Last time, Zhang Xiaowei'er and three other people were asking for wine and food in the Eight Immortals Tower.
Just when they were enjoying themselves, a group of wolf-like servants broke in and knocked them to the ground without any explanation.
The black cat on the side saw that the opportunity was not good, grabbed a sweet and sour carp on the table, and fled out of the door like a gust of wind, escaping into the depths of the street.
The public servants ignored the cat who stole the fish and found a bag of silver on the spot.
The leader of the public servants scolded: "God damn the thief, this is the silver ingot that the imperial court kept in the vassal treasury, and now it has been stolen."
If you get it, what else can you say?"
Immediately ordered his subordinates to tie Zhang Xiaobian'er, Sun Mazi and Xiaofeng with ropes, take them back and put them in prison to await their fate.
Zhang Xiaobian'er originally thought that the fortune that the old ghost in the forest pointed out to him was a piece of wealth without an owner, and he never thought about the origin of the large amount of silver in Chopstick City.
In his whole life, he had never even handled a piece of silver, and he didn't know the monogram cast on the silver ingot in the vassal treasury.
How could he have expected that he would get into such a catastrophic disaster?
It wasn't until he was revealed by the boss's words.
Like waking up from a big dream, chasing after Regretful, he said that this time he had really set himself on fire and would never recover.
It was like "separating eight yang bones and pouring down half a bucket of snow water."
Although he was completely dejected, he did not forget to curse the old ghost in the forest in his heart.
Eight generations of ancestors.
Dear readers, I heard that it turns out that Lingzhou City is located at a strategic location on land and water, and is also a place where merchants from the north and south gather money and goods.
There has been a vassal treasury since the early Qing Dynasty, and all the taxes, money, and grain from the two provinces of Jiangnan were deposited in this treasury.
When the limited number is reached, they will be sent to the capital together.
The street where the Lingzhou feudal treasury is located is called Yinfang Street, and most of the residents are silversmiths.
It turns out that when the tax money was collected, it was mostly loose silver measured in cents, cents, qian, and taels.
When it was taken into the vassal treasury, it had to be melted, cast, and aggregated again.
Since the south of the Yangtze River was rich and prosperous, the taxes collected were the lifeblood of the imperial court, so the defense was extremely tight.
The walls in the warehouse were double-layered, both inside and outside, and were extremely thick, so they were called "Tiger Walls." , and there are copper gates and iron doors, several layers of locks, and special troops are assigned to guard and guard them.
Since the Taiping Army broke out from the west and east of Guangdong and swept northward, it was overwhelming wherever it went.
All the important towns south of Lingzhou City were captured by the Guangdong invaders.
Several groups of troops surrounded Lingzhou.
Before the large amount of tax money deposited in the vassal treasury could be transported away, they were trapped in the city together with the local soldiers and civilians by the Cantonese invaders.
Lingzhou City was a battleground for military strategists in ancient times.
It had deep trenches and high walls, which were impregnable.
There were also many merchants in the city, who spared no expense and provided money and food to help the court recruit brave men.
There were also many foreign guns and cannons in the city, and the firearms were not only They were large in number and very advanced and sophisticated, so the Taiping Army fought several times in succession, but never succeeded.
But the leaders of the Taiping Army also knew that there was a vassal treasury in Lingzhou City, and there was a lot of money accumulated in the treasury.
Although they had lost many men and horses in the previous battles, they still wanted to gain it quickly and would come back at any time.
There is so much silver in the treasury of the Lingzhou vassal that it is inevitable to attract people's attention.
Not only are there a large number of Cantonese bandits who want to snatch it, but there are also many thieves and thieves who also want to take advantage of the war to make a profit from it.
These people may be in groups. , or walking alone, with erratic tracks, which is most difficult to guard against.
In order to protect the treasury, the government sent troops to patrol and defend it day and night.
There were countless open and hidden sentries in Yinfang Street.
In troubled times, heavy codes must be used.
Once a thief who intends to steal silver is caught, he will immediately behead Chi and kill him as a warning to others.
He will never be tolerant.
But even with such care, the money in this storehouse has been stolen recently.
What's strange is that the tiger wall is so tall and the iron locks look like it.
I don't know who the thief is or what kind of magical power he uses, but he can actually be under heavy guard.
Stealing the vain money out of the vassal treasury without leaving any trace or clue.
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The theft of treasury silver was not a trivial matter, and the government became red-eyed.
Anyone who left the city would be strictly checked to prevent thieves from transporting stolen goods out of the city.
A death limit was also set, and a group of officers in the thieving Yamen were ordered to arrest the thieves and recover the stolen goods within the time limit.
Otherwise, the whole family will be used to pay for the crime.
It has been said since ancient times that "officials and bandits are one family".
There have always been collusions between arresting officers and thieves and robbers in the city.
The public family is good at raising thieves, so they have the widest eyes and ears.
If there is any trouble on the ground, there is nothing they can't find out. .
Moreover, men have the most poisonous eyes.
Let them look for traitors and thieves, just like a crane looking for a snake's den.
You can find out by taking advantage of its wind and looking at its energy from a distance.
Unexpectedly, after many inquiries, no clues were left behind this major case of Tianzi No. 1, so we had to randomly catch some thieves to make up for the crime.
Although they were forced to surrender, they were still losing treasury silver.
How could they be handed over?
Difference The policemen were in a hurry and had no choice but to hear some news about the card number in the robber's office.
It was said that in the clothing store, someone used a large ingot of silver to buy clothes, and the bottom of the silver ingot was inscribed with the Lingzhou feudal treasury.
Xian Huozi can clearly see the mark, and it will never be bad again.
The boss immediately revealed his information and ordered his men to secretly search and follow him on the street.
Finally, he captured the whole gang of thieves in the Eight Immortals Tower.
Lingzhou was originally a Zhili Prefecture, but because the nearby towns had been captured by the Cantonese invaders, many of the provincial officials' heads had been moved.
In addition, in order to quell the chaos during the war, each department, including the admiral's office and the Governor's Yamen These central organs of the province were also temporarily located in the city.
The current Lingzhou City is the governor of the same city, and a group of officials who survived in the jurisdiction assisted the governor Ma Tianxi, prepared money and food on the spot, and raised a group to bravely defend the city.
The theft of the vassal treasury had already alarmed the imperial court.
When the governor Ma heard that he had caught the thief, he did not dare to neglect it and immediately sent an order to the court that night to interrogate the case in person with the chief minister.
The hall was brightly lit, various instruments of torture were on display, the government drums were clanging, and officials were lined up on both sides.
It was really "better than the Palace of the King of Hell of Life and Death, and as good as the Dongyue Terrace that scares souls."
Zhang Xiaowei'er and the other three people knelt on the ground.
After seeing this formation, their faces were as pale as earth and their bodies were like chaff.
This is exactly what "those with wings can soar into the sky, and those with claws can dig into the ground and burrow into holes."
Since you don’t have the ability to fly to the sky and escape from the earth, don’t bring a lawsuit to court.”
Zhang Xiaobian'er knew that this time the matter was serious, so he had to try his best to clarify the matter.
He was used to telling lies smoothly when the wind came.
He didn't wait for Master Ma to ask, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't bother to wait for me, grandpa Qing God’s warning, little people don’t blame themselves.”
Mr.
Nama is a very deep man in the city, and he is ruthless and decisive.
He has always been famous for breaking into prisons to investigate cases.
He knows that all major prisons require detailed investigation and analysis.
When he saw the appearance of Zhang Xiaobian'er and Sun Mazi, he knew that they were mischievous gangsters who caused trouble in the market.
He thought that the banknotes had been stolen, and the arresting yamen searched for many days without any results, but there was no trace.
Such a method must not be done by a petty thief.
The three people kneeling in the hall all looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, and there was also a girl among them.
How could they be able to carry out such a huge case with just a few of them?
But Ku Yin did get it from them.
After searching it on his body, it seems that there must be some twists and turns.
He must be able to discern the details and ask them to get to the bottom of it.
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Immediately, I was stunned and started asking detailed questions under the lamp.
Zhang Xiaobian'er finally fell asleep and answered ten questions.
He told the whole story with an innocent face.
He knew the rules in the yamen.
He had to tell his name and origin first, but Zhang Xiaobian'er and Sun Mazi were both famous in the countryside.
What's the big name for a stick without a head?
Xiaofeng followed the surname of her mother-in-law, the widow, and called her Wang Xiaofeng: Sun Dazi was the eldest son in the family.
His face had been pockmarked since he was a child, so he got such a nickname.
He never had a big name. .
Zhang Xiaobian'er's ancestral home is not in Jincoffin Village, but is from a family with some background.
His ancestors once served as officials in the capital, but later their family was ruined and they ended up living here.
He knew etiquette since he was a child, and he already had a name, but he was still young at the time and couldn't remember most of it.
Now thinking about it carefully, it seems that he was called Zhang Hexian.
Xian is a sage in the book of sages, but he is not Nosy, I can’t remember the word in the middle clearly.
Later, he lived in the south of the Yangtze River.
I don't know where he came from.
In the Jincoffin Village, he was ranked as the "Official Lao San".
When uncles and uncles saw each other, they called him "Xiao San".
People of the same generation all called themselves brothers and sisters as "Third Brother, Third Brother". ” to address him.
Zhang Xiaobian'er first said that he was law-abiding and ethical, knowledgeable about books and etiquette, and said that he would study hard in the future to gain a reputation in order to honor his ancestors and contribute to the court.
He would never do evil or steal.
Made.
However, the lack of weapons and the merciless war caused the destruction of Jincoffin Village.
Then he, Sun Mazi and Xiaofeng had to leave their hometown.
They usually had to catch some toads in the mountains and go to the city to exchange for firewood and rice.
Just because the rat plague has been rampant recently, I happened to dig up some rare medicinal materials in the mountains a few days ago, so I took it to Lingzhou Songhetang and exchanged it for a black cat that was good at catching rats.
I wanted to take it back to guard the house and control rats.
But it was getting late at that time and the city gate had been closed.
I was worried that I would be taken as a trick by Tuan Yong who patrolled the city while sleeping on the street, so I borrowed the empty house of Tie Gongji Tie from his family's empty house in Sophora Garden for the night.
Master Ma nodded when he heard this and said, "Well, Huaiyuan was once the Lou family's old residence.
It has been empty for a long time.
It is said that the house is haunted and it is an unclean place."
Zhang Xiaowei'er said: "Your Excellency is really a good official who understands the sentiments of the people and loves the people like a son.
He even knows such small things very well.
That locust garden is really haunted."
Then he told how they met in the locust garden. rat smuggling little Child, how he discovered the Chopstick City in the cellar, how he saw a weird monk cooking the child alive in a pot to eat, how he used a black cat to scare the weird monk into epilepsy, and then he was able to eliminate harm for the people.
The story was told again.
Finally, he said that he found a large sum of silver in the Chopsticks Tower, but he didn't know that it belonged to the government.
The three of them just wanted to get a little advantage, so they just took a few pieces to spend.
As for the money they met in the Golden Coffin Tomb, There was no mention of the old ghost in the forest or the zombies dug up in Wengzhong Mountain.
Master Ma interrogated the other two people separately.
Sun Mazi and Xiaofeng were not fully aware of the whole matter.
They talked about it in detail, but it was generally as Zhang Xiaowei'er said.
Lord Ma couldn't help but be secretly surprised when he heard this.
Even though he was knowledgeable and knew all about prisons, he never expected that Ku Yin's case would involve such strange things.
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In recent years, children have often gone missing in Lingzhou City, but the cases have never been solved.
Now that the Cantonese invaders are besieging the city, the government can't help but catch Hua's kidnapper.
Unexpectedly, it is related to the theft of banknotes, so they quickly sent people to search the Huaiyuan.
He also went to Songhe Hall to arrest Tie Gongji to testify.
The whereabouts of the shopkeeper Tie of Songhetang Pharmacy is unknown.
So far, no one has been seen alive or dead.
Wherever he was brought to the hall, only the clerk, accountant and others in the store were interrogated.
As expected, everything was consistent with Zhang Xiaobian'er's explanation.
However, a group of police officers who were on duty rushed to Huaiyuan and went down from the cellar to find Chopstick City.
They found that the stolen treasury silver was indeed in it, as well as many folk gold ornaments, pearls, jade and other items, and the monk had a bullet on his head.
Stick, but he just fainted and did not die.
He was immediately taken to the hall.
Mr.
Ma knew the seriousness of the case and did not dare to neglect it.
Together with the banner officials stationed in Lingzhou, they continued the night trial.
The monk went through a hot hall, but refused to admit it.
He also knew that the crime he had committed was extraordinary.
If he confessed, he would have to suffer the death penalty of being cut into pieces and dying.
It would be better to die in the hall.
Come sooner.
Master Ma first ordered his men to beat the rat monk twenty times.
Seeing that he was stubborn and only called himself a wandering monk, he asked: "What a thief, he is indeed neither bald nor poisonous, nor poisonous nor bald.
I want to kill people and let them go The tricks of fire are exactly what wild monks like you do.
Nowadays, wars are everywhere and the people are in dire straits.
How can there be enough food for monks?
Besides, monks eat fast and chant Buddha's name.
How can they maintain your fat body?
It must have been eaten by cannibalizing human flesh.
Such a treacherous evil thief, dare to talk such a serious crime in front of me, do you think he can get away with it?"
The mouse monk argued to himself: "It's good, it's good, just because I, the Buddha, are compassionate.
The poor monk will get fatter as he gets hungry."
Master Ma knew that the thief wanted to endure the torture, and thought to himself, "I want to see if you are an Arhat made of copper and iron."
He ordered everyone to torture him, but not to destroy the rat.
The life of a monk.
What do the torturers in the government do?
They have their own means of dealing with such evil thieves.
They don't torture him with water or fire.
They just strip him naked from top to bottom, cover his eyes with a dirty black cloth, and hold him up on a pillar.
Hang him upside down, and then slowly drip hot candle oil on the soles of his feet.
This method has a name, which is called "step by step to grow lotus."
The acupuncture points on the soles of the feet are densely packed, which is where the human body is extremely sensitive.
If you drop three to five drops of wax oil, the soles of your feet will be covered with purple blisters.
The screams you make are not human at all.
Even if you are a Vajra Arhat, you cannot bear it.
As expected, the monk couldn't bear the punishment and had to make a confession.
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It turns out that there is a group of evil people in the world who specialize in cutting off the organs of dead people, combining them with five elements medicine stones, burning them into pills and taking them.
They call this method Vajra Zen.
If you practice it to a high level, you have to eat 160 fetal boys, and you can achieve the great path. , this monk is a member of this generation.
Because this group of people behaves strangely and uses mysterious methods, and they always bring all kinds of living creatures around to drive them around, ranging from pigs, horses, cattle and sheep to small ants and insects.
The common people do not know the details, and the rumors often become more and more evil.
They say that this is "creating animals", which means that some people can use magic to turn people into animals with medicine, so as to make huge profits by abducting people.
In fact, people who practice Vajra Zen mainly burn the flesh of dead people to make medicinal bait and feed it to all kinds of beasts and creatures to eat.
If those beasts become addicted to eating it, they will be driven and enslaved by the medicine makers.
In the past days of peace and quiet times, there were not many ownerless dead bodies to be found, so they would steal graves, dig up graves, dig out the newly buried dead, cut the flesh and bones, and practice this evil method.
Nowadays, the Cantonese invaders are causing chaos, and thieves are rising everywhere.
After the war, ownerless corpses are everywhere in the wilderness, so this evil art, which was almost extinct, has been revived.
This monk's common surname is Pan, and he is known as "Monk Pan".
He was born stupid and illiterate.
For some reason, he had a strange habit of building buildings and towers.
After he became a monk, he killed his masters and burned temples.
Now he is a homeless monk without an owner.
He used to do a lot of kidnapping and trafficking in children.
It looks like a fat white rat, so he is also called the rat monk.
He often imitated the behavior of two or three-year-old children, pretending to be crazy and acting stupid, and had been committing crimes in Lingzhou and other places.
Later, he learned Vajra Zen and learned how to control rats, so he hid in the empty house in Huaiyuan and practiced in seclusion.
He used a large group of rats to smuggle money out of the vassal treasury.
The officers and soldiers never imagined that all the money would go out of the mouse holes.
Monk Mouse did not take the government seriously at all.
Even though he was taken to the court and tortured, he still looked arrogant.
He said that although he was caught by mistake, he was just careless and fell into other people's tricks.
At worst, he would die, and he would be a good man again twenty years later.
But there are many accomplices in and outside the city.
Even if the thieves' yamen are extremely capable, it is impossible to deal with those animal-making immortals.
Sooner or later, the money in the vassal treasury will have to be stolen and used to honor the ancestor.
Master Ma was furious.
He discussed with the bannerman Admiral Tuhai: "The most abominable thing in the world is the demon who practices evil arts.
Swordsmen have been killing them since ancient times.
History books say that they have disappeared since the Five Dynasties.
In fact, there are still remnants of evil in our dynasty that have not been eliminated.
In the opinion of the Admiral, how should we deal with this guy?"
Although Admiral Tuhai was a high-ranking official in charge of military affairs, he had no real talents other than the ability to intrigue in the officialdom.
He was really a dull and incompetent person.
He listened to the trial all night and was extremely sleepy.
He was dozing by himself.
When Master Ma asked him, he yawned quickly, took a snuff to refresh himself, raised his buttocks, raised his hands and clasped his fists to the north, and said: "We have Long Fuqi in the Qing Dynasty." sky, The current emperor is even more wise and powerful.
How can we allow such a clown to commit evil in the world?
Now that he has been caught, why do you ask any more questions?
Just execute him as soon as possible according to the law.
Then we can go see him on a big red trip.
Have some fun."
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Governor Ma immediately catered to him and said: "I have exactly what I want.
Although this rat monk is just a clown and is not enough to alarm the saints, the crimes he committed are really not small and cannot be tolerated by the law.
Moreover, he is possessed of a demon. skills, and his accomplices who are good at making animals have not been captured , if he has been in death row for a long time, and he is afraid that he will use his methods to break free from the prison and escape, or he may go on a hunger strike to escape the death penalty, it is better to cut the knot with a quick knife and deliver him to the mayor within three days and behead him in public.
Break all the bones into pieces and raise ashes to proclaim the law of our dynasty.”
The strange case of Huaiyuan in Lingzhou City has come to an end for the time being.
As the saying goes, "No matter how good or bad you are today, you don't know whether you will be good or bad in the future."
We still don't know how Zhang Xiaobian'er and others were punished by the government; nor do we know why the old ghost in the forest instructed them to do this.
What a strange thing, what is the shocking plot in it?
There is a branch teaching: "There is no justice in troubled times, and disasters from heaven will inevitably cause disasters."
If you want to know what happened next, let's listen to the third volume of the Golden Coffin Tomb Beast, Lingzhou City Fen
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