Volume 3 Family Feuds --- Chapter 52 Jousting with Jiangshis

Despite bestowing me with a booklet complete with a set of illustrations of a fantastic discipline of swordplay, Father had only demonstrated it once to me. I could still remember the sword coming alive, flying in the air without being wielded when Father had shown me the swordplay that evening. For an entire year, I pored through the book, looking for answers that might have eluded me before, still, none of my attempts to pattern what he had displayed that night bore any semblance to his. But just then, the police officer named Zheng Shuang, had come back to us, seeking help from Yuan Chongxi, Lin Feng, and me. There was a very case so sensitive and critical that he needed our help with. As Zheng Shuang was already a friend of ours, he cut right to the chase: a child was reported missing in Wu Zhong County and news of the child's disappearance had been spreading on the Wechat like a flame in the wind. A police task force had been set up to specially handle this case with Zheng Shuang in charge, who was chosen due to the many treacherous cases that we had helped him solved which had earned him substantial influence within the upper hierarchies of the local force.