Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage/ The Four Strange Cases of the Late Qing Dynasty/ The 34th Time

The Thirty-fourth Time The Good Words of the Bone and Flesh Gathering prisons entrusted the cannon to determine the wrongful imprisonment and beating into a confession

The scene of the trial

However, it is said that after Yang Naiwu was offered by a small cabbage, he suffered thirty large plates and a stick in the hall, and he died of pain and went down to prison. At first, Wang Tingnan was ordered to go to the Zhi family, so that his wife and sister would come and try to save each other. After waiting for Tingnan to go, he suddenly woke up and secretly thought that he had not yet been convicted, how could he go to other places to complain about the injustice? Moreover, Liu Zhixian wants to frame himself, in the end he is a Zhi County, he cannot have great power, and he is bound to dissolve the province in the future, and after passing through many yamen, is it also as confused as Xi Tong, and it is impossible to oppose himself? Since it can be reversed, why should it make Zhan And Ye's anxious. The two women did not necessarily have any plans, and told Liu Zhixian to harm himself and not to order the jailers, and not to allow anyone to come to visit. Even if they come, they may not be able to go to prison to meet. Even if you can come in, you have to spend a lot of money, why not leave Xu for the future use of grievances, at this time is not in vain to throw all kinds of falsehoods? Thinking like this, he felt that Fang Cai ordered Tingnan to go back to summon Zhan Shi and other things, so when he saw Zhan Shi and Ye Shi today, he ordered them to go back, leaving Ting Nan to inquire about the news in Yuhang. After Zhan Shi waited to get out of prison, Naiwu was caught in his ankle yesterday, and he was very painful and could not stand up, so he fell asleep and quietly thought about it.

　　Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, it was already Shen Wei's condition, and Fang Sent Someone down to bring Naiwu to the church. When I arrived at the hall, I saw Liu Xitong sitting high in the lobby, and Everyone such as Xiao Cabbage and Yu Shi were kneeling below. Naiwu also had to kneel. Liu Xitong took the whole noodle and said, "Yang Naiwu, I advise you to poison Ge Xiaoda's reasons and confess well, so as not to suffer the skin and flesh, and this county will write for you." Naiwu secretly thought, "With your soft persuasion and hard intimidation, I always don't recognize it, see what you can do?" He shook his head and said, "Master, how can you listen to Ge Bishi's one-sided remarks, that is, because a good woman has three words without a word, and believe that I am a murderer?" Xi Tong sneered, "This county knows that you will not admit it." You said that there is no need to do something, how come Ge Bishi did not provide for others, but must have provided you Yang Naiwu? Why didn't the plaintiff testify that Ge Bishi had committed adultery with others, but that you Yang Naiwu were you? Now that Gerber is below, you can come with her. Saying Bi, he said to Xiao Baicai, "Ge Bishi, how did Yang Naiwu deliver the poison at that time, kill Xiao Da, and face Naiwu in detail." "Xiao Cabbage was a little ashamed of Naiwu yesterday, but last night he listened to Lin's sweet words, saying that if he didn't insist on Naiwu, he would not be able to be the daughter-in-law of Zhixian County, and his life would not be guaranteed, and he would be tortured by Ling Chi. If he said that naiwu was a martial artist, he could be exonerated and marry Liu Zihe as a flower candle. Xiao Cabbage believed it to be true, and was afraid that he would be tortured, so he decided on Tianliang, and he determined Naiwu, and when he heard Liu Xitong order him to confront Naiwu, he gritted his teeth and said to Naiwu: "Second Young Master, the matter has reached this point, and there is no need to hide it anymore." On that day, you handed me a bag of poison, saying that it was in the middle of what Xiao Da ate, and if you poisoned Xiao Da, you could grow old in white. Among the yamen, there were second young masters to undertake. I was confused for a moment, listened to the words of the Second Young Master, and caused trouble, how could the Second Young Master not admit it and want to kill me for a serious crime of murdering my own husband? These few words made Naiwu tremble with anger, and he couldn't help but scold: "Good adulteress, why am I Yang Naiwu waiting for you, today I think about knowing grace and repaying virtue, and I am biting against me, where is your heavenly conscience?" Just as he was about to complain again, Liu Xitong had already slapped it with a startled wooden and drank: "Well, Yang Naiwu dares to be above the lobby, flaunting his might, and there is no one in his eyes, if he doesn't give you some powerful knowledge, he won't forgive you for not being willing to do it." That is, while carrying the little cabbage down to the hall, he ordered someone to take the balance to the hall and drink: "Yang Naiwu, do you move or not?" The county is going to be punished with a big punishment. The poor people on both sides all frightened Nai wu in unison, "Hurry up, the balance is not stubborn." After all, it is a trick, why suffer bits and pieces? As if Naiwu clenched his teeth, refused to admit it, and only cried out that he had been wronged. Liu Xitong immediately threw the signing cylinder to the ground, and drank continuously: "Quickly put him on a big sentence, see if he can be recalcitrant?" "When the messenger heard this, he immediately put NaiWu on the scale and stepped down on the bar. This day is not a small thing, even the Great Thief of Jiang Yang can't help it, not to mention that Naiwu is a thin and timid student, who shouted early and passed out immediately. When He Chunfang saw it, he was busy looking at Xi Tong, and Xi Tong immediately ordered him to loosen the torture device, and the messenger took another lamp of cold water and sprayed it at Naiwu, but he still didn't see him awake, Xi Tong saw it, afraid that Naiwu would die and fall to his own great inconvenience, and his heart panicked, and he was busy sending people to take vinegar ash, and poured it on Naiwu's head, a scorching sour smell, straight into Naiwu's five facial features, Naiwu Fang woke up slowly, but he was already breathless, and when he saw that he could no longer ask, he was still ordered to be taken to prison.

　　Xi Tong retreated from the hall and went inside to cross the smoke bed, thinking angrily in his heart: How is it good that Naiwu refuses to recognize it? It is very difficult to love, and it is not necessary to control the life, so it is good to beat it into a confession. If you want to control your life, don't almost die like today, if you don't confess, you will be tortured and killed, and you deserve it, how is it good? The busy man invited the master inside, put his mind to it, and said it again. He Chunfang smiled while holding a few rat whiskers: "Dong Weng, Yang Naiwu is such a character, where he is willing to confess a capital crime casually, naturally it is not a matter that can be completed in two or three churches, he must be forced to be unable to bear the torture, in order to be beaten into a confession, Dong Weng does not need to be anxious, and he cannot try Yang Naiwu again tomorrow." Today on the scale, almost died, tomorrow the body is not tired, do not use another torture, really sent life, it will be bad. Why not stop for a few days, retrial, the non-fatal torture device, with a look, see how he is? If I still don't do it, in a few days, I have an idea, burn a large pot of charcoal, burn a small soldering iron an inch long, burn red, and where he does not control his life, the burn will continue. This instrument of torture did not send him to his life, but the pain was unbearable, and even if he was a brass and iron bone, he could not bear it, so he was not afraid that he would not only confess. Xi Tong listened, and had already said good plan, that is, he instructed Chunfang to go and prepare for application. Chun Fang agreed to go out.

　　But he said that Naiwu returned to prison and just groaned. The jailers had already obeyed Xi Tong's orders to put Naiwu on a good rest, lest Naiwu be tortured and die in prison, unable to force a confession. After a day, Naiwu's injuries were slightly better, and he thought that he had to go out for interrogation again today, and waited until the evening, but he did not come to mention it, and his heart was very strange. For several days, there was no ascension. The two wounds that Naiwu suffered gradually improved. Another day later, xi tong followed Chunfang's words and went up to the hall to hang Naiwu from prison. This time, however, he did not bring up the little cabbage and interrogated them together, but only asked Ge Wenqing, Yu Shi and others again. Ge Wenqing knew the reason there, and they all recognized it as Naiwu Zhengfeng, so they all cried out for wrongs and begged the grand master to extend the snow, and put the adulterer Yang Naiwu to Xiao Da's life. Xi Tong immediately sneered at Naiwu, "Yang Naiwu, have you ever heard, are you still unable to succeed?" Naiwu also sneered, "May I ask Master, did they all see me committing adultery with Ge Bishi?" Xi Tong blushed and said, "A good sharp mouth." That is, he ordered the messenger to beat Naiwu with twenty palms, and when Naiwu spewed blood in his mouth, his teeth fell twice, and his cheeks swollen up, Xi Tong sneered: "Yang Naiwu, in front of this county, you are not allowed to be stubborn, so hurry up." Naiwu ignored it either, but just cried out for injustice. Xi Tong was furious, and beat Naiwu forty times again, clipping a stick, causing Naiwu to lie on the ground in pain and hum uncontrollably, his face like yellow wax, and he fainted again. Some people still woke up Naiwu, and Xi Tong knew that Naiwu would not admit it, so he still ordered the people to take Naiwu into prison and wait for some retrial. Ge Wenqing and others were also temporarily imprisoned, and after a few days, Naiwu was again put in custody for torture, which can be called tasting torture equipment and suffering from poison, but still did not try Naiwu half a sentence of confession. After a few more days of pause, Xi Tong had already agreed with Chun Fang that if he was often indecisive, his superiors knew that it would be very inconvenient, and today he would have to use cannons and torture to make Naiwu forbidden unbearable and beaten into a confession before he could put the matter to rest, so he rose up and raised Naiwu to the church. Chun Fang had already prepared the charcoal soldering iron. Xi Tong immediately slapped the shocked Tang Mu and drank, "Yang Naiwu, look at you, you can't stand up the pain, you can't do it, if you don't admit it today, this county has its own rules for disposing of you, so hurry up." Naiwu has been beaten all over the body by Xi Tong these days, although he always has to rest for a few days, there can be peace, hearing Xi Tong talk like this, he did not pay attention, only cried out unjustly: "Tell me to recruit something?" Xi Tong sneered, drank a drink, and carried the charcoal up to the hall. When Naiwu saw it, he had already beaten a cold gag, secretly thinking that he didn't know what kind of torture he had to use today? Only to see a few poor people come up and peel off Naiwu's clothes, one pointing to a soldering iron about an inch long and five points wide, which had burned red like charcoal. Xi Tong shouted, "Yang Naiwu, is it a move?" Naiwu couldn't stop crying out for justice, and Xi Tong pointed his hand and drank a cry of torture, and suddenly a messenger dropped the soldering iron on Naiwu's back. Only to hear the squeak, a scorched smell, straight up, Naiwu could bear such pain, screamed, the Venus in front of his eyes was chaotic, only the pain was like frying, it was not difficult to bear, and he broke off and fainted. Xi Tong saw this and quickly ordered someone to remove the soldering iron.

　　Naiwu woke up slowly and felt that a piece of flesh on the moxibustion was like a needle prick. Xi Tong, who only listened, shouted loudly again, "Hurry up." Before Naiwu could reply, the second-party soldering iron fell between Naiwu's backs. At this time, Ren was also unable to bear it, Naiwu came to this point, knowing that the move was also a death, not a move is also a death, it is better to recruit, in the future to the province, or there are still Clean officials, you can rehabilitate the unjust prison, but it is as if you were subjected to such a non-punishment in Yuhang County, so he gritted his teeth and endured the pain and shouted: "Okay, I will recruit." The messenger heard Naiwu say that he was willing to move, and then sent a soldering iron, Xi Tong saw that Naiwu really couldn't stand the punishment, was willing to admit it, and was overjoyed in his heart, and asked busily: "Yang Naiwu, hurry up, how do you poison Ge Xiaoda?" Naiwu knew that he would not succeed, so he talked nonsense, saying only that he had committed adultery with her because he coveted the beauty of the little cabbage, and later he was almost bumped into by Xiao Da, and he held a grudge in his heart. He poisoned his heart and bought arsenic and handed it to The little cabbage to poison Xiao Da to death. Later, Xiao Cabbage listened to himself and poisoned Xiao Da to death. This is all because he saw the intention of the moment, because of the adultery and murder, he committed such a great crime, such a random trick, Xi Tong said: "Didn't you buy your arsenic there?" When Naiwu heard this, he couldn't help but hesitate, how to answer this sentence? It's just that other things are already tricks, and it is better to talk nonsense about some of them, so as not to be punished again, that is, to say casually: "Arsenic was bought in the Ai Ren Tang Pharmacy in Lunqian Town." "I was afraid that Qian Baosheng was tired, only because Naiwu did not know that this matter was made by Baosheng alone, and he was afraid of harming Baosheng, that is, he said that he pretended to sell arsenic poisonous rats, bought fourteen yuan of arsenic, and handed it to Xiao Cabbage to poison Xiao Da. In this way, it can be said that baosheng is guilty. Xi Tong listened to Naiwu's offering, that is, ordered Naiwu to draw the offering. Naiwu held the pen in his hand, secretly thinking that he was beaten into a confession, and after the confession, the death penalty had been determined, how could he surpass the snow in the future. Even if the boss is a clean official, like this has branches and leaves, and does not know whether it is a grievance, how is it good? Naiwu was a calculating person, and he was also a good sword and pen, his brow frowned, he counted his heart, and secretly said: "I can write a tadpole script, forgive Liu Xitong is a donation class, never know." These shogunates, who smell the same as Liu Xitong, are not generalists and will not recognize them. Why don't you name it as a confession, but secretly write the tadpole text, and write the four characters of the confession as your own painting confession. In this way, in the future, if a Qing official from the Imperial Examination sees it and recognizes that this confession is a confession, of course, it must be doubted that he may be able to surpass the snow because of this, and it is not known. Thinking well, that is, lifting the pen, everywhere in the confession, it was written into four tadpole texts. Liu Xitong knew it there, and still thought that it was the flower character of NaiWu' detention, and he hurriedly accepted it, but still banned Naiwu nails. He also released Ge Wenqing, Yu Shi, Sangu, and others to go home and wait for the news, so that He Chunfang's great deeds were completed, and one of Zihe's capital crimes was put on the top of Yang Naiwu.

　　After Liu Xitong retired from the hall, he smiled and stepped down on the smoke bed, and his heart was very happy. Lin Shizi and also knew that Naiwu had confessed, and couldn't help but be happy. Xi Tong knew that this was only the completion of the first step, and it would be necessary to enter the province in detail in the future, and the province might not refute it. In the same future, the text of the ministry must be carefully considered in order to not have any flaws. He instructed the servants to invite He Chunfang to discuss it together. Not long after, He Chunfang came in, saw Xi Tong, and sat on the bed. Lin Shixian smiled at Chun Fang, "Master, it is indeed a brilliant plan, Yang Naiwu confessed the matter, and my good son's life may not be a problem." Chun Fang smiled and said, "The words are not bad, but unfortunately there are still many things." When I asked about the province in detail, I don't know if I can not be refuted, this is not a problem, I think it is good and bad to spend some money. Lin Clan said, "It doesn't matter if you spend some money, as long as you save your son's life." Xi Tong put down his smoking gun and said to Chunfang, "Exactly." Some of the master's words are not bad. I also had to consult with my master because of the detailed text. Chun Fang thought about it once and said, "Dong Weng, in my opinion, it is difficult to guarantee that this matter will not be refuted, but as long as there is money, I am not afraid of what he will refute, and now I have to mention the crime according to the truth, and go to the government in detail to see how they are." If there is no wind noise, it will be over. If the government has some doubts, of course, to hang the criminals to the province, then Dong Weng quickly went to the province and tried to exercise Shuqi, then it would be better to do nothing. Xi Tong nodded, "That's the way it is." Chun Fang said, "Dong Weng, there is still one incident, but you have to deal with it first, Yang Naiwu said that the poison was bought by Qian Baosheng in The Front of the Warehouse, then Qian Baosheng must also make him recognize it, otherwise, things will not be right again." Zi He listened and nodded, "This is easy, I just need to go and say good, but what crime can I commit?" Chun Fang said, "Sin naturally exists, but Naiwu said that it is a false name for poisonous rats, and Baosheng's sin is limited, but it is finished after a few blows." In fact, this fight is also fake, it is the name of the grin. ZiHe promised him to go and say it.

　　Tomorrow, Xi Tong sat down again, mentioned Baosheng, and asked him if he had ever sold poison to Naiwu, and Baosheng had already said yes, and naturally fully admitted it. In this way, the whole case was finally completed. Xi Tong immediately ordered Chunfang to formulate a crime, which could be written in detail. Originally, in the qing dynasty, the crimes committed by the prisoners were only planned by the prefect, and they had to be decided by the prefect, so Xi Tong ordered Chunfang to prepare a detailed crime in the province, and Chunfang took the order, and since he went to the Qing Dynasty criminal law, he proposed a small cabbage to kill his husband, and asked Ling Chi for a big punishment. Naobu killed his husband according to his adulterer's intention and asked for a decision. However, Qian Baosheng should not sell arsenic to Naiwu, as usual, the staff is eighty, Wenqing is also forty, ge sangu, Yu and so on are exempt from discussion. The criminal offense was prepared, and the documents were written and detailed to the prefect of Hangzhou. Only after the prefect approved, the detailed document was transferred to the Punishment Department and approved, and the major affairs could be stabilized. To find out what happens next, look at the next breakdown