At the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, there was a peddler walking around the streets in Xiangyang counties in Hubei, named Du Chongfan.
Go out early in the morning every day, carry a load, shake rattle , shouting and hawking along the way, and only rush back at dusk.
He is very brave and often walks alone at night!
This day, when winter just began, Du Chongfan carried the load of goods and sold it from the countryside as usual. But because he walked too far, he didn't rush home until dark.
When he was carrying a cargo load, he suddenly heard a man reciting poems in the forest.
The wind is cold and the wind is cold. There is only a half-circular moon hanging in the sky in the sky, and half covered by black clouds. I am rushing through the bleak moonlight.
Du Chongfan was murmured in his heart: "It's getting late, and there is no one in the forest. Who would study here?"
Although he was brave, he was still a little scared at this time. A gust of cold wind hit, causing his spine to get cold after blowing!
The sound is getting closer and closer, which makes him unintentional to rush forward, so he put down the cart and listens carefully.
found that the sound of reading seemed to be around me, and I suddenly felt bad in my heart.
He picked up the shoulder pole and shouted loudly as if he was calm:
"The bright world is bright, the stars and moon are in the sky. Who is the unjust soul in the forest that is intimidating? Come out and see me quickly, otherwise don't blame me for being polite with this five-foot shoulder pole!"
This yell really works, and the sound of reading stops immediately.
But a light smoke emerged from a new grave not far from him. The smoke dissipated and a pretty scholar wearing a wide robe and big sleeves appeared.
The scholar looked around and asked Du Chongfan:
"Brother, aren't you afraid of walking on the mountain road alone so late?"
Du Chongfan suppressed his beating heart and plucked his courage to return: "Why are you afraid? I don't do anything wrong, and I travel all over the world with integrity."
These words made the scholar feel that the person in front of him was an upright and righteous person. Then he said:
"It was the young student who just recited poems and essays that disturbed you. Please forgive me."
then shouted: "Miss Qin Miao, come and hold the lights quickly. I want to meet this passerby."
After speaking, an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl appeared in front of Du Chongfan with the lantern and the scholar.
Scholar said at the meeting: "The young student Lin Yanzhen is polite, the eldest brother was frightened just now."
Du Chongfan quickly returned the greeting and said: "Young master doesn't have to do this, I didn't intend to get here."
Scholar said: "That's true, it's you and I have a fate."
At this time, the girl named Qin Miao spoke:
"Don't your husband want to ask a passerby to do some things for you? Tonight When I met this kind-hearted elder brother by chance, why not ask him to do it? "
Lin Yanzhen heard it and said, "Okay, please ask this elder brother to help me do three things."
Du Chongfan said in surprise for some reason, "Do three things? What can I do if I am an illiterate peddler to do you? I'm afraid I'll have to be trusted."
Lin Yanzhen smiled and said, "Brother, don't be humble. In my opinion, you can help the young actor." As he said that, he pulled Du Chongfan to sit down on the stone beside the road.
gave Du Chongfan another bow and said, "Brother, I'm going to hide it from you. I'm asking for something. I hope you can help me generously."
Although Du Chongfan didn't understand why, he still stood up and said to the scholar, "Young Master, what do you want me to ask for me? Just say it."
Lin Yanzhen told the truth:
"It turns out that he was the son of the Lin family in Nanyang City. He was from a wealthy family. He passed the imperial examination at a young age last year.
Two months ago, when he learned that the new exam was launched, he took two servants to Beijing to take the exam.
The county magistrate Liu Rusong in Xiangyang City was his father's friend for many years, so Lin's father divorced and asked his son Lin Yanzhen to detour Xiangyang to visit this Uncle Liu on the way.
Don't expect that because the silver he carried on the way was exposed, he was known to the evil people, and was noticed by the bandits, and he had an idea about his group.
Bandits ambushed in the mountains and forests of their must-pass, and when Lin Yanzhen and his group passed by, they were robbed.
The bandit not only robbed the silver, but also killed Lin Yanzhen and two servants. The bandits found a new grave on the spot to bury the bodies of Lin Yanzhen and others, and then fled. "
At this time, Lin Yanzhen was already crying, and Qin Miao on the side couldn't help but feel sad and said:
"My husband, don't be sad. Please tell me what you have to ask me to listen to, I'm still going to rush. "
Lin Yanzhen wiped away the tears, pointed at Qin Miao and introduced to Du Chongfan:
" Her name is Qin Miao, she is eighteen years old, she is the owner of the new tomb and my landlord.
She is also a miserable person and dies in vain. She and I met in Jiuquan.
She is smart and intelligent, and we both have the same fate and love each other later. Although we are buried in the same grave, we have different coffins in the same grave.
We have not been married to the official matchmaker, so we are eager to find a kind-hearted person to be a matchmaker for us. We are fortunate to meet our elder brother tonight, so we ask our elder brother to be a matchmaker for us. "
"Is I a mediator for you? "Du Chongfan asked in confusion, "We are separated by yin and yang, how can we accomplish what the young master has entrusted? "
Lin Yanzhen said slowly:
"Brother, don't worry, I have a marriage certificate here, which says that I want to be married to Miss Qin Miao. You only burn this document in the City God Temple and say that you are willing to be a matchmaker for Lin Yanzhen and Qin Miao.
I have prepared 100 taels of silver . Please buy us a large coffin, come here late at night, dig up the new grave, put our bones together and put them in the new coffin, and then bury them here.
If the elder brother can help us, we will thank you for your great kindness in the dark! "
Lin Yanzhen turned around and took a bag of silver and handed it to Du Chongfan, saying:
"Brother, after buying this big coffin, the remaining silver will belong to you. You can use it to buy the property, and you don't have to work hard in this life. "
Du Chongfan had never seen this white silver before, and at this moment he only saw his eyes rolling.
He quickly took the silver and promised Lin Yanzhen:
"Don't worry, I will do everything for you through fire and water. "
Lin Yanzhen took out another letter from his sleeve, instructing Du Chongfan to meet with the Xiangyang County Magistrate Liu Rusong.
got Du Chongfan's promise, and Lin Yanzhen and Qin Miao turned into two light smoke under the moonlight and entered the grave!
Du Chongfan shivered, stood there for a moment, rubbed his eyes, looked at the white silver in his arms, and carried the cargo and ran wildly towards his home.
Du Chongfan was crazy all the way I rushed to my house, and quickly lit the lamp, took out the silver in my arms, touched it with my hands, and knocked it again and again. After confirming that it was a real silver, I burst into laughter!
hurried to fry a few dishes, boiled a pot of wine, and drank it beautifully. After drinking and eating, I slept beautifully.
The next day I got up, touched the silver in my arms, and muttered:
"I want to use these silver to buy a store in Xiangyang City to do business, make a fortune, and then marry my wife. I no longer have to be a pick-up peddler, and I will work hard to make small money when I go to villages and households! "
Du Chongfan was fantasizing about his beautiful days in the future, but suddenly thought of Lin Yanzhen, and his face changed.
said: "I have died and I still have to enjoy it. I haven't enjoyed it yet. I still want to help you, a damn ghost. How can I have that leisure? "
As he said that, he pressed Lin Yanzhen's marriage certificate and letters to the state officials on the bottom of the box, hummed a small song, changed into new clothes and went out.
Du Chongfan was already obsessed with money at this time, and forgot what Lin Yanzhen had entrusted to the sky.
He came to Xiangyang City and rented three shops, hired another carriage to buy a full carriage of goods.
Du Chongfan sat in the carriage with the style of a big boss, urging the coachman to rush back quickly.
When Du Chongfan was packing the shop happily, four yamen runners suddenly rushed in from the shop and took Du Chongfan to the government without saying anything.
In the lobby, Du Chongfan saw the wholesaler who bought the goods just now standing aside, and was shocked, "Is something wrong?"
Just as Du Chongfan was thinking deeply, the county magistrate Liu Rusong slapped the wood and asked:
"Are you Du Chongfan?"
Du Chongfan hurriedly returned: "Sir, the villain is just."
County magistrate Liu shouted:
"Bold and unlucky Du Chongfan, you dare to blind people and use dark silver as pattern silver to go to the wholesaler office Why is it because of buying a large number of goods? "
When Du Chongfan heard this, he immediately shouted injustice: "It's unfair, sir, what I took was obviously silver, how could it be Mingyin? It must be him. It was this wholesaler who blackmailed me and falsely accused me. sir, sir, sir."
The wholesaler fell to the ground and shouted:
"Sir, sir, sir, I haven't moved the Mingyin at all. After I found it was Mingyin, I came to report to the official."
Du Chongfan and the wholesaler continued to argue in the court. At this time, a yamen runner stepped forward and said in the ear of Liu County Magistrate. The magistrate Liu County was making a sound, and the two of them were silent.
"Come on, I'll give me this fraudulent Du Chongfan a top twenty boards first."
Du Chongfan was so scared that he was about to get beaten. He kowtowed and begged repeatedly:
"Sir, please spare your life, please spare your life, you're wronged."
It turned out that the yamen runner was a neighbor near Du Chongfan's house. He had long known that Du Chongfan was a picker and his family was not well off, but he could barely survive.
He reported this situation to the magistrate Liu. Liu's magistrate has been prosecuting the case for many years and has rich experience. He concluded that Du Chongfan must have problems with the money, so he scared him to confess.
"If you don't bring it truthfully, a slaughter of flesh and blood will inevitably be a bit of pain." said Liu County Magistrate!
"The villain is willing to recruit where the money comes from," Du Chongfan said quickly!
Du Chongfan told County Magistrate Liu all the time when he saw the ghost in the forest.
But County Magistrate Liu would not believe the nonsense he said, and shouted, "Du Chongfan, don't want to make up the nonsense, call me again if you come!"
Du Chongfan was so scared that he kowtowed repeatedly and said,
"Sir, everything the villain said is true. If you don't believe it, there is a marriage certificate written by the ghost scholar and a letter to you in the box at my house. Please read it and make a decision."
County Magistrate Liu saw that Du Chongfan was telling it seriously, unlike a lie, so he ordered the servant to take Du Chongfan home to get the marriage certificate and the letter.
One hour later, the yamen runner came back with Du Chongfan and indeed brought back the marriage certificate and letter.
County Magistrate Liu was very surprised and was stunned after receiving the marriage certificate and letter. The letter clearly stated his own name, and the signature was the name of his friend Lin Congshi (the father of Lin Yanzhen).
County Magistrate Liu fell into deep thought: "My friend's son Lin Yanzhen has been missing for more than two months. His father and family have come to the mansion to inquire many times, but there is no news. How could there be a letter to Du Chongfan?"
County Magistrate Liu looked up and asked:
"Du Chongfan, do you know what is written in this letter?"
"The villain is illiterate, but I don't know. The villain only knows that the ghost scholar asked me to burn the marriage certificate in the City God Temple, and asked me to hand it over to you.
I am obsessed with money and do not want to do things for the ghost scholar, so I didn't do it as I did." Du Chongfan replied!
County Magistrate Liu shook his head and took apart the letter and looked at it.
opened the marriage certificate and read it again, and his face changed.
This is not a marriage certificate, it is clearly a blood letter, which writes about the story in detail:
" Two months ago, on the order of his father, he detoured through Xiangyang to visit Uncle Liu Rusong.
On the way, he was robbed and killed by money, and all three of them died in vain.
The robber was a wholesaler called Chengzhong in the east gate of Xiangyang City. After robbing Lin Yanzhen's 300 taels of silver, his business was even bigger.
There is another thing. There is a man named Qin Da in Shibali Village outside Xiangyang City. His newly married wife Zhang is a snake-scorpion-hearted and secretly killed his stepdaughter Qin Miao.
But it is said that he died of a sudden illness. Qin Miao was crying in the underworld, and he kept calling for grievances, and no one was seeking grievances for her."
After reading the bloody marriage letter, County Magistrate Liu was already in tears and said sadly:
"I never expected that my nephew was here to visit me by my father's instructions. "
Immediately, the magistrate Liu ordered the yamen runners to go to the east gate to arrest the wholesale business process, and then to capture the Zhang family who killed Qin Miao.
The two of them came to court, but they didn't understand why, and they all thought they were doing everything in perfection.
But then facing the harsh questioning of Liu County Magistrate Liu and the accusation of a blood letter, both of them were so scared that they were lying on the ground.
The two of them were really evil, and the magistrate Liu County Magistrate Liu felt that it was unreasonable to not punish him, so they ordered the yamen runners to beat twenty boards first.
Zhang family and Cheng Zhong confessed to the things they committed and said their own words. After all the facts of the crime, they were locked in a dead cell.
figured out the whole story of the matter, and then they had to deal with the funeral of the dead.
Liu County Magistrate ordered Du Chongfan to lead the way to the tomb of Qin Miao in the forest.
When he arrived in the forest, Liu County Magistrate ordered the yamen runners to dig up the tomb. He saw that Lin Yanzhen's body still looked as if he was alive, not rotting, and the bones of the two servants were still intact.
Liu County Magistrate felt guilty when he saw this, and suddenly covered his face and cried bitterly.
In addition to grief, he explained Du Chongfan's words to Lin Yanzhen In that way, buy three high-quality coffins with a large amount of money.
The large coffins are used to collect the corpses of Lin Yanzhen and Qin Miao. The bones of the two were buried in a coffin.
The other two coffins each bury the two servants in a coffin and buried around the tombs of Lin Yanzhen and Qin Miao.
Put offerings and incense, set off firecrackers for sacrifices.
The post-post affairs have been completed, Lin Yanzhen's wish has been fulfilled, the evil people have been buried, and several people have learned knowledge in the spring of the dead.
County Magistrate Liu could not let go of his thoughts for a long time...
0 ml0After returning to the county government, County Magistrate Liu called Du Chongfan to the front and scolded him fiercely.
Thought he did not commit an unforgivable crime, he did not commit an unforgivable crime, but only scolded him for doing things without his conscience.
On the other hand, it was revealed to the world because of the murders of Du Chongfan, the two sects, otherwise it would never be solved.
So he gave Du Chongfan the opportunity to go home and be a serene and be a new person, and stop greedy for money and take advantage of his conscience.
And County Magistrate Liu was very distressed at this time: "How can I explain this to my friend Lin Congshi? How sad is it to send a white-haired man to a black-haired man? ”
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