There is a young man named Tu Rusong in Jiben Village, Macheng County, Hubei Province. Because of his poor family and cowardly nature, he has not yet gotten married in his twenties. He and his old mother depended on each other and lived a very poor life. When Tu's mother saw that her son could not get married, she was very anxious and repeatedly asked people to find matchmakers. Finally, with great difficulty, Tu Rusong married a woman named Yang.
Who would have expected that marrying a wife would cause chaos. Not long after the marriage, Yang became dissatisfied with Tu Rusong and often started quarreling with her. Tu Rusong always let her go. Instead, Ms. Yang became more serious. After the quarrel, she went to live with her parents' house and did not want to come back for a long time. Tu Rusong felt very angry, but he did not dare to explode.
A month later, when Yang came back, Tu's mother fell ill. Not only did she not serve her mother-in-law properly, but she also wanted to go back to her parents' home for some reason. Rusong couldn't bear it any longer. In a rage, he raised his hand to beat his wife. When Yang saw that her husband was about to beat him, she became frightened and ran away from the house.
Tu Rusong thought that Yang had returned to her natal family and didn't pay attention. After a month, Yang didn't come back, so he went to Yang's natal family to inquire about it. Mrs. Yang was not at her parents' home. When Yang's parents heard that their daughter was missing, they were very anxious and questioned Rusong. Rusong was so anxious when he was asked that he couldn't even speak clearly.
Yang Wurong, Yang's younger brother, heard that his sister and brother-in-law were not getting along, so he grabbed Rusong and shouted, "Did you hurt my sister and then pretend to come to find someone?" Rusong was so frightened that he couldn't say a word. Seeing this scene, Wurong was convinced and gave Rusong three days to find Yang, otherwise he would go to the county government to sue him.
Tu Rusong returned home dejectedly and told his mother, who was also frightened. Later, the mother and son separately asked the neighbors and villagers for help in finding Yang. Three days passed. The villagers searched all over the village, but there was still no trace of Yang. Tu Rusong was so anxious when he heard that the villagers could not find Yang.
Wu Rong also quietly checked around since Tu Rusong left that day. One day, Wurong met a man named Zhao Danger. He asked Zhao Dang'er about Tu Rusong's murder of his wife. Zhao Danger said casually. "I heard about this." When Wu Rong heard this, he took Zhao Dang'er to go with him to file a complaint.
Macheng County magistrate Tang Yingqiu immediately went to court and ordered the yamen to bring the plaintiff Yang Wurong. Yang Wurong knelt down in the hall and told his brother-in-law Tu Rusong with tears and snot that he had killed his sister. He kept kowtowing and said, "Master Wang Qingtian makes decisions for the common people." When Tang Zhixian heard this, he realized that it was a murder case and Wurong's words were vague. His words were very unsatisfactory. He asked if there were any witnesses? Wu Rong said, "Zhao Dan'er can prove that he is waiting outside the government office now.
Tang Zhixian reported that Zhao Dan'er entered the lobby. It turned out that Zhao Dan'er only heard the legend from the villagers. The county magistrate was a little unhappy at once, but feel again This was a matter of life and death, so he ordered the yamen servant to summon Tu Rusong to the court to confront him. When the yamen servant arrived at Tu's house, he couldn't help but take Rusong away. Tu's mother stepped forward to stop him, but the yamen servant simply said, "Your son has committed the crime of killing his wife." , the Yang family sued him and took Tu Rusong away.
Tu’s mother also rushed to the county government office. She asked an old officer about it, and the old man said, "The county magistrate has always been conscientious in his work and would not wrongly accuse good people casually." ” She finally calmed down a little and stood outside the Yamen waiting for the news. In the lobby, Magistrate Tang was interrogating Tu Rusong. Trials went on and on, but no real evidence could be found that Tu Rusong killed his wife. He didn't know how to handle this case.
At this moment, Zhao Dan'er's father broke into the lobby, knelt down and said that his son was a scoundrel and hoped that the master would be lenient and not let him sit down. When the county magistrate heard this, he understood a little bit. Tu Rusong might have been wronged in this case.
Tang Zhixian immediately ordered Tu Rusong to get bail and go home first, and he would be there as soon as possible. Tu Rusong walked out of the county government office and saw his mother waiting outside the government office. He told her story and walked home. After
withdrew, Tang Zhixian asked Master Li Xianzong to investigate the situation of the plaintiff Yang Wurong. It turned out that he was a troublemaker, and the person who instigated him to file a complaint this time was a scholar from the same village named Yang Tongfan.
Tang Zhixian ordered people to investigate Yang Tongfan again.He learned that Yang Tongfan was a beast in disguise, and there was a group of evildoers under him. Tang Zhixian said with emotion, "The world is declining, but there are such scum among the scholars!
He immediately asked the academic officials to revoke Yang Tongfan's scholar title. Unexpectedly, the academic officials accepted Yang Tongfan's bribes, but delayed doing so. The honors were not awarded. remove, Tangzhi County could not detain Yang Tongfan for interrogation, so he discussed with the famous criminal master Li Xianzong and others and decided that it was better to find the missing Yang first.
Tangzhi County investigated for several days and finally got a clue. Before she got married, she had been having an affair with someone for a long time. In order to get reliable evidence, the magistrate Tang immediately ordered his servants to find the land security guard of Jiben Village. He had to tell the truth. She worked as a child bride for Wang Zuer from the same village. Wang Zuer fell ill within two years of their marriage. He died. Yang then had an affair with Wang Zuer's nephew Feng Da.
The local security guard also told Tang Zhixian that after Yang disappeared, Feng Da looked nervous and inquired about the whereabouts of the Tu family, but the county magistrate later calmed down. If guaranteed, Less than two hours later, the police officer took Feng Da to the lobby. When he was in shock, he slapped Feng Da on the wall and shouted. "Bold Feng Da dared to harbor the Yang family. Hurry up and get him.
When Feng Da heard about it, he knew that something happened between him and the Yang family, so he had to confess honestly. In the end, Feng Da said, "The villain had an affair with the Yang family in the past. This time Yang was missing, but the villain didn't know anything about it. When the county magistrate heard about it, he took another shot. He was shocked and asked, "After the Yang family complained, why did you secretly inquire about the Tu family?" After hearing this, Feng Da knew that he could no longer hide it, so he had to tell the truth...
It turned out that that day, Yang After escaping from Tu's house, he had no place to hide, so he sneaked into Feng's house at night. When Feng Da saw Yang, he was surprised and happy. When Yang told what happened, he patted his chest and said... "It doesn't matter, just stay here with me." "Feng Da's mother tried to dissuade her again and again, but her son just didn't listen.
Not long after, Feng Da heard that Yang's family had reported Tu Rusong, and the county government sent people to search for Yang's whereabouts. He was very scared, so he discussed it with his mother, who advised Feng Da to hand Yang over to the government as soon as possible.
How could Feng Da be willing to give up? But the rumors got tighter and louder. Feng Da, mother and son were helpless, so they told Yang the truth and asked her to find another way out. When Mrs. Yang heard this, she expected that sooner or later she would be exposed here, so she had no choice but to say, "I have no other choice, so I have to go back to my parents' home." 』In this way, Yang quietly left the Feng family one night...
According to the information provided by Feng Da, Tang Zhixian immediately sent a government official to Yang Wurong's house to search the results. When nothing was found, he came back and reported to the county magistrate. The search yielded no results and there was insufficient evidence. Magistrate Tang had no choice but to let Feng Da get bail and go home temporarily.
Just when Tangzhi County was helpless, the land security guard of Tu Rusong Village came to report, "A decomposed body was found on the river beach in the village. Please come and inspect it quickly." Tangzhi County immediately brought the widower Li Rong and the three government officials. The team and others headed to Jiben Village.
Unexpectedly, a heavy rain suddenly started not far from Tangzhi County, not far from the county seat, and they had to return to the county government office. The news that a body was found on the river beach soon reached the ears of scholar Yang Tongfan. He came in the rain to watch. It turned out that the child servant of a rich man in Jiben Village died and was buried on the river beach, and was dug out by wild dogs.
When Yang Tongfan returned home, he came up with a plan and said happily, "This time I can keep my reputation." ” He quietly found Yang Wurong and asked him to pretend that the body was Yang’s. Wu Rong became confused. After Yang Tongfan persuaded him in this way, Wurong nodded and agreed.
Yang Tongfan went to find Li Rong, the widower, and asked him to describe the body as a female body during the autopsy, and promised to pay him a large sum of money. Li Rong refused on the spot. Yang Tongfan left angrily.
The rain stopped the next day, and Tang Zhixian came to the river beach again to conduct an autopsy. Although the body had long since decomposed and was washed away by heavy rains, it was no longer human. However, Li Rong, the widower, verified that it was that of a man and reported the truth to Tang Magistrate.
When Magistrate Tang heard that it was a male corpse, there was no need to re-examine it, so he prepared to return to the county government office. At this moment, Yang Wurong led a group of people and stopped Tang Zhixian's horse head.
Yang Wurong cried out for injustice and insisted that the corpse was that of Mr. Yang. Yang Tongfan and the others also echoed. Tang Zhixian shouted angrily! "If Wurong continues to cause trouble, he will be imprisoned pending trial." 】Wu Rong was scared and did not dare to continue making trouble. Only then did the Tang magistrate return to the county government office.
Yang Tongfan was unwilling to give in. He wanted to avenge Tangzhi County for expelling him from his position, so he wrote a secret letter to Huguang Governor Maizhu. The superiors immediately sent Gao Renjie, the magistrate of Yueji County, to conduct a reexamination, hoping to take this opportunity to read a copy of the magistrate of Tangtang County.
Gao Renjie was originally a probationary county magistrate. He had long wanted to show off his skills in front of his superiors, and he was even more coveted for the lucrative position of Macheng County Magistrate. When he arrived in Macheng County, his attitude was very arrogant and he ignored Tang Magistrate. .
Two days later, Gao Renjie took his co-worker Xue and others to the river beach for an autopsy. In fact, as soon as Xue arrived in Macheng, Yang Tongfan had already bribed him heavily. Therefore, Xue opened up the corpse, pretended to examine it, and then reported to Gao Renjie in a serious manner, "This corpse is a female corpse, with severe injury marks on the ribs."
Yang Wurong was observing by the side, and when he heard that it was a female corpse, he immediately Kneeling in front of Gao Renjie, he cried out his injustice with tears and runny nose. Gao Renjie asked Yang Wurong why he complained about injustice. Yang Wurong said it again. When Gao Renjie heard this, he deliberately lowered his face and shouted, "Come here, take away this unruly citizen who falsely accused the county's parents."
The police officers swarmed up and without any explanation, took Yang Wurong and left. Yang Tongfan and others were confused for a moment, watching Gao Renjie lead him away. After leaving Yang Wurong, Gao Renjie returned to the county government and ordered Yang Wurong to be taken to the study and ordered the government officials to strictly restrain him. Others broke in. Gao Renjie personally offered a seat to calm Yang Wurong.
When Yang Wurong was confused, Gao Renjie explained to him that there were so many people talking at the autopsy site that the news would inevitably leak out, so he was brought here for questioning. . Yang Wurong was relieved. He boldly made up some stories, saying that Tu Rusong killed his wife, that Tang Magistrate was corrupt and perverting the law, that Master Li Xianzong cheated, and that Li Rong's autopsy was falsely reported. After hearing this, Gao Renjie felt happy.
After Gao Renjie quietly released Wu Rong, he immediately wrote a letter. , reported the important information of the case to Governor Mai Zhu, who was old, fatuous and self-willed, and then immediately He wrote a memorial to the emperor to impeach Tang Yingqiu, the magistrate of Macheng County.
Soon after, the emperor issued an imperial edict and dismissed Tang Yingqiu from his post. Magistrate Tang looked up to the sky and sighed, "It's not a pity that I lost my Wu Sha , but Tu Rusong and others are going to die." Jiuquan." Maizhu admired Gao Renjie's handling of the case and immediately appointed him to preside over the case. From then on, Gao Renjie became more and more proud.
The next day, Gao Renjie went to court and began to interrogate the case. He interrogated Tu Rusong, Tang Yingqiu, Li Xianzong, Li Rong and others in turn. Unwilling to get the confession he needed, Gao Renjie resorted to severe torture to extract a confession.
He tortured Tu Rusong until his ankle bones were exposed, and he passed out. After Tu Rusong was splashed with cold water and woke up, he still refused to confess to killing Yang. Seeing this, Gao Renjie was furious and shouted, " torture ! Look how hard his bones are!
Tu Rusong woke up again after being splashed with cold water, his eyes were straight, and he was mentally confused. Gao Renjie kept asking questions. At this time, Tu Rusong In a daze, Gao Renjie finally got Tu Rusong's confession. Then he used the same word. Tang Yingqiu and Li Xianzong were tortured like this until they confessed. Gao Renjie became even more proud when he saw that all three of them had confessed. After Li Rong was brought to court, Gao Renjie did not interrogate him and only ordered the government officials to torture him. html hit hard. 4
How could Li Rong withstand such a severe beating? After a while, he passed out. When Gao Renjie saw the officer stopped the torture stick, he immediately shouted angrily, "Li Rong is pretending to be dead, why don't you continue beating me." ] The officer raised the cane again and beat Li Rong to death.
Gao Renjie ordered people to carry away Li Rong's body, and then announced his resignation. When he came to the back hall, he couldn't help but think that he would be the magistrate of Macheng County. Laugh wildly.Gao Renjie came to the study and asked him to write a document and submit it to the Ministry of Punishment. When the master wrote about the autopsy section, which still lacked the necessary verification of the female body, he immediately stopped writing. Seeing this, Gao Renjie also became worried.
The master thought for a while and said... "Since Tu Rusong admitted to killing his wife, let's ask him for these evidences." When Gao Renjie heard this, he immediately understood and couldn't help praising the master for his great idea. After a few days, Tu Rusong's injuries improved slightly. Gao Renjie ordered someone to bring him to court for interrogation and asked him where he buried the man who killed Yang. Tu Rusong said for a while that he was in the west of the city, and then he said he was in the north of the city.
Gao Renjie was eager to get evidence of the female corpse, so he immediately mounted his horse and ordered the government officials to escort Tu Rusong to the mass grave in the west of the city. Gao Renjie asked Tu Rusong to identify the grave. Tu Rusong pointed at a grave mound at random. Gao Renjie ordered people to dig the grave immediately, and the result was a male corpse.
Tu Rusong pointed to another grave. The government officials spent a lot of effort digging, but still couldn't find the required evidence. Gao Renjie refused to give up and ordered half of the graves to be dug in this mass grave, but no evidence of the female body was found. He had no choice but to return to the county government office in despair.
Gao Renjie returned to the county government and was about to torture Tu Rusong. Suddenly, the local security guard of Jiben Village came to the county government office, saying that he had something to ask and asked to see the county magistrate. Gao Renjie ordered Di Bao to come in and see him. The land security reported that a woman’s hair, toe bones, bloody culottes and other items were found where the body was buried on the river beach in the village.
Gao Renjie was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately asked his co-worker Xue and a police officer to be led by the local security guards to check it out. After an hour, the co-worker Xue presented the bloody culottes, toe bones, hair and other items. Gao Renjie was overjoyed and said, "Okay! Okay! Now the case can be closed!
Gao Renjie immediately asked his master to write it clearly, and then sent a trusted officer to bring the submission and "evidences" to Huangzhou. The prefect Jiang Jianian was an honest official. When he received the closing report, he found that the autopsy section was full of loopholes, so he suppressed it intentionally. After obtaining real evidence, he personally took several coworkers from other counties to the river beach for autopsy. After several coworkers carefully re-examined the bones, they unanimously reported to the magistrate that this was a male corpse. How could the evidence of a female body be dug up? ?”
It turned out that when Gao Renjie tortured Tu Rusong and others, Li Xianzong’s wife came to find Tu Rusong’s mother. The two could not bear to see so many people suffer, so they secretly discussed a way to save them. Tu's mother immediately cut off her own hair and jumped out of her white hair. She then found the culottes worn by her daughter-in-law Yang, cut her fingers, and stained the culottes with blood.
Li Xianzong's wife came to her family's cemetery, split open her dead daughter's coffin with an ax, and took out her daughter's toe bones. Then, the two old women went to the river beach that night and quietly buried these things in the soil.
The next day, Tu’s mother reported to the local police and found the “evidence” of the female corpse on the river beach. After hearing this, the local security guard immediately went to check and found that it was indeed the remains of the female corpse. He immediately reported it to the county government. In this way, the evidence of the female corpse that Gao Renjie wanted to search was obtained.
Now, Magistrate Chiang does not know the origin of the evidence of the female corpse, but only sees a male corpse. After thinking about it, he immediately returned to Huangzhou and prepared to rewrite the report and submit it to the Ministry of Punishments. At this time, Gao Renjie's confidants inquired about this fact and reported it to Gao Renjie. He was frightened and immediately galloped to Huangzhou.
Gao Renjie rushed to the magistrate's office and lied to Jiang Jianian that a man's body had been replaced, and demanded a new investigation and interrogation. Magistrate Chiang had already seen that Gao Renjie's conclusion of the case was untrue, and he promised to re-investigate and interrogate the case and severely punish the murderer. Gao Renjie then left with evil intentions.
Unfortunately, a flash flood suddenly broke out that day, and the bones on the river beach were washed away without a trace. Another autopsy was in vain. Magistrate Jiang was so anxious that he stamped his feet. Gao Renjie was extremely happy when he saw the bodies washed away by the flood. He wrote a secret letter all night and sent it to the Governor's Mansion in Huguang.
After Governor Maizhu received Gao Renjie's secret letter, he was very angry with Jiang Jianian.He immediately reported to the emperor and sentenced Tu Rusong and the magistrate of Macheng to be beheaded and hanged. Before the emperor could confirm the report, the elders of Macheng County said that this was a serious injustice case. If Yang could be found, Magistrate Tang and Tu Rusong could be rescued.
Not long after the incident, the emperor issued a decree and appointed Chen Ding as the magistrate of Macheng County. As he came to Macheng County to take up his post, it was also reported that Tu Rusong's wife Yang had been found. It turned out that when Yang came out of the Feng family and returned to her parents' house that day, Yang Wurong couldn't help but be shocked when he saw her. Secret passage. "In this case, won't I have to bear the charge of false accusation? Maybe I will be sentenced to death!
Yang Wurong thought of this, grabbed Yang and said, "Come with me quickly." Yang didn't know why. I had no choice but to follow behind. Yang Wurong kept dragging Yang to Yang Tongfan's house. Yang Wurong originally wanted to discuss it with Yang Tongfan, but Yang Tongfan had long coveted Yang's beauty. Unfortunately, he never had the chance. Now that the opportunity has come, how can he let it go.
Yang Tongfan gave Yang Wurong some silver to tell him to hide the matter, and then sent him away. Yang Tongfan was also afraid that the matter would be leaked, so he asked Yang to hide in the wall. From then on, he had an affair with Yang behind his wife's back.
By coincidence, Yang Tongfan's wife had been pregnant for a long time. In the middle of the night, she suddenly felt a pain in her stomach and was about to give birth. At five o'clock in the morning, Yang Tongfan saw that his wife was giving birth prematurely, so he had to ask his maid to go to a nearby house to ask for the midwife Li. Although Li always disliked Yang Tongfan, saving people was more important now. So she hurriedly told her son Li Yue a few words, and then followed her maid to Yang Tongfan's home.
Mrs. Li came to the bedroom, prepared the necessary things, and hurriedly assisted in the delivery. Yang Tongfan's wife realized that she was having a difficult delivery and was in danger. She was in a hurry and shouted! "Third aunt, help me." As soon as he finished speaking, a woman suddenly emerged from the wall on the first floor. The midwife, Mrs. Li, saw Yang, who everyone had been looking for. Shi was shocked. However, Yang had already met him and it was too late to hide.
Mrs. Yang knelt down in front of Mrs. Li, kowtowing like a mince, and begged the old woman not to tell anyone. The cunning Yang Tongfan was also afraid that the plot would be failed, so he took out ten taels of silver and stuffed it into Mrs. Li's sleeve. Mrs. Li was afraid that Yang Tongfan would kill someone and silence her. After accepting the money, he pretended to be happy and went to deliver the baby to his wife.
After the baby was born, Mrs. Li hurriedly said goodbye to Yang Tongfan. Yang Tongfan repeatedly asked not to leak the news. The old woman agreed and went home. When Mrs. Li returned home, she told her son Li Yue about the discovery of Mrs. Yang at Yang Tongfan's house. Then, she said to her son, "Son, we can't ask for such unintended money!
Li Yue was a young man with a sense of justice. He very much agreed with his mother's words. After discussion, the mother and son secretly went to the county government office with ten taels of silver to ask for an audience with the new county magistrate Chen Ding. Li Yue. Li told the story of discovering Yang and put ten taels of silver on the table. Magistrate Chen praised Li. The mother and son asked them not to leak it for the time being.
After Chen Zhixian sent away Li's mother and son, he quickly sent someone to tell the news to Hubei Governor Wu Yingfen. Wu Yingfen knew that the case involved Huguang Governor Ma Zhu and it was difficult to report it to him. He directly ordered the arrest of Yang
Chen Zhixian received the order and came up with a perfect plan. He personally led the officers to Yang's house in the name of visiting. Suddenly, County Magistrate Chen raised his right hand and the officers immediately greeted him. Everyone in the Yang family is waiting for arrest Staying in a room. When Yang Tongfan came to his senses, he was caught off guard.
County magistrate Chen ordered the officers to search again. Sure enough, the officers demolished the wall and caught the Yang family hiding inside. Yang Tongfan took him back to the county government and ordered Yang Wurong to be arrested. tml2 County Magistrate Chen returned to the county office and the trial began immediately. Yang, Yang Wurong, and Yang Tongfan confessed to all the crimes. He then reported the entire case to Governor Wu Yingfen, who then forwarded Magistrate Chen's report to Huguang Governor Mai. Zhu. Seeing that the truth of the case was revealed, Mai Zhu could only tell the truth to the emperor and wait for the emperor's decision. Soon after, the emperor issued a decree and Mai Zhu was demoted. Gao Renjie was arrested and imprisoned to await judgment. At the same time, the emperor issued a decree to restore Tang Yingqiu's position as county magistrate. County Magistrate Chen reviewed the case again. The evidence was conclusive and he sentenced Yang Tongfan, Yang Wurong and other to death in accordance with the law. Tu Rusong was acquitted and Yang was imprisoned and committed suicide in prison. As soon as the results of the trial came out, tens of thousands of people in Macheng County were delighted and rushed to tell each other, congratulating the resolution of the strange case and thanking County Magistrate Chen for doing a good thing for the people. (End)
