After saying this, Liu Ye told a story.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Liu Ye's great-grandfather won the examination and became a county magistrate in Shuangta County, Jizhou, and was diligent all day long, winning the hearts of the people.

In Shuangta County, there is a temple where the incense is not prosperous, so there are only two monks living in the temple.

One night, two old Taoist priests who passed by came to the temple barefoot, knocked on the door and begged for a night's stay.

When the monk saw that he was a Taoist priest, he didn't want to let the two Taoist priests stay overnight, and the methods were different, so he naturally couldn't enter the door.

Seeing this, the two Taoist priests hurriedly said: "Although Buddhism and Taoism have their own teachings, but they are all monks, now the two of us have been trekking since then, it is already late and there is nowhere to stay, and I am afraid that there will be rain falling tonight. ”

After listening to this, the two monks felt that what the Taoist priest said was reasonable, so they let them go in and stay overnight.

This scene happened to be seen by the husband Wang Sanwa.

By the next day, something strange happened.

Although the incense of the temple is not very strong, the Buddhist door is opened every day, and a monk will open the door early in the morning.

But the strange thing is that after the two old Taoists stayed overnight, the temple door was never opened from morning to night the next day.

Some pilgrims came to knock on the door to offer incense, but there was silence, and no one answered.

It is a small temple in the village, the courtyard wall is not high, the pilgrims waited for most of the day, saw that it was not opened, they were curious, thought that the monk had overslept, so they climbed over the wall and entered the temple to check.

But after entering the temple, he found that the door latch was tightly fastened as usual, and there was nothing unusual.

The pilgrims walked around, but they didn't see the monk, so they took advantage of this to open the temple door, and seven or eight neighbors and pilgrims poured into the temple to find out.

Everyone searched in the temple for a long time, and saw that the temple was empty, and the two monks and two people had disappeared, and then checked the backyard and windows, and there was no sign of opening.

The temple was not big, and there were not many things in the temple, and the pilgrims found that there was not a single thing missing in the monk's room.

On the contrary, it was in the Taoist priest's bag, and it seemed that there was something hidden in the bulging bag, and he opened it with scissors and found that there were thirty taels of silver sealed inside.

When everyone saw that the two monks and two monks disappeared mysteriously, and there were no abnormal signs in the temple, everyone was shocked and inexplicable, so they hurriedly reported to the official.

Liu Qianzhong, the magistrate of the county, that is, Liu Ye's great-grandfather, received a report, so he immediately led his subordinates to investigate.

After searching around, everything was normal in the temple, and nothing was found.

It wasn't until noon that trouble came.

There was a shepherd boy in the village, who said that there seemed to be dead people in a dry well three or four miles south of the village, and there was a strong smell of rancidity.

When Liu Qianzhong received the report, he was surprised, and hurriedly led his subordinates to the place pointed by the shepherd boy for inspection, and also brought the county government's big arrester.

There is no other reason.

In the direction that the shepherd boy pointed, there were dead vines and old trees, barren grass and vines, pheasants coiled, thatch grew higher than human bodies, and there were desolate graves everywhere.

People who died violently in the village are often brought here for burial.

In the early years, it was a large mansion, but later the owner of the house was exterminated by bandits who came down the mountain, and the house was abandoned and turned into a mass grave.

Under the pheasant tree, there is an ancient well that has been abandoned for a long time, which is the place pointed by the shepherd boy.

According to the shepherd boy, at noon he drove the cattle back from grazing outside the village, but a calf went missing, and the shepherd boy had to go into the mass grave to look for it.

After searching for most of the day, I found that the calf was stretching its neck to sniff in a waste well.

The shepherd boy hurriedly ran to grab the calf, and at the same time, out of curiosity, stretched his neck to look into the dry well, and peed his pants on the spot.

I saw that in the dry well, there were several corpses, one of them was wearing a Taoist robe, facing up, his face was as blue as paper, his eyes were open, his eyes were bloodshot, and half of his tongue was sticking out of his mouth.

The rest are either monk robes or Taoist robes.

The shepherd boy hurried home, and when he heard that the county order was investigating the case, he informed him of it.

When the Liu County Commander arrived, he asked the officials to hang all the corpses out.

There were a total of four corpses in the well, and it was the two monks and the two Taoists.

The four had been dead for a long time, in the middle of the night.

The four people had no scars on their bodies, no signs of poisoning in their bodies, and the four corpses died in the same way, as if they were suddenly frightened to death by something.

In order to find out the truth about the death, Liu County ordered Rang Zuo to perform an autopsy on one of the corpses, but found nothing abnormal.

Liu Xian Ling asked many pilgrims and villagers again, and learned that the two monks were kind to each other on weekdays, and had never had any festivals or quarrels with the villagers.

After careful investigation, the two Taoist priests were both old monks, and the two Taoist priests carried thirty taels of silver and hid them in their bags, but they were not discovered, and there was no such thing as seeing wealth.

The most bizarre thing is why did the bodies of four people suddenly appear in a dry well three or four miles away from the small temple?

If someone broke into the temple and killed someone, why didn't the four people have any injuries on their bodies?

If the killer moved the body outside the village, why did the doors and windows of the small temple be closed and there was no sign of activation?

Why did four other people die in a state of horror?

What did they go through before they died?

This has become an unsolved mystery.

Liu Xian Ling was very smart, and suspected that there was a secret passage leading to the dry well in the small temple, so he asked people to dig three feet into the ground in the small temple and search all the corners where people might be hiding, but they found nothing.

Such a bizarre case caused quite a stir at the time.

I have been checking for half a month, but I have not found out the reason.

On the day the case was closed, Liu County Ling wrote down:

If nothing is lost, it is not theft; If you are old, you are not a traitor; Encounters and stays overnight are not hatred; If you are defenseless, it is not murder; If the money is still there, it is not for money and death; If the door is closed and there are no extra footprints in the house, it is not a robbery murder.

Four people died at the same time, and four corpses moved at the same time, how can such a long distance be achieved?

The case is too bizarre and outrageous to be reasonable. The case may not be done by man, I can still judge people, but I can't judge ghosts. There are no eyewitnesses, there are no clues to solve the case, the case cannot be solved, and it can only be closed as a doubt.

During the peace period, four people died, which is not a trivial matter.

Liu Xianling was worried about affecting his career, so he could only submit the case to the yamen of the Criminal Department for verification.

The Criminal Department felt that this matter was absurd and ordered the governor to come down and investigate it in detail.

The governor, accompanied by the prefect, retried the case, reviewed the file and interrogated the entire village, but still failed to find a single clue.

This case is really a headless case, and the governor can only report it with the Liuxian order.

This bizarre case has not been solved, and in the end it was still closed, and Liu County ordered to do a good deed, burying the four bodies safely, and also erecting a tombstone.

After staying in office for two years, he also rose step by step because of his wide support, and finally sat in the position of a scholar of the palace, that is, Zhengyipin.