Snow Shines on Chang'an

In the twenty-sixth year of Jinghe, it snowed for the first time in the north. Shen Yan was just a clerk in Shuozhou Military Mansion, in charge of food, accounts, and some old files that no one wanted to take care of. Until a sparrow expense caused him to dig out a number that shouldn't exist in the old military ration account from seventeen years ago. One hundred and thirty thousand stone grain. No one knows where it went. On the account, someone had collected it for it, someone had transported it for it, and someone had reported it missing. In that year, six towns in Baihe were destroyed, and 37,000 people died in the snow. Shen Yan's father, Shen Chong, also died in that old case. Some people said that the military rations were delayed. Some people say that the general failed in his duty. Some people say that Baihe cannot be defended at all. But when Shen Yan turned over the old accounts from seventeen years ago page by page, he gradually discovered—— Some numbers are too neat. Some signings are too similar. Some food has never arrived, but someone proves that it has arrived. After the fall of Baihe, Zhaojing sent people here. They burned the files for three days. Snow will bury people to death. Fire will burn the paper. But some people forget that where grain has passed, it must leave ruts; where people have passed, they must leave their names. This is an account that no one dared to ask seventeen years ago. Now, Shen Yan came to ask. This question is about 130,000 stone grain. It was also those people who were not recorded in the history books seventeen years ago.