One evening, Chen Haozhong returned home. When his brother saw him, he said to him: "My sister-in-law will give birth soon. In order to let her rest alone, don't bother her, find another room to live in."

Qing Dynasty During the Qianlong period, there were two brothers in Chenjiazhuang outside Baoshan City. The elder brother was Chen Haoli, who was thirty years old. His wife died of illness a year ago. His younger brother was Chen Haozhong, who was twenty-five years old and married Zhang Yufang. Both of my parents have passed away, leaving behind a lot of land, real estate and property. The two have not yet separated, the older brother is farming at home, and the younger brother goes out to do business.

One evening, Chen Haozhong returned home, and when his brother saw him, he said to him: "My sister-in-law will give birth soon. In order to let her rest alone, don't disturb her, find another room to live in."

brothers did as they did.

I didn't want to get up the next morning and found that Chen Haozhong had returned to heaven. Chen Haoli hurried to tell his sister-in-law, "My brother and sister, it's not good. My brother returned yesterday and suddenly died of illness..."

When Zhang Yufang heard this, she hurried to her husband's room to see it. As expected, she was dead on the bed. She couldn't help crying and fainted suddenly. Everyone hurriedly woke her up and carried her back to the room to let her lie down. Soon, abdominal pain was about to be edema and gave birth to a man.

A month later, one night, Zhang Yufang was lying on the bed with her son when she was suddenly awakened. I saw his father Zhang Guimin angrily come to the room and cursed at her, "You shameless thing! You actually did such a shameless thing. Where did you ask us Zhang family to put the face?"

Zhang Yufang felt that the second monk was confused and asked, "Dad, what shameful things did my daughter do, which made you so angry?"

Zhang's father said angrily, "You pretend to be ignorant of the ugly things you did yourself? I ask you, who is the adulterer who escaped from your room just now?"

Zhang Yufang was surprised. : "Dad, where does this start? I sleep well with my son, how can there be any adulterer? Are you not catching up on the wind and making a fool of yourself?"

At this time, Chen Haoli next to him said: "I said brother and sister, if you don't know, unless you don't do it, just now Uncle Zhang and I saw a man escape from your room with my own eyes. Will your father wrongly accuse you of such a thing? Alas! This is a misfortune, embarrassing, embarrassing! Although our Chen family is not a prominent family, it is also a well-known rule. Now that such a scandal happens, if it spreads, How can we have the attitude to meet people in the future? "

Zhang Yufang was puzzled by him and could not tell for a moment.

Chen Haoli continued, "My brother and sister, I know that after my brother passed away, you are alone and have a hard life, but you are still young, you can remarry openly, find a man, and become a family again. Why do you have to do something that is insulting in the family secretly?"

Zhang Yufang has been studying since childhood and is a smart and virtuous person who knows books and politely. The so-called gongs and drums listens to the sound and speaks. Now, after listening to Chen Haoli's decisive and conscientious words, it is clear to her husband's unclear death. She was very calm and did not argue with Chen Haoli. She only said to her father: "Dad, you raised your daughter since childhood. Don't you know her daughter's character? Do you believe that her daughter will do things that are more lawless to tarnish her father's reputation? Dad, you also know that in today's world, the world is getting worse and worse, and people's hearts are sinister. As the saying goes, it is difficult to draw a tiger and paint a bone, but knowing people but not your heart. You must be careful, don't fall into other people's traps and fall into other people's tricks."

Chen Haoli listened After these innuendous words, he said furiously: "Your adultery with others was seen by your father with me, which is a foregone conclusion. In your tone, it seems that someone deliberately designed to frame you, right?"

Zhang Yufang said: "The clear one is clear, and the turbid one is turbid. There is a saying that you are catching thieves and stolen stolen, and stolen adulterers are catching two. Since you keep saying that I am adulterer, please arrest the adulterer and let me see!"

Chen Haoli was speechless for a moment. Suddenly his eyes rolled, and he thought about it and said, "I think you will never die until the Yellow River, and you will not cry until you see the coffin. I originally thought that this family should not be exposed, but I will end this matter without a sound inside, so that you can go back to your parents' home in a decent way. You are still young and will get married in the future. Unexpectedly, you can bite Lu Dongbin and don't know the good people's hearts. Well, we can only go to the yamen to see the official Gong.”

The next day, Chen Haoli rushed to the county government office to beat the drum and shout for justice. When the magistrate heard the news, he immediately went to the hall and asked, "What's the matter with you beating the drum? "

Chen Haoli said: "Master, my brother-in-law Zhang Yufang committed adultery with someone and poisoned my brother to death. Please make the decision for my brother's grievances. "

The magistrate, the surname Hu, is a diligent and loving official, resourceful and skillful in determining cases. When many difficult cases come to his hands, they will be solved quickly and the truth will be revealed. After hearing Chen Haoli's statement, he immediately sent someone to send Zhang Yufang to interrogate.

After a while, Zhang Yufang came to the lobby and the magistrate asked her, "Zhang Yufang, someone sued you for adultery and murdering your own husband. Is there any such thing? ”

Zhang Yufang said: “Master, this is absolutely true for the common women. A month ago, when the girl was about to give birth, her husband came back from doing business outside and had not even seen him. The uncle suddenly told me that his husband died of sudden illness. After seeing my husband's body, I fainted and woke up and gave birth to a son. I don’t expect that my child was full month yesterday, and my uncle said that the young woman had committed adultery. The young woman was really wronged. Please check it out clearly. "

The magistrate observed the two of them for a while, and then asked Chen Haoli, "Do you say your sister-in-law commits adultery with someone, is there any evidence? "

" Back to the master, it was the villain and her father Zhang Guimin who saw it with their own eyes. "

So, Zhang Guimin was passed to the lobby and he said to the magistrate: "I was at home yesterday, and suddenly Chen Haoli came to tell me that it was my grandson who had a full moon, and he prepared a little wine and invited me to his house for a full moon wine. After dinner in the evening, Chen Haoli asked me to go to his daughter's room with him to see his grandson. As soon as he approached his daughter's room, a person suddenly rushed out of it and fled away in a hurry. At this time, Chen Haoli said to me: "I'm going to hide it from the old man, your daughter is unfaithful and has been engaged in adultery for a long time. Did you see it just now? The one who escaped must be her relationship. ’I believed it for a moment, so I scolded my daughter, who kept saying it was wronged. "

The magistrate asked: "Did you see their affair with your own eyes? "

" No, I just saw a black shadow escape from my daughter's room. "

The magistrate thought for a moment and said decisively: "Just just escape from the room with a black shadow, and say that someone commits adultery with him, isn't this a sensation? What if a thief steals can it be said to be adultery? The evidence is insufficient, and the adultery case cannot be established, so I will withdraw from the court. "

After leaving the house, the magistrate immediately took coroner and several yamen runners to Chen Haoli's house and asked him, "Where is your brother buried? The coffin has not been buried yet and is temporarily parked in an ancient temple. "

and his group immediately went to open the coffin for an autopsy. After investigation, Chen Haozhong died of arsenic poisoning.

The magistrate returned to the county government and sat down, Zhang Guimin came to ask for a meeting. He said to the magistrate: "Master, the little girl has always been kind-hearted and well-educated. How could she conspire to murder her husband? "

The magistrate said: "Old man, don't worry, the person involved in the murder of your son-in-law will come to your door later. The county has set up a "golden hook fishing" plan, just waiting for the "fish" to take the bait. "

was just talking when a yamen runner suddenly came to report to him, "Master, a man named Cao Amao said he was coming to surrender to the master. "

The magistrate said happily: "Look, 'Yu' is here, you go to the back of the screen to listen to the case trial of the county. "

This Cao Amao is in his thirties and often works for the Chen family. He said to the magistrate: "Master, a villain cannot afford to marry a wife because his family is poor, and he is still single. Chen Haozhong went out to do business all year round, and his wife Zhang Yufang couldn't stand the loneliness, so she often came to seduce me. I couldn't control it, so I did that kind of thing with her. Later, she asked me to buy some arsenic and said it was used for medicine weasel . She didn't expect that she would poison her husband to death, but it was nothing to do with me! "

The magistrate heard this and said, "So, are you the 'adulter' who escaped from Zhang Yufang's room last night? "

" Yes, lord. "

" Are these words serious? "

" Every sentence the villain said is true. Please forgive the villain for being confused for a while and doing something shameful. The villain knows his mistake now, and he will definitely change his mind in the future, change his past and be a good person. Now the villain comes to surrender, exposing the murderer Zhang Yufang, and strives for leniency, and asks the master to be lenient."

After hearing this, the magistrate suddenly slapped gavel and said furiously: "Come here! Pull this adulterer and murder criminal out and chop it up! "

Several yamen runners responded and carried him out like a chicken. Cao Amao was so scared that he urinated and hurriedly shouted, "Master, please spare my life, I'm wronged..." magistrate asked, "You said you were adulterering, what's wronged? "

" Master, I don't have it. It was Chen Haoli who asked me to pretend to be an adulterer and pretend to surrender. "

" How to say this? Let’s be honest, if there is another half of false words, I will definitely be killed! "

So, Cao Amao told the whole story in detail.

After hearing this, the magistrate immediately ordered someone to arrest Chen Haoli for interrogation. Chen Haoli could not deny it in front of the witness, so he had to confess honestly.

It turned out that in order to monopolize the property, Chen Haoli asked Cao Amao to buy arsenic. After killing his brother, he prepared to drive away his sister-in-law. So he used the money to bribe Cao Amao. On the night of the child's full month, he asked Cao Amao to hide in his sister-in-law's room in advance. When he led him to his daughter's room under the name of asking Zhang Guimin to see his grandson, he used coughing as a call to let Cao Amao escape from the room, causing Zhang Yufang to commit adultery, and then aroused Zhang Guimin's anger so that Zhang Guimin could Forced his daughter to commit suicide...

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yufang's righteous and stern refutation left his father speechless, so he did not do anything, and kept suing her for adultery and murder, putting her to death...

Later, seeing that the adultery case was denied by the magistrate, he gave Cao Amao another twenty taels of silver, asked him to surrender himself as an adulterer, lied to him that he would be relieved of the murderer's merits, and promised to give him another thirty taels after the matter was completed...

The truth of the case was revealed, Chen Haoli was sentenced to death and was sent to death prison to be sentenced: Cao Amao was punished for forty and released and returned home. The Chen family's property was inherited by Zhang Yufang and his son.

Zhang Guimin came out from behind the screen and was grateful to County Magistrate Hu, saying, "Thank you, the master, for clearing the injustice for the little girl. Master, you are really a brilliant idea, and it is admirable! May I ask, how do you calculate so accurately? "

Magistrate Hu said: "It is not a clever plan. Generally speaking, the case is to observe the words and expressions; the second is to analyze and infer based on common sense; the third is to find clues, seize the breakthrough, and then set up a clever plan to succeed in one fell swoop. Let’s first talk about the words and expressions. When I see Ling Ai’s character is dignified and beautiful, and his behavior is steady and polite, he does not look like a slut and slut who murdered his husband. Chen Haoli looked cunning. Although he sued your daughter for adultery and murdering his husband, he showed a look of fear on the inside. This official already understood a little in his heart.

Let’s talk about analysis and inference. Chen Haoli invites you to see your grandson in his daughter’s room, which is unreasonable. According to the rules, when seeing the child, someone should be carried to the living room for everyone to see. How could two older men break into a woman's room to see the child? And at this moment, a "black shadow" just popped out of the room. No matter how greedy a woman is, she will not commit adultery with others during confinement and is a gathering of relatives and friends. This obvious loophole makes people see at a glance that someone carefully planned and arranged the purpose of framed your daughter.

And this "black shadow" is the key figure in solving the case. As long as this "black shadow" is found, the case will be solved easily. Therefore, the official set up a plan to "Golden Hook Fishing": because "adultery murder" is a whole, and adultery is the premise of murdering his own husband. If adultery is denied, murder will be difficult to establish. This official deliberately said that there was no adulterer, and the evidence was insufficient, and the adultery case could not be established, with the purpose of letting the "adulterer" come to the head. This county concluded that in order to prove your daughter's crime of "adultery and murder", the criminal will definitely buy the scapegoat to pretend to be an adulterer. The so-called "one guest will not bother two masters". This adulterer is probably still the "black shadow".

Facts confirm my inference. So, he used the strategy of "knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger" to pull him out and behead him. You think life is the most precious. Who would be willing to lose his life for a few taels of silver? In order to survive, he had to tell the truth honestly. "

Zhang Guimin listened and admired County Magistrate Hu so much that he was impressed.