Chapter 116: The Secret of the Two Hoops
Ai Chunguang took a sip of tea and told an unbelievable secret-
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the war led to a plague of ghosts and wolves, and Tongxi Mansion, located in the mountains, was not spared.
There is a village at the northern foot of Jinlong Mountain, named "Shuanglin Town".
There was a butcher surnamed Tian in the town who was sick, and his family was very afraid of him. But because he was strong-blooded, only twenty and three years old, married for 4 years, had a pair of children, and the family was still well-off, the villagers did not know that such a big disaster had occurred, so he was recuperating at home and not known to outsiders. Tian's wife Yin was looking for medicine in Jinlongshan, and was bumped into by the Wang family next door, and Tian's butcher's condition was exposed.
A cadre of villagers then rushed into Tian's house and moved the dying Tian butcher to the turtle slope mass grave!
Half a month later, 4 people disappeared in Shuanglin Town, and they were found a few days apart - all of them had died, one by the big pond, one in the Jinlong Mountain Pass, and one on the top of the turtle slope; There is also a floating in the pool of the dead in Tongxi...
The four families collected the corpses and wept bitterly!
King Kong (the one who carries the coffin) who has good deeds discovers—
All 4 people were cut off their thighs and their pericardiums (dirty) were removed; It is not the result of animal bites; - Is it human? How can it be so cruel!?
The strange dead man incident in Shuanglin Town is getting more and more mysterious-
Some people often claim to see a "monster" with a different head on the turtle slope at night??
This strange long hair - no face, sometimes the lower body is a lamp straw mat, sometimes it is a slices, sometimes it is a thick stump...
Day after day, there are fewer and fewer rumors among the villagers - it is the butcher of the field who "cheats the corpse" and becomes a "man": it is a person who is not a person, whether it is a strange person or not, and he is full of resentment - killing people to eliminate sorrows!!
Emperor Ming's edict - "Half Immortal" Liu Bowen personally brought people to visit?
Liu Banxian has been investigating for more than a month, and a strange thing happened:
The Dragons - not caught, and no one died again?
Liu Banxian pondered for a few days, pinching his fingers in front of all the villagers and calculating - the life of the Tian butcher should not be extinguished, and he retaliated and killed; Afraid of the strict law, he has abandoned his wife and fled away, and he will be punished - a guest will die in a foreign land!
For a while, the worries of the people of Tongxi Mansion were relieved, and they sang the praises of Emperor Ming's merits and the magic of half-immortals...
Liu Bowen, who was known as the smartest person in the world at the time, can he really pinch it? In fact, he has studied the art of tricks and the methods of detective cases very deeply. He secretly opened the coffin at night for an autopsy and found out that the murderer was a butcher; And the four people who died were the culprits who "threw the corpse" of Jiang Tian! The murderer is not a butcher - is there really a "ghost"!? It's just that it's so inconvenient to explain it to the "villagers"!
The murderer was not caught, the people's hearts had been appeased, and the rumor of "Dragon" must be broken, Liu Bowen came up with a method - to set the rules for burial:
Whoever has a weak crown to the sixtieth armor is strictly forbidden to wrap himself in the wilderness of violent corpses after death; The hands and legs of the deceased must be tightly tied with a brown rope, and the coffin must be buried! — In case of trouble.
In order to facilitate the knotting of the "brown rope", he tried repeatedly, invented the "dragon buckle", and demonstrated the binding method to the villagers:
Place the deceased's hands close to the sides and wrap two knots around the body with a brown rope behind you!
However, the villagers are ignorant and have few books, and they do not know how to buckle them, so they are easy to call "dead people's knots".
Since then, there has been no "dragon man" scourge in the local area?!
The "knotting method" invented by Liu Banxian was quite convenient and strong, but it was not accepted by the villagers at the beginning? What to do??
In order to calm the panic of the villagers, because no one was willing to do a "living demonstration", he had no choice but to ask Zhu Xingkang for help!
Who is Zhu Xingkang?
The reason for this has to start with the Chen surname Miaozhu of the Golden Dragon Temple (Chen Miaozhu is in the "Yellow Bird Three Articles (Preface)" written by "Boundless Qingfeng" - there is an explanation) -
Since Emperor Hongwu came to the Golden Dragon Temple to repay his vows, he showed Liu Ji and allocated special funds from the treasury - in the northeast side of the Golden Dragon Temple, a royal temple was built - Longzhu Temple!
In order to repay Chen Longen for the temple of the Golden Dragon Temple, Liu Bowen covered up the "crime of bullying the king" for him, and recommended Chen Xingkang, the eldest son of Longen, to Emperor Ming to serve as the dragon in the temple; And please Emperor Ming to give the "Xingkang" imperial surname - Zhu, on behalf of Emperor Ming on the day of incense to the Buddha.
Emperor Ming thought deeply that the Chen family had made great contributions to the protection of the Golden Dragon Temple, that is, he ordered Chen Xingkang to change his name to "Zhu Xingkang", and guarded the Dragon Temple for generations - highlighting the emperor's grace and praying for the blessing of the Ming Dynasty!
Liu Banxian discussed the idea of "demonstration villagers" with the father and son, and Xingkang immediately agreed...
Mr. Berwyn's merits are complete, but he let the Chen family carry it - how can the living be used as "dead", how can he be embarrassed?
Chen Longen racked his brains for this:
Because of the "Dragon" incident - it is really weird, Xingkang was tied up alive, which is really to solve problems and benefit the township, but it does damage the reputation of the Chen family?
Then set up a family motto - Zhu Xingkang and his juniors only teach the "dragon buckle" playing method, and must not demonstrate in person! But when the relatives of the deceased come to ask for it, they can only - use the bundle of firewood and grass as an analogy - the professor, and swear - never mention the "origin" of the knot!
The villagers of Shuanglin Town are very well-behaved, from the moment they see the dead knot on the firewood and grass, as long as they tie things with brown ropes, they are all in accordance with Chen Miaozhu's teachings!
For a long time, except for the oral tradition of Zhu Miaozhu - the origin of "Dragon's Buckle", few outsiders know. However, the custom of "tying two hoops - tying the knot of the dead" for the dead has been piously followed by some villagers in Tongxi Prefecture...
"Teachers-leaders, I will be a talent Xue Di - contrary to common sense, but not made it up by myself-" Ai Chunguang took another sip of tea and explained the origin of the secret:
"I'm listening to 'Zhu Hengnian' Xue Di! The last time Master Zhu saw Mr. Wang and Mr. Chen tie the knot, he chatted with me Xue about the 'ancient sayings'—
Back then, he demonstrated the 'dead man's knot' for Liu Banxian - it was he who dropped the ancestor! - Jinlongshan Longzhu Temple Di Temple wishes 'Zhu Xingkang'..."
After listening to the disciple's words, Lao K pressed off the three or five cigarette butts and said:
"Xiao Ai just said a lot, and it inspired me a lot—
The 'murderer' of the female corpse case in the bamboo forest is likely to be afraid of the deceased - 'fraudulent corpse' revenge? So after the killing, according to local customs, the victim was put in a 'second hoop'?! ”
The detectives spoke, and the detectives here nodded their heads!
Old K continued:
"From all aspects of analysis, the Xuefen case and the Yaping case are 'colluded' - there is no problem!
Judging from the murderer's habitual actions, the case of the female corpse in the bamboo forest should also be able to be combined?!
3 cases of white bones - no accident - it was the 'same person' dry land!
Cai Bureau, Qian Bureau, what is everyone's opinion? ”
Celebrity Inquiry - Silent...
The smoke in the reception room became more and more diffuse—
"I'm here, and normally, I just want to hear from everyone -- talk more -- " Cai Ju shifted his body and said solemnly:
"Kay concludes - I 'agree'!
I would like to emphasize that with regard to the 'surgical knot' -- this very important detail that has come up many times --
Everyone must 'keep it secret', this is the key to solving the case, and it is also an important basis for identifying the murderer! - At the 'General Assembly' below, do not mention?!! ”
The money bureau takes the lead - the jaw head says "yes"...