During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, there was a young scholar named Kong Xiu in Fuyang County, the capital of Yingzhou, Anhui, who was born with Yushu Linfeng and Confucian elegance and beauty.
Although this Kong Xiu was born in a family of rich squires, and has no worries about food and clothing since childhood, he has the ambition and perseverance of the strands to "go to a higher level", and has been reading hard for more than ten years in the cold window, which can be described as chiseling the wall to steal the light, hanging the beam and piercing the stock, and the eight strands of the articles that make righteousness and shiwen, the eight strands of the articles that break the question, enter the topic, start the stock, and bundle the stock, make it novel and unique, and the rotten familiarity, so I think that the high school is promising.
In early June of the ninth year of Qianlong (1744 AD), Kong Xiu saw that the Qiu luxiang test was imminent, so he packed his bags, bid farewell to his parents, and looked at The Anqing Province, where the provincial capital was located. If it is said that autumn should be in autumn, why did Kong Xiu leave two months in advance, is it not the wrong time? Originally, Kong Xiu had his own plans: first, it was difficult to travel from Fuyang to Anqing Road, and I was afraid that I would miss the date of Dabi when I started too late; second, at this time, peach and willow green, Kong Xiu also wanted to visit famous places and travel through the mountains and rivers, so he was full of spirits and went out early.
Along the way, Kong Xiu traveled in the mountains and rivers, chanted poems and painted, and had a sigh of excitement and a different scenery. When it came to the date of the township examination, Kong Xiu showed his talent and completed the examination without adding points. When the list was promulgated, Kong Xiu took a look and actually won the township test (fifth place)! Kong Xiu was overjoyed, so he straightened up his bags and returned home.
Since going out in June, Kong Xiu waited until the list was released after participating in the township examination, and he had been away from home for more than three months. On the way back, Kong Xiu calculated the time of the journey, thinking that he could return home without a month, so the breeze was happy and slow. Although the road is an old road, at this time Kong Xiu is proud of the spring breeze, and it is a different mood than when he came.
It is said that this Kong Xiu has an uncle and cousin, named Chun Jiao, nian Fang seventeen, who looks like a flower like jade and a beautiful crown. At the end of last year, Kong Xiu visited his sick aunt and stayed at his home for more than a month. During the period, he and his cousin fell in love with each other and admired each other, so the two privately made a vow of "not marrying the king, not marrying the secretary".
After the aunt learned of this, she did not know that she would be her husband, but secretly told Kong Xiu to come to the door as soon as possible to propose to her, and she was naturally happy to "kiss and kiss". You say that your children are in-laws, why doesn't your aunt communicate with her husband? Because this uncle Wang Lingkun is an old boy in his fifties, with a strange temperament and the most recognizable reason, the brother-in-law's family is prosperous, he is reluctant to have too much contact with the Kong family, for fear of falling into a reputation of "feeling poor and loving the rich"!
Wang Lingkun did not say anything about the prejudices of his wife's family, but also had a green eye for the family who married into a neighboring village and had a poor family. The younger sister Wang Shi has a son, who is the same as Chun Jiao, who looks neat and tidy, and is the most popular with Wang Lingkun, who is deeply loved by Wang Lingkun, and gradually has the idea of choosing a dragon son-in-law. The aunt had long been aware of her husband's thoughts, and thought to herself: As long as the nephew asks for relatives to be the first to ascend, and she and her daughter do the "internal response", this matter is absolutely unreasonable. Therefore, she hid from her husband and only blindly let Kong Xiu mention his relatives earlier!
Kong Xiu asked the media to marry his crush, and naturally there were one hundred and twenty willing. But he also has a monopoly idea, that is, seeing that the period of Dabi is approaching, Kong Xiu thought that after the title of the golden list, he would ask to marry his cousin, wouldn't it be the lintel of the two families of Double Happiness and Guangyao? Therefore, Kong Xiu met with Chun Jiao and waited for Qiu Min High School to come to the dowry.
After Kong Xiuzhong lifted, he rushed for more than a month, and finally returned to his home in Fuyang from the provincial capital. The Kong family was full of joy and a big feast, and invited relatives and friends to celebrate Kong Xiuzhong. Before the banquet, Kong Xiu toasted from table to table, but he did not see his uncle and aunt to congratulate him. When Kong Xiuzheng was in Nahan, Kong's father told the story of the lamentations of his aunt's family for half a year.
It turned out that shortly after Kong Xiu rushed out of the exam, Chunjiao's mother was seriously ill and incurable, and Wang Lingkun occasionally felt wind and was paralyzed. This can be bitter Chunjiao, both full of the pain of losing her mother, but also have to take care of her father with and urine. Within two months, Chunjiao hastily consummated marriage and recruited a cargo man to be a door-to-door son-in-law.
Father Kong lamented that the world was unpredictable, and on the other hand, he told the story of Chun Jiao's dowry. When Kong Xiu heard this, it was as if he had been struck by a muffled thunder, his eyes were full of Venus, his face was pale, and he suddenly collapsed to the ground. Father Kong and a group of relatives and friends did not understand why, they all came to help Kong Xiu.
Kong Xiu fixed his mind, and only then did he cry loudly. At this time, he also had nothing to hide, so he told Chunjiao about the lifelong affairs with Chunjiao in public. After saying that, Kong Xiu beat his chest even more and burst into tears. Father Kong heard the words, stood still for half a moment, and then sighed with tears: "You have this heart, I think your aunt will be able to smile at the Nine Springs." But is marriage the same thing? Chunjiao and you do not have three media and six certificates, that day is just a child whisper, how can you count? Now that she is married, Hugh will bring it up again! ”
Kong Xiu heard this, turned back to the house and sighed to himself, but there was nothing to do. However, in Kong Xiu's heart, there is always an unsolved mystery that lingers: that is, his cousin has a deep love for himself, and he knows that he is expected to be named in the gold list, and originally had an appointment first, but why did he break the contract and marry a cargo man?
Kong Xiu was puzzled, and the next day he personally went to Chunjiao's home to find out. When Chunjiao saw Kong Xiu here, she was stunned and stunned, and only looked at the old lover with a pair of tearful eyes. Chunjiao's husband, Sun Zhenfu, was an honest man, and when he saw his relatives come to the door, he was suddenly helpless. He even said a few words, "Raise the old man to sit down for a while," and then he rushed to buy wine and dishes.
At this time, only Kong Xiu and Chun Jiao were left in the inner house. Kong Xiu could no longer control his inner mood, tears came out of his eyes, he grabbed Chunjiao's hands and asked her why she didn't wait for her to come back? Chun Jiao just looked down and sobbed, but refused to say a word. Kong Xiu was sad and anxious, so he persuaded Chunjiao to leave the cargo lang and marry himself.
Kong Xiu was persuading Chun Jiao, who knew that under his anxiety, the tone was getting higher and higher, and he happened to be listened to by The Cargo Lang's father. The grandson kicked open the door, and the finger Kong Xiu scolded incessantly. The grandmother and the cargo lang Zhenfu listened to the words of the grandson's father, and suddenly changed their faces, and the family of three surrounded Kong Xiu, scolding him for suppressing people and forcibly marrying a married woman.
Just when there was a lot of commotion, Chun Jiao pushed Kong Xiu out of the door, leaned back against the door, and shouted at Sun Zhenfu: "Now I am born to be your person, and death is your ghost." Don't say raise people, it is the princes and nobles, who can forcibly marry away? If you mess around again, I'll die here today!" ”
Sun Zhenfu and his parents, listening to Chunjiao's words, stopped making a sound. Kong Xiu was pushed out of the house, and was about to turn back and enter the house again, when he heard Chun Jiao's anxious words, he suddenly stood like a cold water topping, stood still for half a moment, and then returned home with his head down.
Since then, Kong Xiu has not been able to go out behind closed doors, only sitting at home day and night. At noon on the third day, a number of catchers suddenly came outside the door of the Kong family, saying that "the old man who raised people was offended", so he put the chain on Kong Xiu's head, pulled it up and left. When Kong's father and mother Kong saw that they had taken their son for no reason, they immediately panicked. However, the patriarch Kong Taigong had some opinions, and while comforting the two, he sent his sons and nephews to the county to inquire about the news.
After half a day, the inquirer came back to report that late last night, Chunjiao's family had suffered a disaster: her husband Sun Zhenfu, as well as her father-in-law and mother-in-law, and the family of three were killed in the family! Because Kong Xiu came to the door the day before yesterday, the three members of the Sun family had quarreled with him, so the county ya regarded Kong Xiu as a murderer, and only then arrested him and sent him to the county court for interrogation. The Kong family was in a mess and did not mention it.
It is said that late that night, Chunjiao was knocked unconscious first, and sun Zhenfu and his parents were killed in the house. In the early hours of the morning, Chunjiao woke up slowly and saw that her husband, father-in-law, and mother-in-law had all died tragically in the house, and the blood on the bed and the ground was flowing, and she immediately caressed the corpse and cried. In the middle of the night, Chun Jiao's miserable crying suddenly alarmed the neighbors.
Everyone lit a lamp and candle, and when they came to see the Sun family, they were all shocked by the tragic situation in front of them. A man with fast legs quickly ran to Li Zheng Sun Wei's house to report the news. Sun Wei saw that three people had died in one brain, so he panicked and rushed to the county court to report the case. The county ordered Zou Yunlong not to be sloppy when he heard the news, and led the servants and servants to rush to the spark and came to inspect the scene.
Soon, the crowd came to the Sun family's courtyard. Zou Xian ordered Dan to see that the house was disheveled and blood was flowing, and a male corpse was lying on his back facing the sky on the floor of the outhouse, about fifty years old, and he was stabbed three times in the waist and died; an old woman on the bed lay in a pool of blood, tied to the neck and died. Zou Xianling went into the back room to look at it again, only to see a young man dead in the bunk, only his head and hands exposed, and a deep knife mark on his neck, which was obviously a fatal knife!
Zou Xian ordered that the inquest of the scene was completed, so he interrogated Chunjiao if she could see the murderer's face. Chun Jiao said with tears in her eyes: "Last night I slept deeply, and at three o'clock, I heard a noise at the head of her husband's bed, and then I felt something spraying on my face!" As I sat up, a dark shadow suddenly came over me, and I felt a heavy punch in the head and passed out. I woke up to realize that my husband and in-laws had been killed! ”
After Chunjiao finished speaking, she sobbed uncontrollably. Zou Xianling visited the neighbors again, and when he heard that the three members of the Sun family were extremely popular, there was no enemy family rival, only a newly recent Kong Xiu, who had come to the Sun family to take his wife, and left with the three people. Zou Xian ling became suspicious when he heard this, so he sent a servant to detain Kong Xiu in the lobby.
Kong Xiu had never killed anyone originally, and since he was proud of his meritorious name, he denounced Zou County for wronging good people and confusing the case. This Zou County Order was a man king and landlord who stomped his feet in Fuyang and fought in chaos in the four cities, how could he have suffered such humiliation? Therefore, in the face of Kong Xiu's reprimand, he just sat sneering and did not utter a word.
Kong Xiu's name was there, and the county magistrate had no right to use torture, so Kong Xiu had no fear. Who knows, Zou Xianling put him in prison, and for more than six or seven days he did not interrogate him, but he did not give him half a bit of water and rice grain. When Kong Xiu was starving to death and came back to life, Zou Xianling brought chicken, duck and fish meat to visit him in prison. Kong Xiu smelled the smell of meat, and he knelt down like a madman to beg for food, and Zou Xianling said with a mischievous smile: "Big fish and big meat are not difficult, as long as you confess to the crime of murder, from now on in prison, you will have good wine and good meat!" Otherwise, if you starve to death as a murderer, what can the state do to me! ”
At this point, Kong Xiu knew very well that the county order would not take his own life and would never give up; instead of starving to death, it was better to be a ghost who was full of death first. Therefore, Kong Xiu had to confess to the crime of homicide to avoid starvation. This Zou County ordered Kong Xiu to confess, and the Wenzhou government first removed Kong Xiu's name, and then made him a felony of Ling Chi, and only waited for the approval of the officials to execute him.
Coincidentally, Li Lingzhi, the liupin zuoyou capital of the imperial court, visited Fuyang County. He was surprised to hear that there had been a case of murder in the local area, so he transferred the case file to consult it in detail. Li Yushi did not look at it, and when he looked at it, he suddenly found many doubts: First, why did Chunjiao let go of the person who was not equal to the person, but married a cargo lang? Second, when the murderer committed the crime, why did he only knock Chun jiao unconscious, and why did he show mercy to her men? The third is to determine that Kong Xiu killed people, there is a clear lack of personal and physical evidence, and the verdict statements are all inferred guilt, and there are major loopholes.
Therefore, Li Yushi decided to reopen the case. When he interrogated Kong Xiu, although he did not find strong evidence, he deeply felt that Kong Xiu was a Sergeant and would never engage in humiliating and vicious murder. This also further strengthened Li Yushi's determination to investigate the case deeply.
Subsequently, after repeated deliberations and deliberations by Li Yushi, he believed that the key to this case was still on Chunjiao. Only by solving the mystery of her hasty marriage can it be expected to find out the culprit of the murder. Therefore, Li Yushi took Chunjiao to the hall and explained to Yan Yuexi that her cousin Kong Xiu had been stripped of his meritorious name and was about to be executed by Ling Chi, and if she did not seize this last opportunity to wash away injustice, Kong Xiu would be doomed!
Chun Jiao heard the words and knelt in front of the hall and wept, saying that Kong Xiu was not a murderer, and she was willing to die for her cousin! Li Yushi looked at Chun Jiao and said slowly, "You said that Kong Xiu didn't kill anyone, but you also need to say who is the real murderer!" Chun Jiao heard the words and cried bitterly: "The little girl really has not seen the face of the murderer, but she can't spray people with blood and frame good people in order to save her cousin?" The little girl was willing to die, only begging the adult to release Kong Xiu! ”
Li Yushi smiled and said, "Kong Xiu doesn't need to die, you don't need to replace him, you don't have to see the murderer clearly, you just need to say why you hurriedly changed your marriage that day!" Chun Jiao was silent for half a moment before she opened her mouth to say a past that could not be looked back.
It turned out that after Kong Xiu went to the provincial city to take the exam, Chunjiao hoped day and night that he could get the gold list high school so that he could marry himself. After more than a month, her mother Kong Shi actually relapsed from the old disease and died. Soon, my father was paralyzed in bed again. When Chunjiao was washing her face with tears every day and was busy taking care of her father, Wang Xishan, the son of her aunt Wang, came to Chunjiao's home on the pretext of visiting the sick. As soon as Wang Xishan came, he lived next to Wang Lingkun's bedside, claiming that the was urinating, and the Chunjiao girl's home was inconvenient, and he lived in the back room or had a care.
Although Chunjiao was wary of Wang Xishan, first of all, he was a close relative; second, he took care of his father, and there were indeed many inconveniences, and Wang Xishan's arrival was just to help, so he did not refuse. Who knows that this Wang Xishan, he has long heard that his uncle wants to match Chunjiao with himself, and now that he sees That Chunjiao's body is charming, beautiful and beautiful, and his uncle is bedridden and unable to speak, he has evil thoughts.
That night, Wang Xishan took advantage of Chunjiao's deep sleep to sneak open the door of the outhouse from the back room, and took the opportunity to spoil Chunjiao. After Chunjiao was humiliated, she wanted to die, but worried that her father had no one to take care of her, she had to endure the humiliation and secretly survive. The next morning, Chunjiao got up and grabbed a kitchen knife and forced Wang Xishan out.
Chunjiao drove away Wang Xishan, but she also felt that she had lost her thief's hand and never had the face to marry her lover Kong Xiu. Because it was difficult to take care of his father and the high cost of medicine, the family had no money to gain, and Chunjiao had no choice but to marry Sun Zhenfu, a cargo man. Kong Xiuzhong held it back, and once went to the door to ask chunjiao why she had married someone else. But Chunjiao, a young woman, how can she say that she was humiliated? Therefore, she just bowed her head and sobbed, refusing to say anything about Wang Xishan's violation.
Now, Li Yushi's trial of the case has reached a critical point, and Chunjiao, in order to save Kong Xiu, can't be shy, so she has to truthfully tell the reason why she didn't wait for Kong Xiu and remarry others. Li Yushi listened to what Chunjiao said, and suddenly felt that he had a sense of willow dark flowers and brightening, so he ordered the powerful servants to quickly detain Wang Xishan to the temple. After a severe interrogation, Wang Xishan had to confess about the killing of Sun Zhenfu's family of three.
It turned out that after Wang Xishan violated Chunjiao, he was driven back home. He took advantage of the sky and reminisced about the scene of the day all day. The reason why Wang Xishan was not eager to persuade Chunjiao to marry him was because he thought he had taken advantage of Chunjiao, and Chunjiao was in his pocket. Therefore, instead, he should take a handful of Chunjiao and let her obediently ask himself to marry her.
After more than a month, Wang Xishan actually heard that Chunjiao was married to a cargo man. Wang Xishan suddenly became angry and frustrated, and after thinking about it, he moved the idea of killing people, thinking that if he killed Sun Zhenfu and then asked Chunjiao to marry him, he would be foolproof. Therefore, Wang Xishan sneaked into Sun's house late at night and killed Sun Zhenfu, who was sleeping soundly.
At this time, Chunjiao was surprised in her sleep, and Wang Xishan smashed it with his fist. When he just wanted to escape, his grandfather and grandmother in the outhouse woke up when they heard an abnormal noise, and when their grandfather went down to the ground to inspect, he was stabbed to death by Wang Xishan; his grandmother screamed on the bed and was also killed by Wang Xishan. After that, Wang Xishan fled home and hid.
In the end, Wang Yushi tried to find out the truth of the case and put Wang Xishan to death; the county ordered Zou Yunlong to vent his anger and almost caused an unjust case, so he was dismissed from his post and investigated; Kong Xiu was restored to his meritorious name and acquitted; Wang Yushi matched him with Kong Xiu, and since then the couple has had lovers who have gone through hardships and finally become dependents!
This case warns future generations: We must have the courage to expose and dare to show the sword against illegal infringements, especially female comrades, and we must resolutely safeguard our own rights and interests. Blindly forbearing and giving in is tantamount to drinking and quenching thirst and raising carbuncles. Initially, if Chunjiao could denounce Wang Xishan, there would be no more incidents in which Sun Zhenfu's family of three were killed and Kong Xiu was wronged, only because Chunjiao endured insults and stole peace, was ashamed to speak, and almost caused Kong Xiu to suffer injustice, and the real murderer was at large! Fortunately, thanks to Li Yushi's insight, Kong Xiu was acquitted and made the lover finally a family member, which is truly admirable!