During the Hongzhi period, there was a Xiucai named Ma Xian in Ding'an County, qiongzhou province, Guangdong, who was a famous brother in the city, whose ancestors had been salt merchants and had a solid family. Originally from Majiawa, more than thirty miles away from the city, he later moved to the city.
By his generation, his family had fallen into the middle of the road, and his parents had married Shangguan Mingyue, the daughter of the squire Shangguan Kui, who was not only born white and beautiful, but also industrious to maintain the family. After the death of their parents, the Shangguan clan dismissed the servants in the family, cooked and washed the laundry themselves, and left only an old servant to take care of the portal and clean the courtyard. Although the Ma family is different from the past, the skinny camels are bigger than the horses, and they still have more than enough to live by relying only on the rent of the paved surface and the dozens of acres of paddy fields rented by tenants.
Ma Xian had not been able to advance since he had passed the Examination for Xiucai, and every time Shangguan Clan persuaded him with kind words, he did not think so. Drinking and talking about poetry all day, doing some sour foot-hugging texts and a bunch of self-proclaimed fox friends who are famous for their articles, one of them is a poor scholar named Jiang Nianci, Ma Xian regards him as a best friend, this Jiang Nianci family road is difficult, but he is treacherous and slippery, and he is so high-minded. Because he often walked around the Ma family, he coveted the beauty of the Shangguan clan and often secretly teased and teased.
Shangguan's serious family came from a serious family, and he hated him deeply, but because of his face, it was not easy to say clearly, and he often warned his husband that readers should pay attention to merit and read well to stay away from these inconsistent people. And the husband is idle, playing with the heart, who will listen to the wife's clichéd golden and jade good words into the ear? The so-called flies do not sting seamless eggs, Jiang Nianci has no gap to take advantage of, but somehow hooked up with Ma Xian's concubine Shi Shi.
This Shi clan's name is Bingzhu, a jiangsu and Zhejiang people, who fled to this place and was bumped into by the Shangguan clan who happened to be on the street, and the kind-hearted Shangguan clan saw that he was hungry and fainted on the side of the road, so he rescued him and took him home to be his maid. Who knew that this Shi clan was extremely clever, taking advantage of the Shangguan clan's pregnancy, showing off the style, and lured a drunken and smoked horse idle to bed, but after the fact, he pretended to be very poor, looking for death and life, and couldn't stop crying. Ma Xian was helpless, so after consulting with the Shangguan clan, he included him in the room and made him a concubine. Ma Xian hugged his wife and concubine, and he was not sure that the concubine Ben Hongxing had already reached out of the wall.
Since then, the Ma family's bad luck has continued, first of all, the Shangguan family has been pregnant for five or six months, the fetus is stillborn, the Shangguan family is depressed and sick, and the Body is infected with strange diseases, and the Shi family also serves diligently every day, boiling soup and decoction, serving tea and water, but Langzhong has not found the cause of the disease, and the Shangguan family is good and evil, less than two or three months, and even died.
After the death of the Shangguan clan, the Shi clan began to want to meddle in the affairs of the family, as if they were the hostess, and the pillow side repeatedly blew wind to Ma Xiucai, wanting him to straighten himself out, Ma Xian's fornication with the Shi clan, has been rumored, but there is no real evidence, but it is also a suspicion. He said that the bones of his deceased wife were not cold, and he would not talk about this matter now. Shi Shi was annoyed, and Ma Xian just ignored it.
In the autumn of the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, Ma Xian participated in the township examination, fell behind Sun Shan, and returned home discouraged, and his friend Jiang Nianci invited him to drink to relieve his boredom, he was angry and uneven, and immediately left. In the middle of the night, he staggered and returned drunk, but he did not know that there was a ghostly figure behind him...
Halfway to the road, the horse was idle and drunk and could not walk, there was an abandoned well more than ten meters away from the road, the black shadow looked around at no one, so he dragged the horse idle in the well, lest he not die, and then pushed the two stones next to the well into the well, until he could not hear the sound in the well, and then began to leave. Black Shadow is not a bystander, it is his friend Jiang Nianci. This is a plan he and Shi Clan have made, soon the two will let the wind go, Ma Xiucai has gone to the provincial city academy to study, over time, the Ma family property will be sold to change their surname, the two can be forever harmonious...
But he said that the horse was idle in the well and did not die, it was a well that would dry up, the water could not flood the calf, the falling stone did not hit the key point, he was just frightened and fainted. When he wakes up slowly and cries out for help, he can be left to shout in the well, which is deserted and overgrown with weeds. Pedestrians on the road more than ten meters away could not hear him, and he was cold and hungry, dying.
It was not until the night of the third day, when a nearby smith came to the well to hang the rattan (the rattan was dried and deformed, and the moisture in the hanging well was restored), and the kind smith rescued it, carried it home, and fed it hot soup, that he slowly returned to his body and finally recovered a small life. Knowing that Jiang Nianci calculated himself, remembered the words of his deceased wife before his death, and regretted that he was not the beginning.
After a night off, on the second day, Qian en thanked the couple and hurried home, but they bumped into Jiang Nianci and Shi Shi pushing cups and changing cups in their homes, drinking and cheering. Suddenly, ma idle returned, and the two shouted in unison, "There is a ghost!" Jiang Nianci chased after him with a knife, Ma Xian had to take the road and flee, thinking about the past, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, he was stabbed in the back by his best friend, and the adulteress Shi Shi En would take revenge, how could he not see the two of them clearly a day earlier? So he borrowed paper and pencil from a roadside stall, and took the adulterer and the adulteress to court.
Sue Ma Xian, the person who accused him of adultery and murder. The tyrant Jiang Nianci, the concubine Shi Shi, the adulterer behind his back, conspired with the family property, and designed to kill. Fake love to drink, idle drunk, pushed into the well. Fortunately, he was rescued by the goodness of the smith and came back from the dead. Idle yesterday, when he returned home, he said that he was dead, and he drank and reveled with his concubines, saw idleness enter the room, and drove away with a knife, like this evil thief, heaven was intolerable, begging for heaven to extinguish, and life and death were enduring. Aggressively sue.
At that time, Ding'an County's Zhi County was called Bao Jiyuan, and the world knew that the Northern Song Dynasty had a "Bao Qingtian", who was honest and honest, and eliminated violence and peace. But I didn't know that the Ming Dynasty also had a "Bao Qingtian." "This public has a very good style of salvation, justice and integrity, but he died young, and the history books rarely record it." After BaoZhi County receives the complaint, it is customary to receive the certificate on the first day, and the next day the party will be tried. Seeing that it was a murder case, I was afraid that the criminal would hear the wind and flee. Immediately signed the card, the execution room arrested the two people quickly to get the case, that day and night, did not try the criminals, but only took Ma Xian to the second hall for questioning, to understand the case. The two were held in solitary confinement in a specially made cell. This is the usual trick of Baozhi County.
As the saying goes, "Eli intersects, and when the benefit is exhausted, it is scattered." "This man and woman are not intimate lovers who have heart-to-heart fellowship, but each has their own intentions" Dewy Couple. "I was put in this big prison, and in the dead of night, before I passed the church, I began to complain to each other and tear each other apart. In the mutual dispute between the two, many details of the case have been explained. As everyone knows, the two scribes next to the cell have been ordered by Bao Zhi County to transcribe what the two said...
On the day of the trial, the adulteress and adulteress, one said that he was seduced by beauty and did something sorry for his friend, and the other said that he was instigated and coerced by him to betray his husband. Bao Zhixian was furious when he heard the two of them defend themselves, and he slapped tangmu and asked Shi Shi in a loud voice: "You adulterous adulteress with your husband, and your face said that you were coerced, and shangguan's death was also coerced?" Shi Shi was shocked when he heard this, and then returned to normal, insisting that he did not know. In fact, Bao ZhiXian only had doubts in his heart, and judging by its situation, it seemed difficult to get rid of it. Bao Zhixian thought twice and ordered to temporarily retire from the church.
In the second night trial last night, Ma Xian described the situation, and Bao Zhixian had suspected that the death of the Shangguan clan was related to the adulteress Shi clan for three reasons:
First, the disease suffered by the Shangguan family is really strange, if it is typhoid fever, it should be fever and cold, it will not be good or bad, although it is not good for the fetus, it will not be stillborn, and the condition of typhoid fever is transmitted, and there is no second person infected in the Ma family. The diarrhea and vomiting are also poisoned, and there is a reasonable explanation for the stillbirth.
Second, after Ma Xian accepted the Shi clan, there was no maid in the family, and the Shi clan had complained, but later took care of the eldest wife, the Shangguan clan, but worked hard and complained, and they should eat and live, and all of them were taken care of by the Shi clan.
Third, BaoZhi County sent people to investigate the records of arsenic sales in several drug stores from the spring to early summer, that is, during the period of Shangguan's illness, but there was Jiang Nianci's name, and Jiang Nianci was interrogated in prison, but he did not use it in his own family, only that It was Shi Shi rang to help him buy medicine rats. Isn't that even stranger?
In view of the above three points, Bao Zhi County told Ma Xianchen about the pros and cons, and Ma Xian had already doubted the death of his wife Shangguan Shi, so he decided to open the coffin for autopsy.
The neighbors heard that Lord Bao wanted to open the coffin for autopsy, people all wanted to see a lively, on the same day, there were already Ya Cha and Di Bao who were ready to stop early, Bao Zhi County led people to escort people to the scene, And Zuo Zuo went forward to examine it carefully, filled in the corpse grid, and as Expected by Bao Zhi County, Shangguan Shi died of poisoning, and Ya Gong pushed the adulterous woman to the near front, and Shi Shi immediately collapsed on the ground and made his evil deeds out:
It turned out that since Shi Clan had tricked her and made Ma Xianna a concubine, the Shangguan Clan was very disgusted, and either ignored her or commanded her, and Shi Clan was quite dismissive. However, he gradually became born with the heart of Long Wangshu, seeing that his eldest wife Shangguan Shi was pregnant, and if he gave birth to a son of Ma, his position would be even more precarious. She thought about it and remembered that she had heard court legends on the way to escape, that a small amount of arsenic would not be fatal immediately, but it would cause pregnant women to miscarry, and every time she ate a small amount of arsenic, it would kill people invisibly.
She immediately tricked Jiang Nianci into secretly buying arsenic cream for herself and implemented it according to the plan, and sure enough, everything was as she expected. At first, I was afraid that Lang Zhong would see that who knew that several quack doctors first said that they were deficient in qi and blood, and then said that they were typhoid fever, and they finally moved to the stumbling block of Shangguan. Unexpectedly, he wanted Ma Xian to straighten himself out, but he just didn't allow it, and the family's money and grain matters would rather be handed over to the old servant than into his own hands, so he and Jiang Nianci plotted to get rid of Ma Xian and sell his family property and fly double-legged...
At this point, the truth of the case had come out, Ma Xian was furious, eager to eat his flesh raw, and after being persuaded by the servants, he pounced on his wife's grave and wept bitterly, and the onlookers all sighed with emotion about what had happened to him, and hated the adulterous and poisonous woman to the bone, and scolded endlessly...
The next day, BaoZhi County announced the verdict of the case: Jiang Nianci treacherous, the wife of an adulterous friend, played for the tiger, sought the life of a person, and planned to be sentenced to be beheaded. Shi Shi's ice beads, the most heinous crimes, adulterous and poisonous, ten evils, intend to sentence Ling Chi to punishment. Submit to the Ministry of Punishment for approval of execution. The case is closed.
After Ma Xian returned home, he began to study hard, and later even won the Gold List, and the official of the Zhengde Period was sentenced to Luzhou.
Post-case reflections:
It cannot be denied that greed is the inferior nature of man, but it must not be so dark that it is insatiable, still less can it be revenge and seek profit and forget righteousness. The snake and scorpion woman in this case is not worthy of being called a person, it can really be said that the greed is not enough for the snake to swallow the elephant, and it is simply a copy of the story of the farmer and the snake. Skynet was restored, neglected but not leaked. Being tortured to death is also a sin that deserves it.