In the fifth year of Ming Xuande, Kunshan Zhixian received a report from Li Er, a county resident, saying that his neighbor Li Ming had poisoned his wife and son with banana leaves.
Li Er's complaint stated that he lived at the foot of Yufeng Mountain and that his neighbor was a man living alone, named Li Ming. Li Ming's love for planting plantains is almost obsessed.
On this day, Li Er's son was in a summer fever, and Li Er's wife found Li Ming and asked him for a few banana leaves to go back to boil soup to remove the summer heat for his son. Li Ming picked a few leaves for her. In the evening, Li Er's wife boiled the soup and gave it to her son to drink, and the rest drank it herself. Unexpectedly, when Li Er returned home in the evening, he saw that his wife and son had vomited blood and died, and there was a bowl on the stove head, and there was still a remnant of medicinal soup in the bowl.
Li Er suspected that Li Ming's banana leaves were poisonous, so he filed a complaint against him to the official government, demanding that the government immediately arrest Li Ming and avenge his wife and children.
At stake, Kunshan Zhixian did not dare to be careless, and immediately took ya and servant to the scene of the incident.
The silver needle pierced the throat of the deceased, and the silver needle suddenly turned black, confirming that the two were poisoned by arsenic and died; and then testing the remaining medicinal soup, the silver needle also turned black, obviously poisonous in the medicinal soup.
Li Er also said that a few days ago, his son had broken the banana tree of Li Ming's family, and Li Ming, who loved bananas, scolded the child at that time. Li Er's wife guarded the short, so she had a dispute with Li Ming. Presumably, Li Ming held a grudge against this and took the opportunity to kill the mother and son with poisonous banana leaves.
Kunshan Zhixian sent someone to detain Li Ming to the case.
Li Ming admitted that he had scolded Li Er's son and quarreled with Li Er's wife, but he never poisoned anyone.
On the basis of this, The County of Kunshan Zhixian ruled that Li Ming was sentenced to death for revenge for poisoning and murdering people, and that all his property and family home were sold by the government, and all the income obtained was compensated to Li Er.
The file of the Basho murder case was presented to the hands of the Suzhou prefect Guan Zhong, who carefully read the case file and found many suspicious points:
There have always been people in Li Er's family, and it is unlikely that Li Ming sneaked into Li's house to poison him, so how did he poison the banana leaves?
In the afternoon of the day of the crime, it began to rain near Yufeng Mountain, and the rain did not stop until midnight. Li Ming said that during this time he had been painting at home until he was caught; Guan Zhong also looked at the banana drawings drawn by Li Ming at that time, and the brushstrokes were natural and relaxed, without the slightest nervousness and uneasiness; the painting intention was endless, indicating that Li Ming did not pause or leave during the painting process;
Looking at Li Er's confession at the same time, it was full of loopholes, and the biggest loophole was that when Li Er said that when his wife was boiling medicine, he was not at home, but was busy with farm work in the field. Raining on the ground is obviously unreasonable.
When He became suspicious, he informed Kunshan Zhixian that he would personally go to Kunshan in three days to retry the case.
Saying that it was three days, in fact, Zhong Zhong set off on his own the next day, and let the accompanying servants go to Kunshan to meet at the prescribed time.
Disguised as a fortune teller, Kuan Zhong came to visit around Yufeng Mountain.
He went to Li Ming's house first. Li Ming's family had only three thatched huts, and in front of the house was a muddy field full of plantains. Plantains are leafy and surrounded by a fence wall.
Li Er's family is next door to Li Ming, and there are also several thatched houses, which are also poor people at first glance.
Kuang Zhong walked around the village a few more times and found that the locals were talking about the basho murder. From the mouths of the villagers, it was learned that Li Er had always come to eat, drink and have fun, and never worked. Some neighbors mentioned that Li Er had gone home before the crime, and then left in a hurry;
But Li Ming in the mouth of everyone is completely different, willing to be charitable and charitable, and never enmity with others. When they heard that The person who retried the case was a clean official, everyone hoped that he could relieve Li Ming of this injustice.
When The situation clock was listening with relish, the crowd suddenly closed their mouths, and the condition clock looked up, and a man came from afar, with a sharp-billed monkey cheek, described as obscene and bad-looking. This person was none other than Li Er.
When Li Er saw the fortune teller, he walked over and said with a smile, "Sir, can you give me a count?" If I do the math correctly, I'll give more money! ”
Kuang Zhong became interested and asked Li Er, "What do you want to calculate?" ”
Li Er replied, "Count the marriages." "Li Er's wife just died, he can't wait to marry a new wife, trying to find a surname or something."
Guan Zhong couldn't help but sigh, his wife had just died, he wanted to remarry, presumably he didn't have any feelings for his dead wife, which showed the inferiority of this person's moral character. So I casually promised Li Er a few words.
Li Er was very happy, and took out one or two pieces of silver from his arms and rewarded them to The Situation Clock. Zhong Zhong was busy thanking him, and his heart was thinking repeatedly: The poor and miserable Li Er must have gained some ill-gotten wealth now that he was so generous.
After the visit, Guan Zhong returned to Kunshan County to meet with the brigade and went to the prison that night to question Li Ming.
When Li Ming saw the official, he cried out that he had been wronged.
Quan Zhong already knew that Li Ming had never had a vendetta against people, and now he was framed in prison, either for revenge or for profit, but where did the profit come from?
Kuang Zhong asked Li Ming, "Have you ever revealed anything valuable in your home?" ”
Li Ming shook his head and said, "My family has four walls, what is the value of anything!" ”
The clock asked him again, "Is there anything strange in the house?" ”
Li Ming looked down and thought for a long time, and his eyes lit up, saying that a month ago, he had cleaned up the silt pool and dug out several three-foot-tall, strangely shaped stones from it. Except for his large size, the appearance was no different from other stones, so when he finished cleaning, he threw them back.
The clock inquired about the shape and characteristics of the stone, and suddenly remembered something that was abundant in the local area.
Kunshan Yufeng Mountain is rich in a kind of stone, commonly known as Kunshi. Its color is snow white, crystal like jade, together with Taihu stone and yuhua stone, and is known as the three famous stones of Jiangsu. Kunshi is even more precious due to its sparse production.
The local rich people in Kunshan love to collect Kunshi, but Yufeng Mountain is almost mined, and there is no stone to mine, resulting in the price of Kunshi becoming more and more expensive. The few stones dug out by Li Ming, according to his description, are likely to be rough Kunshi.
Because Li Ming loved basho, he didn't know anything about mundane things, and he didn't recognize such treasures, but he treated them as ordinary stones of unusual size.
Kuan Zhong remembers that the silt ground was surrounded by a one-meter-high fence wall, sparse, and people who passed by outside could see what people inside were doing. Presumably, when Li Ming was cleaning up the silt and digging out the rough Kunshi, he was just seen by the people passing by.
Kuang Zhong asked again, "Will anyone ever want to buy your house in the future?" ”
Li Ming replied: "Some people wanted to buy it very early on, but I refused. I said earlier that I would never betray this house, and everyone in the four villages and eight miles knew it. ”
Guan Zhong nodded and instructed Li Ming that the content of the conversation between the two of them tonight must not be mentioned to the third person, especially when he went to church tomorrow, he could not say a word, and only in this way could he be exonerated.
Leaving prison, Guan Zhong already knew the case: the person who poisoned him was undoubtedly Li Er. But Li Er did not have the financial resources to buy a house and dig up stones, so he must have another master behind him.
The next day, Guan Zhong ascended to the church and reopened the basho murder case.
In front of the lobby, there was a sea of people, and Guan Zhong interrogated Li Er and Li Ming successively, and then sent someone to take the water from the silt field of Li Ming's family and find chickens and ducks to feed. Not long after, these chickens and ducks convulsed and vomited blood and died; they were given banana leaves to feed to the chickens and ducks, and the same symptoms died.
After examining it, he replied, "All are signs of arsenic poisoning." ”
Therefore, it was determined that the silt field itself was poisonous, causing the plantain to absorb the toxin, and the stems and leaves produced were also poisonous.
The situation zhong pronounced a verdict: the mud field itself is poisonous, and the plantain is also guilty, and all the banana trees planted by Li Ming are cut down and burned, and the silt is filled in. Li Ming mistakenly planted a poisonous plantain to cause death, which was unintentional homicide, and criminal responsibility was not pursued, and he was released in court. However, the life of the wife and children who harmed people could not but compensate, and Li Ming was sentenced to compensate Li Er for 200 taels of silver!
Although Li Ming was dissatisfied with the hasty conclusion of the case, he thought that he had survived easily and did not dare to speak, but Li Er did not complain again. But the people in the hall were talking about it: Li Ming planted plantains for many years, and whenever the fruit was ripe, he picked them and distributed them to the neighbors, and the banana leaves were also sent to feed pigs.
All in all, the people were dissatisfied with the judgment of the clock. However, Guan Zhong pretended not to hear these statements and returned to Suzhou the next day.
Although Li Ming, who was released home, still felt a little wronged, but it was important to save his life, he felt lucky; but when he went home and saw the messy plantains on the ground and the mud that had been filled, his heart was still extremely uncomfortable; and then he thought that there were still 200 taels of compensation to pay, and he usually had no savings, so he moved the idea of selling the house. So a notice of auction of the family home was posted in front of the door, and the location was set at the door of his own house.
On the day of the auction, many people came and saw a lot of people.
Li Ming's house is remote, and there are only three thatched houses, and there is a poisonous silt in front of the house, so after three rounds of bidding, no one has added any more, and the local Liu rich man temporarily won the top spot with 250 taels.
Just when Liu Rich Lord was determined to win, suddenly a merchant with a Suzhou accent stood up and demanded 300 taels, and Liu Rich Man did not hesitate to let go, immediately increasing to 400 taels, and Suzhou merchants bid another 500 taels. In this way, the two came and went, competing for a price increase, and finally Liu Cai lord increased to 1,000 taels and won Li Ming's house.
The onlookers were stunned: 1,000 taels can buy a big mansion in Suzhou, what kind of person will use such a high price to auction this rotten mansion?
After the delivery was completed, the rich man Liu called in the craftsmen the next day and said that he would demolish the house and rebuild the new house. The three thatched huts were not demolished, so they first built a circle of brick walls two feet high, and circled the silt in it.
That night, someone found a faint light in the wall, and from time to time there was the sound of a pickaxe digging.
Early the next morning, ten carts entered the yard, and at dusk, filled with wet soil, they were pushed out of the yard. The earthen cart did not push into the wasteland, but turned directly to the official road.
Who expected, just after going to the official road, he was stopped by the county ya catcher, and it was the Suzhou merchant who led the way, claiming to be the chief catcher of the Suzhou Yamen.
The chief catcher took a knife to brush the floating soil on the car, revealing the kunshi buried below, and then looked at the rest of the vehicles, there was one or more pieces of kunshi of different sizes. The largest is three feet tall and is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver!
The chief catcher reported this discovery to Guan Zhong, who immediately ordered the arrest of Liu Cai and Li Er, and the next day came to Kunshan County to try the case for the third time.
In the lobby, the situation bell has only unveiled the mystery.
Through the investigation of the outside world, Guan Zhong concluded that someone had targeted Kunshi in the mud of Li Ming's family, but Li Ming had a word first and would never sell the house, so the murderer bribed Li Er, poisoned his wife and children, and married Li Ming in order to seize the opportunity to occupy his house.
Therefore, The situation zhong made a plan, let the servants cheat from it, make people think that the pool water is poisonous, and then cut li ming to pay Li Er a high amount of compensation, forcing Li Ming to sell the house at a high price, attracting the murderer to throw himself into the net.
In the face of all the witnesses, Liu Cailord and Li Er also had to confess their crimes.
The rich man Liu happened to pass by outside Li Ming's house and saw Li Ming cleaning up the pond and a few stones he had dug out. The rich man Liu recognized at a glance that this was Kunshi, so he had the heart to take it for himself. But Li Ming had something to say first, and The rich man Liu had to move other thoughts.
He found Li Er and gave him 500 taels of silver to frame Li Ming.
Li Er thought that his wife had had an argument with Li Ming, and he wanted to use this opportunity to knock Li Ming down.
That day, Li Er's son suffered from heat stroke, and Li Er's wife said that she wanted to find banana leaves to boil water for her son to drink. When Li Er's wife went out, Li Er smeared arsenic cream in the medicine jar, and when Li Er's wife boiled the medicine, the toxicity then seeped into the medicine, and finally caused the two to vomit blood and die.
Kunshan Zhixian blindly adjudicated the case and sentenced Li Ming to death, but unexpectedly, the later Situation Zhong was also a "confused official", and although Li Ming was released, he was asked to pay a high amount of compensation.
The rich man Liu took down the mansion, thinking that he had done everything foolproof and no one had found out, but he did not know that his every move was under the surveillance of the chief catcher of the Guan Zhong Sect.
In the end, Guan Zhong pronounced the following sentence: Liu Er was greedy for money, hired murderers, and blamed others; Li Er was greedy for money, killed his wife and children, framed others, and was sentenced to beheading on both occasions; and Li Er's wife and children were buried at liu's expense.
Subsequently, Guan Zhong apologized to Li Ming and destroyed his beloved plantain in order to solve the case, so he returned the captured Kunshi and the mansion to him.
Li Ming took Kunshi, sold it all, and used all the money to help the township, and continued to live a leisurely and self-sufficient life.
After reading:
A gentleman loves money and has a way of getting it. The rich people Liu Cai and Li Er, who love money, have violated the principle of taking the right way, and in the end they are to blame themselves.
Money is an incomparable temptation for everyone, but obtaining money is a test of a person's character. The attainment of the right path, the attainment of benevolence, or the attainment of deceit, embodies a person's integrity and principle.
In fact, no matter how old or old, there are not a few people who harm people for money, and how many have received a good death? Most of them are tragedies of money, people, and yellow sorghum dreams.
Today, when the legal system is more perfect, conscientiousness, down-to-earth progress, and hard work and enterprising are the only ways we should respect.
Source: Angel Fly 11111
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