Ancient literati Gao Huangmen recorded a strange case story in his notes "Crane Search Jade".
Chapter 0 shows that during the dynasty, there was a man named Wang Hui in Suzhou . He was a businessman who worked abroad all year round.
After this year, Wang Hui packed his bags and prepared to go out for business as usual. His wife, Liu, reluctantly said goodbye to her husband.
Mr. Liu pointed to the chicks raised at home and said, "Official, when you come back, I will kill these chickens and make you a sumptuous meal." Wang Hui smiled and said yes, then took his bag and left the house.
A few years later, Wang Hui returned to his home in Suzhou with the money he earned.
As the saying goes, "A small separation is better than a newlywed", let alone Wang Hui and Liu have been separated for several years. When Liu saw her husband come back, he was very happy. He hurriedly washed his hands and made soup and killed all the fat chickens raised at home for her husband to eat.
Wang Hui saw these hearty dishes and had a big appetite. He picked up the chopsticks and swallowed them voraciously. He soon ate the dishes.
After having enough wine and meals, the two of them were about to perform the rituals of Duke Zhou to comfort the pain of longing for love. Unexpectedly, Wang Hui suddenly pressed his stomach and shouted that his stomach hurt. Then he rolled on the ground in pain and died in a short while.
Liu was frightened by this sudden change and cried and called out to his neighbor. When the neighbors saw Wang Hui dead on the ground, they foamed at the mouth, thinking that Liu had a mistress in the years when Wang Hui went out.
This time when Wang Hui came back, Liu deliberately poisoned Wang Hui's wine and food and poisoned Wang Hui to death, intending to remarry in the future and stay with his adulterer forever.
So the neighbors, who were "indignant" indignant, sent the Liu family to the government office and asked the prefect to sentence Liu family to death.
The then magistrate of Suzhou was surnamed Yao. After receiving the case, the prefect Yao immediately began to interrogate and investigate Liu. After some investigation and interrogation, the prefect Yao found that Liu was not a lover, and Liu and Wang Hui had a good relationship and would not poison her husband to death.
Since that's the case, how did Wang Hui die? Prefect Yao believed that the chickens Liu asked her husband to eat were all old chickens that had been raised for several years. Perhaps the chickens were poisonous, which led to Wang Hui's death.
In order to verify his conjecture, Yao prefect ordered people to catch a few old chickens that had been raised for several years, and then cooked them for several death row prisoners to eat them. Sure enough, two prisoners ate chicken and complained that their stomachache was hurt soon after, and then died. The death is exactly the same as Wang Hui.
The truth came to this point, and Liu was acquitted. It turns out that chickens usually use centipedes and other poisonous insects as food. Over time, a large amount of toxins have accumulated in the chicken's body. Therefore, the longer the chicken is raised, the more toxins there will be in the body.
The chickens from the Liu family have been raised for several years, and they have killed several dishes at a time. Wang Hui ate too much chicken at one time, which led to death from poisoning. It is said that ancient health care workers rarely ate chicken because they were afraid of being poisoned.