Author: Wang Weifu, 15399815389

1

It would be fine if Lin Yuan threw all the corpses into the river, but he was careless, and a few pieces of bloody human flesh fell along the way, causing a big injustice.

Early the next morning, a large number of people around the corpse were discussing, and there were already well-wishers who reported to the county government, and the official Xiong Youcai hurriedly reported to the warden Zhao Yuan, Zhao Yuan was shocked, and summoned a group of people to catch heads, arresters, and make a group of people, and hurried to the scene to investigate under the leadership of well-wishers.

The accustomed trappers were busy investigating, collecting evidence, and searching for the surrounding people, and the procedures for solving the case were orderly, and after dawn, more than a dozen pieces of corpses were found near the river. When the news spread, the entire Chenzhou was boiling, and the people were panicked for a while, and the people were talking about it.

At the end of the day, the prefect Liu Luo, fellow acquaintance Cheng Wan, and judge Yu Qiao sat upright in the second hall, anxiously listening to the reports of the warden Zhao Yuan, the head catcher Zeng Xing, the arrester Jiang Tao, Xiong Youcai, He Ye, Wang Chong, and Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan first introduced: "According to the pieced together corpse parts, the deceased was twenty-five or sixteen years old, a woman, with short hair and long face, who was violently beaten on the head, chest, abdomen and other parts of the body to death, and the time of death was last night, and the body was divided into dozens of pieces by sharp weapons, and was abandoned along the riverside, bamboo forest and river water. ”

Trapper Xiong Youcai said: "According to the reaction of the people, no suspicious person was found at the scene of the body dumping last night, and no people were missing inside or outside the city. ”

Wang Chong said: "There is a wine jar at a corpse dumping site in the mountains and forests, and a men's shoe is extracted from another corpse dumping site. ”

As soon as Wang Chong finished speaking, the captor Liu Zhan hurriedly broke in: "Ladies and gentlemen, Liu Guozheng, the shopkeeper of the Chunfeng Inn, reported that the maid Yang Jie he hired went out to buy vegetables yesterday morning and did not return, and I have brought the shopkeeper Liu ......"

After asking Liu Guozheng, he learned that Yang Jie was 25 years old, fled from Guizhou, hooked up with the guests on weekdays, begged for some small money and pocket money, and did not return from shopping for vegetables on the street yesterday morning.

Zeng Xing, the head catcher, said: "Although the body is incomplete and difficult to identify, there is no doubt that the deceased should be Yang Jie." Yang Jie is alone in Chenzhou to make a living, and often has eyebrows with those swingers, so the prostitute is the most suspected. And because the location of the crime was near the remote bamboo forest by the river, it is expected that the murderer should be an old prostitute and knew the deceased very well, otherwise how could the deceased follow the murderer to such a remote place late at night? The murderer is very familiar with the vicinity of the state city and should be a local. In addition, the murderer's corpse should be a coarse person such as a habitual murderer or a butcher......"

Zeng Xing has been a head catcher in Chenzhou for nearly 30 years, and his analysis ushered in a round of applause, and Cheng Wan, Yu Qiao and others were all praised. Cheng Wan approvingly: "Zeng Tou is reasonable. Yu Qiao nodded and agreed: "There is Zeng Tou, why worry about not solving this case." ”

Liu Luo said: "The murder case was discovered this morning, and in only half a day, the facts of the case have been clear, and it all depends on your strength. You should investigate those suspicious people such as swingers, stateless villains, habitual prostitutes, and vicious butchers in this house, and this official will solve this murder case within a month and restore peace and tranquility to the people of Chenzhou. ”

2

After more than ten days of investigation and covert visits, no habitual murderers were found, no stateless villains were found, and no habitual prostitutes and swingers were caught, but Xiucai Wang Shan was captured in accordance with the law. Because, some people secretly told Wang Shan that he had insulted Yang Jie at the door of the Spring Breeze Inn and threatened to kill her.

Wang Shan, a native of Liancun, Chenzhou, forty-eight years old, was originally a showman in the house, and then repeatedly participated in the township examination and failed, in order to make a living, he studied hard, and occasionally went out with his father-in-law who was a butcher to kill pigs to make a little money, and now he has fifteen years of experience in holding a knife, and he is half a butcher.

The interrogation begins!

Wang Shan was restrained by wooden shackles and sat on the cold iron chair shivering. As soon as the official came in, Wang Shan eagerly defended as if he had seen a savior: "The villain didn't kill anyone, why did the adults arrest the villain?" ”

Zeng Xing smiled and said calmly: "Wang Shan, you have something to say to the county master." ”

A group of wolf-like servants picked up Wang Shan and dragged him out to the court, but seeing the majesty of the officials on both sides, Zhizhou Liu Luo slapped the shocked wood and shouted: "Wang Shan, are you guilty?" ”

Wang Shan defended: "Adult, the villain is not guilty. ”

Liu Luo sneered: "Tell me about your quarrel with Yang Jie!" ”

Wang Shan paused: "Oh, this, the villain passed by the inn that day, there was a woman peach and willow green, at a glance she knew that she was not a good person, she greeted the villain at the door of the inn demonically, the villain was born in a show, familiar with the sage article, how could he hook up with her, so he ignored her." Unexpectedly, not far away, I heard her calling me a 'poor ghost' behind my back, I was annoyed for a while, and when I turned around, I scolded, 'Slut, don't look down on people!' ’。 The villain didn't know that her name was Yang Jie at the time. ”

Liu Luo asked, "You threatened to kill her?" ”

Wang Shan replied: "Her scolding words are harsh and mean, and the villain was angry for a while, so she said, 'women should not be arrogant, provoke me too much, I will kill you.'" But this is angry talk, Wang Shantang is talented, how can he kill someone for such a trivial matter? ”

Liu Luo was furious when he heard this, slapped the table, and shouted: "Wang Shan, I see that you are also a local, a villager in the village, and you have a good reputation, I intend to give you a chance to surrender and confess, you don't know what to do!" ”

This anger frightened Wang Shan, and he was so shocked that he was speechless......

Liu Luo saw that Wang Shan refused to confess, so he ordered a big punishment to serve, how could Wang Shanning die and not recruit, Liu Luo had no choice but to order Wang Shan, who was covered in bruises, to be put into the cell, and ordered Zeng Xing to take someone to Wang Shan's house to search carefully.

In the evening, Liu Luo and others were discussing the murder case in the second hall, and Zeng Xing reported: "A kitchen knife, an axe, several clothes, two pairs of shoes, and three booklets were found from Wang Shan's house. Upon examination, there were no traces of blood on knives, axes, clothes, and shoes, nor were there any women's hair, silk threads, or other objects attached to the clothes. ”

Zeng Xing took the pamphlet and flipped through it casually, there is really no value in solving the case, but there is a poem "Xijiang Yue" on the first page that is well filled in, and the words say:

red, red, green, and green wine and meat,

Lonely and empty.

Forty lives do not come out,

Reading the spring and autumn of the millennium in vain.

Bustling the world,

Hurrying for ten thousand years.

The beautiful woman of the wooden building is shallow by the stream,

Better than the Kunlun immortals.

Zeng Xing didn't understand the meaning, and handed over the words to Zhao Yuan, who read and put them out, but couldn't figure it out, and handed them over to the prefect Liu Luo.

After reading the words, Liu Luo thought to himself: "The deceased Yang Jie was an inn prostitute, and she usually went in and out of bright places, which was just "red, green, and green". Wang Shan has also read books for a few years, knows a few words, is arrogant, and it is not an exaggeration to boast that he has read the "Spring and Autumn Period of the Millennium". The scene of the crime was in the bamboo forest by the stream, and there happened to be a broken wooden house in the bamboo forest. ”

Thinking of this, Liu Luo couldn't help but stroking his palms and laughing: "As the saying goes, evil cannot prevail over good, and no matter how cunning the fox is, it can't escape the eyes of hunters." The bloodstains on the murder weapon, clothes, and shoes can be washed away, but the heavens are clear, and the retribution is not happy. ”

The others didn't know what they meant, and they all asked, "My lord, why is this a confession?" ”

Liu Luo said triumphantly: "Your Excellency will know in a while, Zhao Dian, take this thief to the court, and the official has his own clever plan to confess." ”

Zhao Yuan received the order, and hurriedly ordered people to beat drums to ascend to the hall, and the prefect Liu Luo saw Zeng Xing and others bringing prisoners, and shouted: "Wang Shan, are you guilty?" ”

Wang Shan pleaded weakly: "The adults are clear, and the villains are not guilty." ”

Liu Luo threw the pamphlet into the ground and said angrily: "The evidence of the crime is here, how can you deny it?" ”

Wang Shan picked it up and saw that it was the booklet that he kept accounts and cursive poems, but for some reason it became evidence of murder, and asked blankly: "Please make it clear." ”

Liu Xiao sneered: "The "Xijiang Moon" in the booklet was made for you? ”

Wang Shan replied: "Although the villain is a butcher, he is a talented person and can write poetry, and this word is indeed filled in by the villain in his spare time." ”

"What does that mean?" Liu Luo asked with a sneer.

"The villain has a window, surnamed Huang Mingsheng, the two of us often drink for fun, that day after drinking home, thinking that I am nearly fifty years old and still have no meritorious official position, a moment of sadness, born of the intention of retreat, so I filled in this "Xijiang Moon".

Liu Luo sneered again: "Okay, you Wang Shan, you have to quibble in front of the official." I don't know? Yang Jie is a dusty woman, often going in and out of places where the lights are red and the wine is green, and this is 'red, red, green and green'. Although you have the intention in your heart, she is ruthless, so you are depressed, this is 'lonely and empty'. You designed to trick Yang Jie into the bamboo forest by the stream outside the city and forcibly rape her, happy and comfortable, this is 'the shallow stream of the beautiful woman in the wooden building, better than the Kunlun immortals'. Although you have Yang Jie's fragrance, you will not be able to get the heart of her beauty, so you have to kill her. The murder scene is all in the words, how to deny it? ”

Wang Shan listened to the prefect's revelations, and was inexplicable for a while, intending to argue again, Liu Luo said angrily: "I see that you are a brutal villain, if you don't move the heavy punishment, you will definitely not be recruited, and if you come, you will be punished and waiting." ”

Wang Shan pleaded loudly, but a group of arresters had already pressed people to the ground, let you call the sky and grab the ground, I only beat with a stick. Seeing that Wang Shan was beaten to the ground, Liu Luo just sneered.

After several tortures, Wang Shan swore to die, and Liu Luo had no choice but to order Wang Shan to be taken down again and tried another day.

Zhao Yuan praised: "The adults are sharp-eyed, and they found the real murderer with just one word, and the officials admired it." It's just that although this thief is a showman, he has been a butcher for more than ten years, his body is tough, and he doesn't confess to death, how can he be good? ”

Liu Luo smiled and said: "Okay, all the villains are stubborn and brutal, after committing a mortal crime, there are many thoughts of escaping by luck, as long as they are tortured a few more times, and slowly defeat their defensive hearts, they will naturally confess, I dare to conclude that within five days, this thief will be recruited." ”

Sure enough, after the continuous execution, Wang Shan confessed on the fourth day.

Liu was overjoyed and immediately wrote down the verdict:

The villain Wang Shan, who has a beautiful wife at home, although he reads the books of sages, does not abide by the way of a gentleman, looks for flowers and willows, and insults Sven. Good and Yang Jie, often have gold and silver friends, occasionally have a happy life, but after all, they have different dreams in the same bed, although there is a gift from Zhou Gong, how can the love of the dragon and phoenix? Throughout the ages, the joy of fish and water will be shared, and the friendship of wine and meat will be extinguished. Good and Yang Jie, the love of the wind and the moon is exhausted, and the financial interests are present, the two quarrel and insult each other, so that the love is full of hatred, and love is hateful. The king thinks of good and evil all his life, forgets benevolence and righteousness early, kills people with knives, breaks corpses and abandons the wilderness, gods and men are angry, and heaven does not tolerate it. In accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, this state demonstrated justice and followed the principles of heaven, and sentenced Wang Shan to behead him, showing the world as a lesson.

3

Wang Shan's crime was cruel and violent, and the people were extremely angry, and they should be killed by law, and the verdict was issued, and the people cheered, hoping that the law would be corrected as soon as possible and the principles of heaven would be revealed.

However, Wang Shan's life was great, and when he walked to the ghost gate, he was kicked back by black and white impermanence.

It turned out that during the detention, the jailer Li Chong checked the room in the middle of the night, and when he found the cell where Wang Shan was, he heard a noise in the house, so he opened the door and entered the house to check, and found that the brawl prisoner Lu Si was holding his stomach in the quilt**, Li Chong secretly thought: "Lu Si's family is a big local household, and he just received twenty taels of silver from his father during the day, and Lu's father asked me to take care of his baby son, and I will have to rely on this cash cow to make a fortune in the future. Thinking of this, Li Chong was overjoyed, and immediately took Lu Si out and sent him to the duty room to rest, at this time the other jailer on duty had already fallen asleep, Li Chong said: "You rest here for a while, I will pour you a bowl of Xuanhu hot soup to eat, this medicine can best relieve pain." You are lucky today, I am on duty, if you change to someone else, no one will care about you if you die. ”

Li Chongman thought that this piece of kindness would definitely make Lu Si grateful to him, but Lu Si was a femme fatale, he saw that it was quiet in the dead of night, and no one else was present, so he suddenly pounced on Li Chong's neck from behind and pinched Li Chong's neck hard, intending to kill people and escape from prison.

Li Chong was hugged behind his back, his neck was pinched, and he couldn't break free for a while, and his life was in danger.

It happened that Wang Shan was troubled because of his grievances, and he couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, and when he heard a noise outside and saw the cell door open, he cautiously walked out of the cell and came to the outside of the duty room, and happened to see this thrilling scene.

When Wang Shan saw Lu Si's murder, he hurriedly ran over to help, and then shouted for help. The sleeping jailer on duty jumped up and hurriedly ran over with Wang Shan to open Lu Si Petal and save Li Chong's life. Dozens of jailers who heard the news beat Lu Si with sticks, only to be beaten in all directions, blood flowed, and he died.

Coincidentally, Li Chong's uncle was Xu Jing, the political envoy of Hu Guangbu, who instructed Liu Luo to exempt Wang Shan from the death penalty in order to repay his kindness. Liu Luo did not dare to disobey, and discussed with his fellow acquaintances, judges and others overnight, anyway, Yang Jie had no relatives in the family, and Wang Shan's murder case did not have a bitter complaint, so Wang Shan was sentenced to exile in Hengzhou prison on the grounds that he had killed a prostitute by mistake first and had made meritorious contributions to saving people later.

In this way, Wang Shan escaped death and miraculously picked up a life.

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Li Chong is the root and seedling of three generations of single transmission, Li's father is grateful to Wang Shan for saving his son's life, and personally saw him off on the day of distribution, repeatedly telling the escorted officials to take care of Wang Shan carefully all the way and not to embarrass him. When he arrived in Hengyang, the official said: "Wang Shan, if you don't die, you will have a blessing, this is the thirty taels of silver that Li Yuanwai gave you, this wealth is not touched by your brothers, but there is dirt and dirt in the prison, and you are a rich prisoner who can do it yourself." ”

As soon as he entered Hengyang Prison, Wang Shan felt aggrieved, refused to accept supervision, and often quarreled with the jailers, claiming to be wronged. The jailer was furious, dragged Wang Shan out and beat him, almost taking the life of the wronged prisoner, and after repeating this several times, Wang Shan finally quieted down.

On this day, the prison drove 50 prisoners to Huiyanfeng to lay stone slabs in Huiyanguan, and Wang Shan was also one of them. When the prisoners were working in the courtyard outside the Sanqing Palace, Liu Ming, the prison officer who led the team, asked the Taoist priest to return to the Yanfeng and the origin of the Yanguan, and the Taoist priest replied: "This peak is the head of the seventy-two peaks of Nanyue, every winter, the north goose comes to the south, and after flying to this peak, it will no longer go south, all spend the winter here, you look at this mountain shape again, quite like a wild goose stretching out its neck and raising its head, spreading its wings and wanting to fly, so the mountain name is 'Hui Yan Peak', and the temple is called 'Hui Yan Guan'. ”

After listening to this, Zhang Ming turned to the busy prisoners and said, "Did you hear that?" No matter how big the crime is, you should reform and turn back from today onwards. Everyone worked hard, and when they finished work, they all went to the Sanqing Hall to kowtow to the Sanqing Patriarch and repent of their sins, and strive to return to the right as soon as possible. ”

After the end of the work, Liu Ming really let each prisoner into the hall to bow, the prisoners after the kowtow out of the hall to wait for the roll call, Zhang Ming cleared his throat, stretched the voice one by one, everyone was there, but did not see Wang Shan, so he shouted loudly: "Wang Shan......" did not respond for a long time, Wang Ming was furious, and shouted twice "Wang Shan." Still no answer.

Wang Ming hurriedly broke into the main hall, only to see Wang Shan standing in the hall in a daze, looking up at the statues of Yuan Shi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, and Daode Tianzun in the center of the hall, his eyes were pious and did not move.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Ming's heart trembled slightly, and the fiery anger just now suddenly disappeared into invisibility, and when he walked into the main hall, he respectfully bowed to the statue of Sanqing three times, and then reminded softly: "Wang Shan, it's time to go back." ”

This soft voice carried three respects, which made the prisoners very strange, this was not the tone that Liu Ming usually spoke to the prisoners.

Wang Shan silently bowed three more times, and then silently walked out of the main hall and lined up with the prisoners.

That night, Wang Shan sent a letter to his brother Wang De, instructing his brother to send a few Taoist scriptures to the prison as soon as possible.

Wang Shan has converted to Daozu.

After that, in addition to working, eating, and sleeping, Wang Shan spent the rest of his time with books, and the prison guards saw that he was addicted to Taoist books and no longer messed around, and they were also optimistic about his success. Since then, Wang Shan has become a Taoist priest in prison, meditating all the time and helping others.

But the jailer and other prisoners often snickered in private: if they committed this great sin, even if they recited the scriptures for three lifetimes, they would not be punished in hell after death.

Lin Yuan abandoned Yang Hui in the river, originally thinking that she would harm others during her lifetime and not affect others after her death, but she didn't know that fate was determined and manpower was hard to resist.

The good do good and the good always remains, but the evil persists after the death of the wicked.

Good and evil are impermanent, and there are several people who are difficult to disobey.