(The Water Margin version is a combination of the CCTV version of the TV series and the 120 books, and A Chinese Ghost Story is the movie version of Wang Zuxian)

It is said that at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, on the boundary of Cangzhou, there was a village, and there was a big rich man in the village, whose surname was Chai Mingjin, who was a descendant of Chai Shizong of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Since Chen Qiao abdicated, Emperor Taizu Wude gave him the "Danshu Iron Coupon", and no one dared to provoke him.

This Chai Jin is also a righteous and wealthy person, who likes to make friends with heroes and heroes in the world, and is known as the world's Meng Wei. And because he has the "Danshu Iron Coupon" to protect himself, the lawsuit cannot be brought to the door, so those prisoners who are mismatched and the heroes who wear the crime often vote for him.

When these people came to Chai Jinzhuang, they had to be entertained with good wine and meat, and their clothes and silver taels were also used for their own use. However, although this Chai Jinchai official is righteous and squanders money and loves to make good friends, there is one thing that is not good - the ability to recognize people is not high, and he is often deceived by false fame.

If you meet the unfamous hero, the down-and-out hero, and then the Zhuang Ke who doesn't know the reason and only knows how to deal with some fancy fists and legs, it is easy to treat each other slowly, just like the one on today's table:

"The younger brother really misses his brother very much, and there was no information at that time, so he had no choice but to postpone it on Chai Daguanrenzhuang. Now that the officials have inquired about the lawsuit, there is no reason for the younger brother to stay."

Who is this man who speaks? It turned out that he was from Qinghe County, surnamed Wu Mingsong, the second in the family, and was known as Wu Erlang. Because of the drunken fight with someone in his hometown, only one punch beat the person to his breath, and Wu Song didn't notice it in a hurry, only thinking that he had killed someone by mistake, so he threw firewood into the village and took refuge.

How strong is this Wu Song, how can he beat people to their breath with one punch? Let's look at this person, tall, dignified, really a good man, there are poems as evidence:

The body is dignified and the appearance is dignified. A pair of eyes shot cold stars, and the two curved eyebrows were like paint. The chest is broad, and there is the majesty of ten thousand invincibles; The words are high-spirited, and the ambition of Lingyun is spitting out thousands of feet. The heart is bold and bold, like a lion descending from the clouds; The bones are strong and the muscles are strong, such as shaking the ground and Pixiu coming to the seat. is like a demon lord in the sky, he is really a god of Tai Sui in the world.

If you take the familiar parables read by the officials, you can roughly imagine it like this: (in the vernacular later, just understand the meaning)

Wu Song is eight feet tall, and the "ruler" here, the length of the knight varies according to the different ages. The "ruler" that we are familiar with in modern times is about thirty-three centimeters, so Wu Song's height is close to two meters seven, which is scary to look at, not to mention those who are "nine feet tall" and "one zhang and two feet tall".

If you have to say it, "Water Margin" itself has a bit of gods and demons, and it may not be strange for people to be taller, but it is in line with some people's stereotypes of "magic stars descending to earth".

However, we want to say that this is actually a misunderstanding caused by the laziness of the ancients. Wu Song is indeed quite tall, but it is not as exaggerated as two meters seven.

We all know that the times are different, the weights and measures are also different, the ruler of the Qin and Han dynasties was about 21 cm to 25 cm, and the ruler of the Song and Ming dynasties was more than 30 cm, however, these rulers cannot be used to describe height.

Because it is often necessary to refer to ancient classics in determining acupuncture points and determining the dosage of medicine, in the fields of astronomy, music, and medicine, the length of the "ruler" has been set up as a separate unit since the Sui and Tang dynasties, following the ancient system, which is about 24.5 centimeters.

Otherwise, it is likely that it is recorded in ancient books that "a certain acupuncture point is a foot below the chest", and as a result, people in the Song Dynasty grabbed a needle to a difference of nearly ten centimeters.

In this way, Wu Song's height is more than one meter nine, a strong man close to two meters, and he is also covered in tendon meat, and it is probably not a problem to beat someone unconscious and fake death with one punch.

Speaking far away, in short, more than a year has passed since Wu Song thought he had beaten someone to death, so he ran to Chai Jinzhuang to avoid the lawsuit, during which Chai Jin also inquired for him and learned that the person was not actually dead. In this way, Wu Song has no reason to continue to stay here.

When Wu Song first came, Chai Jin was still very polite to him, no different from other guests in the village, but later, Wu Song often got drunk and had a strong temperament, and the villagers couldn't take care of it, so he wanted to punch them.

Therefore, none of the bankers in the village said that he was good. Everyone just hated him, and they all went to Chai Jin and told him that there were many things that were wrong. Although Chai Jin didn't chase him, he just treated him slowly.

It's just that today, Wu Song was suffering from malaria, and he was chilling, and he was roasting the fire in a daze under the corridor. But the consciousness wandered out of the world in a trance, and came to another world, and was born as a person who called "Zhao Donglai", who seemed to be in a high position and was in the state capital.

As the saying goes, life is like a dream, and there is an allusion to "a dream", although Wu Song just took a nap, in a moment, he has experienced decades of years in his dream, and has experienced all the birth, old age, sickness and death of "Zhao Donglai".

"Bang!!"

A loud bang woke Wu Song up from his dream, and the life of "Zhao Donglai" also disappeared, gradually blurring.

When Wu Song woke up and looked at it, it was not too late, and it was only half an hour before he fell asleep, but he had experienced decades of life and death in his dream, and he was a little stunned for a while.

Moreover, frightened by the loud noise—someone had stepped on the shovel containing the charcoal—Wu Song broke out in a cold sweat, and the malaria was actually improved as if it were a divine help, and there was no longer the slightest illness.

It's just that the scene I experienced in my dream was forgotten ninety percent of the time, and what remained in my mind was all "scene investigation", "forensic technology", "criminal psychology" and the like.

However, Wu Song seems to be able to understand those heavenly words as if he had no teacher. Only then did I discover that the memories left behind were all means of catching thieves and arresting murderers, punishing murderers and eliminating evil.

"It's ridiculous, I, Wu Song, am just a reckless person, and I have inexplicably learned some skills in the public to arrest thieves."

Wu Song recalled these "heavenly books" and couldn't help but laugh dumbly. If you rely on such skills to get an official and a half-job, and be the head of the county or the head of the inspection and arrest in the house, it is not a good background. But Wu Song is reckless, with no door and no way, but where to ask for an official?

However, after the illness had been cured, Wu Song found Chai Jin, said goodbye to him, and returned to his hometown to find his brother. Coincidentally, a distinguished guest came up to Chai Jinzhuang today, it was Song Jiang, the filial piety Hei Saburo Song Jiang who was known as the timely rain and Baoyi in Yuncheng County, and he was the one who stepped on the shovel.

Wu Song had heard of Song Jiang's name, and Song Jiang was also very happy to see Wu Song's talent, and invited him to sit down and have a drink. Wu Song and Song Jiang Chai Jin ate some wine, and then remembered returning to their hometown to visit their brother.

His parents died early, and he grew up with his brother Wu Da begging for a hundred family meals, so the brotherhood is deep. This time he has been away from home for more than a year, and there is no news of Wu Da, and Wu Song's heart is becoming more and more worried.