Youshu was lying bored in the cell covered with straw, and several jailers gathered in the outer hall to drink and have fun, and frequently ridiculed him in his words, such as "a phoenix with a hair is not as good as a chicken", "the sons and brothers of the official eunuchs are all people with human faces and beast hearts", "pull it out and cut off the head, no one is wronged" and so on.

Another of them was very extreme, saying that the body had been found, the evidence was conclusive, and that people would definitely be sentenced to cane punishment and exile, so it was better for them to beat people up first, and taste the taste of bullying the children of the official family. As soon as these words came out, everyone was eager to try, it can be seen that their mentality has been distorted, and they are still discussing with each other where to hit the hardest, but they can't see the wound.

Seeing a group of people carrying wine jugs towards their cells, and the prisoners in the next few cells also instigated them one after another, trying to get pleasure from the pain of others, Youshu's face changed. His brows were furrowed, his mouth was pursed, and the two small dimples were uncontrollably exposed, looking not a little deterrent, but very pitiful.

The jailers were in high spirits, and their mouths were very unclean.

"The sky has eyes, and it is better to do less things that have no conscience." Youshu was not angry, and pointed to the jailer who staggered at the head and said, "Have you ever known why your legs and feet are always in unbearable pain? ”

The jailer usually walked without any abnormality, but the calf and stomach were in severe pain from time to time, which was only slightly relieved after drinking, and the doctors who searched for Lin'an Mansion could not diagnose the cause, and it became an incurable disease over time. Youshu and him have never known each other, and there is no intersection in the network, so it is impossible to hear about it from others.

In other words, he saw it for himself. The jailer's heart was moved, and he wanted to ask but couldn't let go of his face.

Youshu originally intended to intimidate everyone, and did not wait for them to react, Wu continued, "You have a habit of abusing and killing cats and dogs, beating cats and dogs to death and then smashing their heads with one kick, so as to get pleasure. However, you have forgotten that cats and dogs also have souls, and they also know resentment, and they turn into tiny black gas like ants in and out of your legs and feet, slowly gnawing at your essence, how can you not be in pain? Pain is still secondary, if you don't get rid of that old problem, and from then on do good deeds and accumulate virtues, you will die of a violent illness within three or five years. ”

Cold sweat fell from the jailer's forehead, and because of such a hobby, not to mention his colleagues, even his daughter-in-law and wife didn't know. In other words, this kid can really see ghosts.

The temperature in the cell dropped suddenly, and there were gusts of wind blowing on the hem of the clothes and skin, which was terrifying, and no matter how pleasant the young man's voice was, it could not erase the growing sense of fear. The leading jailer unconsciously crouched down, holding his legs and feet trembling in severe pain.

"Phew! Nonsense, alarmist! Someone said boldly.

"Oh, just let me be alarmist, I wanted to tell you why you always feel bloated in your stomach lately." Youshu picked the straw stained on her hair one by one, and her attitude was very careless.

The man hurriedly covered his stomach, and cold sweat was like a waterfall. He has been really uncomfortable recently, and in order to earn monthly money, he didn't ask for leave, thinking that it would be good to stay up. But listening to the young man's tone, this lesion seems to be very simple. If it is involved in the matter of gods and ghosts, it will be troublesome, and the longer it drags on, the more unthinkable it becomes.

Seeing the drastic change in the complexions of the two of them, the jailers on the side already understood that the young man was not nonsense, and when they looked at the legs and stomachs of the leader, and at the abdomen of their colleagues, they only felt that they were ghostly and cold. The other prisoners in the cells were also silent, and a few of them even let out a gurgling sound with chattering teeth, which looked very strange under the rendering of the empty corridor.

"quiet for Lao Tzu! You say, why do you say my belly is swollen! If you can't say a way today, Lao Tzu will kill you! The jailer's eyes were red, and he tried to hide his fear with rage.

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, there are seven pubic fetuses in the abdomen, who is swollen if you don't fall? If you don't hurry up and accumulate some virtue, death will be very ugly. Youshu gestured with a round-tumbling belly, and her tone was slightly mocking, "When you die, you will be like an eight-nine-month pregnant woman, which is spectacular!" ”

The jailer was terrified. Others don't know, but he himself understands most clearly that the five daughters brought by his stepwife have become his confinement, and they are locked in the cellar every day for his amusement. Once a daughter is pregnant, he ordered his stepwife to pour down the soup, and now count it carefully, no more, no less, exactly seven. And recently, his belly has really grown bigger day by day, and the pants half a month ago are no longer worn.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he reached into the hem of his clothes, and touched a baby's face through his belly, and suddenly the heat rolled under his crotch, and the stench was permeated.

"Help! Please, show the little one a clear way! He didn't care about shame, he threw himself on the side of the cell door and kowtowed, his features were distorted by deep fear, and his tears flowed incessantly, looking like a wolf.

Youshu naturally has a way to save him, but why? He shook his head and said casually, "You can't live for your own sin, so you can bear it." ”

"No, there must be a way to save the little one. The small one is for you, don't worry. As he spoke, the jailer untied the key and planned to release the boy from prison.

The people next to him finally came back to their senses and hurriedly grabbed him, but they didn't dare to touch his stomach, so they had to tie him with a belt, and take him away with their hands and feet, never mentioning the torture of the boy again. The leading jailer, who still had severe pain in his legs and feet, took a deep look at the boy as he went out.

The cell finally fell silent, and the prisoners who had been scolding at Youshu were all hiding in the farthest corner from him, their necks shrunk and their heads hung like frightened quails. Youshu was about to lie down in the grass nest and sleep, when a gust of wind blew in from the other side of the corridor, blowing out the candles along the road one by one, leaving only one outside the door of Youshu's prison.

"Someone found?" Youshu immediately turned over and sat up, her eyes like torches. He doesn't usually use mental power when communicating with the little ghost, so he forgets to cover it up for a while. The prisoners were already frightened to death by the sudden vision, and when they saw him talking to himself as if he was communicating with a ghost, they couldn't help but faint.

Mother, are you always finished? What kind of prison do gods like you still come to go to, and it is someone who saves you by fooling a few words! Please stop for a moment! Several of the prisoners had already gotten up and kowtowed to him.

The little ghost led two new ghosts, a man and a woman, into the cell and said, "The people have been found, and the little one has cast a trick to help your servants bring them to the court." These two are the owners of the two corpses found by the government, so listen to them. ”

The two ghosts were very resentful, but because of the new funeral, they had nothing to do, so they had to pin their hopes on the eldest brother they had just recognized. The eldest brother was only six years old when he died, and he seemed immature, but he had been practicing Taoism for nearly a hundred years, and he knew such a strange character. They had never approached, but they had already felt the coercion emanating from Youshu's body, as if a group of dragons were soaring, and they would be killed by his aura if they were not careful.

"Sit and talk." Youshu pointed to the grass nest beside him.

The two ghosts sat down in fear, and described in detail why they were killed and how their bodies were ruined. As soon as the two ghosts cried, the cell was full of cold, the wind was dancing, and the candle flame above Youshu's head was swaying wildly, illuminating the whole cell suddenly and darkly, like hell reappearing.

Mo said that a few prisoners had been frightened, and even the jailers who heard the wind and came to check on them also fled with urine and urine, and never dared to enter again. If you close such a god, you will really lose your life for several years, and I don't know if Lord Taishou knows the other party's miracles. You don't know, do you? Otherwise, where would you dare to arrest people!

Youshu's face was always calm, and after listening to the words of the two ghosts, he bowed his head and said, "It is the principle of heaven to kill people to pay for their lives, if you want to take revenge, I can help, but after revenge, you must not stay in the Yang world, you need to go to the underworld to reincarnate quickly." If you are blinded by resentment and commit murder, I will find you in heaven and on earth and destroy you. These words were said with spiritual power, and no one else heard a word.

The two ghosts nodded frequently and thanked for their kindness.

After they left, Wang came, and the candlestick installed on the wall spontaneously combusted without fire, illuminating the originally ghostly cell, and the screaming yin wind everywhere also stopped abruptly, and a few wisps of heat slowly seeped in from the other end of the corridor, completely driving away the cold. The prisoner was completely convinced, and the jailer had nothing to say, so he respectfully and sincerely invited the Wang family in.

"Mother, what good things did you bring me?" Youshu threw herself to the side of the cell door, her eyes shining. I've only known each other for one day, but I seem to have been together for half a lifetime, and he doesn't feel reluctant to call him "mother". People's feelings are mutual, Song didn't dare to get close to his son because of guilt, and he was polite and trembling when he spoke on weekdays, and he could only keep his distance from her. The Wang family is very different, he can't rub Youshu into his arms as dough, and he doesn't know how to hurt when it hurts.

She hugged her son, screamed all over the heart, liver, and flesh, and then opened the huge seven-story food box, put out her son's favorite food one by one, and fed it with chopsticks and soup spoons one by one, crying while feeding, saying "My son has lost weight, my son has a hard life" and so on.

Youshu sat opposite her with her knees crossed, her heart was warm, and she couldn't help but comfort, "Mother, don't worry, I will be able to go out soon." ”

Wang nodded heavily, but his eyes dimmed for a moment. She just received an urgent letter from the old lady, saying that she would not protect her father, let alone her son, and let them fend for themselves. Now Xiang Zheng is ready to sell his property to dredge up the relationship with the side, so as to rescue his son, and I don't know if he can do it.

You Shu thought for a moment, and then reminded, "Go back and tell your father, so that he doesn't need to plan for me, lest someone catch the handle and fall into the sin of 'being imprisoned'." ”

"We are selling our own goods, not the people for what we have gained." Wang opened his mouth to refute, but he was immediately tricked out by his son.

Youshu Xindao is really like this, so she took the trouble to tell the Wang family not to sell their property, let alone bribe, the two have been found, and they will be brought to court soon. The Wang family did not receive any news from the domestic servants, and when they were still wandering in the kiln ridge, they saw that their son was so sure that they had to nod their heads in doubt.

Before she returned home, Zhao Zhizhou had already received the exact news, and the two of them had really been found and were still alive, so they couldn't help but feel relieved-

The next day, Taishou personally presided over the trial of the suspect, and ordered the arrest and opening of the official office to the people to observe.

Youshu was cautiously invited to the court by two jailers, and when they saw the deceased's parents kneeling on the ground, their faces couldn't help but turn slightly pale. They didn't dare to crush this evil god to their knees, so they forgot about this stubble and went down directly.

Tai Shou saw Youshu standing straight, raised the shocking wood and knocked it hard, "Zhao Youshu, you didn't get fame, why didn't you kneel when you saw this official?" Come on, teach Zhao Gongzi the rules well! ”

The chief catcher of Lin'an Mansion was too close to his cronies, and immediately stepped out of the crowd and pressed the young man who was still in the fugue to the ground. The crisp sound of his knee hitting the bluestone brick made people have a toothache, Youshu's eyes were closed, her nose was wrinkled, and she almost burst into tears. He hadn't been so wolf for a long time.

Zhao Zhizhou sat under the Taishou and watched, and when he saw his son's painful face, he also felt the same way. He hurriedly pulled out the cushion under his butt and placed it under his son's knees, and spoke softly for a while of comfort. If he hadn't scolded him too harshly, he would have knelt with his son.

The people also booed frequently, obviously very unaccustomed to the Zhao family's abusive behavior. Taishou did not stop, let them scold for more than a quarter of an hour, and coaxed the atmosphere to the tense Cheng Dù before ordering the family of the deceased to present confessions and physical evidence.

There are seventeen or eighteen family members of both men and women, you cry and cry, I cry silently, and some people beat their chests and feet, looking for death and life, looking very pitiful. Not only did the onlookers wet their eyes, but Taishou also showed compassion. At the same time, their resentment towards the murderer is at its peak.

Taishou knocked the startled wood and shouted angrily, "Zhao Youshu, can you plead guilty?" ”

Youshu was expressionless from beginning to end, and said flatly, "I don't admit guilt." ”

"If you don't see the coffin, you won't shed tears! This man is so ruthless! ”

"Exile is not enough for the people to be outraged, they need to be beheaded!"

"His father committed murder, and he must be dismissed and investigated!"

The people shouted, and several women threw the eggs and vegetable leaves in the basket into the court. The guards on both sides and the guards on the seats were in a happy mood, but the jailers waiting by the door covered their faces and couldn't bear to look directly. Don't smash it, beware of this evil god!

Youshu dodged the eggs and vegetable leaves, and said slowly, "The evidence is insufficient, I don't admit guilt." ”

Taishou laid out the evidence one by one and asked him how it was conclusive.

"I will not plead guilty unless I am allowed to see the body with my own eyes. It is also possible that these testimonies may be falsified. Youshu waved her hand.

Zhao Zhizhou immediately stepped forward and said, "If we can't prove that the bodies are Sun Magpie and Fang Sheng, we refuse to admit our guilt." The official can go to the court and send another official for inspection. ”

"It's the same a few more times! Come on, bring the corpse up! "Taishou can signal from above, I must crucify the Zhao family's father and son today. As soon as he flicked his sleeves slightly, several catchers hurried to carry the corpse. The people were already fond of joining in the fun, not only were they not frightened, but they gathered around them more and more, except for the two jailers, who ran away, as if there were ghosts chasing after them.

The corpse, covered with a white cloth, was brought to the public court, where it had a slight stench due to the heat. Youshu is proficient in all kinds of martial arts, and naturally knows how to perform autopsies. He lifted the white cloth without changing his face and examined it carefully, and asked, "What evidence can prove that they are Sun Magpie and Fang Sheng?" "Both of their faces were scratched by the rocks in the river, and they couldn't see the shape, which was terrifying.

The mother of the deceased immediately stepped forward to testify. Sun Magpie has a cinnabar mole behind his ear, and Fang Sheng's soles have triangular black moles, both of which are extremely obvious features.

Youshu looked at them one by one and couldn't help but sneer. He picked up the testimony he had made, and asked for a brush from his father, and crossed the paper as he spoke, "First, the mark that proves their identity was tattooed after death, and was not born; Second, the time of death was not eight days, but one day, and the reason why the body was swollen and swollen was because it was soaked in hot water for a day and a night; Third, the age is not right. Sun Magpie is fifteen years old and Fang Sheng is eighteen, but these two corpses are one eighteen and one twenty; Fourth, the profession is not right. Fang Sheng was a scholar and had never worked. The man's hands and feet were covered with thick calluses, and he was a coolie. Fifth, the cause of death is not matched. Both were suffocated by soft objects and thrown into the river, not drowned. ”

When the words fell, he threw his testimony on the ground, and the people tiptoed to see that the paper was full of big forks and flowers. Some people shook their heads in disbelief, but others lowered their eyes and pondered.

Whether the two corpses were Sun Fang and the others was clearly understood, not only did the family clearly understand, but even Taishou and his subordinates also knew it. After listening to the young man's words, some people already broke out in cold sweat and beat drums in their hearts. Didn't you say that Zhao Youshu didn't learn and didn't know how to do it? How can the autopsy be more accurate than the oldest man's work?

Just one glance to judge the age, identity, cause of death and time of death, smart, really smart! Taishou had to praise him secretly, but he made up his mind to put him to death, picked up the shocking wood and wanted to knock it, but heard the young man in the hall say, "It's strange to say, last night the grass people had a man and a woman in their sleep, saying that they died extremely unjustly, and begged me to avenge them." The woman's name is Miao Ling, the man's name is Guo Da, a person from Jiaxing, who fled to Lin'an Mansion, was caught by several people as soon as she entered the city, and suffocated with a cloth, and stabbed a few moles behind her ears and on the soles of her feet, threw them into a wooden barrel filled with hot water and soaked them for a day and a night, and took them out until the early hours of the morning, scratched their cheeks and transported them to the lower reaches of the Chaoshui River, and threw them on the bank. ”

The people were stunned by such a miraculous thing, and they all pricked up their ears and stood on tiptoe, eagerly waiting for the follow-up.

Tai Shou's eyes flashed, and the total catch standing under the hall was already sweating. Zhao Youshu was imprisoned in a cell for a day and night, and it was impossible for him to know these things! And they do it very secretively. Could it be that it is really a dream of an unjust ghost?

Youshu had to say more, Taishou had already picked up the shocking wood and was about to interrupt him. The shocking wood slapped on the table as if it was on cotton, and there was no sound at all. He didn't believe in evil, so he slapped it several times in a row to show a look of horror, and shouted in a dry voice, "Stop, stop, stop!" Hugh is going to bewitch the public in court! ”

"Why don't you let him say it? This is a trial, and any inside information must be revealed! The people refused to obey and expressed their support. At this time, most of the people were convinced of the ghosts and gods, and did not think that the young man was misleading the people, but their impression changed greatly and they sympathized with him.

If Shu blindly asks Taishou to change to another person for an autopsy, and with the connections of the Zhao family, he can also ensure that he makes an impartial judgment, but the people will still believe their own speculation: that is, the Zhao family covers the sky with one hand and buys the official errand. This basin of dirty water can't be washed off no matter what. But the sacrifice of demons and gods is very different, and no one's testimony is stronger than that of the unjust dead themselves.

In the midst of the noise between the Taishou and the people, Shu slowly said, "The chief catcher stood up and sighed after throwing away the corpse: 'Don't blame us for being ruthless, only blame yourself for your bad luck. Lord Taishou is worried that he can't find a suitable candidate, so you hit the muzzle of the gun, go back and I'll burn some paper money for you. The group left quickly, bribed a prodigal son to find the body, and then the trouble came out. The chief catcher also signed an agreement with the Sun family, that is, the height and posture were wrong, and they were also asked to identify the corpse, and each family could get 100 taels of silver after the incident. It turned out that Sun Fang and the others did not die, but were instructed by them to hide in the kiln. They originally planned to kill these two people directly to confirm my murder crime, but the two of them hid very hidden, and they couldn't find it for a while, so they found two substitute ghosts. ”

Youshu paused, and Zhao Zhizhou hurriedly stepped forward with a teacup and fed him carefully and considerately. Moistened with lips and tongue, Youshu continued, "This matter is actually very simple. On that day, Sun Magpie and Fang Sheng's cheating was a good game, and someone deliberately lured me to watch it, so that the two of them jumped into the river and cheated to death in a scuffle with me. Then his mother came forward to accuse me, and I was too obsessed with false evidence to carry out the crime, one for extorting money, and the other for power. As the so-called principles of heaven are clear and negligent, you think you have done it perfectly and seamlessly, but you can't hide it from the ghosts and gods. Those who died unjustly are looking at you. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a gust of wind blew in the public hall for no reason, and the white cloth covering the corpse was lifted by the wind, revealing the festering face of the deceased. The face suddenly turned in the direction of the head catcher, and the eyes that had been closed suddenly opened, revealing blood-red, hateful pupils. The head and legs of the general catcher were weak, and he knelt down directly, kowtowing and shouting, "Don't blame me, it's all instigated by Lord Taishou!" If you want to take revenge, you should also find him! ”

"Death, the dead have appeared! The deceased is really always killed by the head! He admitted it himself! One of the people shouted, and the rest of the people immediately made a fuss.

Taishou staggered to his feet, and was about to escape, when another yin wind suddenly rushed towards him, blowing off the official hat he had just put on not long ago.

The meaning of this is self-evident, there are indeed unjust souls above the court, and they are avenging themselves. Not only did he stand on the spot, but his soul was scattered, but even the people outside were shocked and unspeakable. Without any evidence, they had already believed the teenager's words. He didn't kill anyone, every qiē was a hoax!

Only then did Shi Shiran stand up and arch his hand, "The grass people implore the adults to confront this catcher in front of the court, so as to return the innocence of the grass people and prove the innocence of the adults themselves." ”

Zhao Zhizhou also threw up his sleeves and said angrily, "All the things in the court, this official will definitely write a report to the emperor in 1510." The soul of injustice is not dispersed, the way of heaven is unfair, and another official needs to be sent to investigate this matter to the end! Colleagues, Zhao asked you to help make circumstantial evidence, so that I could give an explanation to the soul of the deceased. ”

The people who can appear in the hall are all too guarded henchmen, and they naturally won't deal with Zhao Zhizhou before. But there are unjust spirits hovering and wailing overhead, and if you don't want to provoke resentment, this request cannot be refused, and you can only know that everything is said and said. They hurriedly got up and bowed their hands, full of promises, their foreheads and backs were already wet with sweat.