Episode 2

Xu Pingzhi brought his family home. When he opened the door, he was shocked to see his son Xu Xinnian about to hang himself from a beam. Everyone hurriedly stepped forward to rescue him.Xu Xinnian worked in an academy after getting the honors. He had a pedantic personality and was demoted to a lowly position. He couldn't bear to think about it and even wanted to commit suicide.Fortunately, the family discovered it in time and averted a tragedy.

At dinner, the family sat around the table and listened to Xu Qian's talk about how to find out the truth of the case.When he heard that Xu Qi'an had refined sodium metal, Xu Pingzhi was not surprised at all, and even laughed and said that he almost thought of it.

Xu Qian spent a few leisurely days at home, gradually accepting the fact that he might not be able to travel back in time.He began to get to know everyone in the family. His father Xu Pingzhi was upright, his aunt was shrewd and calculating, and one of his two sisters was innocent, diligent and lively, while the other was a foodie.

Due to his meritorious service in finding out the truth, Xu Qian was appointed as a small detective.At first he had no intention of doing so and just wanted to make money, but conditions were limited and his sister-in-law disliked him, so he had to put on the clothes of a police officer and go to the Yamen to report.

As soon as he arrived at the Yamen, Xu Qian took over a difficult case.Wang Futou was overwhelmed by his superiors. On one side, he had a tight deadline for closing the case, and on the other side, he had no clue about the case.He had no hope for Xu Qian, the new scholar. He just stated the case and handed in the file as usual.

However, Xu Qian sniffed out clues from the case.It turned out that local wealthy businessman Zhang Yourui married a concubine who was 20 years younger than him, but died mysteriously overnight.There were no traces of trampling or abnormal footprints at the scene. The deceased suffered severe head trauma with a blunt instrument, and the fatal injury was on the back of the head. The location was actually in the concubine's courtyard.The concubine claimed that she saw someone escaping over the wall, but there were no traces on the wall.

Xu Qian concluded that the case may be related to the affair between Zhang Yourui's son Zhang Xian and his concubine.Under Zhang Qi'an's questioning, the concubine finally revealed the truth.In the end, the concubine was imprisoned and Zhang Xian was released.Chu Caiwei had doubts about this, but Wang Futou told her not to mind her own business because he saw the litigator delivering the closing documents to Haoqi Tower.