"Adultery" is a hot topic nowadays. Today, I will tell you the story of an adulterous man. His people and affairs come from the article "Righteousness Under the Bed" in Zhu Yunming's "Former Notes", one of the "Four Talents of Wumen" (that is, the so-called "Four Great Talents of Jiangnan" Zhu Yunming, Tang Yin, Wen Zhengming, and Xu Zhenqing).

It is said that when the Ming Dynasty was established and Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, the capital was set in Yingtianfu, which is today's Nanjing. Zhu Yuanzhang's year name is Hongwu, so everyone will also call Zhu Yuanzhang Emperor Hongwu, and call the period of Zhu Yuanzhang's reign Hongwu Dynasty. This is gossip, slightly overrun.

What I want to talk about here is not Zhu Yuanzhang himself, but a strange person and a strange thing in Yingtianfu under Zhu Yuanzhang's rule.

During the Hongwu period, there was an officer in the capital. This officer had an adulterous affair with his neighbor's wife, and the two committed adultery in private. To use a popular joke, this officer is the famous "King Next Door".

One morning, when the morning dawned, the officer noticed that his neighbor was out, and he sneaked into his neighbor's house. After entering the door, I went straight to the bedroom, but the neighbor's wife had not yet gotten up, and the two of them did something unscrupulous.

The Chinese have spread the saying since ancient times: A wife is better than a concubine, a concubine is better than stealing, and stealing is better than stealing. It can be said that it sums up the psychology of entanglement and entanglement between men and women.

Just when the two were in full swing, the neighbor suddenly opened the door and came back. Hearing the sound of the door opening, both the officer and the neighbor's wife were frightened. The officer hurriedly grabbed his clothes, shoes and socks, and trembled into the bottom of the neighbor's bed. Speaking of which, northerners may ask: If everyone sleeps on the kang in the north, won't this officer be in big trouble? He can't get into the hole, can he? The kang cave in winter, it is a pile of fireworks and ashes! Actually, you don't have to worry about officers either! Even if there is only a kang and no bed, there will still be traditional Tibetan places such as cabinets and boxes!

By the time the neighbor entered the bedroom, the officer was already hiding under the bed; The neighbor's wife had already made her bed and was in a straight sleeping position.

The bedroom door opened softly, and the neighbor's wife pretended to be sleepy-eyed and asked her husband who entered the room:

"Honey, why did you just go out and come back? Did something fall? ”

The husband replied:

"I didn't walk a few steps outside and it felt like it was cold today. On the way, I thought that when I went out just now, you slept soundly, and saw your little feet exposed, so I was afraid of waking you up, so I didn't help you pull the quilt and went out. I was freezing on the road, thinking that you didn't cover it tightly, and I was afraid that you would freeze and catch a cold, so I came back to help you cover the quilt. ”

As he spoke, the husband helped his wife cover the quilt and said to her:

"Honey, it's cold today, you can sleep more!"

Then, gently kissing her lover's forehead, the husband went out.

The officer lay under the cold bed, and heard this heartwarming scene in the bedroom with his own ears, and his heart suddenly moved, and he thought to himself:

I really didn't see it on weekdays, but it turned out that the neighbor loved his wife like this. I never thought that the neighbor loved his wife so much, and his wife would hook up with me behind her husband's back, this woman is really not a thing!

Thinking about it, the officer became angry. After the neighbor left, the officer took out his saber and killed the neighbor's wife on the spot. After killing people, the officer walked away, like no one, he should go to work, he should drink and drink.

After the officer killed, he walked away. I don't want to, but this incident made another person fall into a big wrong.

That morning, the officer's killing of the neighbor's wife was so secretive that no one around knew that the murder had taken place in the family, and the officer left the crime scene safely.

Coincidentally, there was an old vegetable seller who often supplied vegetables to his neighbor's house and fell into blood mold on this day. After the officer left, the old vegetable seller came early in the morning to deliver food to the neighbor's house. The old man knocked on the door and there was no answer, and when he pushed the door and left it unlocked, he entered the neighbor's house as usual. The old man who bought vegetables shouted again and again, but no one accosted him. The old man who sold vegetables saw that the bedroom door of the house was wide open, thinking that the family had probably gotten up, so he didn't have any scruples, and went directly to the bedroom door to call the master, not wanting to stretch out his head to look at the bedroom, and it was a very terrifying scene in front of him: a smell of blood came to his nose, and the blood was flowing all over the bed from the bed, and the woman was dead on the bed......

The old vegetable seller was startled, sat down on the ground, and shouted loudly:

"Murder! Someone's killed......"

When the neighbors heard the shouting, they came to see what had happened.

When the neighbors came in, the old vegetable seller was slumped at the door of the bedroom, and the bedroom was full of bright red blood from the bed to the ground, and the neighbor's wife fell on the bed, her face pale...... Seeing this scene, someone hurriedly ran over and shouted the name of the neighbor's wife, but the neighbor's wife did not answer, and then put his hand on her nose, and there was no breath.

At the scene of the murder, there was this corpse and an old man selling vegetables.

There is no way, in order not to be implicated, everyone can only escort the old man who sells vegetables to report to the official.

Think about it, this old man who sells vegetables is originally a very honest man, and he can't write, and he can't speak, first he was frightened by the murder scene, and then he was shouted and coerced by the interrogators of the government, and he was beaten and kicked brutally and rudely, and the old man created six gods without masters. Because the old man who bought vegetables couldn't prove his innocence, and secondly, he couldn't stand all kinds of torture, so he confessed to this crime. As soon as the old vegetable seller confessed, the government was also very happy, and he also went around proclaiming that he was like a god and extremely efficient in handling cases.

Since the old man who sells vegetables has confessed his guilt, according to the law, one life is one life, and of course the old man is a capital crime.

On that day, after the public judgment meeting was held on the street, in front of everyone, the court wanted to behead the wronged old vegetable seller to show the public as an example.

Just before the execution, the officer suddenly stood up and said:

"This old man can't be killed, and the woman's death has nothing to do with this old man. I killed the man, and I am willing to confess my guilt to the judge. ”

When the staff in charge of the execution at the scene saw this scene, they did not dare to be careless, so they could only suspend their actions and lead the officers to meet the senior leaders.

The senior leader met with the officer and asked:

"What's the matter with you?"

The officer replied:

"The woman who was killed was my neighbor's wife. She's pretty good-looking, because of the occasional past, and we meet between the eyebrows. Before killing that woman, she and I had been secretly trysts. That morning, because it was cold outside, the neighbor thought that his wife's feet were exposed when he went out, and he was afraid that she would be cold, so he came back to cover her with a quilt...... I did this thing, it has nothing to do with the old man selling vegetables, killing people pays for their lives, just kill me to die. ”

The senior leadership asked the staff to record the officer's confession, and strictly verified and compared everything the officer said with all kinds of evidence collected in the case, and the result was that the officer's confession was completely consistent with all the facts on the day of the crime.

In this way, the old vegetable seller picked up a life and came back.

After joint discussion and collective decision-making, the senior leaders believed:

The officer killed a shameless, ruthless and unrighteous woman, and saved the life of the old vegetable seller, which is still humane, even if he has committed adultery, but he can still be forgiven, so he let the officer go.