Text/Murong Zijun
Pan Lianghua is a native of Zhejiang, selling cloth in Guangdong, and also earned a lot of silver, because a person is lonely and lonely in this foreign country, he takes a concubine called Wang. But Pan Lianghua is short-tempered, and he also likes to drink heavily, and as long as he is drunk, he beats up Wang.
That night, Pan Lianghua returned home drunk again, and Wang Shi was so frightened that he quickly served him tea, but Pan Lianghua did not say a word, grabbed Wang Shi's fist and kicked, and after beating people, he fell asleep. Wang Clan wept until midnight, and Sangen quietly walked out of the house and committed suicide by throwing himself into a well.
Early the next morning, Pan Lianghua found that his wife was missing, thinking that she could not stand her own scolding and ran away, so she wrote a post looking for people and posted it everywhere. But after a few days, there was no news, and his goods were sold out again, so he had to return to his hometown in Zhejiang alone.
There is a small businessman named Liu Fuxiu in this area, who opened a tavern, and the business is quite prosperous, so he has made a lot of silver and the family is relatively wealthy. His wife, Jia Chunlian, has a beautiful appearance, but she is a frivolous woman with watery Yanghua, who has just married Liu Fuxiu and has an adulterous affair with her neighbor Xu Lu.
Liu Fuxiu was busy in the tavern every day, he had never noticed that his wife had cheated on others, but this matter was always wrapped in paper and could not hold the fire, and an old lady in the neighbor told Liu Fuxiu's mother about this ugly matter, and the parents told their son about it.
Liu Fuxiu was very angry when he heard this, thinking that he was busy earning money every day outside, but a woman and a Taoist family stole people outside, so I was a faceless husband who went out to mix, so he scolded and insulted his wife.
Jia Shi was beaten and scolded by her husband, and her in-laws did not persuade her, but just watched coldly from the side, and she ran back to her mother's house crying. Jia Shi cried to his parents: In the beginning, in order to covet the rich dowry of the Liu family, you married me to that ugly monster, and when he married my beautiful daughter-in-law, he not only did not pity me, but also beat me up. He even beat me with a broom, and my in-laws only watched the jokes from the side, I was just their daughter-in-law, and they certainly wouldn't pity me.
Her parents advised her: You are already married to him, you should bow your head, it is not easy for your husband to be outside, it is not easy to see you dress up every day, and you are hanging out every day, how can the in-laws like you? Go back and live a good life. Jia Shi was helpless, so he had to cry and return to his in-laws' house.
This morning, Jia Shi barely got up to cook, and when he opened the door and came out to fetch water, he happened to meet her good friend Xu Lu. Xu Lu asked with concern: Why did you get up so early? Jia Shi couldn't help but cry out about his resentment, and Xu Lu said: It is not convenient to talk here, you may as well come to my house to sit down and dissipate your anger.
Jia Shi and Xu Lu came to his house, Xu Lu hurriedly brought her snacks for her to eat, and when he heard the reason why Jia Shi was beaten, he said angrily: You are so beautiful, can't you live without your husband? I really can't go on, so let's remarry me, saying that I will send Jia's two silver hairpins.
Unconsciously, the sky was already dawn, when Jia Shi got up and wanted to go back, he found that the neighbors were out to work, and he couldn't go out at this time, Xu Lu simply let Jia Shi secretly live down, and wait for tomorrow to find an opportunity to go home again.
Besides, after Liu Fuxiu got up, he found that his wife was gone, and his parents also hurried to look around, but the neighbors on the left and right said that they did not see it. Liu Fuxiu secretly wondered to herself: Is it that she can't stand my daily scolding and go back to her mother's house to complain about her grievances? So he went to his father-in-law's house to ask for someone.
Father-in-law Jia Li heard that his daughter was gone, and the son-in-law came to ask him for someone, so he angrily rebuked the son-in-law and said: A few days ago, my daughter came home crying that you often beat her, she was very sad, and even wanted to hang herself, I and her mother tried our best to excuse you, let her go back and have a good time with you, and now you came to ask me for someone. You must have beaten her to death and buried her secretly, and now I will go to the government to sue you and seek redress for my poor daughter.
Jia Li came to Yamen and submitted a complaint, which read: My daughter Jia Chunlian is gentle and virtuous, married to Liu Fuxiu as a wife, Liu Fuxiu was violent, beat my daughter every day, beat my poor daughter to death and hid the body in fear of sin, and then deliberately went to my house to ask for people, this person is really hateful, please ask the county to order the adults to investigate the truth, severely punish the evil person Liu Fuxiu, and seek redress for my daughter who died unjustly.
After Zhang Xianling read the complaint, he asked the public servant to arrest Liu Fuxiu and take him to Yamen. Liu Fuxiu defended: I did beat my wife these days, but I did not beat her to death, the reason why I taught her was that she did not observe the way of women, and even had an adulterous affair with her neighbor Xu Lu, if others did not disclose this news to my mother, I would still be deceived. I didn't expect that early this morning, she actually disappeared, at first I thought she was back at her mother's house, but now I suspect that she is hiding in the house of her adulterer Xu Lu.
Speaking of Xu Lu, he heard that both Jia's father and Liu Fuxiu had filed a complaint at Yamen, and he hurried home and said to Jia: Your father and husband are all filing a complaint at Yamen, and your husband knows our private feelings, he will definitely say it in court, as soon as the official comes to search, we will both be finished, it is better that we take the opportunity to elope, and it is too late to go.
Jia Shi was also very scared when he heard this, so the two hurriedly packed their bags and checked that there was no one around, and Xu Lu put on his own carriage and escaped from the village.
They came to Yunnan day and night to feel safe, because Xu Lu had a cousin doing business here, but there was no contact for a long time, and Xu Lu did not find a cousin for several days. But at this time, their silver two were also spent, they had no relatives, they lacked food and use, and Xu Lu regretted it.
Jia Shi comforted him and said: Don't worry about this, we rent this place, there are many rich men around, I look like a heavenly immortal, it is better for me to be a secret prostitute, and when we live well, I will not do it. Xu Lu had no choice but to agree, and then Jia Shi called jia e to the outside world. Soon, they did not have any worries about food and clothing, and they slowly relaxed.
Moreover, before Zhang Xianling had time to search Xu Lu's home, someone else came to report that a female body had been found in a well in the east of the village, and Zhang Xianling temporarily stopped interrogating Liu Fuxiu, and then hurriedly took a public mission to examine the deceased.
Jia Li and his son-in-law also hurried to check it out, and when they came to see it was a young woman, although she was completely unrecognizable, Jia Li saw that the woman was dressed and thought that the deceased was his daughter. So he crouched next to the corpse and cried loudly: This is my poor daughter, who was killed by her husband Liu Fuxiu and then left in this well.
Zhang Xianling immediately asked the public servant to escort Liu Fuxiu to Yamen for strict interrogation, and Zhang Xianling severely reprimanded him: Bold Liu Fuxiu, you actually killed your wife and threw people into the well, which is really abominable, hurry up and recruit from the truth, so as not to suffer from the flesh and skin.
Liu Fuxiu defended: I also saw the female corpse salvaged from the well just now, although she and my wife are dressed very similarly, but my wife is usually very particular, she almost does not have a cloth skirt, and the female corpse in the well is obviously dressed in coarse cloth. My wife was tall and slender, and the deceased was relatively short and fat, and Wangxian ordered the adults to let her examine in detail.
When Jia Li heard this, he retorted: He is doing everything in his power to ask the adults to check whether there are any wounds on the body of the deceased, and my daughter was beaten and scolded many times before she died. Zhang Xianling immediately asked the servant to examine the deceased, and sure enough, the deceased was beaten and bruised and scarred.
Therefore, Zhang Xianling tortured him to extract a confession, and Liu Fuxiu could not stand it, so he was beaten into a confession, and then temporarily detained on death row and retrialed at a later date. Just as Inspector Bao Gong came to this county, Zhang Xianling reported Liu Fuxiu's case to him.
After Bao Gong interrogated Liu Fuxiu, he knew that Liu Fuxiu had been wronged, and went to find Xu Lu, who was good to Jia, according to liu Fuxiu's situation, and Xu Lu had long since disappeared. When he inquired and learned that Xu Lu had a cousin in Yunnan, he suspected that Xu Lu had taken Jia to Yunnan to join his cousin.
Therefore, Bao Gong asked the painter to paint the portraits of Jia Shi and Xu Lu, and asked su Kang, the tolerance, to go to Yunnan to inquire.
Then I inquired that a Guangdong businessman had written a post looking for someone, saying that his wife was also missing in the local area, and the woman who said on the post was basically the same as the clothes and figure of the deceased, so there was a public messenger to summon Pan Lianghua, but Pan Lianghua had already returned to his hometown.
Moreover, the tolerance Su Kang came to Yunnan day and night, looking for several days without any clues, this day he went to a small tea house in the south of the city to drink tea and rest, suddenly heard the two princes in the seat talking about a secret prostitute named Jia E, and said that this woman had just come from Guangdong, she looked like a heavenly immortal. Therefore, Su Kang pretended to be very interested and inquired about the woman's residence.
Su Kang found a secret prostitute named Jia E according to the address, the woman and the portrait are very similar, so he said to Jia E: I am also admiring, you do look like RuoXishi, but I don't listen to your accent like a local.
Jia Shi said with some regret: I was originally a good family woman, because I was abused by my husband, I couldn't stand his torture on me, so I fled my hometown with my fellow villagers. Su Kang then thought that this woman was Jia Chunlian. So he said quietly: I suddenly remembered an urgent matter, I will come back tomorrow. Then he took the official document and went to the local yamen.
Su Kang handed the official documents to the county order to explain the situation, and the county order sent two more messengers to assist him in capturing Jia Shi and Xu Lu. After that, he happened to see Xu Lu and Jia Shi eating, so he immediately arrested the two and arrested them.
Jia Shi and Xu Lu were escorted back to their hometown, and the next day after they ascended to the church, they were interrogated, and at first both of them bowed their heads and did not speak, and Bao Gong reprimanded them both and said: Do you see who is standing on the left and right sides? When the two looked, it turned out to be Jia's father and son-in-law Liu Fuxiu. Jia Shi explained the reasons and experiences of her running away from home, and Xu Lu did not argue.
Bao Gong's final verdict: Jia Shi fought thirty big boards, let his father take home to discipline, if Liu Fuxiu can forgive her, he can also follow her husband home to be a new person.
Xu Lu was sentenced to one month in chains for seducing a married woman, and Jia Li was sentenced not only to fail to educate his daughter well, but also to falsely accuse his son-in-law and hit ten major boards, and Liu Fuxiu was acquitted.
In addition, the female corpse in the well has sent a mission to Zhejiang to find Pan Lianghua and ask him to come and identify whether the deceased is his wife.