One night, Lord Shi was writing official documents in his study, and a snow-white otter suddenly appeared under the table, standing upright, with two front paws like a human salute, and shouting at Lord Shi repeatedly.
In ancient times, there was a town of sandalwood, which was located in a traffic fortress, and there were many merchants coming and going every day, which was very prosperous.
The people do small business and live in peace.
But some time ago, a strange thing happened in the town, and many families lost their children.
Including Li Yuanwai's little son, he also suddenly disappeared, Li Yuanwai was very anxious, and sent many family members to search, but they did not find the child.
The matter was reported to the imperial court, and some officials suspected that human traffickers were haunted, so they quickly sent people down to check.
Lord Shi is a master of adjudicating cases, he has extraordinary talent and experience in solving cases, especially responsible for investigating some difficult cases, so he was also sent to Sandalwood Town.
Master Shi was also very concerned about the safety of those children, and rushed here as soon as possible, but after layers of investigation, there was no clue, those children seemed to disappear in an instant, and no one saw the process at all.
The first time Lord Shi encountered such a troublesome case, he knew that he could not rush it, coupled with the fatigue of many days, so he planned to report the situation to his superiors.
That night, Lord Shi was sitting in the study, looking at the rice paper in front of him, ready to write an official document, but he didn't know how to write it.
When his mind was dignified, suddenly a small white thing drilled out under the table. Lord Shi fixed his eyes.
It was a snow-white otter, its small body stood upright, waving its two front paws, saluting like a human, and shouting at Lord Shi in its mouth.
"Ouch, what's going on? How did you climb in, didn't you become fine? Lord Shi asked in surprise. The otter stared at Lord Shi with wide eyes, and its claws waved faster, but unfortunately Lord Shi still did not understand what it meant.
The otter screamed in a hurry, and suddenly it found the rice paper in front of Lord Shi, so it stretched out its front paws and dipped the ink next to it, carefully compared the paper with its small paws, and finally drew many small branches.
Lord Shi was a little puzzled, but he looked closely and found that there were some stickmen on it, and he immediately contacted the case that made him anxious, so he quickly asked the otter: "Are you drawing those missing children?"
Seeing that Lord Shi finally understood what it meant, the otter nodded happily. Lord Shi immediately became excited, he searched for so long, without the slightest clue, he did not expect that an otter spirit knew the truth.
The otter quickly began to lead the way, and Lord Shi looked at the sky outside and hesitated slightly, but he thought about the safety of those children, and decided to follow the otter's guidance to find it.
He took some official errands with him, prepared a little and set off.
Guided by otters, Lord Shi and his workers came to a valley that was off the beaten track.
After walking for a while, they came to the mouth of a cave, and they walked into the cave with torches and looked at it, but they found nothing.
And soon it was to the bottom of the hole, still without a clue.
Lord Shi was about to ask, when the otter suddenly pointed to a boulder,
Lord Shi and the officials hurriedly removed the boulder, but found that there was a hole in it.
It turned out to be a secret room with traces of human life, but there was still no trace of those children.
Lord Shi wanted to ask about the otter, but found that it had long since disappeared.
However, Lord Shi is also convinced that this cave secret room is the key to solving the case.
He squatted there with his official until the next night, when there was finally movement outside.
I saw a strange white bird fly in, land on the copper mirror in the secret room and start combing his hair.
Looking at the strange scene in front of him, Lord Shi quickly summoned the official to arrest the big bird.
Unexpectedly, Big Bird turned into a woman dressed in white, she knelt on the ground and cried: "Adult, I didn't mean to commit a crime, I just wanted to find my child."
It turned out that this woman, called Yingniang, fled with her husband to this place, and finally her husband fell ill and died, and she lived alone with her children.
In order to work, she came to the landlord's house to work as a cook, but one day she found that her child was missing, she found the landlord theory, but was severely beaten and kicked out of the house.
Ying Niang died of her injuries, but she could not worry about her child, so she turned into a white bird and looked for children everywhere in the town.
Yingniang begged Lord Shi to help find her children, and Lord Shi agreed, and finally Yingniang agreed to let the children go home.
The officials came to a cliff and saw the children in a cave, well cared for and playing inside.
After investigation, Lord Shi also discovered the tricks done by Li Yuanwai. Some big officials did not have children, so Li Yuanwai selected some clever children.
Giving them as adopted sons, because they have not been exposed, they are equivalent to a human trafficker, and he has already made a lot of black money through this operation.
In the end, Lord Shi reported the matter to the emperor and sentenced Li Yuanwai to be beheaded according to the law.
The children also returned to their homes, and Yingniang also found her own children, intending to accompany him to reincarnation when he grew up.
(This article is from a folk tale)
Author: Light Feather
Resources:
"Shi Gong Case"
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