During the late Qing Dynasty, there was a place called Xinfa Town in Haicheng County, Jiangsu Province, located in a fortress of water and land transportation. Although the town is not big, with only more than twenty shops, there are people coming and going every day, and the bus

In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a place called Xinfa Town in Haicheng County, Jiangsu Province, located in a fortress of water and land transportation. Although the town is not big, with only more than twenty shops, there are people coming and going every day, and the business is very prosperous.

This morning, Xinfa Town was immersed in tranquility as usual. Suddenly, a heart-wrenching scream came from the town, awakening the sleeping people.

The listener followed the sound and came to Liu Rufa’s door. Seeing the door was closed, someone in the room was sobbing and crying. Everyone pushed the door and saw two headless corpses on the bed in the west wing, covered with blood on the floor. The girl Liu was stroking the corpse and cried bitterly.

It turned out that my sister-in-law got up early in the morning and saw that her parents were killed and died. The two heads were gone, so she screamed in fear. When everyone saw that it was a matter of life, they hurriedly found the village chief. After seeing the scene, the village chief verified that the deceased was indeed Liu Rufa's parents, the parents of Liu Rufa, and then went to Haicheng County Government to report the case.

Haicheng County Yamen is five or six miles away from Xinfa Town. When the Yamen Magistrate received a report and rushed to the scene, it was already noon. The magistrate of Haicheng is named Xu Shimin. He was born in a Jinshi and was 50 years old. He is upright and selfless, knowledgeable and talented, and is deeply loved by local people.

Minister Xu came to the crime scene and saw two headless corpses wrapped in a quilt in the bed in the west wing. The wound on the broken neck of the corpse was neat and obviously killed by a sharp blade. The male corpse had a jade ring on the left hand, and the female corpse had a silver bracelet on both wrists. The indoor objects were neat and orderly, and there was no sign of fighting, which seemed to be a robbery of money and harming people.

The deceased Liu Rufa and his wife are both over 60 years old. They are usually kind and can’t say they have enemies, so they are obviously not a revenge. The blood drop marks on the indoor ground lead from the door through the alley to the center of the town. However, it rained at midnight. After dawn, there was a constant stream of people coming and going from the center of the street, and it was difficult to tell where the blood was going.

In addition, there were obvious pry marks on the Liu family gate. Through understanding of Liu Xiaogu and his neighbors, it was said that no abnormal movement was heard at night, and it was not until dawn that Liu Rufa and his wife were killed. This means that after the people were asleep, the murderer opened the Liu family's door with his knife, went straight to the west wing to kill the old Liu couple, and then went out to the middle of the street with his head.

What kind of murder is this? Where did the deceased's head go? Xu Magistrate suddenly felt a lit up and noticed an abnormal phenomenon. He ordered the yamen runners to temporarily bury the bodies of Liu Rufa and his wife, sealed them up to the Liu family's door, and secretly sent someone to guard them. Then the deceased's daughter Liu Xiaogu was brought back to the county government for trial.

County Magistrate Xu saw something abnormal in Liu's family: the deceased Liu Rufa died on the bed of West Chamber , and the bedding on the bed and the furnishings in the room were clearly the girl's boudoir; and all the furnishings in the east wing were like the bedrooms of the elderly, and the local customs did not exist in the west wing. When he returned to the county government office, Xu Magistrate took Liu Xiaogu's identity and took her to the back hall for secret review.

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County Magistrate Xu pressed step by step: "You colluded with an adulterer and entered the house at night. Your parents heard the news, so they transferred the room with you on the grounds of identifying the rat traces. The man came again last night and saw that the door was closed and knew that there was something changed. He used a sharp blade to open the door and headed straight to the west wing room, but mistakenly recognized your parents as your new love, and went away with one knife.If you are not convinced, I can let someone verify whether you are still a virgin. At that time, you will still dare to speak stubbornly! "

When Magistrate Xu saw that Liu Xiaogu slowly lowered his head, he further inspired: "Now, only you know who the murderer of your parents is. If you do not report the secret, I will immediately go to the court to publicly trial the case. At that time, you will be charged with unfaithfulness and unfiliality. Your parents will be unable to keep their eyes closed. I hope you think twice! "

Something said made Liu Xiaogu cry and shed tears, and then wiped her tears and gritted her teeth and said, "Sir, the girl in the people is willing to ask me! "

There is a small department store in Xinfa Town, and the owner is Liu Rufa. Liu Rufa was originally a peddler from another country. After getting married, he moved to Xinfa Town to settle down. He specialized in small department stores. His business was prosperous and his life was comfortable. But one thing didn't go as he wished: his wife Tang had been infertile for many years after marriage.

After that, the couple often went to the temple to pray to gods and Buddhas, and they usually accumulate virtue and do good deeds. Tang was over forty years old and finally gave birth to a daughter, named her sister-in-law, and the couple regarded it as the pearl in their eyes.

When my younger sister was seven years old, Liu Rufa sent her to a nearby school to study. Because of her talent and years of hard work, she was proficient in poetry and writing. In a blink of an eye, my younger sister had become a beautiful girl. Liu Rufa refused to let her show up. She studied needlework with her mother at home every day, and even the shop rarely let her go.

On this day, Tang was sick, and her younger sister prepared lunch and delivered it to the store. After Liu Rufa finished her meal, she wanted to go to the thatched cottage to take care of her, so she asked her younger sister to take care of her. After dinner, Liu Rufa had to go to the cottage to take care of her, so she asked her younger sister to take care of her. After the shop. When the younger sister saw people coming and going in the street, she opened her eyes and watched the fun.

After a while, she suddenly saw a handsome young man in the shop opposite, looking at her with eyes fixed on her eyes. She felt a little embarrassed and instinctively lowered her head. After a while, she couldn't help but look up and saw that the other person was still staring at her. She suddenly remembered that this person was not Pei Shiqing who was studying with her at a young age? She hadn't seen him for a few years and now she has grown up to be an adult, so she smiled at the other person.

This person is Pei Shiqing, the only son of the grocery store owner Pei Yuanshun. The past two days, Old Pei went out to buy goods, so he asked Shiqing to take a meal. Pei Shiqing was smart and studious since childhood, and now he has a handsome talent. Just now he suddenly saw a young man sitting in the Liu family shop opposite. He looked like a fairy and thought to himself, as if he had seen him somewhere before, but he couldn't remember it for a moment.

was looking at him with all his heart, and he saw Qiubo turning around and staring at him, looking up at him, I couldn't help but thunder. Then I saw the other person smiled passionately at me, but saw two dimples on the pink face like peach blossoms, and his mouth was full of white teeth and jade. It was so charming that Pei Shiqing was so charming that he smiled in a daze and soft bones.

At this moment, Pei Sheng also recognized Liu Xiaogu. Unexpectedly, he had not seen her so beautifully in a few years, and he couldn't help but feel distracted. He picked up a pen and wrote a puzzle poem on the eight-line colored paper, and then took a silver dollar in the trunk and wrapped it in the paper. Inside, Zha Konger threw it into the opposite shop.

Xinfa Town street is only a squad wide, and Pei Shiqing threw the colorful paper into the Liu family shop without any effort.

Liu Xiaogu saw it carefully, and hurriedly picked it up and opened it. It read it: I miss you but Mr. Tian, ​​you are reliving your old dreams. Dingkou gathers together to have fun in the family, and I only want to meet you under the moon. Four words to make bet.

Liu Xiaogu has been a mystery since she was a child. At a glance, she could see through the four words "I miss you so much". She couldn't help but spread her cheeks and was panicked. However, this feeling was fleeting. After all, she was a girl who had just fallen in love. A sense of indescribable mystery immediately gained the upper hand, not to mention that the other party and herself had childhood sweethearts and ears.

Taking advantage of her father's absence, she quickly followed the poem and the previous four lines: When the time comes, she wears a single sword beside her, and the sun sets in the west to avoid me from being frustrated. I hope you don't forget someone's appointment. Two people The two are settled and intersected. The four words "You come tonight" are hidden, and the silver dollar is wrapped in it and thrown back to the Pei family shop.

There is an alley on the side of the Liu family shop. Not far from the alley is the Liu family's residence, with brick walls and grass roofs in one living room. Liu Rufa's old couple lived in the east wing, and his sister-in-law lived in the west wing. That night, after dinner, the family went into the room to rest. After a while, even snoring sounds came from the east wing.

Liu Xiaogu immediately came to the outside room and quietly opened the door bolt.After I made an appointment to touch the drum, I heard a slight sound of footsteps outside the door, and then the door was pushed open a gap. It was like a rabbit crawling into his arms. He quickly pulled the people into the house, closed the door, and hugged the people into the west wing, both took off their clothes and put them on the bed, and made a fuss.

Since then, it has been unstoppable. After the drums are updated every night, the other party will come to have a secret meeting...

According to Liu Xiaogu's confession, County Magistrate Xu immediately sent several yamen runners to arrest Pei Shiqing.

After about half an hour, Pei Shiqing was taken to the county government lobby. When Magistrate Xu saw Pei Shiqing's beautiful eyebrows and a weak scholar, he could not imagine that he was a murderer. Then he went straight to the point and said, "I think a scholar is a person who knows books and principles. If you seek a job in the future, you can also serve the imperial court. Now you are greedy for women and have suffered two lives because of traitors. You won't come to the real world!"

Pei Shiqing heard this and called for unjustly.

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After a while, he said, "I made a secret agreement with my sister-in-law that day. But at night, I suddenly heard that my uncle died of illness, so I went to my uncle's house in Yanwan to attend the funeral. When I came back three days later, I never met my sister again, so I did not dare to go to fulfill the agreement rashly. As for the murder of the two elders of the Liu family, I don't know whether to have a late life. Please check it out."

Minister Xu immediately retired. While temporarily put Pei Shiqing in prison, he quickly sent the yamen runners to Yanwan for inspection. The result is consistent with what Pei Shiqing gave. I checked with Pei's mother again, and what I said was exactly the same as Yanwan, which confirmed that Pei Shiqing failed to have a secret meeting with Liu Xiaogu that night. So, who is the one who pretended to be Pei Shiqing and went to Liu Xiaogu’s boudoir to have sex?

That night, County Magistrate Xu told his wife Bao about the daytime trial and taught him how to do this. Bao immediately asked someone to take Liu Xiaogu into his room, put off his maid, and asked Liu Xiaogu, "You threw away the letters with Pei Shiqing that day, can you pay attention to whether you were noticed?"

Liu Xiaogu shook his head unknown.

Bao asked again: "That person has had sex with you many times, have you ever talked to him?"

Seeing his sister-in-law shake her head again, Bao then asked again: "The other party is close to your skin. Do you know nothing about his characteristics?"

Liu Xiaogu asked this and found it difficult to speak, but when he thought of the tragic situation of his parents being killed, his grief and anger overshadowed him, he said to Bao: "Every time he is intimate with me..., he always smells of alcohol; in addition, his chest, arms, and a sarcoma the size of a pigeon egg on his back and waist..."

County Magistrate Xu learned about these plots and conducted a physical examination on Pei Shiqing overnight to find that he had no breasts, arm hair, and no sarcoma on his waist and back; after understanding, he never had a hobby of drinking. This further confirms that the secret agreement between Pei and Liu was observed by others, and he took the opportunity to Li Daitaojue that night.

The next morning, Xu Magistrate changed into a coarse cloth dress, wearing a hat and a backpack on his shoulders, passing by the middle of the street in Xinfa Town, looking around while walking. Just as I approached Pei Liu's second shop, I suddenly heard a shout: "Old man, how many pounds of pork slaughtered just now?"

looked closely and saw that he was a butcher in the seller. I saw that he was thirty years old, medium-sized, strong and strong, so I went up to chat with him and said, "Is this meat fresh?"

"Where is this just slaughtered, look at the quality of this meat!"

"If it weren't for pork, where would I look for you?"

The man heard this, lifted up his clothes and patted his chest and said, "I, Hong Kui, have been selling meat here for at least ten years. I never do things that are short and lack two. If you don't believe me, please ask!"

County Magistrate Xu looked up and saw dense hair on his arms and chest, and his heart couldn't help but lit up. I cut two kilograms of meat and looked carefully before leaving. It was adjacent to the Pei Family Shop and diagonally opposite the Liu Family Shop. You can see everything in the Pei Liu Family Shop. He immediately turned into an alley and whispered to the two plainclothes yamen runners Zhang Wei and Zhao Qiang who were following him, and they understood it.

Zhang Weilai came to Hong Kui’s meat case to buy meat, deliberately picking on the weight and choosing.After he cut the meat, he said he forgot to bring the money and threw it away.

Hong Kui couldn't bear this tone, and he followed him with a pig-killing knife. After leaving the town, Zhang Wei led him to the river bay, kicked Hong Kui's knife in his hand, wrestled in two strokes, and finally rolled down the river.

At this time, Zhao Qiang rushed over and pretended to mediate. He took advantage of the opportunity to help Hong Kui remove his clothes. He saw a meat ball the size of a pigeon egg between his waist and back! He immediately handcuffed Hong Kui, picked up the pig-killing knife, and ran it into the county government.

A plaque with a "clear mirror hanging high" hanging above the main hall of Haicheng County, with "silent" and "avoidance" signs standing on both sides. Magistrate Xu sat upright in court uniforms, and the three yamen runners under the hall each held a murderous stick on both sides. He shouted the might of the hall, which made people shudder.

Hong Kui knelt on the steps in shackles, beating the drum in his heart, thinking about the problem with the link, and suddenly heard a shout in the hall: "Bold Hong Kui, you have deceived the gangsters of gangs and used a knife to enter the house to harm the two lives. Now the investigation has been confirmed, and you won't come with the real trick!"

Hong Kui wanted to deny it, but he looked up. Seeing that the master on the seat was clearly the old man who bought meat just now, his heart trembled. Suddenly, two headless ghosts appeared in front of him, dancing forehands and rushing towards him, and in a panic, he called out the whole story of the crime.

That day, Hong Kui was sitting next to the meat case, occasionally looking up and saw a fairy-looking woman sitting in the Liu family store opposite, smiling at someone opposite. He looked sideways and saw that Pei Shiqing in the Pei store was also circulating with her. Next, Pei Shiqing picked up the pen and wrote something, and then a ball of paper flew into the opposite shop; after picking it up, the woman also wrote something and threw it back to the Pei shop. Hong Kui could see all this clearly.

Hong Kui is a single man with no parents or brothers and sisters. He has been killing pigs and selling meat for some years, and he has earned a lot of money, but he has sent all of them to taverns, casinos and brothels. Even though he is thirty miles away, he hasn't even gotten a wife. The scene he saw accidentally just now was determined to be a date between a man and a woman, so he immediately planned to catch the adulterer, and then he would knock them a fortune...

Until dark, Hong Kui brought a sharp knife and hid near the Liu family early. After waiting for a while, no one came, he walked to the door and pushed the door open. The door opened a crack. Since the door had not come to the door, Pei Sheng must have not entered the room. Just as he was thinking, a hand stretched out from the crack of the door and pulled him into the room.

Hong Kui was shocked, but immediately realized that it must be the girl from the Liu family who regarded herself as Pei Shiqing! So he followed him in the wrong way, and then he did both of them. Hong Kui was very unsatisfied. Since then, he has been at the Liu family every night to have sex with his younger sister-in-law and never has any flaws.

That evening, Hong Kui came to the door of the Liu family drunk. When he pushed the door, he saw that it was already on the door. He suddenly felt suspicious. He then rushed to the outside of the west window and listened carefully. There was a vague sound of snoring. He then determined that Pei Shiqing had already occupied the magpie's nest in one step. An unknown jealousy hit his forehead with the smell of alcohol. He pulled out his sharp knife and opened the door and went straight into the west room. Following the snoring, they used their hands to sleep on the same pillow. They slashed hard along the neck, then carried two heads, went out along the alley to the center of the street, and went north. When he arrived at the door of Yuan Ji Cake Shop, he stuffed two bloody heads into the furnace of the baked cake.

After the trial of Hong Kui, County Magistrate Xu sent someone to search his house. Sure enough, a sharp knife with a missing blade was found, which was exactly consistent with a piece of iron left on Liu Rufa's body. At this point, the case of traitors and murdering two lives has been solved, and the rest is to pursue the head of the deceased. Liu Rufa and his wife could be buried.

There is a shop to make baked cakes in the north of Xinfa Town. The owner’s surname is Yuan and his name is Ji, and he is thirty years old. Yuan Ji's wife Pan is very pretty, and the butcher Hong Kui has coveted him for a long time.

One day, Hong Kui took advantage of Yuan Gu's absence and came to pester Pan's family. He didn't want to be caught by Yuan Ji who suddenly returned and scolded him for being squirted. Hong Kui knew that he was inappropriate and swallowed his anger. From then on, I was in love with Yuan Ji.Hong Kui killed the old couple Liu Rufa that night (he considered Pei Shiqing and Liu Xiaogu), and placed the two heads in Yuan Ji's pancake stove, which was a small revenge on him.

On this day, Yuan Ji was taken to the lobby of the county government by a mandate. Xu Magistrate asked Yuan Ji for "hiding his head but not reporting it." Seeing that the matter that made him worry about him was finally leaked, Yuan Ji's face suddenly changed and his legs trembled involuntarily.

He confessed: "I got up that morning and was about to cook the stove. I suddenly found a foreign object in the furnace. When I reached out and touched it, it was cold and sticky, and I felt scared. When I took it out, I saw that it was a bloody head, and I was stunned. In order to avoid trouble, I threw it into the river."

County Magistrate Xu saw that he was evasive and looked panicked. Knowing that there was something hidden, he pressed him step by step and asked him to explain in detail the address and the whole process of throwing the head at that time.

Yuan Ji's more and more chaotic talks, and he was contradictory. County Magistrate Xu seized the loophole and shouted "Await for a big punishment!"

The yamen runners pressed Yuan Ji to the ground like wolves and tigers, throwing a few torture instruments "choke" and scaring Yuan Ji to death. He knew that he could not bear it and would rather die than live, so he had to explain the whole process of dealing with the head.

That morning, Yuan Ji found two bloody heads in the furnace, and was so scared that he was speechless. He thought that if people knew about this, even with a mouth full of body would not be able to explain it clearly. Why not bury it before dawn? So, he found two torn clothes and wrapped the heads and carried them in a bamboo basket. He took the handle of the head in one hand and walked towards the graveyard in the northern suburbs.

When he arrived at the grave, Yuan Ji secretly felt glad that he had not met anyone along the way, so he put down the bamboo basket and dug it in an open space.

just dug half a person deep, and suddenly shouted behind his back: "Brother Yuan, what are you doing?" Yuan Ji was so shocked that he almost turned his back.

Looking back, I saw that it was Wang Xiaosan nearby, who was walking over with a bath of manure, and wanted to fool him away. Unexpectedly, Wang Xiaosan had already seen blood seeping out of the cloth bag. Not only did he not leave, he also had to see clearly.

Yuan Ji changed his words guiltily and said, "Miss San, I will not hide it from you. This is a cat next door. I beaten to death for stealing my Virgin Chicken. In order to avoid being verbose, I want to bury it. If you don't tell me, I will go to my store to eat cakes in the future!"

Wang Xiaosan saw that there were two cloth bags in the bamboo basket, and his size was much bigger than that of the cat. He knew that what Yuan Ji said was not the truth, so he was even more reluctant to leave. Seeing that the sky was getting brighter and brighter, Yuan Ji was anxious and suddenly felt a silence.

He deliberately looked behind Wang Xiaosan and said, "Missan, there is a dog behind you!" Taking advantage of Wang Xiaosan's chance to turn around, he swung his head and smashed it on his head. His brain splashed everywhere, and his life screamed!

Yuan Ji hurriedly dug the pit deeper and finally buried Wang Xiaosan and two heads in it. While there was no one around, he wiped away the blood in the head and the bamboo basket and took a detour home.

After reviewing Yuan Ji, the county magistrate Xu ordered the yamen runners to take Yuan Ji to the cemetery in the northern suburbs. When I walked there, I saw traces of new soil. Several yamen runners dig the soil together, and in a short while, two wrapped heads and a corpse were dug out.

Because there is not much time, the corpse and head have not decayed. It has been proved that the cloth bag is indeed the head of Liu Rufa and his wife, and the body is undoubtedly Wang Xiaosan.

At this point, a headless case has finally come to light. The murderers Hong Kui and Yuan Ji were both sentenced to death. Hong Kui's property was confiscated and confiscated. Yuan Ji's family's assets were left to Pan's family, and the other half was allocated to Wang Xiaosan's parents for the elderly. Pei Shiqing and Liu Xiaogu were acquitted and gifted to him.

Back to Xinfa Town, Liu Xiaogu and Pei Shiqing looked at each other again, and saw that the other party seemed to have changed. Although it took only a few days, it seemed like they had experienced decades. Both sides looked silently, but it was not difficult to see that there were thousands of words that were depressed.

is a complaint? Is it regret? Is it guilt? Is it sympathy? It's really hard to tell clearly...