On the sixth day of the first month of October in the first year of Daoguang (1821 AD) of the Qing Dynasty, at the gate of the county gate of Andong County, Fengtian Province, Wang Taigong, the Baochang of Jiulian City, led more than a dozen villagers to push and shove a man of thirty years to file a complaint.
When the county commander Wang Dongfang heard about the person who had complained, he hurried to the church to inquire about the case. Wang Taigong prostrated himself before kneeling down the stairs, claiming that there had been a murder case in the jurisdiction, and that the wufu Huang Haijiang had shot the villager Xu Guang, and that he had always had an affair with Xu Guang's wife, and now that the adulterer had killed her husband, he should be punished and beheaded, and asked the old man to judge him.
After saying that, Wang Taigong handed over a complaint signed by the villagers, only to see that it read: The complaint is to shoot deer to kill people. Wufu Huang Haijiang is arrogant and extravagant, for the evil side, he likes to make friends with bare sticks and scoundrels on weekdays, drinks and prostitutes, flying eagles and horses, and does everything. On the sixth day of the first month of this month, Huang Haijiang invited Xu Guang to hunt and shot him to death, falsely claiming to have been injured by mistake. In fact, he deliberately murdered people with the intention of usurping Xu Guang's wife. It is true that killing people in the daytime is unforgivable, and he pleads with the government to investigate and punish the crime and file a complaint.
Wang Xian ordered the resignation complaint to be read and ordered Ya Gong to temporarily take Huang Haijiang to prison, and then return to the detailed interrogation, while he led Ya Gong, Shu Zuo, and others to leave the palace and hurried to Jiulian City.
Why do you say that the parent officials of this county are so prosperous and mobilized, and the wind and fire are fierce? Originally, the law at that time was very strict, and the "Great Qing Laws, Criminal Laws, and Murder Cases" had stipulations: Whenever a murder case is reported to the church, the chief officer must personally visit the scene to inspect it, and if he really has no time, he also needs to send personnel to go, otherwise he will have sixty rods and cause consequences for dereliction of duty, and he will even lose his official post and resign for this reason.
It was Wang Xianling who personally inspected the scene and did not dare to be sloppy in the slightest. Two hours later, the crowd came to the north side of the Great Wall of Tiger Mountain in Jiulian City, and under the guidance of the baochang, they traveled to the scene of the murder at the mountain nest. Wang Xianling looked closely and saw a man wearing gray cloth pants, with a bald head and no hat, his face facing down, lying in a pool of blood in the grass. Above the head of the deceased, an eagle-winged arrow made of bird feathers shot in from the left cheek and out from above the right temple. After the autopsy, he replied: "The deceased has no wounds on his body except for the fatal arrow wound to the head. ”
After Wang Xianling's investigation of the scene was completed, he remembered that the bao commander had said that Huang Haijiang had an affair with Xu Guang's wife, so he summoned Wang Taigong to tell him in detail. Wang Taigong sighed and said that Huang Haijiang had saved Xu Guang's life, and it was also known that he had an affair with his wife, and his neighbors were willing to testify. After saying that, Wang Taigong recounted in detail about the interaction between Huang Haijiang and Xu Guang.
It turned out that Xu Guang's family was poor and he and his wife Zhao Shi had a difficult time, so he often hunted some pheasants and hares to sell in the county town in exchange for rice grain. Two years ago, Xu Guang captured a wild boar, went into the city to sell ten or two grains of silver, but on the way home, he encountered robbers, just as Huang Haijiang passed by, and when he saw that his neighbors were in trouble, he helped.
Since then, Huang Haijiang and Xu Guang have been very close and often in contact. Huang Haijiang has a body of fist and foot kung fu, sometimes acts as a bodyguard, sometimes earns some silver for the squire to look after the nursing home, and he is also very generous on hand. In addition, he was alone and had never married a wife, so he often bought wine and sold meat, and went to Xu Guang's house to indulge in heavy drinks. When he was drunk, he spent the night at Xu's house, so that Huang Haijiang had an affair with Xu Guang's wife Zhao Shi.
Xu Guang was a kind and simple person, and no matter what, he couldn't imagine that he had lured the wolf into the room. A neighbor who broke the adulterous affair once gently reminded him to alienate Huang Haijiang, who knew that he was robbed of his evil words, and even said, "When the Yellow Sea Frontier was in danger, he helped, and I had the reason to snub and alienate the life-saving benefactor?" The neighbor saw that Xu Guang did not distinguish between right and wrong, it was difficult to say broken, and he was worried that the words would reach the ears of Huang Haijiang, so he only made a promise and retreated. Since then, the neighbors have only talked behind their backs, but no one has reminded Xu Guang.
Wang Xianling listened to the baochang's words, and had a plan in his heart, and ordered two servants to detain Zhao Shi to the court, thinking that he would know the truth after strict interrogation of her. Who knows, Ya Gong will come back later and tell him that Zhao Shi committed suicide by hanging himself in his home. Wang Xian ordered Wen Yan to check in person, and the autopsy confirmed that the result was suicide and death.
Xu Guang and his wife both died within a day, and the Xu family had no close relatives, so Wang Xian ordered the bao chang to assist in the aftermath, so he led the servants and servants back to the county for the night. The next day, Wang Xian ordered Shengtang to ask questions. Before Huang Haijiang knelt down the stairs, he only admitted to committing adultery with Zhao, but he denied killing Xu Guang.
Huang Haijiang confessed that the two men went up the mountain to hunt that day, and at the mountain nest on the north side of the Great Wall of Hushan Mountain, they saw a stag lying on the ground and napping in the distance. The two exchanged glances, made a gesture, and then quietly copied them from the left and right sides. The two wanted to get closer and then put the arrow, even though the distance was still seven or eight meters away, the stag was actually shocked, suddenly stood up on its front feet and wanted to escape, the Yellow Sea Frontier was in a hurry and shot an arrow at the stag's waist and abdomen, even if he didn't shoot the stag, this arrow shot Xu Guang, who had just copied the past! When he saw that Xu Guang was dead, he went to the baochang to explain the truth, and even though he knew that The Prince of Wang had mistaken him for a murderer, he was really wronged, and begged the old man to be the master!
Wang Xianling thought that this case was clearly revealed, but Huang Haijiang denied it in every way, so he ordered the servants to severely blame him for fifty major plates. This Yellow Sea Frontier was beaten to the skin, but in the end it refused to admit it. Since then, Wang Xianling has been interrogated several times and tortured to extract a confession, but Huang Haijiang knew that he would die if he confessed, even if he passed out several times while using the punishment, he still woke up and insisted that it was only a mistake.
Huang Haijiang resisted death, Wang Xianling lacked strong evidence of his murder, was unwilling to be sentenced according to the wrongdoing, and the Xu family did not stare at it bitterly, the case slowly became a suspense case, and Huang Haijiang was sent to prison for five years without a verdict.
In the autumn of the fifth year of Daoguang, the Criminal Investigation Department cleared up the outstanding cases and the backlog of cases, and the prefecture capital and county governments must not be slow and delayed. Under the anxiety of this Wang County, he suddenly remembered that Zhang Yunfei, the general of Zhen'an, had not only been a historian of the Yalu Regiment, but also had served as a waiter in the Punishment Department, and had very rich experience in handling cases, so he submitted a letter to ask General Zhang to help try the case.
General Zhang gladly agreed after receiving the report, and the next day he rushed to the county with two generals. When Wang Xianling saw General Zhen'an coming, he quickly opened the door of the palace to greet him. After General Zhang inquired in detail about the reasons for the case, he began to raise the hall to inquire about the case. Wang Xianling sat on his side to accompany him, and Huang Haijiang knelt down in front of the hall, still moving out his previous confession, and shouting injustice in his mouth.
General Zhang grabbed his beard and looked at Huang Haijiang, then sneered and said, "Do you remember the circumstances of accidentally injuring Xu Guang that day?" Huang Haijiang replied, "The villain remembers it clearly!" On that day, the two of us surrounded the buck, and when the distance was seven or eight meters away, the stag was shocked, stood up on its front foot and tried to escape, I shot an arrow at the buck's waist and abdomen in a hurry, and mistakenly hit my best friend Xu Guang! ”
General Zhang asked, "Why don't you shoot the deer's head, but reflect your waist and abdomen?" Huang Haijiang did not know what the meaning of the question was, so he replied stunned: "The stag is standing on its front feet, and the deer's head is afraid of not being able to shoot, so it shoots its waist and abdomen." When General Zhang heard this, he slammed the shocked Tangmu hard and angrily rebuked: "You damn slave, you dare to deceive this official when you are dying!" "So he ordered ya to serve and heavily blame the Yellow Sea Frontier for a hundred large plates."
When Huang Haijiang heard that he was going to be punished with such a big punishment, he stood up his neck and argued: "When the general asked about the case, the villain only said two sentences about the situation of the day. If the general can prove that the villain is lying, the villain will die, otherwise he will die! ”
General Zhang sneered, "Then I will let you die!" You said that the stag was shocked, stood up on the front foot and wanted to escape, right or not? Huang Haijiang nodded and said yes. General Zhang Senran said: "Do you know that when the stag gets up, it is the hind legs instead of the front legs that stand first?" The hind legs are blocked first, how do you shoot Xu Guang? Not really! ”
Huang Haijiang was dumbfounded when he heard the words, and he knew that he could not deny it, so he confessed to the crime according to the facts. It turned out that Huang Haijiang had murdered Xu Guang in order to be a long-term husband and wife with the Zhao family. After shooting Xu Guang that day, he wanted to destroy the corpse, but suddenly remembered that he had been seen by people before going up the mountain, so he made up the statement that he had mistakenly injured people's lives.
In the end, Wang Xianling beheaded Huang Haijiang, and the people praised General Zhang for the clarity of the case. At this point, a Qing Dynasty deer shooting murder case was solved!
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