Zhouzhuang Thirteen Water Brand

The mist of Zhouzhuang hides a centuries-old bloody taboo. The Chen family's osmanthus shop in town has kept a strange rule for generations: it only sells thirteen pieces of osmanthus cakes every day, and the cakes come with a peach wood water brand. According to legend, the ominous empty pattern card carries a life-threatening curse. The holder of the card will drown within three days. There has been no exception for hundreds of years. Su Wan, a cultural and travel writer, received an anonymous letter and went to Zhouzhuang to explore the secrets. She accidentally got the Kongwen tablet and was trapped in a three-day countdown to death. Frequent bizarre drowning cases and peeping in the dark convinced her that the so-called curses of ghosts and gods were actually a scam created by evil people. In order to save himself and break the situation, Su Wan dug deep into the secret history of the ancient town and unlocked the tragic past of the Yidu team in the Republic of China. At that time, all 127 martyrs who protected their hometown sank into the river and died for their country. Only the ancestors of the Chen family survived. Since then, the Chen family has been guarding the shop for generations to atone for their sins. They have been stigmatized as traitors for a century and have been suspected and criticized by the whole town all year round. During the investigation, Su Wan and Shen Zhixia, a researcher who holds the secret, teamed up to investigate the case and encountered dangers repeatedly. Shen Zhixia was unfortunately killed, and a tampered water sign engraved with the secret word "private" appeared, revealing a century-old conspiracy: four generations of the Chen family have been innocent scapegoats, warning passers-by for generations, forbearing to atone for their sins, and becoming a century-old shield for the real murderer. The real culprit behind the scenes is a descendant of the water bandits who disguised himself as a kind and wise man and has been hiding for hundreds of years. His ancestors misappropriated disaster relief food funds and designed to massacre the charity team. Their descendants took root in the ancient town, tampered with water signs, hunted down truth seekers, and blamed all crimes on the Chen family. As the life-and-death deadline approaches, Su Wan joins forces with the police to close the net, expose the opponent's hypocrisy, and bring him to justice with complete evidence. The centuries-old curse was completely broken, the four generations of the Chen family were vindicated, and the loyal souls of Yidu were rectified.