Heroes of the Sons and Daughters

Chapter 22
The last book talked about the separation of carved bows, treasures and inkstones. The thirteenth sister said goodbye to An Longmei, Zhang Jinfeng and the old couple Liu Lin. This is the critical moment in the opening of this book.After the thirteen sisters left, Mr. An and his party watched until they were out of sight, so they all got into the vehicles and livestock, and went to Nanhe Road, not to mention this.

Turn back and talk about the Nengren Temple in Heifenggang.But it is said that Nengren Temple was originally a ruined ancient temple, and there have always been two wandering monks living in it.Ever since the fierce monk, the red-faced tiger, took over the ground and drove two wandering monks out of the temple, using the pretext of selling tea and rice to rob visitors here, he killed more than one unlucky one.Today, the law of heaven is clear, provoked this murderous thirteenth sister, killed a blade of grass, and left freely. Before leaving, she closed the temple gate from the inside like an iron bucket.This road is originally a back road, and there is no one nearby to worship the Buddha and burn incense. Even the local township and land guards live far away, so the people in the temple only care about the noise, and outsiders don't know anything about it.

Since "it's not a coincidence", I don't want to know that a case happened in Northwest Township of Chiping County, and the local police reported it to the county.The county magistrate, surnamed Hu, was originally a noodle tea seller. He sold Lantern Festival during the first month festival. For some reason, he accidentally made a fortune. Suddenly, the official star was mobilized, so he donated a county magistrate and chose him in Chiping. , the local people call him "Grandpa Mu." On this day, Huzhi County received a report from the dibao, asked that Xixiang was more than 30 miles away from the county government, and passed the news that he would go to the countryside the next day.A group of officials in the county government wished that something happened in the local area, so that they could go to the land insurance and extort a few dollars from the victim.On the next day, all those criminal documents, housing recruitment, forensics, arresters, etc., followed in a swarm.

When we got to the countryside, we saw that it was just an ordinary murder case where two people quarreled and wrestled with each other, and died of injuries.

The rules of the land are that the county magistrate is sent to cross the boundary of his territory before he dares to go back.This Nengren Temple is on his territory, and he passes by the temple back and forth.It happened that not far from the temple, the county magistrate suddenly suffered from colic because he got up early in the cold, and wanted to find a place to rest and drink ginger soup.The attendant ordered the Yamen servant to ask the dibao to prepare a place.

Dibao thought for a while, this area is all wilderness and barren hills, so why do people go to find hot water?Then he thought of this Nengren Temple and said, "There is an ancient temple not far ahead, please ask the old master to drive there and take a seat." Then he rushed to the temple.The mountain gate in the middle was originally sealed from the outside with random bricks. After looking at it, the two corner gates on the left and right were also tightly closed, so I had to go to the gate of the stables and call for the gate.I kept calling for half a day, but no one answered.They couldn't open it while they were screaming, and some of the third-class yamen servants rushed to the front. Everyone pushed and kicked, and broke a door cannula, so the door could only be opened.The dibao hurriedly opened the door, went in with the others, and asked the monk to come out to pick up the master.But there was no one in the empty yard, except for four mules strewn about in the stable, and the hungry ones were shaking there; two big dogs in the yard were fighting there because they were grabbing a bloody thing.Everyone drank the dog and saw that it was a monk's head, and they were shocked.Dibao said: "Not good! Isn't this another case?" He quickly grabbed the head in his hand and ran to the three main rooms to find the monk.As soon as he entered the door, he saw a half-old monk lying on the ground, and he called out, but he didn't answer, so he must have died.

At this moment, when I heard the sound of shouting, the county magistrate's sedan chair had already arrived at the door.Everyone ran out quickly and reported the above matter.After hearing this, the county magistrate entered the door in a sedan chair, got off the sedan chair, and wondered, "It's nothing more than me! This monk's head is perfectly placed on the cavity, but where did that head come from?" A police squad next to him He knelt down and replied, "If you go back to the old man, you have to take the murderer." The county magistrate asked, "Who is the murderer?" The people had to say, "You can find out by searching in the temple." "Then, let's do a search!"

With a promise, the people searched along the gray shed to the one at the south end, and saw that the door was closed. Everyone looked through the window and saw two feet protruding from the haystack, and said, "Come on. , there is a corpse!" He hurriedly kicked the door in and went in, and saw that there were two more corpses, the liver and five internal organs had been ripped out, but they all had heads, and there were two braids on their heads. Come and report to the county magistrate.The county magistrate said: "This matter is even worse. Why do monks have braids growing on their heads? Isn't this a wild fork?" See are some dilapidated empty rooms.I have been chaotically looking into the east courtyard, entered the corner door, turned around the corner wall, and took a look, but saw a lot of monks lying in the courtyard, some with heads, some without heads, some whole, and some with two pieces. Yes, there is a faceless one inside, but it is a woman.Everyone shouted: "It's amazing!" The county magistrate was stunned, his face was blue and yellow, and the hernia was back, and he just said: "What's going on?" Then, he took out the iron ruler from his waist, and went to the main house, kitchen, and courtyard gate, trying to catch someone.A few more people in the house dared to break in and searched the inside and outside the house and even the cellar. Is there a shadow of the murderer?After a while of chaos, everyone had to ask the county magistrate to come in and sit down.

As soon as the magistrate entered the door, he saw two lines of characters written on the front wall that were as big as the mouth of a bowl. After reading it, most of them didn't recognize it, so they had to call a book office to read it again. After listening, they also guessed. I don't know what it means.After a moment of embarrassment, he said, "Yes, but fortunately, we will take the book with us, and we will understand after seeing each other." I saw the book office winking, and secretly shook hands with him.It turns out that this book office is an old official in charge of the case in the criminal room of the yamen. No matter what difficult or important matters there are on weekdays, there is no case that cannot be completed in his hands, and there is no fraud that cannot be done in this case.

When the county magistrate saw him like this, he avoided the crowd and asked him, "Just now I was going to ask you to do a phase test, but you waved your hand. What does that mean?" The secretary said, "This case is absolutely impossible. For example If you kill a family with three lives, if you can’t get the murderer, I will punish you severely. Now more than a dozen people have died. If you do it, you won’t be able to get them for a while. How can you keep the exam schedule?” County magistrate Said: "Well, you are such a person, don't you even know the saying 'Under the great reward, there must be a brave man'? We just need to send a few more people, and then offer a lot of rewards, there is still someone who can't hold it? "

The book office shook his head and said, "Master, I'm afraid it will be harder than finding a needle in a haystack. According to the rumors in the book office, this kicker monk and Japan are not good men and women. As for the murderer, it doesn't look like he is looking for money. The murder was not done out of revenge, but by a generation of geniuses and supernatural powers who saw injustice on the road."

The county magistrate said: "Where did you see this?" The book office said: "Master Tai only needs to read these two lines to know. The first two sentences say:' Greed, anger, ignorance, and love are fourfold. This Jia Li All crimes." It is clear that this group of monks usually robs people's money, occupies people's women, kills people's lives, harms nature and justice, and does everything. The following sentences say: "He kills people and pollutes the Buddha's place. I will go down to the clouds with my sword to eradicate evil. Traitor.' These few sentences clearly said that he saw injustice on the road, and he took care of the people. He came from the sky, like a person descending from the clouds, and slaughtered the monk. Meet me in the cloud. Who is the word "you"? He clearly refers to the grand master. Although he killed many people in the local area, he did not flee in fear of crime. If you want to find me, you will find me in the cloud. Waiting to see you. Looking at the situation, let the old man offer a reward of a thousand gold. With our yamen arresters, how can we go to the clouds to catch people? Besides, judging by the tone of these few words, this man's courage and resourcefulness are also great. It's no small matter, just met him, how dare he touch him? At that time, how to close this case? So the secretary office said that this case cannot be handled." The magistrate said: "According to what you say, this case dares to It's just terrible! Do you have any fresh ideas?"

The book office said: "According to the book office's idea, we had to pick out three from this pile of corpses: one is the fat monk, the other is the woman with the hairy head, and the other is the faceless woman. Please tell the master The last report was submitted by the guarantee, and it was reported that the monks in this temple kept women in and were jealous of each other. Natuo got angry for a while and hacked the woman to death with a knife. The stick wounded Tuotou's fontanel door, and he died. He feared the crime and killed himself in a hurry. This way, the Tailord's punishment of neglecting his family and killing three lives was avoided, and the murderer didn't have to take it. The rest of the corpses, I can't afford to spend some trouble, dig a hole, and bury them. The lord's fangs and claws are all in front of me. Who would dare to disobey? Even the local guard, he eliminated such a big case on the ground, and saved the trouble. A lot of dragging down the expenses, why would he not want to? Then distribute all the fine, soft, rough and heavy things in the temple to everyone, as a reward, I'm afraid everyone will enjoy it. Please show me the idea of ​​the book office. How about it?" A county magistrate Hu was so happy that he smiled and said, "Sir, it's you after all! My words are not as deep as yours, and my ideas are not as clever as yours. Let's just wait!"

The book office said: "Master, I have to tell the boss one more thing." Then, he called the boss, and the officials told him again in three words.The team leader thought for a while, and said: "That's the only way to do it. The young ones follow the orders of the old man and go to do it. It's just that there are so many shovels digging the hole at the moment?" He bowed his head for a while, and suddenly said "Yes. The little one just went to the kitchen yard and saw a dry well there. Now he is prying up the stone on the surface of the well to drive down these useless dead monks. There are bricks, tiles, dung, grass and ashes in the temple. After it was built, the stone on the surface of the well was pressed on as before, and the mouth of the well was simply plugged. Instruct the local guard to find two plasterers to build him a pagoda on the surface of the well, and count it as a monk’s tomb. This merit is over.” After hearing this, the county magistrate clapped his hands and said, "This is a higher idea! You two are the ones who reward you when you are young!" The two thanked them first and told everyone secretly.

Everyone listened, firstly, the official is the master, and secondly, he gets some things, regardless of clerks, foremen, loose servants, butlers, and even followers and bearers. It was not until the day that it was settled.Leaving the dibao behind, he was looking for someone to bury the bodies of the two monks and a woman outside the temple, looking for a mason to build the tower, and handing over the bill.After everything was settled, everyone took advantage of this to steal some soft things, and there were only four open-mouthed pack mules left, so no one wanted them, so they entered the Tailord's official horse.The county magistrate went back to the Yamen.

According to the report form of the Dibao, five routes went up to the government, and it was approved by the constitution, and the four characters of "handle it as detailed" were approved, and a big and turbulent case was handled like a cloud!The Dibao found two other honest monks to raise money for burning in the temple. Within a few years, the temple was rebuilt with the raised money from Zun Nengren Temple, and the golden body was rebuilt.Lie Gong, you think these two lines of the thirteenth sister are so magical!
But Mr. an and his party said goodbye to the thirteenth sister and came. Mr. Zhang said to him on the way: "Master, let's go for half a stop today. Everyone has to rest." Mr. an was thinking about it in his heart, thinking: " I don’t know where Thirteenth Sister is going, so she can find me that inkstone? I don’t know if his slingshot is as good as he said? If you can’t do the two things, what should I do?” There are many thoughts in my heart. , muffled on the cattle.Suddenly he heard Zhang Laohe talking to him, so he replied, "That's right." While speaking, he walked for a while, and saw a few inns in front of him, so he chose a clean one to live in.Everyone is busy carrying luggage, washing their faces and eating, so there is no need to be tedious.

When everything was over, Mr. Zhang stayed with Mr. An in one room, and his mother and daughter lived in another room.The wife Zhang urged Zhang Jinfeng to say, "Girl, let's go to bed earlier. There was a night of trouble yesterday." Miss Zhang said, "Our mother slept together in two cars. Your old man is going to sleep again at this time." Sleepy? It’s still daylight, so we’re talking about going to sleep? We still have a lot to do.” Mrs. Zhang said, “What else is there?” Miss Zhang said, “Everyone knows, you old man. Don't just bullshit people."

Mrs. Zhang said: "It's just me, what's the matter? Oh, you want to drown, I brought your toilet in for you a long time ago." His daughter was anxious, and said: "Look, who just wants to Peeing!" Mrs. Zhang said: "This is killing me, just tell me." Then Miss Zhang lowered her head and blushed and said, "Look, old man, the buttons on his body are all torn off. , that pair of trousers are wet on the body, how can I bear it!"

A sentence reminded the wife, saying: "But, wait until I tell him to change it, I will take our wooden basin and wash the trousers for him. You nail the button loop for him. "Speaking, go outside.Miss Zhang quickly stopped and said: "Mom, you old man come back first." The wife said: "What else?" Miss Zhang said: "It's nothing, you old man don't talk about what I said." Agree, go to the room and tell Mr. an what I said before.

(End of this chapter)