Wang Dagang served as the prefect of Manzhou Prefecture for more than ten years. Because of his straightforward personality, uprightness and stubbornness, he did not make a mistake in a case, nor did he conceal a case. He was deeply loved by the people and commended by the emperor.
After the age of sixty, Wang Dagang felt exhausted, so he resolutely resigned from his official position and returned to his hometown to retire. After returning home, neighbors quarreled and often asked him to break up the truth. He always broke up fairly and convincingly. Therefore, the families in the surrounding villages asked him to judge the family and quarrel. He was as busy as he was an official back then.
Wang Dagang has a daughter who married Zhang Gongzhuang and Zhang Zhixue as his wife. The daughter gave birth to a son named Zhang Ligong. Zhang Ligong showed intelligence and wit at the age of eight, so he was deeply loved by Wang Dagang.
Early that morning, Wang Dagang was studying in the study, and his grandson Zhang Ligong came alone.
Wang Dagang was surprised and happy, and asked, "Why are you here alone? Where is your mother?"
Zhang Ligong said, "Yesterday, my father came back and wanted to marry another woman as a concubine. My mother disagreed, so my father beat my mother and went to the county government office early this morning. My mother cried very sadly yesterday."
Wang Dagang was angry as soon as he heard this and scolded Zhang Zhixue loudly: "I have been the county magistrate for a few days, and I just did something wrong. A wife is not enough, and I want several wives. I will not agree to him to do this."
After saying this, he said to his grandson, "You go back and tell your mother not to cry. Grandpa must take care of this matter. I will go to Linjin County Government immediately to ask your father to reason with it. He dares to marry a concubine, but I can't forgive him."
Zhang Ligong left satisfied after hearing this.
Wang Dagang had breakfast and asked Shutong to lead a donkey. He rode on, Shutong followed him and walked straight towards Linjin County Government.
Linjin County is adjacent to Linqin County. From Wangjiazhuang to Linjin County, go south ten miles first. There is a large mound of soil, dividing the road into two, one facing southwest, walking forward is Linjin County, one road facing southeast, and walking forward is Linqin County.
At that time, Wang Dagang sat on the donkey and thought about how to scold Zhang Zhixue when he arrived at the county government office, but did not pay attention to the road. Shutong was just a child. When he saw many butterflies on the road, he caught them and played with them, and he didn't care about the donkey. The donkey walked to the mound and went straight to the southeast.
Neither of them noticed it, but followed the donkey and came to Linqin County. On this day, Linqin County Magistrate Hu Yunfeng was catching a big robber nicknamed "Flying Tiger King".
Hu Yunfeng asked sternly: "You were there last night, what did you get to?"
Flying Tiger King replied: "I ran a robber in Liushuzhuang last night, stealing 100 taels of silver, five bags, and one piece of jewelry."
"Who are your accomplices? Where are you now?"
"I am robbing alone, but no accomplices."
Hu Yunfeng was furious and made aggravated beat: "Nonsense, how can you take so many things when you are alone?"
Flying Tiger King said: "I have always been alone and never form gangs with others."
"You must have a thief, you are afraid of telling the thief and revealing your true feelings. If you take the initiative to say it today, I will break your muscles if you don't say it."
Flying Tiger King said: "It's me, a hero who does things."
Hu Yunfeng was furious and ordered the yamen runners to punish him. After a while, the Flying Tiger King was beaten to the point of being so thin that he still didn't say it.
Hu Yunfeng asked the yamen runners to put bamboo sticks for Feihu King. As soon as he took a piece of it, Feihu King screamed and begged for mercy, "I said who is the accomplice? I'll pull out the bamboo sticks."
Hu Yunfeng re-examined, and Feihu King said: "I have five accomplices and one military advisor in my total, and the five accomplices are called "Five Tiger Generals". They are all strong and strong people in their twenties. Only two of them robbed me last night. , One is named Zhang Ergou and the other is named Liu Sanniu, and they are all in their home now. "
Hu Yunfeng asked: "What is that military advisor's name? What is his character?"
"Our military advisor is named Wang Dagang, he is in his early sixties and is very strong. He has light skills. Although he is old, walking on the high wall at night is like walking on the avenue." When the flying tiger king was talking about this, suddenly the yamen became lively outside.
Hu Yunfeng asked, "What happened outside the door?"
The yamen runner reported, "An old man came in a fierce manner and cursed the county master."
"Who scolded me? Ask me clearly."
The yamen runner went out for a while and came back to report, "The old man was about sixty years old and his name was Wang Dagang, who scolded the yamen for being immoral."
When Hu Yunfeng heard this, it was Wang Dagang, the military advisor who was told by the King of Flying Tiger. I thought to myself, I dared to go to the yamen to scold me, give him some color first and destroy his majesty. He ordered the yamen runners to "hang him up first and beat him hard."
The yamen runners took the order and immediately tied Wang Dagang up, hung him on the beam, and beat him hard with a whip. Wang Dagang was so angry that his head was about to explode. He thought that Zhang Zhixue, the son-in-law, had become so ruthless that he would beat him without meeting him, and he would scold him even more. The yamen runners beat him even harder, until they beat Wang Dagang to faint.
The yamen runner beat Wang Dagang, but Shutong wanted to go over and stop him, but was driven out by the yamen runner. Shutong had to ride a donkey to Zhanggongzhuang and tell Wang Dagang's daughter the whole story. When she heard this, she was shocked and said nothing, she rode a donkey and hurried towards Linjin County.
Linjin County Magistrate Zhang Zhixue happened to be trialing a case where an adulterer and his wife conspired to murder me. The adulterer was arrested and had confessed his crime. The traitorous woman named Wang Xiufang and has already escaped. So, Zhang Zhixue ordered the yamen runners to arrest the traitor Wang Xiufang.
The yamen runners received the order and chased north. After a while, I saw a woman riding a donkey on the road, and looked panicked, so I stepped forward to stop me and interrogate me. This woman is Wang Dagang's daughter. When she saw the yamen runner ask, "My name is Wang Xiufang, my father..."
Before Wang Xiufang finished speaking, the yamen runner yelled: "You are a traitor. No wonder you are so panicked, you can't escape." As she said that, she pulled Wang Xiufang off the donkey and tied her up to a strong point.
Wang Xiufang cursed: "You thief runners, why did you arrest me for no reason? I want to find your master."
The runners sneered, "We are the orders of the county master to arrest you, Wang Xiufang."
"Which county master asked you to arrest me?"
"Zhang Zhixue and Mr. Zhang asked us to arrest you."
Wang Xiufang felt dizzy when he heard this, and his chest was about to crack. He cursed, "Okay, Zhang Zhixue, why did you become so inhumane? You beat my father and came to arrest me again. This is to kill our father and daughter."
The yamen runner didn't hear Wang Xiufang scolding anything, just used a hand towel to block Wang Xiufang's mouth and prevent her from scolding again.
Zhang Zhixue is still trying his adulterer in the county yamen. The yamen runner came back to report, "The traitorous wife Wang Xiufang has already caught him."
Zhang Zhixue ordered: "First be in the prison, and later to the hall."
The yamen runner said: "This traitor is very fierce, scold the master."
"The traitor is still fierce, you can beat her twenty first and knock her out of power."
The yamen runner obeyed the order and pressed Wang Xiufang to the ground and beat her hard. After a while, Wang Xiufang was beaten to pieces. Wang Xiufang was in unbearable pain and had to beg for mercy, "I dare not scold you anymore. The county master wants to do whatever he wants to do to me, just do what he wants to do to me."
The yamen runner said, "You are asking for trouble today. If you don't scold, you will not beat you. Wait, the master will be interrogated soon."
After the adulterer's trial, Zhang Zhixue ordered someone to bring the adulterer.
The yamen runner took Wang Xiufang to the hall. Zhang Zhixue was shocked and couldn't help but shout, "You..."
Wang Xiufang didn't even open her eyes and said coldly, "You can deal with it."
Zhang Zhixue was shocked and hurriedly shouted the yamen runner back. He helped his wife up and asked, "What's going on?"
Wang Xiufang was so angry that she said, "Don't pretend, you hit my father and hit me again. I asked you, why is your heart so vicious? What happened to my father? What happened to me?"
Zhang Zhixue was not clear about it, so he said, "Your father didn't do anything to me, and you didn't do anything to me either.""
" Didn't do you, why did you hit my dad? Why did someone arrest me again? ”
Faced with the wife’s questioning, Zhang Zhixue said: “I didn’t hit your father? "
Wang Xiufang burst into tears in anger, "You don't admit it yet! "
Zhang Zhixue hurriedly called the yamen runner and asked, "When did I ask you to capture my wife? "
The yamen runner was confused, "I'll catch my wife if you don't have the time to do it!" "
" I'm so desperate that you arrest your wife, why did you catch her? "
" She is Wang Xiufang, you asked us to catch her. "
" Did you catch her from there? "
" caught it halfway. "
Zhang Zhixue understood everything and asked the yamen runners to retreat.
The yamen runners walked away, and Zhang Zhixue apologized to his wife: "I misunderstood, misunderstood. I just tried a murder case and ordered the yamen runners to arrest a traitor named Wang Xiufang. Unexpectedly, this name is the same as you, and the yamen runners arrested the wrong one. "
Wang Xiufang was amused and laughed, "Even if she misunderstood me, why did you hit my father? You have to explain it clearly to me. "
Zhang Zhixue looked puzzled, "I didn't hit your father. Your father is my father-in-law and Mount Tai. How could I beat him? "
was just talking, Shutong rushed over.
Wang Xiufang asked Shutong: "What the hell is going on? "
Shutong said: "As soon as the master and I entered the county government, the master scolded him angrily, and the yamen runner hung up and beat him hard. I went to stop me, and the yamen runners pushed me out. I didn't have the ability to invite my wife. "
Zhang Zhixue frowned, "This is so strange. I have been trying the case, and I have not heard anyone scolding me outside, nor have I ordered the yamen runners to beat me. What are you saying? "
Wang Xiufang asked Shutong, "They fought there, where is my father now?" "
Shutong looked inside and outside the yamen for a while, "The place where the master was beaten was not here, but in another place. ”
Wang Xiufang hurriedly asked: “Where is it in another place? "
" is also a yamen. I remembered that there was a big stone lion outside the yamen runner's door and a brick tower, which was very tall. "
Shutong said this, Zhang Zhixue was a little enlightened and said, "Shutong, have you made the wrong yamen? According to the place you mentioned, it looks very much like the yamen in Linqin County. "
Zhang Zhixue immediately called a yamen runner over: "You go to Linqin County Yamen immediately. Don't see the county magistrate there, and don't say anything. Just ask the yamen runners for a while. Have you ever beat an old man? "
The yamen runners took the order and left. Zhang Zhixue hurriedly asked his wife to go into the bedroom to rest.
After a while, the yamen runners came back and said to Zhang Zhixue: "I went to Linqin County Yamen to inquire. There was indeed an old man going to the county Yamen to scold him. The county magistrate ordered the yamen runners to hang up and beat him hard, and he is now locked in a prison cell. "
When Zhang Zhixue heard this, his face turned pale and gritted his teeth and said, "Hu Yunfeng, Hu Yunfeng, I have had a dispute with you, you have no reason, but now I vent my anger on my father-in-law. I, Zhang Zhixue, and you are not finished. "
Wang Xiufang looked puzzled, "What's going on? "
Zhang Zhixue said: "Last August, a murder case occurred in Linqin County. Hu Yunfeng decided to investigate the case after trial and convicted a young woman of death. That day, I happened to pass by Linqin County. I heard that the daughter-in-law was very upright. After her husband died, she had been at home and was a widow, but her mother-in-law was not serious and committed adultery with someone.
Later, the man's wife found out and killed the mother-in-law, and instead brought the trouble to his daughter-in-law. Hu Yunfeng received the money given by that person during the trial, so he listened to the person's words and sentenced his wife to death with . I reported what I knew to Hu Yunfeng. Hu Yunfeng couldn't listen. I reported it to the prefect again. With the intervention of the prefect, Hu Yunfeng corrected the case and let the young wife catch the real murderer. Just because of this, Hu Yunfeng and I kept their personal grudges, and he couldn't do anything to me, so he exhaled his anger on the old man. ”
After he finished speaking, he gathered the yamen runners in anger and went to surround the Linqin County.
Linqin County Magistrate Hu Yunfeng learned that Zhang Zhixue had surrounded his county yamen, and for some reason, he asked someone to hold up a ladder in the courtyard.
Hu Yunfeng stood on the ladder and said to Zhang Zhixue outside: "Mr. Zhang, you are the magistrate of Linjin, I am the magistrate of Linqin, and the well water does not violate the river. Why do you surround my county government?"
"I came to Qin to capture a murderer."
"Who is the murderer?"
"Who is the murderer?"
"Who is the murderer?" l1
"It's Hu Yunfeng, the county magistrate of Linqin County."
Hu Yunfeng laughed when he heard this: "Zhang County magistrate is probably mentally ill. Who did my dignified county magistrate Hu Yunfeng beat? Even if you hit someone, you, Zhang Zhixue, can you catch me."
Zhang Zhixue was furious, "You beat my father-in-law, and my son-in-law will have to settle the score with you. I want to capture you and send you to the government."
Hu Yunfeng was also angry and said, "You are the magistrate of County Zhang, don't talk nonsense in the whole day. I have no grudges or grudges with your father-in-law, and I don't even know anyone. How can I beat your father-in-law?"
Zhang Zhixue said, "What a good county magistrate, you are still locking my father-in-law in prison, and you are already beaten to pieces. Why don't you admit it?"
"You said I'll lock your father-in-law in prison, what's your father-in-law's name?" ? "
"My father-in-law is Wang Dagang."
"I have a Wang Dagang locked up in my prison. However, this is the leader of a robber gang, not your father-in-law."
Zhang Zhixue shouted loudly and ordered, "Call Wang Dagang out and let me take a look."
Hu Yunfeng immediately asked a yamen runner to take Wang Dagang out of the prison. When Zhang Zhixue saw him, he hurriedly shouted, "Dad, the son-in-law is here to save you."
Hu Yunfeng saw that Wang Dagang was really Zhang Zhixue's father-in-law, and hurriedly asked Wang Dagang in detail. He found out that Zhang Zhixue's father-in-law Wang Dagang and the leader of the robber gang Wang Dagang have the same name and surname, and are also of the same age.
After Hu Yunfeng learned that he was wrongly beating someone, he was very scared: One story is that Wang Dagang is Zhang Zhixue's father-in-law. Of course, Zhang Zhixue would not give up. He would accuse himself of handling the case in a hasty manner and report to the prefect. In connection with the wrong case last year, the prefect would definitely not spare him easily.
two, Wang Dagang himself is an old prefect, and he has a lot of friends in the court and in the officialdom. Now that he has hit him wrongly, he complains to the court or to the current prefect, he will definitely be punished strictly. At the least, he will lose the county magistrate, and at the worst, he will be in jail. After thinking about it, he finally came up with a solution and decided to take the initiative. He was going to see the governor first and apologize to the governor.
Linqin County Government has a secret tunnel leading to the outside. Hu Yunfeng said to the yamen runners: "I will go out of the secret passage immediately and go to the prefect. You must guard the place here. The magistrate of Linjin is not allowed to come in, nor expose my whereabouts." After that, he walked from the secret passage.
Hu Yunfeng went to the government office and took off all his clothes, leaving only one shorts. Then, he found a handful of jujube tree branches and tied it to his spine. The jujube thorns made the blood thorns thorns thorns, and he ignored it. He kept walking into the government office and knelt in front of the prefect, saying, "Please punish the magistrate and punish me severely."
The prefect was shocked when he saw it: "Hu Yunfeng, magistrate Hu, what's wrong with you?"
Hu Yunfeng cried and said, "I'm apologizing to the prefect."
"What crime did you commit?"
"I beat someone wrong."
"Who did you beat me wrong?"
"Who did you beat me wrong?"
"Who did you beat me wrongly."
"Who did you beat me wrongly."
"Who did you beat me wrongly."
"Who did you beat me wrongly."
"Wang Dagang was leaving office and was at home. How could you beat me wrongly?"
Hu Yunfeng said the mistakenly, and also told Zhang Zhixue and the yamen runners surrounded Linqin County.
The prefect thought for a while, "This matter is a big deal, I need to solve it immediately." As he said that, Hu Yunfeng asked him to leave first, and the prefect also quickly stood up and headed towards Linqin County.
Hu Yunfeng returned to Linqin and still entered the county government from the secret tunnel. After a while, the prefect entered the Linqin County Government Office and called Wang Dagang, Zhang Zhixue and Hu Yunfeng together and said, "Now, you three have made the incident so big, and the impact among the people is very bad."
pondered for a while and said, "I understand the matter of Hu County beating Lord Wang by mistake. I also understand the matter of Zhang County surrounding Linqin County Government Office. But I don't understand why Lord Wang suddenly came to Qin County Government Office. Please tell me."
Wang Dagang said: "Yesterday, my little grandson told me that Zhang Zhixue had an affair with a woman in Linjin County and wanted to marry her as a concubine. My daughter disagreed, so Zhang Zhixue hit her. I was very angry and came to Jin County Government to question Zhang Zhixue in anger. Unexpectedly, I took the wrong path halfway and came to Linqin County. "
The prefect asked Zhang Zhixue: "As a county magistrate, you are a county's parent official. You should be well-behaved and honest. How could you affair with a woman and then go home to beat your wife? "
Zhang Zhixue hurriedly explained, "I have been a county magistrate in Linjin County for more than a year. I have never had an affair with a woman, nor did I want to marry a concubine. I don't know where my father-in-law started. "
Wang Dagang was a little angry, "Zhang Zhixue, you said you didn't have an affair with a woman. Will your little grandson Zhang Ligong tell you nonsense? ”
Zhang Zhixue said: “You can call Zhang Ligong here to ask. ”
After a while, Zhang Ligong was called, and Zhang Ligong said, “That night, my father returned home and my mother asked me to sleep outside. In the middle of the night, I woke up and saw the lights in the inner room, so I looked inside through the crack of the door. I saw my father riding on my mother, biting my mother's mouth and face, and hitting my mother. My father said he wanted to marry a concubine, but my mother refused, and my father beat her again. I heard my mother crying... the next day I went to find my grandfather and asked her to scold her..."
Before Zhang Ligong could finish his words, the prefect, Wang Dagang, Zhang Zhixue, and Hu Yunfeng all laughed awkwardly.
The prefect hurriedly smoothed out, "I misunderstood all, I misunderstood all, in my opinion, I don't have to comment on anything anymore. Lord Wang was beaten, don’t talk about this anymore; Magistrate Hu beats someone and punishes you for a banquet, and everyone sits together and you will be compensated. ”
Hu Yunfeng received the order and sent someone to hold a banquet immediately. Everyone relieved all unhappiness and were very happy.
