Chapter 17 The Haunted House
Zhu Yunwen checked the relationship between Wu Mian and Shao's family and knew that Shao Qingmiao also had a brother-in-law named Bao Xi'an.
All matters related to Wu Mian must be investigated in detail. The Jinyiwei in the early Ming Dynasty also had some tricks. Not long after, it was found that Bao Xi'an was following a mad Taoist who claimed to be a alchemist in Jiangxi eight years ago. However, the mad Taoist Shenlong saw his head but did not see his tail. He only knew that he called himself a Jiangyou alchemist, but his real name was unknown.
After Bao Xi'an went down the mountain two years ago, he worked as a guard under the wealthy businessman Chen Wansan. Later, when Chen Wansan offended Zhu Yuanzhang and was confiscated and exiled, Bao Xi'an escaped. Later, when he was confiscated the Shen family, he found that 100,000 taels of silver had been lost. After questioning the guardians of the silver treasury, he learned that the last person to enter and exit the silver treasury was Bao Xi'an.
But Bao Xi'an went in and out of the silver treasury alone, and searched for him when he went out. At that time, he didn't find one or two taels of silver. So how did he bring out 100,000 taels of silver?
Because the Jinyiwei wanted to arrest Bao Xi'an for questioning, Zhu Yunwen ordered the Jinyiwei not to act rashly because of Wu Mian's sake. Until today, he heard that Bao Xi'an's house was in a fire, and Wu Mian, Gui Bugui and others, the demon went out of the sea of fire and snatched out a burning corpse from it. The crown prince then felt that he should come and take a look... "Jiangyou Fangshi..." Gui Bugui pondered slightly, then shook his head at Wu Mian on the side and said, "I don't remember anyone who has ever given such a naughty nickname. What I heard of is this great Fang master, that great Fang master... What Kunlun great Fang master, overseas great Fang master."
"If the two immortals need it, I can send the Jinyiwei to Jiangxi to check this Jiangyou alchemist." Seeing Wu Mian, Gui Bugui was interested in this Jiangyou alchemist, Zhu Yunwen continued while the iron was hot: "There is another thing I think the two are also interested in knowing. After Bao Xi'an returned to the capital, he also bought a house on Jiangyuan Road, north of the city. Several people have not returned to the capital for many years and may have never heard of the name of that house. However, the people here, including the emperor living in the palace, know that... it is a famous haunted house..."
"The haunted house in the north of the city... Your Highness is talking about the Xiwei Dyeing Bureau Office of the Mongols in the north of the city?" Gui Bugui smiled and continued, "How could I not know that famous haunted house, old man?" After saying that, he began to introduce the origin of this haunted house to Wu Mian.
After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jinling was renamed Jiqing Road by the Mongols and became a distribution center for the Mongols to produce silk products. At that time, two yamen for controlling silk products were established in Jinling, namely the East and West Weaving and Dyeing Bureau. A Mongolian was the first department of the West Weaving and Dyeing Bureau at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Once, he was impeached by his colleagues in Han Dynasty. In order to vent his anger, he locked more than 600 weavers under his jurisdiction in the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau. Then he burned his yamen and burned all the weavers to death overnight.
The next day, he actually reported that these Han weavers had lost their morality after drinking and burned himself to death. At that time, the Han people's lives were cheap. The superiors' yamen knew that it was the Mongols who killed someone to vent their anger, but they still listened to the words of the Mongolian Chief Secretary. They decided that a Han weavers were responsible for the blame. The Mongolians who set fire to the fire were fine, but the leader of the Han weavers was beaten with eighty sticks and finally beaten to death at the yamen.
After this incident, the Xiheya Dyeing Bureau Yamen was rebuilt on the original site. On the day of completion, the Mongolian Head Office invited more than a dozen Mongolian colleagues to come to the Yamen to drink and have fun. It is said that after these people drank late that night, screams suddenly came from the newly built Xihe Dyeing Bureau. Because these Mongolians were too oppressing the Han people at that time, and after hearing the screams in the Yamen, no Han people around came to check.
The next morning, after the Han yamen runners who were working in the weaving and dyeing bureau, they saw a scene that seemed like hell. All the Mongolians who drank in the yamen last night died, and these people died in great tragic deaths. Everyone was naked, and some were scattered from their throats, and the internal organs inside died all over the ground. There were also those who had their flesh peeled off, leaving only a pair of skeletons to die. There were also a few strangled to death by their intestines... After seeing this scene, these yamen runners almost urinated their pants. They couldn't stand up. They lay on the ground and crawled out of the yamen with crying and shouting.
When the Jiqing Road Yamen heard that more than a dozen Mongolians died, they did not dare to neglect and immediately arrived at the crime scene. As a result, they were dizzy and looked at the scene. Finally, Daluhuachi (official name, the highest official of Jiqing Road) reported to the court that it was the local Han bandits who killed the Mongolian Guiwei. In the end, hundreds of Han people were hunted and killed on Jiqing Road, which was considered to avenge the Mongolian head corpses.
Although more than a dozen Mongolians died in the Xizhi Dyeing Bureau, the affairs in the yamen could not be delayed. At that time, the court sent another Mongolian as the head office. Unexpectedly, on the first night of his tenure, there were another scream in the yamen.
The previous murders caused hundreds of Han people to be affected. This time, in order to avoid being implicated, the people who heard the screams immediately went to Jiqing Road Yamen to report to the officials. When Daluhuachi arrived with hundreds of soldiers, they found that the new Master Shousi's family had died in a bad life.
The death of these people is almost the same as that of their fellow tribes. However, this time, in addition to these Mongolians, even the Han slaves who served in the yamen died tragically. At that time, Daluhuachi saw that the blood had not yet condensed and believed that the murderer had not gone far. At that time, most of the people were separated to pursue the city, and he himself stayed here with only fifty Mongolian soldiers.
The officers and soldiers who went to chase the murderers walked around the city for a few times but did not find any suspicious people. When they came back to report, they found that Lord Daruwachi and the fifty officers and soldiers who were staying here also died tragically in the Xizhi Dyeing Bureau's yamen.
At that time, someone understood that this was a murderer by a ghost, so they immediately left here. From this day on, the reputation of the haunted house of Xizhidian Bureau spread. Later, the Mongols were driven to the north of the Mobei by Zhu Yuanzhang's army, and all the Mongols in Jinling City fled. Some people who made money and were desperate to die began to make up the idea of this haunted house... At that time, a foreigner thought that this haunted house was a means of being attacked by the rebels in order to eliminate the Mongolians, and all the haunted houses were fake. He bought the place at a bargain price. After renovating it, he hired a monk. After the old Taoist had enough rituals, he took the whole family and young to live in. This stupid and bold person caused a sensation in Jinling City. Everyone wanted to see if he could come out of the house safely the next day.
By the morning of the next morning, the door of the house was crowded with people watching the fun. They waited until noon to see the people inside, but in the end, the people who watched the fun felt something was wrong. A few of them were brave enough to climb over the wall. Before they could jump into the house to check, they were so scared that they jumped back outside.
"It's dead... that fool's family is dead..." After one of them shouted, the people scattered. After a while, someone from the yamen came and opened the yard gate, the brave ones saw that the family of seven were hanging in the corridor.
After that, the reputation of the haunted house in the Xizhidian Dye Bureau's yamen was spread to the palace. Zhu Yuanzhang was a brave man. He originally wanted to send an official army to remove the house directly. Later, he was persuaded by his counselor Liu Bowen. Liu Bowen was good at the passage of the law. He believed that if there was a haunted house, the evil ghosts inside would not come out to do evil. Once the house was demolished, there would be no things to restrain them. Anyway, as long as people were not in, the evil ghosts inside would not come out to harm people if they were fierce. It would be better to keep the haunted house.
Chapter completed!