During the Qianlong period, there was a rich man surnamed Wang in Jiahe County, Guiyang Prefecture, Hunan. The rich man had two sons, the eldest son, Wang Jia, helped his father take care of the family business and followed the rules; the second son, Wang Yi, behaved debauchery, ate, drank, and gambled.
One day at noon, Wang Yi drank outside, drunkenly walked home, walked to a field, and met his neighbor Hu Da. Hu Da stopped him and said, "Second Young Master Wang, you lent me one or two pieces of silver last time, now give it back to me!" ”
Wang Yi was angry when he saw Hu Da. This silver was borrowed from the casino half a month ago, and it was said that it would be repaid after a month, but in the past half a month, Hu Da had already asked him three times. Therefore, Wang Yi said without anger: "I don't have any money now, and I will pay you back when I have money." ”
When Hu Dayi heard this, he grabbed his sleeve and said, "Second Young Master Wang, you can't say that." When do you have money, year of the monkey or the moon of the horse? My family also pointed to this silver to buy rice and oil to live a life! ”
As they talked, the two quarreled, and then pushed and shoved. Wang Yi was impulsive, and with the strength of the wine, he slammed his fist into Hu Da's head. Hu Da screamed and fell to the ground, convulsed a few times, stretched his legs, and died.
When Wang Yi saw that Hu Da had been killed by himself, he couldn't help but be shocked, and the wine also woke up for the most part, looking around, fortunately there was no one. After a little thought, he hurriedly dragged Hu Da's body to the nearby pond, took off one of the deceased's shoes, placed it on the edge of the pond, and then threw the body into the pond, causing the illusion that Hu Da had fallen into the water and drowned, so he hurried home.
After returning home, the more Wang Yi thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he couldn't help but tell his brother Wang Jia about this. Wang Jia was stunned after hearing this, and pondered for a moment, that is, he went out to find Lei Shida, who had worked as a short-term worker at his home, and Lei Shida and Hu Da were distant relatives. Wang Jia told him what his younger brother Wang Yi had said, and begged him that if the Hu family did not find any wounds on Hu Da's body when they arrived, they would stop reporting to the officials and buried it privately in order to fall into the water and reward him with twenty-two pieces of silver. Rexda thought about it for a moment and nodded in agreement.
That night, the Hu family saw that Hu Da had not returned home, so they looked around, and someone found one of his shoes by the side of the pond, so they found the lower pond that would be able to touch it, and indeed found Hu Da's body from the bottom of the water. Lei Shida was also on the side to help.
After the body was recovered, the Hu family did not separate the hair and examine it carefully, so they did not see the wounds. Coupled with the fact that Lei Shida was drowning and dying, there was no need to report to the official for autopsy. Therefore, the Hu family buried Hu Dacao.
After a few days, Lei Shida received twenty-two silver honorariums from Wang Jia, thinking that this matter had passed unconsciously. Who knew that half a month later, a relative of the Hu family hurried to the Hu family and informed him that someone had seen Hu Da killed by Wang Yi. It turned out that at noon on the day of the crime, a man named Ah Kang had eaten lunch and walked around the field, and then he fell sleepy and lay down under a tree to sleep.
When he was sleeping dimly, he heard someone arguing not far away, and when he got up to look, he saw Wang Yi punching Hu Da, and Hu Da fell to the ground in response. Akon shrank back in fright, and he quietly saw everything that happened afterwards. After the Hu family buried Hu Da, he secretly told others that he did not want to be heard by the relatives of the Hu family.
After learning the truth, Hu Er, Hu Da's younger brother, immediately found someone to write a letter of submission and went to the county court to file a grievance for his brother.
When Lei Shida heard the news, he was very anxious and hurried to the Wang family to tell the Wang brothers about this. When the brothers listened, they were like wooden chickens for a while, and they had no claim. Lei Shida volunteered that he knew Gan Zhengrong, the county magistrate, and as long as Gan Zhengrong could block Hu Er, everything would be fine. The brothers hurriedly entrusted Lei Shida to find Gan Zhengrong and promised to give Gan Zhengrong a hundred taels of silver after the matter was completed.
Lei Shida rushed to the county court and found Gan Zhengrong to explain his intentions. Gan Zhengrong saw the wealth and promised it with his mouth. Soon, Gan Zhengrong came to Hu Er and said, "Ah Kang's words are not credible. I have read the criminal law well, and told you that your family did not find any wounds when burying the body, and that coming to report at this time is purely to listen to rumors, and once it is not true, you will bear the crime of sitting back and making false accusations, and then you will only be afraid that the Wang family will not let you go, then you will be in big trouble. ”
When Hu Er heard this, he couldn't help but retreat and hesitate. Gan Zhengrong also said: "The Wang family is rich and powerful, and if they really want to start a lawsuit, they may not be afraid of you." I see that your brother is dead and dead, so why should he offend the royal family? Let's go back and live a good life! ”
After some soft and hard treatment, Hu Er finally withdrew the complaint.
The next day, Gan Zhengrong asked Lei Shida to take Wang Yi to the Gan family. Because of the matter, Rexda sat down for a while and then quit and left. As soon as Lei Shida left, Gan Zhengrong immediately said, "Wang Yi, I have already blocked your case for you, and you promised to reward me with one hundred taels of silver?" ”
Wang Yi said, "Thank you very much gan for your help, one hundred and two pieces of silver will be delivered to the door in a few days." ”
Gan Zhengrong listened, his face was a little displeased, and said: "When you sent Lei Shida to find me, it was as urgent as burning the house, and now that you ask you for silver, you will push three and push four, this is not good!" ”
Wang Yi chuckled and said, "Silver will not be less than yours, but it is not abundant for a while." Otherwise, give you ten first, and the rest of the silver will be sent in a month. ”
With that, Wang Yi took out ten pieces of silver from his sleeve. When Gan Zhengrong saw this, he was even more unhappy and said a few unpleasant words. As soon as Wang Yi listened, the rogue habits were revealed again, and he said, "It is already good that I can pay you ten silver first." This kind of thing is inherently unseemly, anyway, you lied to me, I cheated your business. ”
Gan Zhengrong was furious and raised a kick to his abdomen. Wang Yi fell to the ground in pain, groaned a few times, and even lost his breath.
When Gan Zhengrong saw that he had kicked Wang Yi to death, he felt remorse and fear in his heart, and immediately decided to transfer the body. He first untied Wang Yi's belt, wrapped it around his neck, and pulled hard, disguised as a suicide. When it was late at night, he carried Wang Yi's body into a ditch on the side of the road in the distance, and then hurried away.
Early the next morning, Wang Yi's body was found and reported to the county court. Li Changgeng of Zhixian County passed on Feng Peng to accompany him to the autopsy. Before leaving, Gan Zhengrong secretly found Feng Peng and asked him to hang Wang Yikan when he was examined. Feng Peng and Gan Zhengrong usually have a very good relationship, and they are naturally willing to help in this matter.
Li Changgeng led a cadre of people to the ditch to conduct an autopsy on the spot. For a while, onlookers were talking about it. Feng Peng went down to the ditch to turn over the corpse, saw that the right Xian's sac was red and swollen, and he pinched it with his hand, hard as a stone, knowing that he had been kicked to death, and the left Xian's sac had been bitten by a rat. Feng Peng took this opportunity to report that the sage bag had been abnormally chewed by rats. Taking off the neck cloth belt, there are very inconspicuous red marks, he originally wanted to report that the deceased was strangled, but he was afraid that Li Changgeng would suspect and the onlookers would not be convinced, and it was self-defeating, so he had to report that he had been strangled.
Zhixian Li Changgeng was a guy who did not learn and had no skills, and after listening to Feng Peng's report, he could not find out other reasons, so he had the final say. Finally, the county magistrate issued a document accusing him of arresting Wang Yi's killer.
Besides, Wang Jia was shocked when he heard the news of Wang Yi's death. It was not until I read the autopsy report made by the county magistrate that I learned that Wang Yi had been strangled to death. He immediately thought that Wang Yi must have been strangled to death by Hu Er, so he ran to the county court, and 1510 Wang Yi had beaten Hu Da to death, and Hu Er wanted to report the case, but was stopped by Gan Zhengrong and said it again. Finally, he tearfully said that Hu Er was holding his breath and holding his breath, grumbling in his arms, waiting for an opportunity to take revenge and strangle Wang Yi.
Li Changgeng listened to Wang Jia's crying and realized that there was still such a big hidden feeling hidden in it. He did not investigate deeply, and immediately asked Ya Gong to arrest Hu Er and strictly interrogate him. Hu Erzi denied it one after another, and Li Changgeng interrogated him with a large punishment. Hu Er was timid and afraid of things, his health was not good, he could not withstand the punishment, his argument was ineffective, and he had no choice but to confess unjustly.
Soon, Li Changgeng submitted the detailed documents of the final case to the provincial government. Shen Shifeng, the governor of Hunan Province, carefully read the case file and found that there were many doubts, especially the county magistrate's criminal book Gan Zhengrong privately asked Hu Er to withdraw the lawsuit, which was unreasonable and there must be bribes, so the retrial was rejected. After Li Changgeng received Shen Shifeng's rebuttal, he was very dissatisfied, and hastily repeated the interrogation and reported it in its original form. Shen Shifeng was very angry when he saw that Zhixian was perfunctory, so he sent Luo Fangzhong to re-interrogate him.
Luo Fangzhong brought an experienced servant from the provincial capital to Jiahe. First of all, the autopsy of Hu Da's coffin was opened, and it was found that Hu Da had purple-red scars on the top of his head, which was indeed beaten to death before his death, which proved that Wang Jia's words were true; then he opened Wang Yi's coffin and verified that he had red blood on the surface of his right sage sac, which should have been injured to death before his death.
Therefore, Luo Fangzhong ordered his loyal servant to come to Jiahe County as Feng Peng, and Feng Peng was taken by The Criminal Wei, and the confession was instigated by Gan Zhengrong to reach this conclusion; and then gan Zhengrong, Gan Zhengrong knew that he could not hide it, so he had to confess that he had kicked Wang Yi to death because he coveted silver two.
At this point, the truth of the case was completely revealed, and at this time, Hu Er had died unjustly in prison due to illness. Soon, Gan Zhengrong was sentenced by the Punishment Department to a "beheading decision".
The case went from Hu Da's death, Wang Yi's kicking to death, to Hu Er's unjust death, and finally Gan Zhengrong's execution, resulting in a total of four lives. For a time, word spread in sanxiang, and everyone accused the officials of corruption. When the Qianlong Emperor knew that Hou Longyan was furious, he issued an edict and issued a severe punishment. Li Changgeng of Zhixian County was dismissed from his post for poor handling of the case, and finally "a hundred rods, three thousand miles, sent to the frontier to serve and atone for his sins." Other persons involved in the case, etc., shall be dealt with in accordance with the law.