During the reign of Dajing Chaoshengxi, a county magistrate came out of Xinchuan County under Cuiwei Mountain - Zhou Jingsheng, whose courtesy name was Le'an and whose name was Chenghu. Not only did he understand the laws and regulations of criminal punishment, he also inherited a clearing mirror passed down from his ancestors, which could reflect the fragmented shadow of the deceased's five senses when he was dying, at the cost of a shock to his mind. There are two people around him: Shen Yuan, the last disciple of the Jianghu (the hand who solves cases, specializes in investigating people in secret ways), and Lu Wanping, a female pharmacologist (who examines hands, detects injuries and identifies poisons). The three hands of interrogation, exploration and examination are combined, which is called "the three hands of clearing the case".
The book consists of five volumes, starting with 200,000 words and ending with 490,000 words. The first volume "Winter Snow in Xinchuan" writes about two cases that broke the ice during the county magistrate's appointment, and people's hearts can be seen in the smoke; the second volume "Fuyang Salt Case" went to the salt official's appointment, and the sense of professionalism was peeled off; the third volume "Snake Shadow in Canling" went deep into the mountains to search, and the doubts and fog piled up; the fourth volume " "The Cauldron Burns the Sky" returns to Beijing to be promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Justice, and is involved in the dispute between the legendary tripod and the Jiugong Seal, which brings great prosperity amidst the sense of desolation; the fifth volume "Cuiwei Long Song" returns home, breaking the thirty-year layout of Jiuyoutang, and the mountain doctor's five skills of divination return to the Yuan Dynasty and return to the quiet place of the lake and mountain.
The secret line Jiuyoutang, under the guise of fortune telling by mountain doctors, has an underground network across six provinces. The leader of the hall, Yun Yan, whose alias was Chen Yanzhi, was promoted to the minister of the Ministry of Industry. He planned to destroy the Chuanguo Ding by breaking the seal to falsify the orthodoxy. Suppressing the seal, breaking the seal, hiding the dragon, raising elixirs in the coffin, serial murders in the nine palace directions, and the thirty-year hidden line ended at the bottom of the lake and returned to the Yuan seal.
The five volumes have progressive themes: curiosity → tension → fear → despair → relief. Suspense is hidden in daily life, without narration to spoil it, and the logic of the case can be traced back.
Zhou Jingsheng is weak and uses a mirror at a cost, Shen Yuan has yet to fully recover his martial arts skills, and Lu Wanping is incapable of understanding the world. The truth came out because they held on to that thread of kindness
