"Tomb robbery!?"

When everyone heard the word go to Jiji, their eyes couldn't help but widen.

"That's right, it's tomb robbing."

He explained: "It was the day before the festival, on the seventh day of the lunar month, I went to visit my uncle's house in Daqingli, and when I came back, I encountered a light rain from the sky, and in the wilderness between Daqingli and Chaoyangli, a hut sheltered from the rain, and the house was originally used to see the fields, and no one used the fields after they were abandoned. ”

"After waiting for a long time, I fell asleep unconsciously, and when I woke up, it was almost dark, and the rain was still falling outside, and a few people had come outside the house and were arguing. When I saw that they were carrying swords, lest they be thieves, I hid at the bottom of the couch and did not let them see them, and I heard what they had discussed......

He heard at least four people talking in the house, complaining about the bad weather, otherwise, the tombs of the nobles of Chu Shi would have been dug up smoothly and all the gold, silver and bronze utensils inside would be transported out and sold......

When the rain had stopped, the men went away, and with great courage, they followed them up the mountain, only to find that they were digging under a hidden mountain, and that they were indeed robbing tombs. Before being discovered, he hurriedly fled with a crawl, and when he returned home at night, he fell ill.

"It's really hurtful to rob a tomb."

Pu Zhang muttered that he was already half of the age when he was buried in the ground, and he had asked his children and grandchildren to help him find a place to be buried, so he valued it very much. I heard that someone was robbing the tomb nearby, and he suddenly felt sad that the rabbit and the fox were dead, and he didn't want to be dug up again after death, and his bones were thrown into the wild, and his soul was uncertain.

Several other young people did not have his feelings, and were discussing the reliability of the matter.

Dongmen Leopard said: "Between Daqingli and Chaoyangli, there is a wilderness, how can there be any noble graves." ”

Ji Ying was also a little unconvinced: "I'm also from my hometown, why haven't I heard of it." ”

"Yes, indeed."

Liham spoke, his face gloomy: "There are also legends in my family, although there have been no major tombs in recent decades, but there were many hundreds of years ago. ”

"Hundreds of years ago?" Everyone was a little surprised, they were a little far away from them.

Li Xian said: "However, they are all the cemeteries of some county dukes and feudal monarchs in the Chu State, my uncle said, there are not many others in the Chu State, these nobles are the most, the feudal monarchs are numerous, the fiefs are large, miscellaneous, there are several within a hundred miles." After the death of these nobles, they went around looking for burials near mountains and rivers, and there were many of them in Anlu County alone. ”

Li Xian was born in the Li family, and when the Li family ruled the Jiang and Han countries in the Chu State, he was a little doctor, and his understanding of the old days of those nobles was much better than that of the black man and their bitter background.

Hefu had also heard of the luxury of burial for the nobles of this era: the coffin had to be multi-layered, the burial had to be deep, the clothes of the deceased had to be many, the embroidery accompanying the burial had to be rich, and the tomb had to be tall.

In particular, when the princes and feudal lords died, they had to empty the treasures stored in the treasury, and then decorate the bodies of the deceased with gold and jade jewels, tie them with silk wool belts, and bury the chariots and horses in the caves, and they must make more curtains, bells, drums, feasts, wine jugs, mirrors, swords, feathers, ivory, and leather, and bury them in the deceased's dormitory, and then be satisfied.

This status quo, although strongly discouraged by the Mo family, still does not help. Compared with the Central Plains, Chu is especially prevalent in thick burials, Chu people are influenced by various myths and ghosts, and attach great importance to the afterlife, and also make up a series of gods in charge of life and death such as the big priest and the young priest to worship, and the incense is still endless.

As the hometown of the Chu State, Nanjun has many tombs of the nobles of the Chu State hidden in the mountain col, because of its heavy burial, it has attracted the greedy eyes of tomb robbers. Most of the descendants of these noble tombs of Chu moved east with the king of Chu more than 50 years ago, and could no longer take care of the blood food of their ancestors, which intensified the rampant tomb robbery, and Nanjun became a paradise for tomb robbers.

However, the Qin government did not acquiesce to this behavior because it was the tomb of the nobles of the Chu State who was stolen. On the contrary, the Qin State also believed that tomb robbers digging people's ancestral graves were harmful to nature and inferior to beasts, so they "banned them with severe authority and felony", and legislated to severely punish tomb robbers!

Tomb robbery, especially the tomb robbery of multiple people, happened in their small Huyang Pavilion, which is definitely a big case!

Heifu got up and said: "There is a saying in the "Law of Robbery" that stealing a mound (tomb robbery) is the same crime as murder and wounding a person...... Whistleblowers, arresters, and rewards! ”

He looked at the illness and said with some regret: "Gongshi is sick, you are neither false accusation nor slander, what is there to see?" Why don't you come to the pavilion to report the case in person, or tell Li Zheng and let Li Zheng inform the villagers? In that case, there will be no punishment but also a reward. Why bother to make this decision and use an anonymous letter to submit a book? ”

Qu Ji also heard Heifu's regret, and said with a wry smile: "The good sect pavilion chief knows that when I came, I was confused for a while, because the bride in the family was pregnant, so I didn't want to take risks. But I couldn't turn a blind eye, so I came up with the idea of sending an anonymous letter to inform the government, whether it succeeded or not, at least it could make me have a clear conscience. At first, I was lucky, thinking that no one could guess that it was me, but who knew that the pavilion chief was like a god, and found my house the next day......"

This is also human nature, to go to the disease is just a little public with no background, but there are several of those tomb robbers, in case after he denounces, the government does not catch the thief, but those thieves know that it is to complain, and they are angry and angry, what should they do to retaliate against his family?

"There is a second reason...... "I stopped talking again, looked at the people in the room, stared at Heifu and said, "I only said that I listened to the pavilion chief alone!" ”

……

When the black man had sent everyone out, he turned back and asked, "Everyone is gone, and if you want to say anything, just say it." ”

"I'm going to thank Pavilion Chief first."

He bowed to the ground on the straw mat: "Pavilion Chief Xie didn't tie me with a rope in front of my wife today, and said that she was just looking for me to ask, otherwise with her weak temperament, she would definitely be frightened......"

Heifu asked him to get up: "Although I am the pavilion chief and enforce the law according to the law, who does not have parents, wives and children?" Where you don't have to be embarrassed, I don't deliberately make things difficult. ”

Go smiled bitterly and said: "I have also heard some laws in the township, and I know that I have committed a crime this time, but I don't know what kind of punishment will be imposed, and I hope the pavilion chief can tell me." ”

"Anonymous submission, a fine of the top three, equivalent to more than 4,000 yuan, if you can't pay it off, you will do labor for the government."

Heifu said: "With your family's financial resources, it's not difficult to pay it off, right?" ”

"The pavilion chief thinks highly of me, these four thousand dollars are enough to bankrupt my family." Go to the bitter face.

The rich people's homes in this era were probably about 100,000 yuan, with cows, horses, and servants. The Chinese family, about 20,000 yuan, can afford to raise cattle. The Heifu family has barely touched the 10,000 yuan standard now, and I thought that the family situation of this disease would be better, but it was even worse?

He began to complain, saying that he had spent thousands of dollars when he got married last year, and now he did not have much money left, and he was afraid that he would have to sell everything in the family and even his little wife's dowry in order to make up the fine.

"My wife's dowry must not be sold, it is emergency money, and I have to raise her to grow up when I have children."

He gritted his teeth: "It's really not good, I'll go to work for the government." ”

He sighed one sentence at a time, and said it was very desolate, with this sick body, I am afraid that he will not be able to do heavy work.

Although Heifu was sorry and sympathetic, and even a little apologetic, it was impossible for him to just let go of the disease.

In the Qin State, as an official, the "arson" was to be punished severely, and he was a ghost, and Heifu didn't want to shave his hair and go to be the companion of the former Huyang Pavilion Chief.

It is impossible for him to conceal the truth and report the crime of mitigating the disease, so that he will be guilty of "dereliction of punishment". If it is an unintentional loss of sentence, it may only result in a fine. If it is intentional, it is a crime of "not being straight."

Hehe, when the time comes, he may be sent to the more barren Qianzhong County to expand the border, and the Huyang Pavilion that framed him begged to be stolen and bought, it seems to be in Qianzhong County.

Heifu could only say sorry in his heart: I'm sorry, I'm a police officer.

Then comforted and said that if he went to the county tomorrow and could explain the matter clearly, maybe the prison would be lighter?

In this regard, even Heifu himself is not sure, thinking that the iron-faced selflessness of the prison Pengxi knows that he will never let go of any violation of the law.

But he was encouraged, and he bowed again: "Thank you, Pavilion Chief, then I'll tell the truth!" ”

He raised his head and made up his mind: "Pavilion Chief, the reason why I would rather submit a letter than dare to report it in person is because, that day, the thieves who robbed the tomb mentioned a person's name when they were discussing!" ”

"Who?" Heifu asked.

He lowered his voice and said word by word: "In the rising sun, in the prison gate!" ”