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The Flogging on the Slips

Words: 2961 · Source Novel:: Blood on Bamboo Slips

Archaeologists extract 140,000 bamboo slips from the same well. Among them, document “Jiahe 4th Year, Linxiang Marquisate: The Collective Flogging of Officials” details how junior clerk Zhu An and four others received heavy staff strokes for altering field boundaries. Zhu’s private note, hidden under official script, curses the magistrate who forced his complicity. As Chen reads the translated strips, he sees an uncanny map: the ancient contested plot lies directly beneath his planned skyscraper. He hires a forensic historian to decode the slips, while a retired policeman warns him that the 1996 case was closed with a bullet, not a verdict.