A Robert Van Gulik early Judge Dee story. I identified the next victim of dog-official Dee in the first pages: Wealthy landowner Chu, a nice fellow with 8 wives and no children. Dee carefully investigated him and in open tribunal presented the case against him, Chu feigned madness to escape death, Dee explained that Chu, having no children, must have some body defect and everybody knows that a man like like him cannot be mentally sane. The management of Chu's business affairs passed to the Tribunal, which sent away the wives with some money and one can imagine what happened to the rest of his fortune. The Magistrate's three wives had travelled and the sex-crazy Dee got complicated in several bad women affairs, to the point that he lost his authority and had to resign. The wife of the pharmacist saved him and the Judge accused her of a murder (hammering a long nail into her husband's brain). Dee is so straight that for him, "Justice" is blind. Chinese stories are sport but I am done with them.
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