Under the Embroidered Spring Sabre: Strange Tales of the Northern Surveillance Bureau

A broken bronze button from a flying-fish robe leads to a family massacre from ten years ago, blamed on treason. Thirty thousand shi of grain vanish, and the officials who handled it die one after another with smiles on their faces. Pei Jin is ordered to investigate. Above him stands the commissioner who raised and trained him; at his side is the Eastern Depot’s chief eunuch, testing him at every turn.