One Hundred and Five Strange Birds

In the third year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, there was a bird market in front of the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. The bird market was very lively, with many bird sellers and stalls. All kinds of rare and exotic birds were on display. Many bird buyers traded them for love.

This is where birds hunt.

Tang Qi, the magistrate of Qinhuai County in Nanjing Prefecture, was an upright and upright official. However, he had a hobby. He loved birds as much as his life. He kept parrots, starlings, wrens, orioles, larks and other famous birds in his house. He enjoyed the chirping of birds every day.

He enjoys it. When he is free, he often goes to the bird market incognito to look for rare birds and watch them. He is also a frequent visitor to the bird market.

One day in spring, when the flowers were blooming, Tang Qi went to the bird market incognito, hoping to find famous birds to buy. As soon as he entered the bird market, he saw several bird dealers chasing and beating a small bird. Tang Qi looked at it and saw that the bird was small in size.

It is about four inches long, has a short and pointed beak, and has eye-catching black and yellow stripes on its wings, crown and chin.

It was black in color, with bright yellow head, waist and tail. It was a gold bird. It was beaten by the bird sellers, and the gold bird jumped up and down, darting and moving, and even dodged it without getting hurt at all. Tang Qi was very surprised and hurriedly approached

A familiar bird dealer asked why. The bird dealer's surname was Lin Lang. Lin Lang informed him that just now

This golden sparrow flew to the bird market and sang in the air. When the birds heard it, they all shut up and became silent. When Tang Qi heard it, he immediately asked excitedly: "Is this golden sparrow really so magical?" Lin Lang replied:

"You don't know something, but this bird is very smart and can learn more than ten kinds of bird songs.

, but it is very stubborn. It often comes to the bird market and deliberately makes an unpleasant sound. The birds are frightened and do not dare to sing. Therefore, people give it a bad name and call it a bad bird. If this bird is tamed, it will become the best among birds.

It’s a treasure.” Tang Qi heard about this strange thing for the first time in his life, and his interest in this bird became even more intense.

At this time, a bird seller came in with his arms open. Tang Qi knew this bird seller, whose surname was Liu Mingtai. He saw an eagle landing on his shoulder. He ordered the eagle to catch the bird. The eagle spread its wings, hit the air directly, and pounced on the bird.

, the bird evil is in danger! Lin Lang couldn't bear it when he saw it, and shouted: "The bird evil is flying fast, fly away quickly!"

Forced by the eagle, with nowhere to escape, it hurriedly flapped its wings and plunged into Lin Lang's sleeves to hide. Upon seeing this, Liu Tai pounced on Lin Lang, tugged on his sleeves and shouted: "Come here quickly!

Crush the bird to death!" Lin Lang broke free, turned around and ran away, begging: "Don't hurt his life, this is his life, please spare him."

Lin Lang escaped from the bird market, covered his sleeves, and ran away. When he looked back, he saw that Liu Tai was not chasing him, so he stopped and sat on the side of the road to take a rest. Lin Lang raised his eyes and looked up, but saw no eagle hovering in the sky, so he let go of his sleeves.

, said: "The bird devil is out of danger, run away quickly." The bird devil flew out from his sleeves, landed on Lin Lang's shoulder, and chirped twice, as if

Lin Lang thanked Lin Lang for saving his life, and Lin Lang asked, "Bird Sha, would you like to choose me as your master?" Bird Sha nodded and responded without flying, wishing to recognize Lin Lang as his master. What a wonder! Bird Sha jumped down into the forest.

On Lang's right arm, he kept chirping, sometimes like the sound of a magpie, sometimes like the sound of a sparrow, and he continuously learned the sounds of several kinds of birds.

Lin Lang was overjoyed. When he was feeling happy, he heard the sound of rapid footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw Tang Qi, the county magistrate, approaching. He hurriedly stood up and saluted. It turned out that Tang Qi had been following him, wanting to see this strange bird, and just then he heard it.

The sound of the evil bird is very strange

When he looked closely, he saw that the bird fell on Lin Lang's arm and did not fly away. He was even more surprised and asked Lin Lang, "This bird will never leave, can I recognize you as my master?" Lin Lang answered with a smile.

He said: "Lord Tang, of course, he has recognized the villain as his master."

Tang Qi was terrified to fly the birds, and carefully to the forefront. Seeing that the bird evil is different from the golden birds, and there are two black eyebrows above the eyes. The appearance is very weird and different.

In this way, the birdsha also imitate the sound of several birds. There are countless birds raising, so wonderful bird sounds have never been heard, and the feeling is extremely glad.

The victim was dumb, so he ordered Lin Lang to training the birds to train the birds, and then buy it again. Lin Lang made the first order to follow the order, and then stated that the bird evil training uniforms were determined, and the adults were dedicated.

Lin Lang lived alone by the Xuanwu Lake, and made a living by birds. After a few days, Tang Qi sent the madage to Lin Lang's house to ask how his training was.

Yesterday, the disappearance was disappeared, and the birdsha did not know where to fall.

Nanjing Government belongs to Xuanwu Zhixian Yu Fan and also raising birds. One day, Tang Qi was invited to Xuanwu County to go to the banquet. He entered the county and saw Xuanwu in Zhixian Shuzhu cage. After seeing the ceremony, Tang Qi said: "Master Tang

, I bought a strange bird recently. This bird does not eat or drink, and my life is going to take a break.

Looking at it, this bird is also a bird! It is a big surprise, and he is busy asking the bird's calendar. Yu Fan said: "Three days ago, a bird vendor held this bird to my house. I saw this bird different.

In the place, then paid the silver and bought it. "Tang Qiwen, the metaphor: The original Lin Lang greedy for money, quietly worsen the birds, and I was afraid of being pursued, so I fled.

Birds lying in the bird cage, closed his eyes to die, smelled Tang Qi's voice, suddenly opened his eyes, struggled to get up, shook his mouth, and wanted to eat. Tang Qi was busy eating and feeding.

, I have a glowing spirit, starting to sing, learn eight kinds of birds in a row, bird farmers know that eight types of birds learn from birds, calling for eight, it is rare.

, Ding and Tang Qi have a relationship, very different, simply do human feelings, send the birds with the birds with Tang Qi. Tang Qi has this rare treasure, and is overjoyed.

In the afternoon of the same day, Tang Qi took the bird with the bird. When passing through the Xuanwu Lake, the bird evil spit out the name, screamed Lin Langlin Lang, and hit the bird cage to come out, violently hitting it, his head broke the blood flow, his head broke the blood flow, his head broke the blood flow, and his head broke the blood flow.

When Tang Qi saw it, the birds died of the cage, and they opened the cage.

Birds came out of the cage, flew to Tang Qi, called Lin Lang, and then flew to the edge of the lake, pierced into the lake, disappeared. Tang Qi suspected that the birds were drowned, and when they were stunned.

Jumping out of the lake, shaking the water beads, flying to Tang Qi, also known as Lin Lang's name, and then flew back to the lake and picked it into the water. It repeated three times.

Tang Qi was puzzled, and a madage doubted: "Is there something in the water? Want to let the adults see it?" Tang Qi realized that the madage was reasonable, and he was ordered to enter the water.

In the short term, the madage drilled out of the water and exclaimed: "Adults, there are drowns at the bottom of the lake!"

Tang Qi urgently ordered his men to fish for the drowning person, and the drowning person removed the water surface. Tang Qi looked at it and was shocked.

The birds were harmed, and the tied stone fell into the lake, and the corpse disappeared. The person who sold the birds was undoubtedly the biggest suspect.

Image, want to arrest it.

Tang Qi returned to the yamen. The next day, the yamen servants brought back the drawings of the bird buyers. Tang Qi and the other yamen servants looked at them, but no one recognized them. Tang Qi ordered the painter to paint several pictures, and sent the yamen servants to post them everywhere, offering a reward for their capture. He also ordered the widow to do a forest inspection.

After an examination of Lang's body, it was reported that Lin Lang had been hit with a stick in the back of the head and died. He was then tied with a stone and fell into the lake. He had been dead for three days.

Tang Qi immediately sent his men to investigate the case near Lin Lang's house and investigate the people who had been in contact with Lin Lang recently. However, after a few days, there was no clue at all, and the bird demon was nowhere to be found. This case was difficult to solve and very difficult.

Tang Qi was at a loss what to do. When he was worried about the case, he suddenly saw the bird demon flying into the Yamen with an object in its mouth. Tang Qi was pleasantly surprised when he saw the bird demon put the object in its mouth. Tang Qi looked closely and saw that it was a mask. After the bird demon, it was a mask.

Call Liu Tai Liu Tai several times in a row. Tang Qiyu, it hurts

Lin Lang's man was determined to be Liu Tai, so he sent someone to arrest Liu Tai and bring him to the Yamen. Tang Qi went to court to interrogate the case and ordered Liu Tai to put on the mask. Liu Tai had no choice but to obey the order and put the mask on his face.

If you look closely, you will see that it is exactly the same as the painted shadow, and it is a bird! Tang Qi

Liu Tai sneered and said: "Liu Tai, don't you understand? The bird evil has told you that you are the one who wants to kill the birds, so quickly and truthfully recruit him!" Liu Tai kowtowed indifferently and argued: "Sir, this mask does not belong to ordinary people.

, I don’t know who the bird-singer is, I also have one in my family.

This bird was caught by my eagle recently. It is the same as Lin Lang's bird. Why should I risk my life to catch his bird? Three days ago, when Lin Lang died, I gathered with friends at home to drink, but I did not go to Lin Lang.

Friends can testify to the scene of the murder, please take a closer look."

Tang Qi immediately summoned Liu Tai's friends to the lobby. After interrogation, all his friends testified that when Lin Lang was killed, Liu Tai did gather friends at home to drink. This is strange. Could it be that someone else was the one who killed Lin Lang?

Qi had no choice but to order the Yamen servant to go first

Liu Tai was imprisoned pending trial. Tang Qi thought hard about the case. Liu Tai said that he had a bird that was similar to Lin Lang's bird. Why not go and see it in person one day, and then check out Liu Tai's recent relationships to find out what he was doing?

The clues were revealed.

The next day, Tang Qi led several government officials to Liu Tai's home to investigate. They found a golden sparrow imprisoned in a cage in his house.

It was found that the black eyebrows of this golden bird were artificially glued on. He took it out from the cage and peeled off the eyebrows. It turned out to be an ordinary golden bird! Tang Qi's eyes flashed and he said that Liu Tai was more suspected of killing the bird.

After asking Liu Tai's neighbors, a neighbor told him that Liu Tai had been in close contact with the second lai lately. Who was the second lai? The second lai was a gangster who idled around all day, did not do his job, and lived by stealing. Tang Qi immediately ordered the Yamen to take the second lai.

Lai captured him and took him to the county government for trial along with the fake bird demon.

The second villain was interrogated first, but he denied it and said it had nothing to do with the case. Tang Qi frowned, and he thought of it, and ordered the government officials to take the second villain into custody first. Liu Tai was interrogated again, and Tang Qi put out the birdcage containing the fake bird evil spirit.

, said deceitfully: "This fake bird is yours."

Golden Bird? Now that the second villain has been recruited, what can you say to argue? Recruit him truthfully!" When Liu Tai saw that the fake bird's eyebrows were uncovered and heard that the second villain had been recruited, he trembled all over and collapsed on the ground, trembling and saying: "

I didn't kill anyone, but the person who killed Lin Lang is a bad guy."

Liu Taiquan confessed that it turned out that when Liu Tai saw Lin Lang getting the bird devil, he was extremely jealous and wanted to dominate him. He hatched a plan. He took a golden bird and used black down to make fake eyebrows and glued it to create a fake bird devil. Later, Liu Taiquan confessed.

Conspired with the second lai, let the second lai enter Lin Lang's house at night with a fake bird, exchange the fake for the real, steal the beam and replace it with the pillar, and then vend it after he gets it, the two of them will split it 50-50.

The second lai carried a fake birdcage and a mask and entered Lin Lang's house in the middle of the night. He jumped into the courtyard and saw a birdcage hanging under the eaves. Inside the cage was a birdcage. He crept closer to pick it up and replace it.

Hearing the noise, he screamed. Lin Lang woke up and immediately put on his clothes and went out of the house to see what was going on. The second man was afraid of being exposed and saw him on the steps.

There was a wooden stick, and he hid it in the dark. When Lin Lang came out of the house, Erlai swung the stick behind his back and hit Lin Lang's head hard. He wanted to knock Lin Lang unconscious, but he accidentally used too much force and hit Lin Lang's head with the stick.

, his brains burst immediately, and he fell to the ground with a muffled sound. The second man abandoned his stick and stepped forward to look at him. He saw that Lin Lang was dead and his life was at stake. He regretted it in panic.

His intention was to steal the bird, but he accidentally lost his life. In order to hide from the authorities, the second lieutenant locked the courtyard door to create the illusion that Lin Lang was far away. He carried Lin Lang's body to the shore of Xuanwu Lake, tied it to a big stone, and threw it into the lake to eliminate it.

The corpse was gone. He then returned to Liu Tai's home with the real and fake bird demon. It was already dawn, and Liu Tai heard that Lin Lang had been killed by a stick. He was angry at the second lair for doing something inappropriate, but now that the matter had come to this, there was nothing he could do.

Liu Tai knew that Yu Fan, the magistrate of Xuanwu County, loved birds, so he took the bird shaman and a mask to drink and sell them outside Fan's house. Yu Fan paid a hundred taels of silver for the birds, and Liu Tai returned with the silver, which he shared equally with his second wife.

When the case came to light, Tang Qi secretly exclaimed: Liu Tai had worked so hard to capture the Bird Sha. How could he have solved the case and concluded it without the Bird Sha's guidance?

At this time, the bird demon suddenly flew into the lobby from outside and landed on the beam of the lobby. It imitated the chirping of birds, sometimes sad and sad, sometimes gentle and joyful, as if thanking Tang Qi for solving the case. Everyone looked up and looked at it, and Tang Qi counted it with his wrench.

, thirteen mouths! Suddenly the bird fell straight from the beam and hit the ground. Tang Qi was startled, went to pick it up and looked at it, the bird was dead! Tang Qi sighed with emotion and couldn't stop sighing.

Tang Qi sentenced the second lai to death and sentenced Liu Tai to seven years in prison. He also ordered people to put the bird demon in a small coffin and bury him in a small coffin, and bury him in the same place as his master Lin Lang.

When Yu Fan, the magistrate of Xuanwu County, heard about it, he sighed and said: "Hey! Although the bird demon is not as majestic as a phoenix or as beautiful as a peacock, it can learn thirteen languages ​​and human speech. It can be called an elf. It avenges the Lord and is buried in the Lord. It is benevolent and righteous.
Chapter completed!