Xinzheng County Magistrate Shi Zongyu, born as a Jinshi, is honest and good at determining cases.
On this day, a villager Jia grabbed a man and came to sue the official. The arrested person was surnamed Zhang. Jia said that he saw Zhang peeking outside his yard and wanted to steal his own money.
County Magistrate of Shi asked Zhang if this was the case. Zhang immediately called for justice and said that he was a foreign businessman and was resting on the roadside. Because he was sick and had difficulty moving, he took care of his property and asked his two partners to buy food. Unexpectedly, Jia I was powerless to bully him and rob the money. I followed him to get back the money, so I checked out outside the courtyard, but Zhang had no evidence, let alone witnesses. County Magistrate Shi was helpless and could not determine that Zhang was robbed. It was also impossible to determine that Jia robbed, so he drove the two out.
Although there is no evidence, the Shi County Magistrate also knew that Jia was not a good person and there was a problem. He also thought that Jia still owed three taels of silver to pay, so he asked someone to ask for it. Unexpectedly, in the past, Jia was cheating or hiding when he came to the door. I went out, but today I paid the tax very happily.
County Magistrate Shi suspected that it had worsened, so he caught Jia and asked him how his money came about.
Jia replied that he was his own clothes, so the Shi County Magistrate naturally didn't believe it, because Jia did not have clothes that cost three taels of silver, but seeing Jia's appearance as a scoundrel, he was too lazy to talk too much, so he directly asked his subordinates to take Jia's neighbors. bring.
Shi County Magistrate asked his neighbor if he knew the source of Jia's money, but his neighbor answered that he didn't know.
Jia quickly winked at the neighbor and said loudly: "Have you forgotten? I have a mahogany chair heirloom in my house. It was bought by a foreigner yesterday!"
The neighbor suddenly realized and changed his words: "Yes, that's the case. ! "
County Magistrate Shi sneered, already understood what was going on, and immediately ordered the yamen runners to punish their neighbors.
The neighbor was shocked and immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, telling the truth. It turned out that it was Jia who robbed Zhang's money. Seeing that the matter was exposed, Jia had to kneel down and plead guilty.
Next, the magistrate of Shi County asked someone to go to Jia's house to find the remaining property and return it to Zhang, and then punished Jia's crime according to the law.
