Lin Jiahe's family is rich, well-off and has a beautiful wife, which can be called a happy life.
One autumn, my wife accompanied Lin Xiu to Beijing to take the exam. Halfway through Tianzhu Temple, his Buddhist wife asked her husband to go to the temple to make pilgrimages.
However, due to the rugged mountain road and numerous female dependents, Lin Xiucai decided to take the lead and let his wife sit in a sedan chair with her aunt and maid.
The missing wife on Shangxiang Road
The servants of the Lins hired several sedan chairs, which usually took guests home.
But on the way to sedan chair, a pole of the sedan chair in which Lin Xiucai's wife was riding was broken. At this time, the rest of the sedan chairs have gone up the hill, and the servants behind Mrs. Lin are waiting for the sedan chair bearers to find new pole.
Just then, a sedan chair bearer headed by Lin told the servants not to wait here. They were holding candlesticks to prepare incense. Delay here will delay things. After the sedan chair is repaired, they will deliver the lady safely, so the servants will leave safely.
After the sedan chair was repaired, the sedan chair bearer sent Mrs. Lin to a red painted gate on the mountain.
The little novice monk who came out of the temple told Mrs. Lin that her family was waiting for her in the hall, so the little novice monk led the way and Mrs. Lin sat in a sedan chair waiting to reach the hall.
However, the bearers finally sent Mrs. Lin to a secret room. Only after Mrs. Lin reacted did she discover that she had been kidnapped. After that, several strong women came in from outside to tie her up, and then several monks came in to spoil her in public.
After that, Mrs. Lin became a plaything of temples and nobles.
Lin Xiucai reported the case to the Governor.
After Lin Xiucai went up the mountain, he waited for other women, but he never waited for his wife. After six or seven days, he still disappeared. Lin Xiu went to the government to report the case, but the county magistrate shelved it because it was not an accident.
A few days later, the county magistrate was still silent, and Lin Xiucai joined the ranks of candidates and reported the matter to the governor.
Seeing that so many candidates jointly reported the case, the governor quickly ordered the county magistrate to solve the case as soon as possible. At this time, looking for Lin's wife was put on the agenda.
After two days of investigation, the county magistrate still had no clue, so he planned to search the temple. The monks in the temple heard the wind and threw Lin Xiucai's wife into the beggar's nest overnight.
Found Lin's wife in the beggar's nest
When the beggar found that there was an extra woman in the hut, he was very scared and hurried to report to the official. In this way, under the leadership of the head, Lin Xiucai found his long-lost wife.
Later, Lin Xiucai's wife told her husband about her experience in the past few days. The husband was furious after hearing this, and immediately took all the monks in Tianzhu Temple to court.
Lin's wife committed suicide, and the real murderer is hard to find.
Because the government was not sure who the murderer was, Lin Xiucai's wife had to confront the monks one by one, but Lin Xiucai's wife felt ashamed to face the world, so she hanged herself at night.
Lin Xiucai's wife committed suicide, and the real murderer was harder to find, so the county magistrate ordered a search of every monk's residence. Whoever found the woman's clothes was the real murderer.
I didn't expect to find the hairpin worn by Mrs. Lin in the residence of a middle-aged monk, but he insisted that he was not the murderer. County magistrate and Lin Xiucai questioned him many times and found that the middle-aged monk really didn't look like a murderer. The case lost its clue again.
Pretend to execute, arrest the real murderer
But then, Lin Xiucai came up with an idea. The next day, the county government posted a notice announcing that the murderer would be executed in the near future.
On the day of execution, Lin Xiucai's servant found the sedan chair bearer who carried Mrs. Lin among the onlookers. The sedan-chair bearer was caught red-handed, and after official interrogation, the sedan-chair bearer told the truth.
It turns out that the boy-eyed monk in the temple has colluded with the bearers and the surrounding local ruffians, and even bribed the leaders of the county government to kidnap women to the temple. After these women are injured, the child-eyed monk will hand them over to the bearers or local ruffians again to deal with them. This has formed a complete interest chain.
The truth of this case came to light, and the number of people involved exceeded 100. The county magistrate sentenced the boy-eyed monk to death, and the local ruffians, bearers and officials involved in the crime were all sentenced to different degrees of rod punishment or exile.