During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a rich family in the village of Shili in the south of the city under the jurisdiction of Luzhou Prefecture in Anhui Province, and the head of the family, Wang Tianfang, was not confused at an old age, and his wife died childlessly, and he adopted Wang Nan, the son of his brother Tongzong, to retire. Subsequently married the young widow Sun Shi of Kitamura, beautiful and handsome, but the behavior was promiscuous. Wang Nan did not succeed in his studies, and when he was a teenager, he helped his uncle take care of the business, and later through the words of the media concubine, he married the daughter of An Shi, the daughter of Mr. An Da, a private school in the city, with white skin and thin waist, quite a bit of posture. Compared with the half-old Xu Niang Sun Clan who was greased and powdered, there was a little more jade nature, and it was even more chuchu and moving.
Wang Tianfang has a bold personality and serves righteousness and money for others. In the early years, he did business in Tongcheng and had old friends with Tongcheng Han carpenters. After the death of Mr. and Mrs. Han Carpenter, his son Han Jinsuo felt that the family road was difficult. So he came to Wang Tianfang, borrowed the name of the king, and found some carpentry work nearby, the golden lock mouth was sweet, extremely flattering, Wang Tianfang was coaxed by his sweet words and secret words to be even happier, treated very thickly, accepted as a righteous son, in and out, treated like a close relative.
The Uncle and Nephew of the Wang family are busy with business and are rarely at home during the day. The debauched Sun Clan saw that Yoshiko Jinsuo had a large and strong physique and often used verbal teasing. The golden lock of the widow's grace and thin righteousness was originally admired by the wealth of the royal family, and it was favored by the righteous mother, and the two rolled into a bed. Unexpectedly, one afternoon, the two were in love, but they were bumped by An Shi, and they threw the door and left in shame. Jin Suo panicked, and Wang Shiyan said that since she knew it, he simply pulled her along to block her mouth.
It was night, the Uncle and Nephew of the Wang Family did not return, ann's solitary room, the golden lock picked the door latch and entered, anshi shouted in shock, Sun came forward to help, covered his mouth. Ahn could not get out of it and was defiled by it. Unable to bear the pain, Sun Shi confused him with his words, instigated him to hook up and commit adultery, and promised to keep his mouth shut, and outsiders would not know. An Shi knew the book, How could he listen to his mother-in-law's heresy, and he had no face to tell his husband about it, so he went into the hanging room.
Sun Shi was horrified, so he had to pretend to curse himself sadly, saying that he had scolded his niece and daughter-in-law for trivial matters, and he did not want her to open it, and closed the door to find a short-sightedness. Wang Nan was filial and obedient, and lamented that An Shi's heart was narrow and his life was thin. Although the An family was indignant, undocumented and unsubstantiated, there was nothing to say.
As the saying goes, if you want people to not know, unless you do nothing. The death of his niece and daughter-in-law made Wang Tianfang suspicious of Sun Shi, but he still did not doubt Jinsuo, only suspected that he had an affair with outsiders, and returned several times suddenly, trying to catch the adulteress in bed, but the two cleverly avoided him. Jin Suo and Sun Shi discussed that in order to avoid future troubles, they wanted to let Wang Tian go. At first, the Sun clan was only greedy and had no intention of killing people. However, it was really difficult for him to give up this evil relationship in his heart, so he advised Jin Suo with his words that his business should be more secret, and if the matter was exposed, he would not only be ruined and discredited, but also his life would be difficult to protect.
In August, the father and son of the Wang family went out to collect bills, and the two were originally traveling together. On the way, in order to return home as soon as possible, the father and son acted separately, Wang Tian let go to the nearest Willow Bay, and the son Wang Nan went to the distant Haojia Town. However, he said that Wang Tianfang's collection of accounts was very smooth, and the next afternoon he had turned around and walked to the halfway point, just in time to meet the golden lock that returned from work outside.
Jin Suo went forward and prepared for the ceremony, took the righteous father's head, and went to a deserted valley, suddenly changed his face, took out a sharp axe from behind his waist, and put only one axe on the top of Wang Tian's head, and the king was killed immediately. But mortals who do evil things will be weak in their hearts, the grass and trees are soldiers, listening to the sound of the wind as if someone is coming, he hurriedly pushed Wang Tian's body into the pond next to the road, fearing that the corpse would float, and then took the boulder on the shore to suppress the corpse and hurried away.
Returning home and telling Sun Shiyan that the matter had been completed, Sun Shi was frightened and asked Jin Suo, "If Wang Nan comes back to look for his father, how will he answer?" Jin Suo chuckled and said, "I thought about it for you long ago, if he comes back, you first ask him, why are you the only one who comes back when the two of you go out together?" If he didn't know, he sent him to the government and accused him of killing his uncle, and if he was sentenced to death, wouldn't he have killed two birds with one stone? Sun Shi listened to the great joy.
After a few days of stopping, Wang Nan turned around, and Sun Shi went according to the plan, asking about the whereabouts of his uncle, Wang Nan was stunned: "I took a detour back to Willow Bay to go back with my uncle, and some acquaintances told me that my uncle had turned around three days ago!" Sun Shi said angrily, "You must have murdered your uncle." He shouted out to Jin Suo and his neighbors, and without their distinction, twisted and sent them to the county court, pretending to shout out their grievances.
The county magistrate He Zhi County was born in the right way of kejia, an official qingzheng, and a straight nature. After the ascension, Ling summoned all the cadres to the lobby. Wang Nan told the truth, saying that he was raised by his uncle since he was a child, and his uncle treated himself more than his parents and children, and it was too late for him to repay his kindness, so how could he bear to do harm? He Zhixian listened to Wang Nan's earnest words, and the details and knots all mentioned that it did not seem to be false, so he summoned all his neighbors to inquire, and all the neighbors said that this son had no evil deeds, and that his uncle was like a father, and he should not do such a thing that harmed nature and reason. He also interrogated the Sun clan, but the Sun clan insisted that Wang Nan was disobedient and filial, and often quarreled with his uncle, and it must be that he had a grudge in his heart and did what this beast was inferior.
He Zhixian looked at the Sun clan, and between the eyebrows, there was an implied sense of spring. Knowing that she must not be a woman of peace, there must be something strange in it. Therefore, it was decided to put the plan in place, and Wang Nancang was punished for twenty years, and strictly ordered that the body be recovered and buried within three days, and sent to death row, saying that he would wait for the approval of the Ministry of Punishment to execute him, release Sun Shi back home, and announce the closure of the case. Sun Shi was thankful and went away. He Zhixian summoned two henchmen and ordered them to monitor the Sun clan day and night.
But he said that this Sun clan, seeing that Zhi County had sentenced Wang Nan to be beheaded, was overjoyed, and it was the night and Jin Suo who were drinking wine to congratulate each other, and when their faces were hot, Jin Suo smiled triumphantly and asked: "How do I plan?" It's just a pity that Ahn's flower-like beauty can't enjoy the joy with us. Sun Shi was furious and scolded, "You have no conscience, do you think I'm old?" What about Ahn's youth? It's just a pity that people don't go along with you, and they are blind to such a good daughter-in-law and are defiled by you.
Jin Suo hurriedly said kind words of comfort. Sun Shi turned his anger into joy and said, "ZhiXian ordered the corpse to be buried within three days, can you hide the body well?" Jin Suo said, "I'm doing things, aren't you still at ease?" The body was pushed into the pond by me and pressed with a boulder, and it would not be long before it would decay. The two of them were just overwhelmed, completely unaware that the trapper had heard clearly outside the window. Immediately broke through the door, took the two locks back to the court, and put them in prison for trial.
Early the next morning, the arresting officer gave the two men their words to He Zhi County, who released Wang Nan from prison and asked him if there was a pond in Willow Bay. Wang Nan thought about it for a long time before he said that there was indeed a pond next to the valley road. Zhixian immediately ordered him to lead the way, and he led more than a dozen servants to follow closely.
Guo fished out Wang Tian's body from under the stone in the pond, and When Wang Nan saw it, Tao cried loudly and fainted several times. Back in the county court, He Zhixian let the adulterer and adulteress who had done all the bad things into the church, without asking for reasons, first let the two people turn the two people to the ground and scolded the forty big boards, at this time, the two people, faced with wolf-like servants, and spooky torture devices, began to blame each other for the crime, Sun Said that killing her husband was Han Jinsuo alone, and he knew afterwards that falsely accusing Wang Nan was also his idea, with the intention of seeking the wang family's property.
Han Jinsuo confessed that Sun's wife seduced her first, instigated him to earn the An clan, killed her righteous father Wang Tianfang, and participated in the plot, and so on. The two were like two mad dogs biting each other, "biting" the case to the public.
Wang Nan, who was listening to the trial, was already crying blood, and he roared angrily and pounced on the two desperately. He Zhixian had people stop the bitter lord, and when the hall raised a pen to sentence: Han Jin Suoen will take revenge, have an affair with his righteous mother, go against human morality, harm heaven and reason, seek wealth and kill people, commit adultery, commit unforgivable crimes, and be punished with lingchi. Shameless Sun Shi, who was undefeated and corrupt, disregarded his shame, killed his husband and wife, only for his own selfishness, committed a heinous crime, and was also sentenced to Death. Wang Nan was acquitted. After the ministry of punishment responds, it is immediately clear that the punishment is being corrected to comfort the dead spirits. The case is thus closed.
The world's hearts are sinister! It's speechless. The fundamental difference between humans and animals is that man is a high-energy creature with a mind, who knows honesty and etiquette, and who has a bottom line to adhere to whether good or evil. It seems that the two evil people in this case are insatiable in their greed, and there is no lower line for evil, and it is difficult to atone for their sins if they are punished with capital punishment.
References :The Ming and Qing Dynasty Cases