Once upon a time, there was a man who became addicted to a prostitute, and after his wife died, he went to the matchmaker to tell him about his protégé. He saw that the daughter-in-law of the matchmaker's neighbor was very handsome, so he begged the matchmaker to tell him about the woman. Matchmaker laughs: She has a husband

Once upon a time, there was a man who became addicted to a prostitute, and after his wife died, he went to the matchmaker to tell him about his protégé. He saw that the daughter-in-law of the matchmaker's neighbor was very handsome, so he begged the matchmaker to tell him about the woman. Matchmaker laughs: She has a husband unless you kill her husband. He also laughed: Good! A month later, the woman's husband did die, and he was arrested. But I didn't expect to kill halfway out of the way to bite the gold.

Although he was lustful and fond of joking, he did not have the courage to kill people.

Unexpectedly, a month later, the husband of the matchmaker's neighbor woman was killed when he went out to do business. When such a big thing happened, the county grand master attached great importance to it and sent someone to arrest the deceased's neighbors and neighbors for questioning.

However, all the neighbors did not admit it, in order to find the murderer as soon as possible, the county lord arrested the matchmaker and tortured her severely, and the matchmaker said the sentence that she had joked with Zhu Housheng a month ago.

The county lord ordered: First take this old woman into custody, and now go to Zhu's house immediately to arrest the suspected murderer Zhu Sheng!

Zhu Sheng was at home, overheard someone calling for the door, opened the door to take a look, came in two ya cha, Ya Cha did not say a word, put the shackles into Zhu Housheng's neck, said: We are on the order of the county lord to arrest the suspected murderer and bring him to justice.

The two servants escorted Zhu Housheng to the county court to make him kneel, and the county commander asked in shock: Have you ever told the matchmaker that as long as you kill the deceased, you can marry his wife?

Zhu Houlian admitted: I said it, but it was a joke, I really don't have the courage to kill people!

The county lord said angrily: Hugh has to be cunning! It must be that you have an adulterous affair with the wife of the deceased and was discovered by the deceased, so the killing is extinguished!

Zhu Housheng cried out one after another: I don't recognize his wife at all, just seeing her Junxiu, I made a joke, there really is no contact!

The county lord immediately ordered someone to detain the deceased's wife from her home and asked her how she conspired with Zhu Sheng to kill her husband.

The woman had just died of her husband, and now she had been arrested as a bad woman for questioning, and her heart was extremely sad and wronged, and she cried bitterly.

What's the use of crying? The county lord did not eat her at all, and ordered people to torture her.

Where could the weak woman bear such severe torture to force a confession, she had to admit to having an affair with Zhu Sheng against her will. When the county grand master saw that the matter was halfway through, he ordered someone to take Zhu Housheng up again and scolded him sharply: The woman has confessed, do you dare to deny it?

Later, he saw that the woman had been beaten very badly, and knew that she was tortured, but only then did she pretend to herself.

Therefore, he said with great righteousness: She is a weak woman who cannot bear torture, so she has to tell lies against her will. She died unjustly, but she still has no honor, so how does she face her ancestors?

I recruited! I wanted to marry her, so killing her husband was done by me alone, and it had nothing to do with her!

The county lord shouted: You said you were a murderer, what evidence is there? Zhu Sheng said casually: When I killed him, I had a lot of blood on my body, and the blood clothes could testify.

The county flower master sent someone to look for the blood coat, but he searched the whole house and did not find it.

The angry county lord thought he had been fooled and asked his subordinates to torture Zhu Sheng. Zhu Shusheng passed out in pain several times, and finally couldn't hold back, saying: It was my mother who hurt me and refused to hand over the bloody clothes. Let me go back and get it myself."

Ya Cha escorted Zhu Sheng back to his home. The mother was heartbroken to see her son scarred. Zhu Sheng said to his mother: If you take out the blood coat, I will die; if you don't give it, you will also die. Anyway, it is all death, it is better to hand over the blood clothes, and I can suffer less sin. The mother went into the back room with tears in her eyes and took out a bloody coat.

The human and physical evidence was all there, and Zhu Sheng was sentenced to be beheaded and put on death row.

After a year, it was time for Zhu Sheng to execute.

The county lord was finally verifying the case, and suddenly a burly man broke into the lobby, his eyes were wide open, pointing at the county lord and scolding loudly: You are confused and chaotic!

Dozens of servants came forward to bind him, and with a wave of his arm, all the people fell to the ground.

The county grand master who was preparing to escape heard the man say loudly: I am Zhou Cang, the former general of Emperor Guan, if you dare to run, I will kill you immediately! ”

The county lord stopped his steps, his legs trembling like a sieve. The man said: What killed people was the palace standard, and it had nothing to do with Zhu Sheng. I am the palace marker!

Finally, the water is out! It turned out that Gong Biao was a man who did not do his job, and that day he met the deceased in the woods, and knowing that he had some money, he moved his greed. Later, when he heard that Zhu Sheng confessed and became his scapegoat, Gong Biao secretly rejoiced.

Gong Biao happened to hear that Zhu Sheng's mother had cut off her arm and dyed it into blood in order to save her son, and was greatly shocked, and immediately ashamed, so she broke into the county court and voluntarily confessed to her greed for money and killing people.

Zhu Housheng was acquitted and was acquitted.

After another year, the woman's mother-in-law remembered that she had been widowed at a young age, and remembered her filial piety and virtuousness, and she tried everything to persuade her to remarry.

This woman was very grateful to Zhu Housheng for his righteous act of preferring to die alone and to save her life, and after being moved, two people who had suffered a hard life and experienced the hardships and hardships of life finally came together and married.

Finally: @Zaizai is very motivated

This article is from Mr. Pu Songling's "Unjust Prison" by Mr. Zai Zhiyi, and the end of the article is slightly adapted by this editor.

That county order was also severely punished for the gourd monk's indiscriminate judgment of the gourd case, and almost wronged a good person, and he fell ill and died in prison during the escort. He was duly punished for his absurdity and arbitrariness.

And Zhu Sheng and the woman were only related because of a joke, and at the same time, this joke closely linked their fates, and after suffering, they finally saw a rainbow after the wind and rain.