At the end of autumn, three floating corpses floated out of the moat. They were all women in their tenth year. There were no external injuries on the body, only a trace of a needle puncture on the heart.
There was no clue about the murder. Dali Temple ordered the three judicial offices to investigate the matter thoroughly and found the "bamboo silk" string suspected to be from Chunshui Qinzhuang.
In order to find out the truth, Zhao Qingmingqiao, a yamen widower who disguised herself as a man and married into the Gu family of Qinzhuang as an orphan, made a secret investigation. Unexpectedly, she secretly fell in love with the young master Gu Huai.
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