Story: During the jiaqing period of the qing dynasty, there was a guashi named Yuan Shentong in Nanyang City, who was praised by the people as "Nanyang Shenxing" because of his hundred measurements and thousands of spirits.

That night, Yuan Shentong was asleep, when suddenly there was a noisy sound outside the door. He was in a panic when the door slammed. When he opened the door, he saw a group of majestic catchers standing outside the door

。 Yuan Shentong asked what happened? A man with a square head and a big face said, "I am Zhao Heng, the head catcher, and there is a group of thieves who have committed a major crime and have disappeared here, can you see them?" ”

Yuan Shentong said that he slept early and did not find any trace of the thief. Hearing this, Zhao Heng took the people away. But the next day, Yuan Shentong had just set up a good stall, and Zhao Heng, the head catcher, came again. Zhao Heng looked around, lowered his voice, and said, "Can Mr. Yuan borrow a step to speak?" Yuan Shentong saw the situation and said after thinking, "Yes." Then he took Zhao Heng to a secluded place.

Zhao Heng said that last night the mansion was stolen, nearly 10,000 taels of silver were looted, and two soldiers guarding the storehouse were killed in a fight with the thieves.

The stolen silver was a tax levied, and if the thief could not be caught, the zhang prefect would not be protected. In order to solve the case as soon as possible, Zhang Zhifu ordered Zhao Heng to invite Yuan Shentong, hoping that he would help solve the case through divination.

Yuan Shentong has lived in Nanyang for more than ten years, and the former prefect often asks him for help in difficult cases. Although countless cases have been solved, there has never been a major case of daring to steal Treasury silver. Yuan Shentong wanted to resign, but Zhao Heng said: "This case is not trivial, Mr. Yuan must not shirk, otherwise..." He touched the saber in his waist.

Yuan Shentong knew what Zhao Heng meant, and if he didn't help, Zhang Zhifu would definitely not spare himself. Yuan Shentong's eyes rolled and he said, "Please Zhao Yutou wait here for a while, I will go home and change my clothes, take the divination tools and come out." ”

Zhao Heng waited for a while, and Yuan Shentong walked out of the room. When the two arrived at the county court, Zhang Zhifu was already waiting. Seeing Zhang Zhifu, Yuan Shentong looked shocked.

Zhang Zhifu saw him strangely and asked, "Why was Mr. Yuan surprised to see this official?" Yuan Shen channel: "Zhang Zhifu is really good-looking, the heavenly court is full, the earth pavilion is round, at first glance it is the appearance of great wealth and nobility, but there is a knife scar on the sideburns, which may hinder the promotion." ”

"Mr. Yuan is really good at xiangshu!" Many Xiangshi have said the same thing, alas, they all blame this official for being naughty when he was a child, which caused this injury! Zhang Zhifu sighed, and then ordered Yahuan to offer fragrant tea.

Knowing that Zhao Heng had already told Yuan Shentong about the theft of The Treasury Silver, Zhang Zhifu said: "Mr. Yuan's famous official has long heard of it, and I hope that Mr. Yuan's great help in the theft of the Treasury Silver will be greatly helped!" ”

Yuan Shentong took a sip of tea, took out three copper coins from the cuffs and put them into the bamboo tube, his eyes were slightly closed, and he shook the bamboo tube for a moment to spread the copper coin on the table. After the sixth master, Yuan Shentong made another fortune, and Zhang Zhifu asked him what the divination result was. Yuan Shentong said: "According to the Gua Xiang, the thief who stole the Treasury Silver came from the southwest position, the Gua Xiang daji, the thief can be captured, and the Treasury Silver can also be recovered!" ”

"That's good!" When Zhang Zhifu heard this result, he was very happy. Just at this moment, Yuan Shentong suddenly covered his stomach with his hand and cried out in pain. Zhang Zhifu asked him where he was uncomfortable, and Yuan Shentong said: "Recently, it was hot, Yuan Mou ate the watermelon in Shuizhen early in the morning, presumably the watermelon cold hurt the spleen and stomach. I was in excruciating pain, and I also asked Lord Zhang to be kind, allow me to go to Xu Langzhong's place, and then come to discuss the theft of kuyin with the adult. At this point, Zhang Zhifu had no choice but to agree.

After Yuan Shentong left, he did not return for a long time. Zhang Zhifu waited anxiously, so he asked Zhao Heng to look for it. But Zhao Heng came to Xu Lang's Chinese Medicine Hall and asked, and Xu Langzhong said that Yuan Shentong did not come at all.

Zhao Heng had to go to Yuan Shentong's house to see, but when he came to the door, he found that the door was locked. When he returned to the mansion and walked to the vicinity of the big prison, he suddenly saw Yuan Shentong and the cell boss Ma Hu talking.

"Mr. Yuan, why are you here?" Zhao Heng walked over and asked. Ma Hu was just about to answer, Yuan Shentong said: "On the way back from the palace, I thought that there was still medicine for abdominal pain at home, so I didn't go to Xu Langzhong, took the medicine and lay down for a while and went back to the house, this did not happen to meet the head of the horse cell, just chatted twice, you came." After Yuan Shentong finished speaking, he followed Zhao Heng back to the palace.

Yuan Shentong had just sat down when he came to the mansion, and the drums outside were suddenly sounded. Zhang Zhifu asked Zhao Heng to bring the drummers over. The person who beat the drum turned out to be Li Xiao'er, a neighbor of Yuan Shentong, and Zhang Zhifu asked him what happened to the drumming house?

Li Xiao'er took a look at Yuan Shentong and said, "Today, I heard on the street that the treasury silver of the government was stolen, and the little man has a clue that he doesn't know whether to talk about it properly?" After Zhang Zhifu listened, he was busy asking him to speak quickly.

Li Xiao'er said: "Last night when I came back from drinking, when I passed in front of Yuan Shentong's door, I saw a group of masked people entering his house, but I didn't see them for a long time, and I didn't care at the time. ”

"There is such a thing!" Zhang Zhifu asked Yuan Shentong who the masked people were. Yuan Shentong was shocked and said: "Back to Lord Zhang, yesterday Yuan received the stall, returned home and slept, when he was about to touch the son, Zhang Huntou went to my home, as for the masked man's statement, it is purely fictitious!" ”

Hearing this, Li Xiao'er knelt on the ground and said, "Lord, last night's villain saw it clearly, Yuan Shentong is lying!" ”

Seeing that Li Xiao'er and Yuan Shentong could not argue back and forth, Zhang Zhifu said: "This official will not mistakenly arrest a good person, nor will he miss a bad person. Zhao Heng nodded and said yes.

Zhao Yutou's words, combined with Li Xiao'er's testimony, Yuan Shentong was very suspicious, so Zhang Zhifu took someone to Yuan Shentong's home to investigate.

Yuan Shentong's house was bought a few years ago, and for the sake of good feng shui, he opened a small door in the backyard. When he came to the backyard, Zhao Heng suddenly found a black veil.

Zhang Zhifu took the veil in his hand and asked, "Yuan Shentong, what else do you have to say now?" Yuan Shentong was surprised, and the catcher who searched in the bedroom suddenly ran to say that he had found the stolen silver under the bed.

Zhang Zhifu came to the bedroom to take a look, and there was indeed a lot of silver in a wooden box on the ground, a count, two thousand taels, and the bottom of the silver was marked with an official seal.

At this point, Yuan Shentong knew that he had a hard time arguing. He sneered: "People are watching the sky, Yuan Mou is not ashamed to do things, these silver are someone planting bribes!" When Zhang Zhifu saw Yuan Shentong's hard mouth, he let Zhao Catcher tie him up.

Coming to the lobby, Zhang Zhifu asked Yuan Shentong the origin of the silver, and Yuan Shentong said: "Lord Zhang, the origin of the silver I will answer later, I now want to confront Li Xiao'er." ”

Li Xiao'er came to the lobby. Yuan Shentong asked him, "When Zhao Huntou went to my house last night when he was a child, you said that you happened to see a masked man enter my house when you drank last night. Whose tavern will be open until the end of the day? Which tavern are you going to? As soon as these words came out, Li Xiao'er was suddenly dumbfounded.

Zhang Zhifu slapped the wood in shock and shouted: "The evidence is all there, Yuan Shentong, instead of hurrying to confess, but pulling things around, purely to delay time." Come on man, call me! ”

As soon as yu kuai rushed up, he pressed Yuan Shentong to the ground.

Yuan Shentong looked at the various torture devices placed in the lobby and shouted, "I move!" Hearing this, Zhang Zhifu asked him to talk about how he colluded with thieves to steal treasury silver.

Yuan Shentong said that he was clearly Mr. Gua Gua, but behind his back, he was doing the work of robbing the house with the thieves of Centipede Mountain a hundred miles away, and there were a total of five hundred robbers on Centipede Mountain, and after they succeeded in stealing treasury silver last night, they gave him two thousand taels of silver and fled back to Centipede Mountain.

Zhang Zhifu really couldn't believe that Yuan Shentong was actually a bear bag, and he confessed before he had hit it, so he rushed to let him sign the pledge. It was now dark, and Zhang Zhifu decided to interrogate the gang of thieves again tomorrow.

The next day, at breakfast, Zhang Zhifu sent someone to mention Yuan Shentong. But when Ya Gong came to the cell to take a look, Yuan Shentong was actually gone. Zhang Zhifu was shocked to receive the news, and rushed to the big prison to take a look, and the cell where Yuan Shentong was imprisoned was indeed empty, and asked the cell leader sloppily, but sloppy but dazed.

A big living person can't always fly away, right? Zhang Zhifu was shocked, he suddenly found that the broken grass mat at the root of the wall was strange, he walked over and lifted the broken grass mat, and there was a big hole under the grass mat! Zhang Zhifu asked Zhao to drill the hole to see where the hole led. After a while, Zhao Yutou crawled out, saying that the hole was two or three meters long and could only accommodate one person, and the exit of the hole was just under the grass stack behind the large prison wall.

Hearing this, Zhang Zhifu shouted: "Ma Cell Head, what is going on?" Sloppy fell to his knees and said, "Lord, last night was a small shift, but I patrolled several times all night, Yuan Shentong was sleeping, that is, when I was eating breakfast, I also brought him food, how come the work disappeared in the blink of an eye?" And there's a big hole in the big prison? Ah, isn't it, this Yuan Shentong can do magic, he learned that he was going to be interrogated today, and then he fled, right? ”

"Nonsense!" Zhang Zhifu slapped sloppily and ordered the catcher to search for Yuan Shentong.

There was no news of Yuan Shentong for two days in a row. On this day, The prefect Zhang was worried about Yuan Shentong's affairs, and a child was brought in by Zhao Heng. After seeing this, Zhang Zhifu asked, "Zhao Yutou, what are you doing with a small child?" ”

Zhao Heng said, "This child said he had come to deliver letters to the adults. ”

Zhang Zhifu took a look at the letter in the child's hand and was stunned, this letter was actually given to him by Yuan Shentong. The letter went so far as to say that the theft of kuyin was a self-theft by Zhang Zhifu, and that he had obtained the specific address of the stolen silver through divination, and if Zhang Zhifu continued to search for him, he would report the matter to the imperial court.

Zhang Zhifu shoved the letter into his arms and broke out in a cold sweat. Late at night, Zhang Zhifu led a few people to the dry well in the south of the city to salvage, and suddenly there was a movement not far away, and then a group of people rushed to their side. Zhang Zhifu fixed his eyes on it, and the people who came were Actually Inspector He and some officers and soldiers, and Inspector He was still standing next to Yuan Shentong!

Zhang Zhifu knew that the matter had been exposed, and rushed to escape, but not long after escaping, he was caught by the officers and soldiers.

Inspector He fu smiled, "I really didn't expect that the second boss of Niutou Mountain, who had absconded for many years, would actually become the prefect of Nanyang under the jurisdiction of this official, and if it wasn't for Mr. Yuan's information, you thieves wouldn't have known what to do!" ”

"I don't understand what the Bull Head Mountain is in charge of." Zhang Zhifu retorted.

Yuan Shentong said that a few years ago, the people of Nanyang City were deeply harassed by bandits in Niutou Mountain, and one day the Big Boss and the Second Boss came to the city to rob them, and although they were masked, the Big Boss was a bald man, and there was a centipede-like scar on the sideburns of the Second Boss.

At that time, Inspector He was still serving as a prefect in Nanyang, and in order to catch the thieves of Niutou Mountain, he went around seeking merit, and Yuan Shentong proposed himself and painted the portraits of the Big Boss and the Second Boss. With this clue, the officers and soldiers quickly caught the big boss, but he had a hard mouth, and after being caught, he bit his tongue and committed suicide, but the second boss did not know where to flee.

Yuan Shentong once gave himself a fortune many years ago, and the gua xiang showed that he would be imprisoned in March of this year, and a few days ago, Zhang Zhifu suddenly sent Zhao Shentong to find Yuan Shentong into the palace to let him divinate the theft of treasury silver, and when he saw Zhang Zhifu's face, he remembered the second boss of The Niutou Mountain many years ago!

Nanyang City has been very peaceful in recent years, and it is very strange that suddenly there are thieves stealing treasury silver. Therefore, Yuan Shentong used the pretext of calculating the theft of the Treasury Silver and calculated a gua for himself, and the Gua Xiang showed that the theft of the Treasury Silver was an image of self-theft by the guards. The second symbol shows that the day is the day when the disaster of his imprisonment is fulfilled, and contains the specific location of his imprisonment. He vaguely felt that there was a conspiracy for Zhang Zhifu to invite him here, so he used abdominal pain to find the head of the cell and lie to him that the unjust souls in the big prison were raging, and if he did not remedy it, the sloppy tiger would have to worry about his life.

Ma Hu was very convinced of divination, and in order to save his life, he secretly dug a hole in a certain cell that led directly to the outside of the cell according to Yuan Shentong's instructions. After Yuan Shentong was framed by Li Xiao'er, he questioned Li Xiao'er at which tavern he had drunk wine until he was stopped by Zhang Zhifu, so Yuan Shentong expected that the stolen silver in the family was planted by Zhang Zhifu.

As shown in the Gua Zhong, in the end, Yuan Shentong was imprisoned in a cell with a hole, and at night, while sloppily asleep, Yuan Shentong escaped from the hole. Although Ma Hu knew that he had been deceived by Yuan Shentong the next day, how dare he admit it?

After Yuan Shentong escaped from the prison, he directly looked for Inspector He, and after they came to Nanyang, Yuan Shentong found a child to send a letter to Zhang Zhifu, saying that he had mastered the whereabouts of the stolen silver, and Zhang Zhifu was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so naturally he would transfer the stolen silver, so today Zhang Zhifu was caught in the urn.

Zhang Zhifu's identity was recognized, and he didn't bother to deny it. He said that he bought the official office for refuge and revenge. Once the theft of kuyin, which he directed and acted by himself, once successful, he could not only get rid of the enemy Yuan Shentong, but also take the silver for himself on the grounds that kuyin was squandered by thieves. But he never expected that at the first sight of the meeting, he would be recognized by Yuan Shentong, and Yuan Shentong's bu gua was so spiritual.