Chapter Ninety-Five: The Man in the Market
Wu Guangde, a businessman who killed his wife, was sentenced to death by Luoyang Mansion!
The news spread quickly in the Xiuwenfang, and some people remembered that Lao Wu was not bad, and they couldn't help but sigh for his foolish behavior. The list goes on.
Wu Guangde was drunk that day, and when he woke up in the morning, he was stunned to find his wife Bao Yinyin lying on the floor, with a pool of blood flowing from the back of his head.
The government sent personnel to investigate the scene and found that his blanket was stacked on the ground, and the Bao woman fell on her back, and the back of her head was knocked on a silver ingot, and she died with a whimper, and the cause of death must have been caused by the back of her head. But why she fell is the key.
Where can Wu Guangde say clearly, he had to vaguely say that the lady stumbled and fell, but Bao Yinyin's mother's family rushed to hear the news but did not give up, and ran to the official mansion to cry and make trouble, not to say that Wu Guangde killed his wife, and to pretend to be the scene.
Tang Zong, who handled the case, didn't want to do much, but the bitter master didn't do it, so he had to investigate, and this investigation found that Wu Guangde also placed an outer room in Daliang, the little lady was seventeen years old this year, beautiful as a flower, and was very favored by Wu Guangde.
Then it was discovered that Wu Guangde, as a businessman, was too troublesome to trade with Tongbao and silk cloth, so he directly settled with people with precious metals such as gold and silver in private. Outer chamber of storage. Although it was a common behavior of businessmen at that time, it involved killing his wife, which became a major suspicion, plus he was forbidden to use gold and silver, and he lost his impression in front of Tang Zong, so Tang Zong strictly investigated him.
Pity this Wu Guangde fell asleep soundly when he returned home, and woke up drunk. I can't even remember how he got home that night, and what he said to his wife, where can he still explain clearly?
Tang Zong saw that he didn't recruit. Then he commanded them to wait with torture. No matter how clear the impression left on future generations of the rule of man is that it is impossible to act in full accordance with the law. Even the folklore says that Bao Qingtian, who interrupted the case like a god and enforced the law like a mountain, also did torture to extract confessions when he was the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, so that he was beaten into a confession.
In the actual situation, it is even more common to be killed directly with a cane in the court, how can Wu Guangde endure this hardship. Under Miki, Wu Guangde couldn't bear the suffering, so he had to follow the jailer's words and answer vaguely. This time his homicide was confirmed, and the case was reported to Zhou Xing of the Criminal Department, and Zhou Xing immediately approved: hanging!
Tang Shi kills. There are two kinds of beheading and hanging, and hangings can leave a whole corpse. Wu Guangde's case does not involve court politics, it is just an ordinary civil case, and Zhou Xing, who is known for his cruel punishment, is not interested in paying attention to it at all, he is busy tossing those officials. I just approved it.
In fact, according to the law, the case of capital punishment has to be retried, and it must be reported to the emperor for execution, and after three procedures, but because of the recent accidents, several court officials have died in a row. There was some turmoil in the city, Zhou Xing was sentenced severely and quickly, so many officials were arrested and put in his prison, and there were many people who were directly killed without a verdict, how could he care about a small businessman.
At this time, it was autumn, and if he was not executed in time, Wu Guangde would have to eat more than half a year in prison and wait until next autumn, so the efficiency of the government was also faster, and after two days of preparation, and after completing the procedure, Wu Guangde was escorted out and publicly executed.
The execution of criminals has always been carried out openly in downtown areas, and this is called "abandoning the market", and its intention is to deter the small with the execution of prisoners, so that some people with bad intentions can be intimidated by the law and dare not have bad intentions. On the day of Wu Guangde's execution, many people who knew him in the Xiuwenfang ran to see the excitement. …,
The time of the execution of prisoners in the Tang Dynasty was not timely, that is, from one to five o'clock in the afternoon, the news spread in the Xiuwenfang on the first day, Ma Qiao got up in the morning, he was restless, restless, until noon, he hastily picked up a few mouthfuls of food, he really couldn't eat, so he said to the old lady: "Ah Niang, I want to go out for a walk and see the execution of prisoners." ”
Ma Mu scolded with a smile: "I saw that you looked like you had lost your soul, and I knew that something was wrong with you." What's so good about killing people, the bloody stinging hula monster is scary, if you want to go, go ahead, come back early, don't make trouble outside. ”
"Oh, that'...... The child is gone! ”
Ma Qiao agreed, and hurried out.
The Dharma field is set up between Nanshi and Jiashanfang, which is a very prosperous and lively place.
At noon, before the prisoners were released from prison, the jailers brought food and wine to the prisoners who had been executed that day, telling them to be ghosts of death. There were a total of seven prisoners executed that day, and Wu Guangde sat unkempt and sat in his cell, not knowing how he killed his wife and how he ended up in such a fate.
Later, when the hour came, the seven prisoners were put on a prisoner's car and escorted to the execution ground.
Outside the execution ground, there was a sea of people, bustling, and Ma Qiao was crowded in the crowd, also watching.
Seven prisoners were escorted to the court, the crowd suddenly stirred, the Wu family's relatives cried loudly, but they were stopped outside the court by the public and were not allowed to enter, Tang Zong was dressed in official clothes, solemnly entered the prison and beheaded the tent, read out the verdict, and executed, and three people were taken to the court, these three people were extremely vicious, and they were sentenced to beheading.
Each person was given another bowl of wine, and after drinking, the knife was waved, three bloody lights flashed, three heads fell to the ground, there was blood on the altar, and the interest of the onlookers also reached.
Immediately afterwards, the four convicts sentenced to hanging were also brought to the stage, with a noose around their necks, and knelt on the ground temporarily, one of them gave a bowl of water and wine, Wu Guangde held the bowl in his hand, and then burst into tears, and the tears fell into the wine bowl in large pieces, Wu Guangde cried: "I went to die today, although I didn't become a starving ghost, but I was a fool in the end!" ”
After that, tears rained down, Wu Guangde took the wine bowl, raised his neck and poured it up. The executioner in charge of the execution has executed people and criminals over the years, and he has never seen any strange behavior, and he is a cold bystander. If you don't pay attention to it, who will care about a dying man?
"Son! Son! You're so confused! If you want to raise a foreign house, you will raise a foreign house, why should you lose your mind and want to correct her and kill her wife! If you die, how can you live as a mother, my son, my son......"
A mournful voice suddenly cried. Ma Qiao turned his head and saw that the crying woman was not far in front of him, and two middle-aged men next to him were holding her. Tearfully persuaded her, thinking that it was also her son, and the old woman had gray hair. beat her chest and paused, listening to her crying, it was clear that she was Wu Guangde's wife.
"Mother, my son is wronged, my son is wronged......"
On the torture platform, Wu Guangde glanced at his mother, then closed his eyes tightly, and tears couldn't stop flowing out of his eyes.
"Execution!"
Tang Zong picked up a red stick, threw it in front of the case, and commanded sharply.
Behind four high columns. The noose creaked up, and the four men involuntarily stood up, but the noose continued to rise, and their feet left the ground, and the whole person hung in the air.
"Son......"
The old woman let out a cry of grief. fainted, and the two men who were supporting her hurriedly put her down and pinched her to rescue.
As soon as Wu Guangde died today, no one knows the real cause of Bao Yinyin's death, and Ma Qiao can also get away with it, however. The scene in front of him deeply pierced his heart, the cowardice and hesitation in Ma Qiao's heart suddenly disappeared, he suddenly split his arms, squeezed through the crowd, rushed forward quickly, and shouted: "Don't hurt the innocent!" I killed people! ”…,
The onlookers saw that someone was rushing forward, and they were very unhappy to arch their backs, but when he shouted this sentence, they couldn't help but be shocked, and with a "bang", the crowd divided to the left and right, allowing him to rush to the front.
Two knife-wielding dukes stopped him, and Ma Qiao pointed to the execution platform and shouted: "Let him down, I killed the person, the person was killed by my Ma Qiao, and it has nothing to do with Wu Guangde!" ”
After the execution table, Tang Zong stood up and changed color: "What did he say? ”
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"Uncle, aunt, I'm leaving, these days, thank you for your hospitality, thank you so much."
Yang Fan stood still at the intersection of the mountain, turned around and bowed to the mountain people's family.
The mountain people are simple, the things at home are all backed by the mountains to eat the mountains, the mushrooms and wild vegetables picked by hand, the hares and pheasants caught by the hands, used to entertain the guests, I didn't think there was anything wrong, but he received a very generous remuneration, and I was quite sorry not to go, today Yang Fan is leaving, and the whole family is sent out.
"Big brother, this smoked rabbit, you eat it on the road."
The hostess was a village woman with a cloth skirt and a round face and a strong body, she stuffed a package of haode smoked into Yang Fan's hand, Yang Fan couldn't refuse, so he took it and put it into the horse bag, arched his hand to them, and led the horse reins down the mountain.
The honest old peasant's lips twitched a few times, but after all, he didn't say anything polite, but smiled and waved his hand at him, and the big yellow dog barked twice under his knees.
In the midst of the lush greenery, there was a path more than a foot wide that had been stepped on over the years, and the trees on both sides were densely packed, and some unknown red and yellow bean-sized fruits were dotted with a tree and shrub, and I don't know what kind of fruit they were.
The distant mountains are verdant, and looking back, the mountain hut has been hidden in a verdant area, only a corner of the eaves is faintly exposed, so that people can look at it, and a sense of tranquility arises.
Yang Fan sighed softly, whether it was the sea of the South Seas or the mountains of this royal house, it gave him a sense of leisure and ease, he liked such a quiet life, but in life, many times he could not choose the life he wanted by his own mind, this time, he still had to plunge into a bloody storm.
Suddenly, Yang Fan was a little envious of Master Tai's free and easy life.
Yang Fan didn't go directly to Luoyang, he first rushed to a nearby town, sold his horse, and disposed of all suspicious things, and then rented a mule and rushed back to Luoyang City.
When Yang Fan returned to Xiuwenfang, it was just past noon, as soon as he entered the door, Yang Fan noticed that the atmosphere in the workshop was a little wrong, there were not many pedestrians on the street, but the expression was a little weird, just these few pedestrians, when they gathered together to whisper, they also shook their heads and sighed.
Seeing this, Yang Fan suddenly became suspicious.
Note: This case is based on a real case in the Tang Dynasty, the difference is: in the real case, it is not the cheating man who pushed and shoved the woman and caused the death, but the angry woman was vicious and angrily snatched the knife to kill her. Later, because her husband was wrongly convicted, she voluntarily turned herself in.
Human nature is complex, everyone has their own moral standards, in one thing he does not meet your moral outlook, does not mean that his moral outlook in another thing is not high.
People in the market, but also many righteous people, Ma Qiao is a typical market, lazy, lustful, stealing chickens and dogs, not seeking progress, but he is a very affectionate person, family, friendship, and responsibility.
Ordinary people are not as capable as outstanding people in some aspects, but their qualities in some aspects are not inferior to them, or even better.
A person who is full of faults also has shining points; A person who is praised as a saint also has shortcomings.
This is man!
This is the human being!
This is the charm of people!
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