Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty II To the West Episode 11

Finding the culprit

Su continues to be in and out of consciousness. He wakes up long enough to divulge another clue and goes back to sleep. Lady coroner performed first autopsy well but collapsed during second one. Yingtao is waking up and knows the sign language of mute girl. This lets XiJun draw very accurate rendition of the brother’s activities prior to death. Su is up and asking for court records. When he learns coroner out, he does a method with water and shade to see evidence of broken ribs. The coroner is home making plum cakes. This does not seem to go along with the job, but in fact does. There is a light paper place on corpse’s chest area and the flat cakes placed on top. Once removed, the internal bruising of rib area is expose showing where specific breaks are in rib cage. She is soundly praised by all around her. This is probably first time the coroner’s work has been appreciated. She is offered a higher salary but she just wants justice for her son. Su and Lu get the 4 suspects lined up to do a public hearing so mother can hear. By letting the slime government worker go, they found him trying to flee city with large bag of jewelry. He confesses he does not have the seal and at this point thinks it is pure myth. The naan seller is asked to give his testimony first. Here we find the silver teals are for apprenticeship not a bribe. They are up to the death of executioner and Lu tells him choking someone to death is a capital crime and episode ends….I really want them to clear up this case soon. Hopefully next episode finishes it up. I want to know more about the imperial guards acting as assassins.

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