During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a theft case occurred in the Internal Affairs Office of the Beijing Division, and the valuable utensils in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were stolen, and the report of this matter greatly angered the officials in charge, and instructed that a strict investigation should be carried out within a time limit, and if the results could not be found within the time limit, all the officials involved in the matter should be dealt with and impeached together. For this reason, the officials below also became anxious, and they began to arrange an investigation. At the same time, he asked the Five Cities Terracotta Division of the Beijing Division and the infantry commander Yamen to send people to investigate and track down relevant clues.
When the Five Cities Terracotta Division was investigating the servant households that had been guarding the gardens of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for generations, one of them was named Wang Da, and when he was tried, somehow suddenly a young man's voice suddenly said: "The gold and silver stolen by the Ministry of Internal Affairs this time was not stolen by him, but the people he really killed." I am the soul of the man who was killed. The interrogator was horrified and forwarded the case to the Punishment Department.
After the case was sent to the Punishment Department, Shangshu of the Punishment Department ordered his subordinate Langzhong Zhao Gong to interrogate him together with the officials below. After pressing Wang Da into the lobby, he only heard the soul of this young man say, "My name is Li Si, I am thirteen years old, my home is in Houhai, and my father's name is Li Daxing." The previous year's Lantern Festival, Wang Da led me to see the lights back. In the dead of night, Chang Ming teased me, and I tried my best to refuse, and said that I would tell my father when I went back. Wang Da strangled me with a belt and buried me under the riverbank.
My father saw that I often played with Wang Da, so he suspected that Wang Da had hidden me, so he reported it to the officials who patrolled the city and sent me to the Punishment Department. However, because there was no evidence of the matter, the officials of the Criminal Investigation Department discussed another arrest of the real culprit. And because I was blind to death, I couldn't escape into samsara, so my soul often followed Wang Da, but only four or five feet apart, I felt hot like a fiery fire, and I couldn't get close. Later, the heat subsided slightly, gradually approaching to two or three feet, and gradually approaching the handlebar. Yesterday I didn't even feel hot, so I was able to possess it. ”
Then the young man's soul said that during the first interrogation, his soul also followed him to the Punishment Department, and pointed to the door of one of the departments and said where it had been tried before, so the Punishment Department Langzhong checked the file according to the month and day he said, and sure enough, the original case file was found. So he came back and asked where his body was buried, and he said it was next to the first willow trees on the riverbank. After the excavation, it was also found, and the body was not broken.
After his father, Li Daxing, came to personally identify him, he cried out loudly and said, "This is my son, I have not been able to find it, it turns out that you are here!" "It's a bit of a fantasy and elusive thing, but the evidence test is all true. Moreover, when he was interrogated, he called Wang Da's name, and suddenly woke up like a dream and said Wang Da's words. Calling Li Si's name, he suddenly seemed to be drunk and said Li Si ge's words. They debated each other many times before confessing their guilt. And when it was a child's soul, their father and son talked about housework, and they knew very well that there was nothing wrong with it. In the end, there was nothing suspicious about the trial of this case, so it was reported according to the actual situation, and the crime was judged according to the laws of the Great Qing.
In the end, Wang Da was sentenced to beheading, and on the day the order was issued, the young child's soul was very happy. He had been selling sugar for a living, and suddenly sang loudly: "Sell sugar!" His father cried and said, "I haven't heard this in a long time, it's like the sound of being alive." Then he asked his child, "Where are you going?" He replied, "I don't know, so let's go." After that, I asked Wang Da again and stopped saying Li Si's words. Soon Wang Da was beheaded.