Blue Fly Guide

A seventeen-year-old embroidered girl hanged herself and was buried in red clothes. Shen Yuan opened the white cloth and pulled out a copper needle from the deceased's fontanel. She is the only female widower in Qingjiang County. She is not qualified to go to the county government court because of her low status. But the dead cannot tell lies. The bones remember every scar, and the blood is divided between birth and death. Under the red oil umbrella, she detected homicide; when she probed the throat with a silver needle, she found the traction device; the cinnabar between her fingernails and the Qingluan embroidery on the corner of her clothes dragged a suicide case into the dark web woven by the palace bureau. Pei Yan, the judge of Dali Temple, was patrolling the south of the Yangtze River. He first saw her squatting on the ground of Yizhuang, spitting out the poisonous residue with a mouth full of alcohol, and said without raising her head: "Sir, this person did not hang himself." He thought she was just a bold coward. Until the octagonal cloud and thunder pattern on the copper needle was placed in front of him. It was a bone-examination needle used exclusively by criminals in the Department of Punishment. Ten years ago, seven members of the Shen family were wiped out by the epidemic. His father was dismissed and exiled for handling the case, and her grandfather disappeared from the world. One needle, two families, seven lives.