The story told by Chang Yu is actually a major case that caused a sensation throughout the country during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that a child named Li in Shizhou, Taiyuan Prefecture was sold to Sang Mao, a man from Yuci County, as his adopted son. From then on, he changed his name to Sang Chong, who was slightly older. He became a local ruffian, eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling and all kinds of evil.
In the first year of Chenghua, Sang Chong heard from a prostitute friend that there was a powerful man named Gu Cai in Shanyin County, Datong Prefecture. He was good at disguising himself as a woman and secretly committed adultery in the name of teaching women needlework. He had never been involved in prostitution for eighteen years. exposed.
When Sang Chong heard that he was a great man, he was filled with admiration and went to Datong Mansion to inquire about this man. Finally he found Gu Cai who was working in a household and became his disciple.
Then he followed Gu Cai to learn plastic surgery. To be precise, it was makeup. He plucked all the beard and hair on his face, then trimmed his eyebrows, grew his hair and wore a fake bun. He pretended to be a woman's head and face and learned how women behaved. He even bound his feet and then taught him how to do it. Various female workers, including cutting and embroidering purses, sewing hats and shoes, and cooking soup, also taught him various evil tricks on how to sneak into the boudoir, tease and coax, make homemade anesthetics, and how to deceive and threaten to avoid being exposed after the woman succeeded.
Two years later, he left the army and returned to his hometown.
On the way back, he succeeded after a small test of his skills. Later, at the request of a group of friends, he accepted Ren Mao and Zhang Hu from the county, Zhang Duanda and Wang Daxi from Gucheng, Ren Hecheng from Wenshui, Sun Yuan and other seven as his disciples. , committed evil together, and they also agreed to have fun separately in the future. If the water incident happened, the master was not allowed to be confessed.
What's funny is that none of them expected that the master would be the one to surrender them in the end.
In the third year of Chenghua, Sang Chong left home and began his ten-year professional cheating career, which lasted for ten years and went through Datong, Pingyang, Taiyuan, Zhending, Baoding, Shuntian, and Shunde. Hejian, Jinan, Dongchang and other 45 prefectures, counties, and 78 villages and towns, with footprints all over what is now Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong. They raped wherever they went.
When he goes to a place, he first inquires about outstanding women from good families nearby, and then plans to deceive him. His usual method is to pretend to be pitiful and say that his husband is dead and was abused by her husband's family. He runs away and makes a living as a female worker to gain sympathy, and then commits the crime. The helper found a place to stay near the victim's home. After a few days, he asked the host's family to introduce him to the victim's house to teach as a female worker.
At that time, the men and women of the wealthy families were extremely guarded. The eldest girls and young wives all lived in the boudoir without leaving the house. The significance of "teaching female workers" is not only to teach some housekeeping skills, but also to take advantage of this opportunity to let these knowledgeable people of the same sex accompany them in daily life and relieve boredom. For this reason, Sang Chong can always get the opportunity to sleep in the same room with these murdered women relatively smoothly. The commonly used modus operandi is to deliberately tell "gossips" to arouse the victim's lust, or call it "playing", that is, to induce the victim to imitate sexual intercourse with him and seize the opportunity to deceive him. If they meet upright women who are not easy to be coaxed, they will wait until late at night and spray drug on them to put the victim into anesthesia before forcibly raping them. In the old days, wealthy women had a strong sense of chastity. Whether they were coaxed by Sang Chong or raped by force, they would hide their shame and dare not speak out in order to protect their "honesty" afterwards. There are also some divorced women who can't stand the loneliness of being alone in their spring boudoir, and they are happy to use this to talk about the separation of their husbands and wives. Therefore, Sang Chong had been engaged in prostitution for 10 years, gaining both people and wealth, but never missed a beat.
According to his later confession, the number of women who were seduced, raped, or raped by him in the past ten years was 182!
One hundred and eighty-two people!
What a concept.
Even if the folk customs in later generations are open, there are many great gods who have hired prostitutes to behead hundreds or even thousands of people, but they are still a minority after all, not to mention the era in which Sang Chong lived, and the victims were all real women from good families, such as Xiaojiabiyu There are also ladies, and even MILFs and married women.
Since he has never failed, how did this happen?
It can only be said that evil people have their own destiny, or evil people have their own destiny. Sang Chong never imagined that he would also become prey.
In July of the 13th year of Chenghua, when he was about to commit evil again on the 183rd victim, the time for this slut finally came. At dusk that day, Sang Chong came to the home of Gao Xuan, a student in Nie Village, Jinzhou. She claimed to be the young wife of Zhang Lin, a citizen of Zhaozhou. She escaped because she could not bear the beatings and scoldings of her husband and wanted to stay for a night. Gao Xuan saw that he was a graceful young woman, so he left him to sleep in the south room without any suspicion. Unexpectedly, Gao Xuan's son-in-law Zhao Wenju was also a lecherous devil. He sneaked into the south room in the middle of the night and wanted to woo this fake woman. Sang Chong came here because he coveted the beauty of Miss Gao's family, but he never expected that he would He was first spotted by the son-in-law of the Gao family, and he pushed him down in panic. Zhao Wenju was so bold and powerful that he immediately pushed Sang Chong down on the kang and forcibly unbuttoned his dress. At this time, Sang Chong's disguise as a woman was completely exposed, and he was immediately tied up by the Gao family and sent to the Jinzhou Yamen. After interrogation, the big slut confessed to seven people including his teacher Cheng Gucai (who had died at this time), missionary Ren Mao, and various crimes he had committed during the past 10 years. The Jinzhou Prefecture determined that Sang Chong's crimes were comparable to the "Ten Evils" and sent them to Beijing together with the name of the prostitute who was a prostitute. Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty learned of this and ordered the Procuratorate to review the case. Then he was cut into pieces by a thousand swords.
Since then, Sang Chong has been known as the number one flower picker in the Ming Dynasty, and is also regarded as the ancestor of many flower pickers.
The reason why this is a major case that is well-known to the whole country is that even Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty was shocked by it and published the details of the case in the imperial newspaper. Since then, various official and unofficial histories have recorded this outrageous and outrageous case. case.
Chang Yu had seen this clear case in his previous life, and he remembered it deeply and found it incredible.
It was because his memory was too deep that he had this suspicion now. Of course, his suspicion did not arise all at once, but the coincidence of many details made him suddenly suspect.
After listening to the story, Qing Yi and Wang Zhengnan looked stunned. Such an unbelievable thing could happen?
"Brother Chang, you suspect that the Nu family is a villain who cheats women based on a major case a hundred years ago and the fact that the Nu family taught Nu Hong?"
The woman was angry and anxious.
Chang Yu smiled: "It's not that I'm too suspicious, but that you have too many puzzling points, and the details of the crime are too similar to that of the thief. When I first met you, I happened to be in a neighboring village with a group of nuns. The pitiful thing about you was actually asking about someone’s family with a good-looking girl. You happened to hear Xiao Que’er say that Mr. Hu’s family had a good-looking daughter. You couldn’t help but smile at that time, but you never thought in your dreams, Xiao Que’er The beautiful girl you talked about is actually only seven or eight years old, and Mr. Hu's wives and concubines are all ordinary in appearance, so that you are greatly disappointed. It happened that you met Qing Yi and you were fascinated by her beauty."
Gu Changyu said and glanced at Qing Yi, who looked a little shy next to him: "So he wanted to find an excuse to leave. Qing Yi, what did he tell you?".
Qing Yi coughed lightly: "He said that Mr. Hu always looked at him lustfully and he was afraid."
"Well, that's a good reason. Then I took advantage of Qing Yi's kindness and wanted to stay here. In addition, Qing Yi said that you always talk to her about men and women... Hehe, this aunt, you think this is too coincidental. , you said your name is Jin Xuan, why do I think your name is Jin Lian, you are still a capable Jin Lian."
The woman snorted: "Spurting blood! It's ridiculous to conclude that I am a thief just from this."
Chang Yu breathed out and said to Qing Yi and Wang Zhengnan: "Have you seen it? The calmer he is, the more it means there is something fishy. If an ordinary village woman was wronged and was wronged, she would have collapsed on the ground crying for her father and mother. If you look at him again, you will panic. Not chaotic, or they are the best in this industry, and their eloquence is extremely good, but it is precisely because of this that they have appeared."
The woman choked and was about to speak, but Chang Yu raised his hand to stop him: "Since you don't admit it after saying so much, then you can take a test and everything will be clear. If I am wrong, I will let you deal with it."
"A physical examination? How dare you humiliate me like this!" The woman was shaking with anger.
"What's wrong with asking Qing Yi to do a body test for you? The body test doesn't mean you will lose your virginity!" Chang Yu scolded.
"It's the same for anyone, anything is a huge insult to me! I would rather die than suffer this humiliation!" The woman looked resolute, like a chaste and martyr woman.
Wang Zhengnan raised his knife and pointed: "Then it will be as you wish!"
The woman was so frightened that she turned pale and said quickly: "That's it, that's it!"
After saying that, he turned around and entered the house. Qingyi was about to follow but Chang Yu grabbed him: "Uh, cough, Qingyi, don't just test the top...the top can also make lies..."
Qing Yi's face turned red: "I understand." At this time, she was very embarrassed and shy. After all, she was still an untouched young girl. The so-called body test was either looking at or touching it. It would be fine if the other party was a woman. Yes, but what if it was a man... How embarrassing.
"Governor, is this true?" Wang Zhengnan asked in a low voice. He always felt uncertain. In fact, these days there is no shortage of women who travel around the countryside and work as sewing workers. Moreover, many women have been displaced due to the war. Is it too far-fetched to make a living out of this and be involved in a major case from a hundred years ago?
Chang Yu shook his head gently: "It's because he is so calm. The anxiety and anger you see him showing are all fake. He is panic and fear in his heart, but he hides it very well. But it still showed a little bit, but I caught it!"
Wang Zhengnan sighed: "I didn't expect that more than a hundred years later, there are still people practicing this evil trick. Didn't it mean that the whole country knew about it back then, so how could anyone still be fooled?"
Chang Yu chuckled: "The crowing of cocks, the crowing of dogs, thieves and criminal acts will continue as long as human beings continue. Such vicious things will still happen not to mention a hundred years or thousands of years later. As for the whole country knowing about it, then you and Qing Yi both No, I don’t know yet.”
In fact, to put it bluntly, this is the same as telecommunications fraud in later generations. Today, with the development of information, TV, the Internet, and newspapers promote anti-fraud every day, but many people are still deceived every day, and many of them are intellectuals and university professors. , graduate students, doctoral students, and even celebrities.
What does this mean?
Not to mention the ancient times when information lagged behind.
The two of them were whispering outside the room, and there was rustling inside. Chang Yu was not worried about anything happening to Qing Yi. Even if the woman was really a man, so what if she was short and thin, and what if she was a burly man? It's not like Qing Yi can turn him into a pulp with just one slap.
He just waited and waited, but no two people came out and no Qing Yi spoke. This made Chang Yu suspicious. He called Qing Yi repeatedly, but no one responded.
Then I knew something was wrong.
