Kill My Sins Episode 3 Recap
> Kill My Sins Recap
The harsh official, Li Jun, was always ruthless, using torture on anyone involved in the military funds’ transport. However, Yuan Shaocheng was different. He asked the transport officer if there had been any suspicious incidents along the way. The officer mentioned that, while passing through Tongquan County, he had heard children singing a nursery rhyme. Tongquan County wasn’t far from the capital, and many years ago, a horrific arson case had taken place there.
The arsonist was the then Censor, Yu Qian. In the second year of the Zhao Feng era, Yu Qian was executed, and the people despised him. His entire family, over thirty members, was also beheaded. The transport officer asked around and learned that it was said Yu Qian’s ghost had returned after his execution and had become an evil spirit, driving the vengeful souls of the women he burned alive to haunt the mountains.
The officer and his men were filled with dread. As they traveled through the mountains around the hour of Hai, a thick fog suddenly rolled in. Soon after, ghostly shadows appeared in the mist, accompanied by terrifying laughter. The officers were scared out of their wits and fell unconscious for no reason. When they woke up, the carriage and military funds were gone.
It had only been a few hours from the moment they fainted to when they regained consciousness, so Li Jun was certain the thieves hadn't moved the funds so quickly. He immediately followed the tracks of the carriage. Lu Danxin’s residence, Ye Ping'an introduced Ni Chang to the others. They were all victims of the Censor’s case.
Lu Danxin and Cai Lian had originally found Ye Ping'an, who wore a butterfly pendant, and together they came to the capital to wait for the right moment. As for the robbery of the military funds, it had been a trap set by Ye Ping'an and her allies. However, the funds weren’t hidden in the mountains but were instead sent to the poorest area of the capital, the Mangou region.
Yuan Shaocheng, being meticulous, noticed that the tracks were faint and deduced that the thieves hadn't hidden the funds in the mountains. He kindly warned Li Jun not to waste time. Mangou was home to many people who hadn’t been elevated from low status and were looked down upon. Yuan Shaocheng was the only one who had risen from the lowest ranks and become an official.
Ye Ping'an hid the military funds in the riverbed and instructed Lu Danxin to scatter sea cucumbers in the river, which caused Li Jun and Yuan Shaocheng to bring in a boatman to search but they couldn't find the funds. Li Jun, however, refocused his attention on the mountains, while Yuan Shaocheng kept someone watching the river. Night was the best time to retrieve the funds due to the fog.
Ye Ping'an needed to find a way to move the funds secretly under Yuan Shaocheng's surveillance. This wouldn't be easy, but Cai Lian believed that with Ye Ping'an's cleverness, it could be done. Wu Xianer arrived uninvited, bringing the Emperor's imperial decree, appointing Ye Ping'an as a "Palm Officer" with the authority to collaborate on cases and act as she saw fit. Ye Ping'an showed Yuan Shaocheng the official insignia and provided him with clues.
However, Yuan Shaocheng didn’t fall for the "bait-and-switch" tactic and kept a firm watch on the riverbank. Zheng Du Liang, upon learning that Ye Ping'an had become a Palm Officer, held her in higher regard but didn’t dare take action against her at this time. Instead, he sent people to monitor her, suspecting that she was backed by the Mei faction.
Hai Yiping visited his mentor, the Left Chancellor Mei Bowen, to seek advice on how to approach the case involving the military funds. Mei Bowen advised him not to rush and to wait and see how things unfolded. Yuan Shaocheng remained fixated on the river, while Ye Ping'an knew that he and Du Liang were in cahoots. She decided to use this situation to her advantage and set up a scheme to make Qi Junshan turn against Du Liang.
Qi Junshan received the news and sent people to smash the Qi Tai Dfang, where they found a bar of military funds. Gu Wenyu, a constable from the Dali Temple, was interested in a woman, and Yuan Shaocheng supported him in confessing his feelings. Soon after, Yuan Shaocheng learned that Qi Junshan had smashed the Dfang, and in a fit of rage, he rode back quickly, only to be captured by Du Liang’s men.
Du Liang ordered his subordinates to torture Yuan Shaocheng severely, determined to extract information about the whereabouts of the military funds. Du Liang had always looked down on Yuan Shaocheng because of his lowly origins. In Du Liang's eyes, crushing Yuan Shaocheng was as easy as crushing an ant.
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