"Officers, two officers, something bad happened!"

In a courier station in a small town in the south-west, before daybreak, a staff member yelled, "The prisoner died!"

"What!"

People went out of their rooms, hurried to the canopy of the courier station and immediately saw Jia Yuanling who had died in the prison wagon.

"What happened? Wasn't he fine yesterday?"

"You think he was fine? After leaving Tanyang, he'd been suffering from the climate all along, vomiting and having loose bowels constantly. I told you we should get him some medical treatment lest he die and bring us trouble. Now what do we do!"

"Suffering from the climate? Jia Yuanling was a young man. How was it possible that he died so easily of an unaccustomed climate?" Welcome to Flying Lines to read the whole novel!