In this world, some things are not as simple as they seem.
In the Qing Dynasty, there was an unjust case of Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage, and the two were framed and beaten into tricks.
What is going on, and what is the life of the two after they are able to redress their grievances?
Yang Naiwu and the little cabbage
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the story of Yang Naiwu and the little cabbage in Yuhang Town, Hangzhou, was widely circulated, and the beginning of the story originated from a misunderstanding and contradiction, which eventually led to the occurrence of a deplorable unjust case.
Yang Naiwu was born in 1841, his father made a living by raising silkworms, his family was well-off, he was smart since he was a child, he was in Xiucai at the age of 20, and he was promoted to high school at the age of 23, and his reputation was shocked for a while.
But he has a straightforward personality and has publicly ridiculed the corruption of the local magistrate, so he has a grudge against the government, which lays the groundwork for being framed in the future.Little cabbage, formerly known as Bi Xiugu, nicknamed "Little Cabbage" because she often wears white clothes and green pants, she was born to Peugeot, "Declaration" describes her "subject to capital punishment, and the color has not faded", it can be seen that her beauty, little cabbage is the wife of Ge Pinlian of his stepfather's same clan, Ge Pinlian runs a tofu shop, and his personality is suspicious.
In 1872, Ge Pinlian rented Yang Naiwu's house to live, and the two families lived in harmony at first, and Yang Naiwu also taught little cabbage to read. But Ge Pinlian and his mother suspected that Xiao Cabbage was having an affair with Yang Naiwu, and there was a scandal between the two at that time, Yang raised the rent to force the other party to move out in order to eliminate the suspicion, and the two families have been cut off since then.
But the disaster is not over, due to the influence of gossip, the little cabbage was misunderstood by everyone and had an improper relationship with Yang Naiwu, although the truth is not the case, but this is enough to trigger a series of tragic events.
The death of the husband is suspected
On the ninth day of October in the twelfth year of Tongzhi (1873), in the tofu shop in Yuhang Town, the prelude to a tragedy began. At this time, Shen Yu's son Ge Pinlian was helping in the store, and suddenly felt unwell and vomited.
After returning home, his condition did not improve, and Xiao Cabbage (Ge Bishi) hurriedly helped him, but could not relieve his pain.
The little cabbage was anxious, Ge Pinlian felt that he might be suffering from fire disease, so he asked the little cabbage to buy some medicinal materials to replenish qi and blood, although the little cabbage tried his best to regulate her husband, Ge Pinlian's symptoms became more and more serious, and the next afternoon, Ge Pinlian died of exhaustion.
People thought it was just an ordinary violent death, until the next night, blood flowed from the mouth and nose of the corpse.
Ge Pinlian's mother began to suspect the cause of her son's death, believing that the situation was abnormal, and insisted on an autopsy.
At this moment, Chen Zhushan, a talented showman, intervened in the whole incident, and when he heard that the cause of Ge Pinlian's death was unknown, he passed on his hatred to Yang Naiwu, and began to spread rumors about Yang Naiwu and the little cabbage in the ears of Liu Xitong in Yuhang Zhi County, pushing the situation in an uncontrollable direction.After Liu Xitong learned about the rumors, he decided that Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage were Ge Pinlian's **, and mistakenly believed the rumors, so he quickly sent someone to investigate and detained the pair of men and women suspected of **.
Unjustly imprisoned
According to Liu Xitong, the local county magistrate, Yang Naiwu had an affair with a little cabbage, and the two continued to commit adultery.
Liu Xitong immediately ordered the arrest of Xiao Cabbage and interrogated her if she had poisoned Ge Pinlian, who wept and denied the accusations, but Liu Xitong did not believe it.
According to the "evidence" found by Liu Xitong, the silver needle is black, which means that Ge Pinlian was most likely poisoned to death.
Liu Xitong and Yang Naiwu have never had a good relationship, and have been looking for opportunities to frame Yang Naiwu, after learning that Yang Naiwu was related to this case, Liu Xitong immediately sent someone to summon Yang Naiwu back to the county government for questioning.
Yang Naiwu was completely unaware of Liu Xitong's sinister intentions, and after being escorted to the county office, he was full of confidence and confidently defended Xiao Cabbage and himself, and presented evidence that he was not present at the time of the crime.
However, Liu Xitong had already prepared, he had been eyeing Yang Naiwu and the little cabbage for a long time, just waiting for the prey to take the bait.
In order to achieve his goal, he even asked the imperial court to remove Yang Naiwu's fame so that he could be tortured, and before getting approval, Liu Xitong couldn't wait at all, and used torture tools against Yang Naiwu the next day.Yang Naiwu was unwilling to admit the crime he did not commit, but it was difficult to support him under cruel torture, so Liu Xitong arranged for Yang Naiwu to confront Xiao Cabbage in court, forcing Xiao Cabbage to continue to frame Yang Naiwu for adultery and killing Ge Pinlian.
Yang Naiwu never expected that the little cabbage would frame himself with nonsense, and scolded the little cabbage on the spot, but Liu Xitong didn't care, and submitted the confessions of the two to his superiors and closed the case.
The truth is revealed
After Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage**, the government tortured them to extract confessions.
The guard put a sharp blade in front of the little cabbage's neck and ordered her to confess the crime according to the script, and the two finally could not bear the inhuman torture, so they could only bend into a trick.
At this time, the case actually had obvious flaws - the main suspect's confession was incomplete, but Liu Xitong whispered to the prefect Chen Lu, which made him believe it, and Yang Naiwu was tortured after being escorted to the prefect's yamen, and finally could only admit this unwillingly wrong case.
Despite the tremendous pressure, Yang Naiwu never gave up his efforts to defend himself, he believed that one day the truth would be revealed, and justice would prevail over the self-seeking **.
Yang Naiwu's sister Yang Juzhen did not give up hope of overturning the case for her younger brother, she ran around the capital twice to redress grievances, but returned in vain due to lack of network resources.
It wasn't until he got the help of businessman Hu Xueyan and took great pains to find ** to submit a grievance that the case was taken seriously, and Yang Juzhen's desperate efforts achieved this miracle of reversal of fate.
At the same time, the "Declaration" also played a great role at that time, and the turmoil made Cixi make three holy decrees on this case.In the end, the truth was revealed, and Yang Naiwu and Little Cabbage were finally rehabilitated, but they were no longer the same.
Yang Naiwu's body was disabled, but fortunately, his family was well-off and his life was not bad, but he was also in poor health because of this, and finally died young.
And the little cabbage because of this incident, her mother-in-law didn't want her, although she was only 25 years old at the time, and finally chose to spend the second half of her life in the temple, when Yang Naiwu died, she also went to worship, and later after she died in her 70s, people found that she also left a letter, which still said that the two were innocent, which shows how profound the impact of this case on her is.This unjust case robbed them of the joy and hope of their youth, and left behind a wound that will never be healed.
As Yang Naiwu said: "Sven swept the ground, Naiwu returned to the sky", the despair of life is better than death has drowned him.
Behind the occurrence of many unjust, false and wrongful convictions in history are often hidden bottomless entanglements of interests and power struggles, and these complex factors make it difficult to achieve true justice.
However, the power of "Declaration" and other ** has revealed many truths for us, and has attracted the attention and repercussions of society, which makes us see the hope of justice.
There is still a long way to go, and we need to keep working so that everyone can enjoy fairness and justice.
But in the process, how should we deal with the problems that still need to be solved?This question still needs to be pondered and explored.