When it comes to the yang naiwu and xiao cabbage case, it has to start from the twelfth year of Qing Tongzhi.
Yuhang County, Zhejiang Province (now Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province), a native of Bi Xiugu, also known as Ge Bishi, white skin, beautiful appearance, natural beauty, always like to wear a green top, a white apron around the waist, the late people sent the nickname "little cabbage".
In 1872, that is, in March of the eleventh year of Tongzhi, the little cabbage was kneaded by people and became related to the neighbor Ge Pin and became the child daughter-in-law of the Ge family. Since then, it has been renamed Ge Bishi. Because of the beauty of the cabbage, he was often teased and scratched by the scoundrels in the countryside. In desperation, in April of that year, he and her husband's family went out to rent a house.
The house rented by the Xiao cabbage family is the house of the local rich family and the Yang Naiwu family of the new Keju family. The Yang family has been cultivating mulberry silkworms for generations, and the family is rich. Yang Naiwu, who was born as a reader, often taught cabbage to read and hyphenate in addition to farming, and the two once fought fiercely.
After a long time, there were scoundrels everywhere saying that "sheep (Yang) eat cabbage", that is, Yang Naiwu had an affair with a cabbage. The story spread among the neighbors and became a hot topic after people's tea and dinner.
Forced by people's words, the Xiao cabbage family moved out of the Yang Naiwu family in June of the following year, and no longer had contact with the Yang family.
Unfortunately, in October of this year, her husband Ge Pinlian had a recurrence of old fire disease and unfortunately died violently. After feng xushi, a dry mother, came to the house, she found that her dry son Ge Pinlian had blood spilling from his nose and mouth, which was quite surprised, thinking that there was deception. Therefore, he instigated Ge Pinlian's birth mother Shen Yushi to go to the county court to complain to the officials.
After receiving the complaint paper, Liu Xitong, the grand master of Yuhang County, went to the Ge family with Shen Xiang to investigate the investigation. After the autopsy, it was preliminarily determined that he died of arsenic poisoning. Liu Xitong thought of the previous rumor that "sheep (Yang) eat cabbage" and determined that this was a murder case caused by adultery. Therefore, Xiao Cabbage and Yang Naiwu were arrested and taken to the county court.
Under the power of the ten-finger stick of the great punishment, the little cabbage could not resist, and had to admit that he had killed her husband Ge Pinlian with arsenic poison at the behest of Yang Naiwu.
Liu Xitong, the county grand master, thought that the case was clear, so he escorted a cadre of criminals to Hangzhou Province. And because Yang Naiwu had previously reported that he was an incorruptible official, Liu Xitong changed the "bleeding from the mouth and nose" on the case file to "seven tricks of bloodshed."
After receiving the case file, Chen Lu, the prefect of Hangzhou, tortured the criminals to extract a confession, and Yang Naiwu had no choice but to confess that it was he who gave arsenic cream to the cabbage to poison Ge Pinlian. The prefect Chen Lu accordingly sentenced Yang Naiwu to "behead and execute" and Xiao Cabbage to "Execute Ling Chi".
The case seems to have been closed here, but the appearance of Xia Tongshan has brought a turnaround to this case.
Xia Tongshan, who was born into the Jinshi, was a Hanlin of the imperial court at that time and was also a native of Hangzhou. Yang Naiwu's sister Yang Shuying worked as a nanny in the Xia family. Through this relationship, the case file was uploaded several times and sent to the hands of Empress Dowager Cixi, who was considered suspicious. The empress dowager issued a decree to let the Zhejiang governor Yang Changlian retry the case.
In order to protect the officials who handled the case in the past, Yang Changlian still played in the name of "adultery and harm to others".
Subsequently, the imperial court sent Hu Ruilan, the scholar of Zhejiang, as the minister of Chincha to retry the case. Liu Xitong of Yuhangzhi County bribed Hu Ruilan and his officials with heavy sums of money. Therefore, as soon as the case was opened, it was tortured on a large scale, and the red-hot copper wire was used to penetrate the breast of the little cabbage, and the little cabbage could not resist and once again confessed that Yang Naiwu "gave medicine to kill him."
Since then, Yang Naiwu's sister and wife have repeatedly entered Beijing to file a complaint against the emperor. Moreover, Xia Tongshan and more than thirty Zhejiang officials serving in the capital jointly wrote a letter to cry out for Yang Naiwu.
In 1876, on the ninth day of the first lunar month in the second year of Guangxu, the case file was examined by the Punishment Department and the coffin was opened for autopsy. Ge Pinlian's remains teeth and throat bones are white, and they are said to be non-toxic after years of experienced identification by the Punishment Department.
At this point, the truth of the case came out, that is, Ge Pinlian was not poisoned to death.
In 1877, in February of the second year of Guangxu, the imperial court issued an edict to exempt Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage from innocence and to rehabilitate them. The initiator of this case, Liu Xitong of Zhixian County, Yuhang County, sent Ningguta to charge the army.
After Yang Naiwu was released from prison, he returned to his old business, still spending the rest of his life growing mulberry silkworms, and died of illness in September 1914.
After returning to Yuhang County, Xiao Cabbage became a nun and became a nun, with the legal name "Hui Ding", and died in 1930.