Xue Ziqian came to Yicheng County to take up the post of the new county magistrate, and soon after he took office, he cracked an absurd and bizarre "ghost" murder case, which caused a stir for a while.

In Caojiazhuang, five miles away from the east gate of Yicheng County, there is an old businessman who has returned to his hometown, and his name is Cao Zhihe.

Cao Zhihe left his hometown when he was a teenager, did business in the area of the capital, and his family was wealthy, and now, after the old age, the leaves fell back to his roots, and returned to his hometown after more than 50 years of absence.

The new house was built by Cao Junde, a craftsman from the village.

More than two months later, the new house was completed, and Cao Zhi and his family felt very comfortable after moving in. However, Cao Zhihe only has one son, a daughter-in-law and a little grandson, his wife died of illness three years ago, and in addition, plus a servant woman, there are only five people living in the huge mansion, which seems very lonely and lonely.

Soon after, in this new house, suddenly, strange things happened one after another.

In the dead of night, Cao Zhihe, his family of three generations and four people, and the servant woman were often awakened from their sleep by a terrible and grotesque scream, which was creepy.

A family of five was so frightened that they couldn't be at peace every night.

The neighbors around also knew about it, and everyone talked behind their backs: "Cao Zhihe has been doing business outside for so many years, and he must have done something unscrupulous, and now he has been approached by a ghost." ”

Cao Zhihe was at a loss for words, he did business, bought and sold fairly, was not bullied, made small profits but sold quickly, was innocent, and had never made any money, what was wrong? He was at a loss for a moment, and often frowned and sighed. He told Cao Lei, a brother in the neighborhood, that the ghost he saw was more than a foot tall, with a long scary tongue in his mouth, walking around the hall, which was very terrifying and terrifying. He had also invited someone to come to his house to destroy the ghost, but the silk had no effect.

One morning, Cao Lei accidentally found that the door of his cousin Cao Zhihe's house was closed, until noon, still no one opened the door, he felt very puzzled, this is something that has never happened, cousin Cao Zhihe came to him every day to complain, thinking of his cousin's house haunted for many days, for fear of accidents, so, Cao Lei called a few brothers of his own family, everyone together, they all felt a little strange, so they knocked on the door and entered, only to find that cousin Cao Zhi and the family of five, all died in bed.

Cao Lei was shocked, and hurriedly ran to the county seat, and the yamen sounded a drum to report the case.

After the new county magistrate Xue Ziqian received Cao Lei's report, his life was at stake, and he quickly rushed to the scene of the crime with the crowd to arrest and make a quick move.

asked the neighbors on the left and right, and confirmed that Cao Zhihe's home was haunted by "ghosts", and it had been a while since they (she) were killed by ghosts?

Xue Ziqian had just arrived and was not familiar with the various places, so he ordered the officials to look for the traces of the criminals, however, many days passed, and there was no progress in the case.

Cao Zhihe's family was killed, and the county ordered Xue Ziqian to search for the murderer to no avail, so rumors spread in the market, saying that Cao Zhihe offended people who should not be offended when he was doing business, and this person drove the "ghost" to seek revenge and killed Cao Zhihe's family.

For a time, inside and outside the city, everyone talked about the "ghost" color change, and the noisy people were panicked.

Everyone was panicked, but Xue Ziqian firmly believed that there must be something strange in this, and it was definitely not as simple as the folk rumors.

In recent days, Guo Jingming, the head catcher in the county government, and his subordinates have been going out early and returning late, investigating and secretly knowing, exhausted, and resolutely did not find any valuable clues.

In the afternoon of this day, Guo Jingming led Wang Dashun and Tao Wangchun to the street to drink tea and relax.

The three of them walked on the street, and Guo Jingming saw a young man wearing a silk shirt, silk stockings and white shoes, holding a paper fan in his hand, and walked over step by step, looking very sven, like a scholar.

However, when this young man passed in front of the three arrests, Guo Jingming suddenly stepped forward, grabbed this person's shoulder, and shouted: "Bold little thief, pretend to be quite like, go, let's go with us in the yamen!"

After the young man was grabbed by Guo Jingming's shoulder, he was frightened and shocked, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted, "Official, spare your life, the villain will not dare next time." ”

Guo Jingming, the head catcher, shouted: "Look at your cowardly appearance, you are really useless, you will have to pay it back sooner or later, and you will kill yourself if you do too much injustice, talk quickly, where did you steal the clothes you are wearing? Where are you going to go? Quickly recruit from the truth!

The young man kowtowed like garlic, provoking passers-by to point and poke and poke, and there were many discussions, he blushed shyly, and only confessed: "The clothes worn by the villain were stolen from the shop of Wang Jing'an, a merchant on West Street!"

It's really a thief, the two accompanying officials Wang Dashun and Tao Wangchun were shocked, hurriedly came over, controlled the little thief, and then asked Guo Jingming: "Boss, you are really as wise as a torch, tell me quickly, how did you know that this person is a thief?"

Guo Jingming glanced at the young man and told the officials Wang Dashun and Tao Wangchun: "There is nothing?" I just think that this person's walking posture is very weird, very unnatural, just now, when he crossed the small ditch in front of him that was accumulated in the rain, he picked up the long shirt in a panic, indicating that he is not a person who is used to wearing a long shirt, and although he is holding a paper fan in his hand, deliberately pretending to be Sven, it is a fool's errand, what is he doing with a fan on such a cold day? His appearance is very suspicious, so I concluded that he would definitely not be a good person. ”

"Boss, you are really a god, just with these, you caught a thief, let us both admire the five bodies to the ground, there are many people here, according to the two of us, let's go to drink tea, escort this thief back to the government for interrogation!"

"Okay, go back!"

County government torture interrogation room.

Seeing all kinds of torture instruments, the thieves who were escorted in were so frightened that they couldn't use the torture, so they made a confession one by one.

The thief said: "Official, the villain's name is Li Aniu, a native of Dongguan Village in this county, and he usually likes to steal a little thing, but the villain never seeks money and kills. Speaking of this, Li Aniu told the three catchers: "Official, the villain is willing to atone for his sins and report a bizarre thing, hoping to be relieved of his crimes." ”

"Say, tell me everything you know, and as long as you have done a great job, you can be relieved of your crimes!"

"Yes, official, because the villain is poor, his father is dead and his mother is sick, his family is surrounded by walls, and he is destitute.

Late one night, the villain went to the house of Cao Zhihe, a wealthy businessman who was killed, to steal, after the villain sneaked into the room, he was about to rummage through something valuable, and then slipped away, but he didn't expect that in the hall of his house, suddenly, a few ghosts fell from the sky, so frightened that the villain quickly climbed under the bed, and the atmosphere did not dare to come out.

The ghost is more than a foot tall, wears a high hat, and screams are very poignant. After a while, the villain saw that the ghost pressed the Cao family down on the bed and poured something into their mouths. The villain was under the bed, only to hear the Cao family of five screams a few times, later, they disappeared, I climbed out to see, the Cao family of five, all dead, the villain was so frightened, did not dare to rummage for valuable things anymore, quickly ran over the wall and ran home. ”

When Guo Jingming heard this, he was suddenly shocked in his heart, this is really: there is nowhere to find it when he steps on the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it. It turned out that this thief, Li Aniu, turned out to be an eyewitness to the "ghost" murder case that made a lot of noise.

Guo Jingming asked Li Aniu: "Since you know the inside story, why don't you come to the county government to report the case?"

Li Aniu said tremblingly: "Official, the villain is originally a thief, and coming to the county government to report the case is tantamount to throwing himself into a net, so the villain does not dare to report the case." ”

Guo Jingming listened, and immediately called the county magistrate Xue Ziqian, Xue County Commander retreated, secretly questioned Li Aniu, and then decided to release Li Aniu on the spot, not to be imprisoned, and repeatedly warned him that in the future, it is absolutely not allowed to steal other people's things, if the family is really in trouble and needs money, you can come to him, the county master, and say that he will seek a normal way to help solve it.

Li Aniu went with a thousand thanks.

Xue County's order immediately made a decision and ordered a re-autopsy. He dissected Cao Zhihe's stomach, but no signs of poisoning were found in his stomach.

Li Aniu clearly said that the five people killed in the Cao family were all killed by the murderer who poured something into his mouth, since it was not poison, what kind of nickname could it be? Could it be that Li Aniu lied?

Just when everyone was puzzled, they inadvertently touched the throat of the deceased, frowned, and felt something abnormal.

When he cut open Cao Zhihe's throat, he couldn't help but be surprised that it was stuffed with tin. He was amazed again and again, and reported to Xue Ziqian: "My lord, I really didn't expect that Cao Zhihe and his family of five were brutally poured tin by the murderer and died, this is the first time I have encountered it in more than ten years! ”

The cause of death of Cao Zhihe and his family of five was ascertained, proving that they were murdered by gangsters, not by some "powerful ghost".

The county commander Xue Ziqian personally went to Cao's house to investigate, he paced back and forth in Cao's living room, and suddenly asked, remembering such a detail that the "powerful ghost" descended from the sky, so he hurriedly ordered the officials to climb up to the roof and go to inspect it.

On the roof, the officials found a small hole in the place where the rafters and beams were connected, and the small hole looked like it had been carved by hand.

Guo Jingming, the head catcher, inserted a wooden stick into the small hole, twisted the wooden stick, and the beam turned slightly, and before it turned halfway, a large hole had been exposed in the ridge of the roof, which could accommodate a person in and out. Guo Jingming understood in an instant: the so-called "powerful ghost" actually climbed into this hole.

Guo Jingming immediately reported this major discovery to Xue Ziqian.

Xue Xianling looked at the roof and said with a smile: "Everyone, it's time to catch the 'terrible ghosts'! They can't run away!"

Xue Ziqian gave an order, and Cao Junde, the craftsman who built this house, was arrested.

After Cao Junde was escorted to the lobby, he couldn't help but be beaten twice with a killing stick, and immediately recruited all of them.

Cao Junde confessed that the organ was indeed designed by him, but he did not kill the five members of the Cao family. When the Yi family's house was built, Wu Shixun, a bully in the county, found him, gave him a hundred taels of silver, and asked him to place a mechanism on the roof of the hall in advance, and said that after the deed was completed, he would be thanked. Cao Junde knew that Wu Shixun had bad intentions, but this person was fierce and domineering, and if he didn't follow him, he was afraid that he would die at his hands. After the five members of the Cao family were killed, Cao Junde ran to the mountains and hid, because he was afraid that Wu Shixun would kill people and kill him. Recently, I saw that the wind was slowing down a little, so I returned home and took a look, but unexpectedly, on the day I came back, I was arrested by the officials.

Xue County Commander immediately ordered Cao Junde to lead the way and go to find Wu Shixun.

The head-catcher Guo Jingming and his entourage soon came to Wu Shixun's door.

At this time, Wu Shixun's family was gambling, and the crowd immediately surrounded Wu Shixun's home, and Wu Shixun and others were all arrested on the spot.

At Wu Shixun's house, the officials searched Cao Zhihe's belongings on the spot, and also found wooden poles on stilts, costumes, top hats and other tools for committing crimes.

After interrogation, Wu Shixun confessed to the fact that he pretended to be a "powerful ghost" to kill people and rob money.

It turned out that Wu Shixun and his group saw that Cao Zhihe's family was rich, and there were only five people in his family, so he managed to buy off the craftsman Cao Junde to lay a mechanism on the roof. In the middle of the night, Wu Shixun and others entered Cao Zhihe's house from the rooftop, wearing costumes, high hats, and stilts, pretending to be "powerful ghosts" in Cao's house. Subsequently, several people poured tin force into the throats of the five members of the Cao family, suffocating them to death, and stole all the valuable belongings of the Cao family.

Wu Shixun and others thought that if they pretended to be "ghosts" and killed people, they poured their throats with tin and could not find the cause of death, and people would definitely suspect that "powerful ghosts" were responsible, and they could get away with it. However, the sky net is magnificent, negligent but not leaky, Wu Shixun and other crazy people, in the end, they still failed to escape the law, and a chance discovery of the head catcher Guo Jingming caught the thief Li Aniu, Xue Ziqian County ordered Shun Teng to touch the melon, and caught the culprit who pretended to be a "ghost" to kill people.

A few days later, in accordance with the laws of Huaguo, Wu Shixun and other eight people pretended to be "ghosts" to murder Cao Zhi and a family of five.

Craftsman Cao Junde aided in the abuse and was sentenced to "beheading".

This sensational Yicheng Luo "Powerful Ghost" murder case has since been closed and the curtain has come to an end.