Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

The story takes place in Shuyang County (now Shuyang, Jiangsu Province) during the Jiazi period of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. There was a murder case that has not been solved for a long time, which puzzled the Shuyang County magistrate for many years.

It is said that in the countryside of Shuyang, there was a rich man named Hong. This Hong was originally an ordinary villager, but somehow he became an ordinary villager. By chance, he made a fortune and became a rich man in the village.

Human greed can never be satisfied!

When people have no money, they want to get rich; after they have money, they want to be an official!

When Hong got rich, he wanted to seek fame and fame, so he invited his husband to his home to teach him how to read, hoping that one day he could be named to the gold medal list.

The gentleman invited by Hong was a scholar named Wu, who was from Huai'an (today's Huai'an, Jiangsu Province).

Wu Xiucai agreed to teach in the Hong family, but he did not want to be separated from his wife and children, so he took them to Shuyang together.

I originally thought of renting a house to settle down, but Hong was not bad at it. He packed up a house outside the hospital for Wu Xiucai's family of three to live in.

One day, the owner Hong invited Wu Xiucai's family to dinner. According to local customs in Shuyang, women are not allowed to serve at the table.

Therefore, Wu Xiucai only took his son to the banquet, while Wu's wife stayed at home alone.

This meal took quite a long time, and it didn't end until the second watch.

Wu Xiucai returned home drunk and found that the house was dark with no lights on. He felt a little strange. According to the time, it was impossible for his wife to go to bed so early. Besides, she would not go to bed first before he and his son came back.

Wu Xiucai called his wife several times, but there was no response. I fumbled to light the candle, looked into the room, and was immediately frightened to death, and I immediately woke up from the wine.

He saw his wife lying in a pool of blood.

He frightenedly stretched out his hand to explore his wife's nostrils, but found that she had already lost her breath.

Wu Xiucai was so frightened that he shouted: "It's murder!"

His son was also frightened and cried loudly, not knowing what to do.

Wu Xiucai screamed and ran outside. He didn't pay attention to his feet and kicked a hard object.

When he picked it up, he saw that it was his own kitchen knife with blood stains on it.

It seems that the murderer broke into the house, killed someone with a kitchen knife, and threw the murder weapon outside the door when he escaped.

Wu Xiucai panicked and stumbled to his master's house, told Hong that his wife had been killed, and asked him to help him report the matter to the authorities.

Hong immediately called a servant and went to the county government office with a lantern to report the crime.

The magistrate of Shuyang County, whose surname is Yuan, is an upright official who cares for the people. As soon as he heard that there was a murder case in his jurisdiction, he didn't dare to delay at all, so he took the government servants and the widowers to investigate the case overnight.

The group arrived at Wu Xiucai's house and immediately got busy. Some government officials went to check for clues left by the murderer, while Magistrate Yuan took the widower to do an autopsy.

I saw Wu's wife lying on the ground in a pool of blood, her eyes still wide open, as if she was still dead.

The deceased's neck was slashed three times, almost to the point of being severed. The porridge he had eaten at night flowed out from the wounds, and he looked very miserable.

Except for the murder weapon that the murderer left outside the door, no other useful clues were found. Apart from the Hong family compound, there were no other homes around, so there were no other witnesses.

Magistrate Yuan was a conscientious official. In order not to miss any opportunity to solve the case, he took turns calling everyone in the Hong family to the county government for interrogation.

When asking about a servant named Hong An in the Hong family, Magistrate Yuan discovered the problem.

First, he discovered that Hong An was left-handed. The three knife marks on the deceased's neck were all heavy on the left and light on the right. It was obviously made by a left-handed man.

Plus, Hong An seemed a little distracted as soon as he arrived in the lobby. When I ask him questions, he hesitates and doesn't answer the question. It seems like he has something on his mind!

When Magistrate Yuan saw that he was not telling the truth, he ordered his servants to punish him.

After a beating, Hong An became honest and immediately started to move all the way.

Hong An confessed: He was indeed the one who killed Wu’s wife! But he did it under the instruction of his master Hong.

Hong hired Wu Xiucai as his teacher. When he saw Wu's wife as beautiful as a flower, he became lustful. Originally, Wu Xiucai was going to rent a house to live outside, but Hong pretended to be kind and arranged a house for him to live in. In fact, he had evil intentions.

Inviting Wu Xiucai's family to dinner tonight was also a trap set by him. He knew the rule here that women were not allowed to attend banquets. It would be Wu Xiucai who would take his son to the banquet, and Wu's wife would be at home alone.

Sure enough, it was Wu Xiucai who brought his son to the banquet that night.

Hong was overjoyed and found an excuse to sneak out of the banquet. With Hong An on his feet, they went to Wu Xiucai's house.

When he got there, he asked Hong An to watch outside the door, and one man broke in and wanted to rape Wu's wife.

Unexpectedly, Wu's wife had a strong personality and refused to obey, so she kicked Hong out of the house.

Hong became so angry that he ordered me to kill Wu's wife!

When Magistrate Yuan heard this, he discovered that Hong was the mastermind and immediately sent someone to arrest him.

When the court heard the first trial, Hong refused to admit it and shouted that he had been wronged.

After the torture, he still refused to recruit. He insisted that Hong An made a false accusation! Because Hong An Zengjin did something wrong and was beaten severely by him, so he held a grudge and wanted to catch him even at the risk of his own life!

In this way, the father-in-law is right and the mother-in-law is right. There is no other evidence and it is difficult to decide for a while, and the case is delayed.

Not long after, Yuan County Magistrate was promoted and transferred to Jiangning (now Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province). Before leaving, he specifically handed over this case to his next successor, asking him to find out the truth, punish the murderer severely, and give justice to Wu Xiucai!

Who knows, after he left, his successor Wei Tinghui, magistrate of the county, hastily closed the case for the sake of political achievements, regardless of the many doubts in the case.

He convicted Hong An as the murderer and reported the case.

And his boss Weng Zao was even more outrageous. I don’t know if he accepted a bribe from Hong. He believed that the case was unclear and the evidence was insufficient. He not only released Hong who was detained pending trial, but also sentenced him as a murderer. Let the guilty Hong An go!

He ordered Weizhi County to continue looking for evidence and catch the real culprit!

This delay lasted for twelve years, and there was no result at all!

In June of the Bingzi year, Yuan Fengyi, Yuan Zhixian's cousin, came from Shuyang to Jiangning to visit him.

When the two brothers were chatting, Yuan Fengyi said that something strange happened in Shuyang recently.

He said that there was a rich local man named Hong in Shuyang, who was also a military scholar (Wu Xiucai). He died of illness last year.

After the funeral was completed, but before the coffin could be carried out for burial, that night, Hong's wife dreamed of him.

In the dream, he and his wife said: "On a certain day of a certain year, Wu Xiucai's wife was killed, and the murderer was me! I paid for my life back then, so I slipped through the cracks for more than ten years. Now the ghost of Wu Xiucai's wife has been killed. I only died of illness after I sued heaven. Not only that, heaven was furious and wanted me to die! Tomorrow there will be thunder and lightning to break down my coffin. You should quickly find a way to move my coffin or bury it overnight!"

Hong's wife woke up from her dream!

When they immediately asked someone to discuss how to deal with it, there was a sudden thunder and lightning in the sky. Hong's coffin caught fire and burned to ashes in a short time. Not even the bones of Hong's body were left!

But what is strange is the family's thatched cottage, cloth clothes and wood products. Everything is fine and intact!

After learning about this incident, Magistrate Yuan sighed: As a former magistrate of Shuyang, it is really shameful to let the murderer of this murder go free! I can't give justice to the dead Wu's wife, but I still want to beat the innocent Hong Anqu. Is this a worry that I have had as an official for more than ten years?

But as the sky has eyes, why did the murderer’s retribution come more than ten years late? And we still have to wait until the wronged souls of the deceased are sued? What is the use of not punishing Hong when he was alive, but then punishing his unconscious body after his death? !

Moreover, the sins of such a murderer are so serious that after death, his soul should dissipate, and he should not be able to show his spirit, asking dreams and people to try to protect his body! This is why?

When Hong was alive, he could get away with it by paying bribes. Can he still benefit from bribes after he died? !