Fragrant Spring Tide

There are two accounts in the world. One is written on paper to record money, goods, and human relationships; the other is hidden in people's hearts to record gratitude, debts, and past events that cannot be seen in the light. If the first book is wrong, you can circle it and rewrite it; once the second book is opened, you often end up risking your life. In the tenth year of Chunxi in the Southern Song Dynasty, Gu Tingshao, a wealthy businessman from Lin'an, died overseas in Dinghai. Thirty percent of the valuables were missing when the ship returned, and the account box was missing. A delivery note stamped with the Gu family's travel notes was signed the day after his death. Gu Tang, the sixth mother of the Gu family, is seventeen years old. She knows fragrance and accounts, but she has never stepped out of the deep house and does not understand the hearts of officials. The father's body is still cold, and the mother's dowry was confiscated first. The uncles have their own agendas, and the concubine is far away in Mingzhou. The missing sailor and two shipping books that are difficult to tell are genuine and fake have dragged the entire Gu family into the case of smuggled goods and banned silver. Pei Heng, the judge of Dali Temple who was ordered to investigate the case, only recognized the evidence but not the tears. Gu Tang initially hated him for pushing him every step of the way, but she had to go with him. One wants to save the Gu family, the other wants to find out the Gu family; one is looking for the truth in family relationships, and the other is keeping his true heart outside the law. The two tested each other and took advantage of each other. Between betrayals and life and death, they became the people that the other party could neither trust nor let go of. From the dispute over the property in the inner house to the mysterious case of the ship, from the wealthy family to the old accounts in the palace, Gu Tang gradually understood that what his father left behind was not a family property, but a transaction that has not yet been completed. This time, it wasn't just the Gu family's debt that she wanted to settle.