There is a family in Yongping County whose surname is Zhou. There is only two fathers and daughters in the family. The owner is Zhou Yi, and his daughter is Yumei, who is sixteen years old.
The jade girl is very beautiful, and she is quite polite, gentle and kind-hearted. People nearby praise her for her good looks.
When Yumei was six years old, her parents were the decision and relatives were the matchmakers, and she betrothed to Yang Yuan, who was in her hometown.
In this year, parents of both sides discussed and asked Yang Yuan and Yumei to get married and set a date.
But who knew that as the marriage approached, Yang Yuan's mother died of illness. According to local customs, if parents die, children are not allowed to get married within one year. Therefore, their marriage was delayed.
There is a local tycoon named Wu He in the village. That day, he went out to collect debts and passed by the Zhou family.
Wu He turned his head to Zhou's yard and happened to see the jade girl sitting in the pavilion embroidered. He saw that the jade girl looked like a flower and charming. Wu He was stunned and could not move his feet.
Wu He asked his servant: "Whose woman is this? She looks so cute." The servant said: "It's the daughter of Zhou Yi's family, named Yumei." Wu He said: "Have you married?" The servant said: "I haven't married."
Since seeing Yumei, Wu He has been restless and restless. The beautiful face of Yumei is always shaking in front of her.
Wu He found Zhou Yi's friend Wei Liang, told him about his love for Yumei, and asked Wei Liang to go to the Zhou family to propose marriage to her. After Wu He makes a successful statement, he will be rewarded with a lot of money.
Wei Liang came to the Zhou family and said to Zhou Yi: "Wu He has a wealth of thousands of wealth, a vast land, and has been rich for generations. His ancestors have been officials in the court and have a high family. He wants to be the son-in-law of the Zhou family, so I ask me to be a matchmaker. I hope you can agree."
Zhou Yi said: "Wu's wealth is rich and is a famous rich man in our county. Wu He is also called Wu Guanren, how can I not know? But he has no fate with his little daughter. The little daughter has been betrothed Yang Yuan ten years ago."
Wei Liang went back and said to Wu He: "This matter is difficult to accomplish. The Zhou daughter had promised her ten years ago. When they are married to Yang Yuan, they are unwilling to abandon their engagement. "
Wu He said: "My family has a lot of money and a prominent family, a hundred times better than the Yang family. The Zhou family actually abandoned me and took a fancy to the boy of the Yang family. I must marry the daughter of the Zhou family, and I will never give up until I achieve my goal."
Wei Liang said: "The ancients said it was good that it is better to marry again than to compete for marriage. There are good women, why should officials pursue the Zhou family women?"
Wu He was fascinated by the beauty of Yumei, and relied on his wealth to design and provoke trouble and frame Yang Yuan in order to achieve his goal.
Wei Liang knew Wu He's nature well and was afraid of causing trouble, so he quietly told Zhou Yi: "Wu He refused to give up."
Zhou Yi was afraid that the night would be long and dreams would be too long, so he found the original matchmaker and discussed with the Yang family. He chose a day to get them married as soon as possible to eliminate the trouble and let Wu He die of this heart.
Wu He heard that Yang Yuan and Yumei were going to get married, and he became angry. I hurriedly came up with a plan.
He sent someone to cut down a few fir trees from the Wu family cemetery, and secretly put them into the Yang family's fish pond while the night is quiet. The next day, Wu He went to the government to report the case and sued Yang Yuan for stealing his timber.
The magistrate Qin accepted the case and sent the plaintiff, defendant and neighbors of the two families to the court for interrogation one by one.
Neighbors said: "Only the Wu family's cemetery has fir trees growing, and it was cut down last night. Now it is immersed in the Yang family's fish pond. We don't know who put it in, and we dare not say it."
Although Yang Yuan's family is not rich, he is upright and resolute, and refuses to bow to Wuhe. He said: "The villain got engaged to Yumei since he was a child. Wu He saw that Yumei was beautiful and tried to marry Yumei, but was rejected by the Zhou family. In order to compete for marriage, Wu He cut down trees and put them into my fish pond, hoping to frame them."
Wu He said: "Yang Yuan cut down my tombs and trees, which disturbed the peace of my ancestors. Those who live and die in my family were harmed. Please observe clearly."
At this time, the yamen runner Li San whispered a few words to the magistrate of Qin. The magistrate Qin said: "Wu He! Don't be rude anymore. You failed to argue with your marriage; so you designed frame-up and attempted to frame Yang Yuan to relieve your hatred."
Wu He said: "The villain is wronged!"
The magistrate Qin said: "The yamen runner Li San went out last night and saw you throwing the trees into the Yang family's fish pond.The witness is here, how dare you deny it?" When Wu He heard this, he was speechless, and lowered his head in dismay, claiming that he was unlucky. The magistrate of Qin convicted Wu He of false accusations and ordered a forty-one throne and fined 300 taels of silver.
Wu He failed to frame it, but was beaten and fined money, which made him so angry that he almost fainted. When he returned home, he was furious and lost his temper, threatening to not throw Yang Yuan into prison and swear not to be a human being. .
This day was the day when Yang Yuan and Yumei got married. Wu He was so angry that he gritted his teeth.
At this time, a beggar came to his house to beg for food. His family wanted to drive the beggar away. Wu He suddenly had a plan.
He called the beggar and gave him some food. Then he asked: "Who are begging for each family, which one gives good food?" The beggar said: "Count the food given by the Yang family. His family is holding a wedding and invites a opera troupe to do the show, which is very lively. I went, and they gave me meat and gave me money to spend. "
Wu He said: "Have they finished their play? Have you finished the wine?" The beggar said: "It's not over yet. I want to go to his house tomorrow. ”
Wu He said: “I ask you to do something, I wonder if you are willing to work hard? If you are willing to work hard to help me, I will reward you with twenty taels of silver. "As soon as he heard the reward of twenty taels of silver, the beggar immediately said, "As long as the rich man can use me, even if I go down the well to get the stones, I will go, so how dare I refuse." ”
Wu He said: “I don’t want you to go down the well, just put some things in the well. "Wu He walked into the house, then walked out, handed a bag of gold and silver jewelry to the beggar, and said, "Take this bag of gold and silver jewelry to the Yang family and throw it secretly into his well. Never let people see it, nor do you tell others, you only know it, I know it. Get things done and come back to get the money. "
The beggar agreed, took the bag of jewelry, left the Wu family, and walked towards the Yang family.
Halfway, he met an artist selling fake jewelry. The beggar's eyes rolled and became greedy. He found a remote place and quietly opened the bag.
saw a pair of gold hairpins, two gold hairpins, a pair of silver hairpins , and two silver hairpins , and was very surprised. He used the Yang family to reward him. He bought a set of fake jewelry for some of his broken silver, then hid the real jewelry in his arms, and wrapped the fake jewelry in cloth.
When he arrived at the Yang family, he saw that people were watching the show, and when no one paid attention, he threw the fake jewelry into the well. Then, he returned to the Wu family and went to get the reward.
Wu He paid the reward and sent the beggar away, and was secretly happy. He immediately wrote a preface. He still felt scared when he remembered the last time he was beaten.
This time, he did not dare to go to the county. The next day, he went straight to the capital city and sued Baogong patrol.
Baogong accepted the case and immediately issued a license to Yongping County, ordering them to capture Yang Yuan and search for the stolen goods.
County Ya sent someone to accompany Wu He to the Yang family, followed Wu He's instructions and took out a bag of gold and silver jewelry from the well.
County Ya did not interrogate and dismissed the plaintiff, defendant and stolen goods to Baogong Mansion.
A few days later, Bao Gong got a minor illness and was unwell, so he entrusted the supervisor Jinzhou to review it.
Jinzhou was promoted to the hall and interrogated Yang Yuan. After repeated questions, Yang Yuan insisted that he did not steal the Wu family's property.
Jinzhou said: "The well is in your house, and the stolen goods are in the well. Who stole it?" Yang Yuan still denied it.
Jinzhou ordered the forty-year-old to beat the 40th board, and the servant was about to take action. Yang Yuan shouted: "Sir, please take a look! Let's hear the villain tell the whole story. "
Jinzhou asked the officer to withdraw. Yang Yuan told Jinzhou in detail what happened before, and said: "Wu He is cruel and insidious. He failed to steal his wife, and he was resentful. Now, seeing me getting married to Yumei, I became even more angry and wanted to kill me. Please take a look. ”
Jinzhou said: “The past grudges have nothing to do with this case. If you didn't steal, gold and silver jewelry would fly into your well?"
Yang Yuan couldn't answer, Jinzhou ordered a fierce attack, and the officer came up to hold Yang Yuan and beat him for 40 boards. Yang Yuan was beaten to pieces, but he would rather die than to attack him. Seeing this, Jinzhou had to put Yang Yuan in jail and wait for Bao Gong to personally try.
A few days later, Bao Gong recovered from illness. He called Wu He first and asked, "Who has seen Yang Yuan stealing your jewelry? How do you know that jewelry is in the well?"
Wu He said, "It was a villain who saw it with his own eyes. That night, the villain had not yet slept in his studies. He heard something was going on in the yard, so he came out to check it out. I saw a man sneaking out of the west wing, climbing over the wall and running away.I knew there was a thief, but I didn't say anything, just to find out who the thief was. He followed him quietly, saw him walk into the Yang family, and threw a bag of things into the well. Judging from the person's figure and walking, it is Yang Yuan. When the villain came home and checked, he found that several pieces of jewelry were missing. "
Bao Gong said: "Who made your jewelry?"
Wu He said: "Gold jewelry was made by Huang Mei, and silver jewelry was made by Wang Shan. "
Bao Gong called people to send Huang Mei and Wang Shan, and asked, "Did you make these gold and silver jewelry for Wu He?"
The two looked at the jewelry, and Huang Mei said, "It's true that the villain made jewelry for him, but the ones they made were gold jewelry, and they had never made copper. "
Wang Shan said: "The villain made silver jewelry for the Wu family, and he had never made tin. "
When Bao Gong heard that the jewelry was made of copper and tin, he knew in his heart that there must be a fraud.
said to Wu He: "Look at your outfit, it looks like a rich family, but his family members are wearing these fakes. Yang Yuan stole your property and should have been sentenced to heavy sentence. However, because the stolen goods were not worth a few quotas, they were lightly sentenced to one month detention. Wu He! You use copper and tin to liar, gold and silver, and make a big fuss, and regard litigation as a joke, which is really despising our government. Left and right! Give me a stick to it. "
The officer got the order and was beaten to death by a mess. After Wu He was beaten away, Bao Gong called the decent officer Li Sheng and sent him to follow Wu He quietly to see where he went, who he looked for, and what he said.
Li Sheng followed Wu He to the market and heard Wu He say to a beggar: "I have already rewarded twenty taels of silver for what I have done instructed you a few days ago. Why did you exchange copper tin for my gold and silver?"
beggar said: "No. How dare I change it?"
Wu He said: "You are so stinking beggars! You dare to deny it. Bao Gongzhi created the craftsman and came to the hall. The craftsman said that the thing was not gold and silver, but copper and tin. You ruined my big deal. Hand over the jewelry!"
The beggar refused to hand over. Wu He saw that there were many people coming and going in the market, and he was afraid of showing his strength, so he did not dare to get entangled with him. He left angrily.
Li Sheng could hear the words of the two of them clearly. As soon as Wu He left, Li Sheng immediately pulled the beggar and escorted him to see Mr. Bao.
Mr. Bao ordered to put a stick on the beggar, and then asked: "Why did you change Wuhe gold and silver jewelry?"
The beggar was tortured, so he had to confess truthfully, and took out the jewelry from his arms, saying: "The jewelry is all here, dedicated to the master, begging him for his life. "
After hearing this, Bao Gong was furious and asked the officer to arrest Wu He, but he called him punished without interrogating him. Wu He was punished but shouted "Wish to be aware of it", Bao Gong just ignored it. Various criminal laws were used one by one. Wu He was beaten to the point of bruising nose and swollen eyes, like a pile of rotten meat, spread on the ground and unable to move. The officer recorded his confession for him.
Bao Gong sentenced: "In order to frame Yang Yuan, he used all his tricks and was full of traitors and was extremely vicious... He had no choice but to harm others and rebelled against himself, and sentenced him to frame him, and he was sentenced to be accused of being a soldier in the frontier and never returned. He was confiscated gold, silver and jewelry and fined another 500 taels of silver. Yang Yuan was released without charge. ”
Yang Yuan came out of the prison, thanked Bao Gong, and went home happily with Yumei who was waiting outside.
