In the early morning, the yamen of the Liangzhejiang Road Punishment Division gradually revealed its tall appearance from the morning light, the red pillars shined in the rising sun, shining brightly, and there was a compelling momentum between the eaves and arches, and it was precisely because of this invisible momentum that ordinary people would always subconsciously walk around, and rarely could maintain a calm attitude in front of it, and even the hawkers did not want to sell in front of this strong yamen on weekdays.

There is a small stream next to the Criminal Division, there is a walkway for the miscellaneous servants in the yamen to enter and exit by the stream, the people are sparse during the day, and it is even more quiet at night, and there are a few osmanthus trees growing in the alley, and the shade is like a cover.

On this day, Peng Erxi, as usual, began to sprinkle and sweep the corridor courtyard of the yamen on time, sweeping and sweeping, he inadvertently looked up, and suddenly found a person hanging on the osmanthus tree in the alley, Peng Erxi couldn't help but wipe his eyes, thinking that he was wrong.

It's still there! It's really still there, it's really a person, hanging naked from a tree, not bounced.

Peng Erxi thought it was a dead man, so he screamed loudly in fright, and soon attracted several people from the Criminal Division, and even Yu Yingxian was shocked by the punishment, and hurriedly walked out of the back office, he was a man in his fifties, his beard was a little gray, and his face was well-lined, and he looked extremely tough.

"Peng Erxi! Why are you making so much noise early in the morning? ”

Yu Yingxian's reprimand made Peng Erxi breathe a sigh of relief, as if he had found the backbone of the heart, and said to Yu Yingxian, who walked out of the front yard quickly: "My lord, look, there is a person hanging from the tree!" I don't know if it's dead or alive. ”

Yu Yingxian saw that it was not true, and was surprised, and took the lead in pushing open the side door leading to the alley, and went out to see what was going on, Peng Erxi's shouting just now was too loud, and even some people on the street heard the sound at this time, and watched in twos and threes, whispering.

When Yu Yingxian walked under the tree, he found that the person hanging from the tree was Miao An of Qiantang Zhixian County, Miao An had no spirit on his body, his ugliness was exposed, and his fat flesh was shining under the rising sun, and he was shining brightly, and it could be seen that his chest and abdomen were gently undulating and breathing evenly, and he was obviously still alive!

"Quick, go up and put the person down first!"

Under Yu Yingxian's order, a servant of the Criminal Division was busy planning to climb up, but as soon as his hand touched the trunk of the tree, he noticed that it was coated with a layer of grease, and he didn't leave his hand, and it was impossible to climb up as usual.

Yu Yingxian also noticed this, and immediately said, "Hurry up and go back and move the ladder!" ”

There are more and more people coming around, Miao An is an official of the court after all, and now he is naked and hung on a tree, it is always bad to spread it, Yu Yingxian is trying to let people drive away these onlookers, but he heard someone discuss: "Look, look, this strip of cloth is so small, how can it afford such a heavy person?" ”

"Who do you think this fat man looks like? Why do I feel a bit like the magistrate of Qiantang County? ”

"Look, look, that little strip of cloth seems to be smoking! What's going on, take a look, won't it be me dazzled! ”

In the chaotic discussion, there was everything to say, but slowly all of them were concentrated on the strip of cloth that hung Miao An, Yu Yingxian couldn't help but look up carefully, indeed, the strip of cloth was not big, and it was said that he couldn't hang such a heavy person as Miao An anyway, under the illumination of the morning sun, there was steam on the strip of cloth at this moment, if there was nothing, and it seemed to be getting weaker and weaker, and it couldn't be found if you didn't look closely.

Before the official moved the ladder, after the faint steam on the cloth completely disappeared, a light breeze blew, and the cloth suddenly broke apart with a snap, Miao An's fat body fell into the stream with a thud, splashing a large splash, and the people on the shore were so shocked that they dodged, and when the splash subsided slightly, people suddenly found that a few lines of words appeared on Miao An's originally white chest and abdomen:

lawlessness in the world,

Gods and ghosts know everything.

This fang is guilty of a thousand sins,

Why is the punishment delayed?

Those lines of words were as scarlet as blood, extremely dazzling, this sudden strange situation made the onlookers scream, some turned around and ran away in fear, and two of them even knelt on the ground in fright and kowtowed, begging the ghosts and gods not to be strange, even Yu Yingxian saw this scene, he was also shocked, in addition to the power of the ghosts and gods, he couldn't explain why these lines of blood-red handwriting suddenly appeared on Miao An's body.

In addition, the strange strip of cloth just now, which should not have been hoisting Miao An, but was really hanging Miao An, and the wisps of light smoke on the strip of cloth.

It was Yu Yingxian who saw the wind and waves, and he was still slightly confused at the moment, and he didn't know what to say, but fortunately, the stream was not deep, and Miao An was stirred by the water after falling down, and began to slowly wake up.

"Ghosts! There are ghosts....... you! You're all ghosts! Ghost! There are ghosts! Someone! Come on! There's a ghost......"

Miao An just woke up, opened his white eyes, and suddenly shouted miserably, constantly fluttering in the stream, his eyes revealed endless fear, the whole person fell into a state of madness, and he was completely unaware of his nakedness, just kept shouting, fluttering in the water that didn't reach his thighs, looking at everyone's eyes as if he saw a ghost, that kind of horror, that kind of horror, and in the daytime, people couldn't help but feel a creepy feeling.

Miao An fluttered and retreated to the other bank, the blood-red handwriting on his body disappeared strangely at this time, the stream was not big, after Miao An retreated to the other bank, he shrank under a stone and shivered, and his mouth was still trembling: "Ghost...... Ghost! There are ghosts everywhere! Come on...... There are ghosts everywhere! Ghost ......"

At a glance, you can know that Miao An is crazy, at least now! After Yu Yingxian came back to his senses, he loudly ordered the officials of the Criminal Mention Division to help Miao An back to the Criminal Division, and in the past, when he, the Punishment Envoy, ordered so loudly, the officials had already executed it quickly, but this time no one moved, one or two You look at me, I look at you, and there is a look of fear on my face.

"Go! Don't go yet! ”

Yu Yingxian roared loudly again, even he didn't know why he was so angry all of a sudden, maybe he also wanted to vent something! More than a dozen officials had no choice but to grit their teeth and go to Miao An's side.

At this time, the sharp-eyed Peng Erxi said again: "My lord, there is still a piece of paper rolled on the tree!" ”

Yu Yingxian looked up again, and sure enough, there was a note where the noodles were tied to the branches.

After Miao An was brought back to the Sentencing Division, Yu Yingxian also changed into an official robe, sat in the public court and looked at the note taken down from the tree, strictly speaking, it was a confession, in the form of a question and answer, a very detailed account of Miao An's corruption and perversion of the law, and Miao An's signature was drawn on the back.

Yu Yingxian wants to believe that this is man-made, but how to explain the scene he just saw? The blood-red handwriting that miraculously appeared and quietly disappeared, the small strip of cloth that hanged people, after Yu Yingxian let people untie it, he tried it twice in person, and it was easy to tear it off, and it was impossible to hang Miao An.

In addition, Miao An suddenly went crazy and was full of nonsense, Yu Yingxian has been a criminal envoy for several years, and he has handled a lot of cases, but he can't explain these strange phenomena, except for the ghosts and gods, he really doesn't know how to explain it.

Even out of curiosity, Yu Yingxian asked the officials to try their best to find out, to find out Miao An's whereabouts in the past few days, and who the last person he saw was, in short, to find out what was going on!

At this time, the whole city of Hangzhou has almost spread, the streets and alleys are all about Miao An, and everyone says that Miao An was punished by the gods and ghosts because of bad things.

But the more outrageous it is, the more people listen, and some people are already saying conclusively that he was outside the Criminal Division, and saw ghosts flying in the air, and saw ghosts writing on Miao An's chest; Some say that the ghost is the unjust soul who was forced to death by Miao An, and looks like the so-and-so of the Kang family in the original Fushoufang; There are also some people who have done bad things and are busy running to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha.

Yang Yi also quickly heard all kinds of rumors, although everyone said differently, but one thing was the same, that is, Miao An was crazy!

Yang Yi didn't expect to be so frightened by pretending to be a ghost, and he scared Miao An crazy, the drugs he gave Miao An to drink can indeed make people hallucinate in their hearts after seeing certain phenomena, for example, when he forced Miao An to confess, it was like hypnosis, as long as he gave a slight prompt, Miao An would naturally say what he had done.

Now it's up to Han Bi'er and the three of them, as long as they don't show any horses, this matter will not be found on Yang Yi.

The people from the Criminal Division went to Qiantang County to check, and soon followed the clues to find Han Bi'er's courtyard, the two servants who followed Miao An last night were still squatting outside the courtyard, like frost-beaten eggplants, complaining in their hearts, Miao An was happy in it for a night, and he didn't even send a word to let them go back, or enter the hospital, and the two didn't dare to go away, and they were very sad in their hearts.

It wasn't until the people from the Criminal Department found them that they knew that such a big incident had happened, and they were stunned and rushed into Han Bier's small courtyard with the officials of the Criminal Division, but saw the two maids fainting under the corridor, and Han Bier fainted on the bed.

They were really dizzy, or 'sleepy', Yang Yi was afraid that they would not pretend to be good, so he prepared them with some potions similar to sleeping pills and let them take them.

When the three of them were woken up, their eyes were full of fear, and when they saw people, they said that they were ghosts! It's very similar to Miao An, but fortunately, they quickly settled down and recovered relatively normally, but they were always chattering in their mouths, talking about the terrible scene they saw last night.

The officials wanted to take the three of them back to the yamen to ask about the case, and the three of them didn't say a word, and after quickly cleaning up some of the softness, they urged the officials to leave quickly, as if going to the yamen to make them feel safer.

The officials saw the strange scene on Miao An this morning, and added three women to say that the courtyard was haunted last night, not to mention, these officials also felt that this small courtyard seemed to have become extremely gloomy, and they always felt that there was a strange sound coming from their ears, and they crowded into a pile again, and checked inside and out, and found nothing abnormal.

No abnormality is abnormality! On the contrary, I was terrified, and the last group of people almost rushed out of the small courtyard with each other.

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