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Is it him?

Is it him?

Chase them!

Stop!

Stop!

Stop!

Stay right there!

Come and help!

On my way!

Let's go, Lord Song!

Move faster!

Let's do the autopsy now!

Where?

Nonsense!

We have to do it right here!

Why are these constables so pumped?

We are just breaking into the jail

Why is there a kind of a big gesture?

Don't move!

Lu, run and pull steadily!

Sure!

Sorry to trouble you, my lord

I'm just arrived in Changting

and disturbed your sleep

If there is any offense

just blame it all on this bastard

Living people may tell lies

but the dead won't

Whether he was murdered

by him

We’ll know once we finish the autopsy

Lu's father owed Mr.Li

twenty liang silver

To pay off his father's debt

Lu agreed to be the coolie

for three years

But till now

he has been the coolie for five years

Mr. Li still refused to settle up

with an excuse of the unpaid interest

Three days ago

Lu came to Mr.Li's pub

to drink and plead with him

It's quite enjoyable tonight

I'll be drunk

if I drink more

I gotta go

Sir

We have agreed on the

compound interest

Furthermore

you just need to repay ten liang

Sir

I have no way to earn the ten liang

Need money?

I can borrow you some!

It starts to rain

I gotta go now

Your sister

is waiting for me

Lord

Do you see it?

Bleed from every orifice

And his skull crushed

Mr. Li's nape

did be hit heavily

But if people are hit when they are alive

the rapid subcutaneous congestion

will lead to a swelling

But did you notice

there's no obvious

swelling on Mr.Li's nape

Do you know why?

That means the wound on Mr.Li's nape

is not the fatal wound

Mr. Li was dead before his fall

Well

how can people

have such strength?

I visited the pub last night

what I investigated there exactly verified the waiter's testimony

Mr.Li is was knocked down

on the second floor of the pub

So the truth comes out

The real cause of Mr. Li's death

is

Quickly pull the carriage!

We are about to be caught!

It will be unsteady if I pull it too fast

Lu

Are you OK?

Are you still alive?

I'm fine

Be quick, my lord!

Lord

do you see the impure object

stuck in Mr.Li's throat?

The real cause of his death was actually liquor

The owner died in his own pub

This is the retribution

Lord

the suspect was wrongly accused

[liquor]

Lord Song

be careful!

Lord

are you OK?

Are you OK, lord?

Release them

What?

I said release them! Don't you understand?

That, that

that bull

Are you alive?

I am fine

Let me tell you

the arrow on you back is a punishment to you

I don't want to see you anymore

Yes, lord

Go back to sleep

Be careful, lord

Why did you release him, lord?

What a shame!

It's humiliating!

Lord

Shut up!

Glutinous rice is perishable

So it can be put in the mouth to test poison

If it turned dark and became black and purple

which means

Mr.Li

was poisoned to death

I gotta go to sleep

Sir

Oh no

Who's he?

Hey big face

what's your name?

Since justice is not served

I prefer to let the truth sink into the sea

Hope you can become a

kind person in the future

Don't let me down

Lord

I am Song Ci

I am about to make my living in Changting

Please forgive me

if I offend you in the future

He is Song Ci

I shouldn't have asked!

Zhongshu Bureau appointed him to the third-rank official

but he insisted on being the vice county magistrate here

What should I do?

-Let's go. -OK

[Work in Vain Song Ci]

[Three Years Later]

[Happiness]

[Happiness]

Lord

The auspicious time is now!

Let's start the ceremony

If it passes 5 p.m.

the Yin will be stronger than the Yang

I'm afraid something inauspicious will happen

You shut up!

Auspicious or not, we have to wait

Auspicious or not, we have to wait

But

it's really urgent

We must wait for him

no matter how

[Happiness]

Song Ci is arriving

The auspicious time is now!

Perform the formal wedding ceremony!

Bravo!

Here you are, at last, Lord Song

I am Xiaobao

How long have they waited for me?

An hour

Do you have any gift, my lord?

Write this down:

Song Ci, vice county magistrate of Changting

wishes county magistrate a happy marriage

with his resignation letter

[Resignation]

He wishes the

harmonious union could last a hundred years

Perform the co-dining ceremony

Why do you

resign your position?

Do you know

why did all of these elites

wait for me?

Is it because

the coordinator [Grand coordinator: an important imperial Chinese provincial office]

will come to Changting to inspect？

Clever!

Then I'll record the present as

‘icing on the cake’？

Talented!

The wedding ceremony is over

Kneel

Take the first bow to the great heaven and earth

[Happiness]

Come over

Take the first bow to the great heaven and earth

Take the second bow to the great parents

Take the third bow to each other

Bravo!

Take the third bow to each other

Take the bow!

People who gossip and tells lies

will be befallen the great disaster

Even his rotten tongue cannot absolve his sins

He is carnal

Occupy other's orchids dream

his lust burns him

Song Ci

People who act as blind as a bat and blocks the God

even the exoculation cannot redeem her evil

Die without descendants, Peng Xianzhi

Die without descendants, Peng Xianzhi

Die without descendants, Peng Xianzhi

He has no face

He couldn't fall asleep. He will die without descendants

There will be no moral standard anymore

[Happiness]

Changting will be massacred by Mara during the midnight hour tomorrow

There will be no moral standard anymore

Changting will be massacred by Mara

Peng Xianzhi is impotent

Peng Xianzhi

There will be no moral standard anymore

Changting will be massacred by Mara during the midnight hour tomorrow

[Happiness]

Xiaobao

Lord

This is the coroner of our county office

Luo Er

Shall I let him back off?

No need

-What's the cause of death? -Is this Lord Song?

His chest was stabbed an edge tool

Is he the one who stayed in Changting for three years, without being on duty?

He died of cardiac arrest

His face turned blue before his death

He walked creepily

and his mouth ulcerated

He might have poisoned

Do you know

using silver needles is not reliable

to test for poison

The silver needle only test arsenic

That's why I used rice

It seem he didn't die of poison

How about letting me help you?

You can assist me

but don't mess up

You!

That's a sure thing

Let's go, guys

There's excrement and urine on thighs

He was incontinent before he died

He had foot ulcers due to the bumps

He had walked for quite a long distance

Although the knife was stabbed in his heart

his blood loss volume was much more less than normal

He didn't die from a knife wound

He had nubecula

and unrecognizable pupils

The body temperature is cold

but not half as cold as a living person

Weirdly, the lips were festered to such an extent

Even if he didn't drink water for a few days

the lips would not fester to such an extent

It's not just the lips that are weird

Both his lips and tongue festered

Look at his cusps

Was it bit by himself?

The ulcerations vary in degree

He might had bit his tongue

a couple of days before his death

But why did he do?

He didn't bite it himself

he kept talking

Talking till tips and tongue festered?

Sufficient corrupt gas rushes out of the body

Did he really die lately?

When I press the lividity

it is not faded

He died three days ago

And he kept talking after his death

for three days

Peng Xianzhi is impotent

Peng Xianzhi is impotent

Peng Xianzhi is impotent

People who gossip and tell lies will be befallen the great disaster

Even his rotten tongue

cannot absolve his sins

This is a curse

A curse?

There will be other three people to die

Where's the corpse of the bride?

Time of death

3:15 p.m.

Cause of death

A sharp object pierced her jaw

and she bled to death

We don't need to verify the cause of death

Help me

According to the county magistrate

Bride Xiaoyu entered his mansion

as a servant three years ago

She talked and behaved normally

There was no sign of insanity

until the day before the wedding

This is a syptom of intaking mercury over long period

Is it the psychedelic drug

made by Mara cult?

Whatever the drug is

she had had it for a long time

My lord

[Happiness]

What did Bride Xiaoyu do

before entering your mansion?

She was a refugee from another county

I don't know

what she did there

Didn't you know?

We loved each other

I seems I've know her the moment I see her

[Happiness]

My first wife died many years ago

I was willing and ready to devote myself to Song dynasty

I was not willing to marry again

But Xiaoyu and I

loved each other deeply

It seems that you didn't know

your fiancee

was a member of Mara cult

I had no idea

Mara cult generated from former dynasty

and had disappeared for twenty years

But why does it reappear

in your county now?

Changting is a small frontier county

and is to the west of Tubo [Tubo:Tibetan regime in ancient China]

It's common to have

remnants of the Mara cult

My lord

If people had lived a happy life

would they

believe in the cult?

It's already 11 p.m.

There're 24 hours left

Let's go and meet the killer

The decedent is Zhao Youfa

Pen Xianzhi said Zhao Youfa

had gossiped about him three days ago

So Peng Xianzhi had him beaten

But today

Zhao Youfa barged into county office

and said bad things about him in public

[Jail]

Then he decided to kill Zhao Youfa

Lord

Lord

What's the relationship between the killer and the bride?

They don't even know each other

What kind of bad words could make him

kill the other?

You should asked

why the decedent came to the county office

Song

Sorry

[Jail]

Get on your knees!

Peng Xianzhi

I just want to know

why you killed him

Go away!

If you don't tell me right now

I'm afraid you may not have the chance to say anymore

He said I am impotent

What?

What can't you

hold up?

You are impotent!

That's why you killed him?

Shouldn't I?

You were a Jinshi [Jinshi:was the highest and final degree in the imperial examination in Imperial China]

What made you be a coroner？

Originally, I got a job as a scribe

Later

I was dismissed by county magistrate

My career is not quite satisfactory

I offended many people

Being a coroner

and dealing with the dead is not bad

At least I can tell the truth

How about you?

Why didn't you work as an officer for a one day?

Go away

I am really curious

People are living a miserable life

How can I take pleasure in lawsuits

Then stay well in Lin'an! [Lin'an:the capital city of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279)]

Why came to this small county?

For a woman

[Ning Xiang house]

Have you met her?

Not yet

I am taking you to meet her now

The real killer?

You mean

the bride

is not the killer?

Of course not

How can a crazy bride who commited suicide

be a murderer?

The killer just wanted the bride to

speak out the curse

So

we must find out who the bride really is

If we can find out the identity of the bride

'Changting will be massacred'

and 'Mara's curse'

will be understood better

Let's me think

how to investigate a gril

who came from another county

Someone told lies at the county office just now

County magistrate?

No

Peng Xianzhi

No

Me?

I lied, okay?

Bride Xiaoyu lied

But the bride was dead

County magistrate's ex-wife had been dead for twenty years

If he wanted to remarry

he would definitely choose a virgin

But the bride Xiaoyu

was not a virgin

How do we investigate?

Right here!

Ning Xiang House?

[Ning Xiang House]

Bride Xiaoyu is not a virgin

Then

what does it mean?

I doubt that

she wasn't a refugee from other county

Then who is she?

We are here

Let's go inside

What if I don't go in?

What's wrong?

Haven't you come here before?

No, I have

You must haven't come here before

Move faster

Wait

My tooth falls

What?

Why did the tooth fall out?

It's a long story

The one fells is a denture

Look at him

my friend is looking for

his tooth all over the ground

I found it

Let's go

Wait for me

Good evening, sir

-Good evening, sir -Have fun here, gentlemen

Yuling

take these two gentlemen

to the private room upstairs

Follow me, gentlemen

This way, gentlemen

Luo Er

do you smell the fragrance here?

The fragrance is famous

It's unique in Changting

Customers in other whorehouse

are for girls

But customers of Ning Xiang House

of course

are for girls too

Have a seat, please

Thank you

When were these

prepared?

Have you heard Qing gang?

I only know Beggar gang

Those lavish dignitaries

enjoyed themselves and had fun here

They thought that what they said here

when they got drunk

were only some lies to make people happy

They thought they were just bragging

But they didn't know

many of their hidden affairs are known by others

They thought they well kept the secrets

You mean the Qing gang

is specialized in stealing other's secrets?

To be exact, they are selling secrets

As long as they want

there is nothing they do not know

Don't mention Qing gang later

Too mysterious

It will be fine if I don't come here

If I don't come here

how do they know my secret?

But you came

and you didn't know that

you were attracted here

Come in

Dan Qing asked us to provide

premium liquor to the vice county magistrate

The liquor on the table

doesn't match your dignity

What else did she say?

She also told me

to tell you everything

you want to know

OK. Then tell me

who's the most popular and prettiest

in your Ning Xiang House

Bring her here to

drink with my friend

If you don't tell the truth

how can I

tell the truth to you?

I was telling the truth

We came here to

have fun

There's some mud on your shoes

It would be too hasty to have fun here

Someone is dead just now

There will be others dead soon

How could you have such a mood to have fun here

Then tell me

how many people

will die next?

As far as I'm concerned...

Did I tell too much?

You know what just happened?

Did you know we were coming?

Why the food and liquor are prepared here?

In Changting

there're only three things that I am not sure

When

will

Song Ci

come to my

Ning Xiang House

is one of the things

During the three years

I've been preparing the food and liquor every evening

The days you didn't come

all the food was fed to dog

I want to meet that dog

Why don't you drink?

Are you afraid of being poisoned?

It's been ten years

you are so calm!

You are so calm!

Song Huifu

I don't drink

You don't drink

becasue of me, right?

You are a sinner

Even though others don't know

I can't be too close to you

Are we

close?

Yes, we are

It was you

who release me

Men

I'm coming here to

ask you something

There's some one...

Zhao Youfa?

Do you know his unusual behaviors

before his death?

Zhao Youfa is a well known

gossip man in the county

He made his living by blackmail

There was something weird

Before he died, he was barefoot

and crazy in the street for three days

He kept shouting the filthy things

Even if he wasn't killed by Peng Xianzhi

he would be killed by others too

Shall we provide two more dishes, Mrs.?

Here come two full ones

Never mind, Yuling

Dan Qing

the bride of county magistrate died

I knew

Is she from your place ?

She left three years ago

Can she leave as she wished?

That's not the way you treat the girls

Was it any mystery behind it?

She was from our Branch Leader's side

I can't tell you about it

Branch Leader?

Is Qing gang a chain organization?

Don't leave

Sit here

Do you want to know

who slept with the emperor last night?

Who?

You have to pay me for the information

And the ones you told us before

are free, right?

For free?

Who told you so?

Then how can you get the antidote?

Come on

If you have something

Say it directly

Dan Qing

please help me to investigate the case

Only three people died

Every evening, more people die here

and are carried out from my backyard

Is it necessary for me to help you?

Yes, it is

Yumo's family were all killed by Mara cult

Now Mara cult is harming people again

You have to help me

You don't deserve to mention her name

I sent her to learn martial art with you

I know you have a deep affection for each other during the ten years

I am sorry

I take Yumo

as my daughter

One 'sorry' is not enough

Because of Yumo's death

I dare not meet you during the three years I moved to Changting

I should be blamed for the death

I do not care about the political issues

because I have seen too many

similar things that had happened to Yumo

But now, Mara cult who killed Yumo and her family

reappears to harm people

I can't just ignore it!

So do you

We don't cooperate with the imperial court

Changting is an essential frontier town

Tibet has coveted our territory for nearly a decade

They are eyeing our country covetously

I think Qing gang has already surrendered to the imperial court

and defended against foreign enemies together with the court, right?

Lord Song

Lord Song

we are not given the antidote yet

Are we dying?

If she poisoned you

we would be

carried out from the backyard

Where's your tooth?

I was too nervous

I swallowed it

What exactly is going on here?

She will come to me

Mara cult who killed Yumo and her family reappears to harm people

I can't just ignore it!

So do you

[Happiness]

[Love the people as one's children]

What's wrong?

The

bride's corpse

is missing

Lord Song

A dozen of our brothers were guarding the door

and

the corpse just was lost

Lost

The dead came back to life

[Uncorrupted and honest]

Could it be the bride Xiaoyu

not dead at all?

It' s not possible

We both did the autopsy on the bride Xiaoyu

There's no way she's not dead

Her name is Shu Tong

Here's the roster she left behind

It contains a record of all the customers

she has received over the past three years

She used to be my songstress here

She disappeared three years ago

[Fangting]

She wrote this all by herself, right?

Yes

Except for the annotations on the end pages

Adultery with Landlord Peng

Abandoned after running away due to miscarriage

How many Landlords surnamed Peng

are there in Changting ?

That's a lot

Peng Shoucai, Peng Hongyi

Peng Xianzhi

Oh, no

Peng Xianzhi is the next person to die

You hang dirty things

Occupy other's orchids dream

his lust burns him

You hang dirty things

During 770 B.C.to 221B.C.

Yan Gu, the concubine of Duke Wen of Zheng

dreamed of an angel giving her orchids

so she got a son

Later orchids dream was interpreted as pregnant with a son

Do you remember the scandal about Peng Xianzhi?

He is impotent

Then how did he get Shu Tong pregnant?

The revenge for occuppying other's orchids dream

How far is the jail?

Two li away

Dan Qing

How come there are only a few people?

Lord Song

Why is jail so unseemly?

How unseemly, my lord?

Peng Xianzhi is still alive

Who are you?

When did you get in?

He's alive and well

His family even brought him food at noon

Family

What family?

Peng Xianzhi!

Peng Xianzhi!

Why is it extinguished?

It's coming!

Where are the keys?

Here they are

Hurry up! Open the cell door

Yes

Who?

Dan Qing

Come with me to meet this guy

and see whether he is a human being or a ghost

Yes

What about me?

Get Peng Xianzhi out quickly!

OK!

Report to the county office

for help

Lord Song

Lord Song, be careful!

Be careful!

Fire

It's on fire

Fire

Are you okay?

Song Ci

Ah

Stay back!

Run!

Luo Er!

Run!

Luo Er, don't just stand there!

Luo Er!

Luo Er!

Lord Song!

Lord Song!

Lord Song!

Lord Song, are you okay?

Peng Xianzhi!

Peng Xianzhi!

Peng Xianzhi!

Peng Xianzhi!

Get out of the way

Get out of the way

You hang dirty things

Occupy other's orchids dream

even cum to death cannot absolve your carnality

Lord

Lord Song

Chase!

Don't run! Stop

Get out of the way!

Get out of the way!

Bride

Bride Xiaoyu

died

Did she just die?

She died at the wedding

Dead people don't lie

Who will be the next to die?

What are you waiting for?

Come and help!

Let me do it

Bear with it

So

did you smell a fragrance

in the cell last night?

No

There is a medicinal aroma

of many kinds of herbs simmering in the meal

What do you mean?

Poison

Peng Xianzhi's death

has given me a new push

on this puzzling modus operandi

He died in front of our eyes

But look

The lividity doesn't fade when pressed

the corneas are cloudy

and the corpse temperature is low

These are the symptoms that people have

only a few days after death

He explained

the reason why people die but are not dead

In other words

this poison

can make people die suddenly and very strangely

Not only did they fake the time of death

they even faked the death

The killer faked the time of death of the victim

Zhao Youfa

must have died last night

However

the poison made a change in his body surface

which made us think

he died three days ago

But how to explain the disappearance and killing

Shu Tong did after her death?

Peng Xianzhi and Zhao Youfa

were not killed by Shu Tong

But Shu Tong was only at the scene of the crime

And the cloak mask that appeared in the prison

was certainly not Shu Tong

Shu Tong's corpse

should have been put in the woods long ago

And this cloak and mask man

was only there to guide us to

find Shu Tong's corpse

and to make us think

Shu Tong killed people again after her death

I think

this killer

was just trying to make people believe

in the curse of the gods and ghosts

So

the killer is from the county office

able to come and go freely in the county office and the jail

and can steal the corpse to poison others

If that is not the fairy

it must be the county office people

And how to poison?

Do you remember

the meal on Peng Xianzhi's table?

Then it disappeared

For that man, to steal the bride's corpse

in full view of the public

and to poison someone should not be difficult

You should ask

what kind of poison?

What kind of poison?

How do I know?

Go

[Happiness]

Be careful

Watch out for the threshold

Please, this way

Song Ci

What are you doing

with a bonfire in the county office?

Somebody!

Get the stuff out of here now!

My lord

What are you doing?

Drive out devils

So

you believe in that curse?

Lord Song

I can't hold it anymore

The news leaked out too quickly

The whole county is in a panic now

I have reported to his majesty this morning

The witch of Mara comes again

The curse of this cult has striken Changting

My lord, you're good

You were in love with the bride last night

and now you've betrayed her

and put all the blame on her

The Grand coordinator will be here tomorrow

If one more person dies

I will not be able to keep my official position

Song Ci

Stop here

and do not investigate any further

Let's be smart and leave it to fate

OK

You do your magic

I check my corpse

The real killer is a person or a ghost

We will know tonight

What are you waiting for? Set up!

Ask the master to do the magic

[Self-restraint and devotion to public duties]

[Self-restraint and devotion to public duties]

Don't be afraid, everyone

Don't be afraid

How many hours to midnight?

Twelve hours

When midnight arrives, Changting will be over

The three corpses

I rechecked all the places

one by one

Did you find out anything?

Maybe I am always missing a part

Where?

Blood

How do you test the blood?

There is no method of blood testing in the world

Untestable

What do you want to do?

Try it out on myself

Get me the chain!

Song Ci!

Song Ci!

Song Ci!

How are you?

Calm down

Song Ci

Song Ci

Song Ci

Song Ci

Song Ci

I

What did I do to you?

Everything

that needs to do

[Tu Ji]

[Da Ji]

I solved it

Don't panic

My people

The Grand coordiantor is here

Let's go

You

What a mess!

You even brought the fools to the government office

Lord

This

this is all done by Song Ci

Look, look at this charcoal fire

Song Ci!

Come over here!

Look how angry you made the governor!

My lord

Song Ci

You can not manage well a small Changting

and make the whole county in a panic

I am

investigating this case

Stop it

I already know about this thing

In the morning, I passed by General Hong's camp

Hundreds of soldiers have died

The symptoms

are consistent with

the Mara curse in your county

100,000 soldiers

in turmoil

Changing is a frontier town

How can this go on?

Lord

I really can't do anything about it

It's all because of the witch of Mara

Get out

Song Ci

Why does wherever you go

Mara follows you?

I tell you

if you can not handle this

Song Ci

You will really let me down

My lord

Tonight

the truth will come out

If you can't handle it properly

you are going to lose your head

Let him go

And you let him go?

Look how angry he made you

The poison had be tested out

Seventeen herbs were used in it

The first ten herbs are just ordinary soul-crushing powder

Boilded with mercury, it has no cure

And Zhao Youfa and Peng Xianzhi were poisoned

with the remaining six herbs

What an uncanny workmanship!

It has Arsenolite, Pinellia ternata, Asparagus fern

Blister Beetle

Five herbs of goldthread

and agilawood

These six herbs are boiled with the first ten herbs

The output can cause rapid and sudden death

And it causes the corpse to decay rapidly

And it is the last medicine

that makes people crazy and delirious

[Stone cypress]

Stone cypress

Stone cypress

I know stone cypress

Of course you know

Stone cypress is a necessary material for the manufacture of aromatherapy

So this poison leaves no trace at all

It isn't the herbs that makes it untraceable

but the way the poison enters the body

What is it?

Do you remember the fragrance in the jail?

The poison was inhaled into the body

Please

Yuling

Find out all the cases about Mara in the last three years

It's ready

Have you been investigating Mara all the time?

[Changting County]

Here is the household registration information

of Changting province and six counties in the past ten years

as well as the information between this province and the Mara cult

[Changting county]

In the past six years

the prominent local families moved out one after another

There is no trace of

where they moved to

Why are you standing so far away?

Come over here!

And those who moved here and replaced them

are the former Mara congregation

Are these all marked in red?

Yes

So over half population of Changting

is from Mara cult?

You can't say that yet

Whether they are or not

there is no way to prove it

[Huang Shida]

Huang Shida?

Is this not our county magistrate?

What's wrong with him?

Collaboration with foreign enemies

Did some

nasty things like smuggling official salt

Smuggling official salt?

Where did he sell it to?

Tibet

That's private liaison with foreign country

Why didn't the imperial court punish him?

Huang Shida is just a little minion who advocates surrendering

He dares do things that will cost his head

It must be someone behind it

Changting is an important town in the border

surrounded by enemies on three sides

The imperial court won't cut the big to protect the small

letting him profit from the national tragedy

is an exchange for a few years of peace here

Huang Shida's previous income

are all recorded in detail

Then how

he earned 10,000 liang gold in the past six months

but did not write anything?

What did he sell?

Because in this deal

he did not sell anything

10,000 liang gold were sent to his house in six batches

and

just disappeared

[Huang Shida's records]

Mara is a cult from the former dynasty It has disappeared for 20 years

Why did it appear in your county?

The dead people come back to life

His family even brought him food at noon

If that is not the fairy

it must be the county office people

Be careful!

-How are you? Are you okay? -OK

Yuling

It seems that you are the third person

who is cursed to die

The roadblocker

You blind as a bat block in the way of gods

Even the exoculation cannot redeem the evil

Oh, no

It's poison gas

They were sent by the official

No

They were sent by Huang Shida

What's the difference?

You'll see

To the county office!

The Grand coordinator is in danger

[Changting County]

My lord

what's wrong?

It's me!

Me!

Is this the poison you talked about?

Just a common roofie

But I'm afraid

he'll never wake up again

[Happiness]

[Happiness]

Lord Huang

What time is it now?

a quarter past 21

It will be midnight in less than two hours

I have solved the case before midnight

Would you like to hear it, my lord?

Tell me

The first time I douted you

is when the body of the bride was being autopsied

According to the county magistrate,

the bride became the servant of county office three years ago

She was a refugee from another county

Every thing was normal about her

Even in the day before the wedding

she showed no sign of craziness

This is the symptom of intaking mercury over long period

Whatever the drug is

she had had it for a long time

Craziness caused by roofia has no cure

The bride had been crazy already

But Lord Huang seemed to love her very much

We loved each other

It seems I've known you the moment I see you

When Luo Er

was making the incision on the belly

You shows nothing

This

is your first hole

And on the next day

your tone was changed

I've reported to his majesty this morning

The witch of Mara comes again

The curse of this cult has struck Changting

I have to say

to marry a pawn

is a brilliant move

On that day

were one strange thing after another

Therefore you

were the last one I doubted

But

I missed on thing

Why did you

marry a crazy woman?

A crazy woman murderer

Mara

They can keep your eye on the case

-and my plan could go smoothly - Hundreds of soldiers died!

Just when the Grand coordinator was arriving and the soldiers were upseted

[Huang Shida]

10,000 liang gold were sent to his house in six batches

and

just disappeared

yet you decided to get married, why?

Not until I found out

those gold were sent to your house

did I realize

what the Judgement of Mara really is

You

Huang Shida

magistrate of Changting

You were helping the army from Tibet invade Song

I guess

the Tibetan soldiers

has secretly assembled outside the city

At midnight

they will slaughter Changting

And our 100,000 soldiers

are being haunted by rumors

unable to fight

Am I right?

I never thought a wedding

some drugs

can put a dynasty to an end

Good deal！

I totally deserve to have those gold

You're not gonna be around to spend it

By the law of Song

you'll not die in one-piece

There won't be Song anymore

What can its law

do to me?

Even Song doesn't exist, I am still here

I'll punish you by the law of Song

Song Ci!

A ledgend bird can soar high in the sky

So what?

You and I

are just pawns

Follow your destiny

I did what I should do

As for the rest

it's

their business

So over half population of Changting

[Changting County]

is in Mara cult？

Attack

Hide

Dan Qing

Dan Qing

Dan Qing

People are still in the city

Tibetan army

will get into the city soon

I have to stop them

Dan Qing

Quick!

Leave the city!

Quick!

Leave the city!

Quick!

[The East City Gate]

The magistrate was murdured by man in black

That means

someone else

is behind this

What did I miss?

Who are you?

The magistrate

Zhao Youfa

Peng Xianzhi

Yuling

Shu Tong

Lord Magistrate

Welcome, lords

Tonight, Ning Xiang House

cleared the place for you

We serve you only

How considerate!

Long live Mara!

Right this way, my lord

Treat the lords

Keep up

Bring out the good incense and liquor

The constable named Xiaobao is a good man

You shouldn't have killed him

Luo Er

Song Ci

Stay back!

Run!

Run!

Luo Er, don't just stand there!

Peng Xianzhi

Peng Xianzhi

Lord Song

What I did wrong?

Your plan could have been impeccable

but for a small tooth

Where's your tooth?

I was too nervous

I swallowed it

When I was checking

the mercury line in the bride's mouth

I found there's also a polished denture

in her mouth

The coincidence irrelavant to this case

made me associate you

with the bride

Your head was chopped off

Your face was burnt, unrecognizable

But your teeth was a whole set

That reminds me

Peng Xianzhi snatches and kills other's child

He seized Shu Tong

But he was imcapable of getting her pregnant

Then who is the father

of the baby?

Luo Er

I don't know the story of the tooth

But it is

your biggest mistake

It is my best creation

I'm not Luo Er

I am

[Fangting]

Luo Fangting

[Shu Tong]

[Shu Tong]

No

Five years ago

we made acquaintance with each other

Although she is from a brothel

I said no!

I loved her deeply

For god's sake!

Who!

Miss

it‘s just a missing tooth

I thought...

Umm

Miss

My name is Luo Fangting

May I know your name?

My name is Shu Tong

This tooth

is a loving token

of us

Then

Shu Tong left Qing gang

Peng Xianzhi snatched her to be his wife

It's been six years. She still isn't pregnant

I know your trouble

It is because of you, right?

Asshole

Phooh

Don't snap at me

Look there

Your son is in her body

It's a bastard

He can't find who his father is

I asked around to get the information for you

Look at the belly

She is in the Qing gang

It must be a boy

So I dare not say more

You are wealthy

I reported him to county magistrate

hoping he can bring justice for me

Justice

cannot compare to

50 liang silver Peng Xianzhi sent to him

Because of the miscarriage

she was divorced

and drugged, thrown to the street by Peng

Qing gang was hunting her

I had to hide her

That's when

she converted to Mara

Locking me up all day long

are you ashamed of me?

Why do you think me like that?

How do you like me to think you?

Shu Tong

Don't...

It's okay, Shu Tong

I developed the cure day after night

for a year

No progress

I was frenetic when I knew the magic stone cypress

I thought this was it!

There will be

no moral standard anymore

Mara comes

to judge

Shu Tong

Don't

Don't

Just like that

another two year passed

I couldn't do that anymore

Every time when I came home and saw her

she was like a corpse in a morgue

I knew

she was dead

I'd been a scribe

for ten years in Changting

I knew all the dirty buisness of the magistrate

I said

Lord

don't you want to do something big?

I'll give you a woman

The magistrate said

what do you want?

I said: "Not much"

"Kill two damned men"

So a damning conspiracy was made

It's just a man

giving up his woman

You invaded the dirty body

No happiness will come

Dismembered body shall not have another life

The last curse

is for your child

You want him to be reincarnated soon

Take the third bow to each other

Yeah!

Take the third bow to each other

Yeah

Do you know

for your personal reason

how many innocent people were victimized?

Victimized like Shu Tong?

Like Shu Tong

Lord

I pleaded guilty

What will you do to me?

Treason

by the law of Song

will cost the lives of all your families

I have no family now

Just kill me

I heard you've being writing a book

about mysterious cases in the world

After my death

will I become one page of that book?

You know

there's no cure for the hallucinogeon

If truth was burried

then justice will too

Only law can measure everything

I don't know what should I believe anymore

Lord

you're awake

I heard you in distress

So I hurried back

Lu

Right, my lord

there's a letter for you

I read your letter

as you speak in front of me

To you, my brother

To have my last drink with you

is my honor

How ironic!

The cure was successful

when I decided

to do this

If you're reading this letter

that means the cure works

You must be confused

Why didn't I cure my wife

And make a such big mess instead?

I don't want to explain

I hope you can understand me

Don't accompany me

Don't save me

There's no one waiting for me in the world

There're one for you

She is in front of you

This is a short letter

Sorry I cannot elaborate

cannot say

cannot clarify

cannot detail

cannot specify

cannot expand

Don't miss me

Life is long

Yours

Sincerely

Zhao Youfa

Emm

Peng Xianzhi

Right

What?

You know them?

More than that!

I introduced them to each other

What?

You freed me

When I left the city

I found Zhao kidnapped by bandits

I saved him and asked about him

It turned out Zhao

had had a row with people

and hence was sought vengeance

I brought him back to Changting

Just in the Ning Xiang House

on that table

I introduced him to my former boss

Peng Xianzhi

Who would know

they talked about

snatching women

I was furious

and punched Zhao Youfa

After that

I started to see the world

Liquor is here

Don't stand there

Serve my foreign friends!

You asshole!

I shouldn't have saved you

Lu

Lu

-Lu -Lu

Where are we going first?

Lin'an

To assume another position

what's that?

Judicial commissioner

[In an ever changing world, between good and evil is a thin line Only law can measure everything]