During the Song Dynasty, there was a Zhangjia village somewhere in the south, and the villager Zhang Anning did a cloth business and made a small achievement.
On this day, the eldest aunt brought her son, that is, his cousin Fang Chengde, to find him, which means that his cousin is not the material for studying, and intends to let his cousin do business with him.
Zhang Anning happened to lack a helper by his side, so he readily agreed to his aunt and left his cousin by his side to help.
Don't look at Fang Chengde's ability to study, it's okay to do business, in less than two years, he can be regarded as being able to take charge on his own.
On this day, the brothers were going out to talk about a few business, and they planned to go to Zhaojia Village first, and then to Lijia Village.
Soon it was noon, and the brothers passed by a liquor shop, so they stopped to eat.
Liu Sanjian, the owner of the wine shop, was very familiar with Zhang Anning, and when he saw them coming, he was very enthusiastic, and took out the new good wine this year for them to taste.
The brothers are also good drinkers, and seeing that Liu San was so enthusiastic, they couldn't help but drink a few more glasses.
After they had eaten and drunk, the brothers chatted and waited for the heat to dissipate at noon.
At this time, Zhang Anning said to his cousin: "Brother, no, let's go separately, I'll go to Zhaojiazhuang, you go to Lijia Village, finish your own business, and go home to gather." In this way, you can save a lot of time. ”
Fang Chengde slapped his thigh and shouted!
After the brothers finished their discussions, they went their separate ways to their goals.
Fang Chengde walked for a while before remembering that this was the first time he went to Lijia Village, and he didn't know how to walk the road.
Forget it, don't go back to my cousin, lest he laugh at my incompetence, and walk while asking for directions.
Until the sun sank, Fang Chengde had not yet reached Lijia Village, and the anxious cold sweat came out.
At this time, a winding mountain road appeared in front of it, leading straight to the mountain forest.
Maybe you can go through this mountain forest to Lijia Village, Fang Chengde comforted himself.
Just as Fang Chengde lifted his spirits and was about to walk through the forest in one go, a voice stopped him.
Stay, there is danger ahead! ”
Fang Chengde turned his head and saw that it was a man dressed as a fisherman, carrying fishing gear in his hand.
Fang Chengde asked, "Is it this big brother who called me?" Don't know what dangers lie ahead? ”
The fisherman said, "I'm glad you met me, otherwise your life would have been here." ”
Fang Chengde was a little puzzled, so he arched his hand and said, "Please make it clear to the eldest brother." ”
The fisherman laughed: "Don't dare to ask for advice." Then he said: "As soon as the forest in front of us reaches dusk, it begins to produce miasma, which is extremely poisonous, and if it is inhaled by someone, it will foam at the mouth within a moment or three, and die of pain." ”
After the fisherman finished speaking, he said to himself, "Is there a sign here that says it?" Why is it gone? Got it! So it was here! ”
Then, the fisherman took out a sign from the mud, wiped his clothes clean, and handed it to Fang Chengde.
Fang Chengde looked at it, and the sign really read: "After the unitary hour (17 o'clock in the afternoon to 19 o'clock), poisonous gas is produced in the forest, please go through the mountains and forests again in the morning (7 o'clock to 9 o'clock in the morning)!" ”
It was written clearly in black and white, Fang Chengde believed the fisherman's words, thanked the fisherman again and again, and at the same time felt a little afraid in his heart, if he didn't happen to meet the fisherman, Xiao Ming would really have to explain here.
People, the most fearful time in the heart is not facing danger, but the feeling of the rest of the life after the catastrophe, this is the feeling of fear.
Lijia Village can't go, in this place where there is no village in front of it, and there is no store in the back, what about going to ** overnight at night?
Yes, isn't there a big fisherman? Give him some money to stay at his house for one night.
But the fisherman disagreed, saying that there was an old mother and daughter-in-law at home, and it was inconvenient to keep him staying, and that his house was not a hotel, so he was not obliged to provide accommodation.
Fang Chengde gritted his teeth and gave the fisherman a tael of silver for his accommodation.
The fisherman felt that a tael of silver was suitable, so he agreed to him.
Finally, there was a place to live, and Fang Chengde followed the fisherman to his house.
The fisherman's name was Zhang De, and as he said, there was indeed an old mother and wife Li in the family.
When Li saw that Zhang De had brought home a person, his eyes became very unnatural, as if he was very disgusted with Fang Chengde.
Fang Chengde also found out, thinking that his arrival had disturbed their normal life.
Fang Chengde didn't have a choice, let's get through this night first, if he didn't freeze to death in the wild, he would have to be eaten by wild beasts.
Fortunately, Zhang De was more enthusiastic, and asked his wife to clean up the room for guests to live in while cooking.
Dinner was okay, there was wine, fish and vegetables.
However, Fang Chengde just didn't eat two bites of food, felt his eyes blurry, and then lost consciousness, his body went limp, and he fell to the ground.
I saw Zhang De smiling: "Haha, another one, now there is money to gamble." ”
The old mother and his wife Li strongly persuaded him to stop and not harm others, so as not to have evil retribution. Zhang De impatiently pushed them aside and said, "As the saying goes, ghosts are afraid of the wicked. I don't believe in retribution! Let's go, don't get in the way from here, hurry back to the house and rest. ”
What else could the old mother and Li say about it, so they had to go back to their respective rooms.
Fang Chengde, who was in a coma at this moment, should feel very regretful, because the look in Li's eyes just now was not boring, but hinted that he should leave this place quickly.
It's a pity that he fell into the hands of Zhang De, and he couldn't wake up again.
Zhang De took out the silver from Fang Chengde's arms and threw his body into a waste well.
It turned out that the mountains and forests never produced poisonous gas, they were all made up by Zhang De, and he took the opportunity to bring the merchants home to murder them, and he also made that brand.
Counting Chengde, Zhang De has killed four merchants in this way.
The old mother and his wife advised him not to do bad things, but unfortunately he did not listen.
If you don't have money, how can you gamble?
Even if there is a good wife and mother in the family, it can't stop the bad people from doing evil.
said that the next day, Zhang Anning had been home for a long time, and found that his cousin Fang Chengde had not returned, and he was a little anxious.
At that time, there was no **, no mobile phone, no fax, no telegram, so I had to wait.
After waiting for a day, Fang Chengde still has no figure, Zhang Anning can't sit still, he can't find his cousin, how to explain to his aunt? So he personally went to Lijia Village to find his cousin.
However, Zhang Anning went to Lijia Village and found Li Dafu, Fang Chengde's business partner. Li Dafu said that he had not seen this person at all. In desperation, Zhang Anning had to report to the official.
The magistrate's surname is Li, he is a confused official, he doesn't learn and has no skills on weekdays, and he will try cases?
Just in time for the task of the superiors, the case closure rate must reach 100 percent by the end of the year. So he directly determined that Li Dafu was **, beat him into a trick, threw him into a prison, submitted the case file to his superiors, and applied for beheading after the autumn.
The person whose superior is responsible for approving the case is called Sun Changyuan. On this day, he happened to turn to the file of this case.
As soon as he finished reading it, he felt that the evidence seemed to be insufficient, and the facts of the case were inconsistent, and it was difficult to make a decision for a while.
At this time, the daughter came over with a little rabbit in her arms, and wanted to pester her father to play, and Sun Changyuan took her daughter over lovingly.
The daughter was careless, and the little rabbit slipped from her hand and fell on the table, and the little rabbit was frightened, and when she saw a hat on the table, the little rabbit got into it at once.
The daughter hurriedly called out to the little rabbit, and the little rabbit heard the shouting, put on his hat and came to the file of the case, not moving, looking very funny.
Sun Changyuan also thought it was funny, but when he looked at it, he felt that something was wrong.
Isn't a rabbit wearing a hat a word "injustice"? Standing on the case file again, doesn't it mean that this case is an unjust case?
It seems that there is definitely something wrong with this case, so Sun Changyuan decided to investigate the case himself.
After arriving in Zhangjia Village, Sun Changyuan carefully questioned the relevant people and found a huge loophole.
Since it was Fang Chengde who was killed by Li Dafu, what about the corpse? Why wasn't the body found?
Sun Changyuan sent officers and soldiers to search for Fang Chengde's body near the place of the incident, and asked for a careful search.
After searching for three days without any results, Sun Changyuan was a little frustrated.
On the night of the third day, it rained heavily and it fell all night.
On the fourth day, Sun Changyuan still did not give up and let the officers and soldiers continue to search.
Finally, there was good news, and the officers and soldiers who searched came to report: two bodies were found in a small lake in Lijia Village!
This is a major discovery! After Zhang Anning's identification, one of the corpses was that of his cousin Fang Chengde, although the corpse was somewhat decomposed, but the clothes were still intact.
There are so many corpses at once, who is the **?
Sun Changyuan decided to arrest all the male villagers near Xiaohu in the lobby and interrogate them one by one.
After a round of trial, no one admitted that it was **, and they all said they didn't know.
Sun Changyuan was a little anxious, picked up the startling wood and slapped it hard, and said unintentionally: "If you don't kill anyone, go back quickly, and the murderer stays!" ”
At this time, many people kneeling in the lobby stood up and left, and only one person was still kneeling on the ground!
This person is the murderer ** Zhang De! He was also mixed in with the interrogators, and he was already very nervous, but in the end he was frightened by Sun Changyuan's words, his feet were weak, and he couldn't get up for a while!
It's really a nowhere to find a place to step on the iron shoes, and the willows and willows are unintentionally inserted, isn't this sent to the door by yourself?
At first, Zhang De was still quibbling, but Sun Changyuan ordered someone to search Zhang De's home and bring his family for interrogation.
Soon, the officers and soldiers dug out a lot of men's clothes in Zhang De's house, all of which were left behind by Zhang De after he killed people.
In addition, two more bodies were found in the abandoned well of Zhang De's house.
Zhang De couldn't deny it now, so he had to confess his crime of killing people and overselling goods.
Zhang De really didn't understand, why did they all appear in the lake when they threw all the corpses into the waste well?
The reason was that it rained so much that night that it washed the bottom of the well and connected to the bottom of the lake, washing the body into the lake.
The case was closed: Zhang De was sentenced to beheading, and the confused magistrate was dismissed and investigated. Zhang De's wife, Li Shi, strongly persuaded her husband to be kind, and she had fulfilled her duty as a wife and was not to blame for covering up her crimes.
End of story. This story is purely fictional and any similarities are purely coincidental. Folk tales talk more about punishing evil and promoting good, so that everyone can have a good time, and they should be inspired by it, and they should not be seated in the same place with feudal superstition. ）