In the late Qing Dynasty, in a village in Yixing, Changzhou Prefecture, Jiangsu Province, there lived a family surnamed Yu, the head of the family, Lao Yu, who was simple and capable, and made a living by farming. Lao Yu's wife, Zhao, is charming and sultry, amorous by nature, and very indecent.
Before getting married, Zhao hooked up with the unscrupulous teenagers around him. After getting married, her husband Lao Yu is an honest farmer, and his family background is very ordinary, so he naturally looks down on his husband even more, and is dissatisfied in every way, calling him as a servant all day long.
For the sake of family harmony, Lao Yu is usually very accommodating to his wife Zhao. Even if the Zhao family flirted with the rogue children in the neighborhood, they didn't dare to say anything, and let them do whatever they wanted. Zhao saw that her husband was so unsaved, but she couldn't help it, so she became more and more indulgent, attracting wild bees and butterflies to sway around her door. But after all, with her husband by her side, she always feels in the way and can't indulge in fun.
One day, Zhao's father-in-law went out to farm, but he never returned, and no one knew that he had gone **. Zhao pretended to be very worried and scared, and searched everywhere, but there was no news from him after visiting the surrounding villages. Since then, the scoundrels and evil boys have come to Zhao's house to laugh and play, and Zhao is also laughing as usual, as if nothing is wrong.
There is a dry well outside the village where the Zhao family lives, which has been useless for many years. On this day, someone suddenly shouted that there was a dead man in the well, which attracted the people of the village to see the excitement. When Zhao heard that a dead man had been found in the well, he ran to the well crying and said to the neighbors at the scene, "It must be my husband who died." "It was the height of summer, the weather was hot, and there was already a stench coming out of the well. Everyone fished the body out of the well, and sure enough, it was the woman's husband, Lao Yu.
I saw that Zhao's husband Lao Yu's hands and feet were trapped by ropes, bruised and swollen, and if you looked closely, there were traces of strangulation under her neck. According to everyone's analysis, it must have been strangled with a rope first, and then thrown into the well. When the woman heard this, she even kicked her feet up to the sky and cried, saying: "There is no doubt that someone will be **, and if you don't find someone to kill **, you will not give up." The neighbors didn't dare to deal with it privately, so they hurriedly carried the corpse to the county government to report to the official.
After the Yixing County Order was reported, he was immediately promoted to the court, and he asked the Zhao family if he usually had a grudge with others. Zhao replied that he only got along with his neighbor Zhang. The county order immediately detained Zhang to the county office, and indiscriminately determined that Zhang was a murderer. Zhang denied it, and as a result, he was tortured to extract a confession.
Zhang was also a big local household, and when his clansmen saw that they were being tortured for no reason, they wrote a complaint and threw it into the Yamen, which was in charge of the judicial affairs of a province. After reading the pleadings, he immediately discovered the flaw, and ordered all the people involved in the case to be brought in, and he personally interrogated.
In the Yamen, Zhao still insisted that her husband was killed by Zhang. After hearing this, Zhen Si smiled coldly, and said angrily: "Bold woman, your husband was killed by you, but you slandered others out of thin air!."Zhao was severely reprimanded and immediately shocked, but still tried his best to quibble.
Zhen Si asked rhetorically: "Since it is not your **, why is the body still in the well, you already know that it is your husband!."Zhao still refused to admit it. He looked around and shouted, "Quickly take the great punishment!."When the officials heard the order, they carried the fire chain to the lobby and prepared to be executed.
This kind of punishment is very cruel, that is, the chain of fire is burned red, and the prisoner is made to kneel, and when he is subjected to this punishment, the whole person is basically crippled. Seeing this, Zhao was so frightened that he trembled, and immediately confessed the plot of how to hook up with the evil young man who hooked up with his husband.
As for framing Zhang, it was because Zhang repeatedly insulted her for being shameless and insulting her. After the case was concluded, none of the evildoers involved in the Yamen were arrested and imprisoned, and punished according to the severity of the circumstances. Zhang was acquitted, while Zhao was sentenced according to the law because of his husband, and Ling Chi was executed.