In the 30th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, a grain chief named Lu Qi was killed, but the woman who came to report to the official said that an old horse raised by her family witnessed the whole process of the master's murder, and led the crowd to the scene of the crime to find the owner's body. How does an old horse understand the struggle between people? And how do you know how to lead the crowd to find the body? The story of the old horse and the thief, we start from the beginning.
It is said that although this Lu Qi is a grain chief, he is not an official position, but these horses he raises are not the horses of ordinary people, but the official horses who have fought on the battlefield and made great achievements. Since the Han Dynasty, the mainland has always attached importance to horse breeding, so horses are indispensable combat heroes for the iteration of dynasties.
However, the reproduction ability of horses is not very strong, and it takes a long time to raise a young horse and raise a strong horse. Because horses were used in the battlefield for many years, during the Ming Dynasty, based on the fact that there were not many horses, it was stipulated that only officials could ride horses, and ordinary people could only ride donkeys or mules.
Young and strong horses are not allowed to be used by ordinary people, but those that are eliminated due to injuries can be transferred to the people. But not everyone can afford it, old horses are also rare in the folk, can afford to buy are large families, and those who have bought horses at high prices are also respected by the people as grain chiefs.
Lu Qi, who has a relatively solid family, also bought an old horse from the officer, although it is a retired horse, it can still be used to carry things or drive to play on weekdays. The horse that Lu Qi bought was named Qian Xiao (horses with outstanding achievements in ancient times generally had names) Although this horse was famous in battle, it was eliminated by the army because it injured its left hind leg on the battlefield.
Marco is a scarce species in the south, so Lu Qi's treasure is terrible for the old horse money that was bought back at a high price. In order to raise the qianqi well, he sent people to select grain and grass every day and personally feed it. For Qian Biao, Lu Qi spent a lot of energy, after all, it is also a symbol of his own wealth, naturally does not neglect this treasure, so he brushes and takes care of it every day, and dresses Qian Biao as a horse.
Because of Qian Biao, Lu Qi received envious eyes and praise from many people, which satisfied his vanity and loved Qian Biao even more. In order to let the villagers within a radius of ten miles know that they bought horses, he often rode Qian Biao to play.
Riding a horse to show off made the officials blush, and they were jealous of the bittersweets
As the saying goes, "the tree is a big wind", on weekdays, Lu Qi always rides Qian Qi around. One day, a local official bumped into Lu Qi riding a horse to show off back and forth, and he also wanted to try it, so he made it clear to Lu Qi, but Lu Qi regarded the horse as a treasure, except for himself, and had never let anyone ride Qian Qi, so on the grounds that "Qian Qi did not like others to touch", he politely refused the official's request.
Although this official listened, although he was silent at that time, he secretly held a grudge in his heart, waiting for the opportunity to rectify lu Qi. Within a few days, a piece of official document came down, and Lu Qi was asked to transport grain and grass from Songjiang Province to Fengyang, Anhui. This Songjiang Mansion is now Shanghai, and it is really a chore for Lu Qi to send the grain and grass from Shanghai to Anhui, but he dares not speak out, after all, this is the task of the government.
Lu Qi wanted to go on this trip at this time, and his wife and children sent off. The two have been friends for ten years, Lu Qi is only twenty-eight years old now, and he is still a young boy today, and Li Shi is also twenty-six years old. The two have two sons and a daughter under their knees, and because of the solid family foundation, their lives are very prosperous. But now that her husband has traveled far and wide, transporting grain and grass thousands of miles, the thought of her husband being so difficult, Li Shi burst into tears.
After Lu Qi drove Qian Qi away, Li Shi counted the days and waited at home, suffering for many days, and her husband's return date was getting closer and closer. However, when her husband returned, he did not see any trace of him, so he looked forward to it, the deadline had passed ten days, no one was seen, and the anxious Li Shi sent people to inquire along the way, but there was still no news.
In the early morning, looking forward to the return of the BMW, the horse long whistled the tragedy
The servants were still inquiring, and Li Shi was still looking forward to it every day, but finally in the early morning of one day, he saw a horse in the distance, but there was no one on the back of the horse. When Li Shi saw this, he ran towards the horse, and it was really their darling Qian Biao, but only it returned, but Lu Qi was still missing.
"Why are you covered in wounds?" What about my husband? Where is my husband? What the hell is going on with you? The impatient Li Shi suddenly shouted at Qian Biao, but she seemed to forget that Qian Xiao was just a horse and could not speak. The crowd saw Lee yelling at a horse, thinking she was mad. But Qian Xiao seemed to understand her words and suddenly cried out.
"Is there something wrong with him?" You take me to him. Li Shi said to Qian Xiao again. After the conversation, Qian Biao turned and walked in front. When Li Shi saw the situation, he called two subordinates, and then told a maid to go back to take care of the children, and he followed Qian Xiao away.
A horse, three men, had walked for almost half a day, and finally came to a stone bridge. Qian Xiao suddenly stopped and did not leave, but just looked at the bottom of the bridge and looked. "My husband is under this bridge, you tell me." Lee said again.
Qian Xiao didn't answer, because it couldn't speak at all, just moaned a few times. Li Shi saw the situation and quickly took his servants to the bottom of the bridge to find out, only to find one of Lu Qi's shoes and see the blood on the stone next to him.
Li Shi suddenly became inexplicably frightened, thinking that her husband might have been killed, and almost fainted on the spot. Since he did not see the corpse, Li Shi was lucky, suppressed his inner grief, and ran to Qian Biao again. "Where the hell are the others?" You take me there. Li Shi said to Qian Xiao again, and the two servants looked at each other.
Qian Xiao seemed to understand the hostess again, and walked along the river from a small road next to the bridge. Estimated that he had walked about five miles, Qian Xiao stopped again and hissed at the dense reeds in front of him. When Li Shi saw this, he quickly asked the servants to go to the jungle to look for it, and after a while, the entourage really carried Lu Qi's corpse out.
When Li Shi saw her husband's corpse, she could no longer bear the sadness in her heart and cried loudly. Li Shi was so sad that he almost passed out, but fortunately, the two servants kept supporting her. After a long time, Li Shi was relieved and felt that her husband had died strangely, so he quickly examined his body and found that his husband had knife wounds on his body. Because the body had been soaked in water for a long time, the blood stains were not obvious, but if you looked closely at the cuts in the clothes, it was indeed the knife marks.
Li Shi quickly ordered his servants to guard the corpse, and after he quickly went to the county seat, he went to the county court to beat the drum and sing his grievances. Zhixian Lianda personally brought someone to examine the body, and after the autopsy, he said: Judging from the wounds on Lu Qi's body, he was stabbed twice in the back and then fell down, and the murderer saw that Lu Qi was not dead, and he stabbed Lu Qi from the chest, stabbed him to death, and thus died.
The results of the autopsy clearly indicate that Lu Qinai was killed, but because this place is far from the county seat, almost no one is here except for tourists on weekdays. So who was so cruel that he stabbed Lu Qi three times in a row?
The prefect inquired about Li's situation and learned that Lu Qi did not have a grudge with anyone before his death, and even more so that others had a vendetta, so it should not be a vendetta. And Lu Qi went to Anhui this time, it was to transport grain and grass, the coils he brought on the road should have been almost spent, was the gangster because of the robbery, but did not do as he wished, and killed Lu Qi? The latter is more likely than the former.
The prefect ordered the people to bring back the body, and then brought Li Shi and two servants to the county court, and then sent someone to call the chief to come and ask questions. However, after some interrogation, no one knew, and in desperation, the prefect had no choice but to ask someone to first put the body in a coffin for retrial tomorrow.
At the next day's trial, I saw that Li Shi had brought a horse and excitedly said to the county order: "I can find my husband's body, which was told to me by my family's Qian Biao, and it must know what the murderer looks like, my lord, you ask him." The county order listened, thinking that Li Shi was teasing himself, so he asked people to stick thirty large boards.
Seeing that Li Shi was about to be reprimanded, the two servants quickly knelt down and said that what Li Shi said was true. All three said that the horse could understand people's words, and the county order had no choice but to ask the horse: "Do you know who killed your master?" The county commander carefully observed the horse and found that the horse was injured, but the blood had coagulated, and it was now hanging its head, and it seemed to have tears in its eyes.
Only to see the old horse raise his head to look at the county order, and then silently bow his head, as if to indicate "yes." "Did you take the hostess to look for the body?" asked the county order again, only to see the horse look up again and bow his head. The county was a little impatient, thinking how a horse could understand what he said. "Then can you take us to find the real murderer" The embarrassed county order wanted to see what trick Li was playing.
However, after hearing these words, Qian Biao turned around and walked out of the county court and led the way in front. The county order saw the situation, and did not know whether this old horse was really spiritual or hungry and wanted to go out to find food, but it was always necessary to go to see it first, so he took a few catchers with him.
I saw the horse walk into an alley, stop in front of a dilapidated mansion, and kick open the door that was about to fall with his front hooves. When the crowd saw this, they were horrified, for fear that the horse had been caught in the evil spirit. However, I heard someone inside who seemed to be scolding something, and after a while I saw a ragged offspring open the door.
When the old horse saw that the latter was born, he began to be restless, only to see it run toward the housheng, directly bite his shoulder, and scream in pain. When Li Shi saw this, he told him to let go of the afterlife first, and although Qian Xiao obediently let go of his mouth, he kicked the afterlife to the ground with his hooves. The county order saw the situation, and without waiting for the latter to argue, he was directly escorted into the yamen.
After interrogation, it was learned that the man's name was Yao Li, 26 years old, who had opened a pawnshop in the county seat. In the face of a series of questions from the county order, Yao Li had no fear and said it reasonably. Everyone didn't know whether what Yao Li said was true or not, but Qian Xiao could hear it clearly, and seeing that Yao Li was full of lies, it seemed that he couldn't really listen to it, so he opened his mouth and bit Yao Li's arm again.
Xian Ling was afraid that the old horse would bite Yao Li to death, so he hurriedly asked Li Shi to let Qian Xiao loose his mouth, and then separated one person and one horse. Seeing that an old horse was so angry, the county commander exclaimed that it had spirituality, so he angrily said to Yao Li: "This horse has spirituality, it must have witnessed the process of your murder, if you lie again, it will definitely bite you to death." If there is another half a lie, this officer will be punished with a heavy punishment. ”
Yao Li was already frightened by Qian Xiao's bite, and when he saw that the county order was to be punished, he did not want to suffer any more hardships, so he had to recruit from the truth: it turned out that the business of the shop opened by Yao Li was dismal, and he had to lose money, so he had no choice but to borrow money from Lu Qi. Lu Qi and Yao Li were still a little related, so they lent him money again and again, but the borrowed money only went back, and over time they refused to borrow it again, and they never even mentioned this person to their families.
After a few years, Lu Qi's life became more and more prosperous, while Yao Li became poorer and poorer. Seeing that Lu Qi bought a horse, and the price was not cheap, he began to play the idea of money. He cheekily borrowed money from Lu Qi, saying that he was going to the capital to do business and return it when he returned. But Lu Qi knew very well that Yao Li was a man, and the things he borrowed were all gone and there was no return, who would lend him his treasure, so he refused his request, only willing to lend him a mule.
Seeing that Lu Qi was unwilling to lend Qian Xiao to himself, Yao Li left in a rage. After going back, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, thinking that God was unfair, he was so poor, but Lu Qi was getting better and better, so he held a grudge in his heart and waited for an opportunity to take revenge.
Just when Lu Qi returned from Anhui, he hid under the stone bridge and ambushed. However, when he was about to pass the stone bridge, Qian Xiao noticed something strange and did not dare to walk towards the bridge. Lu Qi did not know Qian Biao's intentions, and only wanted to go home quickly, so he quickly stepped up his horse and whipped, and Qian Qi felt pain, and ran towards the bridge with his legs.
Suddenly, Yao Li jumped up from the grass and directly stabbed Lu Qi in the back twice, Lu Qi was injured and fell to the ground, and before Lu Qi could react, he stabbed him in the chest again. When Qian Biao saw this, he turned his head and wanted to kick Yao Li, but he held the knife and cut Qian Xiao with a knife, and in desperation, Qian Xiao had to leave first.
Yao Li saw that Qian Qi had run away, and could not take care of so much, and returned to dispose of Lu Qi's body, dragging him to the reed bushes five miles away from the bridge and hiding. After Yao Li finished doing this, he touched the few pieces of money left on Lu Qi's body and fled.
Yao Li had thought that he had done a good job without leaking, but he did not expect to be retaliated against by a horse, and he did not expect to kill him, this Qian Biao was so spiritual that he ran home to move the rescue soldiers.
A murder case caused by borrowing money was revealed, and Yao Li was beheaded for his heinous crimes, and the proceeds from the auction of Yao Li's pawnshop were handed over to Li as burial money.
Qian Xiao was not dealt with in time because of his heavy responsibilities, and he had an old disease and was infected with a wound. And Lu Qi's death was also a great blow to it, and he stopped eating and fell to the ground a few days later.
When Li Shi saw that Qian Xiao was so affectionate and righteous, he ordered his servants to bury him next to her husband's grave and erect a monument "Yi Ma Mo Tomb", hoping that he would be able to protect his husband in the next life.
Horses are one of mankind's best friends, galloping on the battlefield, transporting grain between heaven and earth, and working all their lives to create beauty for their masters. Horses are livestock, and they know that the Lord is good, and they exclaim their spirituality!