Today I would like to tell you a case that occurred during the Republic of China, which warns us to be kind, that men must never interfere in other people's families, and that women must never go out of the wall with red apricots.
There is an old saying called the wife and husband to be relieved, which shows the importance of marrying a good daughter-in-law. What happens if a daughter-in-law doesn't keep the way of women? This case tells us the outcome.
It is said that in the fourth year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1915, there was a wooden furniture factory in Fengtian Guta Town, the factory business was still good, and the boss hired fifty workers. Workers are divided into two shifts: day shifts and night shifts. In order to facilitate the management of workers, the boss asked Li Daoyou to be the foreman to lead the workers to work.
Li Daoyou was a bit grumpy, did not pay attention to methods in management, and as the days went on, he had a conflict with Wang Erhu, who was also grumpy.
With the passage of time, the contradictions between the two have accumulated deeper and deeper.
Once, Li Daoyou reprimanded Wang Erhu a few words, and Wang Erhu stopped doing it, and the two of them tore together in anger.
The workers saw that they had put down their work and hurriedly pulled the two apart.
One after another exhorted: "The brothers have no other festivals, they are all for work, to dissipate their anger, where is the rice spoon that does not touch the edge of the pot?" ”
After the fire, Li Daoyou thought to himself: "This is also the case, it is all for the sake of earning wages, and there is no end to arguing over small things." ”
So he turned to Wang Erhu and said, "I have a bad temper and can't speak, so the contradictions between us are getting deeper and deeper, and we all blame me." ”
Wang Erhu was also a red-faced man, and he couldn't see that he was a little better, so he said, "I can't blame you for this, and my temper is not good." ”
When the workers saw that there was a relaxation between the two sides, one of the shrewd workers said: "Well, let's go to the foreman's house to eat 'stalls' after work today." ”
The so-called stall owners are today's aa system, and the big guys pool their money to eat and drink together. Li Daoyou and Wang Erhu knew that this was the big guy trying to make up for the rift between the two as soon as possible.
There is a saying that the more a man drinks, the more he drinks, the more he drinks, and all the troubles at the end of the wine glass are forgotten.
To make a long story short, Wang Erhu drank a little high at the foreman's house, but his mind was very clear, and he returned home with a leisurely step.
After knocking on the door for half a day, his wife Yang Shi hurriedly opened. Wang Erhu scolded unhappily: "Lady Thief, where did you die?" Pour me some hot water, I'm thirsty."
Wang Erhu scolded and grinned into the inner room, "pounced" and fell asleep on the bed.
Yang Shi, who brought hot water, looked at it, and her husband snored. He knew that his husband was drinking at the foreman's house. Looking at her husband who slept like a dead pig, he only hated Yang's gritted teeth.
It turned out that Yang Shi was a troubled woman, who was famous as a girl and hooked up with many men.
Wang Erhu still did not keep the woman's way after marrying her, and had a long-term adulterous relationship with Song Xiaowen, a butcher in the east of the village. The adulterer and adulteress have long wanted to get rid of the two tigers as a long-term couple.
Yang Shi suddenly came up with a criminal plan: her husband came back from drinking at the foreman's house, and everyone knew that there was a contradiction between the foreman and the erhu, so why didn't I take this opportunity to get rid of my husband, just say that the foreman poisoned the erhu.
If not to mention that women have an external heart and viciousness. This is true of Wu Dalang's daughter-in-law Pan Jinlian, Song Jiang's outer chamber Yan Poxi, and Wang Erhu's daughter-in-law...
There are poems as evidence: green bamboo snake letter, wasp tail needle, both are not poisonous, the most poisonous woman's heart.
Without further ado, taking advantage of her husband's deep sleep, the Yang clan secretly found her husband Song Xiaowen, and the two of them killed Wang Erhu together.
Where is the body hidden? Yang lifted the futon to reveal his own earthen kang, and under the earthen kang was a cavity, which was the hearth of the northeasterners to heat and burn firewood.
Xiaowen divided Erhu's body into 4 pieces and threw it into the hearth, cleaned up the scene, the sky was about to dawn, Yang and his concubines reconciled for a while, and Song Xiaowen sneaked away in the pre-dawn darkness.
The sky was bright, and the sound of Yang's howling and crying could be heard from the Erhu family. The neighbor asked and learned that the second tiger had not returned overnight, and Yang said that her husband had gone to the foreman Li Daoyou's house for a drink and did not return overnight, she felt that it was not a good omen, and said that the husband and the foreman usually had a deep contradiction, and it must have been the foreman who killed her husband.
With the help of the villagers, Yang Went to the county court to accuse Li Daoyou of killing his husband.
Shortly after the county commander Lord Wang took office, for the sake of political achievements, he listened to Yang's one-sided words, regardless of the severe torture of Li Daoyou to extract a confession.
Li Daoyou was beaten into a confession, admitting that his co-workers were not paying attention, and poisoned Wang Erhu in wine.
At this time, Li Daoyou had already been beaten up and began to talk nonsense, and when Lord Wang asked, he confessed according to the meaning.
Lord Wang asked where you hid the body? Did you throw the body into the river? Li Daoyou hurriedly said: Yes, my lord, I did throw Wang Erhu's body into the north river of the village. "Li Daoyou is afraid of being beaten and confessing indiscriminately.
Only by finding the body of Erhu can the case be closed.
Lord Wang ordered Liu Yifei, the head of the service class, to take two servants to find Wang Erhu's body for a period of three days, and 15 large plates were overdue. Ban Tou grinned and thought: Lord Wang really can fight enough for his political achievements.
Liu Yifei did not dare to be idle, and with two of his men began to search for Wang Erhu's body. Think about it, Wang Erhu's body was hidden in his family's kang cave, how could it be found in the river?
Three days passed quickly, and without my further ado, Liu Yifei and the two subordinates were each hit by 15 large boards on their butts.
It is not the end of the fight, the county order let them continue to look, and within 5 days, they can't find each person to receive 20 boards.
5 days passed quickly, Wang Erhu's body was still missing, and Liu Yifei and his men were each hit by another 20 large boards on the buttocks.
The three of them really couldn't carry it, and they wouldn't be beaten to death if they wanted to go on like this.
On the eighth day, Liu Yifei and two of his subordinates discussed that instead of being beaten to death by the county order, we should kill a person pretending to be the body of the Second Tiger.
The two men said, "But listen to the head of the class." ”
Coincidentally, a merchant on the bank of the river came riding a donkey to hurry, and the three of them looked around at no one, killed the merchant together, and finally released the donkey.
In order to deceive the customs, the three buried the body of the merchant in a pit on the bank of the river, and when the rot could not recognize the face, they handed the body to the county court.
After that, Wang Xian ordered Yang to identify the body, and Yang had long wanted to close the case, pretending to really recognize the merchant's body as her husband's body and bringing it back for burial.
In order to cover people's eyes and ears, the Yang clan cried and invited the monks to set up a feast and solemnly bury their husbands, all of which were for outsiders to see.
Wang Erhu's body was found, the case was also determined, and the foreman was sentenced to death, only to wait for the above to verify the later autumn and beheaded.
At this time, the foreman's wife, Ma Shi, went around shouting injustice, and drinking that day was his fried dish. The husband had no chance of being poisoned, and all the workers could testify.
The workers also felt that the foreman had been wronged, but there must be evidence to overturn the case.
The workers thought: "The cause of the case is alcohol, we are also responsible, why not drink?" ”
Or the shrewd worker said: "Let's put together 50 yuan and send a notice saying that whoever can provide clues to the case will belong to whom the 50 taels of silver will belong." ”
Not to mention that there must be brave men under the heavy reward.
A week later, a young man found the workers and said, "I know who killed people, so I'll take everyone to find Wang Erhu's body." ”
The crowd inquired and learned what had happened.
It turned out that the young man was a local habitual thief, and he knew everything about whose family was in a ten-mile radius.
He also knew who Yang was, and now that Yang was setting up a banquet at home, he wanted to tease Yang after eating and drinking enough, and as a result, he was scolded by Yang.
At night, the thief sneaked into Yang's bedroom without dying, hid behind the screen and saw everything in front of him: a knock on the door, Yang opened the door, and then stumbled into a drunkard, the drunk man scolded and grinned in his mouth, and slapped Yang with his hand, thinking that Yang's opening was slow.
This drunk man was not a bystander, it was Yang's concubine Song Xiaowen, who fell asleep on the bed.
Yang Shi was dissatisfied in his heart, and whispered in his mouth: Originally, the body that killed my husband was divided into several pieces, and it has been hidden in the Kang Cave for more than a year, and kang can neither burn nor get it out for burial, and I don't know if my husband's body is rotten? Now you're abusing me, you conscienceless. ”
Yang Shi was in tears as she nagged, and what she said was clearly heard by the thief.
Originally, the thief would not care about this matter, because it was not good for him when it came to human life.
When the thief saw the notice posted by the workers, his thoughts changed, and the temptation of 50 taels of silver was too great for him, so he found the workers according to the address on the notice.
Listening to the thief's account, the workers said that we should go and arrest the Yang family and hand it over to the government.
The thief waved his hand and said: I just heard Yang say this, the key is to find the body. Then the thief told the crowd about the plan, and everyone agreed.
On the 2nd day, the thief found Yang's home, full of wine and said some provocative words, only to be angry that Yang chased the thief and beat him. The thief took the opportunity to run to Yang's bedroom, jumped on the earth kang and lifted the futon, revealing the body inside the stove.
At this time, the workers who were ambushed around them stepped forward to hold Yang Shi, and there were already workers there who informed Wang Xianling.
After interrogation, Yang confessed everything, saying that she and Song Xiaowen had killed her husband.
At this time, Lord Wang was dumbfounded, and the body of the second tiger was found, so who was the corpse handed over by the head of the class?
After interrogation, Ban Tou also confessed the truth, saying that the body handed over was not Wang Erhu's body, and that he and his men had killed a merchant riding a donkey in order to fool him.
The case was finally revealed, and the foreman was wronged. In ancient times, there was no compensation for this, and to be honest, it would be good for the foreman to survive.
After trial, Yang And his nephew Song Xiaowen were executed for adultery and murder, and Ya Gong Bantou and his men were executed for committing fake murder, and it is said that the case is closed.
Just as the case came to an end, the family of the donkey merchant escorted a man to the county court to beat the drum to complain.
It turned out that this man had a bloody donkey skin in his hand, and the donkey skin was the skin of the donkey ridden by the merchant, and he was caught by the merchant's family when selling the donkey skin.
The county ordered Lord Wang to involuntarily use torture, and this person could not resist, admitting that he had killed the merchant and occupied the donkey, and finally killed the donkey to sell meat, and the donkey skin was discovered when it was sold.
Wang Xianling asked: Where was the merchant's body left? The man said he had thrown it into the river...
Wang Xianling's head was big when he heard it, and if he looked it up again, he didn't know how many people were involved, and in order to keep the black hat, Wang Xianling poisoned this person at night.
When the person concerned dies, the body of the merchant becomes a mystery. The merchant's family members shouted injustice everywhere to no avail, and the serial case was finally closed.
Text/Reading Spring and Autumn by Candle