During the Ming Dynasty, a farmer in Shanxian County was working in the fields, and his wife brought him a meal, and he died after eating. His father-in-law insisted that his daughter-in-law had poisoned his son, so he sued her to the government. After being severely whipped, the woman confessed to the crime of which she had been charged.
However, it didn't end there. In Shanxian County, there has been no rain for a long time, which makes the crops wither and the people miserable. Xu Xiangyi, who was working in Shandong at the time, realized that this might be related to an unjust case. He personally came to Shanxian County and brought the prisoners one by one for retrial.
When he came to the case, he asked a thought-provoking question: ".Staying together as a husband and wife is the greatest wish in life, and poisoning and killing people is a kind of strict planThrough detailed questioning, he found that the woman did not encounter anything unusual in the process of delivering the meal.
So, Xu Xiangyi asked someone to buy fish to make soup, and added wattle flowers, and fed them to pigs and dogs, but there was no immortality. The woman's grievances were finally cleared. On the same day, it rained heavily in Shanxian County.
Another story is about a businessman in Suzhou. His wife kept a few chickens and waited for him to come home, and he didn't return until years later. His wife killed a chicken and cooked it for him, but he died instantly.
The neighbor suspected adultery and stated it to Taishou. After Yao Gong examined it, he guessed that the chicken was poisonous. He sent someone to find an old hen and cook it for the death row prisoners who were about to be executed, and sure enough, they poisoned the two of them, and the unjust case was cleared.
It turns out that these chickens have eaten centipedes and other poisonous insects, and they have accumulated toxins in their bodies for a long time. Therefore, the families who raise livestock do not eat old chickens, nor do they eat chickens in the summer.
The imperial history of the Ming Dynasty Zhang Yu is a word Zhongming, Cixi people, Xianzong Chenghua years to Jinshi as the county magistrate of Leadshan County. There was a firewood seller who loved to eat eels.
One day when he came back from the market, he was very hungry, so his wife cooked eel for him to eat. After feasting, he died of abdominal pain.
The neighbor said that the wife had poisoned her husband and arrested her and sent her to the government. She pleaded not guilty to torture and interrogation, and the lawsuit has not been decided, and the wife has been detained for more than a year.
After Zhang Yu arrived, he reviewed the official document and suspected that the eel was poisonous. He asked the fisherman to catch hundreds of pounds of eels, put them all into the water tank to observe, and found that there were seven eels with their heads raised two or three inches above the water.
He asked the woman to cook for the death row inmates in the prison, and as soon as the death row inmates swallowed, they all said that they had stomach aches and soon fell to the ground and died, and the woman's grievances were cleared.
This incident was recorded in Lu Ziyuan's "Divine Politics", saying that Xu Xiangyi Gong was guided by the gods to do so, which is very grotesque.
Feng Menglong once commented: In fact, everything that is abnormal is boring, and the person who examines the lawsuit should pay attention to it, how can it be left to the profound gods to decide?
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