Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 159 Nine Uncle Memories
Suddenly, there was a sound of chaotic footsteps outside the door, followed by a light knock on the door.

Zeng Tai shouted: "Come in".

A team leader walked in quickly and said: "Under the order of the grandfather, I went to invite the elders in the village to come and ask, but everyone seemed to have seen a ghost, and everyone who could hide was hiding. What can't be done is either pretending to be sick, or refusing to come because of something. The person had no choice but to stare, took out the iron chain, and forced three old men to come here. Please forgive me, my lord."

Zeng Tai looked at Di Renjie, and Di Renjie nodded slowly.

Zeng Tai waved his hand: "That's all, let them come in."

There was a knock at the door, and the police escorted three old men into the door.

Among them was the "Nine Uncles".

Zeng Tai frowned: "Remove the iron lock."

The team leader hurriedly took out the key and opened the lock.

Zeng Tai waved his hand: "Okay, you guys go down and rest."

All the arresters retreated together.

Zeng Tai looked at the three old men, with a stern face, deliberately speaking in an official tone: "Today, you are summoned because of the murder that occurred in Enji Village last night. Why do you evade all kinds of excuses and refuse to come?"

Uncle Jiu hurriedly replied: "Grandfather, Caomin and the others refused to come because of something at home."

With a "bang", Zeng Tai slammed the table hard, making Uncle Jiu tremble with fright.

Zeng Tai pointed at him and cursed: "Boldly harassing the people! Openly resisting the government's investigation, don't you know that the laws of the country are strict!"

The three old men were so frightened that they fell to their knees with a "plop" and kowtowed repeatedly: "Caomin dare not. Caomin dare not."

Zeng Tai glanced at Di Renjie, and Di Renjie nodded with a smile.

Zeng Tai shouted: "Get up."

The three stood up tremblingly.

Zeng Tai snorted: "It's not because of the old age of the three of you, today's meal is settled for you. To tell you the truth, there was a murder in the village, and no one can escape the responsibility! It's easy to discuss, if he hesitates, hides his head and shows his tail, and conceals the truth, then don't blame me for not being sympathetic! Do you hear clearly?"

The three old men hurriedly bowed: "Caomin understands."

Zeng Tai hummed, and looked at Di Renjie.

Di Renjie coughed lightly: "You choose one person to talk to me, and the other two will make up for the deficiencies."

The three old men looked at me and I looked at you, but none of them volunteered.

Zeng Tai became impatient: "What's so interesting, it's not going to the execution ground. Hurry up!"

The other two old men said to Uncle Jiu: "Brother Jiu, you represent it."

Uncle Jiu said helplessly: "Let's just answer the words of the adults."

Di Renjie nodded: "What's your name?"

Uncle Jiu replied, "People call him Pang Jiugong."

Di Renjie asked, "How old are you?"

Uncle Jiu replied, "I'm 78 years old this year."

Di Renjie asked: "Did you live here?"

Uncle Jiu replied, "Exactly."

Di Renjie said: "Okay, let me ask you, what is the relationship between Enji Village and Jiangjiazhuang on Qingyanggang?"

Uncle Jiu said: "If you go back to your lord, Enjizhuang is Jiangjiazhuang."

When this statement came out, everyone was stunned.

Di Renjie asked, "Oh? Then why did you change the name to Enjizhuang?"

Uncle Jiu replied: "That's a long story. Jiangjiazhuang was originally divided into on-post and off-post. The people living on the post all lived with the surname Jiang, while the people living off the post all lived with the surname Pang."

Di Renjie nodded: "Later, why did you change the name?"

Uncle Jiu sighed: "In the sixth year of Wude, a fire broke out in the village, and all the Jiang family on the post were burned to death. Only the villagers surnamed Pang who were off the post were left. Only then did Jiangjiazhuang change its name to Enji Village."

Di Renjie let out a long breath: "That's right. Then, why the fire?"

Uncle Jiu replied: "This grassroots man doesn't know much about it."

Di Renjie sneered: "Not sure? I advise you to be honest, so as not to suffer!"

Uncle Jiu's expression changed, and he hurriedly said, "Caomin really doesn't know."

Di Renjie sneered again: "I'll mention someone to you, maybe you can think of it."

Uncle Jiu asked nervously, "Who?"

Di Renjie said, "Jiang Xiaolang."

Uncle Jiu let out a cry of surprise and took several steps back, trembling all over.

Zeng Tai's face sank, and he shouted: "I think you are an old man who refuses to drink a toast, and you are punished!"

With a "plop", Uncle Jiu knelt down on the ground: "My lords, it's not that the grassroots don't tell the truth, I really dare not!"

Di Renjie raised his eyebrows and asked, "Oh? Why?"

Uncle Jiu tremblingly said, "I-I'm afraid it will attract evil spirits."

Di Renjie snorted softly: "What nonsense! Do you think you can prevaricate this official? 60 years ago, Jiang Xiaolang's family was murdered and died. His head and left arm were beheaded and his body was left in front of the altar of the General Temple in Xilin. Discovered. Four months later, Jiangjiazhuang suddenly caught fire and burned [-] villagers surnamed Jiang to death in the village. Nonsense!"

Uncle Jiu was so startled by these words that he sat down on the ground: "D-Your Excellency, do you know?"

Di Renjie nodded: "Why, are you still unwilling to tell the truth?"

Uncle Jiu gritted his teeth fiercely: "Forget it, Cao Min will go all out. Your lord is right. The three of Cao Min are the survivors of the Jiang family in the fire on Qingyanggang!"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Di Renjie asked, "Isn't your surname Pang?"

Uncle Jiu shook his head: "The three of Caomin are all descendants of the Jiang surname. At that time, the night of the fire, the three of Caomin were playing around at the post and lived in the home of a villager with the surname Pang. That's how they escaped the catastrophe."

Di Renjie nodded: "So that's the case. Then, why did you change your surname to Pang?"

Uncle Jiu's lips trembled.

Di Renjie winked at Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang, they got up quickly and brought chairs for the three old people, and they sat down.

Di Renjie comforted: "Don't worry, speak slowly."

Uncle Jiu shook his head and sighed: "This will start with the origin of Jiangjiazhuang. In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos. There was a brave general named Yuwen Chengdu. I don't know how many adults have heard of it?"

Di Renjie nodded: "Yu Wencheng is a general of the Xiaoguo Army under the command of Emperor Yang of the former Sui Dynasty. I know him."

Uncle Jiu said: "Our family with the surname Jiang, Jiang Xiaolang, is a general in Yuwen Chengdu's army."

Di Renjie was taken aback: "Jiang Xiaolang is Yuwen Chengdu's subordinate?"

Uncle Jiu nodded: "Exactly. At that time, Yuwen Chengdu led his army back to the vicinity of Luoyang and was surrounded by Dou Jiande's army. He straddled a huge horse and waved the phoenix wings in his palm. One fell down, and the blood flowed like rivers on the ground. Yuwen Chengdu bravely won the three armies, but he is a warrior on the battlefield. Dou Jiande lost his troops in several battles, so Dou Jiande sent people to sneak into the camp to find Jiang Xiaolang..."

As he spoke, the old man described the events that happened that year.

In the middle of the night, in the tent.

Jiang Xiaolang looked at the messenger opposite: "What do you mean?"

The messenger said: "General, you are short of soldiers and food, and you have been surrounded by King Dou's army. Although Yuwen Chengdu is brave enough to conquer the world, he is covered in iron, and he can twist a few nails! Your defeat is set. It's just a matter of time. General, you should plan for your own future."

Jiang Xiaolang frowned: "What exactly do you want to say?"

The envoy said: "General Su Wen and Yu Wencheng have a gap, why not take this opportunity to attack and kill this thief, and take refuge with King Dou, and you will be rewarded."

Jiang Xiaolang yelled sharply: "Are you going to trap me in injustice?"

The messenger smiled: "General, don't be obsessed. You know the current situation better than anyone else. If you don't make a decision as soon as possible, King Dou's army will be destroyed when the army arrives!"

Jiang Xiaolang hesitated.

The messenger looked at him silently.

Suddenly, Jiang Xiaolang said: "Okay, I agree!"

The envoy was overjoyed and patted the table lightly: "Okay. Have fun! As the saying goes, a man who knows current affairs is a hero, and I will report to King Dou immediately!"

Jiang Lang smiled: "Your envoy, don't worry, I haven't finished my words. Yuwen Chengdu is a brave general in the world, and it's not easy to kill him. Therefore, I want to borrow something from you."

The messenger smiled and said, "Say it, no matter what you borrow, I will agree."

Jiang Xiaolang grinned grimly: "I want to borrow your head!"

The messenger was stunned.

Before he could react, Jiang Xiaolang jumped up, and with a flash of cold light, the messenger's head fell to the ground.

……

Uncle Jiu said: "Jiang Xiaolang took the envoy's head to see Yuwen Chengdu to explain the past. Yuwen Chengdu was deeply moved, not only rewarded Jiang Xiaolang, but also handed over his bodyguard to him. So, a few days later, One night..."

People in Yuwen Chengdu don't take off their armor, they lie in the tent and sleep soundly.

The phoenix-winged matte and golden scorpion stood aside.

Outside the tent, night guards are constantly patrolling.

In the distance, a figure slowly walked over, it was Jiang Xiaolang.

The two guards bowed and said, "General."

Jiang Xiaolang nodded, and suddenly pulled out a steel knife from behind him. With a flash of cold light, the two guards fell to the ground without a sound.

Jiang Xiaolang rushed into the tent like lightning, came to the sleeping Yuwen Chengdu's bed, and slowly raised the steel knife in his palm.At this moment, there was a shocking cry of killing from outside the tent, and Dou Jiande led the army to kill.

Yu Wencheng woke up from the dream, opened his eyes, and saw Jiang Xiaolang standing in front of him, holding the steel knife high in both hands, Yu Wencheng opened his mouth wide, and just about to say something, Jiang Xiaolang slashed down with the knife in his hand.

……

Di Renjie let out a long sigh: "I see. This Jiang Xiaolang is so scheming!"

Uncle Jiu said: "After Jiang Xiaolang killed Yuwen Chengdu, he handed over the head to Dou Jiande. King Dou was overjoyed and sent Chengdu's head to the Sixth Army to bury his body in Xilin."

Di Renjie nodded.

Li Yuanfang asked: "Is the General Temple in Xilin really the burial place of Yuwen Chengdu?"

Uncle Jiu nodded: "Yes. At that time, Dou Jiande rewarded Jiang Xiaolang heavily and kept him under his command.

According to the old man, after Jiang Xiaolang killed Yuwen Chengdu, he was haunted by nightmares for several months.

So he invited a Taoist. The Taoist said that Yu Wencheng lost his head, and his soul could not enter the underworld, let alone return to life. Therefore, the ghost lingered and turned into a ghost, and he would come back to him one day.

Jiang Xiaolang was very scared, and hurriedly sent someone to find Yuwen Chengdu's head, but unexpectedly, the head had been set on fire by Dou Jiande and burned to ashes. "

Di Renjie said: "I want to come here to Jiang Xiaolang to kill the master and seek glory, and I feel uneasy, so I have hallucinations."

Uncle Jiu said seriously: "My lord, ghosts do exist!"

Di Renjie smiled: "Okay, let's continue."

Uncle Jiu said: "Later, when Dou Jiande was destroyed by my Tang Dynasty, Jiang Xiaolang led his subordinates anyway, and joined the right guard's command, and accumulated meritorious deeds to become a guerrilla general.

In the third year of Wude, when the world was initially settled, he led some subordinates who did not want to be in the army back to Henan County, and built this Jiangjiazhuang.

At that time, most of his subordinates were from the family surnamed Jiang who had followed him from his hometown in the early years.

When the village was built, it took in many refugees surnamed Pang nearby.

Therefore, Jiangjiazhuang is divided into on-post and off-post, with the surname Jiang on the post and the surname Pang on the post.

Jiang Xiaolang naturally became the patriarch, but the strange thing is that his home was not on the hill, but built under the hill. "

Di Renjie was surprised: "Oh? It's the Jiang family compound where the crime happened 60 years ago?"

Uncle Jiu nodded: "Exactly. You went there this morning."

Di Renjie asked, "You mean the Jiang Family Courtyard is the deserted courtyard where the murder took place?"

Uncle Jiu said in surprise, "Yes, why, you don't know?"

Di Renjie shook his head.

Wang Mang and the others looked at each other.

Zeng Tai's hands trembled slightly, and he said softly, "It's too scary!"

Di Renjie glanced at several people, coughed lightly, and asked, "Why did Jiang Xiaolang build the yard under the hill?"

Uncle Jiu said: "I also asked my parents the same question, and my father said that he wanted to avoid the ghost of Yuwen Chengdu coming to entangle him, so he built his home under the hillock where Pang's surname gathered.

Unexpectedly, he still did not escape the pursuit of Li Gui.

On a rainy night 60 years ago, more than [-] members of the Jiang family compound were killed, their heads and left arms were beheaded, and a fire broke out immediately after. "

Di Renjie nodded: "The Jiang family only survived the three of you?"

Uncle Jiu sighed: "Yes. At the beginning, we didn't think that it was a ghost, but soon there was news from the county government, and the police discovered that the heads and arms of the Jiang family were enshrined in Yuwen Chengdu in the General Temple. in front of the god.

The people surnamed Pang who were laid off didn’t know the inside story, so that’s fine, but the three of us remaining descendants of the Jiang family suddenly remembered what the old people said before they were alive: “Sooner or later, Yu Wencheng will come back to find his head and kill all A person surnamed Jiang. 'This word really came true.

Sure enough, a few months later, someone came to the yamen, saying that this case was the revenge of the ghost, and killed Jiang Xiaolang and all the people with the Jiang surname. "

Di Renjie raised his eyebrows: "Is that what the people sent by the yamen said?"

Uncle Jiu nodded: "Yes."

Di Renjie asked, "Are you sure?"

Uncle Jiu replied, "Of course."

Di Renjie said: "Even the people with the surname Pang don't know about Yuwen Chengdu, how did the people in the yamen know? They don't know about Yuwen Chengdu, so how can they say the words of ghost revenge?"

Uncle Jiu replied: "I heard that the county magistrate invited a Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest told him after asking Yingying for divination."

Di Renjie nodded: "I see. Go ahead."

Uncle Jiu said: "As soon as this word spread, the Jiang family's compound immediately became a forbidden place in the village. The old people said that anyone who stepped into the compound would be considered by the ghosts to be a member of the Jiang family and be killed. Because of this, the Caomin changed their surnames in order to seek revenge for fear of evil spirits."

Di Renjie nodded.

Zeng Tai gasped: "Men, I understand everything."

Di Renjie asked, "What do you understand?"

Zeng Tai said: "The people who died in the Jiang family's compound last night must have strayed into the haunted house to avoid the heavy rain. Therefore, the ghosts of Yuwen Chengdu thought they were people with the surname Jiang. That's why they encountered misfortune."

Uncle Jiu said: "What Grandpa said is very true, and the grass people think so too. I can't imagine that after 60 years, this ghost has come back again!"

Wang Mang suddenly asked: "Then, who built the General Temple in Xilin and when?"

Uncle Jiu thought for a while and said, "According to the old people, the General Temple was built by Jiang Xiaolang himself and led by the Jiang family. Caomin can't remember exactly when."

Wang Mang nodded.

Di Renjie asked, "Have you met Jiang Xiaolang?"

Uncle Jiu shook his head: "I've never seen him before."

Di Renjie raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Isn't he the head of your clan named Jiang?"

Uncle Jiu said: "This person's whereabouts are very secretive. Since the establishment of the village, he has almost never lived at home. Therefore, apart from the old people with the surname Jiang, there are probably very few people who know him."

Di Renjie asked: "Then, was he among the more than 30 people killed in the Jiang family compound?"

Uncle Jiu said, "Of course there is. It is because he suddenly returned to Jiangjiazhuang that Li Gui will attack. Hmph, he is the one who killed all the people of the Jiang surname!"

Di Renjie nodded: "Okay, what you said is very valuable. Thank you three old people. Please go back now."

Uncle Jiu was both surprised and delighted: "Why, no, don't you take us to the Yamen?"

Di Renjie smiled: "How can I take you to the Yamen for no reason, tonight is just to ask about the situation. Come!"

The team leader walked in quickly.

Di Renjie said, "Send the three old people home."

The team leader agreed and said, "Three please."

Uncle Jiu and the other three got up and walked out of the room.

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　　Preview of the next chapter: After hearing Uncle Jiu's words, what will Wang Mang and others think about this case?Would they still think it was a ghost?Stay tuned!
　　
　
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