Chapter 29 Chapter Twenty-Eight

The person who performed the peeling and real grass operation for Zhao Jinzhou was Zhang Mengcheng. Because he did not have any practical experience and lacked relevant technical information, the peeling and real grass was not considered a success. First of all, the ratio of straw to lime was seriously out of balance. Excessive lime dehydrated the skin of the specimen severely, leading to cracks in the sutures of the back and abdomen, and severe thread disconnection. In the end, severe cracks even appeared on the face.Just at this time, news came from the yamen, saying that the inspector sent by the imperial court wanted to pay homage to the face of Comrade Zhao Jinzhou, the number one skinned real grass care object in Hubei, which really worried Zhang Mengcheng.In all fairness, Zhao Jinzhou's peeling operation was a failure, at least it shouldn't be like this. At this time, Zhao Jinzhou is completely unrecognizable, and he can't even tell that he is a person except for his outline. Supervisor Shi is dissatisfied, do you still want your job?

Thinking of this, Zhang Mengcheng simply came up with a stupid cat shit solution to solve the annoying cracking problem, that is, pour water on the surface of the corpse skin, and then apply butter to moisturize it, hoping to temporarily relieve the dehydration of the corpse skin Crack, let's confuse the supervisory history first. "Water?" Hearing this, Zhang Guozhong faintly felt that something was wrong.Mao Shanshu believes that the incomplete body is one of the main reasons for the aggravation of the soul's resentment. In ancient times, beheading and beheading must finally restore the criminal's head before burying it, otherwise disasters will easily occur. This has been the practice of executioners for thousands of years. Unwritten rules.And this Zhu Yuanzhang is not proficient in yin and yang and has no channel skills. He just scratched his head and came up with such a trick of skinning. Drenched in water, Zhao Jinzhou suffered a misfortune, his body was incomplete, and he was filled with resentment, and water dominates yin, using yin to resolve resentment, isn't this looking for bad luck?

"Well, it was fine at that time. Zhao Jinzhou's body was placed in the yamen for twenty years. The yamen is a place where evil spirits gather. Only by using evil spirits to suppress resentment can we be safe." Daoist Chen Guang shook his head, "But don't forget Now, the yamen is originally a place for political affairs, so how could it be possible to always put the corpse in the court?" In the thirty-first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1398), Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang died, and Emperor Hui Zhu Yunqi ascended the throne and was appointed to change the name of the first year to Jianwen.One Hongwu, one Jianwen, it is not difficult to see from the year name, compared with Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's one-size-fits-all strategy of "using heavy codes in troubled times", Zhu Yunqi's ruling policy seems to be more focused on convincing people with virtue.

Sure enough, the first decree issued by Zhu Yunqi after he ascended the throne was to find a place to take away the specimens of corrupt officials displayed in the yamen. To be honest, the specimens of corrupt officials are so disgusting that they thought about removing these specimens without doing anything after succeeding to the throne.Jianwen, as the name suggests, is to establish a gentle government and a gentle court. How could the gentle court put such disgusting things around? When dealing with Zhao Jinzhou's body, an official in charge of the matter had ordered the government officials to bury him back in the Eight Thieves Tomb, but after more than 20 years, and when digging the Eight Thieves Tomb, he did not set up a grave to save trouble. , just set up a wooden sign, which has long since disappeared.The yamen servant who spread the matter thought it was bad luck, so he dug a hole on the spot, and casually buried the corpse outside Longhugang.As a result, that night, the three yamen servants who buried the corpses and the owner of the car who were driving the car all died suddenly.After the autopsy, the four people died of the same cause of heartache. According to the current theory, it is myocardial infarction. For a while, rumors abounded in the streets and alleys, saying that Zhao Jinzhou's lingering evil spirit took his life. At that time, the prefect Lei Zhongli also I once invited a group of monks to chant scriptures with experience, but to be honest, this kind of aimless chanting is meaningless. It is not difficult for people who know a little bit of Taoism to see that in terms of the situation at that time, the most appropriate The measures to be taken should be to find the location of the eight thieves' grave as soon as possible, dig out Zhao Jinzhou's body and bury it with his skin, and then he will be buried with his relatives first, and then he will be buried with his relatives. However, the original intention of the magistrate Lei Zhongli to ask monks and Taoists to chant scriptures is to calm down the incident and calm people to stabilize people's hearts. It's just making trouble in Longhugang, so it's none of my business?

At that time, several Taoist priests reminded Lei Zhongli that just chanting sutras like this was a waste of taxpayers’ money. To get rid of the root cause, one must search for the dead body, but Lei Zhongli misunderstood that these Taoist priests wanted to exaggerate the facts. Earn more money, and almost be executed for it.Seeing this situation, the other monks had no choice but to symbolically finish this meaningless ceremony and take the money and leave, so that they missed the best time for salvation and laid the groundwork for future disasters. Time is like an arrow, and four years are fleeting. In the third year of Jianwen (1402), Zhu Di led his troops into Yingtian Mansion, and the news of Zhu Yunqi's disappearance spread all over the country.Regarding this incident, the common people have heard about it, but they feel very numb. Most people think that it is no different from brothers in the countryside fighting for separation and fighting. What about me?For a while, except for a few virtuous ministers and chastity officials who complained a few times for Zhu Yunxuan, and they were all dealt with as current reactionaries, there was no further disturbance.

There is a saying that "one emperor and one courtier, each new official changes a group".This year, the magistrate Lei Zhongli returned home due to illness, and the new magistrate Zhang Wenyong came to Ren Xiangyang, intending to replace the general judge Li Guang. He wanted a new official to take office, promoting cronies, and recruiting old staff. These actions are perfectly normal. Others, if they change, they will change. After all, their arms can't twist their thighs, but as Li Guang, they must not be replaced: first, the general judge is a fat job, and he has a lot of money; After Zhu Yunxuan succeeded to the throne and implemented a loose policy, and the court's anti-corruption efforts were greatly reduced, Li Guanglian made a lot of money from corruption and bribery. Holes can't be plugged in a day or two. Once you are replaced, the huge deficit will be revealed to the world in an instant. Basically, he had enough brains, and after trying to flatter Zhang Wenyong repeatedly but failed, Li Guang became murderous, trying to find a way to get rid of Zhang Wenyong before he could do anything to him.

To be honest, for Li Guang, who has no strength to restrain a chicken, it is not difficult to set a murder target. The key is to implement it. Zhang Wenyong is an official of the court. If he wants to hire ordinary robbers and thieves to assassinate, the risk is too great. Once the assassin Being caught and biting himself out is the crime of Zhu Jiuzu digging up the graves of his ancestors; if he wants to do it himself, Zhang Wenyong keeps alienating himself from time to time, so he has no chance at all.Just when Li Guang was at a loss, a bizarre serial murder case suddenly occurred in Xiangyang City. The cause and effect of the whole case can only be described as "unbelievable". There was a fire of hope.

In Xiangyang City, there is an upstart named Zhang Cong who started his business by smuggling salt. Ten years back, he was also a master who ate corn cobs for three meals and two meals. .Three generations of Zhang Cong's ancestors were poor and lower-middle peasants, and they were all buried in Longhugang. As a result, not long after the grave was moved, a murder case occurred in Zhang Cong's family. Before the grave was moved, Zhang Cong had taken in a concubine named Zeng Shan'er, who had always been at odds with Zhang Cong's original wife, Liang Shi.The Liang family has a younger brother named Liang Zhongbao, who is a gangster, thinking about taking revenge on Zeng Shaner all day long.And not long after Zhang Cong moved to the grave, Zeng Shan'er died inexplicably at the door of the house, and the night before her sudden death, she had sex with Zhang Cong. She almost urinated on the spot, after an autopsy, Zeng Shan'er died of neck choke, to put it bluntly, she was strangled to death.

Zhang Wenyong, the new magistrate, was a man who did not believe in evil, and he did not think of any crooked ways at all. After a brief understanding of Zhang Cong's family relationship, he concluded that it was the Liang family who encouraged his younger brother to kill Zeng Shan'er. He was escorted to the lobby to be severely punished. After the torture failed, he was temporarily sent to the prison.As a result, just one day later, Zhang Cong himself died, and the cause of death was roughly similar to that of Zeng Shaner. Zhang Wenyong took all the servants of Zhang Cong's family to the lobby and tortured them one by one, but nothing happened until the end. result.

When Zhang Cong's servants were being tried in the front hall, Li Guang came to the jail.Seeing Li Guang, the Liang family can be said to be the same as seeing a savior.To be honest, smuggling salt was a capital offense in all dynasties. The reason why Zhang Cong was able to smuggle smuggling salt for several years was entirely thanks to Li Guang. There were many dirty things between the two families. Li Guang inquired about Zhang Cong's relocation to the ancestral grave under the pretense of helping Liang's grievance. Hearing Mr. Liang talk about Zhang Cong's relocation of the grave, Li Guang immediately thought of the tragic death of three government servants who buried Zhao Jinzhou's body a few years ago. These two things are too weird, right?After he came out of the prison, Li Guang visited Zhang Mengcheng, the 250-year-old who was in charge of the autopsy.According to Zhang Mengcheng's analysis, when Zeng Shan'er and Zhang Cong died, their necks were broken. The force was unprecedented. Street gangsters like Liang Zhongbao shouldn't have such great strength.Hearing this, Li Guang guessed in his heart that even if Zhang Cong had enemies, his concubine Zeng Shan'er would not have anything to do with those heroes of the rivers and lakes. The assailant was possessed by ghosts and gods. It seems that the rumors that have been circulating in Xiangyang Mansion for decades seem to be true, and Zhao Jinzhou's grievances are still alive.

In fact, as far as Li Guang is concerned, as long as there is any other way to kill Zhang Wenyong, he will never attack these ghosts and gods. After passing the review of the previous official documents, the date of his death is coming, and now he can only be a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and put his treasure on these ghosts and gods.If the ghosts and gods can be recruited to kill Zhang Wenyong seamlessly, and then take office as the new magistrate and replace his subordinates, the whole process will take at least a year. Even if such a long time is not enough to plug the hole, at least it is enough to go far away and hide his name.And just when Li Guang was complacent because he had figured out a solution, the question came again: How can ghosts and gods harm Zhang Wenyong?Is it possible to dig out Zhao Jinzhou's body and bury it in Zhang Wenyong's courtyard?Don't say that I don't know where Zhao Jinzhou's body is buried, even if I know, I am afraid that I will die first if I do this. Coincidentally, when Li Guang turned from joy to worry, and went to Zhang Cong's house to investigate clues, the behavior of a wandering Taoist caught Li Guang's attention. After Gao Xuan, he continued to inquire with his neighbors about the whereabouts of this family.Seeing this situation, Li Guang hurried forward to salute, and told the traveling Taoist all about what happened to Zhang Cong after he moved to the grave.After hearing what Li Guang said, the old Taoist also sighed for a while, saying that there must be evil spirits haunting this house, and he wanted to get rid of evil spirits and suppress ghosts to earn some hard money, but he didn't expect everyone to be taken by the government. Hearing what the Taoist said, Li Guang was naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly invited the Taoist to his home and set up a table for wine and food.With the help of Jiu Jin, Li Guang told the old Taoist all the series of death cases caused by Zhao Jinzhou's specimens in the past few years, and expressed his current situation and his intention to kill Zhang Wenyong. When he heard that he was going to kill people and that he was an official of the imperial court, the Taoist priest hesitated for a while. In the end, Li Guang gritted his teeth and simply vomited blood and offered a sky-high reward of three thousand taels of silver. In other words, this amount was definitely a huge sum of money at that time, and it was enough to build a Taoist temple of the same size as the Shaolin Temple. Don’t you always worry about earning hard money?I want you to earn all the money you have worked hard for eight lifetimes at once. There is a saying that money can turn ghosts around. How can a wandering Taoist ever see three thousand taels of silver?For the sake of the banknote, the veteran agreed with hesitation.