The so-called Zhang Xiang of Changsha County in the documents of the Criminal Department is a well-known Qing official, the word Haoshu, Mr. Wangyue, not only is the official honest and loves the people like a son, but also the judgment of the case is selfless, even Yin Baozheng of Kaifeng Mansion has praised it with "How dare you say that it is civil, how can you be Changsha Zhang Haoshu". However, this kind of local homicide has always been directly responsible for the Criminal Department, and Baoqing, a confused county official, wanted to break his scalp, and he didn't know why Kaifeng Mansion would insert a bar in the middle.

In fact, Chen Qiaoer's son Wang Ji has always been very depressed about some rumors about his mother, and this time his mother went out in the evening, so he wanted to follow behind to find out what was going on, but he didn't expect his mother to just knock on Zhang Chao's door and leave. After his mother was arrested, Wang Ji felt that his mother was wronged, and took some silver taels from home to buy off the errand labor, and learned that his mother had been put on death row, and was waiting for Di Wenqiu of the Criminal Department to ask for beheading. At that time, Bao Qingtian of Kaifeng Mansion was a well-known Qing official in the country, and Wang Ji was convinced that there was only Bao Zhengbao in the world who could clear his mother's responsibility.

At that time, Bao Zheng was also very surprised that this fourteen-year-old doll could come all the way to Kaifeng Mansion to beat the drum and shout grievances, and after asking the ins and outs, he was moved by Wang Ji's filial piety, so he reviewed the murder case file of Baoqing Mansion with Zou Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department at that time. At that time, Baoqing's confused county official was named Liu Tong, nicknamed Liu Ming, although he was not greedy, but he was a well-known confused official, not to mention anything else, this confused name alone was enough for the two adults to think twice, which was also an important reason for Bao Zheng to suggest to Zou Yan that the case be remanded for retrial. The chief judge of the retrial is Zhang Xiang, the commander of Changsha County, who has won the trust of Bao Zheng.

As soon as he took over the case, Zhang Xiang discovered a major mistake in Liu Tong's judgment - from the beginning to the end of the case, no one was sent to search Chen Qiaoer's home, so he brought a few officials to investigate. It doesn't matter if this check is made, in the big box that Chen Qiaoer packed for the wedding, Zhang Xiang actually found a small porcelain jar with white sè powder left. It was later confirmed that the powder left in the jar was highly toxic arsenic, and it was basically the same as the poison in the victim Wang Kun, and according to the store guy, the key to this wedding box was only owned by Chen Qiaoer. After arraignment of Chen Qiaoer once, Zhang Xiang convicted Chen Qiaoer of capital punishment for the second time.

Even the well-known Qing officials can wronged themselves, Chen Qiaoer is also desperate, according to the provisions of the Great Song Dynasty, murdering one's husband is not ordinary murder, it is to parade the streets. In order not to disgrace his parents, two days before Di Wen of the Criminal Department arrived in Baoqing, Chen Qiaoer wrote a bloody letter on the prison wall and died in prison, and his son Wang Ji was also missing. When collecting Chen Qiaoer's body, the cell boss noticed the blood book on the wall:

I am as innocent as snow, how can I be wronged by heaven. What is bright and bright, what is bright and gentle? Officials and officials are all protecting each other, making me unscrupulous.

The mirror is unclear, the Qing officials are not clear, the sky is chaotic, what is the point of life? What is the point of dying? You and other harm Qiao'er died unjustly here, rì will be miserable after the rì, I died in red, I will turn a ghost into a ghost for me to be wronged, I am wronged, from now on Baoqing is restless.

These two bloody strokes, I can see that the head of the cell is also sweating on his neck, and then look at the ground, Lin Qiaoer's ten fingers are broken, his whole body is drenched in blood, and he ends up with a hideous look, and the death row uniform on his body is already red, and it has hardened after being stained with blood, which is even more creepy, and the hole knows whether Lin Qiaoer died from hitting the wall or lost too much blood.

In fact, even the cell boss understands in his heart that this Lin Qiaoer must have been wronged, if a woman really poisoned her husband, how could she stay in the store and do business with peace of mind? Helplessly, this case was personally tried by Zhang Xiang, a Qing official personally ordered by Bao Qingtian of Kaifeng Prefecture, and the case file has been reported to the Criminal Department, so how easy is it to redress grievances?

I don't know if it was a psychological effect or something else, but soon after Chen Qiao'er's death, the Yamen prison began to be haunted, and people were always faintly heard crying and laughing at night. Liu Tong, the county magistrate, also suspected that Chen Qiaoer's unjust soul was responsible, so he invited some people to come and see, but at this time Chen Qiaoer's body had been buried outside the city, and all the people who came to see thought that this matter had nothing to do with Chen Qiaoer, but they didn't understand what was going on, but they just said that the county government was angry and should not be left for a long time.

Later, this Liu Tong did not do two things, and simply moved the county government to another place, the yamen did not move, but this move, the surrounding people suffered instead, the haunting of the prison was only confined to the cell, but the yamen moved around the scene instead of causing deaths. The county grandfather's surname is Liu, and after the county government moved away, all the people surnamed Liu around began to die suddenly, and the way of death was incredible, and even listened to an old woman narrate, a person named Liu Liang was originally a blacksmith, and on the night the county government moved away, he closed his blacksmith shop and began to paint portraits in the house. This old woman wanted to ask Blacksmith Liu to help make a kitchen knife, so she went to the door to find it, but she was shocked after entering the blacksmith Zhou's house, it turned out that this week the blacksmith drew a room of "torture pictures" in the house, some beheaded, some beheaded, some Ling Chi, and even like the legendary yīn Cao Difu put people into oil and fried, and the people who were tortured on the picture Qingyi sè are all Liu Zhixian's appearance, the painting is vivid, the old woman was so frightened that she turned her back on the spot. When the old woman woke up, she learned that the blacksmith Liu had killed more than a dozen people surnamed Liu in the surrounding area overnight, and the way of death was the death method drawn in the "torture map" painted on the wall, and she herself did not know where to go. When this incident came out, the whole county was in an uproar, and some people even said that the handcuffs and shackles worn by the Chen family at that time were all from the hands of this Liu blacksmith.

Three years later, Wang Liang, the acting owner of Wangjia Cloth Village, wanted to sell Wang Jia Cloth Village because of gambling debts, but when a person known as Lu Duo came to collect the store, Wang Liang suddenly disappeared mysteriously. couldn't find Wang Liang, so Lu Duo quarreled with Xie Laoliu, the shopkeeper, saying that he had paid a deposit of 5,000 taels, and took out the receipt that Wang Liang had drawn, and argued that Xie Laoliu would either pay the store or refund the deposit. Five thousand taels is not a small number, and the two branches in the east of the city are worth less than eight thousand taels if they are sold with houses and land. With such a number, where is Xie Lao Liu willing to retreat? didn't quarrel twice, and the lawsuit went to the yamen.

At this time, the previous confused county official Liu Tong had already returned to his hometown, and the county magistrate who took over was called He Yongwan, who was born in Tanhua, and was nominally Bao Zheng's protégé. Although he is nominally Bao Zheng's protégé, but in fact, He Yongwan is far from being as discerning as Bao Zheng, after taking over the case, he felt that since Lu Duo had a written note in hand, he should be the one who paid the debts of Wang Jiabu Zhuang, so he escorted all the Wang family Buzhuang men to the yamen and tortured them one by one.

It doesn't matter if it's a dozen, a guy named Xu Er couldn't bear the board, so he revealed such a thing: he had overheard that the shopkeeper Xie had privately discussed with Wang Liang about buying the cloth village, but Wang Liang refused because the bid was too low, and the two never spoke since.

After listening to Xu Er's confession, all the punishments were concentrated on the shopkeeper Xie Lao Liu, and after the board whip and stick took turns for two or three rounds, Xie Lao Liu couldn't bear it, so he confessed that he tried to occupy Wang's cloth village and kill Wang Liang, and also confessed that he and Boss Wu of the fat powder shop in the east of the city hid the body in a dry well outside the city.

According to the clues confessed by Xie Laoliu, the official found the so-called dry well outside the city, but what the official did not expect was that in this dry well, in addition to Wang Liang's corpse, there was also a nameless corpse, which had been dead for several years to see the degree of decay, so it was reported to He Yongwan together with the matter, and later after the confirmation of the deceased's belongings and seals, it was determined that the nameless corpse was the suspect Jiān's husband Zhang Chao a few years ago.

With two corpses in one well, the young and vigorous He Yongwan felt that this case was far from being as simple as he imagined, so he consulted the files of the murder case a few years ago, and at the same time began to torture Xie Laoliu and Boss Wu desperately. But I didn't expect that the two of them would not admit their deaths, and insisted that Zhang Chao's death had nothing to do with them. A human life is beheaded, and no matter how much it is, it will be paraded in the streets, and in the eyes of the ancients, this kind of humiliating thing seems to be more uncomfortable than death.

Later, He Yongwan had no choice but to turn to Zhang Xiang and Zhang Qingtian of Changsha County, who was famous, and when Zhang Xiang heard that Zhang Chao's body had been found, and he was still with Wang Liang's body, he also felt that the case was a little strange.

Coincidentally, there was a teahouse opposite Wangjiabuzhuang, and after He Yongwan and Zhang Xiang took the servants to search Wangjiabuzhuang and found nothing, they went into the teahouse to have a cup of tea to discuss the next direction of investigation. At this moment, Zhang Xiang found that a wooden box behind the counter of this teahouse was very familiar, and after thinking about it for a long time, he remembered that this box was not the box where Chen Qiaoer married the original evidence of the crime? However, that box has been transported to the county government as incriminating evidence, why did it come here again? Thinking of this, Zhang Xiang called the shopkeeper to ask about the origin of the box, only to know that this style of box is a product of a wood shop in Baoqing, the same style was sold more than ten years ago, this kind of box because of the moderate size and strong, good lacquer pattern is also beautiful, so it has been very popular in Baoqing, has been sold until now. Hearing the news, Zhang Xiang woke up like a dream, and ran to the carpentry shop with the servants like crazy, and turned out the account book a few years ago to see that before and after Chen Qiaoer's murder case, the shopkeeper of Wangjiabu Zhuang Xie had indeed bought an identical box here, and specially asked to "make it old". At that time, there were basically no people in Baoqing Mansion who were used to receiving antiques, and even if there were, it could not be him Xie Lao Liu, the only possibility was that Xie Lao Liu wanted to forge a receipt to frame the blame to the proprietress, but he was suffering from no key to the box, so he "cloned" a box exactly the same as the "dowry box", and put the porcelain jar with arsenic residue and some messy jewelry into the box to cope with the search of the government! Chen's marriage to the Wang family was more than ten years ago, and the wedding box has been more than ten years. At this point, Zhang Xiang woke up like a dream, it turned out that the so-called dowry box that he had confiscated at the beginning was probably forged by Xie Lao Liu in order to plant the sham!

Thinking of this, Zhang Xiang and He Yongwan interrogated Xie Lao Liu again: If the box that was confiscated at the beginning was indeed the box with the dowry of the Chen family, then where is the box you bought in the woodware store now?!

Later, Xie Lao Liu really couldn't explain the whereabouts of the box he bought, so he could only admit the fact that he killed the owner Wang Kun and Zhang Chao with the fat powder shop Wu Shopkeeper, it turned out that Xie Lao Liu had been a partner in Wangjia Buzhuang since he was sixteen years old, and won the trust of the owner Wang Kun, and later Wang Kun told Xie Lao Liu about secretly spying on his wife under the pretense of going out, and asked Xie Lao Liu to send someone to follow and notify him as soon as he found his wife out. And although this Xie Lao Liu said that he was desperate for Wang Kun on the surface, he secretly coveted Wang's cloth village for a long time, and when he encountered this kind of thing, he wanted to take the opportunity to occupy the cloth village. Because Wu Zhangfu of the Chengdong Fat Powder Store refused to be a childhood friend and had some friendship with Zhang Chao, he sent Wu Zhang's shopkeeper to deceive Zhang Chao out of his home, and he deceived Wang Kun to Zhang Chao's house and tricked him into drinking poisoned wine. In order to cover up the suspicion, Xie Laoliu bought a box from the woodware store that was exactly the same as the dowry box of the proprietress Chen Qiaoer to forge evidence, and buried the real dowry box in the backyard of the cloth village, and then invited Wang Liang to preside over the business in the cloth village, because Wang Liang did not know how to operate at all, and never ignored the business of the cloth village, so a lot of silver was also drawn into Xie Laoliu's own pocket. And Boss Wu got a benefit fee of 800 taels of silver.

When the official dug out the real "dowry box" from the backyard of Buzhuang, the sensational "Chen's murder case" finally revealed the truth, although Xie Laoliu and his accomplice Boss Wu were finally paraded to justice, but Zhang Xiang's reputation was also criticized, and Zhang Xiang himself resigned and retired to the mountains and forests because of the misjudgment of the case.

The murder case was over, Zhang Xiangguan resigned, but Chen's grievances never dissipated, and it was also blamed on Chen's old mother Wang, who had nothing to do when she was full, so she had to go to the grave of her daughter, when her daughter was arrested, Wang felt that her daughter must have grievances, whether she and Zhang Chaotong Jiān did not mention it for the time being, and after so many years with her uncle Wang Kun, the relationship between the two husbands and wives is still reasonable, although it is not like glue, but it is not too much to say that they respect each other like a guest, how can they kill their own officials? At this time, the unjust case was closed, and the truth was revealed to the world, so Wang bought some paper money and read the story of the incident while burning paper in front of his daughter's grave.

At first, when Wang had just lit the paper money, a small whirlwind blew on the fire, and according to the old version, the deceased had come to get the money. But after the Wang family finished reading what happened, a strong wind suddenly rose around the grave, and the frightened Wang family repeatedly said that his daughter should not be angry, but it was too late to say anything at this time. I saw that the fire that had been burning well was suddenly extinguished, and a gust of wind blew the paper ashes all over the sky. Standing up, Wang seemed to hear the cold laughter in the wilderness around him, although it was daytime, it also scared the Wang family away, and ran back to the city.

Since then, the Baoqing Mansion has always been peaceful began a nightmare, the original Yamen site around the frequent sudden death, has not only been limited to the surname Liu, the night has become the nightmare of the common people, every time after the fixed change, the door of every house is locked, all kinds of demon mirrors, gossip pictures are covered with the eaves of the doors and windows of the streets and alleys, even if it is this mix, from the former county Ya site as the center to the outward about 200 meters of the households, or to create a record of 40 people who died within three days.

At this time, the newly appointed He Yongwan couldn't sit still, and he had a sense of accomplishment when he found out an unjust case, but he didn't expect to poke such a huge hornet's nest. If you want to say that the evil ghost has no intention, this is not false at all, when the foolish official wronged you, you didn't exert your authority, and finally a clean official came to redress your grievances, but you came to the end?