Fog Lock Bell and Drum Tower

Introduction to the work "Fog Locked Bell and Drum Tower" On a snowy night in the North City, a strange ringing of copper bells came from the observation deck of the century-old Bell and Drum Tower - the street sweeper Lao Zhao broke into a murder case, and the owner of the Ancient Wuxuan Shen Jingyan had a copper bell dagger stuck in his back, and he was holding half a green and white jade pendant and fell on the railing. Detective Lu Ze took over the case. From the copper bells and broken pendants at the scene to the diary and old photos hidden by the deceased, he uncovered an unsolved case from twenty-five years ago: In 1998, also in the Bell and Drum Tower, antique dealer Chen Ming died in a similar manner with half a jade pendant in his hand. The suspects that year were none other than Shen Jingyan and antique appraiser Lao Zhou. As the investigation deepens, Lao Zhou's nephew Zhou Wei surfaces. He returns with an obsession for revenge, claiming that Shen Jingyan and Chen Ming killed Lao Zhou in order to monopolize the Qing Dynasty bronze bells and cover up smuggling crimes. The mysterious wooden box and the smuggling ledger in the cellar mentioned by Su Xiao, the clerk of Guwuxuan, also involve Zhang Qiang, the leader of the overseas smuggling group, and the mysterious woman A Qing. The smuggling route map hidden in the bronze bell, the joint code on the edge of the jade pendant, the ashes of the cloth on the abandoned dock... The clues are snowballing, and crime and punishment, guilt and redemption spanning two generations are intertwined in the fog and snow-shrouded Bell Tower Street. Lu Ze not only wants to uncover the truth about the serial murders and stop the conspiracy of the smuggling group, but also wants to let the century-old secrets connected by the bells and jade pendants be settled in the belated justice.