Worship Ghosts and Gods and Stay Away - The Analects. Yongye》

At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius and his disciples traveled around the world to promote his political ideas, and went to defend the country twice, but did not succeed in promoting his political ideas, so Confucius had to take his disciples to Chen to try his luck, and encountered a disaster when passing through the Song State and Zheng State, first Confucius's disciple Sima Niu was seriously ill and fell into a coma several times, and then Confucius also got a similar illness and was in a coma several times. After he woke up from a coma, his beloved disciple Zilu persuaded Confucius to pray to ghosts and gods, but Confucius insisted on the view that "life and death are fate, and wealth is in heaven", rejected Zilu's persuasion, and said the words "Worship ghosts and gods and stay away".

Respecting ghosts and gods and staying away from them is also the mainstream view of the ancients on the theory of ghosts and gods.

At this moment, if it weren't for Zhou Houjie and Lord Zhou's words about the Yamen encountering ghosts, the people of the Hanlin Academy would definitely not believe it, but the words that came out of Zhou Houjie's mouth couldn't help but make everyone in the Hanlin Academy believe it first.

You must know that Zhou Houjie's character and ability are very famous in the entire capital, and there is no problem with his spirit, and this person has never told a lie.

Zhou Houjie's description is very accurate, even if Hanlin here has no personal experience, but it seems to have experienced it with Zhou Houjie, and there is a faint cool breeze behind his neck.

"This" Li Chunfang was a little speechless for a while.

"I didn't expect that the usual supernatural things can also be encountered once, I have heard before that there are unjust ghosts looking for Bao Gong to judge the case, this case is afraid that it is somewhat similar, it seems that the reputation of Lord Zhou's honesty and honesty is far and wide. Even ghosts know it. Yuan Wei held the hot tea and took a sip of tea to warm up his body, just listening to Zhou Houjie's description could feel cold.

"Where, where," Zhou Houjie shook his head and said with a wry smile.

Zhang Juzheng touched his chin thoughtfully. There seems to be a different opinion on what Zhou Houjie said about the Yamen encountering ghosts, but it seems that he is a little uncertain, after all, where is Zhou Houjie's reputation, the level of suspicion is relatively large, and he doesn't know where to start, so he fell into contemplation.

Zhang Siwei, who was next to Zhu Ping'an, was also skeptical, but looked at what Zhou Houjie said. And he also knows Zhou Houjie's reputation, and the level of belief is greater than doubt.

"I hope that the adults will think twice, and the lower officials will judge the case and the human and material evidence is conclusive. There is no doubt that the prisoner in custody was indeed the murderer, and this Zhang Dalin has nothing to do with this case. The Wanping County Commander who was sitting under Zhou Houjie gave his hand to Zhou Houjie and said.

"Conclusive? How to explain the pond dirt on the shoes? What is the explanation for the bloody murder weapon found in front of Zhang Dalin's house," Zhou Houjie pointed out several problems he found in his review of the file and during the interrogation.

The "adult" Wanping County magistrate tried to persuade Zhou Houjie again.

"Okay, Hugh has to say more, Nanshan can be moved. The North Sea can be filled. The case cannot be reversed. Zhou Houjie resolutely refused.

"Lord Zhou's case will definitely be a good story." Yuan Wei appreciated Zhou Houjie's approach very much.

"I don't seek fame, I don't seek profit, I just want a clear conscience and justice for the deceased." Zhou Houjie shook his head, and his eyebrows were full of a clear conscience.

Zhou Houjie's words were all from the bottom of his heart, and everyone could feel it, and the hall seemed to be full of righteousness and positive energy.

However. Just when this majestic righteousness was rippling, a very discordant voice was heard.

"That. Lord Zhou, how did the dead ghost go? ”

Everyone followed the sound and saw the owner of the voice, Zhu Ping'an, Zhu Ping'an's eyes were as clean as if they had been rinsed with water, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he looked at Zhou Houjie and asked.

Now is the time to be curious about this! Why is this kid so ignorant, ruining the atmosphere, do you understand! Yuan Wei and the others from the Hanlin Academy looked at Zhu Ping'an with reproachful eyes, but Zhu Ping'an was not affected at all.

"He climbed over the wall and left." Although Zhou Houjie was a little strange why Zhu Ping'an asked this question, he still answered Zhu Ping'an's question.

And so it was

Listening to Zhou Houjie's answer, the corners of Zhu Ping'an's mouth rose even more.

Unlike others, Zhu Ping'an didn't believe it at all when he heard Zhou Houjie say that the yamen encountered ghosts, Zhu Ping'an was a person who had received twenty years of atheism education in modern times, although Zhu Ping'an couldn't explain it with atheism when he came to the Ming Dynasty, and it was also very strange to see luck, but the deep-rooted atheist thought still made Zhu Ping'an's first reaction was to deny the ghost encounter.

In addition, after so many years of personal observation and experience in Daming, it is basically certain that this world is also a world without ghosts and gods, at least there are no ghosts.

Of course, you can't explain it to them with atheistic thoughts, otherwise the day is not far off when you will be tied to a pillar and burned to ashes!

Okay, you dare to say atheism, this is a slap in the face of the saint, what are we saints doing in cultivating immortals and refining pills! This is a great rebellion, heinous, the gods can't save it, oh, by the way, there are no gods to save you, you're not atheist!

Although it cannot be explained by atheism, there are always loopholes in pretending to be a ghost, and there will always be clues left.

Zhu Ping'an also got a little.

For example, this question that Zhu Ping'an asked Lord Zhou is the key to solving this ghost encounter. Zhou Houjie's answer did not disappoint Zhu Ping'an, so he hooked the corners of his lips clearly.

It's just that obviously most of the people here don't understand what the meaning of Zhu Ping'an's question is, for example, Yuan Wei looked at Zhu Ping'an's eyes with dissatisfaction, feeling that Zhu Ping'an was unreasonable and too curious!

However, there are exceptions, for example, Zhang Juzheng's eyes lit up at this moment, the corners of his mouth were also hooked, and his gaze at Zhu Ping'an was serious for the first time.

"Looks like this ghost is fake."

After Zhou Houjie answered, Zhu Ping'an smiled and said the conclusion with great certainty.

What the?

Are ghosts fake?

A burst of surprise sounded in the hall, and most people expressed serious doubts about Zhu Ping'an's words, and boos erupted.

"Why did Zhuang Yuanlang say this?" Zhou Houjie was also full of suspicions.

"Ghosts have a form but no body, they are erratic, they come and go without a trace, if they are really ghosts, they just pass through the wall, or float out of the wall, how can they climb over the wall?" Zhu Ping'an opened his mouth lightly and pointed out the key points.

Zhu Ping'an's words were like an initiation, Zhang Siwei screamed all of a sudden, and instantly understood the truth of the matter.

The others were also thoughtful, and then they all showed clear expressions.

"If I'm not mistaken, there should be footprints on the wall of the mansion where Lord Zhou is now, and it rained that day, and the ground was damp, so there would inevitably be mud staining the shoes, and there would inevitably be footprints on the wall. It is expected that Lord Zhou will send someone to investigate, and he will find something. Zhu Ping'an added another sentence and said his guess.

"Let's miss it first." Lord Zhou suddenly woke up when he heard this, apologized, and led Wanping Zhixian out of the hall quickly.

About an hour, Zhou Houjie entered the Hanlin Academy again with a grateful and smiling face, and made a special trip to thank Zhu Ping'an.

After Zhou Houjie went back, he found fresh footprints on the wall of the back office, and gentle footprints were also found on several other walls outside, so Zhou Houjie ordered the suspect who was released yesterday to be re-arrested, and after strict interrogation, it was found that the suspect took advantage of his family's visit to prison to buy off a thief who had made a light achievement, and asked him to pretend to be the deceased, and deliberately acted in the ghost revenge scene the night before, just to overturn the case.

However, it was also because the suspect was clever and showed his feet, and admitted to the harm under strict interrogation.

"Today's matter is thanks to Zi Hou, otherwise it would be a trivial matter for me to be wise in this life, and it would be a big crime to wronged a good person by doing the wrong case. Today's events, I have written to ask for credit for Zihou. ”

Zhou Houjie is really a real person, he can't pull it, he has to add Zhu Ping'an to the merit excerpt, no one can say it will work (to be continued.) )