Records of Mount Yin

In the fifth year of Great Liang's Common Era, it was a rare good year for drifters across the realm.

A wrist-splitting dagger cost five cash coins; a bowl of rotten-meat noodles cost three. Sleep beneath a great tree beside an ancient grave, and not only might you encounter a fox roaming by night for an evening of pleasure-you could even earn ten cash coins for free.

That year, the Huai River surged, flooding three prefectures and sixteen counties.

That year, a dragon fell in Yunmeng. Its blood rained from the sky and congealed into jade.

Rotten wood gained sentience; aged objects became monsters; old women conceived ghosts; shadowy spirits walked the night...

That year, Su Che passed through Guobei County carrying a wooden case, on his way to take up his post as the Constable of Shanyin County...