple.
Everyone said that these two people should never be put together to handle the case.
At that time, no one expected that these two people would work together for twenty years. From being disgusted with each other to trusting each other in life and death, walking through the smoke of the Anshi Rebellion, and walking through the twenty years of open and covert attacks in the court, they finally disappeared together in the miasma of Lingnan.
These are all things for later.
This story begins in the late spring of the 21st year of Kaiyuan...
This is a story about trust and protection pieced together by two people walking on the tip of a knife, on the eve of the collapse of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, using murder cases and court, sword light and blood and tears.
As the saying goes, the blade is cold, but the scabbard is warm.
If the spring breeze does not pass through Yumen Pass, the old friend will eventually return to Lingnan.
Philosophy: In the historical torrent of the Tang Dynasty, from prosperity to decline, two law enforcement officers with completely opposite personalities, from confrontation to mutual understanding, guarded the final justice and each other in their hearts amidst the swords and shadows of the court in solving crimes.