There's A Beauty

Youshu was lying bored in a cell covered with straw, and several jailers gathered in the outer hall to drink and have fun, taunting him frequently in their words, such as "a phoenix with a shed hair is not as good as a chicken", "the sons of officials and officials are all men with a human face and a beast's heart." generation", "pulled out and beheaded, no one was wronged" and so on.

One of them was very extreme. He said that the body had been found and the evidence was conclusive. He would be sentenced to the cane and exile. Why don't they beat him up first, and try to bully the sons of the officials.As soon as these words came out, everyone was eager to try. It can be seen that their mentality has been distorted, and they are still discussing with each other where to hit the hardest, but they can't see the wound.

Seeing a group of people approaching her cell with wine jugs, and the inmates in several cells next to her urging, trying to get pleasure from other people's pain, Youshu's expression changed.He frowned tightly, and when he curled his mouth, two small dimples were uncontrollably exposed. It seemed that he had no deterrent effect, but was very pitiful.

The jailers became more and more excited, cursing and swearing very uncleanly.

"Heaven has eyes, it's better to do less things that are ignorant of conscience." Youshu didn't get angry, and pointed to the staggering jailer at the head and said, "Do you ever know why your legs and feet are always in unbearable pain?"

The jailer usually walks normally, but his calf hurts from time to time, which only eases after drinking alcohol. Doctors searched all over Lin'an Mansion but couldn't diagnose the cause, and after a long time, it became an incurable disease.Youshu and him have never met before, and their circle of contacts has no intersection, so it is impossible to hear about this from other people.

In other words, he saw it for himself.The jailer's heart was agitated, and he wanted to ask questions but couldn't let go of his face.

You Shu originally intended to intimidate everyone, and without waiting for their reaction, she continued, "You have a hobby of killing cats and dogs. You beat cats and dogs to death and crushed their heads to get pleasure. But you Forget, cats and dogs also have souls, and they also know resentment. They turn into tiny black air like ants and crawl in and out of your legs and feet, slowly gnawing at your essence. How can you not be in pain? Get rid of that old problem, do good deeds and accumulate virtue from now on, and within three to five years, you will fall ill and die."

Cold sweat dripped down on the jailer's forehead, because of Gein's hobby, let alone his colleagues, even his wife and mother didn't know about it.In other words, this kid can really see ghosts.

The temperature in the cell dropped suddenly, and gusts of sinister wind blew across the hem of the clothes and the skin, making one's hair stand on end. No matter how sweet the young man's voice was, it could not erase the growing sense of fear.The leading jailer unconsciously squatted down, shivering while hugging his excruciatingly painful legs and feet.

"Bah! Nonsense, alarmist talk!" Someone bravely said.

"Oh, just treat me as an alarmist. I wanted to tell you why I always feel like my stomach is bloated these days." You Shu picked off the straws from her hair one by one, with a very casual attitude.

The man quickly covered his stomach, sweating like a waterfall.He was really uncomfortable recently, and he didn't ask for leave in order to earn monthly money, thinking that it would be fine after a while.But listening to the young man's tone, it seems that this lesion is not simple.It would be troublesome if it involved gods, gods and ghosts, and the longer it dragged on, the more unthinkable it would be.

Seeing the drastic change in the expressions of the two of them, the guards at the side realized that the young man was not lying. Looking at the chief's calf for a while, and the belly of his colleague for a while, they felt ghostly and biting cold.The prisoners in the other cells were also silent, and some timid ones even chattered their teeth, which looked very strange under the rendering of the empty corridor.

"Quiet the fuck! Tell me, tell me why my stomach is swollen! If you can't tell the truth today, I will kill you!" The jailer's eyes were red, trying to cover up the fear in his heart with rage.

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, there are seven wombs in the belly, who will swell if you don't swell? If you don't hurry up and accumulate virtue, the death will be very ugly." Youshu gestured a round belly, her tone was slightly Sarcastically, "When you die, you will look like an eight or nine-month pregnant woman. It's very spectacular!"

The jailer was suddenly frightened out of his wits.Others don't know, but he himself understands most clearly that the five daughters brought by his step-wife have become his confinement, and they are kept in the cellar for his pleasure every day.Once any daughter is pregnant, he will order his step-wife to pour Luozi soup. Now counting them carefully, there are no more, no less, exactly seven.And recently, his belly has been getting bigger day by day, and he can no longer wear the pants he wore half a month ago.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he was. He poked into the hem of his clothes and touched a baby's face through his belly. Suddenly, his crotch was hot and the smell filled the air.

"Help me god! Please show me a clear path!" He didn't care about the shame, he rushed to the prison door and kowtowed. It was extremely embarrassing to go up.

Youshu naturally has a way to save him, but why?He shook his head and said casually, "You can't live without doing your own crimes, so just bear with it."

"No, you must have a way to save the little one. I'll let you go now, don't worry." The jailer untied the key as he spoke, intending to release the young man from prison.

The people next to him finally came to their senses and quickly grabbed him, but they didn't dare to touch his stomach, so they had to tie him up with a belt and move him away, never mentioning the torture of the boy again.The leading prison guard was still in severe pain in his legs and feet, and he took a deep look at the young man when he went out.

The cell finally became quiet, and the prisoners who had been swearing at Youshu all hid in the corner farthest from him, with their necks hunched and their heads hanging, like frightened quails.Youshu was planning to lie back to sleep in the grass nest, when a gust of wind came in from the other end of the corridor, and blew out the candles along the way one by one, leaving only one outside Youshu's prison door.

"Have you found him?" Youshu immediately turned over and sat up, her eyes burning brightly.He usually doesn't use mental power when communicating with the little ghost, so he forgot to cover it up for a while.The prisoners were already frightened to death by the sudden vision, seeing him talking to himself as if he was communicating with a ghost, they wished they could pass by.

Mother, do you never finish?Why would a man of god like you go to jail? If you fool around with a few words, someone will save you!Please calm down for a while!Several inmates got up and kowtowed at him.

The little ghost led two new ghosts, a man and a woman, into the prison cell, and reported, "The person has been found, and the little one has used a trick to help your servants bring them to the court smoothly. These two are the ones the government found. The owners of the two corpses, please listen to what they have to say."

The two ghosts were very resentful, but because of the new funeral, they had no way to do anything, so they could only pin their hopes on the eldest brother they had just met.The eldest brother was only six years old when he died, and he seemed immature, but he had practiced for nearly a hundred years, and he still knew such a miraculous figure.Before they got close, they already felt the coercion emanating from Youshu, like a group of dragons soaring, full of aura, if they were not careful, they would be killed by his aura.

"Sit and talk." Youshu pointed to the grass nest beside her.

The two ghosts sat down in fear, and explained in detail why they were killed and how their corpses were abused. When they talked about the sadness, they couldn't help crying.As soon as the two ghosts cried, the cell was filled with cold air, the wind danced wildly, and the candle above Youshu's head flickered wildly, illuminating the whole cell brightly and darkly at times, as if hell had reappeared.

Not to mention that the inmates have fainted a few times from fright, even the jailers who heard the news and came to check, all ran away like hell, and never dared to enter again.Imprisoning such an evil god will really shorten his life for several years, and I don't know if the prefect knows the magic of the other party.Must not know?Otherwise, how dare you arrest people!

Youshu's face was always calm. After listening to the words of the two ghosts, she nodded and said, "It's natural to kill people to pay for their lives. If you want revenge, I can help you, but you can't stay in the world after revenge. You need to go to the hell to reincarnate quickly. If you are killed Resentment blinds the mind, and you commit reckless killings, and I can find you out of heaven and earth and destroy you." These words were made with mental strength, and no one else heard a word.

The two ghosts nodded frequently, thanking them for their kindness.

After they left, Mrs. Wang came, and the candlestick installed on the wall spontaneously ignited without fire, illuminating the spooky cell brightly, and the howling wind stopped abruptly. Infiltrate, completely drive away the cold.The prisoner was completely subdued, and the jailer had nothing to say, so he invited Mrs. Wang in respectfully and fearfully.

"Mother, what good things did you bring me?" Youshu rushed to the cell door, her eyes sparkling.They only knew each other for a day, but they seemed to have been together for half a lifetime, and he didn't feel forced to call her "Mother".People's feelings are mutual. Because of guilt, Song did not dare to get close to her son. She usually spoke politely and tremblingly, so Youshu could only keep a distance from her.Wang's was very different, wishing to rub Youshu into her arms like dough, she didn't know how to feel the pain.

She hugged her son in her arms, screaming heartily, then opened the huge seven-storey food box, laid out his favorite food one by one, and fed him mouthful by mouthful with chopsticks and spoon. She cried and said, "My son has lost weight, my son's life is miserable" and so on.

Youshu sat opposite her with her knees hugged, feeling warm in her heart, she couldn't help comforting her, "Don't worry, mother, I'll be out soon."

Wang Shi nodded heavily, but his eyes dimmed for a moment.She had just received an urgent letter from the old man, saying that she would not protect her husband, let alone her son, and that they would let their eldest wife fend for themselves, her words were extremely heartless.Now Xiangzheng is going to sell the property to clear up the relationship with others, so as to rescue his son, but he doesn't know if it will work.

Youshu thought about it for a while, and then reminded, "Go back and tell Dad that he doesn't need to plan for me, lest people get caught and fall into the crime of 'being imprisoned'."

"What we sold was our own property, not what we got from the common people." Mrs. Wang opened her mouth to retort, but was caught by her son right away.

Youshu thought that this was indeed the case, so she took the trouble to tell the Wang family not to change the seller's property, let alone offer bribes. The two have been found and will be brought to court soon.Mrs. Wang didn't get any news from her servants, she thought they were still wandering around Yaoling, seeing her son was so sure, she had no choice but to nod suspiciously.

Before she returned home, Zhao Zhizhou had already received the definite news that the two were indeed found and they were still alive, so he couldn't help feeling relieved.

The next day, the prefect personally presided over the interrogation of the suspect, and ordered the arresters to open the official office so that the people could listen.

Youshu was carefully invited to the court by two jailers. When they saw the parents of the deceased kneeling on the ground, their faces turned slightly pale.They didn't dare to kneel down this evil god, so they just forgot about it and went straight down.

Seeing Youshu standing up straight, the prefect raised his gavel and knocked hard, "Zhao Youshu, you haven't gained any fame, why didn't you kneel down when you saw me? Come, teach Mr. Zhao how to behave!"

The Chief Catcher of Lin'an Mansion is a trusted aide of the prefect, immediately came out with more people, and pressed the young man who was still in a fugue to the ground.The crisp sound of knees hitting the bluestone bricks caused a toothache. Youshu closed her eyes, wrinkled her nose, and almost burst into tears.He hadn't been this embarrassed for a long time.

Zhao Zhizhou sat under the prefect and watched. Seeing his son's pain, he felt the same.He quickly pulled out the cushion under his buttocks, placed it under his son's knees, and comforted him with soft words for a while.If the eunuch hadn't scolded him sharply, he would have knelt down with his son.

The common people also booed frequently, apparently displeased with the Zhao family's behavior of helping the evildoers.The prefect didn't stop shouting, and let them scold for more than a quarter of an hour, raising the atmosphere to a point of tension before ordering the family members of the deceased to present their confessions and physical evidence.

There are seventeen or eighteen family members of both men and women. You cry loudly, I cry silently, and some people beat their chests and stamp their feet, looking for death and life.Not only did the people's eyes get wet while watching, but the eunuch also showed sympathy.At the same time, their resentment against the murderer reached its peak.

The eunuch banged the gavel and shouted angrily, "Zhao Youshu, can you plead guilty?"

Youshu remained expressionless from beginning to end, and said flatly, "I don't plead guilty."

"Don't cry without seeing the coffin! This man's heart is too cruel!"

"Sentence to exile is not enough to indignate the common people, it needs to be beheaded!"

"His father indulged his son in committing murder, so he will be dismissed and investigated!"

The people clamored one after another, and several women threw eggs and vegetable leaves in the basket towards the court.The guards on the two sides and the eunuch on the seat watched happily, but the jailer waiting by the door covered his face, unable to bear to look directly.Don't smash it, beware of this evil spirit's power!

Youshu avoided the eggs and vegetable leaves, and said slowly, "There is not enough evidence, I plead not guilty."

The prefect laid out the evidence one by one and asked him how the evidence was conclusive.

"Unless I see the corpse with my own eyes, I will not plead guilty. The testimony written by Wu Zuo may also be falsified." You Shu waved his hand.

Zhao Zhizhou immediately stepped forward and said, "If we can't prove that the corpses are Sun Xique and Fang Sheng, we refuse to plead guilty. I can report to the imperial court and send someone else to investigate."

"It's the same after a few more checks! Someone, bring the body up!" The prefect signaled to his superiors that the Zhao family father and son must be crucified today.He flicked his sleeves a little, and several arresters rushed to carry the corpse.The common people liked to join in the fun, and instead of being scared off, they surrounded them more and more. Only the two jailers ran away, as if there was a ghost chasing after them.

The corpse covered with a white cloth was taken to the court, and due to the hot weather, it already emitted a slight stench.Youshu is proficient in all eighteen martial arts, so she also knows how to do autopsies.Without changing his expression, he lifted the white cloth to examine carefully, and asked, "What evidence can prove that they are Sun Xique and Fang Sheng?" The faces of the two were scratched by the rocks in the river, and their shapes could not be seen, which was terrifying.

The mother of the deceased immediately came forward to testify.Sun Xique has a cinnabar mole behind his ear, and Fang Sheng has black moles arranged in a triangle on the soles of his feet, both of which are extremely obvious features.

Youshu checked them one by one, and couldn't help sneering.He picked up the testimony made by Wu, and asked for a writing brush from his father, and made a cross on the paper as he spoke, "First, the marks that prove the identity of the two were stabbed after death, and they were not born; second, The time of death was not eight days, but one day. The reason why the body was so swollen was that it was soaked in hot water for a day and a night; One corpse was eighteen, the other twenty; fourth, the occupation was not right. Fang Sheng was a scholar and had never worked. This male corpse was a coolie with thick calluses on his hands and feet. Fifth, the cause of death Sorry. Both of them were smothered to death by stuffing their mouths and noses with soft objects, and then they were thrown into the river, not by drowning."

After saying that, he threw his testimony on the ground, and the people tiptoed to look at it, and saw that the paper was full of big forks, colorful and colorful.Some people shook their heads in disbelief, while others lowered their eyes in deep thought.

Whether the two corpses are Sun Fang or not is not only clear to their family members, but also the prefect and his subordinates.Hearing the young man's words, cold sweat broke out on the forehead and drums beat in their hearts.Didn't it mean that Zhao Youshu was ignorant?How could the autopsy be more accurate than the oldest expert?

Judging the age, identity, cause of death, and time of death at a glance, clever, really clever!The prefect had no choice but to praise him secretly, but made up his mind to put him to death. He picked up the gavel and wanted to knock on it, but he heard the young man in the hall say, "It's strange to say that last night, a man and a woman dreamed of the grass people in their sleep. , said that they died extremely unjustly, and begged me to avenge them. The woman's name is Miao Ling, and the man's name is Guo Da. They are from Jiaxing. He died of suffocation, and stabbed a few moles behind his ears and soles of his feet, and threw them into a wooden barrel filled with hot water to soak for a day and a night. shore."

The common people were stunned to hear such a miraculous event, and they all pricked up their ears and stood on tiptoe, eagerly waiting for the follow-up.

The eunuch's eyes flashed, and the chief arrester standing under the hall was already sweating profusely.Zhao Youshu was held in a cell for a day and a night, and he couldn't possibly know about these things!Besides, they do it very secretly.Could it be, is it really a ghost holding a dream?

You Shu wanted to say more, but the prefect had already picked up the gavel, ready to interrupt him.Unexpectedly, the gavel slapped on the table as if it were slapped on cotton, without the slightest sound.He didn't believe in evil, and took several shots in a row to show his horror, and shouted dryly, "Shut up, shut up, shut up! Don't try to confuse people in the court!"

"Why don't you let him speak? This is a case trial, so naturally you have to reveal any inside information!" The people refused to comply and expressed their support.At this time, most people firmly believed in ghosts and gods, and they didn't think that the young man was bewitching the public with his rumors. On the contrary, their impressions were greatly changed, and they became sympathetic to him.

If You Shu insisted on asking the prefect to replace the autopsy with another Wu, and the Zhao family's contacts could ensure that Wu made a fair judgment, but the people would still believe their own speculation: that is, the Zhao family had only covered the sky and bought the officials.This pot of dirty water can't be washed away no matter what.But offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods is quite different. No one's testimony is more powerful than the unjustly deceased himself.

Amidst the quarrel between the prefect and the common people, Youshu came slowly, "The chief catcher threw away the corpse and stood up and sighed: "Don't blame us for being cruel, but blame your own bad luck. The prefect is worried about finding There are no suitable candidates, but you hit the guns, and I will burn some paper money for you when you go back." After the words, the group left quickly, bribed a prodigal son to find the body, and then made trouble. The chief arrester and Sun Fang's family After signing the agreement, even if the height and body were wrong, they were required to identify the corpse with their mouths, and each family would get 100 taels of silver. It turned out that Sun Fang and Sun Fang were not dead, but were instructed by them to hide in Yaoling. They planned to I directly killed these two people, and my crime of murder was confirmed, but the two of them hid very well and couldn't find them for a while, so I found two scapegoats."

Youshu paused, and Zhao Zhizhou hurried forward holding the teacup, and fed him carefully and considerately.Lips and tongue moistened, Youshu continued, "This matter is actually very simple. On that day, Sun Xique and Fang Sheng had an affair. Jumping into the river, feigning death. Then his mother came forward to accuse me, and the eunuch gave false evidence to confirm the crime. You can't hide it from ghosts and gods. Those who died unjustly are watching you."

As soon as he finished speaking, a gust of wind blew up in the courtroom for no reason, and the white cloth covering the corpse was lifted by the wind, revealing the festered face of the deceased.That face suddenly turned towards the direction of the chief arrester, and the eyes that were already closed suddenly opened, revealing blood-red pupils full of hatred.The Chief Catcher's legs went limp, and he just knelt down, kowtowed and yelled tearfully, "Don't blame me, it's all ordered by the prefect! If you want to take revenge, you should seek revenge!" He is!"

"Die, the dead man has manifested! The dead man was really the one who was arrested and killed! He admitted it himself!" A certain citizen yelled, and the rest of the people immediately became agitated.

The prefect staggered to his feet, and was about to flee when another gust of dark wind rushed towards him, blowing off the official hat he had just put on.

The meaning of this is self-evident, there are really wronged souls in the court, and they are complaining for themselves.Not only did the prefect stand stiffly on the spot, his soul was scattered, even the common people outside were shocked beyond words.Without any evidence, they already believed the boy's words.He didn't kill anyone, everything was a hoax!

Only then did Shi Shiran stand up, cupped his hands and said, "Cao Min implores you to confront this arrester in court, so as to return the grass people's innocence, and to prove your innocence."

Zhao Zhizhou also threw up his sleeves, and said angrily, "Everything in the hall, I will definitely write a memorial and submit it to the emperor. The wronged soul is still there, the law of heaven is unfair, and another official needs to be sent to investigate this matter to the end! Everyone Colleagues, Mr. Zhao asks you to help to provide circumstantial evidence, so as to give an explanation to the soul of the deceased."

The people who can appear in the hall are the prefect's confidantes, so naturally they would not talk to Zhao Zhizhou before.But there are souls circling and crying above their heads, if they don't want to provoke resentment, this request can't be refused, and they have to know that they can't stop talking.They hurriedly got up and cupped their hands, agreeing with all their mouths, their foreheads and backs were already wet with sweat.