During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, Tangzhi County, Macheng County, Huangzhou, Hubei Province, received a lawsuit. Villager Yang Wurong sued his brother-in-law Tu Rusong for killing his sister Yang Shi.
It turned out that since Tu Rusong married the Yang family, the relationship between the husband and wife was not harmonious, Tu Rusong often scolded the Yang family, and the Yang family could not stand it, and would flee back to her mother's house.
According to Qing dynasty legislation, a wife who leaves her husband without a letter of suspension is sentenced to imprisonment, and if she marries someone else without permission, she is even sentenced to hanging.
Therefore, after the Yang family returned to their mother's house, they did not dare to stay long, and they would come back in a few days.
On this day, Tu Rusong's mother fell ill, and Tu Rusong disliked Yang's poor care and beat Yang again. Yang ran away from home again, but this time he did not return for several months.
Tu Rusong couldn't wait at home, so he went to Yang's house to find it. The Yang family also said that the Yang family had not returned for several months, but they suspected that the Yang family may have been killed by Tu Rusong.
Tang Zhixian asked Yang Wurong why he was so sure that Yang had been killed. Yang Wurong replied that a man named Zhao Dang'er in the same village told him.
Tang Zhixian hurriedly brought Zhao Dang'er to him, but Zhao Dang'er said that he was also hearsay and had not seen it with his own eyes.
Tang Zhixian felt that there should be a problem behind this, so he interrogated Yang Wurong again. It turned out that Yang Wurong was illiterate, and his complaint was written by his cousin Yang Tongfan of the same clan.
And Yang Tongfan is a student with a meritorious name. However, Yang Tongfan, in the absence of evidence, wrote a complaint for others, which is a false accusation.
Therefore, Tangzhi County removed Yang Tongfan's meritorious name in accordance with the laws of the Great Qing Dynasty.
Yang Tongfan was a bully in the local area, and after his name was removed, he wanted to take revenge on Tangzhi County.
Soon after, a body was found on the river beach. The local security chief hurriedly reported to the officials for handling.
At this time, after Yang Tongfan learned about it, he found baochang, told him that the body was his cousin Yang Shi, and also found Yang Wurong.
Yang Wurong came to take a look, found that the body was not his sister, and turned around to leave.
However, after Yang Tongfan consulted with him, Yang Wurong insisted that this was his sister.
Therefore, the baochang took Yang Wurong to the county magistrate.
Tangzhi County ordered Shusaku and Ya Gong to go to the autopsy, but it rained heavily, and it dragged on for two days in a row, and it was only clear.
By this time, the body was highly decomposed. Yang Tongfan bribed Shu Zuo, who informed Tang Zhi County that the body was so badly decomposed that it could not be inspected.
At this time, Yang Wurong led the villagers to make a big fuss at the scene, saying that his sister had died and that he wanted Tu Rusong to pay for his life.
However, this corpse could not verify whether it was Yang's. Tang Zhixian felt overwhelmed and could not watch the corpse stink, so he had to let Yang Wurong take the body back to bury it first.
Then, Yuchi reported the case to his superiors.
This matter was finally learned by The Governor of Huguang, Mai Zhu, who was a man with a blue flag and was deeply trusted by Yongzheng and was the Governor of Huguang hand-picked by Yongzheng.
Mai Zhu saw that the villagers were emotional and felt that the situation was serious.
Therefore, Mai Zhu first impeached Tangzhi County, and then sent Gao Renjie of Guangji County to re-examine the body.
Unexpectedly, the works used in Kochi County, as well as the scriveners of the execution room, were also bribed by Yang Tongfan.
As a result, the body was reported to have fatal wounds on the ribs. The scrivener of the execution room added oil and vinegar to the confessions of Yang Wurong and others, and framed Tu Rusong. At this time, all the evidence proves that Tu Rusong killed Yang.
Kochi County reported the results of the trial to Maizhu, who immediately appointed Kochi Prefecture to undertake the case.
Due to the perjury of The Servant and the scribe of the execution room, coupled with the reason for Yang Wurong and others to make trouble, it is suspected that Yang Shi was tragically killed by Tu Rusong.
As a result, Kochi Prefecture initially believed that Tu Rusong had killed Yang.
Therefore, as soon as Kochi Prefecture came up, it used a large punishment on Tu Rusong, and the bones of Tu Rusong's two ankle bones were exposed.
Then, Kochi used Luo Tie to burn Rusong's chest, and then made TuRusong kneel on the charcoal-covered ground.
In this way, Tu Rusong could not resist and could only confess.
Although Tu Rusong had already been beaten into a confession, it was most important to find Yang's body. Tu Rusong casually said a hiding place, and Kochi Prefecture sent someone to find it.
As a result, only one ancient tomb was dug up. Dig again, and it's another male corpse. In this way, hundreds of ownerless tombs were excavated in a row, but Yang's body was still not found.
During this period, every time he dug, Tu Rusong had to be tortured once. As a result, he didn't have a good piece of skin on his body, and the pus and blood flowed, and it looked like it was going to die.
During the interrogation, Kochi Prefecture learned that Tu Rusong also had a male favorite. However, this male pet did not beat him, did not toss a few times, and was severely tortured to death.
At this time, Kochi Prefecture reacted to whether it was the servant who made the problem.
As a result, Kochi Prefecture began to interrogate Li Rong.
Li Rong will certainly not admit the fact that he has accepted bribes, insisting that he did not make a mistake in his test. Kochi County ordered Li Rong to be severely tortured, and in a few clicks, Li Rong was actually beaten to death.
Why was Tu Rusong tortured so badly that he did not die. And Li Rong just hit the board a few times, and then he died?
Actually, there's nothing surprising about that.
Because there were too many people involved in this matter, even among the servants, there were also bribes from Yang Tongfan. Once Li Rong can't stand to tell the truth, he may give them all up.
Therefore, these servants were tortured and killed.
In any case, according to the laws of the Great Qing Dynasty, even if the servants killed the prisoners by mistake in the court, they would not be held responsible.
At this time, Kochi Prefecture transferred a servant from the provincial capital to re-examine the body.
It turned out that the body was originally a male corpse. Previously, due to the high degree of decay of the corpse, Kochi Prefecture was deceived by Li Rong.
After Li Rong's tragic death, Li Rong's wife went to Yang Tongfan's house to make a big fuss.
Yang Tongfan would certainly not admit that he had bribed the servants to do things. Three times and two times, li Rong's wife was thrown out.
Because Yang Tongfan had a great influence in this area, Li Rong's wife had the intention of avenging her husband, but there was nothing she could do.
But Li Rong's wife is a well-known midwife. On this day, Yang Tongfan's wife had difficulty giving birth, and Yang Tongfan had to find Li Rong's wife.
Li Rong's wife found that Yang's wife was a transverse fetus and needed a lot of people to help in order to be able to give birth to the fetus.
Li Rong's wife and Yang Tongfan's mother squeezed the pregnant woman's waist hard, but the pregnant woman still could not give birth.
At this time, Yang's wife was in unbearable pain and shouted loudly, "Sangu, come and save me."
At this moment, a woman ran out of the Wall of the Yang family and came to help deliver the baby.
Li Rong's wife took a look, isn't this the one who has been making a lot of noise recently, Tu Rusong's wife Yang Shi? Isn't she dead? How could it appear in the middle of the Yang family's wall.
After the fetus was born, the Yang family thanked Li Rong's wife and gave her a piece of silver of ten taels.
Li Rong's wife did not dare to pick up, afraid of starting a fire. But she still knelt down and swore to heaven that she would never say what she saw today. Yang Tongfan only then let Li Rong's wife go home.
Li Rong's wife walked on the road, the more she thought about it, the more wrong she felt, she felt that her conscience could not pass, and when she returned home, she consulted with her son. The two felt that they could not violate their conscience, so they went to the county court to tell the truth.
At this time, Zhixian had been replaced by Chen Ding. Chen Ding was very dissatisfied with the harsh torture in Kochi County, the indiscriminate digging of graves, and the killing of the staff.
Now I heard that Yang Shi was not dead, and he was still hiding in Yang Tongfan's home. Chen Ding hurriedly informed Wu Yingdi, the governor of Hubei Province, of this matter.
After Wu Yingdi received Chen Ding's report, he sent someone to inform the governor of Huguang, Mai Zhu, and on the other hand, he played the imperial court and asked the imperial court to send someone to retry the case.
After Mai Zhu received the report, he felt that he had been fooled and was very angry, so he asked Inspector Wu and Chen Ding to go and arrest Yang Shi and retry him.
Chen Ding did not dare to go to Yang Tongfan's house with great fanfare to arrest Yang, because Yang Tongfan was likely to jump the wall and kill Yang.
Therefore, in the name of checking the household registration, Chen Ding personally led dozens of people to catch fast money. Then, taking advantage of the fact that the Yang family was not prepared, they rushed into the inner room, destroyed the sandwich wall, and captured the Yang family on the spot.
Chen Ding held a trial of the case, and when Yang Shi saw Tu Rusong, who was covered in scales, he felt extremely painful and cried loudly, "I am tired of you."
At the same time, Yang Tongfan and Yang Wurong had no choice but to bow their heads and confess their guilt in the face of evidence.
It turned out that this Yang clan was originally a child daughter-in-law of a family surnamed Wang, and after the death of this man surnamed Wang, the Yang clan was married and sold to Tu Rusong.
Because before, the Yang clan had a good relationship with the uncle surnamed Wang, and after marrying Tu Rusong, the old love was still difficult to break. When Tu Rusong learned of this, he began to beat Yang.
On this day, Tu Rusong had another excuse that Yang's mother was not well taken care of, and beat Yang again, and Yang fled back to her mother's house.
Yang's family saw that Yang had been beaten very badly by Tu Rusong, and they wanted to go to the government to sue Tu Rusong, hoping to restore Yang's freedom.
Therefore, Yang Wurong, who did not know a single character, found Yang Tongfan, a member of the same clan.
Yang Tongfan had also heard about Yang's beauty, and he told Yang Wurong that there was no need to report to the officials at all, as long as the Yang family was hidden in his home.
Yang Tongfan also told Yang Wurong that he had a meritorious name on his body, and the government did not dare to come to search.
As a result, the Yang family lived in the middle of the wall of Yang Tongfan's home. Needless to say, the two must be secretly in tune.
However, Yang Tongfan was still afraid that Tu Rusong would find out about him, so he had the intention to frame Tu Rusong.
Unexpectedly, Yang Tongfan did not succeed in harming people, but was stripped of his meritorious name.
In order to take revenge, Yang Tongfan borrowed the corpse to play with Lai, and paid bribes on a large scale, hoping to cure Tu Rusong and die quickly.
Unexpectedly, Yang Tongfan's own wife gave birth to a child, and Yang was discovered by Li Rong's wife and informed of the current Zhixian Chen Ding, and as a result, Yang Tongfan was stolen.
After the trial of the case, Chen Ding reported the results to Maizhu, who in turn reported it to the imperial court. Yongzheng then sent Hubu Shangshu Shi Yizhi to review the case.
After Shi Yizhi came to Hubei, he mobilized officials from hunan and hubei provinces and two counties to conduct a trial together. They unanimously agreed to Chen Ding's verdict and beheaded Yang Tongfan and Yang Wurong for public display.