During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a scholar in Tongxiang County, Zhejiang Province, called Benru. Lai Benru's parents died since childhood, and he has not yet married a wife when he is over twenty years old. Although Laibenru was poor, he had a wealth of poetry in his chest, was proficient in poetry and song, and looked rich and handsome, which was praised by his neighbors. However, many talents have not met, and there is no half of the merit. In order to make a living, Lai Benru had to work as a gentleman in the family of a rich man in his village.
The rich man's name was Shui Jian, and he had a daughter named Miaogu, who was fourteen years old and was born to His wife. After his wife died of illness, her aunt Feng shi invited Ben Ru into the house to be her husband. After Lai BenRu arrived at the rich man's house, Miaogu glimpsed Lai Ben Ru as a beautiful teenager from behind the door, and she liked it very much. The rich man saw that Ben Ru was sincere and mighty, and his daughter liked her so much that he wanted to recruit him as a son-in-law. Lai Benru said that he did not yet have half a meritorious name, and it was not too late to discuss marriage after he became famous. When the rich man saw that ben had ambition, he no longer demanded it.
One day, Ben Ru went to the city to meet friends. Because of the long time in the city, it was late when I left the city. Coming to Ben was greedy for a short path, and picked a shortcut. After walking less than two or three miles, I came to the door of an ancient temple. Lai Benru's feet were a little weak, so he sat down in front of the temple gate and rested his feet. While the cool breeze was blowing, I suddenly heard the sound of a woman crying from inside the door. Lai Benru had doubts in his heart, pushed the door and entered the temple. In the temple, two fat monks were seen, who were pressing a young woman to the ground and committing violence.
Lai Benru was shocked, and before he could react, a monk jumped up and dragged a pig iron Zen staff to hit BenRu. When he saw that the person who came was not good, he quickly turned his head and left, but he did not guard his feet and stumbled over the threshold. The red shoes on his feet fell on the edge of the threshold, and the monk had already chased after him. Lai Benru was not lightly frightened, and quickly ran barefoot, and ran into the grass in the blink of an eye.
The monk chased after him, and Lai Benru only ran toward the depths of the grass, not paying attention to a deep well in the grass without a fence. Lai Ben was like a foot mistake, and he threw himself into the well. The monk chased him to the well, saw Benru fall into the well, picked up the pig iron Zen staff and poked it into the well. The staff reached down, but it couldn't poke at the bottom of the well, and I didn't know how deep the well was. The monk stood by the well and wandered for a moment, expecting that he would be dead or alive, so he dragged his staff back to the temple.
When the monk returned to the temple, he found that the young woman had been killed in the courtyard, and the monks of the accomplice were also missing. Taken aback, the monk quickly dragged his feet away, and also sped away toward the mountain gate, escaping without a trace.
Who was the woman who was killed in the temple? It turned out that this woman was the wife of Liu Ayan who opened a tavern in the city, Zhou Shi. Zhou And Ah Yan quarreled over trivial matters, and Zhou Shi was angry and wanted to go back to his mother's house. Zhou's mother's family lived in the countryside five or six miles outside the city, and when Zhou came to the door of the ancient temple, it was already dark, but he happened to meet two fat monks at the door. When the two monks saw that Zhou Shi was young and beautiful, and that she was alone on the road, they dragged her into the temple without saying a word, ready to do the unseemly deeds.
The two fat monks were about to commit a crime, but they saw Ben Ru break into the mountain gate. One monk dragged his zen staff to call Benru, and another monk forcibly dragged Zhou into the temple. The Zhou clan shouted incessantly in the temple, and the monk, fearing that he would be heard and arrested, temporarily drew his sword and killed the Zhou clan. The murderous monk did not wait for his companions to return, but fled for his life.
On the other hand, since Ah Yan quarreled with his wife, Zhou Shi left home in a gamble. The neighbors quickly persuaded Ah Yan to chase after him, and at this moment it was too late for Zhou To return to her mother's house, and it was dangerous for a young woman to be alone on the road. Ah Yan could not resist the persuasion of his neighbors and followed them along the road. Before coming to the ancient temple, see a red shoe near the threshold of the temple. When the crowd picked it up and looked at it, they immediately felt suspicious. When everyone pushed the door and went in, they found that Zhou Shi was covered in blood and died on the ground without half a wisp.
Ah Yan and the neighbors came forward to take a closer look, and the deceased was not another one, but his wife Zhou Shi. Ah Yan was stunned and stood in the same place. The neighbors were armed with red shoes and deduced that the person who killed Zhou was the one who wore the red shoes. This man must have escaped for a long time, as long as he went after him immediately, he could still catch him. The crowd dispersed and rushed out to chase after the man in the red shoes.
After chasing for less than half a mile, I heard someone crying for help. The crowd searched for the sound, but found that it came from a dry well in the grass. The crowd was busy untying the rope and descending into the well, and Ben Ru was not dead at the bottom of the well, and when he saw the rope falling, he pulled the rope up. The crowd worked in unison and quickly pulled him out of the dry well.
When LaiBenru was pulled up, the crowd saw that he had a red shoe on his foot, and the neighbors found another shoe, which happened to be a pair. When everyone saw that the shoes were fitted, they said that the murderer was Benru. Lai Ben was horrified and said that he had not killed anyone, and the crowd escorted him to the temple, pointing to Zhou's body and making him admit that he had killed anyone. When he saw that the people did not believe, he told everyone what he had just witnessed.
The crowd called Li Zheng and handed the body over to Li Zheng's care, and then they twisted ben ru to see the county order. When the county commander Hu Jian heard about the murder, he immediately went to the scene to inspect the body and interrogated a cadre of people. Hu Xianling angrily rebuked Ben Ru for killing people? Lai Ben ru told the truth again. Hu Xianling also asked, since he bumped into two monks who committed murder, did he know which temple the monk belonged to? Lai Ben Ru said that the two monks were walking monks, and he did not recognize them.
Hu Xianling also asked the people if they had encountered a foot-walking monk when they left the city. Everyone said they hadn't seen it. Hu Xianling then pointed at Benru and said, "You met Zhou Shi on the road and had a bad heart. Pulled to the temple to do something wrong, but the Zhou clan desperately resisted, you forcibly insulted her and killed her with a knife. You flee in panic, but you fall into a dry well. Now he is still slandering his family here, which is almost mad. ”
Hu Xianling said that he called for a great punishment to be served. Two shifts of servants were already waiting by the side, and they heard the county order shouting, "Fight! Immediately picked up the board and hit it hard. Lai Benru was beaten so bloodied, his bones seemed to be scattered, he was beaten to death, woke up with cold water and continued to fight. So three times and twice, Lai Benru could not bear the torture, and had to admit that he was the scourge and killed the Zhou clan.
Hu Xian ordered Ben ru to confess and put him in jail for a capital offense. This incident caused a sensation in people inside and outside the city, and when the sailors heard that Ben Ru had been imprisoned for murder, they were surprised in their hearts. He thought that Lai Ben was a sincere person, and he was also a gentleman, how could he do such a thing that hurt heaven and nature? The sailor immediately came to visit Benru in prison, and Lai Benru told the sailor about the cause and effect. The sailors could not help but feel relieved and said that they would find a way to save him.
Time is like an arrow, and I don't feel that three years have passed. Lai Benru was imprisoned for three years, and during these three years, the sailors spent some money up and down and did their best to help him. If not, Ben Would have landed on the ground long ago. At this time, Jiangnan La was in turmoil, and Zhang Shuye was appointed by the imperial court to bring Liangshan to the general to requisition Fang La. Fang La was defeated one after another, so he had to abandon Jiangnan and lead the remnants of the defeated army all the way to Zhejiang. The local government in Zhejiang fled, and the prisoners in the cells ran out.
After Zhang Shuye arrived in Tongxiang, Fang La led the remnants of the army to continue to retreat. Zhang Shu inspected the Tongxiang prison at night and found that the prisoners in the prison had basically run out, leaving only one student still in the cell. This student who did not run was Lai Benru, and Zhang Shuye asked Lai Benru what crime he had committed, why didn't he take the opportunity to escape? Lai Benru told the truth and said that if he took the opportunity to escape, it would be no different from the rioters, and he was willing to die and not run away.
Zhang Shuye sighed that Ben Ru was a righteous gentleman, and he would look for Ben Ru's case file in the future, and immediately found a suspicious point. Since Lai Benru had harmed and killed the Zhou clan, there was no need to leave the red shoes as a handle. If you fall into the well, if you want to lose your shoes, you should also throw them at the well, why did you fall at the temple door? So Ben was wronged. Uncle Zhang is the master of the night, and in the future, he will be forgiven and innocent.
Uncle Zhang's night
Lai Ben Ru was forgiven and was about to resign and leave. Uncle Zhang saw that Ben was a talent at night, and after some consideration, he saw that he had quite a strategic culture, so he left him as his staff officer. At this time, Jiangnan was in chaos, and Lai Ru was already homeless, and Zhang Shuye had the heart to keep him as a staff officer, so he stayed in the army. Zhang Shuye and Lai Benru were talking, at this time the military academy came to pray, they found hundreds of young women in the back hall of the mansion, all of whom were left behind after Fang La's withdrawal, and wanted to ask Uncle Zhang to send him down. Zhang Shuye knew that these people were all captive women, so he ordered them to be released and returned home.
The military academy released the women to go home one by one, and when they were halfway through, a woman suddenly came out and shouted loudly the name of Benru. Lai Benru took a closer look, the woman was no one else, it was the concubine Feng Shi outside the sailor, and when Ben Ru first came to ben ru to enter the waterman's house as a teacher, it was introduced by the Feng clan. Lai Benru saw Feng Shi Daxi and asked her why she had wandered here?
Feng Shi said that after the war, Shui Renwai and her children and servants went to a nunnery to take refuge, but they were scattered by Fang La's soldiers on the way, and she was taken captive by the soldiers. Now she didn't know what happened to the sailors and the children's servants.
Lai Benru asked where the nunnery was, and Feng Shi said that it was the Water Moon Nunnery, which was fifty miles away. Lai Ben immediately asked Zhang Shuye to help find the waterman, and Zhang Shuye asked a team of elite soldiers to find the waterman's family and temporarily settled Feng In the county's room. Uncle Zhang's elite soldiers quickly invited back the Sailor Wai family, and the Sailor Wai thanked Lai Benru for saving his life and gave his daughter Miaogu Xu to Lai Benru. Uncle Zhang paid two hundred and two dollars at night, and twenty dollars were hired, and agreed to let him and Miaogu become relatives on the day of triumph.
Soon after, Uncle Zhang came to Benru's aid at night, set up an ambush to capture Fang La alive, leveled Fang La's headquarters, and returned triumphantly. Zhang Shuye made great contributions and was promoted to the position of Privy Council Envoy, and the staff officer Lai Benru was given the title of Jinshi and the first, and was promoted to guangdong inspector of the imperial history. Lai Ben became famous and returned to his hometown to become friends with Miaogu. At this time, Ben Ru was already twenty-four years old, and Miao Gu was already seventeen years old.
After becoming a relative, Lai Benru was ordered to go to Guangdong to take up his post. On the second day after Lai Benru arrived, he heard that an unjust case had occurred in Longmen County, Guangdong Province. The course of this unjust case goes like this:
At that time, there was a staff general in Longmen County who guarded the place, and his name was Gao Xun. This person claimed to be a relative of Gao Li, the lieutenant of the DPRK, so he bullied others and widely used private debts among the people. The people are miserable for a while, and as long as it is the family of the person who borrowed his money, it is often destroyed.
There was a dim sum shop owner in the county named Zeng Xiao'er, who had no money to bury him because his mother died of illness, so he borrowed ten pieces of silver from Gao Gan. After a year, even the profits were calculated to be thirty-two. At this time, the term of office of the senior staff general will expire, and the large and small debts must be recovered before leaving office, so the debt collection has become more intense. Zeng Xiao'er was forced to be anxious, so he planned to sell his wife to pay off the debt.
Zeng Xiao'er wanted to sell his wife to pay off the debt, and the couple cried at night, lamenting that fate was too bitter. This cry alarmed a neighboring cobbler named Shi Huiqing, who had a bodhisattva heart. Shi Huiqing lived alone and had no wives and concubines in the family. He usually accumulated thirty-two pieces of silver, when the Baoying Temple outside the city was going to build a temple, and a monk built a grass hut to raise money at the entrance of the alley.
That morning, Shi Huiqing was preparing to donate money, only to hear the crying of Zeng Xiao'er and his wife, he came over to ask about the situation, and planned to give thirty-two pieces of silver to support Zeng Xiao'er and his wife, so that the merit was much more meaningful than the construction of the temple. When the officers and soldiers who collected debts came to the door, Shi Huiqing sent thirty-two pieces of silver to relieve Zeng Xiao'er and his wife. Zeng Xiao'er and his wife Shang Shi hugged and cried, and knelt on the ground to thank Shi Huiqing for his great kindness.
One night, Zeng Xiao'er invited Shi Huiqing to his home for dinner. After Shi Huiqing arrived, he did not see Zeng Xiao'er only Shang at the table. Shi Huiqing asked Shang what was going on? Shang said that Zeng Xiao'er was relieved of his thirty-two pieces of silver, and his heart was really uneasy, so he gave her to Shi Huiqing. Shi Huiqing had no wife and no concubines, and just lacked a person to accompany him, and his husband Zeng Xiao'er had taken the initiative to go out and live there, giving up the house to them. Shi Huiqing suddenly changed color and angrily rebuked the Shang couple for not doing this. He had good intentions to help them, but how could he misinterpret his kindness in this way? Shi Huiqing was angry, pushed the table open and returned home.
After Shi Huiqing returned home, she complained in her heart that Zeng Xiao'er did not know the good hearts of the people. He was worried that he would gossip about living next door, and he was also worried that Zeng Xiao'er would be suspicious again, so he moved his family away from Zeng Xiao'er's family. After Shi Huiqing moved, his heart was finally much more stable and comfortable, and he continued to run the cobbler business.
On the day Shi Huiqing moved, the door of Zeng Xiao'er's house was always closed, the neighbors shouted outside many times and did not see anyone open the door, the neighbors found that the door was hidden when they pushed the door, and the door shaft had been damaged. When the neighbors entered the house to check, they found that Shang had died by the bed, and Shang had been strangled to death. Shang's death at home caused a sensation among the residents of the city for a time, and everyone was saying: Shi Huiqing moved, Shang died at home, and it must be Shi Huiqing who killed Shang. Neighbors soon went to the county court to report the case, and Shi Huiqing was arrested and arrested.
At that time, the county order was called Shen Boming, and Shen County order angrily rebuked Shi Huiqing for killing the Shang clan? Shi Huiqing said that he did not kill anyone, and detailed his kindness to pay off Zeng Xiao'er's debts and move in order to avoid suspicion. Shen Xianling refused to believe it, and Shen Xianling explained that Shi Huiqing deliberately repaid the debt, but secretly tricked Zeng Xiao'er, and as a result, the Shang clan did not comply, and he killed the Shang clan. To avoid being pursued, he moved his home to a distance. Shi Huiqing cried out for wrong, where would Shen Xian ling listen? Letting the left and right of the big punishment serve, Shi Huiqing was beaten to the skin and flesh, and had to be beaten into a confession, confessing to the crime of murder.
That night, after Zeng Xiao'er secretly left home, he went all the way out of the city and prepared to go to Mount Wutai to become a monk. He was a stupid person, he did not see Shi Huiqing's kindness, but he thought that Shi Huiqing was taking advantage of people's danger. Zeng Xiao'er's family was no longer troubled, so he thought of going out of the house. That day, after walking more than twenty miles, he rested in a village, and slept until midnight when he suddenly caught a cold and fever. Zeng Xiao'er's illness was more than half a month, and it slowly got better.
One day, Zeng Xiao'er was about to continue to get up and go to Wutai Mountain when he heard people from the city talking about the killing of Shang. Zeng Xiao'er was shocked when he heard this, and secretly thought in his heart that Shi Huiqing would not kill anyone. When he left home, he had already explained the matter to the Shang clan, and Shi Huiqing knew that there was no need for the Shang clan to kill him again. Zeng Xiao'er knew that Shi Huiqing had been wronged, so he turned back to the city and went directly to the big prison to see Shi Huiqing. In prison, Zeng Xiao'er and Shi Huiqing both spoke out what they were thinking and released the doubts in their hearts. Zeng Xiao'er decided to appeal for Shi Huiqing's grievances, and he wanted to find the newly appointed inspector Yu Shi to report the case.
Zeng Xiao'er did what he said and handed the paper to Benru's desk. Lai Benru took the paper and interrogated Zeng Xiao'er and Shi Huiqing, and he asked Zeng Xiao'er if there were any relatives in his home. Zeng Xiao'er said that his family was poor and usually did not have any relatives. He asked Shi Huiqing again, and Shi Huiqing said that he lived alone, but recently a monk from Baoying Temple built a shed at the entrance of the alley to collect donations. At that time, he planned to donate thirty-two pieces of silver to the monk, during which he invited the monk to come to his house for a meal, and later he gave the silver to Zeng Xiao'er's family, and the monk never came to the door again.
Lai Ben ru was busy asking Ri Zheng if the monk of Baoying Temple was still there, and Li Zheng said that the monk had already returned. Lai Yushi took Shi Huiqing into custody temporarily and personally went to Baoying Temple to investigate. In Baoying Temple, Lai Benru looked at the construction going on in the main hall, and there were ten monks in the temple who went out to make friends. Lai Ben Ru had already given advance notice, and the abbot had asked the monks to wait in the temple early. Lai Benru asked the abbot to name him, but one of the ten monks was missing. He came to the door today to set up a feast to entertain the monks, but one of them could not hide, which was simply too bad. Lai Benru asked the messenger to search the temple, and sure enough, he found a monk under an old incense kitchen, and he was shrinking into a ball and hiding inside.
The monk was pulled out of the smoke kitchen and washed, and Lai Benru asked Shi Huiqing's neighbors to identify him, and everyone said that he was the one who had gathered his affection at the entrance of the alley. Lai Benru arrested the monk and interrogated him in the lobby, and the monk found out that he had killed the Shang clan. The monk called for Fei, and that night when he learned that Shi Huiqing had given all the money to Zeng Xiao'er, he was really unwilling in his heart. To this end, he hid outside Zeng Xiao'er's house, looking for an opportunity to see if he could steal the money. In fact, on the same day, Zeng Xiao'er repaid the debt, and the monk did not know it.
That night, after Shi Huiqing left Zeng Xiao'er's house, only Shang Shi was left at the table. When he went to the non-monk to see Shi Huiqing leave, and saw that Zeng Xiao'er had also left the house, he boldly broke into Zeng Xiao'er's home to ask for the indecent Shang clan. When shang saw the non-second monk enter the room, he desperately refused to resist, and the non-second monk strangled the shang for fear of being discovered.
Lai Benru recorded the confession of the non-monk, rebuked him with a staff of thirty large plates, and put him on death row. Lai Benru reprimanded the abbot again, he shielded and connived at the disciple's evil deeds and should have sat together, this time forgiving, and fined three hundred and two silver to compensate Shi Huiqing. Lai Benru summoned Shen Xianling again, reprimanded him for beating him into a confession, and fined Shi Huiqing five hundred taels of silver. Shi Huiqing did not want this money, he was willing to donate half to the temple, half to Zeng Xiao'er, he wanted to escape into the empty door to become a monk. Zeng Xiao'er said that he also wanted to go to Wutai Mountain to become a monk, and he did not want this money anymore, and he was willing to donate it to the temple.
As ben saw the situation, he used the money for other purposes. He gathered the young monks in the temple and gave them the cost of traveling to send them home, forbidding them to stay in the temple. After dispatching the monks with wrong hearts, Lai Benru decided to hand over the temple to Shi Huiqing and Zeng Xiao'er, and the monks in the temple had already been sent away for the most part and needed to recruit new monks, so Lai Benru issued a list to recruit virtuous monks to come. After the list was released, there were monks flocking to it, and it was not lively.
One day at noon, a monk came. This monk was different from the others, this person had a fierce face and a murderous eyebrow. Holding a pig iron Zen staff in his hand, a large string of Buddha beads hung on his chest. This person is like Lu Zhishen, but he does not have the benevolence of Lu Zhishen, but rather like a pig iron Buddha. Lai Benru recognized this monk at a glance, the same murderous monk who had driven him into the dry well five years earlier. The monk had forgotten Lai Benru, but Lai Benru remembered him. It's really a narrow road, and the monk can't run away today.
Lai Ben did not move, first stabilized the monk, removed his Zen staff and summoned him into the temple. Before the monk could react, the officials came from four directions to tie him up, the monk shouted and resisted vigorously, but the servants around ben ru were all elite soldiers, and although the monk had great strength, he had no choice.
The monk was tied up before Lai Benru, who asked the monk if he was convicted, and the monk said that he was innocent. Lai BenRu told him about the events of five years ago, and the monk saw Ben Ru talk about it and recalled the original bloody case. He admits that he and his brother did cause trouble in Tongxiang County and kill the Zhou clan, but it was his brother who killed him, and he only drove Benru away.
This monk originally called Dao Xuan, and his master brother Dao Wei. Lai Ben ru asked where is Micro now? Dao Xuan said that he had not seen him since he had separated from his brother that time. Lai Benru asked the temple to take the registration book to look for it, and it turned out that Daowei had already come to the temple a few days ago to report. Lai Benru interrogated the Daowei monk, at first the Daowei monk still refused to admit it, and then the Daoxu monk confronted him, lai Benru asked people to pretend to be the wronged soul of the Zhou clan to set up the Daowei monk, the Daowei monk panicked and did not know what the plan was, and admitted to the crime of killing the Zhou clan.
After another detailed interrogation, the Daoist monk and the Daoist monk brothers traveled around in a period of five years to seek wealth and kill several people. Dao Wei and Dao Wei monks, as monks, but the six impure roots were everywhere to harm people, lai Ben Ru sentenced the two to death, set up firewood and burned the three monks Dao Wei, Dao Hui, and Go Fei to death in public.
Three monks who had committed wrongdoing were burned to death, and the case was closed. This case, which lasted for five years, led to the deaths of five people from the Zhou, Shang, Defei, Daowei, and Daoxu, and the three monks were deeply sinful and deserved to be burned to death. This case runs through the back and forth, the process is tortuous and bizarre, and it can also be regarded as a strange case. So-called:
Burn the meditative body and burn the false monk.
Bad hearts enter the earthly house, and fate is in the impermanence of the account.