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These nails made of mahogany that are used to suppress the wakening of a body are nailed in a Bagua formation.

Gould a body be buried underneath?

Master this..

Who is buried underneath this place?

Is it my Mother?

Your Father has already generously allowed you to return.

Do you have to disturb the peace of this family?

Just tell me..

who is buried underneath this place!

Master.

I already said that Yan'er is mischevious.

she will only cause trouble as soon as she comes back,

yet you do not believe it!

See what happens?

Once this formation is broken, the peace in our family will be ruined once more!

Lock her up.

Answer me! Who is buried underneath here?!

Is it my Mother?! Is it my Mother?!

May I deliver some food to my Miss?

Sure.

Miss eat something.

Ah-Cheng it is quite cold tonight,

Drink some wine to warm up.

Alright, thank you miss Wan Lv.

Miss where are you going?

I am going to find my Mother.

Don't go.

Your Mother is no longer in the ancestral shrine.

I was just locked up for 2 hours yet my Father has moved my Mother away?

It was not Master who did it.

It was Lord Xiao who moved Mistress to the Governor's Residence.

Xiao fish?

Why did he touch my Mother?

Because...

I...I saw Master capturing you on the spot

and was worried that Mistress Gao would hurt you

so...

So you went to find that Xiao fish?

Miss, I did it for your good.

I didn't expect that Mistress would be locked up in the Governor's residence,

and we cannot get her back.

M-Miss what should we do about him?

My Lord, His Majesty sent news and hoped that

you can hurry and find a lead on the Marquis of Sui's pearl.

I got it.

Bai Yi.

What is the hour right now?

It is already midnight.

Xiao fish!

I want to see you!

Stop yelling, His Lordship is resting.

Xiao Fish! I want to see you! Let me in!

Who is yelling?

Xiao Fish! I want to see you!

The only person who will scream at the middle of the night

apart from that fox, there is no one else.

I got it.

I will shoo her out right away.

Wait.

Let her come in.

Let her come in?

Do I need to explain to you what I plan to do?

Naturally you do not have to tell this subordinate what you intend to do.

This subordinate will invite her in right away.

Xiao fish return the body to me!

Xiao Fish!

I am talking to you!

Xiao fish..

can you....

give me that...

body?

How about this?

I will help you examine another body.

This time I will not accept any money from you.

What is your relationship with that body?

She's my Mother.

If I am in a good mood,

perhaps I can consider it.

That depends on what you do.

What will put you in a good mood? How will you be satisfied?

I am thirsty.

Do you want water or tea?

Water.

Alright!

Lord Xiao.

Please drink water.

You seem...even thirstier than me.

I am not thirsty.

This civilian is not thirsty.

I have loved my people like my son.

And dote on my pet even more.

I will bestow this water to you.

Please can you drink it.

I am not thirsty now, You wish to defy my order?

My Lord you should...

You're all wet. My Lord I did not mean it.

My Lord how about this?

I noticed you are soaked.

Why don't you go and take a bath? I will mix a herbal bath for you.

And alleviate your migraine.

Take a bath?

Are you....trying to seduce me so boldly?

That's not what I mean! I meant your migraine...

You are quite a bold lecherous fox.

You're mistaken. I didn't mean that.

Alright.

Then I will satisfy that wish of yours.

What do you want to do?

For my Mother....! will do it.

Do you like the gift I gave you?

It will do.

Do you....really...

have to marry Su Fu?

Yes.

Like the cow herd and the weaver

One day I will leave this place.

The touched magpies flew here and there

When I look at you from afar

Will you really marry Mei Yu?

Although Mei Yu has a bad temper,

but..

she is not a bad person at heart.

I hope you can treat her well.

Lord Xiao let me come.

Examiner Ran.

It's good to see you.

Lord Xiao told me to find him a new examiner.

I was worried for a moment.

Where can I find a medical examiner that is as good as Examiner Ran?

It is good now. Lord Ran let you come back.

And I can be at ease.

I will leave that city wall suicide to you Examiner Ran.

Examiner Ran?

I am here for that case.

The one who jumped off the wall and committed suicide...

was this body,

Then...that body is...

That is a body that Lord Xiao's subordinate found.

Leave it, come here.

The name of this female victim is Qiao Chu.

She was a female shoemaker.

But yesterday no-one knows why

she suddenly appeared on the city wall and in front of everyone jumped from the city wall.

Lord Xiao said she landed on her face.

So her cause of death is suspicious.

Her eyes are open, eyeballs protruding,

her face covered with bruises.

Her ribcage is broken and her pelvis is broken too.

And there are fractures on the bones of her 4 limbs.

Which means there's nothing suspicious about her death.

Why did Lord Xiao plan to investigate this?

Help me turn her over.

This...

No external injuries at the back of her head.

Bleeding from both eats.

Her anus..

why is that protruding?

Turn her over again.

Again?

Come, come everyone.

Her lips are swollen and black.

As if something was pressed against them when she was alive.

Can see black bruising around the teeth.

It looks as if...she had bitten hard on her teeth when alive.

And her tongue... has some bite marks.

She did not die from a fall from the wall.

Instead...someone used a cloth or the likes

and killed her by covering her mouth and nose.

W-Which means it is not a suicide but a murder.

That's right.

It's getting complicated now.

It's become a murder.

I must inform Lord Xiao.

Examiner why?

Lord Xiao told me to examine that body too.

As it is Lord Xiao's order then I will co-operate.

My Lord also said that body has died quite a long time ago,

so he needs me to examine it carefully so...

I understand completely!

I will wait outside.

You can tell me anytime.

Thank you My Lord.

Mother.

I never expected that

I have to examine your body personally one day.

I will definitely find the true cause of your death.

The knife wound is straight to the stomach.

There is a scratch from the knife on the acetabulum. (pelvic bone)

But I do not see any knife wounds on the other bones.

From the body,

we cannot see any other cause of death.

Could Mother...have truly committed suicide?

Impossible.

It's impossible for Mother to commit suicide.

Impossible.

My Mother will not commit suicide.

It's impossible!

It's impossible for Mother to commit suicide.

Yan 'er.

Yan'er?

Yan 'er.

Look at this dandelion.

it drifts everywhere and spreads it's seed everywhere.

No matter what the world thinks of it's appearance,

it will always follow it's heart.

That's right!

It's inside!

Why didn't I think of that?

Mother!

I must help you find the real cause of death!

Place that female body on top of the stove.

Yes!

Examiner Ran....

This...

Wouldn't the body be singed if you place it on the stove?

You cannot see any injuries on the surface of this body.

That is true.

Before placing it on the stove, I coated the skeleton with wine and vinegar.

If this body was beaten through something when alive,

the blood will seep into the bones.

When we cook the bones

the blood trapped within will be steamed out.

But we cannot see it.

This red curtain can absorb the sunlight

and direct the sunlight onto the skeleton.

Red visible light can help us see the injured parts

through red.patches on the skeleton.

I learned something.

Let's light the fire.

Stop punching her!

-Examiner Ran! -Why are you so cruel?!

Why did you beat her to death?

What's wrong?

Did not expect that Examiner Ran can utilize the light that passes through a red cloth

to see bleeding on a singed skeleton

It was amazing.

But..

Examiner Ran was acting very strangely this time.

When she saw that the entire skeleton was bleeding from head to toe,

she cried and screamed as if she was completed overwhelmed.

Was she alright?

She is fine, afterwards she was completely fine.

It is good she is fine.

My Lord Examiner Ran said

Qiao Chu did not die by falling off the city wall.

She suffocated to death by having something covering her mouth and nose.

This is the autopsy report.

Please take a read.

She examined Qiao Chu too?

Indeed, didn't you tell her to examine it?

You are dismissed.

Then I bid my leave.

My Lord

just leave a minor case like Qiao Chu's to Lord Liu.

As fox said something is suspicious about Qiao Chu.

Then I would like to see what the motive of the killer is.

My Lord.

The one you are marrying is the young miss of the Ran family.

Even if she will not be your wife,

but she is carrying your child,

so she would at least be your concubine.

And Examiner Ran is marrying Su Fu.

Bai Yi.

You talk too much.

I know I am wrong.

Let's go and look around Qiao Chu's home.

Do you not find that this room

is a little too clean?

Normally no matter how careful you are as long as the bowl is used

there will be fingerprints on it.

And no matter how well you scrub the table.

there will be traces of water on it.

What's most important is

you can only see your footprints and mine on the floor.

But no matter how clean a person is,

the soles of their shoes are dirtv.

There cannot be any traces on it.

Unless...

Unless...

someone came.

This item is from the Sui palace.

Qiao Chu is a normal civilian, how can she possess something from the palace of the previous dynasty?

Hold it.

Hold it in your left hand and pierce your stomach with it.

Miss.

Hold it tightly in your left hand and pierce your stomach with it.

At the time she was wearing this agate bracelet from the Western regions.

Wear this on your right hand.

My Mother's expressions seemed to be at peace.

There were no injuries to her face, neck or hands.

And no blood on her body.

Not right, Miss

didn't you say that your Mother's body ... was covered in blood

she was probably beaten to death?

The killer probably used something soft to cover and then beat her.

That is why....there are no signs of internal bleeding on the skin.

Aren't you a dead body? How can you talk?

What could it be?

Gould it be a duvet?

Why are you here?

I...I wish to find..

to help Miss Ran.

You want to use this chance to get close to my miss right?

I really wish to help Miss Ran!

0h look at how the flower touches her face

I lose my spirit at this sight!

You recited a poem that contains my Miss' name and your name.

Using such an old fashioned method to pursue a woman.

Wan Lv...

I'm dead.

Falling petals?

The wind that night must have been strong.

There were so many petals.

There were some around and underneath my Mother.

Yet there were none on her.

Which means...

my Mother did not die here!

The killer moved my Mother

after my Mother died

and disguised it as a murder.

Then...where did Mistress die?

There was a sprain on my Mother's wrist too.

The way the killer twisted her arm

was exactly the same as how Guo Fu attacked Xiao San!

My Lord Qiao Chu jumped from here.

She was probably dragged over here.

After she suffocated, they pushed her down the wall.

So the killer tried to disguise Qiao Chu's murder as a suicide,

so pushed her down.

Stop!

This place is sealed by the authorities.

No-one without permission can enter.

This is Lord Xiao of the Ministry of Justice's seal of permission!

Lord Xiao?

Hurry and let us in.

Apologies for this, please come in.

Let them in

Miss Wan Lv please show some mercy to me!

I have to...use more force!

Hurts, hurts!

Miss Wan Lv, do you have to be so serious?

Stand up!

Hurts! Be more gentle!

Be more gentle! Hurts!

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!

if this continues, I will die.

Miss, are you sad because you thought of Mistress?

What happened?

Ling Long brothel is in trouble!

What happened?

A lamp landed on Mistress Yu and killed her.

The Ministry of Justice is here on a case! Move it!

Rabbit why are you looking at my Miss in such a lecherous way?

Miss Ran's bracelet,

is not an agate from the Western Regions.

Do not be foolish! This is the engagement gift my Master gave to my Mistress.

It must be high grade agate.

Rabbit you say this agate is not from the Western regions?

Miss Ran's bracelet is not made with an agate from the western regions

It is from the Tang kingdom. (China)

Tang?

Impossible. Master cannot be mistaken.

Rabbit are you mistaken?

Although I have not read many books and not seen much of the world

but I can determine the quality of this item.

Although they are both agate and made from the same material and the same color

but there is a way to determine the difference between the two.

What is the method?

Please can you let me borrow that bracelet for a moment.

My pendant is made from agate that truly comes from the Western Regions.

Can you see the difference?

Hand me the cloak.

She is so pitiful.

Indeed.

Indeed.

So pitiful how could this happen?

My Lord.

The marks on the cloak seems to be from a bite.

And it looks similar to made from Mistress Yu's teeth.

Could Mistress Yu not be killed by the lamp hitting her

but was murdered?

Miss Ran look at the natural pattern within the agate.

When you look at it under a candle,

it seems as if there is a stream of water crossing through it.

Right, this is a type of expensive ornamental agate used by the Imperial clans during the warring state period.

They called it red jade back then.

Please take a look at this one.

The natural pattern is irregular

it looks like a picture.

Miss Ran.

The unique characteristic of agate from the Western Regions is this irregular pattern.

So Miss Ran...your bracelet is not from the Western Regions.

How could I not know?

It's reasonable that you would not notice the difference.

The two agates may look similar on the surface

and normal people cannot distinguish between the two.

Only someone like me who studies it

knows a little about it.

I am confused.

Master clearly gave Mistress an agate bracelet from the Western regions

but why is it from the Tang kingdom now?

It seems that someone suffocated Mistress Yu with the cloak first

then cut the rope to the lamp

and disguised the fact that Madam Yu was murdered into an accident.

My Lord look.

Doesn't'this mark seem to be made from a woman's bracelet?

And it looks similar too.

But I cannot remember where I have seen it before.

Because this bracelet is not the heirloom my Mother left me.

Instead this is evidence that

my Mother left for me of the killer.

I remember now!

There is someone who has the same bracelet as my Mother

and it was made from agate from the Tang dynasty.

Right right.

Back then when Master married Mistress he gave her an agate bracelet,

and when he married Mistress Gao, he gave her one exactly like Mistress;

however the agate was from the Tang kingdom.

it looks like this Mistress Gao is a likely suspect.

Please give this to Ran Yan.

Ran Yan has a bracelet exactly like this one.

She's here.

Did you get it?

Take it look is it this one.

It's exactly the same.

Can you help me see if Mistress Gao's is from the Western Regions?

The natural pattern of Mistress Gao's bracelet is like regular too. It's from here.

It's not agate from the Western Regions.

Seems like Mistress Gao is not the killer.

It's getting complicated.

Put it back.

Me put it back?

You stole it of course you take it back.

How dare you steal my things?!

Lord Xiao.

Your Lordship did not send anyone to inform uS.

At least we could prepare for your arrival.

Master, Lord Xiao is going to be out family very soon.

In the future this will be like a second home to him.

He can come whenever he likes he does not have to inform us.

Mother.

Lord Xiao and I...are still unmarried.

Oh right Master.

Lord Xiao has not determined when he will marry Mei Yu.

Shall we ask Taoist monk Wu to find an auspicious day?

Mistress that depends on the decision of'the Xiao family.

The child belongs to the Xiao family.

I believe the Xiao family will not oppose

I am here to see Ran Yan today.

My Lord.

Are you looking for her to examine a body?

I have something to ask her.

Master!

Bad news!

Eldest Miss has jumped into the river!

Yan'er! Save her!

Hurry up!

Hurry! Save her!

Master, My Lord.

There is no danger to Miss' life.

it is only because she was unable to breathe for a moment that is why she is still unconscious.

When will she wake up?

Well...that is hard to say.

She may wake up right away or she may sleep for a few more days.