Records of the Northern Song Dynasty: Canglan Ship

The first part of a trilogy series. In the fourth year of Jingyou's reign, an official ship floated back from Mingzhou Port with all the people dead. There were sixty-two people on board, but only sixty-one were listed on the official list. The food on the ship was not yet sour, but the people were all turned into bones, and they all headed towards the bottom cabin. Pei Xingjian, a young official from the Criminal Division, boarded the ship to examine the bones and brought a slovenly Taoist with him. In the secret room of the master's room, the Taoist found a water mirror and jade that had been missing for thirty years, which could reveal the last ten breaths of the deceased before death. One person has his bones examined, and the other person dies. On the last night when the giant turtles attacked the ship, the sea was calm; the official register of the Zhenla Tibetan merchants said "dead by epidemic", but there was a knife stuck in the sternum; the ship was filled with sixty-two sets of bowls and chopsticks, and the extra person disappeared from all the lists. Others rely on their mouths to investigate cases, but he investigates cases by relying on the dead to open their own eyes. This case was connected to the powerful officials in the capital and his father's epidemic book that had been deleted for a lifetime. The sea does not speak. He asked one by one for Hai.