The second unit story "The Death of Wu Zuo" in "The Journey to the West", from episode 7 to episode 12, outlines a complete detective story in 6 episodes.
If "Conquering the Demonic Transformation" is a good start as a legendary story, then "The Death of Zuo Zuo" returns to the case itself, focusing on the little people in the small town of Datang.
has a more in-depth portrayal of the unit characters during the investigation process, and incorporates full emotional elements, making it more beautiful and moving.
"Death of Huangmei", as the sequel to last season's "Huangmei Kill", creates a continuity for the unit characters in the "Tang Wei" universe. In "Huangmei Kill", the dazed scholar Dugu Yashu finally comes out of his wife's death. Shadow, who passed the Jinshi examination and served as the magistrate of Shiyang County, is about to face the first murder case in his career.
01 Death of a widower, suspicious per capita
Duguyang is a widower from Shiyang County. Wuzuo did not belong to the public, and was neither an official nor a clerk. He was only called during autopsies. Not only did he have a meager income, but he also had a humble status. Because he dealt with the dead, he was despised by the world.
In order to support his family, Duguyang opened a Mingqi shop. Those who use Mingqi are also Mingqi. He hand-made clay figurines to prevent tomb robbers, which has played a very good role in Shiyang County, a place where tomb robbers are rampant.
This move cut off the tomb robbers' financial path, and many tomb robbers died as a result, which also laid the foundation for future encounters.
That night, Dugu Yang was invited by the new county magistrate to go to the public house for a drink. The two had the same surname, Dugu, and similar temperaments. They talked happily and became sworn brothers of the opposite sex.
The next day, someone found Duguyang dead in his Mingqi shop, killed by the clay figurines he made himself.
Of course, the clay figurines killing people is just a cover. There must be another secret behind Wu Zuo's death, which is waiting to be solved by the protagonist's detective team.
Su Wuming, who was demoted to the common people, came to Shiyang County to help his old acquaintance Uncle Duguya investigate the case, and Cherry followed secretly.
Lu Lingfeng, who was going to Yunding County, Hanzhou to take up his post, passed by here, and Pei Xijun and Fei Jishi accompanied him.
Next, various characters from Shiyang County appeared. The seemingly simple murder case gradually became complicated, and there were many suspicious people.
The first suspicious person who came into everyone's sight was Harutiao, Duguyang's wife.
This woman is beautiful, but she dislikes Duguyang's job as a widower and her boring temperament. She can't bear the loneliness and often runs out of the house to drink tea and make friends.
Many men in Shiyang County covet her beauty.
After learning of Dugu Yang's death, Chun Tiao did not come to identify the body. In the courtroom, she did not look sad, but still had a weird look, saying that Dugu Yang's death was not unusual.
When Duguyang's widow Chun Tiao appeared on the scene, her speech and behavior were very much like Pan Jinlian.
The second suspicious object is Dong Haogu, the boss of Zhenbao Pavilion.
Firstly, he met Harutiao in private many times and was suspected of being an adulterer. Secondly, he was eager for treasure and had been thinking about the treasure in Duguyang's hands for a long time.
This person may have killed for sex, or he may have killed for treasure. There are dual motives.
What's interesting is that Dong Haogu often says something like, "The antiques in the Treasure Pavilion are all genuine. Every word of Dong Haogu is true."
He said it like this every time. Upright and awe-inspiring.
The third suspicious person is Dugu Yang's brother-in-law and Chun Tiao's younger brother Chun Shan.
Chunshan is an idle man with a gambling habit. He was originally from a good family, but he lived in poverty because of gambling. He comes to Duguyang from time to time to ask for money, and even steals a lot of Duguyang's wool.
On the day of the incident, Chunshan went to the Mingqi Store and got a piece of silver collar. Then he ran to Qingchuan Town to enter the casino and met Lu Lingfeng and his party.
In addition, Dong Haogu asked Chunshan for help in order to obtain the multi-sided seal, so Chunshan may also conflict with Duguyang for the multi-sided seal.
The fourth one is the elder Niu Daiming of the county. This person has a bad appearance when he appears. Seeing that the county magistrate is soft-tempered, he is disrespectful to him.
Ushi Daimyo also coveted Harujo's beauty and has been entangled with Harujo many times, so this person had the motive to kill him.
There are also two missing persons, who are also full of doubts.
Tomb robbers Lu Da and Lu Er led their gang to rob the tomb. Many brothers died from hidden weapons shot by the clay figurines in the tomb. Lu Er found out that the clay figurines were made by Dugu Yang, so they came to seek revenge on Dugu Yang. Later, Lu disappeared. I couldn't find anyone everywhere.
Lou Qingmai, the brother of the mute girl Qingniao, whose father was an executioner, died suddenly. On the same day he ate the mutton biscuits of Ma Huai's family, Duguyang's autopsy concluded that he died of sudden angina pectoris.
But Lou Qingmai insisted that Ma Huai took revenge and poisoned his father. Because Ma Huai's parents were tomb robbers and were sentenced to death, Lou Qingmai's father was the executioner.
Lou Qingmai believed that Dugu Yang accepted bribes from Ma Huai to cover up his crimes. On the night of the incident, he ran to Dugu Yang to argue with him, and he disappeared since then.
There was also an old watchman who identified Niu Daiming as the murderer because he saw Niu Daiming leave from the Mingqi Store with his own eyes, and then saw Dugu Yang dead through the crack in the door.
At the same time, when the county magistrate Uncle Duguya saw Chun Tiao, he regarded her as his deceased wife Qinghong and came forward to hug her. He invited Duguyang to drink that night. Duguyang died in the Mingqi shop the next day. Uncle Duguya was also suspicious. place.
On the day of Dugu Yang’s death, many people entered and exited the Mingqi Store. These people had different relationships and involvements with Dugu Yang. They were intertwined on the timeline, forming a web of mist, which made the investigation process difficult. It is full of many twists and turns, leading to more clues and confessions, and getting closer to the truth step by step.
02 The night of the murder, the timeline
What happened on the night when Dugu Yang died?
Let’s sort it out along the timeline.
That night, Duguyang was invited by the county magistrate to go to the public house for a drink, and then returned to Mingqi Store. The time was Haishi (around 9 o'clock).
While Dugu Yang was drinking in the public house, Chunshan sneaked into the Mingqi shop to steal the multi-sided seal. He did not find the multi-sided seal, but found a string of copper wires.
At this time, Chunshan heard something moving in the backyard, so he took the copper coins and left in a hurry.
This noise was caused by Ma Huai entering the backyard. He carried the clay for making clay figurines into the backyard. During
, Lou Qingtai came to Mingqi Store to look for Dugu Yang, but met Ma Huai. Lou Qingtai cursed Ma Huai for poisoning his father, but Dugu Yang concealed it.
In anger, Ma Huai struggled with Lou Qingmai and grabbed Lou Qingmai's neck. Seeing that Lou Qingmai was about to be out of breath, Ma Huai stopped, got up and left. When he left, Lou Qingmai was rubbing his neck with his hands. .
Later, Ma Huai was afraid that Lou Qingmai would cause trouble for Dugu Yang, so he returned to the Mingqi Store and found that Lou Qingmai was dead, so he thought that he had killed Lou Qingmao by mistake.
So Ma Huai hid Lou Qingmai's body in the clay figurine. Because he was too panicked, he painted half of the clay figurine's face and left in a hurry.
Later, after Lou Qingmai's body was discovered, Ma Huai went to the county house to surrender.
But what Ma Huai didn't know was that during the time he left after pinching Lou Qingmai, Niu Daming broke into the Mingware Store to look for the multi-faceted seal, and was seen by Lou Qingmai who came by.
Lou Qingmai used this to blackmail Niu Daiming. As long as Niu Daiming helped catch Ma Huai, the murderer of his father, he would not tell anyone about Niu Daiming's theft.
Niu Daiming had evil intentions. He pressed a sack of clay on Lou Qingmao's ribs, killed Lou Qingmao, and then left.
Lou Qingmai's sister Qingniao came to look for her elder brother. She was scared away when she saw the figure of Niu Daiming, so she missed the chance to find her elder brother.
After Ma Huai left, Duguyang came back from drinking with the county magistrate and entered the Mingqi shop.
Chunshan went to the casino and lost all his copper coins. He wanted to find his brother-in-law and persuade him to sell the multi-sided seal so that he could get more money.
He came to the Mingqi Store at the beginning of Haishi (around 9 o'clock) and saw a man wearing a bamboo hat and claiming to be an old friend knocking on the door. Duguyang opened the door and the man entered the Mingqi Store.
So Chunshan waited outside, but the man didn't come out yet. He felt something was wrong, so he walked into the Mingqi store.
When Chunshan heard that the man was a tomb robber, he wanted to work together with Dugu Yang to capture him. If he could be sent to the government in exchange for a thousand coins, he overestimated his ability and was almost killed by the tomb robber Lu Er.
During the scuffle with Lu Er, Chunshan dropped a dice he had brought with him, which was later found by Su Wuming at the crime scene.
In order to save Chunshan's life, Dugu Yang stabbed Lu Er from the back with a sword, causing Lu Er's death.
Chunshan was so shameless that he blackmailed Duguyang. Duguyang gave him ten taels of silver collar and told him not to come back again.
Duguyang then sealed Lu Er's body in a clay figurine.
Niu Daiming was worried that Lou Qingmai's body was found, so he returned to the Mingqi Store. At this time, Dugu Yang was playing with clay figurines in the store. The time is 1:30 (about 9:45).
Niu Daiming discovered that Lou Qingmai's body was no longer in the backyard. He tested Dugu Yang and made a scandal, falsely claiming that Dugu Yang's wife Chun Tiao had an affair with Dong Haogu and was caught and raped in bed.
At this time, Dugu Yang had just experienced murder and hiding a corpse, and was in a trance. Hearing Niu Daiming's dirty words, he was disheartened.
At the fourth quarter of Hai hour (around 10 o'clock), Dong Haogu came to the Mingqi Store and wanted to buy a multi-sided seal from Dugu Yang. Unexpectedly, Dugu Yang agreed. The two agreed on the price and agreed that Dong Haogu would be there when Zichou handed over. , come here to complete the transaction.
Dugu Yang has actually made up his mind at this time. He has to do a very important thing. Recently, he has been repeatedly pestered by Lou Qingmo. Dugu Yang is worried whether he really made a mistake in the autopsy, so he takes the body of Lou Qingmo's father home. , asked my mother Cao Hui to re-check to confirm that she made no mistakes.
The time when Dugu Yang came home was at the end of the year, which was around 11 o'clock in the evening. During this period, Dai Ming Niu thought about it and decided to kill Dugu Yang to seize the multi-faceted seal, so he came to Mingqi Store for the third time. The lights of the Mingware Store were still on, but Dugu Yang was nowhere to be seen. Lou Qingmai's body was also nowhere to be found, and then Niu Daiming left.
Duguyang returned to the Mingqi Store from home. As a widower, he was trapped by the widower's training and was hit by his wife's cheating. Dong Haogu pressed for the multi-faceted seal step by step.
Duguyang decided to commit suicide.
At midnight (between 11 o'clock and 1 o'clock in the morning), the old watchman passed by the Mingqi Store and walked in to chat with Dugu Yang.
Duguyang was waiting for him and asked the old watchman to witness him. After he killed himself with a sword, he asked the old watchman to put the sword into the hands of the clay figurines, and then identified the man who came to the Mingqi shop when Zichou handed over as the murderer. .
Before he could stop him, Dugu Yang had already killed himself. The old watchman was deeply saddened, but he felt that the person who really killed Dugu Yang was not Dong Haogu, but Niu Daming. And because the old watchman had a grudge against Niu Daiming, Niu Daiming had been a thief and framed the old watchman's adopted brother, causing him to behead him in public, so the old watchman lied and accused Niu Daiming of killing Dugu Yang.
Su Wuming once went to the Mingqi Store for on-site investigation late at night. His sharp eyesight allowed him to see through the lies of the old watchman, and the truth came to light.
03 A small person with a big picture, he can be called a god.
You can't kill anyone.
Wu Zuo's training: "Wu Zuo can only examine human corpses and cannot harm human lives. No matter what the reason, if you violate this rule, you will be punished on the same day."
Duguyang has devoted his life to his duties and has never made any mistakes. .
I am quite talented and have great literary talent, but I can't get any fame because I have been writing for generations.
He loves his wife deeply and makes clay figurines day and night, hoping to make money so that Harujo can live a good life.
But because he wanted to save Chunshan's life, he killed Lu Er in desperation. Duguyang was trapped by the training of widowers engraved in his heart and embarked on the road of suicide.
The moment the truth was revealed, it was extremely sad.
Author's home, the story of this family of three is even more touching, and has attracted countless children to share the same story.
Mother Cao Hui has been a widower all her life and passed down her skills to her son. Even though the old man is sometimes sober and sometimes confused, the spirit of the widower is engraved in his bones. As soon as he starts an autopsy, he enters the professional mode, with superb skills and accurate judgment.
His son Duguyang, although his job was humble and his income was meager, was disliked by his wife. But once he started doing this job, he fell in love with it. Because his job was related to "the truth of death and justice in the world", he worked conscientiously and never Don't dare to slack off at all. In the end,
strictly abided by the training of being a widower and imposed the penalty of self-imposed suicide.
The spirit of co-authoring in him even inspired Harujo, who had always despised the position of co-author, and made her make an unexpected decision to worship her mother-in-law Cao Hui as her teacher and pass on this ancestral skill.
The unit "The Death of Wu Zuo" is also moving in that it shows various characters in this small town during the Tang Dynasty.
Ma Huai, the son of a tomb robber, had his parents beheaded in public. Although he was sad, he accepted it. Later, he sincerely learned the skills of making clay figurines, started a unique business, and embarked on the road of resisting tomb robbers, vowing to make this world no longer peaceful. Grave robber.
There is a treasure merchant Dong Haogu. Although he loves antiques like his life and tries his best to find multiple seals, he abides by his integrity and everything he says is true. His mantra is actually true.
There is a married woman, Harujo, who refuses to be lonely. She drinks tea and makes friends, causing rumors to spread. However, she is not a free-spirited person, but an open-minded person who values love and righteousness. In the end, she takes over the mantle and mission of her deceased husband and becomes another person. Written by a female widow of the Tang Dynasty. The story of this unit of
tells a brain-burning crime-solving story with many clues, and outlines a rich and three-dimensional character profile of the Tang Dynasty. It also has far-reaching intentions, focusing on the word "inheritance", which not only inherits the spirit of the work, but also The inheritance of clay figurine skills and the inheritance and continuation of the long history and culture represented by multi-faceted seals.
can be said to be a small person with a big picture.
The Death of Zuzuo is so exciting that it can be called a masterpiece.
