Let's say that Zhao Chongyang investigated the case for the first time, and solved a case that had plagued Kaifeng Mansion for more than a year.

In fact, since last year, some people have come to Kaifeng Mansion to report the case, and they have responded that Tu butchers are short of two catties for selling things, and they are deducting two catties for buying things, and they are making everyone's money no matter whether they are in or out. Zhang Shuye has also sent Gan to arrest the head many times to investigate and secretly visit, but he could not find any evidence of his crime. For the big difference between catties and catties, he just asked him to subsidize part of it to others.

Later, Zhang Shuye also took the scale of Tu Butcher to the scale workshop registered in the household department to test, and said that they made it there, and it was not obvious that they had done anything. He also secretly went to see the process of Tu's weighing, but he couldn't find a flaw. Unexpectedly, it turned out that the mystery was in the blanket.

Because Zhao Chongyang has just emerged in the first case after taking office, he has shown strong logical thinking ability and keen observation ability.

At that time, there was another case in Tokyo, which was reacted to a few years ago, when the Criminal Department and Kaifeng Prefecture both sent people to investigate the case, including Dali Temple, which also sent people to assist in the investigation, but after a few months, there was no result, and finally it was closed. Now, Uncle Zhang saw that Zhao Chongyang had outstanding ability, so he asked him to investigate the case.

Zhang Shuye introduced that at the end of last year, two wealthy businessmen in the capital at the same time sued the concubines in the family for not abiding by women's morals and stealing people to raise men outside, and the sons born were neither like their fathers nor like their mothers. Uncle Zhang looked at it at night, and the two sons really had no resemblance to their parents, and one of them looked like a Hu merchant from the Persian side, with a high nose, blue eyes, and deep eye sockets.

So Uncle Zhang ordered the interrogation of the two women at night, but the answers of the two women were surprisingly consistent, as if they had confessed. The two claimed: they were locked in the door of the house all day long, and they did not step out of the second door, and they usually came into contact with the maids and maids of the house, and they met the male servants of the house by chance, and they all had maids by their side, how dare they seduce their subordinates. Besides, the son is not like any of the people in the house.

Asked them if they had been pregnant for a long time, both of them said that since they went to the Temple of Mercy and Grace outside the city, in the underground Guanyin Hall, Guanyin Bodhisattva knelt in front of the golden Buddha statue and made a seven-day wish, asking the Bodhisattva to give me a son, and soon after coming back, she became pregnant.

Zhang Shuye also thinks that this incident may have something to do with the seven days when the two women went to the Temple of Mercy and Grace. He said: "But in this radius of hundreds of miles, there is an endless stream of people who go there every day to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and there is an endless stream of people who wish to make vows, just as many are young women from rich and noble families who go to ask for children. Most of the women who go to ask for children are childless or old husbands and young wives who have been married for many years, and the eldest women are infertile, so they ask for concubines to inherit their ancestors. ”

"Last year, in order to give an explanation to these two families, I went to check the underground Guanyin Hall again, and it was surrounded by stone walls, and I hit the ground and the surrounding walls with a hammer, and there was no sound at all, so as long as the door bar was killed from the inside, no one outside could enter this room anyway."

After listening to Zhang Shuye's introduction to the case, Zhao Chongyang asked: "Is there a monk in the Temple of Mercy and Grace who is a Hu merchant from Persia?" ”

"There was a Persian merchant who became a monk there. It is said that the Hu merchant came to Middle-earth a few years ago to do business, but was robbed and all his accomplices died, and he was the only one who escaped with his life and wandered everywhere, and later became a monk at the Temple of Mercy and Grace. Yes... Wait a minute, do you also think that the child who looks like a Hu man is a species of Persian Hu monk? ”

Zhao Chongyang said with a smile: "It's too early to say anything at present, give me seven days, and everything should fall into place." ”

Zhao Chongyang returned to his office, invited Shi Qian and Qiu Qionghu, and instructed them to do this and that...... He called Wu Song and Pang Wanchun again and instructed them to do so and so...... Early in the morning three days later, Zhao Chongyang asked Uncle Zhang to transfer 2,000 soldiers to the north of the city to surround the Ci'en Temple, and everyone was only allowed to enter and not go out, and then he personally took Lin Chong, Wu Song, Pang Wanchun, Shi Qian, Qiu Qionghu and Gan Yuming, the chief catcher of Kaifeng Mansion, and others, to take the capture fast into the Ci'en Temple to take people. Lin Chong was temporarily borrowed to help catch the thief.

Half an hour later, all the monks, young and old, one hundred and five people held one hundred and three, Fang Zhan and the monk refused to lie down, relying on their high martial arts to openly resist arrest, one was shot to death by Pang Wanchun, and the other was killed by Wu Song.

After a while, Gao Qiren, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and Zhang Shuye also rushed to the scene with several people. After Zhao Chongyang saluted several officials, Gao Qiren asked: "Zhao Tongzhi, you have now arrested the monks of the whole temple, and two monks died in the process of arresting, if you can't find a satisfactory reason this time, you may not even be able to keep the official." ”

"Don't worry, Lord Gao, you will immediately find out the secret passage through which these people entered the Guanyin Hall. Brother Shi and Brother Huzi went to Luohan Hall to open the secret passage. Zhao Chongyang replied while letting Shi Qian and Qiu Qionghu walk in front.

Shi Qian and Qiu Qionghu walked in front, Zhao Chongyang and they followed, and a group of seven or eight people entered the Luohan Hall. Qiu Qionghu walked up to a statue of an Arhat and removed the statue of an Arhat. Zhao Chongyang saw that the mechanism under the base was a simple password mechanism, the number of passwords was to complete a math problem, and the answer was the password.

This is the legendary cipher mechanism of the Mo family. At this time, Gao Qiren, Zhang Shuye and others also came over, and they also saw that it was an arithmetic mechanism, and the title left on the ground was: "There are thirty-four carpentry horses and stools, and there are one hundred single four-legged ones. ”

Gao Qiren and Uncle Zhang were dumbfounded at first sight. Gao Qiren frowned and said: "With such a complex arithmetic problem, where can I urgently find a master of arithmetic?" It is better to interrogate those monks next to each other, and under heavy punishment, I am not afraid that they will not be recruited. ”

Zhao Chongyang said: "I asked, only Fang Zhan and Zhike knew the answer, and the other monks said they didn't know, but unfortunately the two resisted arrest and died in the fight." But don't worry, I've already figured out the answer. There were thirty-two wooden horses, ninety-six legs, and two square stools, eight legs, and exactly one hundred and four feet. The first turntable on the left turns thirty-two times, and the second turntable turns twice, and the secret passage should be opened. ”

Qiu Qionghu turned the turntable according to his words, when the second turn was the second turn, I saw a gap between the two turntables, the ground was separated on both sides, revealing a square hole of one meter square, there was a soft ladder in the underground mezzanine next to the turntable, Zhao Chongyang pulled out the soft ladder, just enough to reach the ground of the Guanyin Hall below.

At this time, the women who came to worship Guanyin below had been alarmed by the sound. They looked at the top in a panic, they have been eating and living below for the past few days, and the meals they eat are all sent by the temple, they thought that after the gate was barred from the inside, the people outside would not be able to enter the room, and they didn't know that there was a skylight above that could go down through the soft ladder.

Now, except for the ten dusty women hired by Zhao Chongyang, who already knew everything, the other women now know that they wake up here every morning and always feel that their lower bodies are strange. They finally understood that their bodies were insulted by these monks every night, and they willingly lived here as a tool for them to quench their desires.

In order to save face for these women and their families, after Zhao Chongyang and the others followed Pang Wanchun down through the soft ladder, Zhao Chongyang first announced: "The monks in the Temple of Mercy and Grace are involved in rebellion, and now the entire temple has been sealed. The girl from Lixiangyuan hired by Kaifeng Mansion invited herself to wait in Kaifeng's Tongzhifang, and after the case was tried, they would take you to receive the reward money. ”

So Shi Qian and Qiu Qionghu walked over, took off the door bar, and let the women inside out......

In the afternoon, the Kaifeng Prefecture and the Criminal Department and Dali Temple jointly tried the case, but it involved the family privacy of many Beijing officials, and the case was not tried publicly. Because it was Zhao Chongyang who solved the case, Gao Shangshu of the Criminal Department asked Zhao Chongyang to be the chief judge.

During interrogation, several of the monks who cooked rice claimed that they were only kitchen cooks and did not participate in the activities of the abbot and the intellectuals who insulted the women. Zhao Chongyang saw that one of them was a Persian Hu face. Zhao Chongyang said in his heart: "Your sons have been born now, and you still say that you are innocent." Zhao Chongyang said: "It doesn't matter what you say, now I will let you know that as long as you insult and steal women, you will leave evidence in your place." Li Sanniang, a woman who passed on the wind and dust, to see how they left a mark on this monk. ”

After a while, a woman in her twenties came to the front of the hall and knelt down: "The little woman has seen an adult. ”

"The kneeling person is Li Sanniang, the foreman of those dusty women?" "It's the little woman."

"May I ask what kind of secret marks did you leave on those monks when they despised you?"

"Back to Da, we were hired by Kaifeng Mansion to go to Ci'en Temple to assist the adults to solve the case, Shi Zhutou and Qiu Zhutou gave us two boxes of red ointment, let us mobilize those women to observe that place every day before going to bed, coax which women who ask for children, saying that this ointment is called "concentrated sperm to protect the fetus ointment", which is from the Hu Tian doctor in Nanjing Mansion at a high price, and after rubbing it in that place for a long time, the husband and wife can only sit in the womb after having sex, and it is not easy to slip the fetus after the fetus is formed. The sisters who went there were all asking for children, and they all responded when they heard that there was such a good medicine. In fact, this kind of red ointment is composed of more than ten kinds of medicines such as realgar, musk, snake oil and peppermint, and it is an ointment that will not make people pregnant after having intercourse, mainly because they are afraid that those women who do not know the truth will be insulted by which lewd monks in a coma will become pregnant. Once this ointment is stained, it must be coated with white wine to be cleaned. Therefore, as long as these monks come to us to take advantage of us, some parts must be stained with red ointment. ”