Peng Daniu, a villager in Jinrui Town, held a kitchen knife at home and hacked and slashed seven members of Peng Dahai's family next door, causing four deaths and three injuries to Peng Dahai's family.

Peng Dahai himself was stabbed five times in a row, and finally died of excessive blood loss, Peng Dahai's daughter-in-law and his younger brother Peng Dalu and his brother-in-law who were drinking in his house died, Peng Dahai's son and daughter and his 70-year-old father were slashed, his son was seriously injured, and his father and daughter were slightly injured.

In such a serious and vicious case, Wang Zhongyi, who was in charge of Jinrui, actually only sentenced the murderer Peng Daniu to three years in prison.

This is obviously not in line with the law of the Ming Dynasty, nor is it in line with the current social custom of paying for the life of murderers.

The reason for this punishment is because Peng Daniu's family spent ten taels of silver to exchange a vegetable plot with the villagers in exchange for a piece of land, and he used this land to build a house, and even the foundation and adobe bricks were laid.

But when it was time to build a house, the two brothers from Peng Dahai and Peng Continent next door appeared.

They prevented Peng Daniu from building a house on the grounds that Peng Daniu's homestead occupied their family's vegetable garden.

Peng Daniu's land is a dried vegetable plot bought in the hands of the villagers of the same village, and the town has registered it when he bought the land, which is completely legal and compliant.

But the Peng Dahai brothers didn't care if you were legal or not, anyway, they insisted that Peng Daniu's family occupied their brothers' vegetable land, and asked Peng Daniu to shrink the foundation.

This time, Peng Daniu quit, his family has borrowed a lot of foreign debts in order to build a building, and the stones for laying the foundation are all carried back from the stone yard by himself.

The adobe bricks used to build the house were also made and dried by himself, and the materials such as wood were all prepared by himself.

Things have been delayed since last autumn to the present, the adobe bricks made by Peng Daniu himself have been drenched by the spring rain for two months, the bricks are all wasted, and the foundation has not been backfilled with soil, resulting in water entering the foundation, and the soil below is soaked soft.

A few days ago, the thatched hut where Peng Daniu's family of four lived was raining for several days, which led to a landslide in the back mountain, and the dilapidated thatched house was directly submerged, and all the household furniture in the house was buried in the soil.

Fortunately, Peng Daniu was moving fast at that time, and after hearing the movement in the back mountain, he hurriedly pulled his wife and children out of the house.

People are fine, but the only house that can be lived in is gone, and the new house cannot be built in a short time due to the obstruction of the Peng Dahai brothers.

Peng Daniu went to the patriarch Peng Qiming more than once to make the decision because of the matter of building a house, but Peng Qiming did not help Peng Daniu speak because of the benefits of Peng Dahai's two brothers, but turned to Peng Dahai and the two brothers.

Peng Dahai is a brother and a well-known bully in the village, Peng Dahai has five brothers, Peng Dahai is the boss, and there are two sisters below, and the seven brothers and sisters are not easy to mess with.

Peng Daniu inquired around the village and wanted to know why Peng Dahai had not let him build a house.

After inquiring around, I found out that the two brothers had taken a fancy to the piece of land they had bought and wanted to use it as a vegetable garden, so that it could be connected with their own vegetable garden.

And this piece of land happened to be exchanged by Peng Da Niu with money, which made the brothers' wishes come to naught, so they simply resorted to hooligan methods, saying why not let Peng Da Niu build a house.

Peng Daniu came to them to reason, and the five brothers directly led a group of people to beat Peng Daniu half to death.

Peng Daniu reported the matter to the town, Wang Zhongyi also sent someone down to investigate, and after learning that the matter was the original one, he forced Peng Dahai's brothers not to hinder Peng Daniu from building a house, let alone beating people, for this reason, he also went to the Yichun County Ya to send a government servant to arrest all five brothers and take them to the county government jail to squat for five days.

Seeing that the bully had entered the cell, Peng Daniu happily called his concubine relatives to help build the house.

As a result, just on the sixth day of construction, the five bullies were released from prison.

Seeing that Peng Daniu was about to finish sealing the foundation, the five brothers were angry and directly destroyed all the foundations that had just been raised.

There are few people on Peng Daniu's side, and he is not the opponent of the bully brothers, so he wanted to report to the official again, but before he left the village, he was stopped by Peng Dahai.

Peng Dahai warned him that if he dared to report to the official, he would throw his son and daughter into the pond and drown.

Peng Daniu was frightened when he heard it, and he didn't dare to go out of the village to report to the official, at night, he sat at his cousin's house and drank, a few bowls of rice wine in his stomach, the more Peng Daniu thought about it, the more angry he became, picked up the kitchen knife and rushed to Peng Dahai's house, which caused this tragedy!

After Peng Daniu killed people, he was sent by the patriarch to the town, and the town mayor Wang Zhongyi immediately sent the people to the county government.

It's a pity that Yang He, who is in charge of the county government, happened to be seriously ill and could not try the case, so Yang He handed over the right to try the case to Wang Zhongyi.

After Wang Zhongyi clarified the facts of the case, he announced the verdict in court that Peng Daniu was guilty of murder, but the bully was even more guilty.

Peng Daniu was sentenced to three years in prison, and Peng Dahai compensated Peng Daniu's family with 30 taels of silver, which was used as the loss of materials for Peng Daniu's house building and the settling-in expenses.

Of course, the other three brothers of Peng Dahai did not agree to this kind of punishment, and they protested in the court, saying that they would find King Mo to administer justice.

In this way, Mo Qian personally returned to Yichun to try the case.

Mo Qian put down the case file and glanced at Wang Zhongyi next to him, and said, "You have judged this case very well, but there are a few people you missed!" ”

Wang Zhongyi hurriedly arched his hand and asked, "Please make it clear!" ”

"This Peng clan patriarch Peng Qiming, as well as Peng Dahai's three younger brothers, they are tyrannical and domineering in the township, and they have issued an order to sentence these four people to three years in prison each and escort them to the stone field to work as coolies!"

When Wang Zhongyi heard this, he asked again: "Lord, then Peng Da Niu is going to be sent to the stone field to work as a coolie?" ”

Mo Qian slowly shook his head and said: "Peng Daniu's family still has two children to raise, and his wife is unable to support herself, I have no opinion on you sentencing him to three years in prison, but you don't have to let him stay in prison." ”

Wang Zhongyi was a little puzzled when he heard this, and asked: "Lord, this prisoner is not in prison, so let him go to the stone field to work as a coolie?" ”

Mo Qian said: "Of course this is not possible, we can do this, Peng Daniu's three-year prison sentence is still valid, but it can be suspended for two years, within two years, he can be released to go home to farm, if he has not committed another crime in the past two years, then the next three years of prison do not have to sit, if he dares to commit another crime, as long as he violates the criminal law, he will be arrested immediately, and the previous three-year sentence will be directly doubled, six years!" ”

When Wang Zhongyi heard this, his brows immediately stretched.

It was the first time he had seen Mo Qian's fresh punishment, and he immediately felt that this sentence was very reasonable.

That Peng Daniu was a person who was miserable, the house at home was gone, the new house was obstructed by the bully and could not be built, and the five bullies destroyed his new foundation, so he killed in a fit of anger.

This person is pitiful and pathetic, in this case, Peng Daniu is completely the victim, and he killed people for a reason.

"The lord's punishment is extremely fair, Peng Daniu was forced to kill, the five Peng Dahai brothers are rampant in the township, and the villagers of Jinrui Town know that the lord's sentence to Peng Daniu is suspended, which can be regarded as a move to conform to the will of the people."

Mo Qian said with a smile: "The law is the moral bottom line of being a person, when a good person is forced to the point that he can only get back his justice by breaking the law, it must be a problem for us politicians.

But Peng Dahai is used to being a bully, I'm afraid that even if Peng Da Niu's house is built, he will try his best to bully Peng Da Niu, and now that he is dead, then judge him according to what I said, and arrest the Peng brothers and sisters who made trouble for me and send them to the stone quarry to do hard labor. ”

"Yes!" Wang Zhongyi bowed his hand and prepared to exit the lobby.

"Wait!" Mo Qian stopped him.

"What else is the matter, my lord?"

"Yang Gong is seriously ill and can't manage the government, you have been in charge of Jinrui for a while, and you have experience in governing the people, from tomorrow, you will take over the post of Yichun County!"

Wang Zhongyi didn't expect that he would be promoted in the blink of an eye, from the mayor of the town to the magistrate.

Wang Zhongyi didn't react for a while.

Mo Qian looked at him and smiled, "What? You don't want to do this Yichun Zhixian County? ”

Wang Zhongyi reacted at this time, he quickly knelt down and said: "No, the subordinates are willing, the subordinates are willing to go to the soup for the lord, and they will not give up!" ”

Mo Qian hurriedly came down to help him up and said, "Didn't you give an order, don't kneel in the future, why did you forget it?" ”

Wang Zhongyi's excited heart was about to jump out, and the lord actually handed over Yichun County to him to govern.

Yichun County, this is the place where the lord started an incident, and it is the hometown of the righteous army, and its importance is self-evident.

After solving the serious case, Mo Qian returned to the backyard to visit Yang He.

Before entering the door, Mo Qian could hear Yang He's coughing sound outside.

"Grandpa, grandpa!"

Yang Suxin sat on the edge of the bed and helped Yang He up, gently patted his back with his hand, and shouted with some distress.

After Mo Qian entered the room, he also hurriedly saluted and shouted, "Grandpa! ”

Yang He saw that it was Mo Qian coming in, and raised his hand to beckon him.

Mo Qian hurriedly walked to the side of the bed, pulled a stool and sat down, and asked with concern, "Grandpa, are you okay?" ”

Yang He smiled and waved his hand: "I'm old, people can't do it anymore, grandson-in-law, I'm afraid I won't live for a few months, but it's a pity, I can't see you in the world!" ”

Mo Qian hurriedly smiled and said, "What nonsense is grandpa, you must live a long life!" ”

"I don't expect to live a long life, I will be satisfied if I can live until tomorrow, good grandson-in-law, grandpa has something to ask you!"

"Grandpa, you say!"

"Your territory is getting bigger and bigger now, grandpa has lived a lifetime, grandpa can see that you have the ability to change the world, and this Zhu Ming country will fall into your hands in the future.

However, my son is now an important minister of the court, and it is very likely that you will meet each other in the future.

My son, sleek, capable, but has shortcomings, he is too obsessed with power, but his heart is small-minded, he can't tolerate people, and he can't take on big responsibilities, I'm afraid he won't be your opponent in the future, grandpa hopes that when you meet in the future, you can let him live! ”