Weeping Blood Cold Wind

Chen Laoshi of Qingmeng Village, who had never lied in his life, was finally hanged from the old locust tree at the village entrance, with the authorities claiming it was "suicide by hanging." His son Chen San refused to believe it and, carrying half a piece of bran cake, walked into Qingmeng Village to seek justice. Justice was not found; instead, he found a dagger wrapped in red string and a constable, Wang Er, who had been a dog for ten years and finally dared to stop being one. Wang Er said: "Thirty li south, at Weeping Blood Village, someone is waiting." When Chen San arrived, he found that what was waiting was not a person, but graves—372 living people living among the tombs, collected on the first day of each month to be used as medicine, as ore, as livestock. His seven-year-old sister, Wang Xiaoxiao, had already been inspected, injected, and implanted with golden vine, becoming a "breeding mother"—more precious than gold, more worthless than grass. Chen San killed people, burned the ancestral hall, and became the "Weeping Blood General." But even a general must flee—into the prefecture, into the medicine hut, into deeper darkness. He discovered that above Wang Chongshan there was Lord Zhao, above Lord Zhao there was the Medicine King Pavilion, and above the Medicine King Pavilion... those above were invisible, only seeing the golden vine growing in the bones of children, crawling in his sister's blood, taking root in every inch of this Great Zhou Dynasty's soil. — Description from novelcodex.org