Seven pin sesame officials to eliminate the murder case

Qingyuan County has a long history, which was first placed in the western Han Wudi period, and has changed its name and changed its subordinate number many times. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it also underwent many changes such as name change and merger with other counties, until 1961, when the Qingyuan system was restored. In 2015, Qingyuan County was abolished and changed to Qingyuan District of Baoding City.

Most people know Qingyuan County, probably through the Yu opera movie "Seven Pin Sesame Officials". Tang Cheng in the movie, there is indeed a person in history, who served as the qingyuan county commander during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and there are still many stories of Tang Cheng in Qingyuan County, of course, more have been lost in the long river of history! Today I will tell the story of Tang Cheng's murder case. (Please forgive me for the shift in style, the true story is too violent to be easily banned!) There will be various stories interspersed in the future)

It is said that in a village in Qingyuan County, there is a family of four, two in-laws, two young couples, and no children. In the countryside of that era, of course, farming for a living. One day, the son and father-in-law went to work in the fields, and the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law took care of the housework at home. Near noon, the daughter-in-law began to stir-fry and cook.

The meal was just finished, the husband came back first, it turned out that there was still a little work to be done, the father was distressed about his son, let him go home first, and do the rest of the work himself. The mother-in-law asked her daughter-in-law to serve her son a meal, and let her son eat first to rest. The daughter-in-law prepared a meal for her husband, waited for her husband to eat, and waited with her mother-in-law for her father-in-law to return.

The husband just went into the back room to lie down, suddenly the abdominal pain was not stopped, came out to ask the mother and wife for help, the wife saw the situation and poured him a bowl of hot water, who knew that the husband had not yet received the hand, he bled seven tricks, fell to the ground and died. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were shocked, especially the mother-in-law, who saw her son die tragically on the ground in a few moments, and she was anxious and painful, and cried unceasingly. Neighbors heard the movement and rushed over, some people comforted the mother-in-law, and some people rushed to report to the land security. When the dibao saw that there was a human life, he did not dare to be sloppy, and sent a person with fast legs to the county court to report to the officials.

Tang Cheng, the county grand master, rushed to the village with a cadre of servants and others. After the autopsy, the husband was poisoned to death by a very strong poison, because it was poisoned after the meal, and the meal was made by the daughter-in-law alone, Tang Cheng ordered someone to bring the daughter-in-law back to the county court. Along the way, the daughter-in-law just covered her face and wept, sad, but did not say a word, did not defend or cry out. Back at the county court, Tang Cheng did not immediately interrogate his daughter-in-law, but only took her into custody.

In the next few days, Tang Cheng sent people to the village and the daughter-in-law's village to investigate, and through the inspection, he learned that although the daughter-in-law had recently become a relative, she was loving husband and wife, filial piety to her in-laws, and there was never a dispute with the neighbors, and the reputation was very good. Before getting married, they rarely go out and have little contact with outsiders. The possibility of killing people for resentment or for adultery is basically ruled out. The case was momentarily at an impasse. Tang Cheng thought for a long time and came up with an idea.

It was nearly noon on this day, and Tang Cheng took his daughter-in-law back to the village. He ordered his daughter-in-law to cook in the side room that day and then make a meal as it was on the day of the accident, and while the daughter-in-law was cooking, Tang Cheng was observing from the side. When the daughter-in-law stir-fried vegetables, the aroma was overflowing, and Tang Cheng suddenly found two large golden-headed and red-bodied centipedes lying on the beams of the room, the centipede was large and one was small, the large one was three feet long, the child's arm was thick, and the small one was slightly shorter and thinner. Two centipedes lie on the beam directly above the pot table, greedily inhaling the aroma, and from time to time saliva drips into the pot. After a while, the dish was fried, and the centipede burrowed back into the cracks in the roof. Tang Cheng quietly exited the room and ordered the people to find a dog and feed the food to the dog. The dog ate the meal and died screaming in a moment, exactly the same death as her husband's death that day. Tang Cheng summoned his in-laws and told them what he had found, explaining his daughter-in-law's grievances. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hugged each other and wept.

Tang Cheng instructed the servants to prepare tools, demolish houses and catch centipedes, and eliminate harm for the people. The master on the side stopped him, the master said that the centipede is so big, I am afraid that it has been cultivating for many years and has a way of doing things, and there will be casualties if you arrest people, the side room is a wooden wall and grass roof, and it is not connected to the main room, so it is better to set fire to it. Tang Cheng listened to the master's suggestion, ordered people to get firewood and grass, surrounded the side room, lit a fire, the big centipede was extinguished in the fire, and the little centipede went deeper, turned into a red light and fled, everyone did not find out, the little centipede later attached himself to the traitorous minister, repeatedly framed Tang Cheng, wanted to avenge the snow hatred, this is the last word, later to talk about it.

The centipede was burned to death, and Tang Chengcheng left his daughter-in-law and returned home. After a few days, Tang Cheng sent people to rebuild the side house for them, gave the old man and the old lady a sum of money to comfort them in the loss of their children, and asked the parents of the daughter-in-law to take her back to her mother's house and allow her to remarry (at that time, the woman needed the consent of the government to remarry). Since then, the story of the Seven Pin Sesame Officials eliminating harm and solving the murder case for the people has been handed down.