Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty Episode 20

Repeat of 40 yr cold case

Right after congratulations for completing first case, 40 yr dismemberment case is repeated. The coroner resigns because it is the case 40 yrs ago that caused his dad to commit suicide. Sheriff Lu is going to give it a try but the autopsy is too much for him. Turns out XueHuan and Su had a signal if Lu needed help. A basket of oranges arrived in NanZhou and the gang packs up and heads to Ju. Su disguises himself initially as the coroner hired by Sheriff Lu. It’s a pretty grisly case. The body is cut in such a way that the murder weapon cannot be determined. The skin was stripped from the bones and cut into pieces. Su kept everybody out and gave the one defining mark that made it clear it was Hui. The butcher looks most guilty but the son in law told her to leave him alone. He even bribed her to end it. So even tho he had planned on hurting her there was no longer any need. Seems Chicken Fei was friends with the Dr buried in the upstairs of the meds building in backyard. He has a very vivid dream of his old friend chastising him for not doing what he was supposed to be doing as far as progressing the filed of medicine. He is giving the job of determining what is on the cloth that preserved the victim parts. But he is lead to believe he is figuring out the cloth from a famous wine.😂XueHuan’s look of horror as Fei tried to hand the cloth his way.😂 XiJun offered to draw the pieces but was told no by Su. She decided she would assist with drawing the three people seen in various temples putting the bags on offering table. Su has left and put his sworn sister in charge.😂 Lu is going back to some of his bad habits already, but he is at least getting some help. The ragbag magistrate got Lu to make a deadline and he has to opt for a week when they were willing to give him a month. They are wanting his job to be on the line with higher ups rather than theirs. Progress is being made but it is slow going and the townsfolk dealing with PTSD and the new people dealing with the horror of it. There is still something fishy about the headaches. Is the doc causing them and healing them? He is a bit off and I wonder if more than the buried body upstairs.

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