Tang Dynasty During the Shengli period, a strange thing happened in Fuzhou, Hu Guang. Hu Linggu, the beautiful boss of Wangjiang Tower, reported to the Taitai Master Di Renjie : Since he lived in the store for the exam, he has been going on for more than a day. There were no guests, but a few people died for no reason. The luxurious main building was lived in a past big merchant. There was no one living in a few days. Instead, three people died in a row. I really don’t know where those three people came from, where they went, and why they died for no reason. In the store, the good main building suddenly became a haunted house. Di Renjie and his assistant Ma Qianzhang went to Wangjiang Tower together and checked the dead body. There was no trace of damage from the deceased. Instead, it was obvious that the deceased was too frightened before his death and struggled to die. Di Renjie was also unfathomable about this murder case in a haunted house. After returning to the mansion, he sent a former horseman to secretly detectives, intending to find a reliable basis before handling the case.
The front pawn has been following Di Renjie for many years. He is a master of detectives. He flew into the haunted house at night, and the boss's wife didn't know. On the first night, suddenly in the middle of the night, a melodious flute sounded, and then the flute sound was like the rushing river water, like the surging roar. He was a little upset when he heard it. At this moment, a "Oh" sound came from downstairs. When the pawn went to see, a burly man was dead on the ground. Around the man, there were blue lights. After looking closer, there were dozens of five-step snakes, spitting out the snake core at the front of the horse. The front pawn saw that this place should not be kept for a long time, so he flew away immediately. He thought: It's strange, there are only five-step snakes in the south, where do snakes come from?
D Renjie asked the front pawn not to alert the snake, and continued to observe who was the master who could command the five-step snake to kill people, and why did they kill people? He ordered to continue to observe secretly. When the second night the front pawn hid behind the haunted house again, a roar came from the middle of the night. When I opened the window, I saw the scholar who was taking the exam sitting by the pool under the moonlight, taking out the flute . After the song " Mountains and Flowing Waters " was blown, the roar in front of the door was no longer sound. If you look closely, another person died. The scholar put away the flute and stomped his feet and returned to the room. Judging from the scholar's appearance of stomping his feet, his internal strength is quite profound. Could it be that he was commanding the snake to kill people? He came from afar, so how could there be enemies? The pawn couldn't figure it out and told Di Renjie what he saw. Di Renjie accused the pawn of being investigated by the wrong person and it was time for another person to observe. Whose actions should you pay attention to? The front pawn thought about it all day, but there was no second person in the store, so he decided to try following the boss's wife Hu Linggu.
Hu Linggu is actually only in his twenties and looks very beautiful. For some reason, after her husband went to do business far away, he did not come back for three or four years. Everything at home was handled by Hu Linggu. On the third night, Hu Linggu gently opened the door, looked around, closed the door lightly, and trotted open the side door. A big man immediately flashed into the door, hugged Hu Linggu and ran in like the wind. In Hu Linggu's room. The front pawn knew that Hu Linggu was a slut, and he didn't want to look at him anymore. Just as he was about to go back to the room, he suddenly heard Hu Linggu's door open again, and the big man walked out and walked into the scholar's room. At this moment, the scholar's flute sounded, and now he was playing "Spring River Moon Night". At the end of the song, the man walked halfway and died on the road without saying a word. Hu Linggu, who was behind, was so scared that he flew like a flying Run back and close the door immediately. The front pawn looked closely and saw countless five-step snakes appearing on the ground, holding their heads high. No wonder the man died without saying a word. It would be strange if he was not scared to death. The front pawn did not alarm the scholar and immediately reported to Di Renjie.
Di Renjie sent someone to send the boss's wife the next day and asked her why she wanted to kill her for money, but instead she lost her life to her accomplices. This question was strange, and the front pawn didn't know what Di Renjie was trying to do. Hu Linggu shouted "unfairly", claiming that she was law-abiding and never committed suicide by seeking money. I hope the Lord will be aware of it. Di Renjie was not vague and ordered the front pawn to take Hu Linggu and go to her room to check. The front pawn took Hu Linggu into the room, but did not see any suspicion. Just as he was about to come out, Di Renjie asked him to lift the bed and look again. At this command, Hu Linggu's legs were so scared that he shook.The pawn lifted the bed and found a hole under the bed. The pawn walked into the cave and found that it was a basement, about one meter square below the cave, and there were twenty boxes of gold and silver. Di Renjie ordered the gold and silver to be moved away immediately. Hu Linggu shouted in despair: "This is the legacy left by my ancestors. Lord Di, you can't move away."
"How many years have your ancestors opened? Tell me honestly." Di Renjie asked sternly.
"It has been passed to my generation, and there have been four generations."
"That's right." Di Renjie said it in detail: "When the King of Nanzhao came to stay in the store in your grandfather's hands, your grandfather was very particular. When the King of Nanzhao came to stay in the store in your grandfather's hands, your grandfather was the one who had been to the house. The 500 taels of silver from the Nanzhao King was stole. Of course, the King of Nanzhao didn't care. He felt that it was a trivial matter, so he lost face when he asked. But your father was different later. He exchanged the eighteen boxes of silver from a big businessman one by one for The businessman wanted to go to court with your father, but your father instead ordered the thug to hurt the businessman and beat the businessman into a mute. Poor that businessman went back to beg for rice. Your father was afraid that others would chase him, so he took your mother with him. , My brother escaped and left you to visit the store. I was not wrong at all, right? "
Hu Linggu shouted again: "I am unfair, lord is fabricating facts and slandering good people."
" Then, I will ask Zhou Youshan to come out and speak. Zhou Scholar, come and confront Hu Linggu."
Di Renjie finished speaking, the scholar came out of the house and saluted Di Renjie first, and then asked strangely: "Mr. Di, how did you know my whereabouts? Let me confront you What? "
All this confused the pawn. According to the saying, the boss's wife is mysterious and romantic, and her behavior is strange and should be no different from the thieves. The strange scholar Zhou Youshan came from afar, and he didn't understand the details. Why did Lord Di know Zhou Youshan's whereabouts? Just as the pawn was suspicious, Zhou Youshan made a request to ask Di Renjie to untie Hu Linggu's rope, let her sit down in the middle of the flower courtyard in Wangjiang Tower, and let the people around him leave immediately. Di Renjie and Pawn also watched from a distance. Then why don’t she take the opportunity to escape? The front pawn was about to say that Zhou Youshan said to the people, "Hu Linggu can't run away, and he will be frightened and tell the truth soon."
Then, Zhou Youshan picked up the flute and blew a paragraph "Spring River Flower Moon Night". After playing, he stopped and said with a sneer. : "Hu Linggu, the show is about to begin. If you don't tell the truth now, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
People were stunned. They saw dozens of five-step snakes surrounding Hu Linggu, and they all stretched their heads and shot out. The core slowly surrounded Hu Linggu. Hu Linggu was so scared that she shouted: "Kingman, you let the snake go away. I'm afraid, I'm really afraid. If they don't leave, how can I speak?"
"Yiyi", Zhou Youshan blew two flutes. The five-step snake disappeared in the blink of an eye. Zhou Youshan then said sternly: "Speak quickly, if you don't say it, you will be the ghost of Shekou."
"I, it's not me, this is my father's blood debt owed to you, the Zhou family, but my father has been killed by you. Oh! "Hu Linggu finally told the truth, admitting that she had committed several generations of crimes of opening black shops and stealing customers' property, and told her everything that she had secretly killed five people.
Zhou Youshan then explained to Di Renjie that his father trafficked jewelry and traveled between Dali and the capital. That year he received eighteen pieces of silver, which were packed in eighteen boxes and stored in Wangjiang Tower. When his father was about to go home, When I went to get eighteen boxes of silver, I opened it and saw that it was a rock in the box. I accused the boss of being unkind and wanted to take the boss to meet the official. At the boss' order, several servants beat Zhou Youshan's father and forced him to his throat. After breaking, he became a mute. The boss used money to bribe officials, leaving Zhou Youshan's father with no way to complain, so he had to return to Dali. He died in hatred within a few years after he returned. Zhou Youshan was determined to avenge his father and take back his property. He learned from a master and learned a unique skill in playing the flute.
The dozens of five-step snakes were also raised by him. He listened to his words very much. When the flute sounded, the five-step snake would come out immediately. Attack the target to attack, ten times would win.After moving into Wangjiang Tower, five people were scared to death, one was Hu Linggu's father, one was her mother, one was her husband, one was her younger brother, and the other was her adulterous lover, but these people He went out one by one and came back to get the money and went to the flowers, so that Zhou Youshan could see it one by one. Speaking of this, Zhou Youshan knelt down and said, "Mr. Di, I have avenged my father. If you should be punished, please give me a letter. However, how can Lord. Know my whereabouts?"
"Zhou Heroes, twenty years ago, you Although his father has been beaten to mute, he is educated to write. Fortunately, the state officials were still conscientious at that time, and were afraid that your father would die here, so they sentenced him to a disapproval. In fact, it would be easy for your father to escape and come back in the future Complaint. I found out the complaint as soon as I arrived, thinking to myself, why doesn't this businessman come to complain? At this time, Hu Linggu came to sue Wangjianglou and three people died in a row. I was associated with this matter. Sure enough, no As I expected, the Zhou family came to take revenge. "Di Renjie pronounced the sentence on the spot: Hu Linggu was guilty of hiding the stolen goods and brought them back to prison. Although Zhou Youshan avenged his father, he should not have killed the criminal. He should have sued the government to punish the murderer and fined 500 taels of silver. His father was deducted 500 taels of silver and returned it to the Zhou family for retrieval.
Zhou Youshan hurriedly thanked Di Renjie, rented a carriage, put eighteen boxes of silver into the carriage, and before leaving, he played a song, opened a large wooden box, and saw five-step snakes coming downstream, rushing to drill into the wooden box one after another. In the end, there was no snake, and Zhou Youshan covered the wooden box and waved goodbye to Di Renjie.
■Li Yi
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