Judge Di's Mystery 大唐狄公案 Episode 8

Cao An gave Di Renjie a collection of Teng Gong's poems with deep meaning and promised to sing for him in his spare time in the future. The tender look on his face made Ma Rong dissatisfied. After Cao An left, Ma Rong asked Di Renjie about the reason for their acquaintance with Cao An, but Di Renjie avoided answering. Instead, he entrusted Ma Rong with a crucial matter, and there must be no mistakes. Qiao Tai and Hong Liang were full of suspicions, but Ma Rong remained tight-lipped.

Early the next morning, Di Renjie confronted Tengkan and used a long knife to scrape off the special paint on the surface of the screen, revealing the real reason why the four-paint screen changes when exposed to hot water. Therefore, Di Renjie exposed Tengkan's pretense of madness in public, designed to kill Anemone, framed Li Han, cleverly manipulated public opinion, and won the reputation of loving his wife as much as her life.

In fact, Tengkan was not a talented poet. Those popular poems were all written by Anemone, and he won the first prize in Gyeonggi Province based on these poems. However, Tengkan had already known that Yinlian had cheated on Xu Kai. In order to maintain his position in the poetry world, he could only suppress his anger and let him have trysts with Xu Kai up to seven times. In the end, Tengkan swung his knife angrily and stabbed Xu Kai and Yinlian seven times to vent his anger.

In addition, Di Renjie found blood stains on the riding crop and speculated that Tengkan whipped himself every day in order to suppress his inner demons. Later, Tengkan couldn't bear it anymore, so he teamed up with Lady Lai to redeem Li Han and fabricated stories about ghosts and evil spirits. On the day of the incident, Tengkan took the hallucinogenic pyrene manzi, deliberately creating the illusion of being possessed by a ghost, and killed Anemone. Unexpectedly, Li Han appeared at the scene. He was so distraught that he cut off his hair and kept it.

Since both Li Han and Xu Kai were destined to die, Di Renjie did not have enough evidence to convict him, so Tengkan was very proud. Just when Tenkan ordered his servants to move the last box in the study, he was surprised to find that the box that was supposed to store the Anemone poem manuscript was filled with stones. It turns out that Di Renjie secretly ordered Ma Rong to sneak into Teng Mansion at night and take away the poem manuscript. At this moment, the poem manuscript has been sent to Chang'an. Although Tengkan could not be sentenced for murder, his forgery of poems was a crime of deceiving the emperor, and he could not escape death.

Seeing that the situation was over and there was no chance of recovery, Tengkan slumped on the ground, feeling sad and crazy, and finally drank poisonous wine and ended his life. Hong Liang and Qiao Tai hurried to Lai's house, but Lai's second wife had trapped herself in the building and set herself on fire, which was sad. As the truth of the case came to light and everything settled, Ba Zong accepted his bet and accepted defeat, and Penglai City has been governed according to law since then. In order to thank Cao An, Di Renjie chose a piece of redwood wood with inscriptions on it and gave it to Cao An. Cao An liked it very much.

A few days later, a storm rolled up the waves, and a large ship was struggling to move forward in the dark night. Sailor Wang Lide changed the route without authorization and reassured the leader not to worry. The leader turned back to the cabin and was shocked to see the crew members died tragically. By the time he realized the murderer, it was too late. Wang Lide brutally killed everyone except the Baekje sailors who smuggled in hidden cabins.

Envoy Liu Zhong came to Penglai to buy goods. Seeing the gold and silver treasures prepared by the Gu family for him, Secretary Yi couldn't help but be jealous and mocked the Gu family for treating one thing favorably and another. Gu Mengbin's confidant Bai Kai was well versed in the world and could resolve the resentment of Secretary Yi in a few words, leaving him speechless.

Di Renjie met his friend Hou Yu by chance at the pier. They had not seen each other since the capital, and they reunited today. The two were extremely happy. Now that Empress Wu was the regent, she had carried out a purge of civil and military officials, and Hou Yu was inevitably implicated and deposed. Di Renjie revealed to Hou Yu that the purpose of his trip was to block a shipowner named Gu Mengbin. He summoned the other party for three days for a small case, but each time the other party avoided seeing him.

At the same time, Gu Mengbin appeared at the dock with a group of people, and Ma Rong was surprised by the grandeur. Qiao Tai said that Gu Mengbin is the largest ship owner in Penglai. Hundreds of ships coming in and out of the port are from the Gu family, which shows that his family is strong. Gu Mengbin ordered people to quickly put away the gold and silver treasures, and specifically reminded Secretary Yi not to mention gold, especially the word Baekje gold.

That night, Gu Mengbin held a banquet for Ambassador Liu Zhong to cleanse himself from the wind and dust, and Secretary Yi and Hou Yu accompanied him. Ambassador Liu revealed that he loves two things most in his life: singing and gold. Even though Secretary Yi was a eloquent person, he couldn't help but be stunned when he heard these words. In addition to being surprised, he lied that Penglai never produced gold.

Di Renjie failed to meet Gu Mengbin and decided to take people to find him. Coincidentally, they met Cao An holding a pipa on the shore. Later, Di Renjie and Cao An entered the painting boat together. Ambassador Liu treated Di Renjie with contempt and indifference, but he was quite interested in Cao An. On the other hand, Qiao Tae took the initiative to talk to Baekje singer Ok So, but felt bored because of the language barrier.