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"Luxurious Leisure" is a collection of Mr. Miao Di's self-selected essays. The book contains 20 miscellaneous essays on literature and history by the author. New essays appear frequently as time goes by; the "yao" passages write old allusions in a popular style, and the absurd and unreasonable parts are full of touching points. The selected articles were all completed when the authors were young. When he was in his prime, he could read endless idle books and write endless idle articles, hence the name "Luxurious Leisure".

In the seventh year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty, Yang Jizong, a scholar from Shanxi Province who went to Beijing to take the examination, investigated a bizarre murder case with policeman Fang Tianbao and guard Yuan Bin, and met Yunying, a girl from Wala who brought her niece Baoer to Beijing to recognize her relatives and had a secret. The truth of the murder was soon revealed, but this was just the beginning of a series of cases within a case, and it was just the tip of a giant iceberg that hid huge secrets. In a life-and-death political struggle involving all kinds of people from the government and the public - ordinary people, traders, soothsayers, eminent monks, civil servants, generals, powerful eunuchs, royal family members... What are the goals of each side? What's the ending?