During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a young man named Wang Hong in a village in ZhangzhouFu, Fujian Province, who was beautiful and handsome. Wang Hong's father was a thief who made a group of fox friends in the city to steal and rob everywhere, and the whole family lived a life of hunger and fullness. Wang Hong's mother, Xie Shi, had repeatedly persuaded her husband to follow the right path, but her husband refused to listen.
Not long after, Wang Hong's father was hacked to death on the street by someone with a knife, and Wang Hong's mother saw that her husband was killed, and hanged herself in sorrow, leaving Wang Hong living alone. Although Wang Hong was beautiful and handsome, he inherited his father's good and bad character, and refused to be honest after the death of his parents, and was eventually used as a male concubine in the garden by an official surnamed Liu. Wang Hong was good at flattery and flattery, and the official surnamed Liu saw that he was really well-behaved, so he married him a wife, and the wife was a lady named Du Yue'e.
Du Yue'e was originally the daughter of a porridge shop owner in the north of the city, and after the porridge shop owner died of illness a few years ago, only Du Yue'e and her mother lived alone. Later, Du Yue'e was sold to the family of an official surnamed Liu as a maid, and then she was promised to Wang Hong as a wife. Du Yue'e grew up in a small family of jasper and was industrious and capable, and in less than a year she gave birth to a daughter named Guixin. Two years later, a daughter was born named Guiji. The two daughters grew up quickly, and both came out of the pavilion and were beautiful as flowers. Wang Hong's reputation is not good, many people covet the beauty of their two daughters, but no one is willing to come to the door to propose to them.
After the two daughters grew up, Wang Hong's family became increasingly poor, and it had reached the point where it was impossible to open the pot. His wife, Du Yue'e, let Wang Hong go out to earn a living and earn money to support his family. The two daughters could not get married, and the eldest son had to spend so much money every day to eat and drink, and Wang Hong, who had always been lazy, had to go out to work and earn money. His wife and daughter sent Wang Hong out of the house, and Wang Hong left the house without returning with a burden.
After Wang Hong left, he kept no news and never returned home. Du Yue'e's mother and son were at home, and their lives were too difficult to live. The neighbor has a single stick named Huang Yuansan, and the family has some inheritance left by his father, he is used to wandering, and has not married a wife to start a family. Du Yue'e often borrowed chai rice oil and salt from Huang Yuansan, and Huang Yuansan never shirked and gladly lent it to Du Yue'e's mother and daughter. Huang Yuansan once told Du Yue'e that her husband had been out for several months and did not return, leaving a family of three waiting to be hungry, if it were not for his kindness to borrow rice and oil, Du Yue'e's mother and daughter would only be afraid of starvation.
Du Yue'e listened to Huang Yuansan's words, and could not help but shed tears, Huang Yuansan comforted Du Yue'e, telling her that no matter how much chai rice oil and salt she borrowed, she did not need to return it, he only wanted to marry Du Yue'e as a brother and sister. Du Yue'e listened to Huang Yuansan's words and naturally knew what he was thinking in his heart, so she politely rejected him. Although Huang Yuansan was rejected, he still served du Yue'e's family food and drink very attentively.
In the fifteenth year of Jiaqing (1810 AD), the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys of the village were full of lights, and people went out of their homes to celebrate the Lantern Festival. The noise of the people is boiling, and there is a happy and peaceful look. Huang Yuansan took advantage of the confusion in the crowd and quietly crawled through the back door into Du Yue'e's home. At this time, Du Yue'e was sewing clothes, and Huang Yuansan did not dodge after entering the door, but greeted Du Yue'e with a cold greeting. Du Yue'e brought him a cup of tea to drink as usual, Huang Yuansan drank all the tea, and then he and Du Yue'e started a family routine. After the sky was completely dark, Du Yue'e's two daughters went out to see the lights, and Huang Yuansan slept with Du Yue'e blowing the lights. Since then, Huang Yuansan has not avoided suspects in Du Yue'e's home, and the relationship between the two is like husband and wife.
One day three months later, Du Yue'e got up early to get a noodle cake, poured a bowl of wine on the table, and let Huang Yuansan eat the cake and drink wine to go to the town to buy cloth to make clothes. Huang Yuansan didn't say a word, and after eating the cake, he drank the wine from the end of the bowl. Du Yue'e told Huang Yuansan to hurry up and get on the road, otherwise it would delay the time. Huang Yuansan saw Du Yue'e urging, so he hurried out of the house.
If Huang Yuansan wants to go to the town to buy cloth, he must pass through three villages. When passing through the second village, Huang Yuansan felt that his stomach was too hungry to eat, so he went into a restaurant opened by Wang Jiu to eat. Huang Yuansan took a bowl of porridge and drank most of the bowl, and suddenly felt that his stomach was as painful as being strangled by a knife, Huang Yuansan quickly dropped the bowl, and blood suddenly flowed from his mouth, nose, ears and eyes. Before Huang Yuansan could shout, he fell to the ground and died on the spot. Huang Yuansan drank the porridge and died in the shop, and the dibao immediately brought someone to investigate, and saw that Huang Yuansan drank the porridge and was poisoned, so he immediately found Huang Yuansan's brother Huang Pin. When Huang Pin saw his brother die in the hotel, he immediately said that Wang Jiu had poisoned his brother in the porridge.
In the afternoon, Di Bao and Huang Pin sent Wang Jiu to the county court, but Wang Jiu still refused to admit that he had poisoned Huang Yuansan. He had to dissect Huang Yuansan's body, only to find that Huang Yuansan's stomach had toxic residues. The county order tortured Wang Jiu again, and Wang Jiu was beaten to death, and ten fingers were caught in thin air. Wang Jiu was tortured to death, and finally was forcibly pressed with his handprint and detained without consciousness. The county commander received the confession of the painting and immediately threw Wang Jiu to death row and waited for the execution of Qiu Hou.
Wang Jiu was sentenced to be beheaded, and the family members were not satisfied with this, and personally ran to the inspector Yamen to file a complaint, begging the inspector to retry the case, Wang Jiu could not have poisoned and killed people, he was simply wronged. At that time, the inspector was called Wu Yangshan, and Inspector Wu listened to the complaints of Wang Jiu's family and felt that the case was quite strange and there were many doubts. One of the biggest doubts is: Wang Jiu opened his door to do business, hoping that more people would come to drink porridge, how could he be poisoned in his own restaurant?
Wang Jiu did not do himself any good in doing so, and murder was a serious crime, and Wang Jiu would not be stupid enough to do so. Inspector Wu asked Wang Jiu to be brought to the province for retrial, and Wang Jiu told the causes and consequences of the matter, and Inspector Wu listened to Wang Jiu's account, and although he felt that the case was suspicious, he could not find a clue to solve the case for a while and a half.
One night in the spring, Inspector Wu was pondering the case and unconsciously fell asleep. In the midst of the lights, Inspector Wu gradually fell asleep, and he vaguely saw a yellow dog with three long hairs on its head, and the yellow dog did not know where to pick up a large white goose. The yellow dog came to Inspector Wu with a big white goose, bowed his head and kept whispering. Inspector Wu woke up from the dream, and he felt that the case was quite strange. Huang Yuansan's nickname is dog, and the yellow dog came with a big white goose, which seems to be a hint. Inspector Wu approached the dibao and asked him if there were any people in the city with names related to geese.
The land security soon returned, saying that Huang Yuansan's neighbor was called Du Yue'e, and Du Yue'e's husband had gone out to earn money many years ago, but he had not returned home since then, perhaps dying outside. When Inspector Wu heard this, he was surprised in his heart and immediately sent someone to arrest Du Yue'e for interrogation. Above the lobby, Inspector Wu asked Du Yue'e why she was still Huang Yuansan, and Du Yue'e said that she had not poisoned Huang Yuansan at all, and that Huang Yuansan was so kind to their family that without Huang Yuansan's care, the three of them would have starved to death long ago. Inspector Wu saw that Du Yue'e refused to confess, so he told the strange dream he had last night, and Du Yue'e listened to Inspector Wu's words and still refused to admit to killing Huang Yuansan.
Inspector Wu also found Huang Yuansan's neighbors, and the neighbors all identified Du Yue'e and Huang Yuansan for adultery, and the neighbors saw huang Yuansan when he hurried out that day. The testimony of the neighbors was only one-sided, and there was no way to get Du Yue'e to confess. Just as Inspector Wu was arguing with Du Yue'e, a woman came from outside the lobby of inspector Yamen, and this woman was Du Yue'e's eldest daughter Gui Xin, who identified Du Yue'e on the spot as killing Huang Yuansan. The daughter testified on the spot, and Du Yue'e had nothing to say, so she had to admit the truth about killing Huang Yuansan:
It turned out that after Huang Yuansan and Du Yue'e had been mixed for two years, he gradually became bored with Du Yue'e, because Huang Yuansan was originally a prodigal son of a disciple, and he pretended to be a good person to approach Du Yue'e's mother and daughter, that is, to covet the beauty of Du Yue'e's mother and daughter. Du Yue'e's eldest daughter Guixin is also a watery Yanghua person, and she secretly carries Du Yue'e and Huang Yuansan to hook up. Huang Yuansan did not want the beauty to throw herself into her arms, indulged in the sweetness with Guixin, and gradually snubbed Du Yue'e. Du Yue'e saw that Huang Yuansan had changed her heart and developed jealousy and resentment. Du Yue'e looked for Huang Yuansan's theory and was insulted by Huang Yuansan. Du Yue'e held a grudge in her heart and decided to make Huang Yuansan pay the price.
Du Yue'e came up with a poisonous plan, she thought that if she killed Huang Yuansan at home, it would inevitably affect their family. If she killed Huang Yuansan outside, she was a weak woman who did not have this ability, so after some thought, she thought of a poisonous plan: she got up early to get a dough cake for Huang Yuansan, and then put poison in the wine, and after watching Huang Yuansan drink the poisoned wine, she urged Huang Yuansan to hurry up and get on the road. Du Yue'e calculated the time, according to the speed of Huang Yuansan's walking, when he reached the second village, he would be poisoned and killed. Huang Yuansan died on the road, so that he could kill him without bearing the guilt.
Sure enough, when Huang Yuansan came to the second village, he found that his stomach was a little hungry, so he went into Wang Jiu's restaurant to eat. As a result, just after drinking half a bowl of porridge, Huang Yuansan died of poisoning. The restaurant owner Wang Jiu was unlucky at this moment, and he was treated as a murderer. Under the severe torture of the county order, he had to confess to the crime. As a result, the confused county ordered the confused case to be arbitrarily adjudicated, Wang Jiu was sentenced to be beheaded and almost lost his life, if it were not for Inspector Wu's timely retrial of the case, and then made that strange dream firmly believe that this case was an unjust case, otherwise Wang Jiu would have landed on the ground.
Du Yue'e designed to poison Huang Yuansan, the relationship between Du Yue'e's family is really chaotic, Du Yue'e's husband was originally someone else's male favorite, Du Yue'e and Huang Yuansan had an affair, and Huang Yuansan had an affair with Gui Xin. Huang Yuansan coveted du Yue'e's mother and daughter's beauty and pretended to be courteous, and the crime should be sentenced to death. Gui Xin had an adulterous affair with Huang Yuansan, which had violated human morality and should be sentenced to hanging according to the law, but she exposed her mother's crime and was credited, so she was sentenced to 50 large boards of scepter punishment to show her admonition.
Du Yue'e did not abide by the woman's morality, poisoned Huang Yuansan, and was sentenced to beheading according to the law. This case is called the Jiaqingqi case, and this case is strangely related to the chaotic relationship in Du Yue'e's home. Family style is not the root cause of the disaster, and the tragedy of Du Yue'e's family lies in this. In the end, Inspector Wu sentenced Du Yue'e to be beheaded and Gui Xin to blame 50 boards according to the law.
This case warns future generations: how important the family style is to a family, a good family style is the key to maintaining family harmony, and if the family style is corrupted, it is not far from disaster.