There is a famous saying in the Classic of the Law, "Han Feizi": "Confucianism violates the law with literature, and chivalry violates prohibitions with force." ”
Ancient Yun: "It is better to offend a gentleman than a villain!" ”
The history books have proved a truth with countless historical facts: it is better to offend a humble gentleman than to offend relatives and villains.
Because the humble gentleman can retain some bottom lines even if he can't bear it, he will not make moves beyond the bottom line, but the villain will repay with a blind eye, and if he has been slightly accused or wronged, he will try all kinds of ways to retaliate.
If this villain is still a literati who has read books, then the means of revenge are even more invincible.
Today is about a terrible incident of the revenge of a literati, there was once a Qing Dynasty man, and the wife of this man had some improper relationship with one of his servants.
After knowing this matter, this person has been hiding it, and then in order to carry out retaliation, this person carefully planned and carefully acted, and directly wiped out the servant silently, which made people feel very shocked.
So what kind of means did he use to retaliate?
This man was a meritorious man who had gained fame in the late Qing Dynasty and belonged to the typical Jiangnan scholar.
Like other Jiangnan shizi, this person not only has a strong reading ability, but also a business acumen is not bad, although the national strength in the late Qing Dynasty has declined day by day, and the signs of chaos have emerged, but this person still makes a lot of money with a strong network background and a clever mind.
In feudal society, it is evident that a person is rich and powerful, in addition to his meritorious name, that is, there are more and fewer servants in the family.
When there are many servants, they naturally appear to be rich and powerful.
This man was no exception, and since the family already had money, he naturally raised a large group of servants.
Among these servants, there was a young servant named Sizi, who, on weekdays, because he was busy socializing, busy going out to do business, and also had to collect rent everywhere, the time for going out was very long, and the time at home was very small.
And this young servant took advantage of his free time to come together with this wife, the lonely Qin family at home.
At this time, although Qin's age is already 40 years old, but the long-term rich life makes her look only in her 30s, is a ripe, sweet peach, although it is not attractive to her husband, it has a fatal attraction to the fourth son, a strong young man.
And as the saying goes, "A forty-year-old woman is a tiger!" ”
At this time, the woman's explosive combat effectiveness was also the strongest.
And only eighteen or nineteen years old, the fourth son of the flesh and blood, the body is strong, "the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger", see the tiger also dare to go up and pry.
The young servant had been serving the master's mother for a long time, and he did not know how to score inches, and naturally did something to betray the master of the family.
Unfortunately, at the gate of the mansion, there were many people with mixed mouths, and the eyes of the masses were shining, and soon these things that had happened between the master mother and the young servant were reported by the faithful servants to the people who were toiling in the field.
Many men will be angry when they know this kind of thing, and they will rush to the point of reason, and some impulsive men will even make irreparable mistakes in anger, such as directly killing servants.
Although in ancient times it was a feudal society, and the gentry and landlord class had greater power, the punishment for arbitrarily killing servants was also relatively serious, and it was necessary to spend a lot of money to dredge the relationship between the upper and lower levels, and the gain was not worth the loss.
Most importantly, the gentry family pays the most attention to face, and after this kind of thing is made public, the gentry family can say that there is no face left.
This deep man of the city government was not an ordinary person, he pretended to be like no one else, not only did he not accuse and angrily scold his wife, but he did not deliberately embarrass the young servant's fourth son and embarrass him at every turn.
Because he had already thought of a plan that could both preserve his dignity and breathe a sigh of relief.
For a long time, this person did not move, and still often went out to do business and socialize.
The four sons of the young servant and the master mother were still at home, and the two were even more courageous.
One day, the man called the fourth son, a young servant, to him and told him to go with him to collect the rent.
This reason for raising people is very reasonable, the gentry landlord took out the style of the old man, and a group of young and strong servants followed behind, which peasant dared not pay the rent?
Besides, in the late Qing Dynasty, the soldiers were in chaos, and when they encountered any unexpected situations, there were many people on their side, and the general robbers and thieves really did not dare to attack.
So the man went to the countryside with his four sons and a large number of other servants.
Because the fourth son of the young servant has always been deeply valued by his wife, many affairs in the family are handled by him alone.
Especially in the case of running errands, in order to prevent the matter between herself and the fourth son from leaking, all important errands are completed by the four sons.
The little fourth son thinks that it is a perfectly normal thing to follow the owner of the family to the countryside to collect land rent, plus his affair with the master mother has not been discovered by the owner for a long time, and his vigilance is reduced, so he does not find that there is danger at all, and he will not think that he will lose his life.
Many people may think that it must be that someone killed his servant on the road or arranged other means to take the servant's life.
In fact, this is not the case, if it is only like this, it cannot be said that the city government is deep.
When the people brought a large number of servants to the countryside, the speed of the road was very fast, and the young servants did not feel that there was anything wrong.
A river crossed in front of them, so they hired a few small boats and walked for more than a dozen miles.
Finally, when they were almost in the countryside, they suddenly said that because they had come in too much hurry, they had forgotten the ledger for collecting the land rent, and without the ledger they could not collect the ground rent, and if they could not collect the ground rent, they ran away in vain.
So he hurriedly asked the four sons of the young servant to go home and get the ledger.
The fourth son didn't think much of it, and rushed all the way home quickly, and found the master mother, Qin Shi, and got the ledger.
When two people look at it, it is a good opportunity to get along alone.
After a few hours, the four sons of the young servant rushed all the way with the ledger and returned to the people.
Suddenly, a large string of copper coins scattered on the person's body fell into the river, there may be thousands of dollars, and the distressed person jumped straight to his feet.
Several young and strong servants jumped into the river to look for them, and the four sons were no exception, and several servants finally recovered most of the copper coins after a few hours after a trip of swimming and searching.
At this time, the cold winter was about to pass, the early spring had not yet arrived, the climate was still very cold, the young servant went back and forth, hurried slowly, rushed for dozens of miles, and then experienced several hours with Qin, his body was already very tired and weak.
Then he soaked in the cold river water for several hours, so that he was hot and cold, and he was very tired, and his body was bound to be seriously ill.
Sure enough, the next day, the young servant's fourth son, Typhoid Fever, fell ill and died within a few days.
After handling this matter perfectly, this person deliberately designed to drive his wife Qin Shi crazy.
Since then, the two men have paid a huge price for their mistakes.
Although some people suspect that their death has a lot to do with lifting people, because they did not take matters into their own hands and did not make outrageous moves, they did not bear any punishment.
From this incident, we can also find that although the behavior of the Qin clan and the four sons of the young servant is indeed disgraceful, what they do is also extremely vicious, and they are really deep and thoughtful literati in the city government, but there is no way, after all, he did not take the initiative to harm people, but only to deal with those who hurt himself.