Ancient Chinese private murder series (24)
The partition wall has ears, Hu Cheng and Hu almost lost their life
Text/Liang Lutao
During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a village in Zichuan County, Shandong Province, named Luolingzhuang. The village is in a remote and deserted place. There are dead trees in front of the village and green willows behind the village. A small path passes through the village, winding towards the barren slopes and barren hills. Dozens of families in the village are sparse and scattered, with stars scattered under the ridge.
But it is said that there are three families next to the east of the village. The first family named Hu, and the owner's name is Hu Cheng; the middle surname is He, and the owner's name is He Yi; the next family named Feng, and the owner's name is Feng An. Hu Cheng and Feng An have been neighbors for generations, but they don’t know when they have formed a feud. This Hu Cheng is fierce by nature, stubborn and unruly, and is a famous rogue. How can I see: a pair of leopard eyes created by
, two iron fists developed by practicing.
Tiger Biao is like a half-iron tower, and is as powerful as a Arhat.
Garlic head nose, wind-catching ears, and a chaotic face with a thorny beard.
Feng An knew that he had a grudge against Hu Cheng, but he thought he could not afford to mess with him. On weekdays, he had to please and flatter him, flatter him, and seek peace and safety.
This day is the spring weather. The peach cheeks are hung with powder, and the apricot face is slightly red. The shallow grass spits green on the hillside, and the beautiful flowers bloom on the edge of the village. A pair of swallows flew low, and two breezes blew on their faces. Seeing that the weather was good, Feng An cooked a few side dishes, and had a banquet on his hem of the bedroom. He went to the mansion to invite Hu Cheng to come for a drink. Hu Chengzheng was bored and was naturally happy to see Feng An come to treat him. But Hu Cheng always saw Feng Ansheng being cowardly and dull, and he never looked down on him. He deliberately acted as a squad, pretended to refuse, and then followed Feng An with a few humming words.
The two of them came to Feng An's house. Hu Cheng was not humble and sat down carelessly, pushing glasses and drinking, and after drinking more than a dozen cups, Hu Cheng felt a little drunk. It was really a cup of bamboo leaves that penetrated through the intestines, and two peach blossoms came to the face. The face turned red, the eyes were confused, and the mouth was unclear. Hu Cheng glanced at Feng An, curled his lips disdainfully, and said:
"Feng An, look at the situation you have lived. No one is like, but the house is not like. Could it be that it is up to the ancestors to live in vain?"
Feng An accompanied him with a smile and said: "Brother Hu Cheng, you don't know this prospect. If you don't make a business, you don't have the money at hand. If you want to do some business, you don't have the money to do. What can you do if you don't eat this ancestral property?"
Hu Cheng grinned and said, "You Feng An is also a five-foot man. I can be so cowardly? Look at me Hu Cheng. In a blink of an eye, I can make him a hundred taels of gold."
Feng An knew that Hu Cheng's family was not rich. He heard Hu Cheng praise this and knew that it was also a joke. He laughed "Puchi" and blurted out, "Brother Hu Cheng, I believe you are more promising than the eldest brother, but you said you could make a hundred taels of gold in a blink of an eye, but I don't believe it. I don't think your family is not in a blink of an eye. Wealthy, there is no daily income. Where did such a large amount of money come out of thin air? But I don’t believe it or not! "
Hu Cheng saw Feng An underestimating him, and he couldn’t help but open his eyes, his beard was upside down, and his face was swelling, and his face was swelling, "I know you don’t believe it either. Let me tell you the truth, a passing merchant came to my house to ask for water and was cut by me with a knife. The merchant carried more than 100 taels of gold and silver with him, and I took it all away. Wow, when the knife went down, it was like a 'puff', and it was like a watermelon. The merchant went to the west without even snorting. It was so happy! "
Feng An heard this and laughed so hard that he leaned back and forth. He couldn't say anything, saying, "Brother Hu Cheng, don't scare the elder brother. You said that you killed someone, there will always be corpses. Even if there is no corpse, there must be gold. You immediately take out a hundred taels of gold to let the elder brother see it."
Hu Cheng glared at Feng An fiercely, without answering, and stood up and left angrily. In a moment, he came in with a blue printed bag in his hand, put it on the table with a "scream", breaking several bowls and cups on the table.Hu Cheng sneered and said, "Feng An, why don't you believe it? Open the dog's eyes and see what this is!"
Feng An was startled, stood up tremblingly, reached out to open the blue printed bag, and saw that the bag was indeed covered with golden ingots and gold bars. He weighed it with his hands and there were always more than a hundred taels.
Feng An opened his mouth and asked dumbly, "Brother Hu Cheng, did you... really... kill... people?"
Hu Cheng patted his chest with his hand and laughed, "Is this fake?"
Feng An asked again, "You killed... kill people, then... put the body... where?"
Hu Cheng rolled his eyes and said, "The body... is hard to say, a dead dog, I threw it into the dry well under the slope outside the village."
Hu Cheng finished speaking, ignoring Feng An, stunned, wrapped the silver liang, shaking back home, and fell asleep.
But Feng An said that Hu Cheng was sent away, and thought to himself: It seems that Hu Cheng is really killing people and seeking money. Why don’t I report it to the government and let this guy die, so as to get rid of my heart? Feng An thought that at this point, he didn't have time to pack up the wine and food on the table, so he hurriedly set off on the road and rushed to the county government.
Feng An stayed overnight in the morning and came to the county government. It was the morning of the next day. Zibo County Magistrate Fei Yizhi was reviewing documents. When he heard someone shouting for justice, he immediately ordered to go to the hall and brought the person who shouted for justice to come up to ask for the inquiries. Feng An knelt in the hall, confessing in detail about Hu Cheng's murder. County Magistrate Fei heard that someone was sentenced to a lawsuit, so he dared not be slow and immediately ordered Hu Cheng to be arrested. The four constables received their orders, packed up their torture instruments, and the wind quickly left.
But Hu Cheng had drunk too much that day. When he returned home, he threw his bag on the kang and fell asleep. Until the next day, the county government official arrived and was still in a deep dream. The constable didn't say much. He grabbed Hu Cheng in his sleep, asked him about his name, tied it up with a rope, and together with the silver package, he mentioned the county government's handling service.
And Hu Cheng was taken to the county government in a daze. When he saw the county magistrate, he hurriedly knelt down, not knowing it in his heart, and muttered secretly. He heard the magistrate in the hall shout, "Is the one who kneeling in the hall Hu Cheng?"
Hu Cheng hurriedly kowtowed and replied, "The little people are Hu Cheng."
magistrate Fei asked, "Hu Cheng, do you know what crime you committed?"
Hu Cheng blinked his leopard eyes, twelve chess of Vajra was confused. He said, "I don't know what crime I have committed, so I ask my master for advice."
County Magistrate Fei sneered and said, "Your neighbor Feng An, telling you to kill money, is there any such thing?"
Hu Cheng heard that he really separated two Yin and Yang bones, poured a bucket of snow water, stirred up a cold war, and hurriedly said, "Master, you know, Xiaomin drank at Feng An's house yesterday, joked after drinking, and talked nonsense. In fact, it was all made by Xiaomin to deceive Feng An. There is no such thing as killing money!"
County Magistrate Fei patted the bag of silver and asked, "Hu Cheng, don't talk nonsense, this silver now , can you deny it! ”
Hu Cheng hurriedly kowtowed and said, “Don’t calm down. The silver was actually the property of Xiaomin’s sister Zheng Lun. It was specially sent to Xiaomin to help him buy land. If Xiaomin has a false statement, he will let the eldest master deal with it.” ” magistrate Fei sighed and said, “Where is your sister Zheng Lun now? ”
Hu Cheng kowtowed and said, “Reply to the master, Xiaomin’s sister Zheng Lun is in this city, and the East Street silk shop is his business.” ” magistrate Fei immediately issued a summons and quickly sent Zheng Lun to the hall to testify. After all, Zheng Lun had seen the world, and was neither anxious nor humble, nor arrogant, and admitted that the bag of silver was indeed bought by his wife and brother Hu Cheng, and the amount was not bad at all.
County Magistrate Fei ordered someone to take Feng An and asked, "Feng An, the bag of silver that Hu Cheng you have seen is this?"
Feng An looked and said, "It is this bag of silver."
County Magistrate Fei asked again, "Feng An, you live next to Hu Cheng, you must know his family background.These silver taels are coming out of thin air. It can be seen that they are fake. How can we believe it? "
Feng An kowtowed and said, "Reply to the master. Hu Cheng's family background is naturally clear, but he said that he had recently killed a passing businessman and robbed people of money. How could the villain not believe it? What Hu Cheng said was that there was a place of origin and a place of destination, and he swore that he would throw the businessman's body into a dry well under the hillside outside the village. It is so conclusive that the common people cannot believe it. "
County Magistrate Fei twisted his beard and nodded slightly, "Feng An, have you ever seen the corpse in the dry well with your own eyes? "
Feng An hurriedly said, "Reply to the master. Xiaomin rushed to the road overnight yesterday and had never visited the dry well to observe. "
County Magistrate Fei said: "Well, today evening, the Japanese official of Ming Dynasty went to Luolingzhuang in person to see if there were any corpses in the dry well. "After saying that, he stepped back.
The next morning, County Magistrate Fei sat in a green sedan chair. The man escorted Hu Cheng, Feng An, Zheng Lun and others, and rushed straight to Luolingzhuang. Seeing that he came to the dry well, County Magistrate Fei fell off the sedan chair and ordered a man to go to the dry well to watch. The man came to the edge of the well, leaned into the well and shouted, "Magistrate, there is a male corpse in this well! "
When Magistrate Fei heard this, he immediately became energetic and asked someone to help him. He went over to watch it in person. He heard that there was a male corpse. While he was anxious, Hu Cheng and Zheng Lun were so anxious that they gathered Feng An and rushed over to see. Through the noon sunshine, a man could be seen vaguely in the dry well. Magistrate Fei said furiously, "I'll listen to it, and take down the murderer Hu Cheng! "
Hu Cheng was panicked and wanted to run away. He was captured by several quick-handed detectives, and then slapped his mouth first, then tied it up with all his hands and feet, and threw it in front of County Magistrate Fei with a "splash". Zheng Lun also knelt down and couldn't stop himself.
County Magistrate Fei asked Hu Cheng: "Hu Cheng, now everyone is here, you are killing money, and the evidence is as strong as a mountain. What else do you have to say? "
Hu Cheng burst into tears and shouted in a hoarse voice: "The master is clear, the little people are really wronged! "
County Magistrate Fei said: "You said it yourself, and you did it yourself. Good, you bold and unruly man, you dare to argue when you die! I will quickly take this kid back to the county government office and throw it into a death row, waiting for the defeat! "
When the yamen runner took Hu Cheng away, County Magistrate Fei ordered someone to write a notice to recognize the body on the spot, and went to the nearby villages and posted it everywhere. The notice said:
"Zichuan County Magistrate told the villagers that a male corpse was found in a dry well under the hillside of Luolingzhuang Village. Please come and claim it. "
Just as the notice was posted, before the ink was dry, she walked out of a village woman crying from Luolingzhuang Village. She claimed that her husband went out to do business the day before yesterday and carried a hundred taels of gold on her body, but unexpectedly she was killed. The woman cried all the way and came to County Magistrate Fei, fell to the ground, and she burst into tears. Her feelings were sad and miserable, and she couldn't help but cry.
County Magistrate Fei said, "Don't cry, woman, raise her head, and tell me the details of your husband's murder. This official will take charge of you. "
The woman responded, stopped crying, and raised her tearful eyes tremblingly. After seeing it, Magistrate Fei couldn't help but take a breath of air. The woman was in a neat way: her face was covered with spring, just like the frown of Xizi; her eyes were filled with autumn waves, and she was like Li Ji's tears. Her body was charming, born with a romantic appearance; her face was beautiful, and she was charming. The woman opened her cherry lips and said, "Minister woman Xue Yuhua married He Yi from the village three years ago. My husband He Yi has been traveling around all year round, and he is a duty businessman. Unexpectedly, after leaving the day before yesterday, he was killed in a dry well. I hope the master will take charge of the people’s women! "After saying that, he let out a loud cry and cried.
MASS Fei comforted He while ordering people to quickly remove the corpse in the well. The corpse was pulled up, and it was headless, with teeth on his neck, and it was obvious that the head was stamped by an axe.
He saw it from afar and cried, "husband, husband." County Fei said: "Master He should cry slowly, you might as well go over and recognize each other. "
He said: "The civilian woman knows that it is undoubtedly the civilian woman's husband. "I didn't even approach, just cry.
While talking, it was getting late. But see: the steamer falls low, and the jade mirror will hang. I watched the picnic early in the distance, and saw the wooden door half-closed. County Magistrate Fei called the place and ordered him to find someone to carry the body back to the village to guard. The rest of the people followed the sedan chair and rushed back to the county government overnight.
At noon the next day, the county magistrate Fei sat down in the hall and ordered someone to call the He family and said, "He listened, Hu Cheng killed his life for money and killed your husband He Yi. After being tried by me today, Hu has confessed all of them. You can go home and wait for me to find your husband's corpse head, and this case will be concluded." After that, he ordered people to post a notice to find the corpse head. From He's family, he also ordered the public to bring two pictures and send them home to post them in the village.
But he said that He was married to He Yi for 3 years. Seeing that He Yi was honest and dull, weak in nature, and could not be romantic, he felt very disliked. He often talks ill-heartedly, which makes He Yi not embarrassed, so he has to make others go out to make a living, one to make a fortune to earn a few melons and support his family, and the other to seek peace. Who would have thought that He was originally a man of water-like poplar flowers, and he was naturally unhappy when he stayed alone in the empty room. Coincidentally, there is a romantic wandering son in this village named Chen Yong. He is over the age of the year and is not married yet. He does not want to live a serious life. He likes to eat and drink in the pile of powder.
Since He passed by, Chen Yong heard that He was beautiful and beautiful, and he felt itchy. He secretly came to the door to see it twice, and immediately the snow lion turned to the fire, half of the silence. I thought about it day and night, and I always wanted to hook her up. At this time, seeing that He Yi often went out for a living, and left He family alone, he was secretly happy, so he came to the door to chat with him on the pretext. Then what kind of person is He? Three or two encounters, and one will be made into one place. One is the new widow, Wenjun, who is about to make up for the gap; the other is the only one who lives alone, Song Yu, who is waiting for his neighbor's daughter to be in pairs. One is a boat that is not tied, and is carried by others; the other is like a oar in the middle, but I am swaying. The leopards on the sand are so good to sleep together, and the mandarin ducks at the bottom of the water are as happy as possible. The two of them were as close as a couple. Just seeing that He Yi was not here, they would sleep together and sleep together, and it would take more than a day.
On this day, Chen Yong and He were having a secret relationship at home, but unexpectedly he was hit by He Yi who suddenly came back. As the saying goes, rabbits bite people even if they are anxious. No matter how honest and dull He Yi was, he was unhappy to see his wife sleeping with other men. Then he picked up the axe and wanted to fight Chen Yong. Chen Yong lifted his pants and tried hard to block the axe, not even bothering to wear shoes, so he ran home. He Yi chased him out of the door, but was dragged by He and pulled him back into the house, acting coquettish and ignorant, crying and angering, and in a short while, he instigated He Yi into a soft dough.
Besides, after Chen Yong ran home, he didn't dare to go out for several days, for fear that He Yi would come to settle the score. But after waiting, there is no following, I know that this is a soft spot. I took a short look and went into He Yi's house and rejoined the old relationship with the He family. After the clouds and rain, He trembled and said in a timid voice, "You are a man who is flirting with your life. That day, you can run away quickly. Do you know how I care about you in my heart in the past few days!"
Chen Yong hugged the woman and said, "Isn't the little student trying to ruin my wife! But your He Yi stays at home every day, how can I come to meet you?"
He angrily said, "You are a five-foot man, you don't even have this idea. I am blind to you!"
Chen Yong said fiercely, "There is a solution, but I am afraid that the woman will refuse."
He asked, "What method? As long as you can stay with your enemy, I will be blind." Why don't you want to? "
Chen Yong used his hand to cut vegetables and said, "Just clean up your He Yi. Can't we be a long-term couple?"
He thought for a while, and then said, "This is the only way. I just have to find an opportunity to get it confidential. I will abandon him without knowing it, and it will not miss our good things."
Chen Yong said, "That's natural, let's talk about it later when I find an opportunity."
It was also a coincidence that Hu Cheng was invited to Feng An's house to drink, and after drinking, he boasted about killing people and robbing money. Because of his argument with Feng An, he made a louder voice, and he handed it all over the next door.He Yi happened to be at home at this time, so He quickly reported the news to Chen Yong and asked him to come to his house that night. In the middle of the night, he cut He Yi to death with an axe, stamped his head, carried the corpse to the hillside, and threw it into the dry well. Chen Yong and He thought he was framed by Hu Cheng, and he was perfect without knowing it. However, unexpectedly, the strong one has their own strength, and the strong one has their own strength. In fact, the sensation of He's strength was long ago seen through by County Magistrate Fei.
Besides, He didn't know it was a plan, but heard that Hu Cheng had asked about the murderer and could be settled by just finding the corpse head. He immediately sneaked to Chen Yong's residence and asked him to quickly present the corpse head and let the county magistrate close the case quickly. Chen Yong was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately took He Yi's head from the attic and sent it to the county government. Magistrate Fei didn't say it out loud, so he comforted him on the spot, rewarding him with a thousand words of money, and asked Chen Yong to wait aside. Then came He, Feng An and others, and the verdict was made in court:
"The madman Hu Cheng, who was killed for money and was killed, and the stolen people and stolen goods were obtained, and the evidence was as strong as a mountain. This official closed the case today and reported it to the court for the Taigong Master to report to the court, sentenced to beheading, and severely punished. However, He Yi's widow He was young and lost his husband, and it was not easy to defend it. I ordered her to remarry immediately. Those who intend to marry her as their wife will understand it in court." As soon as the magistrate Fei finished speaking, one of the people stood up and knocked out and said, "The little people are willing to marry He as their wife, please forgive me!" When the magistrate Fei saw that, who do you think you are? It turned out to be Chen Yong, who offered his head. Then he turned to He and asked, "Chen Yong is willing to marry you as his wife. What do you think?"
He lowered his head shyly, opened his red lips slightly and said, "The people's wife would rather!"
Unexpectedly, County Magistrate Fei suddenly changed his face, sneered repeatedly, and patted the auspicious wood in his hand, then shouted angrily: "Listen to the left and right, take this adulterer and mistress together!"
The yamen runners agreed, rushed forward, held Chen Yong He and tied it up with a rope. He had already been as sieve as a sieve, but Chen Yong was still stubborn and shouted, "What crime has the common people committed? Why did you tie me up without knowing it?"
magistrate Fei did not answer, and ordered the left and right: "Little one, listen, blame the murderer for forty thrones first, and I will ask questions again!"
The yamen runners were already so angry that they heard the order, and shouted, pounced on them, knocked down Chen Yong, pulled off his pants, and beat him up. Chen Yong's white butt was like flowering steamed bun , and only a breath was left in his nose.
County Magistrate Fei asked someone to take cold water to wake Chen Yong up and asked He. A woman from He's family, who has never seen this formation? Without waiting for the punishment, she and Chen Yong colluded with each other and colluded with each other to kill her husband. When Hu Cheng heard Hu Cheng's boast, he took the opportunity to kill He Yi, and tried to blame Hu Cheng for his detailed remarks.
County Magistrate Fei laughed and said, "If you don't know, don't do it yourself. That day, I saw you recognize the corpse in a dry well. The body had not been taken out of the well, so you insisted that it was your husband, and you had already doubted you. Later, it was my official design that Chen Yong wanted to send the head to him; today, you can't wait to get married, and all of this is within my expectations. But you have to make a lot of calculations, but it's not as good as the master's and my divine calculations. How about it, Chen Yong, what else do you have to say?"
Chen Yong lay down. On the ground, he said weakly, "Since the master already knows, what else can I ask? The common people admit it."
magistrate Fei then pronounced the verdict: "Chen Yong, He, became a traitor, killed his husband, and was sentenced to beheading; Feng An should not falsely accuse others and sentence you to three years in prison; Hu Cheng spoke nonsense and talked nonsense, causing trouble. Although the crime was not yours, he deserved it. Now you are released in court, go home."
magistrate Fei was sentenced to death, and Chen Yong and He were already soft and could not help.
Feng Anfu fell from the sky, and he felt wronged and could not say anything. He was shackled on the spot, held by the prison chief, and went to jail. Only Hu Cheng shouted "Master Qingtian!" while laughing loudly, tears in his eyes were like a river bank bursting, rushing endlessly.
Author profile: Liang Lutao, from Pingshan, Hebei Province, has a university degree and a senior political worker.Born in January 1954, joined the army in December 1972, and transferred to work in a financial institution in September 1993. He has won the honorary titles of "Advanced Journalist in Beijing Military Region" and "Advanced Worker in the Ideological and Political Worker in the National Financial System". He has published more than 5,000 articles (departments) of various types in domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines. 8 pieces have been published, including "Snow Soul", "Punctuation of Life", "Men Have Tears" and the three-volume "Literary Works Collection of Liang Lutao". His works have won the China News Award , the " Star Award " of the Ministry of Culture, the "Best Creative Award" of China Financial Reporting Literature, the first prize of China Financial Literature, the "Quality Contribution Award" of Hebei Province's Prose Creation in the 10th century, the "Venus Star Creation Award" of Hebei Province's Prose 30 Years, the second " Sun Li Literature (Prose) Award", the first prize of the National Financial Ideological and Political Work Excellent Papers, the Government Award, and the Media Award. It has also been selected by books and magazines such as "Reader", "Selected Literature", "Selected Lyrical Prose of Famous Artists", "Classic of Chinese Prose", " Chinese Loose-leaf essays ". He is a member of Chinese Prose Society , Chinese Financial Writers Association , Hebei Writers Association , Hebei Miscellaneous Literature Society , and executive director of Hebei Prose Society.
