In the 1951 Ciyun Nunnery mystery case, who of the 3 dead people was a spy? The old nun put on a thrilling mid-game

One winter night in 1951, in front of the back door of a nunnery near Qingshuiwan Village, Yongquan Town, Linhai, Zhejiang, the figure of a short man flickered by in the moonlight.

Coincidentally, this scene was seen by the female thief Ghost Hand Swallow who was planning to come to the nunnery to steal.

The ghost hand swallow came up with a plan in his heart, and followed the man from a distance, thinking, as long as he knew the identity of this man, threatening the cheating nun would not be faster than stealing money?

This small nunnery is called Tzu Yun Nunnery, and the abbot Mingxin Shitai has been sick in recent years and rarely appears in front of pilgrims.

All matters in the nunnery are in the hands of Shanxi, the eldest disciple of Mingxin.

According to the local villagers, this nunnery is not very effective, but there are two wealthy businessmen from other places who are willing to donate money, and everyone says that the small nunnery has gathered a lot of gold and silver, and the ghost hand swallow has only thought about it.

The stout man hurried down the deserted path to the town, when his steps stopped, and he almost cursed.

In front of him stood a woman in a thick cotton jacket, looking weak, and wearing a warm hat.

The woman said coldly: "Courage is getting bigger and bigger!" I don't want to live anymore! ”

The first thing the ghost hand swallow learned after playing "apprenticeship" is to recognize people, she pretended to be a pilgrim several times in Ciyun Nunnery squatting for many days, looking at this figure, listening to this voice, you know that this is good joy.

When the man heard Shanxi's words, he didn't care, and even laughed, and he muttered something in his mouth.

Ghost Hand Swallow is trying to get closer and listen to the fun.

Unexpectedly, the nun Shanxi actually took out a dagger between raising her hand, and before the man could shout, she had already been stabbed in the throat by Shanxi.

The ghost hand swallow is also a Jianghu person, such a fast knife, let alone seeing, I have never heard of it, and I was also scared.

She knew that she had met a master, and her back was half cold.

This man died because of his lust, but he also changed his life - if he didn't happen to see this "liveliness", wouldn't the corpse lying in the nunnery now be himself?

The ghost hand swallow secretly said, "Brother is good to go", he didn't dare to stay for a moment, and left immediately with the escape kung fu that he had practiced for more than ten years.

After a long time, Ghost Hand Swallow did not hear about any man missing or killed nearby, and after a few days, she went to the scene of the crime again to take a look, and found that there was no trace of it, and it was dealt with cleanly.

The ghost hand swallow was surprised: in terms of ruthlessness, she is really not the opponent of this merciful teacher!

And Tsz Yun Nunnery is as peaceful and calm as ever.

01

On March 17, 1952, a house in the slum area of Panjiawan, Shanghai, suddenly caught fire, implicating a group of residents, causing one death and one injury.

The deceased's name was Yuan Ruizhi, 39 years old; The injured person is Yuan Ruizhi's neighbor, 15-year-old young man Xiao Cao, Xiao Cao did not suffer burns, but a broken calf caused by a fall during the escape.

Originally, the neighborhood was only regarded as an accident, and Yuan Ruizhi had a poor background and was usually enthusiastic, as long as she asked her for help, she always helped her as a family member.

Yuan Ruizhi died, and the neighbors were very sad, and each family planned to pay some money to let her settle down.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Ruizhi's death was not as simple as everyone thought.

She was murdered.

Yuan Ruizhi had multiple scars on her body from being beaten, and the forensic doctor speculated that Yuan Ruizhi was beaten and unconscious, and the murderer set fire to Yuan Ruizhi and suffocated to death.

The murderer thought that the crime scene would be burned to the ground, but he didn't expect that the neighbors would soon find out that something was wrong and quickly control the fire.

In 1951, after the ban on prostitution in Shanghai, Panjiawan housed many old prostitutes who were undergoing reform, and the poor people who originally lived here made the environment more complicated, but Yuan Ruizhi's social relationship did not seem complicated.

Yuan Ruizhi lost her husband at an early age and has been widowed, and her only son later died of illness, lonely and miserable.

Yuan Ruizhi also injured a leg in the midst of the upheaval and limped when walking, but fortunately, he was practical and careful, and worked as a cook in a brothel before liberation, making a living. Now she is also housed in Panjiawan.

Although the brothel environment is complicated, Yuan Ruizhi has never sinned against anyone.

No one can figure out who a poor woman in Shanghai who has no relatives and no reason has offended and will be killed so ferociously?

As the scene of the fire was cleared and investigated, the case became even more confusing.

The houses in this residential area are very simple, and when it rains, every house will leak rain, not to mention sound insulation.

But on the night of the accident, no one heard Yuan Ruizhi's cries for help, but two neighbors who were sleeping lightly were woken up by a burst of crashes.

Before and after the liberation of Shanghai, public order was still unstable, not to mention the sound of collisions, even a few gunshots were not surprising.

Because Yuan Ruizhi never called for help, it was better to have more neighbors than less, and did not go out to check.

Subsequently, the criminal police found another piece of evidence in the ruins of Yuan Ruizhi's house - two "little yellow fish", a total of two taels of gold, a number of silver ingots, and a few pieces of valuable jewelry, as well as a revolver, 18 bullets.

A cook lady who usually looks honest and dutiful, has inconvenient legs and feet, has no children, hides all this money, and has a pistol......

It seems that this Yuan Ruizhi is not as simple as it seems on the surface, she has been living in an alley with mixed personnel hiding gold, silver and weapons, and the police with considerable experience in anti-special operations have of course questioned her identity.

The case was full of suspicions, and the "317 Case Task Force" was immediately established that night and held its first case analysis meeting in the early hours of the morning.

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At that time, the public security environment in Shanghai was complicated, and the public security department was seriously understaffed, and this task force had a total of four people, and the team leader was Zhou Xiaofeng, deputy chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Municipal Bureau, and the other three members, Wu Xuesong, Liu Jun and Li Fengnian, were immediately in place, Wu Xuesong and Liu Jun were experienced veteran criminal policemen, and Li Fengnian was a young general, but he was cautious and careful, and he was also a good seedling.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wu Xuesong and Li Fengnian had already visited the nearby neighborhoods and prostitutes who knew Yuan Ruizhi, they didn't know much about Yuan Ruizhi's family, but they all packed up Yuan Ruizhi's definitely a good person.

As for the suspect who set the fire that day, because of the chaos of the scene, no one recognized him.

Only the injured Xiao Cao remembered that a man in dark clothes and a peaked cap ran away from home.

At that time, Xiao Cao was carried aside by his neighbors, and everyone else was running in one direction, carrying buckets to extinguish the fire, and only this man with a hat in the middle of the night hurriedly left.

This person is not very tall, wearing a long coat, Xiao Cao can't concentrate because of the pain in his legs, he just glanced at it, and only remembered afterwards that this person was suspicious, but he couldn't think of more clues, and he couldn't even determine whether it was a man or a woman.

Wu Xuesong made his own analysis, most of the spies he came into contact with in the process of handling the case were disguised with such small people who were not easy to attract attention, and most of them got along well with the people around them and had a very good reputation, which was not unusual.

But Yuan Ruizhi has an old leg injury, and because of her previous work experience, she knows a lot of three religions and nine streams, even if she changes her dress in Shanghai, it is easy to be recognized, which does not meet the characteristics of a spy.

Moreover, if there is infighting between spies and they are killed, Yuan Ruizhi's guns and money will definitely be taken away by the murderer, but the murderer doesn't seem to know that she has these.

Therefore, Wu Xuesong prefers vendetta or love killing, and he thinks that Yuan Ruizhi is not a spy.

Zhou Xiaofeng also agreed with Wu Xuesong's inference, but just in case, the troops were divided into two ways, and Wu Xuesong continued to dig out the suspicious places in Yuan Ruizhi's connections.

Zhou Xiaofeng and Liu Jun went to prisons and detention centers to interrogate the spies who had been arrested and brought to justice, and whether they could find suspicious clues.

After that day, the four met again at 10 p.m. for a meeting.

Zhou Xiaofeng and Liu Jun have not gained anything, there are very few women among the spies who have been arrested so far, and there are few female spies in the upper and lower lines of their contact, if it is a person with inconvenient legs and feet, it must be extremely impressive.

Besides, Wu Xuesong's side, they asked for a more important piece of information.

Yuan Ruizhi's husband and only brother both died during the Anti-Japanese War, but she went to Linhai County, Zhejiang Province almost every year, saying that she was going to visit her sister-in-law.

Yuan Ruizhi rarely mentioned this sister-in-law, only saying that her sister-in-law's surname was Li, and after her brother's death, her sister-in-law became a monk.

Because Yuan Ruizhi and her sister-in-law have a good relationship, even if the family has been dispersed and the sister-in-law has given up the red dust, Yuan Ruizhi still can't let it go, and goes to see it every year.

The relatives mentioned by Yuan Ruizhi are only this sister-in-law.

Just when Wu Xuesong was worried about how to find Yuan Ruizhi's sister-in-law, Li Fengnian actually inquired about Yuan Ruizhi's sister-in-law's legal name - Mingxin.

It turned out that two years ago, an old cook, Lao Yang, went to Linhai Yongquan Town to visit relatives, and Yuan Ruizhi entrusted him to send a brand new pocket watch to Ciyun Nunnery, saying that it was handed over to the abbot Mingxin Shitai.

Lao Yang is usually a person who works steadily and talks very little, and he didn't know that Yuan Ruizhi had a relative in Linhai County, so he only thought that Yuan Ruizhi owed this Mingxin Shitai a favor to repay, and sighed that Yuan Ruizhi had to work hard to save money for a long time to buy a watch, and he didn't think much about the rest.

Now listening to the task force's questioning, he realized that he was thinking too simply, and he told the investigators about the matter, and he still remembered that the watch was a certain brand in Switzerland.

As expected, the task force searched all the way to the department store where Yuan Ruizhi frequented, and the watch brand sales were also very impressed by Yuan Ruizhi, who had a disabled leg.

Yuan Ruizhi bought this men's pocket watch with scattered savings, and she looked left and right with admiration, and the salesman thought it was for her son.

When the task force heard that this was a men's pocket watch, they immediately looked at each other.

04

Zhou Xiaofeng asked: "Yuan Ruizhi has taken a fancy to this one?" ”

The saleswoman said, "She wanted to buy a men's watch, and we recommended a few, and she picked this one herself." ”

As she spoke, the saleswoman also handed over the pocket watch of the same style to the task force for inspection.

This clue surprised the task force greatly.

There are very few clues in this case, but it goes surprisingly well, as if all these clues are just to point to Ciyun Nunnery.

Zhou Xiaofeng felt that there was something abnormal, but he couldn't let him slowly assume that the case was wrong, and he and Wu Xuesong took a car to Linhai County the next day, and Liu Jun and Li Fengnian continued to stay behind to investigate whether there were suspicious elements or eyewitnesses.

Sure enough, after arriving at Ciyun Nunnery, things became more and more strange.

After arriving in Linhai County, Zhou Xiaofeng considered that it was inconvenient for them to enter the nunnery directly, so he first went to the local police station, transferred a female colleague Xie Hong, and also transferred two female volunteers from the township government to help the task force deal with Ciyun Nunnery.

Master Mingxin died of illness, and her little apprentice Shanwu couldn't stand the blow and hanged herself.

Moreover, this was already a month ago, and the body of Master Mingxin had been cremated according to her last wishes, and Zengo had been buried.

Yuan Ruizhi and her sister-in-law both died within two months.

Yuan Ruizhi was killed by someone, will there be a hidden secret to Master Mingxin's death?

Mingxin has a total of four apprentices, in addition to the youngest Shanwu who has hanged himself, there are also three disciples: Shanxi, Shannian and Shanxin.

The task force took the three apart and questioned them one by one.

Mingxin has been seriously ill for more than a year, and is actually in a state of semi-paralysis, which several doctors in the town can testify.

For more than a year, he has served with good joy, and he is the most filial to Mingxin.

After questioning the doctor who treated Mingxin, the task force confirmed that she had indeed been seriously ill for more than a year.

The three of them all knew that Mingxin had a sister-in-law, and she would come to see Mingxin every year, but Mingxin was not very enthusiastic about her.

According to the three apprentices, Mingxin treated Yuan Ruizhi like an ordinary old friend, and Yuan Ruizhi came to live in the nunnery for a few days, and they all lived in the same house with kindness.

As for the pocket watch sent by Yuan Ruizhi, the three of them all said that they had seen it, but the master put it away later and never took it out again.

Wu Xuesong asked: "Among the relics of Mingxin, have you ever found this pocket watch?" ”

All three of them answered the same thing, no.

Male pilgrims are generally not allowed to enter, and this piece of bosom indicates that the heart must have been given away.

The two criminal policemen, Zhou and Wu, deduced that Yuan Ruizhi bought this pocket watch not to give it to Mrs. Mingxin, but wanted Mrs. Mingxin to hand it over to a certain man.

Compared with Mingxin, Yuan Ruizhi is obviously more convenient to contact with men, why bother to give a pocket watch like this? Could the man who received the pocket watch be the murderer of Yuan Ruizhi?

Zhou Xiaofeng and Wu Xuesong sat and chatted all night in the township government office on the floor.

This is really a case that seems to have clear clues, but it is always in the clouds.

First, the four disciples of Mingxin seem to be the most powerful and filial to this Shanxi, and the details of her service to the master have been emphasized by the two junior sisters. But Shanwu committed suicide and followed his master, and none of the three of them wanted to talk more.

Second, in addition to Shanxi, Shannian and Shanxin were extremely nervous, and the two criminal policemen judged that although they were not lying, they were hiding things in their hearts and did not dare to say it.

Early the next morning, Zhou Xiaofeng and Wu Xuesong came to the nunnery, and the female colleague Xie Hong was already waiting.

Xie Hong and two other female comrades stayed at Tzu Yun Nunnery that night, and after doing ideological work on the three little masters, they searched the rooms of the dead Mingxin Shitai and Shanwu.

Master Mingxin's bedroom facilities were simple, but after a few moments, Xie Hong found a letter.

This letter was signed "Ruizhi", and it was written by someone on behalf of him, and in a few words, he asked Mrs. Shi to hand over this pocket watch to "Changxi".

Xie Hong saw that it was an important evidence, and he waited for Zhou Xiaofeng and the others to come early in the morning with the letter.

04

Xie Hong called the three little masters: "This case involves three lives, I hope you can do it yourself, think about it clearly, who is this Changxi." ”

As soon as Xie Hong's words fell, Shanxin's face turned pale with fright, and Shannian only looked at Shanxi for help.

Shanxii glanced at the two of them, bowed his head and stood silently for a moment, and then said to Xie Hong: "I confess, my two junior sisters are timid, don't embarrass them." ”

And he told him what he knew, 1510.

Mingxin's layman's name is Li Biwu, and her husband Yuan Ruiming are both spies of the Military Command Bureau, and Yuan Ruiming died under the guns of the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War.

For various reasons, Yuan Ruiming's identity was not recognized by the military commanders, and even allowed his body to be insulted and destroyed by the Japanese.

Li Biwu was extremely disappointed, and he couldn't easily quit the military command, so he simply shaved his ordination.

Originally, the Military Command Bureau punished this kind of spy who escaped halfway quite severely, but for Li Biwu for some reason, they did not kill him.

Li Biwu later learned that they had always dragged her and never let her go.

It wasn't until the spring of 1950 that Yuan Ruizhi, who had been in contact with Li Biwu, brought a young man to the Ciyun Nunnery, and Li Biwu learned that Yuan Ruizhi's son "Changxi" was absorbed into the Secret Bureau.

Changxi, whose real name is Song Jiwu, is 21 years old, has a reckless personality, is lustful and gambling, and with his conditions and IQ, it is impossible for him to enter the Secrecy Bureau.

His appearance made Li Biwu immediately realize that the gang did not let her go at all.

Song Jiwu successfully completed the task many times under the cover of Ciyun Nunnery, and even arranged the handover with the upper and lower lines directly in Ciyun Nunnery, not only taking his lover to mess around in the nunnery, but also hooking up with Shanwu and doing some dirty things under Li Biwu's nose.

Li Biwu was so angry that she couldn't afford to get sick, and Shanxia and her two junior sisters have endured it for the past year.

For some reason, Song Jiwu never came back last winter.

Shanwu saw that Song Jiwu abandoned her, and she was in a trance every day, and she still had the dream that Song Jiwu would be promoted and make a fortune in the future and take her away to fly away.

Li Biwu was paralyzed in bed, her mind was still very clear, and she scolded Shanwu fiercely before she died, wanting to wake her up, but she hanged herself in shame.

After saying this, Shannian and Shanxin seemed to have finally let go of the burden in their hearts, hugged their heads and cried.

Shanxia also said: "Song Jiwu's pocket watch was given to Senior Sister Shanwu, and we buried the pocket watch together after she died." ”

After Zhou Xiaofeng and Wu Xuesong discussed, they thought that it would be prudent to organize people to dig up Shanwu's grave and find the pocket watch.

This is indeed the pocket watch they saw in the Shanghai department store, and after the forensic judgment, Shanwu did die of self-hanging.

The case was not tortuous, but until the moment it was cracked, Wu Xuesong still felt a little weird. Zhou Xiaofeng feels the same way.

Yuan Ruizhi's son Song Jiwu used Ciyun Nunnery as a base to carry out spy activities, his whereabouts were uncertain, and he could be arrested at any time, so he put the gold and silver at his mother Yuan Ruizhi, and gave Yuan Ruizhi a pistol to defend himself, which is also reasonable.

In order to protect his son and clear himself, Yuan Ruizhi simply told others that his son was dead.

The pocket watch that Yuan Ruizhi bought was given to her son, but she didn't expect her hard-earned savings to be given to the little nun by her son.

Now that Song Jiwu is missing, is there another arrangement from the Secret Bureau? Is Yuan Ruizhi's death the silence of the Secrecy Bureau? These can't be found in Ciyun Nunnery, and Zhou Xiaofeng and Wu Xuesong plan to go home.

But at this time, the case took another huge turn.

The local public security sent people to find Zhou Hong and conveyed an important news to the two investigators, Zhou and Wu, that a prisoner named Niu Yan'er confessed a clue closely related to the case.

That's right, Niu Yan'er is the little thief who witnessed Shanxi's murder in the winter of 1951, and in order to make meritorious contributions, she confessed everything she witnessed.

After listening to Zhou Hong's words, the two criminal policemen Zhou and Wu did not move, and found a reason to take the three little masters back to the police station.

After Shannian and Shanxin entered the interrogation room, the police did not interrogate them immediately, Shanxia made a simple record, and Zhou Xiaofeng let her go first.

Shannian and Shanxin watched Shanxi leave, looking at a loss.

05

Wu Xuesong came in with the transcript and said to the two: "Shanxii has confessed, it was you two who killed Song Jiwu." ”

Shannian and Shanxin were really shocked, and looked at each other, they looked extremely frightened, but they still didn't say a word.

Wu Xuesong didn't say much, poured a cup of tea, sat in front of the two, drank tea slowly, and said coldly: "It's useless if you don't admit it, she said she has evidence." ”

Shannian didn't even think about it: "What evidence?" How can there be any evidence! ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she realized that she had said the wrong thing. Kindness's fingers trembled......

Originally, Zhou Xiaofeng and Wu Xuesong thought that Shanxia wanted to vent their evil anger to their master and kill Song Jiwu, who had a bad record.

Unexpectedly, the truth told by Shannian and Shanxin also caught the two investigators off guard.

The real Li Biwu is not a clear heart, but a good and happy ......

After talking with Shannian and the two for an hour, Zhou Xiaofeng walked out of the interrogation room and into a lounge.

Shanxi did not leave, but waited here for Shannian and the two to come out.

After a long hour, seeing Zhou Xiaofeng coming in with a solemn expression, Shanxi only had a wry smile after all, and she knew that she couldn't hide it.

Shanxi, formerly known as Li Biwu, her husband Yuan Ruiming was killed in the Anti-Japanese War, and she has no children and no daughters.

Mingxin is an old woman surnamed Huang who Li Biwu saved by accident in 1947, and then has been in the position of the abbot of Ciyun Nunnery to cover up Li Biwu's true identity.

Mingxin herself is seriously ill, Li Biwu treats her well, even if she is a pensioner, she also wants to use her to completely wash herself away.

Li Biwu has never really broken away from the military command, but he has just hidden himself through this identity.

After the liberation, the "dark chess" laid by the Secret Bureau was still awakened, and Song Jiwu was originally an informant sent by the Secret Bureau to transfer with her, but it brought many obstacles to Li Biwu.

Not to mention that he is lustful and greedy, and he gets involved with Shanwu, he also offended people because of his recklessness, and almost reported himself to his family after getting drunk......

Li Biwu knew that the current situation was not what it used to be, and Song Jiwu was so domineering, sooner or later he would drag himself into the water.

Over the years, Li Biwu has considered herself good to Yuan Ruizhi.

On the one hand, Song Jiwu jumped fearlessly, and on the other hand, Yuan Ruizhi repeatedly forced Li Biwu to come forward, asking the Secret Bureau to take Song Jiwu and Yuan Ruizhi to Taiwan to "enjoy happiness" on the grounds that Yuan Ruiming died for the anti-Japanese resistance back then.

Li Biwu endured it silently, but he didn't expect that his superiors had realized Song Jiwu's "stinky move" and ordered Li Biwu to solve it immediately.

Li Biwu had no choice but to kill Song Jiwu with his own hands, and let Shannian and Shanxin deal with and bury the body together.

Knowing that Song Jiwu was dead, Shanwu was ridiculed and abused by Li Biwu every day, she didn't dare to run away, so she could only choose to commit suicide.

Li Biwu buried the pocket watch and Shanwu together.

After Song Jiwu was "dealt with", she learned that her superiors would "deal with" Yuan Ruizhi together to prevent future troubles, Li Biwu was in a complicated mood, but did not do any protection for Yuan Ruizhi.

She expected that the police would definitely find Tzu Yun Nunnery, whether it was a letter or a confession from Shannian, she had prepared it in advance.

Li Biwu calculated to the end, and almost got round, but he didn't expect to be bitten by the "ghost hand swallow".

After Li Biwu confessed everything, Tian Gensheng, the murderer who set fire to Yuan Ruizhi, was arrested and brought to justice.

According to Tian Gensheng's confession, on the night of the crime, he just deceived Yuan Ruizhi, "Song Jiwu is in my hands now, if you shout loudly, your son will definitely die." ”

For this reason, Yuan Ruizhi did not shout until he was knocked unconscious.

In the summer of 1952, Li Biwu and Tian Gensheng were finally sentenced to death.