Such a case happened during Xiang Minzhong's tenure in Xijing. A famous monk passed by a village. Seeing that it was getting late, he begged the shopkeeper to stay overnight, but the shopkeeper declined politely. As a last resort, the monk had to stay in the car outside the house for a while. In the middle of the night, the monk woke up suddenly and saw a thief carrying a woman and climbing over the wall with a bag in his hand. The monk couldn't help thinking that earlier, my master refused me to spend the night in the house. Now, if the owner finds out that his wife has run away and everything is gone, he will definitely settle accounts with me tomorrow, so he might as well leave here quickly. Unexpectedly, the monk accidentally fell into the dry well because he was flustered and didn't pay attention. After falling into a dry well. It was discovered that the woman who fled over the wall with the robbers had been silenced by the robbers and abandoned in the corpse well.

The next day, the master followed the footprints to the well and sent the monk to the yamen. The monk had to admit that he kidnapped the woman first and then ran away with her things. However, fearing that his master would send someone to hunt her down, he had to kill the woman, throw her into the well and abandon her body. As for the property left by the well, I don't know who took it. The jailer submitted the report to the government and Taiwan Province, and the government and Taiwan Province believed that the evidence was true and should immediately pronounce a sentence. Only Xiang Minzhong thought that the loss of stolen goods was very suspicious, so he interrogated the monk alone and finally learned the truth, so he sent spies to visit various places.

One day, a spy walked into a snack bar in the village for dinner. As soon as the proprietress heard that he was from Fucheng, she asked him, "Is there any new progress in the case of monk killing?" The spy deliberately lied to her and said, "He was sentenced to death yesterday." The proprietress asked, "What will happen if the real murderer is caught now?" "The murder case has been closed and the monk has been executed. Even if the real murderer is caught, it makes no difference. The government will not ask again. " The proprietress said, "I'm sorry to hear that. That woman was killed by a young man named A in our village. " Then he pointed out the residence of A to the spy, who arrested A and took out the stolen goods in the direction indicated. A man confessed his crime, but the monk was innocent. When I was in Song Zhenzong, I worshipped Xiang Minzhong as my right servant. At that time, Li Zongqi, a bachelor of Hanlin, was on duty. Zhenzong said, "I have never been a servant since I acceded to the throne. Now I have appointed Xiang Minzhong. This is an unusual order and Xiang Minzhong should be very happy. " He added: "There must be a lot of guests in Hunan today. Go and have a look. Don't say it's me. " After Li arrived, Xiang Minzhong refused the guest, and there was silence outside the door. Li Zongge and his cronies went straight in and congratulated him slowly, saying, "Today, when I heard that the imperial edict of appointment had come down, all the scholars and officials were happy to congratulate each other." Xiang Min is just a humble response. Li added, "Since your Majesty ascended the throne, he has never been appointed as Prime Minister. It is not that he has made great contributions to morality and cares more than ordinary people. Why is this happening? " Xiang Minzhong is also a humble response. Li Zong 'e also told Chen Qian that the man who shot the servant attached great importance to virtue and courtesy, and Xiangmin responded humbly. Finally, no word can reflect his mood. After Li went out, he sent someone to the kitchen to ask if there were any relatives and guests holding a banquet and drinking today. No one was there. The next day, Li went to Zhenzong again. Zhenzong asked, "Did you see Xiang Minzhong yesterday?" Li Zongxi replied: "Yes." Zhenzong asked again: "How is Xiang Minzhong's mood?" Li Zongge gave a detailed answer to what he saw. Zhenzong smiled and said, "Xiang Minzhong can stand in the official position."