Today, it happened that there was an official document from the county next door, saying that there was a pile over there, what is the shape of a female corpse, it was strangled by hemp rope, and the county saw the description, but it was Qiu Yi's wife! How did you get to Wuyuan County?
"A penny of small gaps to create strange grievances" is a famous chapter in Feng Menglong's "Three Words" series, there are many small things and big disasters in ancient case stories, and there are many serial **, this story is famous for its many lives implicated and the profound analysis of human nature.
Although this story is full of drama, the evil of each link and each character is completely in line with the logic behind the behavior caused by its temperament, which makes this story provide a valuable reference for many of its future literary and artistic works.
A total of thirteen people died in the original text, and although the deaths of some of them were related to the main story, they did not help to create the drama of the story, and even affected the rhythm of the whole story, so they were ignored.
Wuyuan County in the Ming Dynasty belonged to the jurisdiction of Huizhou Prefecture in the south of Zhili, and on this day, dozens of people rushed into the yamen, all shouting for redress of grievances. The local magistrate of the county ascended to the hall to ask about the case, and was startled as soon as he came up, these dozens of people were standing and kneeling, it seemed that a group of people tied up another group to report to the official, and it was not surprising that there were many people, and the terrible thing was that this group of people was still surrounding a few door panels, and the door panels were horizontal in front of the lobby door, and there were three corpses lying straight and bloody on it.
It turned out that the official was reported to the local wealthy Zhao Wan, who had a lot of rice fields, and dozens of acres of land happened to be at the junction of this county and neighboring counties, and the neighboring county was called Fuliang County, which was the Fuliang County in Raozhou, Jiangxi Province, where Jingdezhen was located, and was considered the junction of the two provinces at that time. That piece of land was originally bought by his brother from Zhu Chang, a wealthy gentleman in a neighboring county, in the early years, who knew that after his brother's early death, this Zhu Chang turned his face and did not admit it, and came to intrude every year when he cut rice, today he listened to the report from the next person, Zhu Chang brought more than a dozen people to cut the rice, angry but reasoned with him, who would have thought that Zhu Chang would chase and beat his family to the house with a large number of people, and beat his two subordinates to death!
The magistrate was silent when he heard this, he was familiar with this Zhao Wan, who in the local area didn't know that he was a luxurious and inferior gentleman, who often bullied and dominated the market on weekdays, how could he be a person who allowed outsiders to enter the house? There must be something strange. asked Zhao Wan at the moment: "You said that this Zhu Chang led people to kill two of your subordinates, why are there three corpses lying horizontally outside?" Who is that person? ”
At this time, the gentleman-looking man who was forced to kneel on the ground shouted: "Master Mingjian! The lord is in charge! The small one is Zhu Chang from Fuliang County, who took his subordinates to cut his own rice, but was beaten by this Zhao Wan by the river, and beat my housekeeper's wife to death. What a great injustice! ”
At this time, the magistrate probably knew in his heart, and it turned out that it was for the sake of grabbing the land. In this way, Zhu Chang brought people to cut rice, and Zhao Wan's subordinates went to fight, not wanting to kill Zhu Chang's subordinates, Zhu Chang led people back to Zhao Wan's house, and as a result, two people were also killed. But no one in these two families now recognizes it, and they both say that they are not *** framed by the other party with the corpse.
The magistrate immediately summoned a staff to come to the front of the court for an autopsy, the three bodies were a man and two women, the man was about sixty years old, with a thin physique, and the woman was an old lady and a **. The two elderly corpses were beaten to death by heavy weapons, and the blood stains were miserable, but there was no blood around the ** body. The strangulation marks on this neck are impressive, **can you still deny it?
It can be seen that this female corpse is indeed the one brought by Zhu Chang himself to frame and blackmail Zhao Wan, and the county magistrate said that this person is not a good person, he is so vicious, and he dares to fight against Zhao Wan, it turns out that he is all the way. It's just that this Zhao Wan, let alone knowing that his subordinates are not ***, even if he is really killed, it is impossible to let the other party enter his house to make a fuss, no matter how stubborn this Zhu Chang is, how can he catch two old men and kill them first when he enters the house?
The three bodies are real, but neither side can be trusted. Seeing that the two sides were arguing endlessly, he ordered each to play fifty boards, and at that time, Zhao Wan and Zhu Chang were beaten bitterly.
After a call, Zhu Chang secretly thought that this was someone else's territory, and he couldn't be reckless, so he had to tell the truth, this young female corpse was not from his own family, and it was found by the river when he was about to board the boat this morning to cut rice, and he still had a hanging hemp rope around his neck at that time, and he didn't know who threw it on the river, he thought that he could take it to scare Zhao Wan, who knew that it had reached this step.
So that's the case, although the magistrate still has doubts about the two corpses of Zhao Wan's family, Zhu Chang has admitted it, and there are no other clues at the moment, so he has to do so. The Zhao family was put back at the moment, and Zhu Chang and his group were first put in the county jail, and after writing the paperwork, they asked someone to send it to Fuliang County, on the one hand, to report the case, and on the other hand, to ask the neighboring county to check the origin of the female corpse.
Obviously not far away, the county clerks walked for two or three days, and then they arrived in Fuliang County. Fuliang Zhixian received the document from Wuyuan County and took the case: "Oops! It cured me of my headache for the past few days! Isn't this Qiu Yida's wife! ”
This Fuliang County, can be amazing, "Fuliang skillfully burns porcelain, the color is better than Qiongjiu", the porcelain town of Jingdezhen, is Fuliang County, many people in the town to burn porcelain as a business. There is a porcelain craftsman named Qiu Yida, who came to the hall two days ago to beat drums and voice grievances, saying that his wife was forced to death by his neighbor Liu Sanwang and his wife, and he didn't even know where the body was hidden. Fuliang Zhixian passed Liu Sanwang's two sons to confess, only to know that Qiu Yida's wife and Liu Sanwang's wife had a quarrel on the street the day before, then Qiu Yida's wife returned home and was angry, saying that she was going to hang herself at Liu Sanwang's house, and the next morning, Qiu Yida found that his wife was really gone, and he looked for a circle and didn't see anyone dead or dead, and he insisted that it was the Liu family and his wife who killed him, even if he hanged himself, it was these two people who were afraid of getting into trouble and threw away the corpse. On the same day, the magistrate sent someone to the street to call all the neighbors who saw Qiu Yi's wife and Liu Sanwang's wife arguing yesterday, and the children of the two families also called to find out the ins and outs.
On the same day, Qiu Yi's wife asked her son to take a penny to buy vegetables, the child was a little stupid, and met Liu Sanwang's son when he went out, and the two children began to play the game after saying two things, and after a while, Qiu Yida's son lost the penny, remembering that his mother asked him to buy vegetables, and he was afraid of being scolded, so he asked the other party to pay it back. kicked twice more in the buttocks, turned around and went to the street to grab Liu Sanwang's son and pull back a penny.
Liu Sanwang's son cried and went home to tell his mother, that Liu Sanwang's wife was a well-known calf protector, and there was no door latch in her mouth, so she scolded the street, and after listening to his son's words, he was furious, rushed out and began to abuse the door of Qiu's courtyard. Qiu Yi's wife knew that she was spicy, so she didn't dare to go out for a while, so she let her splash.
If you want to say that this shrew scolds the street, the most shameless thing is to make something out of nothing, full of nonsense, but this Liu Sanwang's wife is this passerby, seeing that Qiu Yi's wife didn't dare to come out, and slowly surrounded a lot of neighbors, and even became proud, and insulted Qiu Yi's wife with a lot of filthy nonsense, and the neighbors usually hated her vulgarity and unobtrusiveness, and they couldn't listen to it. That Liu Sanwang's wife scolded countless obscene words, and made up a nonsense without a shadow, which turned out to be heard by Qiu Yida, who had just returned home.
This Qiu Yida hid behind the crowd and heard Liu Sanwang's wife insulting his wife, but he didn't come out, he only felt ashamed and angry, and waited for the crowd to disperse before going home. When he got home, he became angry and asked his wife if there was any degrading behavior that did not abide by women's morals, otherwise why would Liu Sanwang's wife be so abusive? Why did she scold you, and you didn't talk back? The husband turned out to have this attitude, Qiu Yi's wife was shocked and sad, crying and shouting at home at the moment, Qiu Yida drank a few taels of wine, and even relied on the strength of the wine to play brutally: "If you are innocent, you will hang yourself at the door of his house tonight, go!" When you die, you are innocent! ”
These confessions were all told by the neighborhood and Qiu Yida's son, who said that her mother went out with a hemp rope, and he wanted to chase it, but was beaten back by his father, but he didn't expect his mother to disappear.
Liu Sanwang is also a porcelain burner, he has no suspicion with Qiu Yida, although his wife is annoying on weekdays, but he didn't expect to get into a life lawsuit, not to mention that he didn't see any corpses when he got up today, where did the crime of forcing people to die and hiding corpses start, and shouted in the hall, Liu Sanwang's wife also cried with her throat.
As I said earlier, Liu Sanwang's wife is vulgar, and the neighbors have been grudging for a long time, and now they are attacking her, and the lobby is full of twitters and complaints, all saying that she must have been forced to die, she was full of nonsense yesterday, dirty and innocent, that posture is intended to force people to death, Liu Sanwang is her husband, how can there be no reason not to help hide it!
The crowd in the hall was excited, and the magistrate took the opportunity to give the hateful Liu Sanwang's wife a splint first, and the foot bones were drenched in blood, and Liu Sanwang's wife was like killing a pig, but she still said that she didn't know whether Qiu Yi's wife was alive or dead, let alone the corpse.
Liu Sanwang and his wife were first taken to prison, and their son was sent to a relative's house. The next day, the yamen sent people to Liu Sanwang's house to turn it upside down, but no trace of anyone was found. Qiu Yida regretted that he had said something serious, he was anxious and annoyed, and he came to the lobby to cry for three days in a row, and he had to cut off the head of Liu Sanwang's wife first, which made Fuliang Zhixian have a headache.
Today, it happened that there was an official document from the county next door, saying that there was a pile over there, what is the shape of a female corpse, it was strangled by hemp rope, and the county saw the description, but it was Qiu Yi's wife! How did you get to Wuyuan County?
Although it was a mess, the body should be right, the magistrate first sent someone to take Qiu Yida to Wuyuan to claim it, then Qiu Yida cried on the spot, it was his wife, why did he run so far after he died? He himself is a reckless man, and he has been groggy these days, and at this time, he doesn't care whether the Wuyuan County Ya has anything to do with his wife's **, he shouted injustice in the hall, and the messenger who came with him was persuaded to go back.
After the Fuliang Zhixian here clarified the facts of the case, it was determined that Qiu Yi's wife did go out that day, and she was indeed strangled to death. So how did the corpse get to the river? Who dumps the corpse? Could it really be Liu Sanwang and his wife? However, the two men were only crying after being tortured, and they did not seem to know about it, and the case was at an impasse for a while.
The case was being shelved, but unexpectedly, there was another ** in the county, and it was still on the street of Qiu Yi's family! There was a liquor shop at the end of the street, and it was opened by an old couple, and everyone called them princesses and princesses. On this day, it was Wang Po who came to cry out for injustice, saying that the little second in the store killed her old man, but fortunately she was caught by the neighbors, and now she is chained to the yard.
Xiao Er was arrested and brought to justice, saying that the prince accidentally fell down and died, and he checked the body of the prince and the courtyard of the Wang family, and indeed the back of his head hit the stone and died on the spot, but this person generally fell either forward or sideways, and if he was backward, he may have been pushed by someone. Wang Po suddenly cried, saying that this little two always quarreled with the old man these days, and she didn't know what to quarrel about. After hearing Mrs. Wang's words, the little second child suddenly became anxious and shouted: "Why don't you know what to quarrel with!" Told me to do dirty things, and I didn't give the money I said was good, so I was fine? Two old kings! ”
Zhixian's heart moved, and asked, "What dirty thing?" If you don't say that the stick is serving. Before the torture, Xiao Er and Wang Po were already half frightened to death, and they rushed to tell what had happened. A few days ago, the old man and his buddy got up in the morning to clean, as soon as they opened the door, they found a person lying at the door, they thought it was a drunk, they came forward to see that they were scared, it turned out to be a female corpse, the old man was worried that the official would cause unnecessary trouble and affect the business, and saw that the neighbors had not yet gotten up, and ordered Xiao Er to drag him to the river outside the street and threw it away, Xiao Er refused at that time, and the prince was so anxious that he promised to give him a tael of silver, so he hurriedly dragged the body to the river.
Who knows that after coming back, this old man is like nothing happened, and he doesn't mention a tael of silver, these days Qiu Yida is looking for his wife and making trouble all over the neighborhood, Xiao Er knows that the female corpse must be Qiu Yida's wife, so as to blackmail the prince, who wants to quarrel, the prince still wants to beat him, he is angry and pushes it, and actually falls to death.
The magistrate carefully interrogated: "Did the corpse hang at the door of your liquor store?" Xiao Er shouted: "When I went out, I saw the corpse on the ground!" The beam at the door of my wine shop is high, and it can be tied to the rope?!”
As soon as these words came out, the county's heart lit up, yes, Fang Liang, immediately sent someone to check the house beams along the street, and sure enough, a trace was found on the beam at the door of the blacksmith shop next to Liu Sanwang's house. Everywhere else was years of dust, but this small patch looked like it had been rubbed against a rope. According to neighbors, the blacksmith shop had been missing for several days. When the messenger went in, it turned out that the blacksmith was sick, saying that he had contracted a cold a few days ago.
The blacksmith was taken to the hall, and when he saw Qiu Yida, Wang Po, Xiao Er and a bunch of neighbors were there, the magistrate had not yet spoken, he knelt down and told the truth. That Qiu Yi's wife did hang herself at the door of the blacksmith shop that night, thinking that it was dark at night, she couldn't see clearly, she was full of grievances and wronged to seek death, and she didn't look carefully, thinking that it was Liu Sanwang's house next door, the blacksmith got up in the middle of the night to pee, almost didn't scare to death, I don't know how to think, the blacksmith took the body down and trotted a few steps and threw it on the street, which happened to be in front of the prince's wine shop.
When he got home, the blacksmith was so frightened that he broke out the hanging rope and burned it, and he fell ill for several days.
Now that the truth is revealed, just because of the two children playing around and the entanglement of a penny, they have provoked these several people**, which is really sad, angry and sighing. It's just that the case in Fuliang County is closed, and the magistrate of Wuyuan County still has a pimple in his heart, Zhu Chang has been sentenced to behead at this time, that Zhao Wan is arrogant, but the magistrate is always suspicious of the origin and cause of death of the two dead people in Zhao Wan's family at that time, but he has no eyebrows, so he can only close the case.
If you don't say that you don't report it, the time has not come, and about a year has passed, Zhao Yilang, a personal servant of Zhao Wan's family and Zhao Wan's grandson on weekdays, came to Yamen to report the case, saying that he knew about Zhao Wan's murder case.
Sure enough, as Zhixian wondered in his heart, the two elderly dead were indeed not killed by Zhu Chang. On that day, Zhao Wan heard a report at home that his family had killed a woman from Zhu Chang's family by the river, and he was about to come to the house to seek revenge, and Zhao Wan hurriedly discussed with his son. Although Zhao Wan is a bully, his son can be called a living animal, and he came up with a poisonous plan at that time, which can suppress Zhu Chang to death in one fell swoop.
Zhao Wan's son was vicious, and after thinking of a "strategy", he immediately started to call an old servant at home who was unable to move, and beat him to death with a stick while he was not prepared. I don't want an old servant woman to come in at this time to report something, and she is bumping into him**, not doing anything, this beast beat the old woman to death, and the two corpses were placed at the door, and asked Zhao Yilang to unload the door panel with himself and lean against the door frame, that Zhu Chang led people to kill violently, the door panel fell down as soon as it was pushed, and the people behind were not on guard, a group of people rushed in, and they took advantage of the chaos to shout ***, which made a fuss about the next thing.
How could Zhao Yilang suddenly find out his conscience and report the case? It's ridiculous to say, it's exactly the same as the little two in Fuliang County. At the time of the incident, Zhao Wan's father and son promised to give him a large sum of money to buy a house, but now it has been more than a year, and he didn't mention it, he mentioned it to Zhao Wan a few days ago, Zhao Wan only said that he would give it in a few days, who would think that he accidentally bumped into Zhao Wan today to go to the pharmacy, there was no patient at home, he was suspicious, and then went to the pharmacy to investigate, the pharmacy knew that he was the confidant of the Zhao family and did not block it, saying that Zhao Wan sent someone to buy some arsenic, and the family wanted to kill the mouse.
Zhao Yilang knew that this was the Zhao family's father and son who had murderous intentions towards him, and he was furious, so he came to report the case. This person is also worthy of Zhao Wan's godson, and he still hides the wooden stick that killed people at that time, although the blood stains on it are dirty, it is still shocking.
hated this kind of inferior gentleman who lost his conscience, regarded human life as a mustard, and finally planted it in the hands of "his own people".
This story: Feng Menglong's "Awakening Hengyan" of "A Penny Small Gap Creates a Strange Injustice".