After listening to Zhou Xian's detailed introduction, Zhang Baoer knew that this case was really not simple. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Under the Ministry of Works, there is a carpentry bureau, which has jurisdiction over hundreds of carpenters who are skilled in various skills, and is responsible for the maintenance of the palace and government offices. Owing to the large number of carpenters, the officials in charge of the carpentry bureau of the Ministry of Workers appointed a number of foremen to supervise the carpenters separately.

There was a foreman named Chang Qingqiu in the carpentry bureau, who had a quarrel with a carpenter named Ma Xiaoqi when assigning carpentry work, and the two ignored each other and had not been in contact with each other for half a year. Everyone thinks that the carpenter and the foreman have just a little quarrel, which is not a deep hatred, and it is not worth such awkwardness. So an elderly carpenter suggested that everyone pool some money to buy some wine and food, and take the carpenter Ma to the house of the permanent foreman to drink, so as to resolve the conflict between the two.

This day is the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the carpenters finished their work in advance, carrying chickens, ducks and fish, carrying several jars of good wine, and pulling Ma Xiaoqi to the house of the chief worker. Because of the large number of people, everyone set up a long table under the grape trellis in the courtyard, and pulled the chief foreman and the horse carpenter to the chief seat. The workers took turns to toast and persuade them, and Chang Qingqiu and Ma Xiaoqi both made their own reviews. The carpenters drank more and more vigorously until late at night, when they took their leave and went home drunk. Chang Qingqiu and Ma Xiaoqi were particularly happy because they were reconciled, and they stayed to drink a few bowls. Later, the chief worker fell asleep under the grape trellis drunk, and Ma Xiaoqi also staggered back to his home.

Ma Xiaoqi's wife, Luo, is in her early twenties, looks like a peach blossom powder, is very charming, and is a water-based poplar woman. If it weren't for her parents' admiration for the carpenter's skill in eating imperial grain, she would not have married this man who was more than ten years older than her! When Luo first married Ma Carpenter, he saw that Xianggong was very capable and considerate to her, and he wanted to settle down and live with him for the rest of his life. However, in the past few years of marriage, Luo has not given birth to a boy and half a girl, Ma Xiaoqi is busy all day and can't stay at home, Luo is lonely in the empty room, and her restless heart slowly stirs. Every day after Ma Xiaoqi went to work, she sat at the door of the street to do some needlework, and met some gentlemen in the market, and she inevitably flirted and scolded her eyebrows, so as to kill time.

One day, a butcher who walked the streets and alleys to sell passed by the door of Ma's house, and Roche called him to the courtyard to cut a few catties of pork. Seeing that the butcher was tall and sturdy, as strong as a cow, Luo couldn't help but feel a spring in his heart, and stared at him with affection. When Roche handed over the money to buy meat, the experienced butcher did not take the money, but tightly grasped Roche's white and slender hands, took Roche into his arms, and carried him into the house to have fun with men and women.

After about half an hour, Luo suddenly woke up from his intoxication, pushed the butcher away, and said, "You can't stay here for a long time, my father-in-law will be back soon." Lang intends to have a concubine, and when you and I meet, we use the bricks in front of the door as a code, and there are bricks in front of the door to indicate that my husband is at home. If the bricks in front of the door are taken away, you can feel free to knock on the door. ”

Hu Butcher was overjoyed, swore that he would only love Luo in his life, and threw down four pigs' trotters and left.

Since then, the man and woman have been together every now and then, to the point that no one can do without the other. It's just that this matter is done secretly, and Ma Xiaoqi has been kept in the dark.

Besides, when the carpenter came home, she fell on the kang with her head down, and Roche interrogated her where she had been drinking so late to come back. Ma Xiaoqi drunkenly told the lady about the drinking, and snored loudly as he spoke. Seeing that he was sleeping like a dead pig, Roche couldn't help but be overjoyed. It turned out that after Luo and the butcher got along, their relationship gradually deepened, and both parties had the desire to be a long-term husband and wife, so they plotted to kill Ma Xiaoqi many times. This opportunity finally came, Luo hurriedly went out to discuss with his lover, and Hu Butcher also felt that this was a good opportunity to start.

The adulterer rushed to Ma's house in a hurry and saw that Ma Xiaoqi was still asleep. Luo hugged his leg, Hu Butcher raised the pig-killing knife, and cut off Ma Xiaoqi's head with one sword. Poor Ma Xiaoqi didn't know that the lady was his murderer until he died. In a hurry, he couldn't find a place to hide the corpse, and Luo suddenly remembered that the kang hole was empty, so Luo and Hu Butcher lifted the bricks of the earthen kang, but the corpse was too big to put in. Hu Butcher skillfully dismantled Ma Xiaoqi's body into eight pieces, put them in one by one, and then built the bricks as they were, so that people could not see the slightest flaw.

According to the strategy discussed with his lover, Luo went straight to the foreman Chang Qingqiu's house early the next morning. She broke into the door and grabbed the clothes of the foreman, and cried loudly: "My father-in-law came to your house to drink yesterday and didn't return overnight, you must have killed him with a chicken intestine and a small belly, and you returned my father-in-law!" ”

As he spoke, he scratched and bit the foreman's face, and his hair fell apart.

Chang Qingqiu parried while arguing: "I only had a little quarrel with your father-in-law, how could I kill him?" Besides, Ma Xiaoqi and I have reconciled last night. ”

Where is Luo willing to listen, he sprinkled vigorously, and pulled Chang Qingqiu to sue the official. Chang Qingqiu remembered that she had just died of her father-in-law, and ordered her subordinates to send her home, so that she could be comforted.

How do you know that as soon as the person who persuaded walked on the front foot, Luo stepped into the gate of Jingzhao Mansion with his back foot, and told the story of Xianggong being killed by Chang Qingqiu with a handful of snot and tears, and begged Jingzhao Yin Zhouxian to make the decision for her.

Zhou Xian approved Luo's condition and ordered the official to pass her to the hall for questioning.

Roche knelt on the ground, pretending to be grief-stricken.

Zhou Xian said sharply: "Who is the surname of the woman in the hall, and if there is any grievance, tell me quickly!" ”

Luo wiped his tears with his long sleeves, and choked up: "The folk woman Luo Shi, married the carpenter Ma Xiaoqi as his wife, and the husband and wife have a deep relationship. My husband and the foreman Chang Qingqiu have always had a grudge, and I don't know what his heart is, last night I invited my husband to drink, my husband did not return overnight, this morning the woman went out to look for it, and found one of my husband's bloodstained shoes on the road. If he hadn't killed my father-in-law, who else could there be? Please make the decisions of the people's women! ”

As he spoke, he held a shoe above his head.

Zhou Xian listened to Luo's story, and thought: This woman was sick and weak, and she cried so sadly, and her father-in-law's bloody shoes were used as evidence, so he ordered Chang Qingqiu to come to the court.

Chang Qingqiu was feeling angry at home about the early morning incident, when suddenly two officials broke in and couldn't help but say that they would take him and leave. Chang Qingqiu knew that it was Luo who sued him, and there was a panic in his heart, but he was a foreman after all, so he quickly calmed down, thinking: Don't do anything wrong, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. What is my heart empty? So he walked into the Jingzhao Yin Mansion with his head held high.