Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty 唐朝诡事录 Episode 20

The reason why Zhai Liang buried his uncle Meng Lao here is to comply with his last wish. Meng Lao wanted to continue to guard the hall of living beings after his death, but Zhai Liang violated the folk customs. Zhai Liang wanted to return the rent and ask Lu Lingfeng to find another place, but Lu Lingfeng refused.

Lu Lingfeng found Xue Huan practicing martial arts in the middle of the night. Xue Huan said that there are no ghosts in the world, only gangsters who pretend to be ghosts. He must practice martial arts diligently and kill them all as soon as possible.

The next day, a woman's head was suddenly found in a temple, and Zuo Zuo thought it was similar to the case of Guan Zijun's corpse dismemberment 40 years ago. Then the catcher came to report that the body bag was found in Nanyuan Temple, Bicheng Temple, etc. The temple owner said that forty years ago. The body bag was found in the same situation a year ago and today. Lu Lingfeng sent people to thoroughly investigate the people who came to the temple today. He wanted to do an autopsy, but he was afraid of repeating his father's death, so he avoided the case and decided to resign. Lu Lingfeng knew that the main point of the case was the autopsy, so he wanted to do the autopsy himself, but in the end he couldn't overcome the psychological bottom line. Xue Huan felt sorry for her master, and sent someone to send oranges to Su Wuming, hoping to ask for help.

It turned out that Su Wuming knew that Lu Lingfeng would not ask for help, so he told Xue Huan long ago that if Lu Lingfeng was in trouble, he would send oranges as a password for help. Forty years ago, the county magistrate was dismissed because of the corpse dismemberment case. Now the Ju County magistrate is afraid of losing office, so he told Lu Lingfeng that he would take over the chores of Ju County. Lu Lingfeng could concentrate on investigating the corpse dismemberment case. In this case, if the case is not solved, I am willing to take responsibility for the dereliction of duty in this case.

Afterwards, Wuming Su brought Xi Jun and the others here, and helped with the autopsy as soon as they arrived, while Lu Lingfeng checked the information on the four corpses. One of them is Huiniang, the outer chamber of Qian Xiaoyi's pawnshop. And Qian Xiaoyi's wife is the daughter of the butcher Hu Yidao, who once threatened to tear Huiniang into tens of thousands of pieces. On the other hand, Su Wuming's autopsy information also confirmed that the body was undoubtedly Huiniang. Lu Lingfeng asked Qian Xiaoyi's wife to take him to visit Hu Yidao and ask about the details of the case.

Su Wuming completed the autopsy and concluded that the murderer killed the deceased with one knife, and the murder weapon was different from the corpse-breaking weapon, and the knife should be extremely complete.

Lu Lingfeng got the news and led someone to capture Hu Yidao, who fled out of the city. The interrogation learned that Hu Yidao had approached Huiniang but did not kill him. He escaped from the city because of a gambling debt. Su Wuming borrowed Sima's name to ask Qian Xiaoyi to help his father-in-law pay off his gambling debts.

In the middle of the night, Master Fei dreamed of his senior brother Meng Donglao, and the other party asked him to accompany him to write a book and refine medicine. When Master Fei woke up, he also woke up everyone, and learned that this was Meng Donglao's hall of living beings, and was even more panicked. Su Wuming guessed that Fei Jishi and Meng Dong were always old friends, and they must have hidden some past events that they hadn't told.

The next day Su Wuming returned to Nanzhou, and Pei Xijun was left behind by him on the grounds of inspector Lu Lingfeng. Lu Lingfeng used the banquet as an excuse to trick Master Fei to help him determine the source of the medicinal smell on the corpse bag. On the other hand, Xi Jun also took the initiative to help Lu Lingfeng draw suspicious people who had seen the corpse bag. Lu Lingfeng asked Huiniang's mother, and learned that she suffered from a head disease, and went to the Hall of Living Beings for diagnosis and treatment. Lu Lingfeng went to Zhongshengtang to inquire, and found that there was no record of Huiniang's treatment in the diagnosis and treatment log, but Zhongshengtang's medicine servant showed panic.