"The shopkeeper of the inn confessed that the thief I caught in Yuyang earlier was originally the second shopkeeper of this inn."

"Oh? The shopkeeper ran away from the inn? But you intercepted it? ”

"Yes, it turns out that this thief is a wandering thief, once he was injured during a burglary, and fled to the inn at the junction of Yuyang and Liaodong, and lied that he was injured by a robber and a strongman, this thief concealed it well, and the shopkeeper of the inn also happened to need help, so he saved him, hired him as a helper, and took care of his food every day but did not pay him."

At this time, the Han government was very strict with household registration management, and each county had to collect a poll tax according to the population under the smelt, and Wei Heyi said that the thieves in Yuyang were able to wander and steal and were taken in by the inn, which shows how complicated the social situation there is.

"This thief's ambition is difficult to contain, how can he keep to himself? It didn't take long for him to hook up with the shopkeeper's woman. ”

"This guy is also a merry veteran, the mother-in-law's heart is full of joy, and he is obedient, so this thief knows the details of the shopkeeper, and carefully finds out where the shopkeeper's family is stored, and takes the opportunity to steal this house, and he is in exile for a short time, but he was caught by me."

Gou Shen said: "I see, I just said whose money is placed in a conspicuous place for others to take it? This is unreasonable, and since the thief has lost his valuable things at home, he is not suspicious? ”

Wei Heyi nodded and said, "Du Hu has also been a county order, and he is really wise!" The tomb robber was about to run away with his family, but I took someone there in time. ”

"Although the innkeeper refused to admit that he was a tomb robber under my torture, I confronted the thief with the tomb robber. This innkeeper is helpless. Only confessions. ”

The Western Han Dynasty punished tomb robbers extremely severely. The law of the Western Han Dynasty stipulates that the person who sends the tomb will be punished, and the thief will be punished, that is, all the tomb robbers will be killed, while the thieves who generally steal are punished according to the severity of the circumstances.

Tomb robbers, even when they encounter the amnesty of the Son of Heaven, cannot be pardoned, that is, "undeserved forgiveness!" ”

And usually. When a farmer cultivates the land, it is strictly forbidden to trespass on the mound in front of the mound, otherwise he will also be punished.

Before the Qin and Han dynasties, digging up graves and humiliating corpses was also regarded as a means of war between vassal states to humiliate opponents, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, in order to compete with Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, tried his best to govern the country with filial piety, and verbally opposed and stopped the theft and excavation of tombs.

Liu Bang once released Xiang Yu's ten major crimes to the world, one of which is that Xiang Yu "entered Qin without plunder, and Yu burned the Qin palace." Dig up the grave of the first emperor and collect his private wealth". Therefore, Liu Bang quickly bought the hearts of the people, and this "grave messenger punishment" became a national policy of the Han Dynasty and was inherited.

"The shopkeeper of this inn knows that he can't escape his life, and he just wants to die quickly, I want to make this case bigger, and I can be promoted, so I asked him how many accomplices he has, and where are the accomplices?"

"This person said that he was originally from Langya, because his hometown was affected by the disaster, he ran to Henan County, where he met a few tomb robbers, and in the past few years, he has also done a lot of cases, but unfortunately, there was an accident when digging the grave at the last time, and his accomplices died, crazy, and some were buried alive, that is, he himself escaped a catastrophe, and since then he has been incognito, hiding in Yuyang and Liaodong."

"What? Did they meet a ghost? ”

Wei Heyi nodded and said, "Yes!" According to his account, he went there six people, three of whom were brothers, and the other two, like him, were also outcasts and did not know where they came from. ”

"This person is responsible for digging holes at ordinary times, and there are also those who usually visit tombs, those who are responsible for opening coffins after digging holes, and those who stand guard in the wind, and each person has a different division of labor."

"He said that he had almost reached the middle of the tomb that night, and that he was also dying, and his stomach was temporarily uncomfortable, so he came out to pay tribute and replaced someone else to go in, but after a while, he heard outside the sound of drums and horns like marching battles."

"The man was strange, and hurried to the mouth of the cave, but the man who was waiting outside was gone, and he thought that he had found the goods inside, so he went inside, but when he got inside, the great tomb was empty, and his feet were full of valuable objects."

He felt that the situation was not right, and he didn't look carefully, so he haphazardly packed some things and was about to go out, when a companion smiled and didn't know where Lu Dao came from with a halberd and rushed towards him.

"Laughing?" Gou Shen was a little incomprehensible.

Wei Heyi said: "It's a smile, that's right, I heard this sentence at the time and it was just as strange as Du Hu." ”

Maybe the person described it was very terrifying at the time, Wei Heyi couldn't help but reduce his voice as he spoke: "He hurriedly dodged, calling Luan Dunzi, Luan Dunzi, but the person with the halberd ignored him at all, so he knocked that Luan Tusheng unconscious, called the names of other people a few times, and when he saw that there was no response, he didn't dare to stay anymore, so he crawled outside." ”

Gou Shen listened to Wei Heyi's words and took what he said to heart.

"When this man was halfway up, he felt that something was dragging him behind him, and when he saw it, he screamed and almost lost his soul, and crawled even more lifelessly."

"What did he see?"

Gou Shen listened to what Wei Heyi said interestingly, so he asked, "What?" Could it be a corpse? ”

Wei Heyi suddenly shuddered, gritted his teeth and said, "It's not a corpse, but a companion who came with him." ”

"What's there to fear then?"

Wei He said that Gou Shen didn't care, and said with wide eyes: "But this person said that half of his companion's face is no different from ordinary people, and the other half is almost all bones, bloody, and his eyes are gone, and there is a black hole left, how can he not be afraid?" ”

"Oh?" Gou Shen's heart moved, and asked, "What is the name of this innkeeper?" ”

"This person's name is Bao Fangquan."

"Then what kind of 'Luan Dunzi' is called Luan Tusheng?"

"Yes, Du Hu, this Bao Fangquan saw that the person dragging him behind him looked like a man and a ghost, and he had already lost half of his life in fright, but during the struggle, he felt that the person behind him seemed to be being grabbed by something and went to the grave, and he saw that the half-human, half-ghost companion was holding the egg-sized water jade with one hand."

This Bao Fangquan really wanted money and didn't want his life, he bent down and snatched the man's water jade in the narrow tomb passage, and then finally got out of the passage. Wait for him to look back. The companion was gone. He saw a pair of green eyes! ”

Gou Shen couldn't help asking, "What's that?" ”

Wei Heyi replied: "According to this Bao Fangquan's recollection, the eyes in the tomb he saw should belong to a big snake. ”

"The Great Snake?"

Wei Heyi said: "This Bao Fangquan said that if some people with identity die, they are afraid that someone will rob the tomb and destroy the coffin, so they set up a lot of organs and obstacles in the tomb, and there are poisonous gases or something, as for the release of poisonous insects, scorpions and snakes. It is also commonplace. ”

"It's just that the situation they encountered that time was the strangest."

"Then you said that the people who robbed the tomb with Bao Fangquan are all dead except him?"

"Bao Fangquan ran away after getting out of trouble, but it didn't take long for him to hear that something had happened to his stolen tomb, and the government also posted a notice offering a reward for the arrest of the tomb robbers."

"The more you say, the more strange it becomes, Bao Fang robbed the tomb with all them, but the stolen tomb has already happened, and the government has offered a reward to catch the tomb robbers, where to start?"

Wei He's opinion was disapproving, and he explained: "Blame me for not making it clear to Du Hu, it turns out that this tomb of Bao Fang is all thieves." It turned out to be the Marquis of Bowang in this dynasty. ”

"What?" Gou Shen was finally surprised: "You said that the tomb that Bao Fangquan and they stole was from Zhang Qian, Marquis of Bowang, Zhang Ziwen?" ”

Wei Heyi said: "Yes, Bao Fangquan was about to run away with the belongings from the tomb of Marquis Bowang. However, he was frightened in the tomb that night, and became ill, and he couldn't leave the gate even if he wanted to, so he recuperated for more than two months. ”

"Later, Bao Fangquan heard that something strange happened in Bowang Village, Chenggu County, someone shouted and jumped on the grave of Bowang Marquis in broad daylight, and was arrested by the Chenggu County Order, that person turned out to be a madman, he told the county order that his brother was in the tomb, and asked the county order to dig up his brother."

"The Chenggu county order saw that this person was a madman, and said that there was only Bo Wanghou in this tomb, and where there was any brother of yours, he would be expelled, but the man took the county order in a big circle and took it to a cave where the tomb was robbed, and asked the county order to send someone down from there to save people."

"Chenggu County Ling finally knew that this madman was a tomb robber who escaped, so he said, why don't you go down to save your brother?"

"How did the man answer? - The man said that he was afraid, that he had finally come out of the tomb and would never go down again. ”

Gou Shen smiled lightly when he heard this, and Wei Heyi said: "These are all things that Bao Fangquan heard later, and the Chenggu County Order imprisoned this madman and informed Huangmenlang Zhang Meng of the matter. ”

"Not long after, this madman was beheaded, and Zhang Meng later repaired the tomb of Zhang Qian, the Marquis of Bowang."

Gou Shen asked: "Do you know what the names of those tomb robbers in Ludao are?" ”

"The one who was arrested by me is called Bao Fangquan, the madman who was executed is called Luan Shuisheng, there should be one Luan Tusheng, one Luan Musheng, and the other two, one is called Li Yannian, and the other is called Tian Yanshou."

At this time, there were too many people named "Yanshou", "Yannian" and "Guanghan", and half of the ten serious names were these three names, only the surnames were different.

"After this Bao Fangquan confirmed that Luan Shuisheng was beheaded, he no longer dared to stay in the Chang'an area, and went out of the customs until he arrived in Liaodong, and he also went to the Xiongnu, but not long after, because he was not used to life and was too unstable, he finally settled in Yuyang."

"Then, this Bao Fang can confirm that he escaped from the tomb, is only the Luan Shuisheng who was executed by the Chenggu County order?"

"No, that's why he stayed away from Hangu Pass, and the secret I want to tell Du Hu is what Bao Fangquan brought out from the tomb of Marquis Bowang and Shui Yu."

"Something with Shui Yu? Could it be that Bao Fangquan snatched it from that half-human, half-ghost guy? ”

Wei Heyi said: "Yes, Duhu, I have been studying this secret for a long time, which is why I went to Wusun with all my might." ”

"And now looking at the Great Han Kingdom, that is, they all have the conditions and the ability to crack this mystery."

Wei Heyi looked at Gou Shen and said: "Du Hu doesn't need to say the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven doesn't need to do this, this matter is handed over to the Son of Heaven, it is meaningless, now Wei only wants to live, even if I want to go to Wusun now, it is impossible for me to achieve it." ”

Gou Shen's curiosity has been aroused, if Luan Musheng is the tomb robber who was with Bao Fangquan at the beginning, then he definitely did not die in Zhang Qian's tomb, but died in the hands of Wei Yan, as for that Luan Tusheng, Wei Yan has been tracking down his whereabouts.

This Wei Heyi, as well as that Bao Fangquan, what shocking secrets did they know in Zhang Qian's tomb? (To be continued......)