One day in the fourth year of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, a murder occurred in Fengjiadi Village outside Jiezhou City in Hedong. Li Lanhua's husband Feng Laiwa, who had been paralyzed for several years, suddenly died mysteriously.
The one who found out that her husband died and reported to the officials was Feng Laiwa's father and Li Lanhua's father-in-law.
The son died suddenly, and the father was deeply saddened. When the mother learned about it, she rushed to her son's house and lie on her body and almost fainted: "My son, why are you leaving? Who is cruel to kill you? It must be the friendship between the vixen and her that killed you..."
Feng Laiwa's mother cried and shouted, suddenly stood up, picked up a kitchen knife from the kitchen, rushed out of the door, and said she wanted to kill her daughter-in-law Li Lanhua and the dog man...
So, what's going on? This has to start from the beginning.
It turns out that Feng Laiwa is a relatively wealthy family in the Feng family. Feng Laiwa is honest and honest by nature. She married Li Lanhua, a woman from another village at the age of 25.
Li Lanhua is as beautiful as a fairy and is the most handsome girl in the local area. She was already twenty-three years old when she married Feng Laiwa. She is already an older left-over woman in the countryside.
The reason why Li Lanhua married Feng Laiwa at the age of 23 was because her parents ordered her doll kiss . The man was a second-rate lazy man who was idle all day long and did not do serious business. Therefore, Lanhua was unwilling to do anything. In the end, her parents could not persuade her and retired the doll kiss. Li Lanhua missed the problem and married the honest and honest Feng Laiwa.
No one in the village would have thought that Feng Laiwa, a bachelor who is honest and honest, is already twenty-five years old, can marry such a beautiful wife. In addition to envying, he is also worried that Feng Laiwa can't yell at this little fairy-like wife.
Feng's family is close to the mountains, and there are many medicinal materials growing on the mountains. In addition to farming, Feng Laiwa went up the mountain to collect herbs and sell money with the villagers. Li Lanhua took care of her children at home, washed clothes, weaved cloth and sewed clothes, and fed pigs and ducks. She lived a prosperous life.
Li Lanhua's parents were also worried at first that their son could not control this beautiful daughter-in-law. However, Li Lanhua has been married for three years and has not noticed any extraordinary behaviors. The old couple is quite satisfied with this daughter-in-law.
However, there are unexpected situations in the sky, and people will suffer disasters every day. Something happened to Feng Laiwa, who was 28 years old, suddenly.
That day, there was nothing to do in the crops in the field, so Feng Laiwa took advantage of the time to go up the mountain to collect herbs. As a result, he went to the edge of a cliff to pick a wild Ganoderma lucidum, and suddenly fell off the cliff. After rescue, he saved his life, but he was paralyzed half of his body and became a useless person. Not only could he not do the work, he also had to serve Li Lanhua.
Feng Laiwa is the pillar of the family. If the pillar of the family is broken, the sky will collapse. Feng Laiwa has six acres of land. Although he has parents, he has already separated from his parents. He has a younger brother who has not got married and lives with his parents. He also has more than ten acres of land at home, so he can't help. However, the six acres of land in Feng Laiwa's family are not something that Li Lanhua can do, even a woman.
But life still has to be lived, the land still has to be planted, and wheat still has to be harvested. Every year when it comes to planting wheat, Li Lanhua has to pay for someone to work. However, harvesting wheat is not too difficult. Every year during the wheat harvest season, some maike come here to make money, and it is still possible to hire people, but in the autumn, it is difficult to hire people, because all the maikes from other places have returned, and the locals cannot plant their own wheat, so there are no idle people to plant wheat for other people's homes.
Someone suggested: "Orchid, if not, please find a man in your house to help." The so-called man in your house is a custom passed down from the local area. If the husband loses the ability to work, the wife will find another man to live in the family, that is, one woman, two men, and three people live together.
Li Lanhua said: "How can that be done? If others don't gossip, the kid and her parents-in-law will not agree." "What should I do if I don't agree? Who will plant the land? If you don't farm, your family will drink the northwest wind? My parents-in-law can't help you, why don't you agree? If they don't agree, you will go back to your parents' home..."
Li Lanhua discussed with her husband. Feng Laiwa said, I'm like this, can I disagree? Orchid went to find her parents-in-law again.My parents-in-law was unwilling to do so, but there was no way. His son wanted to take care of his daughter-in-law, so he wouldn't say anything.
So, when wheat harvesting last year, a maike from Shandong was willing to live with Li Lanhua's house. This Shandong boy is named Lu Guanghan, who is three years younger than Lanhua. Because his family is poor, he has no father or mother, and cannot afford to marry a wife, so he has been alone.
This way, Li Lanhua's life is much better. However, who knew that this happened in just a few good days.
The famous arrester Zhang Tieshan and his apprentice Ma Xiaoguang were investigated and dealt with this case. They first checked the crime scene.
Feng Laiwa died on the ground under the bed, but after careful inspection, there was no external injury on his body, and there were no needle holes on his head and neck. From the scene, there were no traces of fighting, which shows that the deceased did not die due to external force.
Zhang Tieshan said: "Excluding external force, there are two possibilities, one is to die from sudden disease, and the other is to die from poisoning. Check the bowl on the table carefully and the mouth of the deceased."
There is a small table for eating on the bed of the deceased, and an empty bowl on the table. Ma Xiaoguang picked up the empty bowl and looked at it. There was no trace of medicine left on the bottom of the bowl. He put it on his nose and smelled it, and there was no strange smell.
Zhang Tieshan said: "Don't smell it. Generally, poisons have no smell. Check carefully if there is any white powder at the bottom of the bowl. How do you teach you on weekdays?"
Ma Xiaoguang picked up the bowl again to check, but after looking at it for a long time, he still couldn't find any.
Zhang Tieshan first opened the mouth of the deceased to check, but found nothing, then took the bowl over and watched it carefully, and then said, "Go and find a chicken." Ma Xiaoguang went out to find the chicken. After a while, I brought a chicken.
Zhang Tieshan poured a little water into the bowl, shook it, and then poured it into the chicken's mouth. After a while, the chicken fell to the ground and slapped straight but couldn't stand up.
Ma Xiaoguang said, "It turns out that he died of poisoning. Master, how did you see that there is white powder at the bottom of the bowl?"
Zhang Tieshan said, "This is experience, I have practiced for a long time, and there is no trick. It should be either arsenic, or rat poison, and the possibility of rat poison is relatively high. Xiaoguang, why do you tell me?"
Ma Xiaoguang said, "Master, there are very few people who dare to sell arsenic, and it will implicate himself. Many people will buy rat poison. Even if there is something wrong, they will not implicate the seller..."
Zhang Tieshan said, "It's okay, there are progress. What do you think, what should we do next?"
"Master, let's find out who gave the medicine next?" Ma Xiaoguang said.
Zhang Tieshan said, "Who do you think the medicine is given?"
Ma Xiaoguang said, "It is obvious that the biggest suspect is Lu Guanghan and Li Lanhua. They have a motive for committing the crime. Lu Guanghan lived with Li Lanhua for a long time and fell in love over time. They have long become actual couples. Feng Laiwa was paralyzed all over. Not only can't do work, but he also has to be served by someone. It is a particularly big burden. Lu Guanghan had long wanted to get rid of him, but Li Lanhua had no feelings for Feng Laiwa, so he also had the idea of getting rid of him..."
Zhang Tieshan said, "There is a certain reason, so let's interrogate them first. You go to the rat poison store in the town to inquire. Li Lanhua and Lu Guanghan have something to do with him. I haven't bought rat poison. "
Ma Xiaoguang said, "It's still the master thoughtful."
Soon after, Ma Xiaoguang returned and said, "The shopkeeper said that Lu Guanghan had been there twice, bought three packs of rat poison, but had never seen Li Lanhua. I called them to interrogate, right?"
Zhang Tieshan said, "No, no hurry. You said, if it was the poison of Lu Guanghan and Li Lanhua, when did they put the medicine in the bowl? Will they poison Feng Laiwa before going out?"
Ma Xiaoguang said, "It shouldn't be. It's easy to find out that it was the poison they laid, unless they are idiots..."
Zhang Tieshan said, "I'm enlightened.So if it were the poison they had, when did they get it? "
Ma Xiaoguang said: "Master, I understand. Now I should go and ask if they have been back during the day today? When did you come back..."
Ma Xiaoguang asked back and said, "No one saw them both come back before the incident. ”
Zhang Tieshan said: “Okay, now you can interrogate. I will interrogate Lu Guanghan, and you will interrogate Li Lanhua. ”
Zhang Tieshan asked Ma Xiaoguang to interrogate Li Lanhua in this room. He called Lu Guanghan to another room for interrogation.
Zhang Tieshan asked Lu Guanghan: "Have you ever bought rat poison in the town? "Lu Guanghan said he had bought it, twice. Zhang Tieshan said, "Where did you go this morning and have you been back?" "Lu Guanghan said: "I went to work in the south slope with Lanhua early this morning and I have never come back. "Zhang Tieshan said, "Okay, go and do it." "
Ma Xiaoguang also finished asking and said to Zhang Tieshan: "Li Lanhua said she bought the rat poison. She went to work in the south slope with Lu Guanghan early this morning and never came back in the middle. "
Zhang Tieshan said: "They both said the same thing, but Li Lanhua had never been to the rat poison store. Why did she say it was the rat poison she bought? "
Ma Xiaoguang said: "Master, it's obvious that they have colluded. Li Lanhua wants to disrupt our thinking and excuse Lu Guanghan..."
Zhang Tieshan said: "It's not that simple. If they want to kill Feng Laiwa, there are many opportunities and solutions. They will not be so stupid that they put medicine in Feng Laiwa's bowl when they go to the field, because Feng Laiwa died at his own home, and they are the most suspicious. Even if they want to kill Feng Laiwa, they will not attack at their own home. But the rat poison was obviously bought by Lu Guanghan, and Li Lanhua had never bought it. Why did she say that it was bought by her? Is it really a case made by Lu Guanghan? "
Ma Xiaoguang said, "I'm just saying it, it's obvious that Li Lanhua wanted to disrupt our thinking and excuse Lu Guanghan..."
Zhang Tieshan said, "Xiaoguang, go and ask if anyone has come to Feng Laiwa's house from the morning to the time before Feng Laiwa's father discovered that his son died. "
So, Ma Xiaoguang went to inquire carefully. Three people confirmed that no one had been to Feng Laiwa's house during that period, because Feng Laiwa's neighbor had been sitting in front of the door that morning basking in the sun. He only saw Feng Laiwa's father being there, and then heard her father shouting. Feng Laiwa's father ran home and called Feng Laiwa's mother, and then went to report to the official.
Zhang Tieshan said: "Xiaoguang, assume that the poison was from the Han Dynasty of Lu Guang, He had never come back halfway, so he must have put the medicine in advance... Let's go and take a look at the scene..."
Zhang Tieshan seemed to suddenly think of something, and got up and came to the crime room. Ma Xiaoguang didn't know what the master suddenly thought of, so he followed him in. Zhang Tieshan looked at the scene again and found a teapot on the bedside table. He picked it up and shook it. He found water inside, so he said, "Xiaoguang, go get a chicken again. "
" What, do you suspect that the kettle is poisonous? "Ma Xiaoguang said.
" You will know if you have tried it. Go and get the chicken. "Zhang Tieshan said.
Ma Xiaoguang went out. After a while, he brought a chicken back. Zhang Tieshan poured the water from the kettle into the chicken. After a while, the chicken's neck tilted to death.
Zhang Tieshan said: "Catch Lu Guanghan and Li Lanhua and take it back to the county government for interrogation. "
However, Lu Guanghan and Li Lanhua refused to admit that it was the poison they had. The suspect did not admit it, and there was no iron evidence, and the case could not be settled. The case was hanging there again.
Zhang Tieshan said: "Xiaoguang, did we have a wrong idea at the beginning? Or was Feng Laiwa's father tampered with it? "
Ma Xiaoguang said: "Master, you are also in a hurry. Do you suspect that it was poisoned by Feng Laiwa's father? Did the father poison his own son? No motivation, right? ”
Zhang Tieshan said: "Xiaoguang, we cannot just look at the surface when looking at problems, nor can we think about problems with habitual thinking like ordinary people. Any situation may happen, we must think like this."
Ma Xiaoguang said: "Master, do you mean someone else who poisoned Feng Laiwa? Maybe it was his father? ”
Zhang Tieshan said: “Yes, at least we have to think of this layer. Let’s go to the Feng family’s crime scene to interrogate Feng Laiwa’s parents to see if there are any new clues. "
So, they came to Feng Laiwa's parents' home in Feng's family again.
Feng Laiwa's father saw Zhang Tieshan and Ma Xiaoguang coming, so he invited them to pour tea. Zhang Tieshan took a sip and said, "What a good tea. "Feng Laiwa's father said: "If you drink more, drink more. "When Zhang Tieshan looked at Feng Laiwa's father, he found that his eyes were dodging. Of course, this might be the manifestation of the servant's heart when he saw the constable, which was normal.
However, Zhang Tieshan's eyes were suddenly attracted by a teapot on Feng Laiwa's father's table. Isn't this the teapot on Feng Laiwa's cabinet? Why did he come here? But he didn't show any emotion and quietly said to Ma Xiaoguang: "You go to Feng Laiwa's house immediately to see if the teapot on the bedside table is still there? "
Ma Xiaoguang went out, and Zhang Tieshan continued to chat with Feng Laiwa's father.
After a while, Ma Xiaoguang came in and said to Zhang Tieshan's ear: "I'm not here anymore. ”
Zhang Tieshan stood up, walked to the table, picked up the teapot and asked Feng Laiwa's father: "This teapot is good, is it yours? "
Feng Laiwa's father immediately seemed a little panicked and stammered, "Yes, it's my family..."
Zhang Tieshan suddenly shouted loudly, "Take him away, take him to the county government, and put him in prison! "
Ma Xiaoguang didn't react at all. He didn't know why he arrested Feng Laiwa's father. Could it be that he really killed his own son?
"Didn't you hear it? Why are you standing there? "Zhang Tieshan shouted to Ma Xiaoguang.
"Yes. "Ma Xiaoguang agreed while taking out a rope to tie Feng Laiwa's father. Seeing this, Feng Laiwa's mother came over to stop her: "Why did you want to arrest my husband? What's the law he did? It was the vixen who was close to each other and killed my son. You go and catch my husband..." While saying that, he cried and pulled his husband's clothes.
Feng Laiwa's father was already scared and soft: "Don't catch me, don't catch me, I said, I said..."
It turned out that this morning, he went to see his son and pushed open the door, but found that his son was lying on the ground, foaming at his mouth, and saw the rat poison bottle on the table, knowing that his son committed suicide. Because, the son had told him that he was a useless man, saying that he didn't want to live anymore, he didn't want to drag his wife down, and he didn't want to drag his parents down...
But he thought that all this was brought by this vixen wife , the son watched his wife be with other men every day, feeling depressed and didn't say anything, so he walked into a dead end. Now that his son is dead, the family has become the one of Lu Guanghan. He was so angry that he wanted to blame Lu Guanghan and Li Lanhua and wanted to send Lu Guanghan to prison. So he returned home, poured rat poison into his teapot, and then took it over and put it on his son's bedside table, causing the poison to be an illusion made by Lu Guanghan or his daughter-in-law Li Lanhua in advance...
So, Feng Laiwa's father was taken to the county government office and was imprisoned, waiting for trial. Lu Guanghan and Li Lanhua were acquitted. But Li Lanhua said to the headmaster of the county government office: "The father-in-law was also confused for a moment and did something wrong. I also have a responsibility for my husband's death. I didn't understand that my husband had the idea of committing suicide. I'm sorry to my parents-in-law. Guanghan and I asked the county government to let my father-in-law go! "
The headmaster of the county government could not make the decision, so he reported the matter to the county magistrate. The county magistrate was moved by the kindness of Li Lanhua and Lu Guanghan and said, "I detain Feng for ten days and reflect on his mistakes! ”
When she got home, her mother-in-law said to Orchid: “We wronged you, don’t you hold a grudge against us, right? ”
Orchid said: “How could it be? Laiwa is your son. I understand the pain of losing a child very much. I also have the responsibility for the death of a child..."
Ten days later, my father-in-law came back and knelt in front of Orchid and said, "Lanhua, you hit me twice.It’s all my obsession that made you wronged..." The mother-in-law said, "You are a good wife. It’s our family that has dragged you down. The baby is leaving, but we are getting older and older, it’s also your burden. You go-..."
Orchid said, "Mom, what are you talking about? The baby is gone, but I am still here, I am still your daughter-in-law, I will not leave, I will stay for you to support you in my old age..."
Guanghan also said, "Mom, the baby is gone, I am your son, I have lost my parents since I was a child, you are my biological father and mother, I will support you with Orchid..."
"Guanghan-Orchid-We will treat you two as our own sons and daughters in the future. Qiangqiang (Orchid child), call you dad..." Qiangqiang shouted "Dad" to Guanghan, and Guanghan hugged Qiangqiang in his arms...
Family of five, five people from a special family hugged each other tightly...
