In Caozhuang Town, Linshu County, Linyi City, Shandong Province, there is a famous historical and cultural mountain - Qishan. There is a village at the foot of Qishan, and it is adjacent to the hundreds of miles of Maling Mountain to the south. The Jishan area is a good place with outstanding people. It has produced many literati in the past, as well as bandit leaders and soldiers. Today I am going to tell the story of a soldier who created an unsolved case of two lives.
Chishan
A young man serving as a soldier. His mother died.
In the early years of the Republic of China, bandits were rampant. The area in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu was the hardest hit area by bandits. It was known as "from Yushan to Moshan, there were thousands of thieves". There is a cunning character in the village named Yu Chenglong. His father died early, leaving him orphaned and widowed. Jackie Chan is smart, handsome, witty and courageous, but he is also ruthless and is a well-known gangster. When he was twenty years old, a rich man named Tang Fugui from Lizhuang in nearby Tancheng betrothed his daughter Fengxian to him. However, not long after they got married, Yu Chenglong was captured as a young man and became a soldier. He was gone for three years without any news. Some people said: "Jackie Chan may have been assassinated;" others said: "This man was so talented that he thought he had no other love but changed his name and established a new family..." Yu Chenglong's mother missed her son so much that she became ill due to worries and died after treatment failed.
Daughter-in-law Tang Fengxian buried her mother-in-law with tears in her eyes and returned to her parents' home to cry. Her mother comforted her and said, "My child, you are suffering. Mother knows it, but this is an unchangeable reality. You can't remarry, and you can't seek short-term opportunities. Just live with it. Maybe your husband will get a part-time official position, and you will have a good life. If you feel lonely at home, come to your mother's house for a few more days. What's the matter? Tell your mother about the difficulty..." Her father said: "Women must abide by Three Obediences and Four Virtues . You are a member of the Yu family when you are born, and you are a ghost of the Yu family when you die. There is no other way out. That boy Yu Chenglong is ruthless. If he misbehaves, he will not kill our family...".
Unbearable love, hooking up and turning into adultery
There is a sour scholar named Xia Shitong in this village. I had known that Tang Fengxian was a talented girl and very beautiful. Her husband left for the army and did not return. Her mother-in-law died again, so she stayed alone in the empty house. So I had an evil thought, took advantage of the situation, and after dinner, I went to Tang Fengxian's house in the name of delivering a message. Fengxian was a lady of the family, and she also had all kinds of emotions. She was a woman in her twenties, the age of restless spring. She stayed alone in an empty room all day, was unbearably lonely, and just wanted to have someone to talk to, la la croak, to relieve her boredom. Therefore, he had no objection to Xia Xiucai's arrival. He politely gave up his seat and served tea. Then he recited Du Fu's poem "Farewell to a Wedding", " Rabbit silk is attached with fluffy flax, so it will not grow long. To marry a daughter to a husband, it is better to abandon it on the roadside..." and described the background of the era when Du Fu wrote "A Farewell to a Newlywed", the meaning of the poem, and the sad thoughts of the bride, vividly and vividly. After hearing this, Fengxian was fascinated... From then on, the lonely man and the widow came and went frequently, and finally they hooked up and became an adulterer.
Kill the adulterer, destroy the body and eliminate the traces
Let’s talk about Yu Jackie Chan, this man changes the direction when the wind blows. He bullies the weak and is afraid of the strong. He kneels down when he sees an official. He is a slut. He flattered his superiors, was appreciated by his superiors, and was promoted to adjutant. When he learned that his mother had passed away, he asked for leave to go home to visit relatives. He passed by his uncle's house in Dashao Village and heard his cousin's sister-in-law say: "Your wife Fengxian is not behaving well at home." Yu Chenglong was suspicious, so he deliberately waited until dark. Later, in the dead of night, he quietly returned to the door and tied his horse to the locust tree next to the door. He saw a light in the main room through the crack in the door. He tiptoed over the courtyard wall, slid along the wall and walked to the window to lick the broken window lattice paper. He saw a man and a woman lying on the bed and croaking. He was immediately jealous, but he did not break in. He stepped back and took a look around the yard. He found a pig pen on the southwest corner of the west end of the pot house, and heard the old sow panting.
So he found a wooden stick and hit the old sow in the east and west until it screamed, which alarmed Tang Fengxian and Xia Xiucai in the main room. Fengxian held down Xia Xiucai and said, "Don't move, I'll go out and take a look first." With a "crash", he opened the door. In the dark, he couldn't see anything, so he threw himself. He muttered to himself: "Damn old sow, what are you shouting in the middle of the night..." Yu Chenglong took advantage of the woman's opportunity to go to the pigsty and slipped through the wall into the main room. Before Xia Xiucai could take precautions, he stabbed Xia Xiucai in the chest with a knife, then left the room and pressed against the west wall next to the door. After Fengxian entered the house, he climbed over the courtyard wall and rode away on horseback.
Tang Fengxian entered the house and found Xia Xiucai lying motionless in a pool of blood. He was so frightened that he lost his mind. What's going on? In the blink of an eye, someone was killed and the murderer disappeared. Could it be that the murderer could fly over the wall... What should I do? This is a matter of life and death. If you kill someone, you must pay for your life. If you can't catch the cattle thief, you can catch him. When people find out in the morning, I won’t be able to explain clearly even with all my words. That's all, instead of doing nothing else, they simply cut the dead body into pieces, boiled it in a pot, threw the half-cooked bones and meat into the pig pen, and let the sows chew them. They burned the ones that couldn't be eaten, burned them, and dug pits to bury those that couldn't be burned. After working all night, I wiped away the blood at dawn and pretended that nothing happened at home.
Xia Xiucai disappeared. At first, his family thought he might have gone to visit relatives and friends, but after a few days, he still didn't return home. The family panicked and asked everywhere for information. They all said, "I haven't seen this person." Everyone said, "He must have been killed by enemies or bandits." Reporting the case in the past was of no use. The government did not investigate and deal with it. After a long time, it was left unsolved, and it became an unsolved case.
A gentleman's revenge is never too late in ten years
Let's talk about this. After Yu Chenglong committed the crime and returned to the military camp, he continued to fuck his adjutant as usual, as if nothing had happened. Although he had killed the adulterer Xia Xiucai and avenged the death of his wife, he did not give up. He wanted to get rid of Tang Fengxian, a prostitute, and could not vent his hatred.
"Ten years are not too late for a gentleman to take revenge." Three years later, Yu Chenglong inquired about the killings he had made at home three years ago. There was no response, so he swaggered home on a high horse. Tang Fengxian saw that her husband, who had been away for a long time, had been promoted and came home in a majestic manner. She was extremely affectionate to him, and she was indescribably happy.
Yu Chenglong pretended that nothing happened and was very kind to his wife. He bought a lot of clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, etc. for his wife, and said many words of gratitude: "After I left, you were tired, so you honored my mother for me; my mother died of illness, and you buried her well. It is not easy for you to maintain this family alone. I owe you a lot, and I will repay you well in the future." Tang Fengxian was very happy after hearing this.
The next day, Yu Chenglong proposed that he wanted to go to Lizhuang to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and bought a lot of gifts. The couple rode a tall horse to visit his father-in-law's house in Lizhuang. Fengxian's parents were very happy to see their son-in-law come home to visit relatives after he was promoted. They were very happy and treated him sincerely. Making tea, taking cigarettes, hosting banquets, and was very busy. Relatives, friends, and neighbors all went to sit. It was really full of guests and guests. During the dinner, Fengxian's brother asked: "His uncle, you have been serving as a soldier in the past few years. You have traveled all over the country and seen a lot. You must know a lot of new things. Let me listen to you and let me gain insights." So, Yu Chenglong talked about the mountains and the sea, the vast sea and the sky, just like Han Shu . Everyone sitting there was stunned. After dinner, even his mother-in-law, uncle-in-law, sister-in-law, and wife went to listen to the fun.
Yu Chenglong saw that the time had come, so he cleverly transplanted the story of returning home to kill people three years ago to a friend, and explained it in a clear-cut manner: "I have a brother who lives in Linyi . He is about the same age as me and has roughly the same family background. Three days after we got married, he was captured and became a soldier. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law lived at home. Not long after, his mother passed away, and the young daughter-in-law was left a widow at home..." Yu Chenglong observed his wife's facial expressions while talking, and Fengxian listened attentively at first. When he talked about hooking up with a scholar and committing adultery, he found that his wife lowered her head, unable to leave, and uneasy to stay. He raised his voice and gestured and continued: "This friend of mine is not incompetent, he is both wise and brave."
Ever since, he told the story of how he went home and killed his adulterer from beginning to end, and described the bloody scene in a realistic and terrifying way. He found that his wife was on pins and needles and almost couldn't support it anymore. He reached out to touch the teapot and wanted to drink some water. Unexpectedly, there was no tea in the teapot. The old father-in-law was very embarrassed and said with self-reproach. : "Our whole family is useless, we can't even boil the saliva to drink..." The old mother-in-law said: "Brother-in-law, you have a rest first, I will boil it..."
Yu Chenglong pointed at his wife and said: "You are such a stubborn person. Our mother is old, doesn't it mean you can't boil some water?" "Fengxian had wanted to leave this place for a long time. She was afraid that she would be exposed if she left, so she took advantage of this moment to get off the donkey and boil water. She knew in her heart that what her husband said was her business, and he was the one who killed the person named Xia. Can he let me go? Why not take advantage of this opportunity? Forget it if Xuanliang is dead... After half an hour, no tea was delivered. Yu Chenglong felt that the time was almost up and touched the teapot again. The old mother-in-law got up and said: "Damn girl, you are so useless. You can't even boil the pot of water. Erfeng, go and see what's going on?" "Er Feng ran to the pot house and took a look, "Catch", it's not good, my sister has hanged herself...
Everyone ran to see Feng Xian hanging on the beam, her face was ashen, and her tongue was hanging out for more than half a foot. The woman cried and wiped her tears, while the man sighed. The family was confused and helpless. Yu Chenglong grabbed Lao Yue's arm and said angrily: "Why are you still stunned? Release the person quickly! You old thing, you must explain to me clearly, why is this? I came home yesterday and was fine. I was very happy when I came this morning. Why did he commit suicide by hanging on a beam now? I don’t understand..." The old man’s mouth was trembling and he couldn’t speak. It was his sister-in-law Erfeng who came forward to rescue her. "Brother-in-law, don’t be anxious. There is a reason for everything and we will definitely find out the reason. I think it’s better to bury my sister first and talk about it later. "
Yu Chenglong saw that his sister-in-law was smart, handsome, and could talk, so he fell in love with her, and deliberately said: "That won't work. I can't bury her until the truth comes to light. I have no children in front of me now, and I am all alone. What will I do in the future? I went to Tancheng District (formerly under the jurisdiction of Tancheng County) to report the case today. We will see you in court..." Erfeng quickly took her brother-in-law's hand and said, "Brother-in-law, don't be busy. There is no problem that can't be solved. My sister has heartache, is sick, insane, moody, maybe she can't control her excitement and committed suicide. In my opinion, it is better to bury him first and find out the reason later, so that things can be easier to handle in the future."
As for what to do in the future, Erfeng will continue to be a mother-in-law with Yu Chenglong, and no one will mention the matter of Yu Chenglong killing two lives.
