In the fourteenth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1809 AD), there was an old court official named Yi Zhisheng in Leiyang County, Shonan Province. After Yi Zhisheng returned to his hometown, he felt that his old house was dilapidated and small, so he planned to build a large mansion on the original site. The new house was built by Tang Rong, a craftsman in the backstreet. Three months later, the new house was completed, and Yi Zhisheng's family felt very comfortable after moving in, but he only had a son and a daughter-in-law, plus a servant woman, and the huge house was only inhabited by 4 people, which seemed very lonely and lonely.
Soon after, strange things suddenly happened in the new house. In the dead of night, Yi Zhisheng's family was often awakened by a terrible and grotesque cry, which was creepy and terrifying. The Yi family of 4 was frightened night and night, and could not be at peace. The neighbors around them all knew that Yi Zhisheng must have done something ignorant when he was an official outside, and now Li Ghost came to the door. Yi Zhisheng also often frowned and sighed long and short. He told his neighbor that the ghost was more than a foot tall, spitting out a long tongue, and walking around the hall, which was very frightening. Yi Zhisheng had asked someone to destroy the powerful ghost, but it had no effect.
One morning, the neighbor found that the door of the Yi family was closed, and until noon, no one opened the door, and he felt very confused, which was something that had never happened before. Thinking that his family had been haunted for many days, he was afraid of accidents, and several people knocked on the door in total, only to find that all 4 members of the Yi family had died on the bed. The neighbors hurriedly reported the case to the county yamen, and The county ordered BaiGuyu to arrive quickly with the crowd and the servants, and after careful investigation, the 4 corpses were not scarred, as if they were frightened and died.
The neighbors confirmed that the Yi family had been haunted for several days, was it not killed by the ghost? Ling Baiguyu of Leiyang County ordered the servants to look for traces of the criminals for many days, without making any progress. The Yi family was killed in a family of 4, and the county ordered the search for the murderer to be fruitless, so there were rumors that the ghosts were harming people. For a while, everyone talked about ghosts and people were afraid. Everyone was afraid in their hearts, but the county commander Bai Guyu firmly believed that there must be something strange in this, and it was definitely not so simple.
In recent days, the headhunter QiuYi and the crowd have returned early and late, but they have not found any valuable clues. In the afternoon of this day, Qiu Yi led Wang Shun and Tao Liu to the street to drink tea. Walking on the street, Qiu Yi saw a person wearing silk fir, wearing silk stockings and white shoes on his feet, holding a paper fan in his hand, and walked over with a step, looking very Sven. When he passed in front of Qiu Yi, he suddenly grabbed this person's shoulder and shouted, "Boy, you stole something!" Go, come with me! ”
When the man was caught, he was horrified and shouted for his life, and he would not dare next time. Qiu Yi shouted angrily, "Where did you steal the clothes from?" Hurry up and recruit from the real thing! The man had no choice but to say, "It was stolen from the house of the King of West Street!" The servants were horrified and asked Qiu Yi how he knew that this person was a thief. Qiu Yi told the servants that this man always kept his head down when he walked, his eyes were tilted to the side, and he had just lifted his long shirt when he crossed the ditch, indicating that he was not a person who was accustomed to wearing long shirts, and he was holding a paper fan and pretending to be Sven, which was self-defeating, so he concluded that he was not a good person.
The man could not hide it, so he told Qiu Yi that his name was Xiong Ada, a member of the Eastern Rural Clan, and he usually liked to steal some small things, but he never sought wealth and killed people. Xiong Ada told Qiu Yi that he was willing to atone for his sins and report a miracle, hoping to get a reduction in his guilt. Qiu Yi listened, and suspiciously took Xiong Ada to the tea house and interrogated him carefully.
Xiong Ada said: "The little people are poor, and being a thief is only occasional." Late one night, the villain went to Yi Zhisheng's house to steal, sneaked into the room, was preparing to turn over some valuable things, did not expect that his hall suddenly fell from the sky a few ghosts, scared me quickly climbed into the bottom of the bed. The ghost was more than a foot tall, wore a tall hat, and screamed very poignantly. After a while, I saw the ghost push the Yi family down on the bed and pour something into his mouth. I only heard the Yi family screaming a few times under the bed, and then they disappeared, I climbed out to see, the Yi family was all dead, I was frightened, and quickly ran over the wall. ”
When Qiu Yi heard this, his heart was suddenly shocked, it was really a place to step on the iron shoes, and it took no effort at all. It turned out that this thief Xiong Ada was an eyewitness to the murder of the ghost. Qiu Yi asked Xiong Ada why he did not go to the county court to report the case since he knew about it. Xiong Ada said that he was originally a thief, and going to the county court to report the case was tantamount to throwing himself into the net, and naturally did not dare to report the case.
Qiu Yi listened and immediately let Xiong Ada go, warning him not to steal any more. After Qiu Yi returned to the county court, he immediately reported the situation to Bai County Ling, who immediately ordered him to re-examine the body. He cut open Yi Zhisheng's stomach, but there was no sign of poisoning in his stomach. Xiong ADa ming said that the Yi family was killed by the murderer who poured something into his mouth, since it was not poison, what would it be? Could it be that Xiong Ada lied?
Just when everyone was puzzled, Hezuo inadvertently touched the throat of the deceased, and his brow frowned and felt something abnormal. When he opened Yi Zhisheng's throat and looked at it, he couldn't help but be surprised, and it was stuffed with tin. "I didn't expect that the four members of the Yi family died of tin filling, this is the first time I have encountered it!" The poison can be detected, and the tin filling has no traces and does not flow to the stomach, which shows that this is a group of premeditated robbers. ”
The cause of death of the Yi family's 4 families was ascertained, proving that the Yi family was murdered by someone, not by a powerful ghost. Bai Xianling personally went to the Yi family to investigate, and he paced back and forth in the Yi family's living room, remembering the detail of the ghost descending from the air, so he ordered the servants to climb up to the roof to inspect it. On the roof, the servants found a small hole in the place where the rafters and beams were connected, and the small hole seemed to be artificially chiseled. Qiu Yi, the head catcher, inserted a wooden stick into the small hole, twisted the wooden stick, and the beam and wood turned slightly, and before it was turned halfway, the roof ridge had already revealed a hole that could accommodate a person entering and leaving. Qiu Yi suddenly understood that the so-called "powerful ghost" had climbed into it from this hole.
Qiu Yi immediately reported the situation to Bai Xian Ling, who looked at the roof and smiled: "It's time to catch the ghost!" They can't run away! Soon, Tang Rong, the craftsman who built this house, was arrested. After Tang Rong was escorted to the lobby, he couldn't help but kill Wei Wei twice, and immediately recruited.
Tang Rong told Bai Xianling that the organ was indeed designed by him, but he did not kill the people. When the Yi family's house was first built, the county bully Luo found him, gave him 10 taels of silver, asked him to place the organ on the roof of the hall in advance, and said that he would thank him again after the matter was completed. Tang Rong knew that Luo Cai did not have good intentions, but this man was fierce and domineering, and if he did not follow him, he was afraid that he would lose his hand. After the Yi family was killed, Tang Rong ran to the countryside and hid, because he was afraid that Luo Cai would kill people and destroy his mouth. Recently, seeing that the wind had slowed down slightly, he returned home to check it out, but he was arrested by the servants on the spot.
Bai XianLing immediately ordered Tang Rong to lead the way to find Luo Cai, and qiu yi and his party quickly arrived at Luo Cai's house, at this time Luo Cai's family was gathering gambling, and the crowd immediately surrounded Luo Cai's family, and Luo Cai and his cadres were all arrested on the spot. At Luo Cai's home, the servants searched for the Yi family's belongings, as well as wooden poles for stilts and tools for committing crimes such as costumes and top hats.
After interrogation, Luo Cai confessed the fact that the ghost was pretending to be a ghost to kill people and rob money, and Luo Cai and his gang saw that the Yi family was rich, and there were only 4 people in the family, so they bought the craftsman Tang Rong to lay down an organ on the roof. In the middle of the night, Luo Cai and the others entered the Yi family from the roof, wearing costumes and top hats, stepping on stilts and pretending to be a ghost in the Yi family. Subsequently, several people used tin to irrigate the throat of the Yi family, causing it to suffocate and die, stealing the Yi family's belongings.
Luo Cai and others thought that pretending to be ghosts to kill people, using tin to fill their throats, could not find the cause of death, people would definitely suspect that it was a ghost, and they could get away with it. However, the Skynet was restored without leakage, and Luo Cai and other heartbroken people finally failed to escape the legal net, and a stumbling discovery by the head catcher QiuYi caught the thief Xiong Ada, and Shunten touched the melon and caught the culprit who pretended to be a ghost to kill.
A few days later, according to the laws of the Great Qing Dynasty, Luo Cai and 4 other people pretended to be ghosts to murder the 4 members of the Yi family, and were sentenced to be beheaded for the most heinous crimes, and the violent corpses were used for three days to make an example. The craftsman Tang Rong aided the abuse and was sentenced to 100 canes and 10 years in prison. As a result, this sensational Jiaqing Chao Shonan ghost murder case has since been closed.
Skynet was restored, neglected but not leaked. Luo Cai and others lost their conscience, and the act of pretending to be a ghost to kill people can be described as vicious. This case was listed as one of the Xiangnan Strange Cases of the Qing Dynasty, and from today's point of view, the modus operandi of this case is peculiar, the means of killing people is peculiar, and the process of solving the case is full of legends, and this case is indeed a strange case.