During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a Chen family that had been bricklayers for generations, and this generation of family members named Chen Zhong, his father died of illness very early, and he and his mother Ma Shi were dependent on each other.
After growing up, Chen Zhong reached the age of marriage, because Chen Zhong was diligent and hardworking, and his mother Ma Shi was diligent and thrifty, and at this time, the family was also a small asset.
So he married a delicate and lovely daughter-in-law of the Jin family, and Chen Zhong called her a hundred kinds of pampering.
The following year, a pair of dragon and phoenix twins were born.
Envy others.
Unfortunately, Chen Zhongfu was weak, and only seven years after his marriage, he had a strange illness and died.
And their youngest daughter, Chu'er, who had just turned six, suddenly suffered from aphasia and could not speak.
The Jin family, who became a widow, still lived with their mother-in-law Ma Shi, and the two of them raised the only male heir in the family, Bao'er, and daughter Chu'er.
There is an old saying: "Widows are not many in front of the door".
Even if this widow has a mother-in-law and a child, after all, the Chen family is still quite thick, leaving a relatively rich family property for her mother's wife and children, and the Jin family is still young, and there are many messy men who are worried about the Jin family.
The Kim family was so annoyed that in order to show his mother-in-law and outsiders that he was keeping the festival for the Chen family, he closed the door every day when he arrived at Shen (15:00~17:00).
When the mother-in-law saw that her daughter-in-law was so observant of the festival, she greatly admired her in her heart and was even better for her daughter-in-law, and the relationship between her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was more harmonious than when Chen Zhong was alive.
It was the day of the market, and her mother-in-law, Ma Shi, instructed her daughter-in-law Kim and her grandchildren to stay at home, and she went to the market to buy some vegetable meat and children's toys, and met a barefoot man at the market.
Ma's old age and frailty, his son also died young, so there are some old problems in the body, the most serious of which is the heartache disease, in the major medical halls, several times have not been eradicated, so she let the barefoot Langzhong to see the disease for herself.
As a result, Ma Shi came over and did not speak, and the barefoot LangZhong said that Ma Shi had a heartache, and some years, at least six or seven years.
Ma Shi was very surprised, thinking that he had encountered a divine doctor, so he asked Barefoot Langzhong to carefully take the pulse for himself, and when the barefoot Langzhong finished the pulse, he wrote down a prescription and let her go home to grab the medicine herself.
However, Barefoot Langzhong also said that if he came to the door to personally boil the medicine to exert greater effect, he only needed to add a few more money.
Ma Shi thought for a moment and felt that what LangZhong said was reasonable, so he took Langzhong back home.
The barefoot man on the road, who claimed his surname zhou, had cured several patients with heartache in the past, and Ma Shi was even happier when he heard it.
When they arrived home, Zhou Langzhong boiled herbs for Ma's family, and accidentally saw the widowed Kim family, who saw an outsider and immediately closed the door.
Ma Shi told Zhou Langzhong that she was his daughter-in-law who kept the festival and never saw outsiders.
After Zhou Langzhong finished boiling the medicine, he told Ma Shi some things that needed attention, and after watching Ma Shi take it, he left.
Zhou Langzhong went out and walked around the left and right for a long time, and walked to a remote place, when suddenly two powerful people from Kong Wu followed, and Zhou Langzhong said to the two of them: "There is definitely a problem with the Jin clan, you two secretly keep an eye on the Jin clan!" ”
It turned out that the real identity of this Zhou Langzhong was actually Zhou Zhixian, who had just taken office.
Zhou Xian Ling had been keeping an eye on the Jin clan for more than ten days.
Zhou Letian thought that Chen Zhong's death was less than half a year, but he saw that Jin's face was full of red light and his eyes were watery, and he must have been moisturized, then she must not be widowed, and the death of her husband Chen Zhong must have other hidden feelings.
Zhou Xianling's family has been practicing medicine for generations, and from a young age, Zhou Xianling was proficient in medical science and pharmacology under the influence of his family, and later he also won the Xiucai and Juren examinations continuously, and was sent by the imperial court to serve as a county order.
This time, dressed as a barefoot man, he practiced medicine everywhere because an unjust case had found him.
On the way to office, there was a big whirlwind that had been circling in front of Zhou Xian Ling, nor was it close to Zhou Xian Ling, nor did it leave on its own, the entourage was all pointing and pointing, Zhou Xian Ling was also very curious, and simply instructed the followers to follow the whirlwind and see what it was.
Following all the way, in the end, Zhou Xianling and his entourage actually followed the whirlwind to a tomb, and the whirlwind disappeared.
Zhou Xianling found a local land security to inquire, and only then did he learn that this was the grave of the bricklayer Chen Zhong, who died of illness half a year ago, and his daughter also suffered from aphasia half a month after her father's death.
As soon as Zhou Xianling understood the situation, he speculated that there must be something strange in it, and then called the old man who was responsible for burying Chen Zhong at that time, and the old man also said a very strange thing, when burying Chen Zhong, Chen Zhong kept his eyes open, so that there was no way to close it, and he could only go into the ground with his eyes open like this.
After coming to the county court, Zhou Xianling did not act rashly, but first arranged two arrests to secretly stalk the Jin clan first, to see if the Jin clan would show their feet.
On the day of catching up with the market, Zhou Xianling personally dressed up as a jianghu Langzhong, and after encountering Ma Shi, he secretly observed the situation of the Jin clan under the pretext of helping Ma Shi boil medicine.
He further strengthened his thoughts, so he immediately ordered that the Kim clan be brought to Yamen for interrogation.
However, what Zhou Zhixian did not expect was that no matter how he threatened and intimidated, the Jin clan would not admit it.
When the mother-in-law Ma Shi heard that her daughter-in-law had been arrested, she immediately rushed over and knelt at the yamen to beg the county to order the old man to be gracious.
In order to find out the truth, Zhou Xianling decided to open the coffin for autopsy.
In ancient times, opening a coffin was a big taboo, and the Ma and Jin clans did not agree.
Zhou Xianling believed that this was the only way to find out the truth, and the only way to return Chen Zhong's grievances.
Therefore, Dangtang made a vow: "If you can't find out the cause of Chen Zhong's death, you are willing to resign." ”
The Kim clan still wanted to struggle, but Ma Shi had always been suspicious of his son's death, and the county order had always said that his son had a grievance, and after some thought, he reluctantly agreed.
Ma Shi is the old master mother of the Chen family, and once she agrees, others, including the Jin family, can only agree.
Zhou Xianling led everyone to the cemetery and opened the coffin, and when everyone looked at it, they were suddenly stunned: Although Chen Zhong's body had begun to decay, Cheng Zhong's eyes were still open, and he was so frightened that he did not dare to come forward to examine it.
Zhou Xianling stepped forward and gave Chen Zhong's body a slap: "This county knows that you have grievances, if you trust this official, please close your eyes and let the servants help you test, this county will definitely let you have a grievance." ”
Just after speaking, Chen Zhong slowly closed his eyes.
At this time, Ma Shi was even more convinced that his son did have a great grievance to tell, and he had no resistance to the examination of his son's body.
The two servants walked forward and examined Chen Zhong's body from head to toe, but found no fatal wounds.
I took a few more silver needles and stabbed them in my mouth, throat, and stomach, and found no signs of poisoning.
At this point, the Jin clan could be regarded as clearing up their suspicions, and they quarreled like a shrew in Chen Zhong's cemetery.
Zhou Xianling was greatly upset, saying that he would hand in his resignation a few days later, and the Kim clan stopped.
Zhou Xianling thought to himself, "Chen Zhong's two apparitions to seek revenge must have been great grievances, but the Jin family's tail sweep was too good, and he could not find evidence of her for a while." To deal with extraordinary people, we have to use extraordinary means. ”
Thinking of this, Zhou Xianling summoned two arrests to go on, so and so on, the two nodded and said yes, praised "adults are smart", and then went to do things.
According to the instructions, the two arrests quickly found a gentleman on the beam with convenient hands and feet, and took advantage of Jin's lack of attention to sneak into Jin's room and hide under the bed.
The gentleman on the beam groped under the bed for a long time, and found that there were several bricks that were moving, and there was a rope that moved, and when he pulled it, the few moving bricks under the bed actually opened, revealing a large hole.
This big hole can only allow one person to pass, and the gentleman on the beam immediately returned to report to the two catchers, who were also well-informed people, and as soon as they said it, they understood in their hearts what was going on.
One of the catchers hurried back to inform Zhou Xianling, and when Zhou Zhixian learned the news, he rushed over with the catchers.
Jin Shi just happened to come back and saw Zhou Xianling and his catchers find the big hole, and suddenly collapsed on the ground.
Zhou Xianling asked a few catchers to bring their weapons and carefully drilled into the tunnel, and after a while, they came out from under the next bed, and next door lived a white-faced student, who saw several catchers appear under the bed and was frightened and pale.
Zhou Xianling took a look, yo, the human evidence and physical evidence are all there, and the Jin family has nothing to say at this time, so they will grab it.
Liang Shangjun hid under the widow's bed and found that there was a hole under the bed, and the ugly things she had grown with the book for several years were also revealed to the world.
It turned out that although Chen Zhong had a small family asset, but it was not good to see, the Jin family has always disliked the ugliness of her husband Chen Zhongchang, thinking that he is a flower planted on cow dung.
It just so happened that there was a young scholar living next door, although his family was poor, but he was handsome, and the Kim family was so worried.
The Jin clan does not keep the virtue of women, and often secretly sends Autumn Waves to the shusheng, who is not a good thing, and without two temptations, he mixes with the Jin clan.
Unfortunately, the paper could not contain the fire, Chen Zhong accidentally discovered the ugly affair between his wife and Shusheng, but for the consideration of his two children, he put up with it and warned Jin shi not to associate with Shusheng again.
The Jin family saw that her husband Chen Zhong was not pleasing to the eye, and Shusheng also had a bad stomach, and the two conspired to come up with a so-called long-term plan, that is, to get rid of Chen Zhong once and for all.
For this reason, the Jin clan pretended to apologize to Chen Zhong, drunk Cheng Chen Zhong, and although Shusheng had a poisonous plan, he did not dare to do it, but instead the Jin clan was fierce and fierce, directly nailing a long nail from the top of her husband Chen Zhong's head, directly making Chen Zhong's life scream.
Because of this, most people think that Chen Zhong died violently, because there are no wounds all over his body.
After Chen Zhong's death, Shusheng secretly found several craftsmen and quietly opened the tunnel with the Jin family.
The Kim family also closed the door early every morning, just to secretly meet with the students.
This secrecy measure is well done, not to mention the outside, even the family does not know.
Until one time, Jin's daughter Chu'er got up at night to go to the toilet, and accidentally found that there was a man in her mother's room, and Jin's daughter was afraid that her daughter had missed her mouth, so she actually made up her mind and fed her daughter dumb medicine, so that Chu'er could not speak.
Hate The Kim clan, doesn't she know that as long as she has passed the mourning period, she can blatantly marry Shusheng?
How innocent are husbands and daughters, why do they want to mutilate husbands and daughters?
After the mother-in-law Ma Shi knew the truth, she fainted on the spot, and it took a long time before she woke up, she really did not expect that her proud daughter-in-law Jin Shi actually had such a vicious heart!
Not only did she kill her own son, but even her own flesh and blood dared to commit a black hand.
In the end, Zhou Xianling sentenced Jin Lingchi and Shusheng to deprive them of their meritorious names and behead them.
A few months later, autumn arrived, and Jin and Shusheng were sentenced to capital punishment, and everyone said that Zhou Xianling was the Grand Master of Qingtian.