Written by | Xiaxi
Ming Dynasty During the Chenghua period (1464-1487), Shandong Qingzhou Prefecture was appointed as the prefect of Linqu Huangri County, 7span County _span. Less than 30 years old, but young and mature, decent and fair in handling cases.
One day, it was spring blossoms. Seeing that there was nothing to do in Huangzhi County, he ordered his wife to buy a table of good food and drinks, and moved to the pavilion in the backyard.
Suddenly, a crow flew into the backyard from outside, landed on the eaves of the pavilion, and kept calling. At this time, Huang Zhixian was thinking about a pair of good sentences. Hearing the croaking noise was very annoying, so he ordered his family to chase the crow away.
Unexpectedly, after a while, the crow flew back again, and fell on the spot, whining constantly, with a very desolate voice. Huang Zhixian was about to let Jia Ding go there, but his wife stopped him.
This lady from Huangzhi County is a lady of the world. Not only is she beautiful, she is also proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and calligraphy, but also very strategic. case.
Huang Zhixian was about to ask the reason, but he heard his wife say: "Master, this crow's cry sounds very tragic, and it has gone back again. Is there any reason why it failed?" At this time, the crow seemed to listen. When the lady said what she said, she screamed even more desolately.
When Huang Zhixian heard it, his heart seemed to be moved. After a while, he summoned his confidant Zhao Bao, pointed to the crow and said, "You don't want to call anymore. If you really are wronged, I will order Zhao Bao to follow him. Go with you!" Whispered to Zhao Bao again, and ordered him to follow the crow to see where it fell before returning.
The crow seemed to understand Huang Zhixian's words, and immediately stopped the wailing, and flew out of the county office, Zhao Bao hurriedly followed all the way.Every time the crow flew two miles, it landed on the tree beside the road, waiting for Zhao Bao. After walking for more than twenty miles in this way, to a dense forest outside the city, the crow fell on a new mound and refused to go anymore. It kept stopping here, crying loudly.
Zhao Bao was shocked when he saw this. He didn't take it seriously, but he had to do something that was assigned by the county grandfather. Now that he saw something abnormal, he hurriedly returned to the county office to report back to Huangzhi County.
When Zhao Bao returned to the county office, he found that the crow had already returned and landed on the eaves again, wailing ceaselessly. Huang Zhixian heard Zhao Bao’s report, turned around and smiled and said to his wife: "Madam is really clever, presumably this is another soul waiting for me to go to redress the grievance!" Then, he brought a group of government officials and Wu Zuo to the scene to investigate. .
The group of people arrived at the mound in the deep forest, and the crow followed and landed on a nearby big tree. Upon seeing this, Huang Zhixian immediately ordered the yamen to dig up the mound. Just less than three feet after the excavation, he saw a corpse that had just been buried.
Huang Zhixian hurriedly lifted up the corpse, and asked him to inspect it. It was verified that the deceased was hit in the head and died, but he did not know who he was last name and where he lived.
At this time, another government officer found a riding whip in the dirt pit and presented it to Huangzhi County for inspection. Huang Zhixian looked at the whip for a long time, but did not see any clues, so he had to order the corpse to fill in the corpse, keep the corpse properly, and then ordered the servants to search around to find the relevant insiders, and he went back to the county government.
For several days, the government officials who went out for verification have reported back, saying that they had not found any suspicious clues. After Huang Zhixian learned of it, he was so anxious that he didn't think about tea and rice, and couldn't sleep at night. He spent the whole day thinking about how to deal with this suspicious case.
One night, Huang Zhixian checked the case file in the lobby again. At the time of the third watch, a sudden burst of fatigue struck him, and he fell asleep on the case in a daze. In a daze, he saw a man with a disheveled head and a sad face, kneeling on his knees in front of the case, crying to him: "The villain was murdered by a treacherous man, I beg the master to call the shots for me!"
Huang Zhixian ate one Surprised, he hurriedly asked: "Who are you? What grievances do you want to sue?" The man said: "The villain’s enemy is not a peach, a peach, and a peach.Do not sit and do nothing. "After that, he cried again and finally retired.
At this moment, there was a sound of drums, and Huang Zhixian suddenly woke up from his dream and found that it had already been watched four times. He carefully recalled the situation in his dream, but Always reluctant.
The next day, Huang Zhixian ordered Zhao Bao to personally take people out for an investigation, and asked them to bring suspicious people near Shenlin back to the court for interrogation.
After Zhao Bao took his order, he was near Shenlin Searching around, but still found nothing, so he took people into the deep forest, walked less than three miles, and came to a small market town called Pingfeng Street. There are only more than ten families here. There are horses for rent.
Zhao Bao saw this situation, his heart moved, he suddenly thought of the horse whip buried in the mound with the body, and ordered people to arrest four or five people in the town without any explanation. , Brought them all to the county office.
Huang Zhixian immediately went up to interrogate after hearing about it, and asked them: "You live in the deep forest, what do you do for a living?" "Everyone replied: "They all make a living by renting horses.
Huang Zhixian heard the furious, he scolded: "Since you live by renting horses, why do you kill people and take money?" "Everyone was frightened, and they quickly denied it.
Huang Zhixian saw that everyone refused to admit it, and went on to say: "You murdered a guest who rented a horse a few days ago, buried him in the deep forest, and left him again. A horse whip, don't you still refuse to admit it? "After that, I ordered people to pass the whips to them one by one.
Everyone looked at the whips, and they all said they didn’t know each other, and then told Huang Zhixian: "Although we people all live by renting horses, but for the sake of To be fair, it’s all in turn. Everyone does not know what happened every day. "
Huang Zhixian listened, pondered for a long while, and said to them: "In this case, you report all the names of the people in the market town." "So everyone reported the name, and Huang Zhixian ordered someone to record it. After looking at it carefully for a long time, but still to no avail, he had to announce his withdrawal.
At night, Huang Zhixian was thinking hard again. Countermeasures,Tea and rice do not think about it. When the wife saw this, she hurried forward to greet. Huang Zhixian was upset and told her about the dream, and then gave her the list of the renter's house to watch.
Madam carefully looked at the name of the renter, and said to Huang Zhixian: "There is a person named Li Mingli on this list, and in the master's dream, there is another verse, "Neither peach nor apricot, nor sit and do nothing." , Isn't "Fei Tao Fei Xing" just "Li"? And "Non sitting, non-action" is "Li", is this person Li Li?" Huang Zhixian suddenly realized when he heard it, admiring his wife's cleverness and wit.
The next day, Huang Zhixian ordered Zhao Bao to bring Li Li to court for questioning alone. At the beginning, Li Li did not admit it. Upon seeing this, Huang Zhixian was furious, and first beat him up, and then told him the complaint of the unjust soul in his dream. After hearing this, Li Li was so frightened, his face was bloodless, and he could not stand the torture, so he told the whole story.
It turned out that a few days ago, there was a merchant named Zhang En in Zhucheng County, which is also affiliated to Qingzhou Prefecture . He brought more than 100 taels of silver patterns and went to Beijing to buy satin horses.
When Zhang En arrived in Linqu County, he ran into the groom Li Li by chance. Li Li saw that he had brought a lot of luggage, and he was very well-dressed. Knowing that he was a rich man, he walked up to strike up a conversation: "Guest officer, do you want to rent a horse?"
Zhang En He is straightforward, generous and generous, and has always been generous. Seeing Li Li's initiative to ask, he replied: "I wanted to rent a horse, but I have luggage to carry." Li Li hurriedly replied, "It's fine, guest officer. Just get on the horse, and I will pick up the luggage." Zhang En saw that he was a groom and didn't look like a bad guy, so he agreed.
The two walked less than two miles and saw a farmer passing by with a crow on a chain. Seeing that the crow was crying, Zhang En couldn't help feeling pity, and hurriedly stopped the farmer and asked, "Are you going to sell this crow?" The farmer replied, "It's just about to be sold." So Zhang En dismounted and opened the wallet, took out the silver taels, bought the crow, and released it again.
Who knows, just when Zhang En opened the wallet to fetch silver, Li Li who stood by accidentally caught a glimpse of more than ten pieces of broken silver in his wallet, and there were three ingots of silver, and he became greedy for a while.I thought: There is no less than thirty taels of silver in this person’s wallet, and I don’t know how much silver there is in the bag; if he kills him and robs his silver, why bother to do this kind of money for others Where's the horseman? So, he had a murderous intention on Zhang En.
The two walked three or five miles again and came to a dense forest. Li Li saw the silence around him and no one in front of him, so he drew out the pole, and while Zhang En was not paying attention, he flew a pole at him from behind, in the middle of it. En head, beat him to death on the spot, and fell to the horse.
Li Li saw that Zhang En was dead, so he buried him in the deep forest and took away his money and luggage. He thought he was doing it without knowing it, but he was in a hurry. In the middle of the game, he left one of his riding whips and buried it with Zhang En. What made him even more unexpected was that the crow saved by Zhang En had been following Zhang En and saw him being killed. , Went to Huangzhi County to file a complaint, and finally found out the truth.
Huang Zhixian listened to Li Li's confession and ordered him to sign on the spot. At this moment, the crow flew into the lobby suddenly, first groaned in a low voice, then pounced on Li Li, pecked his face dripping with blood, and then flew out of the lobby and crashed into a rock and died.
Huang Zhixian sighed when he saw this. He first sentenced Li Liyi to a decisive decision, escorted him to the downtown area and beheaded to show the public. Then he sent people to Zhucheng County to find Zhang En's family, return the property in full, and return him. It was properly buried, and the crow was ordered to bury the crow beside Zhang En's grave, and a stone monument was erected on which the crow repays the strange anecdote, which is called "the grave of the righteous crow."
Later, when the local people learned of this strange case, they were very surprised, and they all went to the "Yi Crow Tomb" to worship. From then on, everyone in Linqu county is self-disciplined, and the folk customs are also governed for a while.
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