Hongwu 30 years (1397), Suzhou Wujiang County Dongcun butcher shop. Usually at five o'clock, the butcher will deliver the meat to the butcher shop on Thursday (personal name). But on this day, five more had passed, the sky was already bright, there was still no sign of Thursday, and the butcher shop owner was quite anxious, worried about delaying business.
Suddenly, a black dog came running to grab the owner's sleeve and dragged it back and forth. This black dog is inseparable from Thursday on weekdays and often delivers meat together, so the butcher shop owner knows. The shopkeeper only saw the black dog, did not see Thursday, was not happy, coupled with the anxiety, he waved to drive away the black dog, but the black dog just would not leave, whimpering, as if there was a talk. The shopkeeper looked at the black dog pitifully and couldn't help but be moved. Isn't something going on Thursday?
So I followed the black dog to find out. After walking for about two miles, he stopped before a broken temple. The ruined temple has long been abandoned and has become a place for beggars, but there are no beggars at the moment. There was a waterhole behind the temple, and the black dog plunged into the waterhole, and with all his strength, dragged a corpse to the shore.
The dead body was tied up with five flowers, the mouth was blocked, and the back was tied with stones. The shopkeeper was frightened and calmed down, and looked closely at Thursday.
Frightened, the shopkeeper rushed back and called Li Zheng and the villagers. When the crowd came, they found the black dog curled up next to Thursday, dead. Li Zheng couldn't help but be sad when he saw the situation, and asked the villagers to guard the corpse, while he quickly reported it to the officials.
When Jiang Kui of Wujiang ZhiXian arrived at the scene with his servants and servants, he had already surrounded many people. During the inquest of the body, Jiang Kui carefully observed the crowd of onlookers and found that a woman covered her face and cried, but was quickly pulled away by a man.
The results of the inquest were soon obtained, and the deceased was stuffed with rags, tied with brown rope, and drowned in the water, and the deceased was beaten with a bamboo stick before his death, leaving scars, but none of them were fatal. There was water in the lungs of the black dog, which should be dragging the corpse, and the water flooded to death.
Instead of inspecting the broken temple, there are traces of the bricks and tiles behind the house that have been turned over, and there are traces of stones being built into a simple stove for cooking. Jiang Kui asked Li Zheng and Jia Chang a lot of questions related to the broken temple.
Rags, brown ropes, bamboo sticks, stone stoves, soon targeted the beggars. Although it is not yet certain why the beggar killed Thursday, as long as he is caught, he will always come to a conclusion.
But with so many beggars, who knows which beggar it is? At that time, Wujiang did not have a Taihu Lake Bridge to Suzhou, and it was necessary to take a boat, and Jiang Kui immediately ordered the blockade of all ferries. But even then, the culprits could not be caught.
This is thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang. Because after Zhu Yuanzhang opened the country, he gave the beggars a hukou and called them "beggar households". The households can elect the leader of the people, but they must be "certified" by the government. Therefore, the beggars do things, and the government directly asks the beggars to help the leader.
Jiang Kui symbolically spent 40 yuan for clues, and then found several beggars involved. But a few beggars only admitted to spending the night at the broken temple, not admitting that they had killed Thursday.
But the sky is not as good as the people, and the women who were watching and crying that day heard that several beggars had been arrested, and immediately came to sue the officials.
It turned out that there was another earth-shattering case behind this case. This weeping woman is the peasant woman Zhao Shi, married in the East Village, and the mother's family is in the Jian Village. Because the two villages are closer together, one day when I returned from my mother's house, I did not avoid darkness.
As a result, he walked to the side of the broken temple and was teased by several beggars who were "cooking", and Zhao Shi did not comply, and was beaten unconscious and raped by the beggars. Afterwards, the beggar thought that Zhao was dead, stripped Zhao's clothes and covered them with bricks and tiles behind the broken temple. In the second half of the day, Zhao Shi was frozen awake and called for help. On Thursday, just after sending meat through the broken temple, they went to rescue each other.
Zhao said he was shirtless and asked Thursday to go to his house and ask his husband to bring clothes to rescue him. On Thursday, he left the black dog to protect the Zhao family and went to his husband's house for help.
A few beggars felt afraid, worried that Zhao Shi would report to the officials before he died, so he turned his head again and found that Zhao Shi was saved by Thursday, because Zhao Shi's husband brought many people to save his wife, and several beggars did not dare to act rashly.
So he held a grudge against Thursday, so he took advantage of the fact that Thursday was a single person and a dog, and first rushed up and tied up and beat up. Then he tied up stones and threw them in the waterhole. And the black dog wants the savior, but the enemy can not "hit the dog stick", but it is not at all to help the master, a beggar was bitten in the thigh, leaving evidence.
The evidence is conclusive, according to the "Great Ming Law", the beggar who is the leader is beheaded, the second offender is hanged, and several other accomplices fight for a hundred, flowing for three thousand miles.
When he was buried on Thursday, Jiang Kui Jiang Zhixian buried the black dog next to the thursday tomb and personally inscribed an epitaph for the "Righteous Dog Tomb", "Inuyasha is born of righteousness, and the dog is also enough for eternity."
The Righteous Dog case was thus recorded in the county chronicle.
