Ancient and modern cases, there are strange talk in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and if you want to know what happened, you need to listen to the words of the big lion!
It is said that in the ninth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1804 AD, one morning in April, Zhang Linde, a villager in Zhangjiazhuang in Putai County, Shandong Province, rushed to the county court to report the case, saying that two lives had been taken in his family, and asked the county grand master to check it out quickly.
Dou Yaomin of Putai ZhiXian hurriedly led people to the scene to take a look, and the picture was also a little miserable, only to see that there were two corpses of a man and a woman in the east house of Zhang Linde's family. The female corpse was separated, and a bloody human head was placed on the table, with a vicious and terrifying face. The male corpse was lying on his back on the ground, with a sharp knife inserted in his belly bag, leaving only the handle of the knife outside, the body of the knife was all pierced into the abdomen, the blood flowed all over the ground, and the bloody qi hit the door, making people sick.
After Dou Xianling personally saw the scene, he took Zhang Linde back to the county court for interrogation, and Zhang Linde had to tell the ins and outs of the matter with trepidation in the face of the majesty of the grandfather and the tiger and wolf.-like yacha.
It turned out that Zhang Linde and Zhuangzi Jingzhuan of the same village were engaged in human trafficking, and there was an old man named Zheng Keneng in the neighboring village, who had no wife and no children, and was lonely and lonely, so he lived with his nephew Zheng Tianming, who had no father and no mother, and the grandfather and son also took care of each other.
Zheng Tianming was in his twenties, and he had not yet been able to get a wife, and his uncle Zheng Ke could have the heart to complete his nephew, so he took out all his life savings and chose a family affair for his nephew.
After Zhang Linde knew about this matter, he found Zheng Keneng upside down, and after taking Zheng Keneng's deposit of 10,000 yuan, he patted his chest and laid down the package ticket, and he must be able to find a good girl for Zheng Tianming.
Half a month later, Zhang Linde and Zhuang Zijing bought a young woman from abroad for 10,000 yuan, and then resold it to Zheng Keneng for 30,000 yuan.
Zheng Keneng arrived at Zhang Linde's home, after seeing the woman, as if buying livestock, carefully looked at it again, feeling that the appearance was still passable, the figure was also smooth, that is, the price was too high, so he interceded with Zhang Linde to lower the price slightly.
Zhang Linde did not agree, so Zheng Keneng gambled and said no, and asked Zhang Linde to return the deposit. Zhang Linde was furious, disregarding Zheng Keneng's old age, and grabbed Zheng Keneng's goat beard, threatening that this woman was specially bought for the old Zheng family, if he did not want it, he would go to the official palace to explain the reason, and see who the official palace was facing!
Zheng Ke could know that Zhang Linde was not easy to provoke, and he could only swallow his anger and agree. However, he did not have money with him, and asked Zhang Linde if he could allow him to take the woman home first and then send the money over.
Zhang Linde said that it was no problem, helped Zheng Ke to help the woman on the back of the donkey, and deliberately sent her out of the village. Zheng Ke can lead the donkey to walk on the road, the more you think about it, the more you feel the nest fire, suddenly a gust of wind blows through, at once the turban on the woman's head is blown away, Zheng Ke can look again, it is simply unlucky, she is actually a hairless leper bald man on her head.
Zheng Ke was able to get angry and turn the donkey's head back to Zhang Linde's house, insisting on returning the money. Zhang Linde did not agree to retreat, the two argued very badly, at this time it was late, Zheng Ke could threaten to disagree with the withdrawal of people and he would not leave the Zhang family. Zhang Linde let him feel free, then went out to drink, and after getting drunk, simply slept outside.
The next morning, after Zhang Linde returned home, he saw that the door of the East House was hidden, and a bloody breath came from the crack in the door, and he had a premonition that things were not good, and hurriedly pushed the door open. The result was not to look at it, but after watching it, he was frightened and unincorporated, and Zheng Keneng and the bald woman both died in the house, which was unbearable to see, so he quickly ran to the county court to report to the official.
Dou Xianling listened to Zhang Linde's story, and then sent some people to find some zhuang households to inquire about it, and the testimony of the crowd was consistent with the on-site autopsy, so Dou Xianling submitted a closing report to the Wuding Government, believing that the male deceased Zheng Ke could find himself deceived and asked to retire, and after Zhang Linde refused, he became angry and angry, and after Zhang Linde left, Zheng Ke, who had lost his mind, killed the bald woman and cut off his head and placed it on the table to vent his anger. Afterwards, Zheng Keneng's sanity gradually recovered, and he knew that the legal net would be difficult to escape, so he committed suicide and died. Although Zhang Linde is not a murderer, he has the responsibility of coercion and should be sentenced to three years in prison.
The prefect of Wuding Province reviewed the case, and the confession and evidence did not differ from the original trial, so Zhang Linde was sentenced to exile and sent to Guanwai to serve as a hard laborer for two years.
After receiving the official document of the conclusion of the case from Wuding Province, the envoy of Shandong Believed that there were many unreasonable points in the case, so he handed the official document to Zhang Pengsheng, the prefect of Jinan, and asked Zhang Pengsheng to quickly retry the case.
After Zhang Pengsheng read the case file, he personally came to Putai and visited several of Zhang Linde's close neighbors, and a neighbor said: "That night, shortly after I fell asleep, Zhang Linde's eight-year-old Xiao Shunzi came to pat the door, I asked Xiao Shunzi what happened, Xiao Shunzi said that his father was going to kill people. Because Zhang Linde's family usually has a lot of miscellaneous people, often punching and drinking until dawn, and Zhang Linde's wine is not good, often after drinking, he makes a big fuss, and he wants to kill this and kill that, I thought Zhang Linde was playing drunk again, so he sent Xiao Shunzi out. The next morning, I heard that there had been a murder in his house. ”
Zhang Pengsheng immediately asked Zhang Linde's son to come and inquire alone, the child was young and ignorant, and could not withstand a few good words, so he said what happened that night.
After Zhang Pengsheng heard this, he immediately sent someone to arrest Zhang Linde. Above the court, Zhang Linde insisted that he was innocent and that his confession was exactly the same as what he had said earlier. Zhang Pengsheng ordered him to be punished, and then asked Xiao Shunzi to be taken to the court, so that the father and son would be confronted face to face.
Zhang Pengsheng knew that cunning was useless, and he did not want to be beaten again, so he had to tell the truth.
It turned out that that night, Zheng Keneng was in the Zhang family and did not leave, and Zhang Linde had to refund the deposit. Zhang Linde not only did not agree, but also locked Zheng Keneng in the East House and forced the bald woman to spend the night with Zheng Keneng. In this way, Zheng Ke can not retreat if he wants to retreat, and he can also use the excuse that the two have adulterous feelings to take the opportunity to blackmail Zheng Ke Neng again.
Who knew that Zheng Ke could refuse to obey the bald woman, and Zhang Linde entered the house with a sharp knife and threatened to make love in front of him. Regardless of his advanced age, Zheng Keneng swung his body to fight with Zhang Linde, and Zhang Linde became angry and stabbed into Zheng Keneng's stomach. Zheng Ke was able to fall on his back and died on the spot.
Zhang Linde saw that there was a human life, suddenly panicked, and when he did not know how to end the scene, he heard the sobbing of the bald woman, so he turned his heart sideways, strangled the bald woman alive, and then picked up a kitchen knife and cut off the head and placed it on the table. After thinking about it for a moment, he threw away the blood knife, changed out of his blood clothes, and pretended to be innocent and ran to the county court to report the crime.
However, he did not expect that the scene of his murder was witnessed by his own son. The child's words are unscrupulous, the truth is revealed, the case is broken, Zhang Linde should be beheaded according to the law, and cannot be tolerated.
In fact, there is nothing unusual about this case, but it is just a case in which the evil people kill people and deny it, but in such a simple case, the Trial of The Yamen of Putai County and the Yamen of Wuding Province is unclear, which shows the faintness of the Officials of the Qing Dynasty, which really makes people speechless. If it were not for Zhang Pengsheng, the prefect of Jinan, the case would have become a confused case, and the murderer Zhang Linde would have been able to get away with it after serving hard labor. To say that the biggest hero of this case is not Zhang Linde's son, if it were not for the child to reveal the truth, Zhang Pengsheng may not be able to crack this case, as for this kind of behavior belongs to the "pit father", or the great righteousness to kill relatives, it can only be the benevolent people see the benevolent, the wise people see the wisdom.