In the early morning, the Liangzhe Road Zhengshiyamen gradually revealed its tall appearance from the morning light. The red columns shone brightly under the rising sun, and there was a compelling momentum between the eaves and brackets. It was precisely because of this invisible momentum that ordinary people would always subconsciously walk around and rarely maintain a calm mind in front of it. On weekdays, even hawkers are unwilling to hawk in front of such powerful yamen.

There is a small stream next to the Taiping Department, and there is a walkway for servants from the yamen to enter and exit. During the day, people are sparse in the sky, and at night it is even quiet. There are a few osmanthus trees growing in the alley, with thick shade like a cover.[]

On this day, as usual, the peddler Peng Erxi started to clean the yard of the yamen on time. As he swept, he accidentally looked up and suddenly found a person hanging from the osmanthus tree in the alley. Peng Erxi couldn't help but wipe his eyes, thinking that he had read it wrong.

Still here! It's really still here, he's really alone, naked from a tree, not moving.

Peng Erxi thought it was a dead man, so scared that he screamed loudly, and soon attracted several people from the Tizheng Department. Even the Tizheng Envoy Yu Yingxian was alarmed and hurriedly walked out of the Houya. He was a man in his fifties, with a slightly gray beard and a clear line on his face, which looked extremely tough.

"Peng Erxi! Why did you make a loud noise early in the morning?"

Yu Yingxian's shout made Peng Erxi feel relieved, as if he had found the backbone, and said to Yu Yingxian who was walking out of the front yard quickly: "Sir Tixing Envoy, look, there is a person hanging on the tree! I don't know whether it is death or life."

When Yu Yingxian saw that it was true, he was surprised and took the lead in pushing open the side door leading to the alley and went out to see what happened. Peng Erxi's shouting just now was too loud, and even some people on the street came to hear the sound, watching in groups of three or three, whispering.

When Yu Yingxian walked under the tree, he found that the one hanging on the tree was Miao An, the magistrate of Qiantang. Miao An was not wearing any inch of spirit, and his ugly appearance was revealed. His body was covered in fat under the rising sunlight, and his fat body was shiny. When he looked closely, he could see that his chest and abdomen were slightly ups and downs, breathing evenly, and he was obviously still a living person!

"Hurry up, let's put the person down first!"

At Yu Yingxian's order, a yamen runner from the Examination Department was busy climbing up, but when he touched his hand, he noticed that there was a layer of grease on it, which was slippery and it was impossible to climb up as usual.

Yu Yingxian also noticed this and immediately said, "Go back and move the ladder!"

More and more people came around. After all, Miao An was a court official. Now he was naked and hung on a tree. It was always bad to spread. Yu Yingxian was just trying to drive away these onlookers, but someone heard someone's comments: "Look, look, how can this cloth strip be so small, how can it be hung for such a heavy person?"

"Who do you think this fat man looks like? Why do I feel a bit like the magistrate of Qiantang County?"

"Look, look, the small cloth strip of the hanging man seems to be smoking! What's going on? Look, you guys, it's not that I'm dazzled!"

There were all kinds of people saying amid the messy talk, but slowly they were all concentrated on the cloth strip that dangled Miao'an. Yu Yingxian couldn't help but look up carefully. Indeed, the cloth strip was not big. It was said that it could not be hung as heavy as Miao'an. Under the rising sun, steam was coming from the cloth strip, and it seemed that it was getting lighter and lighter. If you didn't look closely, you would not be able to find it.

Before the yamen runner brought the ladder, the faint steam on the cloth strip completely disappeared, a light breeze blew, and the cloth strip suddenly broke with a bang. Miao Anna's fat body fell into the stream with a loud bang, splashing a large splash of water. The people on the shore were shocked and dodged. When the water splash subsided, people suddenly found that several lines of words appeared on Miao An's originally white chest and abdomen:

Unlawful rituals on earth,

All gods and ghosts know.

This villain is guilty of thousands of sins,

Why is the punishment delayed?

Those lines of words were scarlet as red as blood, extremely dazzling. The sudden strange situation made the onlookers scream. Some turned around and ran away in fear. Two of them were even so scared that they knelt down and kowtowed, asking not to blame the ghosts and gods. Even Yu Yingxian was shocked and suspicious when he saw this scene. Apart from the power of ghosts and gods, he could not explain why these blood-red words suddenly appeared on Miao An.

In addition to the strange thing just now, Miao An should not have been hung, but it was actually hanging Miao An's small cloth strip and the faint light smoke on the cloth strip.

Even Yu Yingxian was still confused at the moment when he saw the wind and waves. Fortunately, the stream was not deep, and Miao An was stimulated by the water after falling down and began to slowly wake up.

"Ghost! There are ghosts....You! You are all ghosts! Ghosts! There are ghosts! Come on! Come on! There are ghosts..."

As soon as Miao An woke up, he opened his white eyes and suddenly shouted shrillly, constantly thrusting in the stream, his eyes showing endless fear, and he was trapped in a state of madness, not at all aware of himself naked, but just kept shouting, thrusting in the water that was not over to his thighs. Looking at everyone's eyes was like seeing a ghost, the fear and terror, and it couldn't help but make people feel creepy in broad daylight.

Miao An retreated to the other side while flapping. The blood-red handwriting on his body disappeared strangely at this time. The stream was not big. After Miao An retreated to the other side, he shrank under a stone and shivered, and his mouth was still trembling: "Ghost... Ghost! Ghosts are everywhere! Come on... Ghosts are everywhere! Ghosts..."

You can tell at a glance that Miao An is crazy, at least now! After Yu Yingxian came to his senses, he loudly ordered the yamen runners of the Execution Department to help Miao An back to the Execution Department. In the past, his execution envoy issued such a loud order, and the yamen runners had already executed it quickly, but this time no one moved. One and two of you looked at me, and I looked at you, and all his faces showed a look of fear.

"Go quickly! Go quickly!"

Yu Yingxian roared loudly again, and even he himself didn't know why he suddenly felt so angry. Perhaps he wanted to vent something on excuses! More than a dozen yamen runners had no choice but to grit their teeth and go to Miao An.

At this time, the sharp-eyed Peng Erxi said again: "Sir Tixing Envoy, there is still a piece of paper rolled up on the tree!"

Yu Yingxian looked up again and found that there was a note where the section of the noodle was tied to the branches.

After Miao An was taken back to the yamen of the Criminal Office, Yu Yingxian also changed out of an official robe and sat in the court to look at the note taken from the tree. Strictly speaking, it was a confession, which recorded Miao An's corruption and abuse of power in the form of a question and answer in a very detailed manner. Miao An's signature painting was followed by Miao An's signature.

Yu Yingxian was willing to believe that this was man-made, but how could he explain the scene I just saw? The blood-red handwriting that appeared magically and quietly disappeared, the small cloth strip that was hanging on the person, and Yu Yingxian tried it himself twice, and it was easy to tear it off. It was impossible to hang Miao An up.

In addition, Miao An suddenly went crazy and talked nonsense. Yu Yingxian had been appointed as the envoy for several years and had handled many cases, but he could not explain these strange phenomena. Apart from the actions of ghosts and gods, he really didn't know how to explain them.

Even out of curiosity, Yu Yingxian asked the yamen runners to do their best to check Miao An’s whereabouts in the past few days, and who the person he had seen in the end was, in short, we had to figure out what was going on!

At this time, the entire Hangzhou city had almost spread. The streets and alleys were all about Miao An. It was said that Miao An was punished by gods and ghosts because of his bad things. The more he spread this, the more he was more and more divine. Soon, many different versions appeared, one more outrageous.

But the more outrageous it was, the more people listened to it. Some people were already saying that he was outside the Tizheng Department and saw ghosts flying in the air and ghosts writing on Miao An's chest; some said that the ghost was the wronged soul forced to death by Miao An, who looked like someone from the Kang family in the Fushoufang; some people who had done bad things were busy running to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha.

Yang Yi also quickly heard all kinds of rumors. Although everyone said differently, one thing was the same, that is, Miao An was crazy!

Yang Yi didn't expect to be so scared by pretending to be a god, and he scared Miao An insane. The medicines he gave Miao An could indeed make people feel more hallucinated after seeing certain phenomena. For example, when he forced Miao An to confess, it was like hypnosis. As long as he gave a little reminder, Miao An would naturally say what he had done.

Now let’s look at Han Bier and the others. As long as you don’t show any flaws, you won’t find out about this.

The people from the Examination Department went to Qiantang County to investigate and quickly followed the clue to find Han Bier's courtyard. Last night, the two servants who followed Miao An were still squatting outside the courtyard, like frost-beating eggplant, were complaining in their hearts that Miao An was happily in the room, and he didn't even tell them to go back or enter the courtyard. The two of them dared not walk away, and they were feeling very distressed.

It was not until the people from the Tizheng Department found them that such a big thing had happened. In amazement, the yamen runners from the Tizheng Department rushed into Han Bier's courtyard, but saw two maids fainting under the corridor and Han Bier fainting on the bed.

They were really dizzy, or "sleeping". Yang Yi was afraid that they would not behave like this, so he gave them some potions similar to sleeping pills for them to take.

When the three of them were woken up, they were full of fear and said they were ghosts when they saw people! They were very similar to Miao An, but fortunately they settled down quickly and recovered normally. However, they were always talking in their mouths, constantly talking about the horror scenes they saw last night.

The yamen runners wanted to take the three back to the yamen to ask about the case. Without saying a word, the three quickly cleaned up some fines and soft things, instead urged the yamen runners to leave quickly, as if they went to the yamen to make them feel safer.

The yamen runners saw the strange scene with their own eyes on Miao An this morning, adding three women to each other saying that the courtyard was haunted last night. Not to mention it, these yamen runners also felt that the courtyard seemed to have become extremely gloomy, and they always felt that there was a strange noise in their ears. They squeezed into a bunch again, gritted their teeth and checked inside and out, but found nothing abnormal.

If there is no abnormality, it is abnormality! Instead, I feel so frightened that the last group of people almost rushed out of the courtyard.
Chapter completed!