A well-documented rape and murder case

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During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a rich man Wu Mou in Chao County, Anhui Province, who had only one daughter under his knees, and took the name Mei Qian.

Mei Qian was born beautiful and exceptionally intelligent, and when she was fourteen years old, her old father hired a private school gentleman, Liu Mou, to teach Mei Qian to recite the Hundred Sons of The Hundred Families.

This girl has a strong sense of understanding and excellent memory, and some poems can be recited backwards like a stream after reading them once.

The parents looked at it with joy in their eyes, and Mr. Liu was also full of praise for this student.

Wu Laoweng's neighbor Zhang Xiucai has a son named Gongsheng, who is one year older than the girl, and the two often read together, which can be described as a green plum bamboo horse, two small no guesses, and gradually developed feelings and mutual admiration.

Mr. and Mrs. Wu Laoweng also liked the handsome teenager Gongsheng, but Zhang Xiucai's family was very poor, and the old couple was worried that their daughter would be wronged, so they had been hesitant.

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One day, at noon, Mr. Liu had lunch and came to the private school, when he suddenly found that his student Mei Qian had collapsed in a pool of blood and had died of exhaustion.

Mr. Liu was horrified and shouted for help, and Wu Laoweng and his wife rushed to find that their daughter had been killed, and immediately fell to the ground, grief-stricken.

What was even more unbearable for the old couple was that the daughter's lower body clothes and pants were taken off, and the blood was blurred and scarred, and the blood flowed all the way to the ankle.

The Wu family sent people to the official palace in a hurry to report the case, and the county ordered a certain jia to send a servant to the scene to investigate the body, and after a preliminary investigation, it was determined that it was a rape and murder case.

Wu Laoweng suspected that Gongsheng had done it, because only he and Mei Qian had the opportunity to contact and enough time to commit the crime, so he reported it to the government.

Wu Laoweng, who was bent on letting Gongsheng die for his daughter, could not wait for the government to investigate and collect evidence, so he bribed the county commander and related officials with a heavy bribe, so that he could sentence Gongsheng to behead and show the public.

A accepted the bribe, originally suspected that Gongsheng was the murderer, and without further investigation and evidence collection, he directly tortured to extract a confession.

Gong Shengben was a half-grown child, a weak scholar, who could not withstand the torture of repeated rounds, and finally beat him into a confession.

A was sentenced to death for the crime of "forcing rape and killing", and Master Liu was convicted of lax discipline and exiled to Mindi, two thousand miles away.

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Zhang Xiucai only had this son, and now he is in court and his life is in danger.

He thought that his son was good by nature, and it was impossible for him to do such a stupid thing that hurt nature and reason, and he must have been beaten into a confession.

But Zhang Xiucai has always been pedantic and cowardly, coupled with the poverty of the family, he has no ability to wash away his son's grievances, so he can only sit and wait for his son to be executed.

In prison, Gong Sheng waited for Qiu Hou to ask for a chop, not to mention it for the time being.

Speaking of this Mr. Liu, he was originally a well-known scholar in Chao County, and after his exile in Fujian, many celebrities in Fujian took pity on his suffering and cherished his talent, so they often visited him.

Mr. Liu was later pardoned by the imperial court and temporarily stayed in Mindi.

At that time, there was a Wang Shangshu, who had reached the age of returning to his hometown, and planned to hire a teaching gentleman to teach his son to read.

Wang Shangshu chose many people, all of whom were not very satisfied, and some people recommended Mr. Liu to him.

Wang Shangshu ordered Mr. Liu to give his son an open class, and Mr. Liu talked about it, and the history subset was turned upside down like a stream, and everyone was impressed by Mr. Liu's talent.

Wang Shangshu was greatly satisfied, so he hired him heavily.

One day, Mr. Liu planned to shave his head, so Wang Shangshu invited the shaver to his home to give Mr. Liu a haircut.

The shaver came to the Wang family, met Mr. Liu at the door, suddenly bumped into a ghost, turned his head and left.

Mr. Liu felt strange: Why did this shaver leave? Where did this man seem to have been seen?

The more Mr. Liu thought about it, the more he felt that this person was very familiar, and he thought about it for half a day, but he couldn't remember where he had seen this person.

Mr. Liu then asked the prince, and the prince said, "When mr. Wang was waiting for the imperial court's edict in Mindi, this person was also in Mindi, and he also said that he was a fellow countryman of Mr. Wang, has Mr. Wang forgotten who he is?" ”

Mr. Liu must have said that he was a fellow countryman, and he suddenly realized: "It was this bastard who framed me and exiled me here." ”

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It turned out that this shaver was a neighbor of Wu Laoweng and had been in and out of the Wu family since childhood.

On that day, it happened that Mr. Liu was also going to shave his head, and this shaving smith came to the private school and waited for Mr. Liu to eat and wash his hair.

At that time, only the beautiful girl was studying in the private school.

When the shaver found that there was no one else in the room, he immediately became lustful and pulled the charmer to plot against him, "forcing and asking for pleasure".

The girl was fierce in nature and swore to die, and the shaver was furious and touched a knife on the desk to cut books.

The shaver was about to shout for help when the shaver swung his knife and pressed it against mesmer's neck, slitting her throat, after which the shaver insulted the corpse inhumanely.

After finishing the incident, the shaver, fearing defeat, picked up the knife and fled to Mindi.

Mr. Liu unexpectedly found the shaver in Mindi, which once again confirmed his judgment.

Mr. Liu immediately reported the matter to Wang Shangshu, who immediately sent someone to report to the local government and arrest the shaver.

Under the ironclad evidence, the shaver confessed and confessed to the crime of killing the beautiful girl, and the inspector of Mindi, after examination, declared Mr. Liu innocent, and issued an official document to send him to his hometown.

At this time, six or seven years had passed since this murder, and Gongsheng had already been beheaded, but Zhang Xiucai heard that the real murderer had been captured, and his son Gongsheng was still very happy that he had the opportunity to be wronged.

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Therefore, Zhang Xiucai and Mr. Liu jointly accused the shaver of absconding to the government, resulting in Gongsheng being framed and wrongfully killed, and pleading for Gongsheng Zhaoxue's grievances.

At that time, the county commander who handled the case had already been promoted to the county sheriff of a certain place, and received the official document from his superior, knowing that he was at fault that year, but he was worried that Zhang Xiucai and Mr. Liu would not be spared, which would be detrimental to his career.

Therefore, A decided to conceal the report to his superiors and not to conduct a new trial, and also asked the intermediary to lobby and give Mr. Liu and Zhang Xiucai a heavy amount of money to seal.

At first, Mr. Liu and Zhang Xiucai did not agree, but later considering that the deceased could not be resurrected, the withdrawal of the lawsuit could still get a large windfall, so they chose to withdraw the lawsuit.

Without the plaintiff, naturally there would be no defendant, and the government was worried that there was no reason to kill the shaver, so it chose to let him go.

In this way, this grievance that could have been washed away eventually sank into the sea, and even if he died, he was a criminal who raped and killed a young girl, and could not be reborn forever.

Reference: "Risian"