Dazheng Daughter's Work

On the third day of March, three female corpses were fished out from Luoshui. They were placed in exactly the same kneeling position, each holding an empty bowl in their hands. People all over the city said that they knelt down to pray to the river god. Only Song Qingyan, the handyman at Baishui Yizhuang, could tell that they were put in this way after they were killed. She is the most despicable concubine of Dazheng, and her name cannot even be included in the official register. She was also the last person to "hear the bones". With her fingertips pressed against the dead man's bones, she could hear the other person's last three breaths before dying: what she saw, what she heard, and how it hurt. There are only seven rules: only listen to the dead, only listen to three breaths, the corpse cannot be older than forty-nine days, only listen to the same set of bones three times, the beard and bones are exposed, 30% of the pain is for the deceased, and each time he sleeps for two hours. She abided by these seven rules, went from Yi Zhuang to the Sentencing Department, and nailed all the judges who looked down on her to the court one by one. It wasn't until the day the ninth case was overturned that she understood - the murderer knew these seven rules better than she did.