The so-called Changsha County Zhang Xiang in the Ministry of Justice's documents was a famous honest official, with his name Haoshu and his pseudonym Wangyue. He was not only honest and loving the people as his son, but also selfless in his judgment of the case. Even the prefect of Kaifeng Bao Zheng praised him for his evaluation of "How dare he speak nonsense for civil affairs, how to be Zhang Haoshu in Changsha." However, such local murder cases have always been directly responsible for the Ministry of Justice. Bao Qing, a confused county magistrate, wanted to break the scalp, but he didn't know why Kaifeng Prefecture inserted a slut in the middle.

In fact, Chen Qiaoer's son Wang Ji has always been very depressed by some rumors about his mother. This time, his mother went out in the evening and wanted to follow him to find out what was going on, but unexpectedly, his mother just knocked on the door of Zhang Chao's house and left. After that, his mother was arrested, and Wang Ji felt that his mother was wronged and took some silver from the family to bribe the servants. He even learned that his mother had been sent to death prison and was waiting for the Ministry of Justice to approve Wen Qiu's death row. At this time, Wang Ji did not do anything, took some travel expenses, and went to Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo Bianliang alone, and hired someone to write Zhang's complaint to Kaifeng Prefecture to call for justice. At that time, Bao Qingtian of Kaifeng Prefecture was a famous clean official in the country. Wang Ji firmly believed that the only one who could excuse his mother for his crimes might be Bao Zheng and Lord Bao in the world.

At that time, Bao Zheng was also surprised that this 14-year-old baby could come to Kaifeng Prefecture to beat drums and shout for justice. After asking about the whole story, he was even more moved by Wang Ji's filial piety. He then reviewed the case file of the husband-killing case in Baoqing Prefecture with Zou Yan, the then Minister of Justice. At that time, the confused county magistrate of Baoqing was named Liu Tong, nicknamed Liu Buqing. Although he was not greedy, he was a famous confused official. Not to mention anything else, this confused name alone was enough for the two officials to think twice. This was also an important reason why Bao Zheng suggested to Zou Yan to send the case back to retrial. The retrial judge was Zhang Xiang, the magistrate of Changsha who was deeply trusted by Bao Zheng.

As soon as he took over this case, Zhang Xiang discovered a major mistake in Liu Tong's case. From beginning to end, no one was sent to Chen Qiaoer's home to search, so he brought several yamen runners to search. As soon as he entered the room of Chen Qiaoer and Wang Kun, he found a large box. According to the client's instructions, this was the box where the boss's wife was married and the dowry was covered with the boss's wife's private items. The keys were only available to the boss's wife. Zhang Xiang then ordered someone to smash the iron lock and pried open the box. As a result, a white powder was found from the box.

The small porcelain jar was later confirmed that the remaining powder in the jar was arsenic, and it was basically the same as the poison in the victim Wang Kun. After that, Zhang Xiang visited Baoqing and learned that there was an affair between Chen Qiaoer and Zhang Chao. The adulterer was conspiring to murder his husband. This motive for murder was valid. Someone saw that Wang Kun died at Zhang Chao's house. Chen Qiaoer also appeared nearby on the night when Zhang Chao's house, and the remaining poison was found in his dowry box. It was ironclad. After Chen Qiaoer was interrogated once, Zhang Xiang convicted Chen Qiaoer for the second time.

Even famous honest officials who were far and wide could wrongly accuse themselves, and Chen Qiaoer was desperate. According to the rules of the Song Dynasty, murdering her husband was not an ordinary murder, but wanted to parade in the streets. In order not to shame their parents, two days before the approval from the Ministry of Justice arrived in Baoqing, Chen Qiaoer wrote a blood letter on the prison wall and ran into death. His son Wang Ji was also missing. When he was collecting Chen Qiaoer's body, the prison head also noticed the blood letter on the wall:

I am as innocent as snow, but I cannot bear the ruthlessness of the sky, and the glorious world, and officials are all protecting each other, making my world unscrupulous.

The mirror is unclear, the clean officials are unclear, and the sky is chaotic, so what should I do? What should I do if I die? If you are hurting Qiaoer to die here in vain, you will be punished in the future. I will be in red clothes and will be transformed into blood of the evil ghost. I will be wronged. From now on, there will be no peace in the treasure.

These two bloody plots made the prison head sweat in his neck. Looking at the ground, Chen Qiaoer's fingers were broken, and her whole body was covered in blood, and her eyes died. The death row uniform on her body was red, and it became hardened by the blood, which made people even more creepy. I don't know whether Chen Qiaoer died of a collision or had too much blood.

In fact, even the prison head understood that Chen 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? Helplessly, this case was personally tried by Zhang Xiang, the Qing official of Bao Qingtian of Kaifeng Prefecture. Moreover, the case has been reported to the Ministry of Justice. How easy is it to seek justice?

I don't know if it was a psychological effect or something happened. Shortly after Chen Qiaoer's death, the prison in the yamen began to haunt. At night, I always heard people crying and laughing. Many prisoners and prison leaders had seen a black shadow swaying in the cell where Chen's former detainee was staggering, accompanied by the sound of biting the prison door. They were frightened and panicked all day long. The county magistrate Liu Tong also suspected that it was Chen Qiaoer's wronged soul, so he invited some people to come to see it. However, at this time, Chen Qiaoer's body had been buried outside the city. Everyone who came to see it did not think that the matter was related to Chen Qiaoer, but they did not understand what was going on. They just said that the county yamen was full of resentment and should not be kept for a long time.

Later, Liu Tong did not do anything, but moved the county government to another place. It would be fine if the yamen did not move. After this yamen was moved, the surrounding people suffered. In the past, the prison was haunted and was only limited to the cell, but the yamen was killed. The county's great man surnamed Liu. After the county government moved, all the people named Liu began to die suddenly one after another, and the death was incredible. Even an old woman told me that a man named Liu Liang was originally a blacksmith. He locked up his own blacksmith shop on the night of the county government and began to portray his portrait in the house. The old woman wanted Liu blacksmith to help him make a kitchen knife, so she came to look for him. However, she was shocked after entering Liu blacksmith's house.

It turned out that the blacksmith Liu drew a room of "torture pictures" in the house, some beheaded, some beheaded, some lingchi, and even those who put people in oil like the legendary underworld of the bardo. The people who were tortured on the picture were all about Liu Magistrate Liu's appearance, and the painting was vivid. The old woman was so scared that she turned on the spot. When the old woman woke up, she learned that Liu's blacksmith Liu killed more than a dozen Liu people in the surrounding area overnight. The way of death was the way of death in the "torture pictures" drawn on the wall, and he himself had already hanged himself to death. This incident was reported, and the whole county was in an uproar. There were even legends that the handcuffs and shackles worn by Chen at that time were all from the hands of this blacksmith Liu.

Three years later, Wang Liang, the acting boss of Wang Family Clothing, wanted to pay the Wang Family Clothing because he was gambling and debt. When a man known as Lu Duo came to collect the store, Wang Liang suddenly disappeared mysteriously and could not find Wang Liang. Lu Duo quarreled with Xie Laoliu, the shopkeeper, saying that he had paid a deposit of 5,000 taels and took out the receipt of Wang Liang's painting, and quarreled that Xie Laoliu would either pay the store or refund the deposit. Five thousand taels is not a small number. The Wang Family Clothing and two branches in the east of the city, together with the house, land and goods, were worth less than 8,000 taels. In this amount, even if Xie Laoliu wanted to refund, there would not be so much cash. Without a word, the lawsuit went to the yamen.

At this time, the previous confused county magistrate Liu Tong had already retired and returned home. The county magistrate who took over was He Yongwan. He was born in Sanbang Tanhua and was nominally a disciple of Bao Zheng. He caught up with such a case as soon as he took office. He wanted to find a new official to take office. After taking over the case, he thought that since Lu Duo had the statutory account in hand, he should have been the Wang Family Clothing Village who was owed the debt, so he pushed all the friends of the Wang Family Clothing Village to the yamen and tortured them one by one. It doesn't matter if this beating is not important.

A guy named Xu Er couldn't stand the board, so he revealed something: everyone in the store knows the shopkeeper's greed for money, but no one dares to take care of it. Since Wang Liang is nominally the agent, the store's deeds are placed with Wang Liang. He once overheard that Manager Xie had discussed with Wang Liang privately about buying a cloth shop, but Wang Liang refused because of his low bid. The two of them never spoke since then, and soon afterwards, Wang Liang arrived at the store.

After hearing Xu Er's confession, He Yongwan began to torture Xie Laoliu, the shopkeeper. At first, He Yongwan just thought that Wang Liang and Xie Laoliu colluded with the debt, so he wanted to force Xie Laoliu to tell him about Wang Liang's whereabouts and hand him over to Lu Duo. Unexpectedly, Xie Laoliu could not withstand the punishment and actually took out the deed from his arms. This made He Yongwan even more puzzled, wasn't it a matter of breaking up? Why was the deed here with him? Where did Wang Liang go? After thinking about it, He Yongwan began to change the topic and ask about Wang Liang's whereabouts, but Xie Laoliu stammered.

The more Xie Laoliu was stammering about Wang Liang's whereabouts, the more suspicious He Yongwan felt. After two or three rounds of boards, whip and sticks, Xie Laoliu could no longer bear it. He had to admit that he wanted to occupy the Wang family's cloth shop and kill Wang Liang. He also told him to hide his body in a dry well outside the city with Boss Wu from Chengdong powder shop. Even He Yongwan did not expect that the matter had developed to this point. He originally thought it was a debt lawsuit, but he did not expect that his life would be found.

According to the clues explained by Xie Laoliu, the yamen runner found the so-called dry well outside the city. But what the yamen runner did not expect was that in addition to Wang Liang's body, there was also an unknown corpse in this dry well. Judging from the degree of decay, he reported He Yongwan to the incident together. Later, after confirming the deceased's belongings and seals, it was confirmed that the unknown corpse was the suspect Zhang Chao who disappeared a few years ago.

There were two corpses in one well. He Yongwan, who was young and energetic, felt that this case was not as simple as he imagined. He checked the files of the husband-killing case in the past few years, and began to torture Xie Laoliu and Boss Wu at the same time. However, he did not expect that the two of them would refuse to admit their own life and death, and insisted that Zhang Chao's death had nothing to do with him. One life was a beheading, and no matter how many people would parade the streets. In the eyes of ancient people, such embarrassing things seemed to be more uncomfortable than death.

Later, He Yongwan had no choice but to seek help from Zhang Xiang, Zhang Qingtian, a famous Changsha County. When Zhang Xiang heard that Zhang Chao's body had been found and was with Wang Liang's body, he also felt that the case was a bit strange. Due to some of the case he had cut it off, he came to Baoqing and He Yongwan to investigate the case together.

It's a coincidence that there is a teahouse opposite the Wang Family Clothing Village. He Yongwan and Zhang Xiang and the yamen runners searched the Wang Family Clothing Village without any gains, and then went into the teahouse to have a cup of tea to discuss the next investigation direction. At this moment, Zhang Xiang suddenly found a wooden box behind the counter of the teahouse, which looked very familiar. After thinking about it for a long time, he remembered that this box was the box used by Chen Qiaoer to hold the dowry when he found the evidence of the crime? However, the box had been made.

Because of the evidence of the crime, he was transported to the county government office. Why did he come here again? Thinking of this, Zhang Xiang called the shopkeeper to ask about the origin of the box. Only then did he know that this style of box is the "flagship product" of Baoqing's wooden ware company. The same style was sold more than ten years ago. Because of its moderate size and strongness, the painted mouth and beautiful pattern, this box has been very popular in Baoqing and has been sold until now. After learning this information, Zhang Xiang woke up like a dream and took a crazy belt.

The yamen runs to the wooden shop, and finds out the account book from a few years ago. He sees that before and after Chen Qiaoer's murder case, Xie, the shopkeeper of the Wang Family's cloth shop, did buy a box that was exactly the same here, and he specifically asked to "be used to be old". At that time, there were basically no people in Baoqing Mansion who were used to collecting antiques. Even if there were, it was impossible for him to Xie Laoliu. The only possibility was that Xie Laoliu wanted to forge evidence and frame the boss's wife, but he was not afraid of the box key, so he "cloned"

A box that was exactly the same as the "dowry box", put a magnetic pot with residual arsenic and some messy jewelry into the box to deal with the government's search! Chen married into the Wang family more than ten years ago, and the dowry box has been more than ten years ago. Can the newly bought box not be "old" if you want to pretend to be an old box more than ten years ago? At this point, Zhang Xiang woke up from his dream. It turned out that the so-called dowry box he had searched for was probably forged by Xie Laoliu in order to frame it!

Thinking of this, Zhang Xiang and He Yongwan tried Xie Laoliu again: If the box that was searched at the beginning was indeed the box that Chen had used to hold a dowry, then where is the box you bought at the Woodenware Store now?

Later, Xie Laoliu really couldn't explain where the box he bought, so he could only admit that he and the shopkeeper Wu of the powder store killed his boss Wang Kun and Zhang Chao. It turned out that Xie Laoliu has been a clerk in the Wang family cloth shop since he was 16 years old and was deeply trusted by Wang Kun. Later, Wang Kun told Xie Laoliu about surveillance of his wife in the name of going out, so that Xie Laoliu could find that his wife was out and sent someone to follow him. Although Xie Laoliu was devoted to Wang Kun on the surface, he had been coveting Wang family cloth shop for a long time. When encountering this kind of thing, he wanted to take the opportunity to occupy the cloth shop because Wu of the powder store in Chengdong was a childhood friend and had some friends with Zhang Chao.

In love, the shopkeeper Wu sent Zhang Chao to deceive Zhang Chao from his home, and he deceived Wang Kun to Zhang Chao's house and tricked him into drinking poisonous wine. Afterwards, Zhang Chao was deceived by shopkeeper Wu in the name of "Qiao'er's appointment" and killed him. In order to cover up the suspicion, Xie Laoliu bought a box exactly the same as the dowry box of the old gangster Chen Qiaoer from the wooden warehousing store to forge evidence, and buried the real dowry box in the backyard of the cloth shop. Then Wang Liang was invited to the cloth shop to host the business. Because Wang Liang didn't know how to manage it at all, he never cared about the business of the cloth shop. As a result, Xie Laoliu transferred a lot of money into his pocket, and Boss Wu got the benefit of 800 taels of silver.

When the yamen runner dug out a real "dowry box" from the backyard of the cloth shop, the sensational "Chen's husband murder case" finally revealed the truth. Although Xie Laoliu and his accomplice Boss Wu were finally paraded in the streets for justice, Zhang Xiang's reputation for life was criticized. Zhang Xiang himself resigned from office and retired to the mountains and forests because of misjudgment of the case.

The murder case of husband was settled and Zhang Xiang resigned, but Chen's injustice never dispersed. He also blamed Chen's old mother Wang, who was full and had nothing to do, and had to go to visit the grave of his daughter. When his daughter was arrested, Wang felt that his daughter must have had an injustice. Not to mention whether she had committed adultery with Zhang Chao. After so many years with his son-in-law Wang Kun, the relationship between the couple is still reasonable. Although it is not as close as a scoundrel, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are respectful to each other. How could they kill their own officials when they live a good life? At this time, the unjust case was settled and the truth was that Wang bought some paper money, burned paper in front of his daughter's grave and wrote about the incident.

At first, when Wang was lit up the paper money, a small whirlwind blew up from the fire. According to the past, the deceased came to get the money. But after Wang finished reading the matter, a strong wind suddenly blew around the grave, which scared Wang to say something like not to be angry. But it was too late to say anything again. The burning fire suddenly went out, and a strong wind blew the paper ashes all over the sky. He stood up. The sound of the wind in the wilderness around Wang seemed to be ruthlessly sneered. Although it was during the day, it scared Wang to death and ran back to the city.

From then on, Baoqing Mansion, which has always been peaceful, began a nightmare. It turned out that the frequent sudden deaths around the former yamen site were not limited to the Liu family. Night became a nightmare for the people. Before and after the final update, every household's doors were locked, and various demon mirrors and gossip pictures sold all over the eaves of the doors and windows of the streets and alleys. Even so, residents who had been centered on the former county yamen site as the center and outwards still created a record of 40 deaths within three days.
Chapter completed!