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In ancient times, China was founded on farming, of which sericulture and mulberry cultivation are important components of agriculture.
Although dynasties have changed, the silkworm and silk weaving industries have never stopped. After several generations of inheritance, its development has become more and more prosperous.
By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, silkworm silk weaving had been very developed, especially in the Jiangnan area, and it was even more difficult for families to plant mulberry silkworms.
(Silkworm reeling)
To discuss which silk reeling process is strong, it must be the Huzhou area of Zhejiang.
The Ming Book "Guangzhixuan" once praised huzhou's silk weaving, calling it "A in the world".
Therefore, the sericulture industry in Huzhou is more developed.
The sericulture industry is developed, and people naturally worship the silkworm god. The silkworm god protects people and also punishes acts that harm the sericulture industry.
In the Huzhou area during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a "silkworm god killing incident". It is said that some people have killed people because they buried more than a dozen baskets of silkworms and were retaliated against by the silkworm gods.
Because of the strangeness of the case, it was widely spread at the time, and was later recorded by the Ming Dynasty Chen Hongmo in the "Aftermath of the Rule of the World".
So, what kind of a strange case is this?
During the Reign of Hongzhi, emperor Ming Xiaozong vigorously reformed the maladministration and carried out a series of reforms. Therefore, the government and the public have a new look, showing a prosperous situation of "Qingning in the order of the dynasty, Kangfu in the people's materials", also known as "Hongzhi Zhongxing".
At present, the sericulture industry in Huzhou is even more prosperous than ever. Many people have made their fortunes by planting mulberry silkworms.
For example, the Wu family in Anji County, Huzhou, has relied on generations of people to raise silkworms and become a large family with strong local financial resources.
This year, the wind and rain were smooth, and the Wu family had produced many more silkworms than in previous years.
This would have been a good thing, but because mulberry planting did not keep up, the mulberry leaves were not supplied at all.
In desperation, the Wu family ordered 3 family members to bury more than ten baskets of silkworms in the cellar.
After the incident, in order to ensure enough mulberry leaves, the family ordered these 3 family members to go to the market to purchase mulberry leaves.
However, this year, because the silkworms in the family were more prosperous than in previous years, there were no mulberry leaves sold in the market.
The 3 families returned home in vain and drove the boat home.
Just when the 3 family members were worried about how to explain to the family, suddenly the waves on the river were rough, and the boat bumps could not be controlled.
Only to see a monster looming in the waves rushing straight to the boat, the 3 family members could not help but be shocked. I saw the monster rush to the front of the boat, suddenly jump out of the water, and fall directly onto the deck of the boat.
It turned out to be a large carp that was rare to see, as big as a dustpan.
The three families were overjoyed, and hurriedly used the fishing net to catch the carp and drag it into the cabin, and planned to sacrifice it to the family, hoping that the fish would make them less cursed.
Because the fish is too big, the boat is pressed down to drive extremely slowly. This attracted the attention of the catchers who were patrolling the river, who leaned over the boat and checked it on the boat.
The 3 family members insisted that there was nothing on the boat except for a big fish.
But the arrester still felt suspicious, so he carefully searched the ship. As a result, they found a human leg under the deck of the cabin.
When the 3 families saw this, their faces were so frightened that they could not speak.
So the trapper took them all back to the gate and carefully interrogated whose legs were there? Where is the body?
At first, the 3 family members said that they did not know, so they waited for the big punishment.
The 3 family members were beaten to death. One of them really couldn't bear it, so he confessed indiscriminately that the people were killed by a few of them, and the body was still buried in the Wu family's cellar.
The presiding officer then took them to the Wu family and went down to the cellar and asked them to identify them on the spot.
The man who confessed his sins could not, so he simply pointed to the place where they were buried.
Who knows, the servants actually dug up a corpse with a missing leg there. After examination, the broken leg coincided with the wound of the corpse.
Obviously, there were more than a dozen baskets of silkworms buried, how did it become a mutilated corpse?
Because the Wu family and the 3 family members could not speak clearly, coupled with the solid evidence, they finally had to confess their guilt and were sentenced to death.
After the case came out, it caused a great sensation in the Jiangnan area. Originally, everyone would sacrifice the silkworm flower lady with great devotion in order to preserve the silkworm reeling silk and have a good harvest every year during the Qingming Festival.
Out of reverence for the gods, everyone believed that this was because the Wu family had killed too many silkworms and offended the silkworm flower lady, so they had suffered a disaster.
(Silkworm Lady)
So, is it really the silkworm flower lady apparition, revenge on the Wu family and the 3 family members?
Obviously not, why?
First, if you want to dispose of more than a dozen baskets of silkworms, how convenient it is to dig a pit in the wild and bury it, why do you need to go down to a deep cellar to bury it?
Second, one of the legs in the cabin can only be said to be after the murder, in order not to attract attention, want to separate the body and then transport it out in pieces to cover up the murder.
The confessing family member was obviously involved in the murder, otherwise how could he know where the body was buried?
Therefore, the real situation is that the Wu family did kill a person, and in order to cover up the crime, they lied that they wanted to bury more than a dozen baskets of silkworms and bury them in the cellar.
In this way, everyone knows that there are more than a dozen baskets of silkworms buried there, and they will not go to the cellar to dig that piece of land.
At the same time, after the body was dismembered, the Wu family gave one of their legs to the confessing family, and falsely claimed to buy mulberry leaves and let the other two family members accompany them to meet the conditions of witness certification.
However, these two family members may be inseparable from the confessing family members along the way, so he has not been able to find the opportunity to start. On the way, a super large carp was caught, which pressed the boat to a deep draft, which made the patrolling catcher suspicious, and eventually led to the discovery of the case.
The truth may have been found out, but people at that time were more willing to believe that the Wu family had killed too many silkworms, so they were killed by the silkworm lady and blamed on him.
Soon, the murder became a strange divine event.
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