Written by | Shassie
During the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a man named Zhang Ying in Duchang County, Jiangxi, who had been working as an official in other places, and because of the early death of his parents, only his wife Mo Shi was left at home.
Mo Shi was about twenty-four or five years old, looking like a flower and moon, the national color was fragrant, and he had not yet given birth, he had nothing to do all day, and when he was lonely and bored, he often went to the nearby Qingyin Zen Temple with his maid Ai Lian.
After two years, Zhang Ying was promoted and transferred, returned to his hometown, and lived back at home. One day, he was lying in bed taking a nap, and suddenly found a dry spit mark on the top of the bed, which he felt very strange, so he asked Mo Shi: "Has our bed ever slept for anyone?" ”
Mo's face suddenly changed, and he said to her husband with disgust: "Our bed, how can anyone else sleep?" ”
Zhang Ying continued, "You see, how can there be a trace of dried saliva on this bed?" Mo Shi replied, "This is my own spit." ”
Zhang Ying did not believe it and said: "In such a high place, only men can spit on it, how can you a woman spit so high?" If you don't believe me, we can try again. ”
Therefore, Zhang Ying and Mo Shi lay back on the bed and spit on the top of the bed, but only Zhang Ying could spit on it, but Mo Shi couldn't spit on it.
Zhang Ying was furious and repeatedly asked who Mo's adulterer was, but she just refused to tell the secret. Zhang Ying had no choice but to privately call the maid Ai Lian to the fish pond in the back garden and ask her if any strangers had ever come to the house. Eileen had already been bribed by Mo, telling him, "No one has ever been to the house."
Zhang Ying listened, pulled out a saber to scare her, and said, "Didn't you see my knife?" If you tell the truth, I will not punish you, it is all the fault of madame; if you keep it hidden, I will kill you and throw you in the pond to feed the fish! ”
Eileen was so frightened that she did not dare to hide it any longer, so she fell to her knees on the ground with a thud and told the ins and outs of the matter in one hundred and fifty.
It turned out that one day, Mo Shi took Ai Lian to the Qingyin Zen Temple to see the scenery, and just happened to meet a Guangdong jewelry merchant who lived in the temple, named Qiu Jishan. When he saw that Mo Shi was not only born beautiful, but also slightly charming, he had a crooked thought about her.
The next afternoon, Qiu Jishan disguised herself as a middle-aged woman, called herself Lu Po, and took the best pearls from Poyang Lake and went to Zhang Mansion to sell them.
Mo Shi saw that his pearl color was very good, so he bought a few grains and invited him into the house to drink tea and chat. Qiu Jishan then did everything in his power to tell Mo Shi what he had seen and heard everywhere, and the two talked until the evening.
When Mo Shi saw that it was late, he asked Qiu Jishan to go back first, and he pretended to agree. However, after leaving the palace, he turned back to the house and said to Mo Shi: "The shop where I live is far from here, and I see that the sky is getting dark, and I am a woman with so many pearls, I am afraid that I will meet some bad people." Please Madame let me stay in the house for a while, and I will leave early tomorrow morning. Mo Shi thought it made sense, and seeing that she was just a woman, he agreed.
At night, Mo Shi let Qiu Jishan sleep with his maid Ai Lian. When I arrived at Yijin, Qiu Jishan secretly climbed onto Mo's bed, hugged her, and said: "I am Qiu Jishan, a businessman who came here from Guangdong to do jewelry business, and I saw that my wife was born beautiful, so I pretended to be a woman to come here to spend the night, hoping that my wife could give me a moment of joy!" ”
Because her husband was not at home for many years and his heart was very lonely, moshi agreed to his request. Since then, Qiu Jishan often came to Zhang Mansion and fought with Mo Shi fiercely, and the two did not hide from the maid Ai Lian.
Zhang Ying listened to Ai Lian's narration and couldn't help but be angry and wanted to kill Mo Shi, but he was worried that Ai Lian had leaked the secret, so he took advantage of her lack of attention and pushed her into the fish pond and drowned.
At two o'clock that night, Zhang Ying couldn't sleep on the bed, and Mo Shi asked him what the reason was. Zhang Ying then said to her: "Maybe I ate a little salty for dinner, and now I am a little thirsty and want to drink some wine." ”
Mo Shi listened and stood up and said, "Then I will ask the maid to heat up the wine and use it to quench your thirst." Zhang Ying hurriedly stopped her and said: "So in the middle of the night to call people warm wine, I'm afraid they will gossip, it is better that you go to the big cheng to get some new wine, I want to drink some cold." ”
When Mo Shi saw this, he went to the big coffer of the wine cellar to get the wine, Zhang Ying quietly followed behind, saw her tiptoeing on the bench to scoop the wine, suddenly rushed over and lifted her feet into the wine coffer, and returned to the room to sleep.
After a while, Zhang Ying estimated that Mo Shi had drowned, so he called out to the two maids and said to them: "Madame just said that she was thirsty and wanted to drink, so she went to scoop wine, why didn't she come back for half a day, you go to see what's going on?" ”
The maids listened to Zhang Ying's words and hurried around to look for it, but there was no trace, and one of the maids took a picture of the lamp in the wine coffer, and found that Mo Shi had already drowned, so she panicked and went to report to Zhang Ying. Zhang Ying pretended not to know, quickly dressed and got up, and when he saw that Mo Shi was dead, he hugged her body and cried.
The next day, Zhang Ying invited Mo's maternal brothers to collect her body, and then stuffed some gold and silver jewelry and silk satin with the coffin, and placed it in the Qingyin Zen Temple, so that the monks could chant the sutra and recite the Buddha, surpass the dead, and prepare to choose an auspicious day for burial.
In the evening, Zhang Ying sent two more henchmen to sneak into the Zen Temple, and without the monks noticing, opened Mo's coffin and took away all the gold, silver, jewelry, and clothes.
At dawn, the monks saw that the coffin had been stolen and rushed to tell Zhang Ying. Zhang Ying was furious and ordered his family to take some simple bronze objects and put them in the coffin, first burying his wife, then arresting all the monks and repeatedly tracking down the thieves who stole the coffins.
Frightened, the monks shouted loudly, knelt down on their knees and begged for forgiveness, saying, "We are all monks, how dare we do such a law-breaking thing?" ”
Zhang Ying nodded and asked if there were any other people in the Monastery, and the monks said that there was only one Cantonese jewelry merchant, Qiu Jishan, who lived here. Zhang Ying listened and said, "This person must be a thief." So, the people arrested him and personally sent him to the county for interrogation.
Seeing that Zhang Ying was bigger than his own official, the county commander did not dare to slack off in the slightest, so he severely tortured Qiu Jishan and repeatedly forced him to confess. Qiu Jishan was tortured, but when he saw that Zhang Ying had found a large number of jewels in his room, he had to admit that he had opened the coffin and stole the treasure, and was sentenced to be beheaded.
Soon, Bao Gong was ordered to inspect the world, and just happened to come to Duchang, and Zhang Ying reported the case to him. Bao Gong felt that there was nothing suspicious about the case, so he approved Qiu Jishan's death penalty.
At night, Bao Gong lived in the official station under the Qingyin Zen Temple, and suddenly had a strange dream, dreaming that a woman knelt in front of the bed and said to him: "The lady stole a man, and the master threw her into the wine tank and drowned; the little maid was innocent, but she was killed by the master's push into the fish pond." "Say this three times and then disappear."
Bao Gong suddenly woke up and found that it was just a dream, but suddenly thought of the case that Zhang Ying said during the day, and wondered if the lady in the dream was talking about Zhang Ying's wife Mo Shi?
The next day, taking advantage of Zhang Ying's absence, Bao Gong personally interrogated Qiu Jishan and asked him why he opened the coffin to steal the treasure. Qiu Jishan shouted loudly, "I didn't actually do this, it may have been doomed in my past life, so I should suffer this sin!" ”
Bao Gong asked again, "How did Mo Shi die, do you know?" Qiu Jishan said, "I heard that people said that they fell into the wine bunker in the middle of the night and drowned." ”
Bao Gong was shocked, remembered the woman in the dream about the lady drowning in the wine tank, and remembered the matter of "stealing and raising Hanzi", so he tentatively asked Qiu Jishan: "I heard that Mo Shi was exposed because of the theft of Hanzi, and was drowned by Zhang Ying in the wine cheng. Is this guy you? Hurry up and recruit truthfully! ”
Qiu Jishan saw that the matter had been exposed, and did not dare to hide it any longer, so he had to answer truthfully: "I once committed adultery with Mo Shi, and this matter is only known to the maid Ai Lian." It is said that Ai Lian also drowned in the fish pond, and it is likely that Zhang Ying killed people and killed people. Bao Gong listened, suddenly realized, and suddenly understood that the woman in the dream was Ai Lian who came to complain.
At this time, Zhang Ying just came to see Bao Gong, and Bao Gong wrote him the two sentences spoken by Ai Lian in the dream. When Zhang Ying saw it, he was shocked and hurriedly confessed his guilt.
Bao Gong saw the situation and said to him: "Your girlfriend is unfortunate, and you were strictly investigated by the government, but you used torture privately, killed the maid Ailian for no reason, killed the lady, and framed others." You should have been beheaded and shown to the public, but in this case, it was all caused by Qiu Jishan's seduction of your wife, so he turned a blind eye to you and only removed you from your official position. Zhang Ying listened and prostrated his head in gratitude.
Soon, Qiu Jishan was pushed out of the city gate and publicly beheaded for public display. Zhang Ying lost his benevolence by killing his maid, and was eventually dismissed from his official post and never used.
@ Dong You Lou Gongji: This case warns everyone that people must not easily seduce other people's wives, let alone fool around in other people's homes. Qiu Jishan is a businessman, not short of money, but hiding in the temple to live, it is really the work of a villain, and spitting casually in the bed of other people's homes, it is really disgusting. He has such good conditions, if he goes outside to rent a room, will it be better? And Zhang Ying's old calculations, such a design to kill the pillow people, it is really chilling.
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