On the night when three hundred thousand salt evaporated, the jade beads she picked by mistake stirred up the entire East China Sea.
Su Chenbi, the youngest daughter of a salt merchant in Yangzhou, was born with hands that could decipher accounts and detect tricks. She could discern people's hearts by listening to abacus, and discerning authenticity by looking at ink marks. But on that autumn rainy night, I watched helplessly as my father was put on the hook for misappropriating salt. The 300,000 yuan of salt that evaporated out of thin air from the government accounts was enough to bottom out the salt fish tanks in half of Jiangnan.
The new salt transport envoy Pei Yan, a concubine and powerful minister who wears silver wristbands and hides a secret plan in his sleeves, breaks the threshold of the Su family with secret orders from the Ministry of Household Affairs. Everyone knew that he was a jackal who came to raid the house, but they didn't know that the pine smoke ingot on his waist turned blue when it touched the water, hiding a more terrifying sea map than the salt case.
When the abacus hit the hidden weapon and the salt lamp revealed the blood, she was forced to tie up with this "corrupt official" on the same boat:
The secret accounts of the previous dynasty are buried in the salt hamster hole.
The ebb and flow of the tide hides the time limit of life and death
The salt workers' chants carry deadly secret messages
And the most dangerous situation is that person's ability to listen to the pearls and discern people's hearts——
She dialed half the wrong bead, and he knew she was hiding a lie;
He had a lot of salt in his heart, so she knew he was going to kill her.
In this huge gamble, with the East China Sea as the scale and the salt as the yardstick, calculations and sincerity are boiling between the beads. When the jade beads were finally scattered in the huge waves of salt, they were shocked to realize that behind the 300,000 salt coins, the salt bones of the entire dynasty had long been hollowed out...
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