Legend has it that a long time ago, the old mother of the county magistrate of Jingzhou passed away. Although he was a master in the county, he had nowhere to be in the family, so he had to send his mother to the north of the city to bury the corpse. The time for the spirit to come out is when the rooster crows and the drums and music send the dead to the corpse post, and suddenly he heard a loud trumpet sound coming from a new tomb. The people who sent the spirits were frightened. How could they blow the trumpet in the tomb?
Master also felt strange. He hurriedly called Zhang Si, the head of the county magistrate who came to attend the funeral and said, "Go back to the county government and report this matter to the master and ask him to decide."
Liu Zhixian from Jingzhou listened to Zhang Si's report and ordered the messenger to prepare a sedan chair and rushed to the site of the accident immediately.
When Liu Zhixian came to the cemetery, he heard that the new tomb was still blowing the trumpet. The people who were attending the funeral were frightened and did not dare to disobey Liu's orders, so they had to dig the grave. I didn't have much effort, so I dug out a person from it. I saw him covered in dirt, holding a trumpet in both hands, and blowing hard with his eyes closed! Everyone wiped off the dirt on his face and saw that this wasn’t the famous local tall speaker?
This is famous far and wide. His original name is Gaosheng. Because the trumpet is blown well, people call him Gaosheng. Liu Magistrate knew him even more. When he came to office the year before yesterday, he led a few trumpet craftsmen to welcome him for several miles, and Magistrate Liu gave him ten taels of silver.
Today, he saw him blowing the trumpet in the grave, so he asked, "High, why did you run to the grave to blow the trumpet?"
stopped the trumpet and said, "Master, ask me, who am I asking?" So he told a strange experience.
Yesterday he was invited by the King of the South City to hold a funeral for his mother and acted as a drummer. It was too late to leave the spirit, and he ate a few more glasses of good wine. It was already dark when he walked from Wang Yuanwai's house. It was only thirty miles from Wang Yuanwai's house to his house. It didn't take long to walk, but he was fascinated by the way. When he walked, Gao Dalaba felt thirsty, but he couldn't find the residents. Suddenly, he saw two small rooms on the side of the road with lights lit inside, so he went to the house to find water to drink.
opened the door and saw a woman in her twenties lying on the kang in the room, hugging a three or four-year-old boy playing in her arms. He said loudly that the purpose of the visit was revealed, and the woman said, "The water tank is in the outer room, you can drink it yourself."
Before I could find the water tank when I arrived at the outer room, the woman in the room blew the light. At this time, the room was pitch black and there was nothing to see. He touched the walls with his hands, and he couldn't find the door, and he couldn't go back even if he wanted to go back to the house. He shouted to the woman in the room, "Sister, please click and for me! Light the light!" But no one answered, there was no way, so he blew the trumpet.
After hearing Gao Dalaba's words, Liu Zhixian thought to himself, could there be any injustice in this grave? At that time, the person who dug the grave was ordered: "Dig out the coffin in the grave, and I will check it." After not much effort, I dug out the grave, but there was a new gold-painted cabinet inside.
County Magistrate Liu asked people to lift the cabinet up as the cover was lifted, but there was a woman in her twenties and a little boy in her three or four years old was lying on her body. The little boy's head was opened and the oars flowed out of his head, which was a terrible sight.
Liu Zhixian called Gao Da Laba over and asked, "Is the woman you saw last night this woman?"
Gao Da Laba looked carefully and said, "Master, I saw this woman last night, but the child's head was not split open."
Liu Zhixian nodded. It seemed that there must be injustice here. Who are these two people? Who is harmed? After pondering for a while, he asked the sender to find the coroner and examine the autopsy on the spot. The result of the coroner's autopsy was that the two were mother and son, and the woman showed signs of being raped. The woman was cut off her throat and died, while the little boy was chopped to death by an axe, and found that the victim's nails were split with the middle finger of her right hand, and the nails had a little skin. It seems that fighting with someone before his death has scratched the murderer's face.
County Magistrate Liu asked his subordinates to find the nearby land guards to identify whether the victim was a local. The work is not long, and all the land guards nearby have arrived. The land guard in Litun in the east of the city saw the female corpse and said to Liu Magistrate: "Master, this girl is the daughter of Li Laoer of my town. Her name is Li Xiaohua. She has been betrothed to Zhang gangsters in Zhangtun in the west of the city since childhood.”
County Magistrate Liu asked: “Who is Zhang gangster? "
Dibao said: "This person is not doing his job properly, he is idle all day long and is engaged in gambling. "
County Magistrate Liu sent someone to find Zhang's gangster.
The gangster was sent to meet Liu's gangster. This person was twenty-five or six years old and looked like a thief. He knelt on the ground, kowtowed repeatedly, and said, "I wonder what the master told the little people? "
County Magistrate Liu said: "Zhang Wan, look at the dead body in that cabinet is your wife and children? "
Zhang gangster cried bitterly when he saw the female corpse, calling out Xiaohua and his son Xiaobao, crying to death.
He cried for a while and wiped his tears and said, "Master, my wife and children die too badly, you must avenge my wife and children..."
County Magistrate Liu asked, "Your wife was killed, do you know who killed it? "
" replied to the master, my wife quarreled with me three days ago and went back to her parents' home with her child in the evening. The villain was angry and did not send her off, but she was killed. "When he said this, he burst into tears again.
County Magistrate Liu asked again: "Why did she quarrel with you? "
" Back to the master, he quarreled because the villain played with money and lost money. "
County Magistrate Liu asked: "Who are you playing money with? "
Zhang gangster stammered and said: "There are Zhang Gou'er, Liu San, Wu Si, and..."
Liu Zhixian asked: "Who else? "
Zhang said hesitantly: "There are also carpenter Wang from Xiguan . "
County Magistrate Liu was shocked when he heard this. He turned his eyes to the newly painted gold cabinet. Could it be him? He said to the gangster Zhang: "Your wife and children were killed. The murderer will be investigated slowly in the county, but now you can't get rid of the corpse in the wilderness. You can bury her. "After saying that, he led the yamen run back to the county government.
When people came to see the magistrate leading the yamen run back to the county government, they secretly scolded him for being a confused official. Such a big murder case was left in angrily.
Ministrate Liu returned to the county government and went back to the back hall to rest, not mentioning Li Xiaohua's affairs.
The next day, the master came to him and said, "Master, the Li Xiaohua case is now full of storms, and people call you a muddy official. "
County Magistrate Liu smiled and said, "It's right for the people to scold them." "
Master asked inexplicably: "Master, Zhang thrust hesitantly and said that Carpenter Wang must have a ghost here, why don't you tell Carpenter Wang to be arrested? "
" Master, do you think if Carpenter Wang killed Li Xiaohua, the incident would have caused a sensation in the whole city yesterday. Can he wait at home to be arrested? "
The master suddenly realized what Liu Zhixian said, and hurriedly asked, "How can Master catch Carpenter Wang? "
County Magistrate Liu asked him to come over and said something, but the master nodded.
On that day, three big trucks came to Wang's carpenter's shop. A rich man dressed up came to buy furniture and said that his son was going to do a wedding, but Wang's house door was locked.
The neighbor told the rich man that Wang's carpenter had been out for several days. The rich man asked, "Is there no other person in his family?" "
Someone told him that his wife died of illness half a year ago. He is now alone, eating, drinking, gamble and everything is good. It is difficult to find him now.
At this time, a young man came, who was about twenty years old. He asked the rich man how much furniture he bought. The rich man told him, "These three cars are all here to pull furniture. "
The young man thought for a while, "Carpenter Wang is going to his aunt's house. Is it okay to come back a few days later? "
The rich man said, "The wedding will be held in two days. Who in the city doesn't know that Master Wang is good at craftsmanship? If he is not at home, we will go somewhere else to buy it. "He said that he was about to drive the car away.
The young man hurriedly stepped forward and stopped him, "This rich man, can you come tonight?" I'll send him a letter. "
The rich man nodded and said yes. He took out 5 taels of silver to the young man who delivered the letter. The young man left happily.
That night, Liu Magistrate Liu was in the lobby, and the third yamen runners stood on both sides. At this time, the master and a few people on duty tied up Carpenter Wang and came to the hall.
Carpenter Wang knelt in the lobby with confidence, "The villain kowtowed to his parents. I wonder what crime the villain committed? Being in the hall?"
Chief Liu looked at Carpenter Wang and saw that he was in his early thirties, with a fat face full of flesh and fierce eyes, and a big plaster was placed on his left face.
Liu Zhixian slapped the exclamation and asked, "Is the one who kneels down below Carpenter Wang?"
"It's a villain."
"You brought me back to the beginning of killing Li Xiaohua and his son."
Li Xiaohua said the three words "Li Xiaohua" which scared him to tremble, but he calmed down immediately and said, "The villain only knows how to do carpenter work, and he doesn't know what Li Xiaohua is."
"Okay, let me ask you, what's wrong with your left face?"
"The little man has sores on his face, and he is pasted with plaster."
"Where are you here, remove the plaster on his face."
came over to take off the plaster on Carpenter Wang's face, and saw four handprints of being caught on his face. At this time, Carpenter Wang's face was sweating and collapsed on the ground.
So Carpenter Wang had to ask for the story of killing Li Xiaohua.
It turns out that he passed away from the ex-wife of Carpenter Wang. His heart was distracted and he bet on money with some gambling friends all day long. Later, he met the gangster Zhang, who lost 500 taels of silver to Wang Carpenter. Carpenter Wang went to his house to collect the bill, but he had no money to pay it back. When Carpenter Wang saw that Zhang's wife was pretty, he became distorted and forced him to use his wife to pay the bill. But Zhang said that it would not be enough to give her wife only, and he would take the child away. So Carpenter Wang agreed. He was going to take his wife openly, but Zhang gangster said that this was not possible. He was afraid that his father-in-law would know, so he said that he would send someone to Carpenter Wang tonight. In the future, his father-in-law would know that he would make a mature rice.
It turns out that night he sent Li Xiaohua and his son Xiaobao to Wang's house. At that time, Carpenter Wang thought he and Li Xiaohua had explained, but he was lying to Xiaohua that her mother was sick, so he went here to rest for a while, and then he said he would go shopping and slip away. Xiaohua was about to leave when he didn't come back, and Carpenter Wang told her the truth, and she refused to obey. When Carpenter Wang thought that the sheep that was in her mouth could not tell her to run away, he forced her to commit violence. Xiaohua was a strong woman and shouted for help. Carpenter Wang pinched her neck, but unexpectedly she scratched his face with her hand. Carpenter Wang strangled her to death because she used too much force. At this time, Xiaobao was so scared that he cried. His mother was dead, so what's the use of leaving this disaster? Carpenter Wang chopped him to death with an axe, but he didn't dare to buy a coffin, so he moved his own gold-painted cabinet and put it in the mother and son, and transported it to the corpse post overnight to bury it. This matter was not known to anyone, but Gao Dalabo got lost, but stayed here for a night, and a trumpet blew up a lawsuit.
At this time, the yamen runner took the gangster Zhang to the lobby. When he saw Carpenter Wang knew that the matter was exposed, he had no choice but to admit that he used his wife and children to pay the gambling debts.
Liu Magistrate Li clarified the case and sentenced him at the time: "Zhang gangsters are good at gambling, and they used their good wife and their biological brothers to repay the gambling debts to cause the mother and son to die, which is unreasonable; Wang Carpenter raped and killed Li Xiaohua and his son, and the two should be killed."
At that time, he threw the two into death prison and asked for the death penalty after the autumn. People say that Liu Magistrate Liu is a good candidate for a case, but strangely, how Gao Daluo entered the grave and blew the horn all night is still a mystery.
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