A case was recorded in the Qing Dynasty's "Criminal Case Collection Part III", of course, this is a more serious book, so the case is relatively simple, so here is a brief explanation of the record in the book.
Zhao Rufeng had an affair with Zhang, the wife of his brother Zhao Rujun, who had already come out of the five suits, probably because the two had frequent interactions, so Zhao Rujun soon found out about the matter between the two of them. Zhao Rufeng had murderous intentions towards Zhao Rujun, and after planning for a few days, he decided to solve Zhao Rujun on a dark and windy night.
Waiting for that night, Zhao Rufeng touched into Zhao Rujun's home, pushed open the window and entered the bedroom, because it was dark, he could only rely on his memory to find the location of the bed, and when he reached the bed, he raised a big knife and slashed at the sleeping Zhao Rujun, as a result, Zhang slept outside, and was accidentally killed by Zhao Rufeng.
And Zhao Rujun, who was originally asleep, woke up suddenly, quickly dodged, and was killed by Zhao Rufeng. As a result, Zhao Rufeng killed the couple. Later, Zhao Rufeng was arrested and brought to justice, and he did not survive. This is all the record of this incident in the "Criminal Case Review Part III".
In fact, the government did not solve this case so simply, and even almost made it an unjust case. It turned out that this Zhao Rufeng was a butcher, and he was very close to his brother Zhao Rujun's home, and he usually had a lot of contact, and there was no contradiction.
And the relationship between Zhao Rufeng and Zhang's is not known to many people, but many people do know that Zhao Rufeng and Zhang's are very close, but they don't know that the two have had many in-depth exchanges with each other.
So the day after Zhao Rujun and Zhang were killed, the neighbors reported the case, and when the government was investigating the case, there was no Zhao Rufeng in the clues provided by everyone. Everyone's main attention is focused on a person in the neighboring village, this person used to be a soldier, here is temporarily called a soldier, the soldier is five big and three rough, he has killed on the battlefield without killing, and then he is not on the battlefield, and he is also rampant and domineering in the village, and few people dare to provoke him.
Bingding and Zhao Rujun knew each other, and owed Zhao Rujun some debts, just a few days before Zhao Rujun was killed, Zhao Rujun also went to a neighboring village to ask Bingding for accounts, but Bingding had no money, Zhao Rujun also had a conflict with Bingding for this, many people know about this, so when the government investigates the case, everyone feels that Bingding is very suspicious.
Soon, the soldier was arrested, and when the officer went to his house to arrest him, he also found a bloody knife. In the eyes of many people, soldiers are **, which is already undoubted.
At first, the soldier did not admit it, but he could not stand the torture again and again, so the soldier could not stand it and changed his story, saying that he had killed the couple, and soon drew a confession on the confession, and then waited to be executed.
At this time, the government was sent over a criminal master, after the master took office, he began to contact the county case, and naturally came into contact with this case that had just been sentenced, after he read the file, he always felt that something was wrong, especially the bloody knife found in the soldier's home could not match the wound on the deceased's body at all.
After comparing the autopsy record and the bloody knife, he was even more sure that he had wronged the soldier, and he told the county magistrate his questions and evidence, and the county magistrate was also a relatively clear official, and he wondered if he was really wrong? So I asked the master what to do.
The master said that if he went around Zhao Rujun's house again, maybe something was forgotten. The county order granted his request, so the master went to the vicinity of Zhao Rujun's house and asked about the case again, and he asked those villagers some seemingly simple questions.
For example, how Zhao Rujun usually behaves, who he is close to and whose relationship is more tense, and Zhang's, what kind of character is she, whether she is usually a person with a broken mouth, whether she has a special relationship with anyone, and so on.
This question really asked something different, many neighbors said that Zhang's is very beautiful, and the relationship between husband and wife with Zhao Rujun is not very good, but he is closer to Zhao Rufeng, I don't know if there is that kind of relationship between the two. The master led people to find Zhao Rufeng, and when they appeared, Zhao Rufeng was obviously very nervous when he saw the people in the official mansion.
The master asked Zhao Rufeng to take him to the county office, and then began to interrogate him, and soon, Zhao Rufeng pleaded guilty and told the truth of what happened. Originally, he hadn't thought about killing Zhao Rujun, but Zhao Rujun found out about the affair between Zhao Rufeng and the Zhang family when he returned home, and threatened to kill Zhao Rufeng.
Zhao Rufeng hurt his clan brother to really kill himself, so he decided to strike first, but because it was too dark that night, he killed the wrong person and killed the Zhang family, while Zhao Rujun woke up from his sleep and hurriedly ran out. Zhao Rufeng was afraid that he would run out to find someone, so he simply didn't do anything, chased after him and killed Zhao Rujun.
After killing the two of them, he hurried back to his home, took off the clothes he was wearing at the time and burned them, and the butcher knife he used was not thrown away because it was more convenient, but he washed the blood stains on it and continued to use it, he was still nervous in the first few days, but when he knew that the soldiers in the neighboring village were judged to be **, he became bold and felt that he was safe, who knew that there was another experienced master in handling cases, and he was soon found out.
The case was quickly over, and later the county magistrate asked the master, why did he think it was Zhao Rufeng and directly brought him back to the county office? The master said that when he heard that the relationship between the Zhang family and Zhao Rufeng, the butcher, was very good, he basically concluded that it was Zhao Rufeng, and in his past investigations, there had been several butcher knives, and he knew that the model of the butcher knife coincided with the wounds on the deceased's body.
At that time, the bloody knife found in the soldier's house was only a knife for chopping wood, and the knife was wide and blunt, which did not match the wounds on the deceased's body at all, but the butcher's knife used by the butcher was quite consistent. It is also thanks to the timely arrival of the master that he showed such a hand as soon as he took office, otherwise, it would really be an unjust case.