The so-called Zhang Xiang of Changsha County in the Ministry of Punishment documents was a well-known upright official with the courtesy name Haoshu and the nickname Mr.
Wangyue.
Not only was he an upright and honest official and he loved the people like a son, he was also clear-eyed and selfless in solving cases.
Even Bao Zheng, the governor of Kaifeng, once treated him.
Praise for the evaluation: "How dare you speak nonsense about civil affairs, how can you be Zhang Haoshu of Changsha".
However, this kind of local murder case has always been directly responsible for the Ministry of Punishment.
Baoqing, the confused county magistrate, wanted to get rid of it, and he didn't know why Kaifeng Prefecture would get in the way.
In fact, Chen Qiaoer's son Wang Ji has always been very depressed about some rumors about his mother.
This time his mother went out in the evening again, so he wanted to follow behind to find out what was going on, but he didn't expect that his mother only He just knocked on Zhang Chao's door and left.
Afterwards, his mother was arrested.
Wang Ji felt that his mother had been wronged, so he took some money from home to bribe the servants.
He even learned that his mother had been put on death row and was waiting for the Ministry of Punishments to approve the execution in the fall.
At this time, Wang Ji Without stopping, he took some travel expenses and went to Kaifeng Mansion in Bianliang, Tokyo alone.
He hired someone to write a complaint and went to Kaifeng Mansion to complain.
At that time, Bao Qingtian of Kaifeng Mansion was a well-known upright official in the country.
Wang Ji firmly believed that the only person in the world who could absolve his mother of his guilt was Mr.
Bao Zheng and Mr.
Bao.
At that time, Bao Zheng was very surprised that this fourteen-year-old boy could come all the way to Kaifeng Mansion to play drums and cry out for injustice.
After asking the whole story, he was even more moved by Wang Ji's filial piety, and reviewed it with Zou Yan, the Minister of Punishment at the time.
He obtained the husband-murder case file in Baoqing Mansion.
At that time, the confused county official in Baoqing was named Liu Tong, nicknamed Liu Qingqing.
Although he was not greedy, he was known as a confused official.
If nothing else, this confused name alone was enough for two senior officials.
Think twice.
This is also an important reason why Bao Zheng suggested to Zou Yan to send the case back for retrial.
The presiding officer of the retrial was Changsha County Magistrate Zhang Xiang, who was deeply trusted by Bao Zheng.
As soon as he took over the case, Zhang Xiang discovered a major mistake in Liu Tong's handling of the case - from beginning to end, no one was sent to search Chen Qiaoer's home, so he took several government officials to search.
This search didn't matter.
In the big box where Chen Qiaoer packed her dowry, Zhang Xiang actually found a small porcelain jar with white powder still left on it.
It was later confirmed that the powder remaining in the jar was highly toxic arsenic, which was basically the same as the poison poisoned by the victim Wang Kun.
According to the store clerk, the key to the dowry box was only owned by Chen Qiaoer.
After Chen Qiaoer was interrogated once, Zhang Xiang sentenced Chen Qiaoer to death for the second time.
Even a well-known honest official could wrongly accuse him, and Chen Qiaoer was also desperate.
According to the provisions of the Song Dynasty, murdering her husband was not an ordinary murder.
It was to be paraded in the streets.
In order to prevent her parents from being shamed, she received an approval from the Ministry of Punishment.
Two days before arriving in Baoqing, Chen Qiaoer wrote a letter in blood on the prison wall and died in prison.
His son Wang Ji's whereabouts were also unknown.
When Chen Qiaoer's body was collected, the cell leader also noticed the wall.
The blood letter on: I am as innocent as snow, but I am unjustly sentenced to death.
What is upright and bright, what is a bright and clear world.
All the officials are there to protect each other, which makes me unscrupulous in the world.
The mirror is unclear, the upright officials are unclear, the sky is chaotic, what's the point of life and what's the point of death.
You and others have caused Qiao'er to die here unjustly, and will suffer tragic consequences in the future.
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I will die in red clothes, and I will turn into a fierce ghost to snow me for my injustice.
If I don't wash away my grievances, I will never have peace in Baoqing from now on.
These two bloody chapters made Lao Lao's head and neck break into sweat.
Looking at the ground, Lin Qiaoer's fingers were all broken, and her whole body was dripping with blood.
She died with a hideous look.
The death row uniform on her body was already red, and it was stained with menstrual blood.
The hardening made people's hair stand on end.
I don't know whether Lin Qiaoer died from hitting the wall or from excessive blood loss.
In fact, even the prison chief knew in his heart that Lin Qiaoer must have been wronged.
If a woman really poisoned her husband, how could she still stay in the store and do business with peace of mind?
This case was related to Bao Qingtian of Kaifeng Mansion.
The high-ranking official Zhang Xiang personally tried the case, and the case has been reported to the Ministry of Punishment.
It is not easy to redress grievances.
I don't know if it was a psychological effect or something else.
Not long after Chen Qiaoer's death, the prison in the Yamen began to be haunted.
At night, I could always hear people crying and laughing faintly.
Many prisoners and prison guards had seen with their own eyes the prison where Chen was previously imprisoned.
There was a dark shadow dangling in the cell, accompanied by the sound of gnawing on the cell door, which frightened him all day long.
The county magistrate Liu Tong also suspected that Chen Qiaoer's ghost was causing trouble, so he also invited some people to come and see it.
However, at this time, Chen Qiaoer's body had been buried outside the city.
All the people who came to see it did not think that the matter was related to Chen Qiaoer, but they all thought that it was related to Chen Qiaoer.
I didn't understand what was going on.
I just said that the county government was full of resentment and should not be left alone for a long time.
Later, Liu Tong refused to do anything and simply moved the county government office to another place.
It would have been better if the government office did not move.
However, with this move, the surrounding people suffered.
In the past, the hauntings in the prison were only limited to the cells, but the government office This move caused a riot in the surrounding areas.
The county magistrate's surname was Liu, and after the county government moved away, all the people around him surnamed Liu began to die suddenly one after another, and in unimaginable ways.
I even heard an old woman narrate that a man named Liu Liang was a blacksmith.
He closed his blacksmith shop the night after the county government moved and started painting portraits in the house.
The old woman wanted Blacksmith Liu to help him make a kitchen knife.
So he went to look for it.
Unexpectedly, he was shocked when he entered Blacksmith Zhou's house.
It turned out that this week The blacksmith drew a roomful of "torture pictures" in the house, including beheadings, beheadings, being tortured, and even frying people in oil like in the legendary underworld.
All the people looked like Liu Zhixian, and the paintings were so lifelike that the old woman was so frightened that she lost her temper on the spot.
And when the old woman woke up, she learned that Blacksmith Liu had killed more than a dozen people with the surname Liu around him overnight.
The way of death was the same as the "torture picture" painted on the wall.
He himself is nowhere to be found.
When news of this incident spread, the whole county was in an uproar, and some people even rumored that the handcuffs and shackles worn by Chen at that time were all made by this blacksmith Liu.
Three years later, Wang Liang, the acting boss of Wangjia Clothing Store, wanted to sell Wangjia Clothing Store out because of gambling debts.
However, when a man named Lu Duo came to take over the store, Wang Liang suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. .
Unable to find Wang Liang, Lu Duo quarreled with the shopkeeper Xie Laoliu, saying that he had already paid a deposit of 5,000 taels, and took out the deposit receipt drawn by Wang Liang, arguing that Xie Laoliu should hand it over to the store. , or refund the deposit.
Five thousand taels is not a small number.
The Wangjia Cloth Store plus the two branch offices in the east of the city, including the house and land and all the goods, are worth less than 8,000 taels.
With such a sum, Xie Laoliu was not willing to back down without a word of quarrel, so the lawsuit went to the Yamen.
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At this time, the previous confused county magistrate Liu Tong had retired and returned to his hometown.
The county magistrate who took over was named He Yongwan.
He was born in Tanhua and was nominally a disciple of Bao Zheng.
He caught up with such cases when he took office and wanted to come up with a new one.
When an official takes office, he has three things to do to investigate the case beautifully.
Although he was nominally a disciple of Bao Zheng, in fact He Yongwan was far less perceptive than Bao Zheng.
After taking over the case, he felt that since Lu Duo had documents in hand, Wang Jiabu Zhuang should be the defaulter, so he took the case.
All the clerks from Wangjia Clothing Store were taken to the Yamen and separated one by one and tortured.
It didn't matter.
A clerk named Xu Er couldn't stand it anymore, so he revealed this: he had overheard shopkeeper Xie Zeng discussing privately with Wang Liang about buying the cloth store, but due to the price, Wang Liang rejected him because he was too low, and the two never spoke since then.
Soon after, Wang Liang arrived at the store.
After hearing Xu Er's confession, all the punishments were concentrated on the shopkeeper Xie Laoliu.
After two or three rounds of beating with boards, whips and sticks, Xie Laoliu couldn't bear it anymore, so he confessed that he was trying to occupy Wangjia Cloth Shop.
As a result, what happened to Wang Liang was also He confessed that he had collaborated with Boss Wu of the Chengdong Powder Store to hide the body in a dry well outside the city.
Even He Yongwan did not expect that the matter would develop to this point.
He originally thought it was a debt lawsuit, but he did not expect it to happen.
I thought of finding out the human life.
Following the clues given by Xie Laoliu, the government officials found the dry well outside the city.
However, what the government officials did not expect was that in addition to Wang Liang's body, there was also an unnamed corpse in the dry well.
The degree of decomposition was obvious.
He had been dead for several years, so he reported the matter to He Yongwan.
Later, after confirming the deceased's belongings and seals, it was determined that the unknown body was that of Zhang Chao, the suspected adulterer whose husband had disappeared a few years ago.
There were two corpses in one well.
The young and energetic He Yongwan felt that this case was far from being as simple as imagined, so he checked the files of husband-murder cases in previous years, and at the same time began to fight Xie Laoliu and Boss Wu desperately. torture.
But unexpectedly, the two people refused to admit their guilt, insisting that Zhang Chao's death had nothing to do with them.
One life is a beheading, and any more will be paraded through the streets.
In the eyes of ancient people, this kind of humiliating thing seemed to be more uncomfortable than death.
Later, He Yongwan had no choice but to seek help from the well-known Zhang Xiang and Zhang Qingtian of Changsha County.
When Zhang Xiang heard that Zhang Chao's body had been found and that it was also with Wang Liang's body, he felt that the case was a bit strange.
Since many cases were solved by him, he came to Baoqing to investigate the case with He Yongwan.
Coincidentally, there is a teahouse opposite Wangjia Cloth Village.
He Yongwan and Zhang Xiang led the government officials to search Wangjia Cloth Village without any results, so they entered the teahouse to have a cup of tea and discuss the next step of the investigation. .
At this moment, Zhang Xiang unexpectedly noticed that there was a very familiar wooden box behind the counter of this teahouse.
He thought about it carefully for a long time before he remembered that this box was the same box that Chen Qiaoer used to pack his dowry when he discovered the evidence.
That box has been transported to the county government as evidence of crime.
Why is it here again?
Thinking of this Inside, Zhang Xiang called the shopkeeper to ask about the origin of the box.
Only then did he learn that this style of box was the "flagship product" of a woodware shop in Baoqing.
The same style had been sold more than ten years ago.
Because the box is moderately sized and sturdy, with good paint patterns and beautiful paint patterns, it has always been very popular in Baoqing and is still sold today.
After learning this information, Zhang Xiang woke up from a dream and ran to the carpentry shop with his government servants like crazy.
He dug out the account books from a few years ago and found that around the time of Chen Qiaoer's murder case, shopkeeper Xie of Wangjia Clothing Store was indeed here.
I once bought an identical box and specifically requested it to be "old".
At that time, there were basically no people in Baoqing Mansion who were accustomed to collecting antiques.
Even if there were, it couldn't be Xie Laoliu.
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The only possibility was that Xie Laoliu wanted to forge evidence to frame the crime on the proprietress, but he didn't have the key to the box, so So he "clone" a box that was exactly the same as the "dowry box", and mixed the porcelain jar with arsenic residue and some messy It was more than ten years ago that Chen married into the Wang family and the dowry box was also more than ten years old.
If I want to pass the newly purchased box off as an old box from more than ten years ago, can I not "make it old"?
"With this clue, Zhang Xiang woke up from his dream.
It turned out that the so-called dowry box he had checked was probably forged by Xie Laoliu in order to frame him.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiang and He Yongwan interrogated Xie Laoliu again: If the box that was checked was indeed Chen's dowry box, where is the box you bought at the wood shop now?
Later, Xie Laoliu couldn't explain the whereabouts of the box he bought, so he could only admit that he had killed his boss Wang Kun and Zhang Chao with the shopkeeper Wu of the cosmetics store.
It turned out that Xie Laoliu had been working as a waiter at Wangjia Clothing Store since he was sixteen years old, and was deeply trusted by his boss Wang Kun.
Later, Wang Kun told Xie Laoliu about spying on his wife under the pretext of going out secretly, and asked Xie Laoliu to do it.
But when he discovered that his wife was out, he sent someone to follow her and notify him.
Although Xie Laoliu said that he was completely devoted to Wang Kun on the surface, secretly he had been coveting the Wang family's cloth village for a long time.
When this happened, he wanted to take the opportunity to occupy the cloth village.
Because shopkeeper Wu of Chengdong Powder Shop was a childhood friend with him and had some friendship with Zhang Chao, he sent shopkeeper Wu to trick Zhang Chao out of his home, while he deceived Wang Kun to Zhang Chao's home and tricked him into drinking poisoned wine.
Afterwards, Zhang Chao was deceived by shopkeeper Wu into going outside the city and killed in the name of "Qiao Er's appointment".
In order to cover up the suspicion, Xie Laoliu bought a box from the wood shop that was exactly the same as the dowry box of the proprietress Chen Qiaoer to forge evidence.
And buried the real dowry box in Buzhuang Later, Wang Liang was invited to Buzhuang to take charge of the business.
Because Wang Liang did not understand business at all and never paid attention to the business affairs of Buzhuang, a large amount of money was transferred to his own by Xie Laoliu. pocket, and Boss Wu received a benefit fee of 800 taels of silver.
When the government officials dug out the real "dowry box" from the backyard of Buzhuang, the sensational "Chen Murder Case" finally came to light.
Although Xie Laoliu and his co-conspirator Boss Wu were eventually paraded through the streets to be executed, Zhang Xiang's life His reputation was also criticized, and Zhang Xiang himself resigned and retired to the mountains because of his misjudgment of the case.
The husband-murder case was settled and Zhang Xiang resigned from office, but the ghost of Chen's grievance never dissipated.
It was also to blame that Chen's old mother, Wang, was so full that she had nothing to do and had to visit her daughter's grave.
When her daughter was arrested, Mrs.
Wang felt that her daughter must have a grievance.
Let’s not mention whether she had committed adultery with Zhang Chao.
After so many years with her uncle Wang Kun, the relationship between the two couples was still reasonable.
Although it was not close to each other, they were compatible.
It is true that you are not too respectful to your guests.
You are living a good life, how can you kill your own officials?
At this time, the unjust case has been settled and the truth has been revealed to the world.
Mrs.
Wang bought some paper money and burned the paper in front of her daughter's grave while telling what happened.
I chanted it again.
At first, when Mrs.
Wang lit the paper money, a small whirlwind blew up above the fire.
According to the past, the deceased came to get the money.
But after Mr.
Wang finished reading what happened, suddenly there was a whirlwind around the tomb.
A strong wind blew up, scaring Mrs.
Wang so much that she told her daughter not to be angry, but it was too late to say anything else.
The well-burning fire suddenly went out, and a strong wind blew paper ashes all over the sky.
Standing up, Mrs.
Wang seemed to hear cold laughter filling the surrounding wilderness.
Even though it was daytime, it frightened Mrs.
Wang out of her mind and she ran back to the city in a pissed off state.
From then on, Baoqing Mansion, which had always been peaceful, began to have nightmares.
It turned out that people with frequent sudden deaths around the old Yamen site were not limited to people with the surname Liu.
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Nighttime became a nightmare for the common people.
Every door was locked before and after the official watch. , all kinds of demon mirrors and Bagua pictures covered the eaves of doors and windows in the streets and alleys.
Even so, residents within a radius of about 200 meters from the former county government site still created four deaths in three days.
A record of ten people.
At this time, the newly appointed He Yongwan could not sit still.
He originally felt a sense of accomplishment when he found out an unjust case, but he did not expect that he would stoke such a huge hornet's nest.
To say that the evil ghost has no intention, this is not the case.
It’s true, you didn’t show off your power when the stupid official wronged you, but finally an upright official came to redress your grievances, and you became more energetic: