One morning during the Wanli period, Wang Shuwen's family, a large family in Feng County, was robbed. The robber was Gaoliang Mountain bandit Hu Yihu, who rushed into Wang Shuwen's mansion with a group of people. The Wang family all hid, but the wooden box was still in the cabinet before they could take it away. Hu Yihu opened the wooden box, laughed, waved his hand, and returned to Gaoliang Mountain.
When the robbers left, Wang Shuwen hurriedly checked. Except for the lost ancestral red pearl, the rest of the family was there.
According to private rumors, the pearl was obtained by Wang Shuwen's eighth great-grandfather. His ancestor was a hunter who saved a white fox. When the white fox left, it opened his mouth and spat out a pearl with a flash of red light. The pearl's red light flickered, and it is said that it can cure diseases and disasters: no matter what disease you have, as long as you grind the pearl for a while, take it with water, and the pain will be eliminated immediately.
Liu Yizhi, the governor of Feng County, was having breakfast when he heard the news. He threw down the bowl and stood up. He circled the living room three times before stopping and letting the pen and ink serve him.
Brother Hu: This King of Pearl scripture writer has entrusted me to present it to the current Emperor to treat the Emperor's concubine. After seeing the letter, please let Wu Pu bring back the pearl.
Liu Yizhi
March 8, Wanli 13th
After writing, Liu Yizhi folded the note and put it in an envelope, telling the servant, "Send it, don't ask too much, bring something and come back." The servant nodded, took the letter, and left immediately.
In the afternoon, the servant came back with a wooden box. Liu Yizhi quickly took it, opened it, and scolded, "Bastard!" It turned out that although there were pearls in the box, it was white.
Wang Shuwen's pearl was red, and Liu Yizhi had seen it with his own eyes. At that time, Wang Shuwen was ready to offer it, but thinking that it would be his father's death anniversary in a few days, his father loved this pearl the most, so he wanted to wait until he paid tribute to his father before offering it. Liu Zhixian also agreed.
Who knew that now, that damned Hu Yihu actually used fake pearls to deceive himself.
Liu Zhixian twisted his beard and frowned. He called the servant again, took out 300 taels of silver, and asked him to bring Gao Liangshan with him. He said that the magistrate was very happy to see the pearl and specially sent 300 taels of silver as a thank you.
The servant took the silver and left. Liu Zhixian smiled: "You are unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous."
When Hu Yihu of Gaoliangshan received the silver taels from Wu Pu and the words of thanks from the county magistrate, an uneasy heart finally fell back into his stomach. He happily slapped the table and said, "Brothers, in order to celebrate, there will be a big feast tonight, and you will not stop getting drunk." When the audience heard it, one by one they swallowed their saliva and cheered loudly.
After a while, the feast was set up, chicken, duck, and fish came up like water, and a jar of burnt knife wine was also unsealed. Hu Yihu ordered all the brothers to let go and drink.
Someone reminded: "Master Hu, be careful."
Hu Yihu waved his hand carelessly and laughed: "Brother, don't worry. It's too late for Liu Zhixian to thank me at this moment. Except for the officials and the army, who dares to attack?"
Everyone shouted loudly, drinking in the big bowl, eating meat in large pieces, and stumbling one by one after a while. Just then, a man who went out to relieve himself stumbled back and said, "Master Hu, there is someone."
Hu Yihu took a bowl of wine and scolded sideways: "Bastard, aren't they all human?" Saying that, he slipped into the chair and squinted his drunk eyes.
He became even more anxious and said, "Guan Jun, Guan..." Before he finished speaking, his body swayed and fell, with an arrow stuck in his back.
It turned out that not long after Wu Pu left, Liu Zhixian and his people secretly followed him up the mountain. As expected, Hu Yihu was caught in his trick and was not on guard at all. Hu Yihu was put in front of Liu Zhixian by the soldiers and said drunkenly: "I'm not drunk… I will not stop..."
The Gaoliangshan bandits who harmed one side were wiped out overnight, and even the vicious Hu Yihu was captured alive and locked up in Fengxian Jail.
Hu Yihu was so drunk that he didn't wake up until the next morning. When he woke up, he found that the place had changed, not in Gaoliangshan Hall, but in the prison. He shook the rope around his body and shouted, "Grandma, what's going on?"
The prison guard looked at him and said nothing.
Hu Yihu was furious and shouted loudly, "Go and call your magistrate." Before he finished speaking, Liu Zhixian heard footsteps and came to the prison door. With a wave of his hand, the prison door was opened.
Behind Liu Zhixian, there was a servant carrying a vegetable box. The servant took out four plates of vegetables, a wine jug, and two cups from the vegetable box.
Liu Zhixian sent the servant and the jailer away, then closed the prison door, sat down, pointed to the ground, and let Hu Yihu sit down too. At this moment, Hu Yihu's face lost its ferocious expression, knelt down and said, "Brother, you have to save me."
Liu Zhixian nodded with a smile and let him sit down in an approachable manner. He picked up a glass of wine in front of him, touched it, and drank it all. Liu Zhixian asked, "Where is the pearl?" Hu Yihu shook his head and sighed, but he didn't say anything.
Liu Zhixian was furious: "No one can save you like this." After saying that, he opened a memorial and let Hu Yihu read it. The content written on it was to request Hu Yihu be cut into pieces.
Hu Yihu broke into a cold sweat and said repeatedly, "I'll pay, I'll pay." As he spoke, he trembled and opened his bun, and a red pearl rolled out.
Liu Zhixian took the pearl and turned to leave. Hu Yihu hurriedly grabbed him and begged, "Brother, let me out."
Liu Zhixian laughed, "You don't have to go out."
"Why?" Hu Yihu was shocked and suddenly felt cramps in his stomach. It seemed that he had been poisoned, but he and Liu Yizhi drank wine from the same wine jug.
Liu Zhixian laughed: "The wine is not poisonous, the wine glass is poisonous."
Hu Yihu lay on the ground in pain, his mouth and nose bleeding: "You are so poisonous. Back then, I did not kill County Lieutenant Zhang for you. Your corruption has long been exposed."
Liu Zhixian snorted coldly: "If I hadn't told you the whereabouts of Wei Zhang and let you attack him halfway, you would have been able to kill him? I'm afraid you would have been wiped out by him long ago." After saying that, he kicked Hu Yihu and did not move, obviously dead.
Liu Zhixian murmured: "The crane top is red, it is really extraordinary."
Liu Zhixian returned to the county yamen and packed the red pearl in a wooden box overnight, sealed the mouth of the box, wrapped it in red silk, and handed it over to the tolerance, so that it could be delivered to the capital overnight.
He once praised Haikou in the memorial that he could use a red pearl to cure the disease of the concubine.
Now that he had finally got the red pearl, he felt happy from the bottom of his heart. He felt that he was getting closer and closer to the goal he longed for: the emperor's concubine was well, and it was impossible for him not to be promoted to the rank.
One morning a few days later, the imperial emissary came on horseback, followed by a team of people. Liu Zhixian hurriedly greeted him, waved his hand, entered the county yamen, sat down and looked at Liu Zhixian, and said, "Thank you, Liu Zhixian."
Liu Zhixian was so happy that his heart skipped a beat, but his mouth was humble: "This is Emperor Hongfu, so only the red pearl can cure the disease and be auspicious."
"Boom!" The imperial envoy slapped the table, interrupted Liu Zhixian, and pointed at him and roared: "Come on, tie it up." The soldiers on both sides roared and rushed up, tying him up with ropes like a chicken.
Liu Zhixian's face was pale and his whole body shook. He asked, "What happened?"
Tolerance took out the imperial decree and asked Liu Zhixian to kneel down to receive the decree. The imperial decree said that the dog official Liu Yizhi deceived the monarch and used a red glass to fake a pearl to cure diseases, which caused the concubine to delay her illness and caused the funeral day. Behead Liu Yizhi on the spot without escorting him to Beijing.
When Liu Zhixian heard that, he collapsed on the ground and shouted that he was wronged. The tolerance manager ignored it, and with a wave of his hand, Liu Zhixian was dragged out.
The day Liu Zhixian was taken to the execution ground and beheaded. In a cemetery outside the city, a person was holding a sacrifice in front of a tomb to pay homage.
He knelt down respectfully, offered three sticks of incense, and said in his heart, "Father, you have fought violence and settled the people all your life, but you did not expect to die at the hands of the bad guys. Today, your revenge has finally been avenged.
Then he stood up and said to the person beside him, "From today onwards, I have officially changed my name and surname, and I don't have to hide anymore. What is my name, Wang Shuwen, and my name is changed to Zhang Shuwen."
The servants answered, "Yes!"
After the memorial service, he looked up at the words on the tombstone. On the newly painted tombstone, several large characters were clearly visible: Tomb of Zhang Xianwei.
Zhang Shuwen was the son of Zhang Xianwei. Zhang Xianwei had mastered Liu Zhi County's collusion with the bandits in Gaoliangshan and was ready to report the situation, but he was afraid of retaliation, so he fostered the young Zhang Shuwen in other places.
When Zhang Shuwen grew up, he learned that his father was killed by Liu Zhixian's collusion with Hu Yihu. In order to take revenge, he had a plan to fake that his ancestors had red pearls for treating diseases.
Liu Zhixian not only saw the red pearl, but also knew that this pearl did have a miraculous effect.
At that time, Zhang Shuwen was talking when he suddenly fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, his limbs twitching, and he was unconscious. The family took out the red pearl, scraped off a little powder, mixed it with water, and let it drink it.
After a while, Zhang Shuwen recovered and not only recovered, but also talked and laughed.
Liu Zhixian was very surprised and said that the emperor's concubine had been sick in bed for a long time. If he could present this bead to cure the concubine's illness, he would ask for money and money, and he would have to be an official.
When Zhang Shuwen heard that, he immediately agreed to offer the beads, but there was one request. After Liu Zhixian was promoted, he must be promoted.
Liu Zhixian promised and was ready to take it away. Zhang Shuwen hurriedly blocked it again, saying that his dead father loved this bead very much, and that his father's death anniversary had arrived. After paying tribute to his father, he immediately gave it to him.
Liu Zhixian thought that if the beads were placed here, there would be no rush at half past one. If they were pressed, there would be an accident instead. Therefore, he readily agreed.
On the same day, Zhang Shuwen let out another rumor that he had recently sacrificed his father and would pose as a red pearl for treating diseases.
He knew that Hu Yihu was the most greedy for money, and knowing this news, he would definitely go down the mountain to rob. As he expected, the pearl was snatched by Hu Yihu, and Liu Zhixian then killed Hu Yihu. Of course, Liu Zhixian could not escape killing if he offered fake treasures.
Until death, Hu Yihu and Liu Zhixian did not know how they died.