It is said that in the fourth year of the Tianhan Dynasty, Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, made another big move, ordering Li Guangli to be the main general and lead the army to attack the Xiongnu. Gongsun Ao was one of them, leading 10,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry from Yanmen. In Mobei, he encountered the troops of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, the battle was unfavorable, many people died, and more than 7,000 people from the 40,000 army came back, which was a capital crime. I don't know if it's because he ran out of money or other reasons, Gongsun Ao didn't redeem himself this time, changed it to a fraudulent death, and then sneaked back back and hid in a small mountain village in Xianyang.

However, many people know about his slander of General Li Ling, and the fact that he cheated his death and hid in a small village in Xianyang was soon exposed, and the whistleblower was one of the 400 warriors in the Battle of Junji Mountain, so the imperial court sent people to arrest Gongsun Ao.

The news of Gongsun Ao's arrest soon spread to the family, and Gongsun Ao's wife Lin was very anxious, but she couldn't come up with any way. In the past, you could go to the general Wei Qing, but now the general is long gone, his three sons don't have much contact, Princess Pingyang is also gone, and no one can help introduce Empress Wei if she wants to go to her, the most important thing is that the family has no money now, and after Gongsun Ao tossed it several times, the family is now very poor.

Someone proposed to go to the prince, but in a case like Gongsun Ao, it is difficult for the prince to intervene, and it is not an ordinary trivial matter, but a war related to the country, in this case, the prince does not dare to intercede with his father Liu Che for him.

These days, the Lin family can't sleep every night, according to her, as soon as she closes her eyes, the unjust soul of Li Ling's family appears in front of her, and she is asking for her life, the Li family is indeed wronged, but you can't blame Gongsun Ao for slander, anyway, when the people on the street talk about the unjust case of Li Ling's family, they say that Gongsun Ao framed it, so that their Gongsun Ao family doesn't dare to look up when they go out.

There was an old servant in Gongsun Ao's mansion, named Wu Zhong, who was very loyal, and when he saw his wife's sad face every day, and he was thin, he asked Lin: "Madam, you are now pale and in a trance, is there anything wrong with your body?" ”

Mrs. Gongsun Ao sighed: "Hey, I won't tell you, I can't sleep every night now, and when I close my eyes, I see the ghosts of the Li family in front of me, so I can't sleep." ”

"Madam, I have a fellow who can do magic and can pass through ghosts and gods, or I will ask him to come to the house to do magic and drive away all the ghosts of the Li family."

"Where is your fellow countryman?"

"He is in the Tianyi Pavilion on Muroxiang Street, he is a disciple of Mao Xian from Xianyang, Mao Xian, you have heard of it, it is the Mao Immortal who ascended to immortal during the day a few years ago, and now he is an immortal in the sky, my fellow is very good at his true inheritance, and his wife is even more powerful, and she can talk to ghosts and gods."

After hearing this, Lin immediately called Wu Zhong to invite this mage to come over and practice.

This mage is Guan Sandu of the Heavenly Doctor Hall on Muroxiang Street.

That's right, it's Guan Sandu, who has had a holiday with Jiang Chong and claims to be a disciple of Mao Ying, as I said before, this Guan Sandu is a charlatan, who used to deceive Liu Dan, and now he is mixed in Chang'an City to deceive people again.

Wu Zhong invited Guan Sandu and his wife to come to Gongsun Ao's mansion, Guan Sandu saw that Lin's face was haggard and depressed, so he said: "Madam, the cause of your illness is that the ghost of the Li family came to ask for his life, and now I want to make it clear to the ghost of the Li family, in fact, it is not Lord Gongsun Ao who framed them, let alone you, but the emperor, and the emperor wants to kill their whole family." ”

"Be quiet, Master Guan, there is a danger of being killed if you are heard by others."

Gongsun Ao hurriedly motioned for Guan Sandu to speak quietly, in case there were ears eavesdropping next door, Guan Sandu nodded and said, "Then we can only do it secretly." ”

"The fewer people who know about this matter, the better, now only the four of us know, and we can't be known by the fifth person, otherwise everyone will die."

"Madam, I know this, if you say something like this, the honorarium will be a little more expensive."

Guan Sandu, a liar, is still a fan of money, and he wants to knock the Lin family hard.

"I'll give you a little more silver, but you have to do it cleanly, so as not to get into trouble."

"Madam Gongsun, don't worry, my wife's ability to communicate with ghosts and gods is high, and now she communicates with these unjust ghosts every day, and she will make it clear to the ghosts of the Li family, telling them not to come to you again."

So Guan Sandu took out a piece of cyan silk cloth and wrote green words on it with cinnabar, to the effect that the Li family was wronged, not General Gongsun Ao slandered you, but the emperor asked your Li family to be a substitute for the dead, please don't come to Mrs. Gongsun again in the future.

After writing, he instructed Wu Zhong to go to the Shentu Yulei Temple outside the Qingming Gate in the evening at sunset.

There is a row of poplars planted on the moat outside the Qingming Gate, one of the ancient poplars, it is said that there is a Qin time, when digging the moat, it is also specially dug for avoiding this tree and digging a little more, under the poplar tree, I don't know who built a shrine there, said that it is a shrine, in fact, it is better to say that it is a Buddha shrine, it is less than three feet high, there is a statue of the god Yu Lei carved with peach wood, the left is the god Tu, the right is Yu Lei, I don't know when I don't know who built it, it has been used by these so-called mage witches as a place to pass through the ghosts and gods, It is said that every night, those unjust spirits and wild ghosts gather here, and mage witches can communicate with ghosts and gods through their practices.

As the sun set, Wu Zhong and Guan Sandu set off with that green speech, they walked along the front street of Shangguan, and went east to the Qingming Gate, seeing that they were about to arrive at the Qingming Gate, they suddenly encountered a team of royal patrol guards, all wearing embroidered clothes, wise and martial, majestic, and walking is also very rhythmic, anyway, it looks very majestic, and those who have not seen the world will be stunned when they see this scene.

No, Wu Zhong is relatively timid, and he rarely goes out to see the world, and when he sees the royal guards so majestic, he is timid, and he is very nervous when he walks and looks around.

Of course, all this could not escape the eyes of these battle-hardened guards, so they went up to investigate.

In fact, this guard is not a royal guard, but the embroidered imperial history governed by Jiang Chong, Jiang Chong is now embroidered and directly under the emperor's control, and the power is higher than that of the royal guard.

Jiang Chong was wearing embroidered clothes, wearing a long sword at his waist, and he looked majestic, only to see him riding Xiaobai and walking forward for interrogation. Originally, if it was an ordinary citizen, he would let them go if there was nothing unusual, but this time Jiang Chong encountered Guan Sandu, who killed his whole family.

Guan Sandu was also quite unlucky, and when he met Jiang Chong at this time, he had to accept his fate.

"The three of you, two men and one woman, sneaky, what are you doing out of the city?"

"My lord, we are in a hurry, and there is an urgent matter in our hometown, so we want to rush back as soon as possible."

Jiang Chong heard him speak very familiarly, so he raised the lantern and took a photo, very familiar, where have you seen it?

So he asked, "What are your names?" Where is my hometown? It's already night, and there's still a hurry. ”

Jiang Chong was carrying a lantern, so Guan Sandu couldn't see who it was, at this time Wu Zhong was timid and quick-mouthed, and said tremblingly: "The villain's surname is Wu, Mingzhong, this is called Guan Sandu, that is his wife, we are..."

When Jiang Chong heard the word Guan Sandu, his heart was really shocked, no wonder he was so familiar, it turned out to be Guan Sandu, a little bastard, and he was the one who killed our whole family, it was really a narrow road, so he ordered his subordinates to take down the three of them together and escort them back to the Zhizhi official office to listen to interrogation.

As a result, Wu Zhong was fully recruited, and Jiang Chong found the green words on Guan Sandu, which turned out to be to curse the emperor, and this was repaid, so he reported to the emperor, and the result can be imagined, the entire Gongsun Ao family was slaughtered, and Gongsun Ao was also beheaded.

A snob like Guan Sandu, in order to get a few more honorariums, dared to use this trick, and even the emperor dared to write it, it seems that he is also innocent.

Gongsun Ao's wife, Lin, was also extremely stupid, so that Gongsun Ao's entire family had to bury her.

But think about it, the wind of witchcraft in the society at that time was already very popular, especially since the last battle of Yuwushui, the Han army was really tricked by the Huns, the Huns used Hu Wu to trick the livestock, and then threw these livestock into the river, the river water was polluted, and the Han soldiers drank these river water, they were all infected with the plague, and what is even more terrible is that they have brought these plagues back to Chang'an and brought back to the Han Dynasty.

History, in the first year of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, that is, in 96 BC, the plague was rampant in Chang'an City, and after people were infected with the plague, many of them did not get treatment, but just went to ask the witch god, thinking that God blamed him, so the wind of witchcraft began to spread again.

Gongsun Ao's family is the first family to be killed because of witch Gu, and those who were killed because of witch Gu have just begun, and there will be more people involved in the future, so many that you dare not imagine, and Jiang Chong seems to have a lot of fate with the investigation of witch Gu.

The scourge of witchcraft is not far off.