How many Ming and Qing qi cases are there? Today, we will continue to tell you about the Ming and Qing Dynasty Strange Case Series for all the officials. Today's article, from the Qing Dynasty literary work "Prison Turtle Jian Supplement", if you are interested, you can buy a copy to see, but full of paper, The Book of Asay, you need to understand it.
The case, called the "Demon Woman Burning Corpse Case", occurred in the tenth month of the lunar calendar of the fifth year of the Great Qing Dynasty. One day, someone in the Fenzhou capital beat a drum and sounded injustice, and the prefect Feng Dashengtang asked about the case, and Ya Cha brought a beautiful woman, and when the woman saw Lord Feng, she cried and complained about what had happened to her. She said that her name was Chu Jinyu, twenty years old, a native of Sujia Village, who married Su Mao, a farmer four years ago, and after marriage, her husband sang with her wife, and she was very affectionate. Half a month ago, my husband was drunk and slept until late at night, and his bedroom was on fire. By the time the fire broke, her husband, Su Mao, had already burned to death. The person who set the fire was Su Xiaosi next door, she looked for Su Xiaosi's family theory, but his family was arrogant, not only protected Su Xiaosi, but also beat her up. Her mother's family is thin, no one has come out for her, and now she can only ask the prefect to make her own decisions.
After listening to her statement, the prefect Feng asked how to know that it was Su Xiaosi who set the fire?
Chu Jinyu replied: "That Su Xiaosi is a prodigal son, who usually loves to flirt with the good family, and when he saw that the women had a bit of a posture, he often provoked the women, and once he was rude to me behind the village and tore my dress." Fortunately, my husband Su Mao came in time, and he would inevitably be humiliated by him. My husband reasoned with him, and he said viciously that he was going to kill my husband. Now that my husband has been burned to death, who else can he be? ”
Chu Jinyu spoke with blood and tears, and Lord Feng expressed deep sympathy, so he ordered su Xiaosi to be taken to the public court, and he wanted to punish this evildoer well. After Ya Cha rushed to Sujia Village to arrest Su Xiaosi and bring him back to the mansion, Lord Feng saw that this person was emaciated and not tall, and his face did not look like that kind of poor and vicious person. But those who know the face do not know the heart, and some people have a thick face and often hide treachery. He asked Su Xiaosi if he could be convicted? Su Xiaosi hesitated, saying that he didn't know which crime he had committed.
Lord Su told him what Chu Jinyu had said and asked him why he flirted with the good family and how he set the fire?
Su Xiaosi shouted that he had been wronged, saying that he was a bachelor and did not lie, and he never dared to do anything against his conscience. That time behind the village, it was not that he was rude, but that Chu Jinyu himself tore his dress and slandered the good people. After Su Mao came, he beat him indiscriminately, and how he defended Su Mao did not listen, he beat him to the nose and blue face before stopping. In addition, he did say that he wanted to kill Su Mao, but it was only because he was angry because he was beaten by Su Mao. Man said that he was killing people, and he didn't even kill chickens, so how could he set fire to people? Please be innocent.
After listening to Su Xiaosi's words, Lord Feng carefully looked at his expression and saw that this person was honest, not like telling a lie. But he still ordered someone to beat Su Xiaosi and twenty boards, and asked Su Xiaosi to tell the truth. After Su Xiaosi was hit by the board, he still cried out for wrongs. Lord Feng frightened, "You are a stubborn person, if you don't confess again, I will continue to beat you." ”
Su Xiaosi gritted his teeth and said that he had killed him, and he had not let the fire go. Lord Feng had him temporarily imprisoned, and then sent his men to Sujia Village to inquire about the truth and listen to what the villagers had to say.
The subordinate replied: "The villagers said that Su Xiaosi was honest in nature, did not love words on weekdays, and was timid and afraid of things, and the villagers did not think that he was an arsonist." ”
Lord Feng personally took him to Sujia Village, where he wanted to open the coffin for an autopsy. When the coffin was opened, Chu Jinyu was also brought to the scene, she cried on the ground, recounted what happened to her husband, and fainted several times, and the onlookers followed the low crying.
After examining it, he informed Lord Su that "the deceased was scorched black and was undoubtedly burned." But the deceased clenched his fists and seemed to be burned to death after death. ”
Lord Feng asked Chu Jinyu to stop crying and asked if she lived in the same room with her husband? Chu Jinyu replied "Yes."
Lord Feng asked, "Since you live in a room, why did you just burn your husband and you were safe and sound?" ”
Chu Jinyu said: "When the fire started, my husband was drunk, I pushed and shouted, and he did not move at all. Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, I had no choice but to escape from the fire and save my life. ”
Lord Feng laughed and reprimanded, "Good you vicious woman, you still don't tell the truth." I ask you again, how did you kill your husband? ”
Chu Jinyu's face was suddenly panicked, but he still cried out for wrong. Lord Feng said, "If you are burned alive, even a drunkard will inevitably protect his chest with his hands and stretch his ten fingers." And your husband clenched his fists together, showing that he was burned after death. If you tell the truth, I can still do it lightly; if you don't tell the truth, then you must be punished according to the laws of the Great Qing Dynasty! ”
Under some coercion, Chu Jinyu told the truth. She said that she had secretly hooked up with her husband and Su Heman, a wealthy family in the village, and the matter was broken and spread to her husband Su Mao's ears. However, Su Mao did not have a seizure because of his face, and she was afraid that Su Mao would spread the word about this matter one day, so she consulted with Su Heman to kill Su Mao and make a long-term couple from then on. Before killing Su Mao, he first led Su Mao to the back of the village, and then he tore his dress and framed Su Xiaosi, who was beating pig grass behind the village, so that outsiders mistakenly thought that Su Xiaosi had a vendetta against Su Mao. That night, Su Mao was so drunk that she and Su Heman strangled Su Mao when he was drunk, and then set fire to the body, and the body was charred so that the stranglehold marks on the neck could not be seen. Then she went to Su Xiaosi's house to theorize, and then falsely accused Su Xiaosi of killing people. I did this only to excuse Su Heman and herself.
The truth of the case was finally revealed, and in the end, the perpetrators of the evil were punished as they deserved, and Chu Jinyu rode a wooden donkey through the streets to show the public and hanged himself; Su Heman was placed in a cage, showed to the public for three days, punished with a staff of two hundred, and distributed to charge the army. Su Xiaosi was wronged and awarded him two acres of land under Su Mao's name.
Chu Jinyu's move was in response to the sentence "The organ is too clever to calculate, but it has mistaken Qingqing's life", and she can't complain about others, she can only blame herself.
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