This case occurred in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, in 1925 of the Republic of China. There is a couple in Wenzhou City, the man is Liu Min, the woman is Yuqin, and they have a 2-year-old daughter named Xiao Tangyuan. They have made a living selling wontons for generations. Because they mad

This case occurred in Wenzhou, Zhejiang in 1925.

There is a couple in Wenzhou City. The man is Liu Min, the woman is Yuqin, and they have a 2-year-old daughter named Xiao Tangyuan. They have been selling wontons for generations. Because they made wontons well, they opened a wonton shop. Life is still prosperous.

One day, Liu Min's "Liu Ji Wenzhou Wonton Shop" was doing business. He was drinking tea in the back room. Suddenly, Wu Dalong, the worker in charge of the fire, came and told him that the little Liuzi who was in charge of purchasing in the store and a guy selling onions and garlic. Yes, there was a quarrel in front of the store, and it looked like there was going to be a fight. So Liu Min went out to take a look.

It turned out that the onion and garlic seller was a customer from Guangdong. Because he ran out of money to go out, he started a small business and wanted to make some money to return to his hometown. His name is Lei Jiading. At this time, Lei Jiading said that Xiao Liuzi bought his onions and garlic but did not pay the full price, so he followed him to the front of the store.

Liu Min asked Xiao Liuzi how much he had given him. Xiao Liuzi told him, and Liu Min said to Lei Jiading: "You can handle such a few kilograms of stuff and such a small amount of money on the streets of Wenzhou "Why are you still arguing?"

Lei Jia was dissatisfied: "You are a big business owner, why are you arguing with me, a small businessman carrying a basket? If you don't give me the full price, I won't leave." Until you can't sell any more wontons!"

said and swung the basket in his hand, almost hitting Liu Min in the face.

Liu Min was a very hot-tempered man and well-known in the local area. He felt very embarrassed at this time, so he stretched out his hand and pushed Lei Jiading to the ground.

When Lei Jiading fell to the ground, he hit his head on the steps of the wonton shop. Although there was no blood, he was still alive. This frightened Liu Min, and he quickly asked his wife to bring him a bowl of wonton soup. After drinking it, Lei Jiading opened his eyes. What he didn't say was that Liu Min treated Lei Jiading to two large bowls of wontons and gave him five pieces of ocean , and the matter was settled. Before Lei Jiading left, he said that his head still hurt and if there were any sequelae, he would still come to see Liu Min.

That night, Liu Min drank more wine with an unhappy look on his face and slept until midnight when he was suddenly woken up by a knock on the door. When I opened the door, I saw a big man coming in. It turned out to be Zheng Tianpeng, who was rocking the boat at night on the dock. In his hand, he was holding Lei Jiading's onion and garlic basket and five foreign dollars.

"Zheng Tianpeng, why are you here so late?" Liu Min asked.

"What are you doing? Boss Liu, it's your turn! Do you recognize this basket? And these five dollars?" Zheng Tianpeng said, putting the things in his hands on the table.

"This -?" Liu Min looked at the basket and Guangyang , and felt a little nervous, "What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? He's dead!" Zheng Tianpeng smiled coldly, took out a card from his pocket and hit it. The paper with the fingerprints said, "That Lei Jiading wanted to take my boat to Fujian and return to his hometown, but he died on my boat just now! He asked me to redress his grievances on his behalf, take a look!"

Liu Min took it A look at the petition revealed that it was indeed Lei Jiading who asked Zheng Tianpeng to sue him on his behalf and beat him to death.

"Now, the body is on my boat. Boss Liu, what do you think we should do?" Zheng Tianpeng asked gloomily.

"Really, really?" Liu Min panicked.

"It's true, it's false. The boat is parked at the back door of your house. Go and have a look!"

"Look, look..." Liu Minzheng didn't know what to do, and his wife ran over.

"Master, there is a boat coming from the back door..."

"That's mine, boss lady, there is a dead man on it who is looking for you!"

These words almost scared Liu Min's wife to death. After she knew the situation, she became anxious. Said: "Master, think of a solution quickly!"

"Well, brother Zheng.Look...look what to do! "

Zheng Tianpeng sighed, "Who said we are all from Wenzhou! The man selling onions and garlic is from Cantonese. The world is far away, so I am not as good as a close neighbor as a distant relative! "

" Well, Brother Zheng, thank you so much! "

Zheng Tianpeng: "What can I give you to thank you for? "

" money! money! Liu Min quickly said, "Look, how much does it cost?" "

Zheng Tianpeng: "How much is your life worth? ! "

"I..." Liu Min gritted his teeth. "Two hundred yuan! "

Zheng Tianpeng smiled, stood up and left.

Liu Min grabbed him and said, "Brother Zheng, you have something to say... you have something to say! "

" What else can I say! Liu's wife cried and said, "You can't give up your life for money!" Even if Boss Zheng spares us, if we give him 500 yuan, it will be our entire family wealth! "

" That's fine. Zheng Tianpeng said and stretched out his hand, "Pay!" "

Liu's wife turned around and went in to get the money.

Liu Min: "How about you pull the body out and throw it into the river? "

" Then, if it floats, it's not a problem! "

"What should we do?"

"Tonight, bury it! "

" buried? "

" Yes! Zheng Tianpeng said, "The only way to be safe is to bury the body!" "

That night, after Zheng Tianpeng took the money, he helped Liu Min bury the body in the Liu family's ancestral graveyard. To do this, Liu Min asked Wu Dalong, who set up the fire, to help dig the hole. They worked together until dawn.

一Years later, Liu Min's three-year-old daughter suddenly developed a high fever on a stormy night. All doctors in Wenzhou City were called, but no one could treat her well. Liu Min had no choice but to put up a "notice" at the door of the store. , asked the diners to introduce doctors. As a result, one Huzhou diner said that there was a pediatrician in Huzhou who could definitely cure his daughter, so Liu Min asked Wu Dalong to go and fetch the doctor.

After Wu Dalong went there, he came back ten days later, but the doctor was not called, and Liu Min's daughter had died of illness.

After the couple buried their daughter, Liu Min heard that Wu Dalong had not died at all. He went to see a doctor instead and went home to see his wife. He said that the doctor was not at home and that he had not been invited. This was a lie.

When Liu Min learned about the situation, he was really angry, so he called Wu Huolong and beat him twice. He was slapped in the face and kicked out. He even withheld his salary for the month.

Wu Dalong was originally a rogue gangster. He had been impatient for a long time while setting fire to Liu Min's wonton shop. Now that he was kicked out, it didn't matter. , but the wages were not paid, and the friends around him started to make noises, so he came up with the idea of ​​"revenge".

Wu Dalong's method of "revenge" was to go to the police station to sue Liu Min for "burying the body privately". ", there was suspicion of murder! The police station immediately arrested Liu Min.

Liu Min said nothing, but the police station asked Wu Dalong to confront him. Liu Min had no choice but to tell the story about Lei Jiading and admitted it. "Manslaughter."

Originally, Zheng Tianpeng was involved in the matter, and he should have gone to the police station for trial. But at this time, Zheng Tianpeng's boat went to Ningbo , and he was not there for a while.

The police station dug up the grave and found it. The corpse was supposed to be examined to confirm the "manslaughter" process described by Liu Min, but because it had been two years and there was no protection like a coffin when it was buried, the corpse was too rotten to be examined. Liu Min recognized himself as the murderer, so he reburied the exhumed body.

The only thing left was to wait for Zheng Tianpeng to come back.

It has been half a year, but Zheng Tianpeng has not come back. The police station suspected that the case had been leaked, and Zheng Tianpeng fled in fear of being convicted, so they decided to convict Liu Min first.

So he was handed over to the Wenzhou Court.

The court convicted Liu Min of "manslaughter" and imprisoned him. 30 years.

When the news came, Liu Min’s wife was so anxious that she fell ill, and “Liu Ji Wenzhou Wonton Shop” had to close its doors.

Just a year after Liu Min entered the prison cell, one day, a man came to the wonton shop and asked for Liu Min. When Liu's wife came out, she didn't recognize him.

"Why are you looking for Liu Minyu?"

"He has been kind to me, and I am here to repay the kindness." After saying that, the visitor took out 500 yuan, "This is a little bit of my heart."

"You... ...You are..."

"I am Lei Jiading, Boss Liu 3 years ago..."

"What did you say? You are Lei..."

"Lei Jiading."

Liu's wife heard these three. He was so frightened that he almost fainted, "You are, Lei Jiading, - you are not - aren't you dead!"

"Me? Dead?" Lei Jiading was confused, "I'm not dead!" "

It turned out that Lei Jiading was indeed on Zheng Tianpeng's boat on the day of the accident. He told Zheng Tianpeng what happened during the day on the boat, and Zheng Tianpeng bought the basket of onions and garlic from him and gave him ten The piece of Guangyang replaced the five piece of Guangyang that Liu Min gave him.

"At that time, I thought it was strange what he wanted these things for. However, because I was eager to return to my hometown, I didn't care about him - I didn't expect such a thing to happen."

On the same day, Liu's wife took Lei Jia Ding took it to the court and asked for a retrial of Liu Min's case.

But the question is: Where did that corpse come from? Neither Liu Min nor Lei Jiading could answer this question, but Wu Dalong insisted that it was Lei Jiading who Liu Min asked him to bury.

The court decided that the case should be returned to the police station for re-investigation. Therefore, the police station sent people to Lei Jiading's hometown to investigate to see if the current Lei Jiading was the same Lei Jiading three years ago.

During the investigation by the police station, Zheng Tianpeng's ship returned from Ningbo. As soon as Zheng Tianpeng landed ashore, he was arrested by the police station. But Zheng Tianpeng insisted that Lei Jiading was injured to death by Liu Min, and the current Lei Jiading was fake. However, when he was confused, a country woman came to Zheng Tianpeng and asked him for a helper on his boat. Zheng Tianpeng said that the helper did not come back after landing in Ningbo and disappeared.

At this time, the police who went to Lei Jiading's hometown to investigate came back and proved that the current Lei Jiading was the Lei Jiading of that year. So the police department dug up the grave again to find the body and found that it was that of the helper.

So Zheng Tianpeng was interrogated. Zheng Tianpeng said that at that time, the helper happened to be sick and died, and he heard Lei Jiading talk about how he had a quarrel and fight with Liu Min and got compensation.

"I was always jealous of Liu Min's business," Zheng Tianpeng said, "so I bought Lei Jiading's basket and Dayang to blackmail him."

"Did those workers really die of illness?" the judge asked.

"Of course!"

"What's the disease?"

"Sudden illness, bleeding from seven holes..."

However, the court showed the results of the court identification and found that the helper was poisoned to death by arsenic. The owner of a drugstore in Wenzhou City also proved that Zheng Tianpeng bought arsenic that evening. Therefore, Zheng Tianpeng was sentenced to death for both murder and blackmail.