conspiracy crime 2

Chapter 25
Doctor Yi took a step forward, stared at her and said, "Yes, there must be. That pot of fish soup was cooked and eaten. Only at this moment can someone poison you. If you didn't poison, then freshman Why don’t you eat the pot fish soup yourself? The people in the kitchen said that you usually drink shad fish soup the most, and you often say that this soup is very helpful for nourishing yin and beautifying the skin.”

Hua hurriedly said: "No, I, I also drank fish soup."

Doctor Yi's eyes were like lightning, and he asked aggressively, "Then why didn't I see you die in a coma after being poisoned? Only you had the chance to poison the pot of fish soup from beginning to end, and you are the murderer who poisoned Mei Ruofeng to death."

"No, no..." Forced by his awe-inspiring aura, Hua backed away in fright, shook her head in panic, and cried out, "I, I didn't poison, I put it in the fish soup. It's just a drug, not a poison, he, he wasn't killed by me..."

Doctor Yi didn't allow her to take a breather, took a step forward, and asked sharply, "Then why did you put the drug in the fish soup?"

"I, I..." Hua Xiangrong knew that she had slipped her tongue and wanted to repent, but it was already too late.

The magistrate didn't allow her to think too much, he had already slapped the gavel, and shouted: "Hurry up and invite me for the truth, don't you want me to torture you to serve you? Left and right."

The execution clerks on the left and right shouted loudly, and rushed forward to push Hua Xiangrong to the ground.

Mrs. Hua was so frightened that she lost all her beauty, lost her soul, her legs were weak, she plopped down on her knees, and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, please calm down, and the women are willing to recruit. The drug in the fish soup my master drank was indeed the woman's drug. of."

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The magistrate sat in the hall, his eyes shot down like lightning, and he asked, "Why did you drug him? Tell me quickly."

Hua Xiangrong said tremblingly: "Because, because Mei Nuxue can kill him only if he is fascinated, otherwise she is a weak woman, even if she gets close to him, she can't kill him."

The magistrate asked: "How do you know that Mei Nuxue is going to kill her father? Could it be that you two are accomplices?"

Hua Xiangrong quickly waved her hand, and said: "No, no, the woman and the murderer are not accomplices. But a woman's heart is the most sensitive. Soon after marrying into the Mei family, a woman has already discovered that Mei Ruofeng and his daughter have an incestuous relationship. Every time Nuxue looked at her father, her eyes were full of hatred and murder, and the woman also found that Mei Nuxue had hidden a dagger on her body every time she went back to her natal home to 'visit' her father. It can be concluded that she has long wanted to kill, but she is just waiting for the opportunity."

The magistrate said: "Mei Ruofeng sacrifices to her father once every three years, and when she watches the night alone, it is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity for her to do something."

Hua Xiangrong nodded and said: "Yes, the woman has followed her secretly several times, and found that she always likes to go to the woods outside the north gate not far from her home to look at the Jiangjun Mountain not far away and the Minghuang Temple on the mountain in a daze. The woman guessed that she must have wanted to sneak into the temple on the ninth day of March, the day of her grandfather's great sacrifice, and kill people, but she was afraid of being discovered by the guards at the foot of the mountain, so she couldn't make up her mind or make up her mind."

The magistrate had already seen everything, and asked: "So you took pains to train a puppy to lead her to find the tunnel leading to the temple, and secretly helped her complete the murder plan, didn't you?"

Hua Xiangrong said: "Yes. The great-grandfather of the civilian woman was once a general under General Xu Da, the founding marshal of this dynasty. Back then, General Xu dug a cave at the foot of General Mountain to save the Lord. My great-grandfather also participated in it, and in his free time I wrote it in my own article and passed it on to my grandfather and father. The woman also read it when she was young. She knew that there was a tunnel under the General’s Mountain, but she didn’t know the exact location. Later, the woman found other tunnels left by her ancestors. After careful study of the manuscript, I finally found this unknown secret passage. But how to tell Mei Nuxue about this tunnel without arousing her suspicion, the woman has spent a lot of time thinking about it."

The magistrate deduced: "You first found a very cute little white dog, and took it to play at the entrance of the tunnel every day, and put a lot of bone food there for it to eat. After a long time, it will remember Once you get to that place, once you are in the woods, you will go straight to the hole to look for food. Then, you will break one of its legs alive and throw it away on the way of Mei Nuxue's walk. You know Mei Nuxue Nuxue is kind-hearted. She has liked puppies, cats and animals since she was a child. When she sees an injured puppy, she will take it home and adopt it for treatment. Besides, she likes white and pure things the most. You specially chose a snow-white and cute puppy. Come to seduce her, so that you have more chances of winning. But a wise man is always cautious, and he must make a mistake, but you didn’t expect that this puppy remembered that you were the enemy who broke its legs, so after meeting, he barked at you, all of a sudden This exposed your past relationship. Hua Xiangrong, is this officer right?"

Hua Xiangrong nodded and said: "That's true. Mei Nuxue rescued the puppy. The puppy is used to coming out to play. If she keeps it at home, it will be restless and barking endlessly. If she lets it out Walking, it will definitely go straight to the hole in the woods and grass to look for food. Mei Nuxue will definitely find this secret tunnel after following it. With this shortcut, and Mei Ruofeng has long been fascinated by me Yao is in a coma in the temple, so it is not difficult for her to kill Mei Ruofeng."

The magistrate asked, "Why did you help her kill your own husband?"

Hua Xiangrong gritted her teeth suddenly and said: "I want to help Mei Nuxue kill her father. The reason is actually very simple. I want to get the big courtyard of Mei's family and all of Mei Ruofeng's family property. I was originally just a poor man singing in an opera troupe. Actor, it is a great honor to be able to marry into such a wealthy family as the magistrate of the county. Unexpectedly, after passing through the door, I found out that Mei Ruofeng never liked me at all, and he never liked me. He married me just to deceive others. He slept with me in a separate room, never touched my body, but secretly he was ambiguous with his own daughter, father-daughter incest, really outrageous. Since he has no affection for me, then I Naturally, the seat of Mrs. Madam in this county will not be secure. If he is not happy, he may kick me out of the door of Mei's house at any time, but I don't want to go back to the past and go back to the opera troupe to experience that kind of poverty The only way to keep this kind of affluent life for a long time is to kill Mei Ruofeng and inherit his family property once and for all. Died at the hands of my own daughter. Firstly, Mei Nuxue would definitely murder and be sentenced to death if the crime happened. I would have one less opponent to fight for the family property. Second, she had an affair with her father. Killing my father in anger is a matter of course, and no one will suspect me. In this way, wouldn't Mei Ruofeng's huge family property become my possession?"

The magistrate frowned and said: "What a vicious woman, what a vicious plan to kill with a knife. In fact, since Doctor Yi's autopsy yesterday, I have suspected you, but there is not enough evidence to convict you, so As soon as the court opened today, I will start the trial from Wu Guo, Sima Hen and others, in order to knock the mountains and shake the tiger, so that you can show more lies, so that I can take you down in one fell swoop and punish you in court."

Hua Xiangrong had already made up her mind, and there was not much fear on her face, she said: "My lord, please be aware that the girl just put some drugs into the fish soup that Mei Ruofeng ate, and she didn't actually kill anyone, so there is nothing serious about it." It is a crime. As for Mei Nuxue’s cruelty to kill her father, my master died at the hands of his own daughter in the final analysis, she is the murderer, she deserves to be punished for the crime, and I hope that my lord will not bend the law for favoritism and give a light sentence.”

"Bold Hua," the magistrate suddenly slapped the gavel, and said, "Mei Ruofeng was poisoned to death by you first, the evidence is solid, you still want to quibble?"

Hua Xiangrong was stunned, and said: "My lord, the woman was wronged, the woman's drug in the fish soup was indeed a drug, not poison, I hope my lord will see clearly."

Han Qingshan glanced at Doctor Yi and asked: "Doctor Yi, what Mrs. Hua said is the truth?"

Doctor Yi said: "What Mrs. Hua said is indeed the truth. According to the observation of the humble official, the poison was mixed with the drug and put into the fish soup, so she admits that she has taken the drug, which is tantamount to admitting that she has taken the poison. .”

Seeing that she had fallen into his trap, Mrs. Hua couldn't help but her complexion changed drastically, and she repeatedly called for grievances, saying: "My lord, the woman is really wronged, what the woman gave was really a drug, not poison, otherwise the woman can poison Mei Ruofeng to death by herself. And why bother to lure his daughter into the trap?"

Hearing what she said was reasonable, the magistrate was also secretly puzzled. He lowered his eyebrows and thought for a while, then asked suddenly: "Mr. Hua, did you go to the pharmacy to buy the drug yourself? And which pharmacy did you buy it from?"

Hua Xiangrong shook her head and said: "No, the woman asked Qingmei, her confidant, to buy the medicine for the drug. At that time, the woman told her that I couldn't sleep at night for the past two days, and I couldn't sleep during the day. Get up, tell her to go to the pharmacy to buy some sleep-promoting drugs and come back, I took it at night to sleep well. She didn't doubt it, and went immediately. This is Qingmei." After finishing speaking, she pointed to the girl in green shirt beside her .

After hearing this, the magistrate turned his head to look at Qingmei, the maid, and saw that she was about eighteen or nineteen years old, quite pretty, but there was a bit of flirtatiousness in her brows, and she understood something in her heart, and asked : "Qing Mei, I still need to send someone to Chuan Chengxi Hechun Tang and Shou Chun Tang who were at the counter that day to confront them in person and ask what kind of medicine you bought that day?"

Looking at the expression on Qingmei's face, he guessed that she probably bought a packet of drug for the ecstasy that day, and then bought a packet of poison to mix it in, but in order to prevent anyone from asking about it in the future, she naturally would not go to the Hechuntang Pharmacy at the same time. To buy these two medicines with completely different properties, he usually found two pharmacies to buy them separately, but yesterday he passed by the west gate in a sedan chair and found that there were only two pharmacies, Hechuntang and Shouchuntang, and the drugs and poisons she bought Most likely, they bought it from these two places separately, so he said the names of the two pharmacies at the same time to see her reaction.

Qingmei has never seen such a battle before, she was so frightened that she trembled like chaff, she hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "My lord, please forgive me, I am willing to recruit you. When I went to Hechun Hall to buy drugs, I did buy it at Shouchun Hall. A packet of poison was mixed in."

The magistrate stared at her and asked, "Why did you do this?"

Qingmei looked at Hua Xiangrong who was kneeling beside her, and saw that she was looking at her with vicious eyes, she couldn't help being startled, and hurriedly moved two steps to the side to prevent her from pounced on her suddenly.

She bowed her head and said: "Because the servant has already noticed that the master seems to have no affection for the wife, but the master is very, very caring for the servant, and the servant thinks that there is an opportunity. As long as the wife dies, the master will definitely take the slave into the house, so I heard that the lady wants Taking the drug to help sleep, the servant girl became malicious and mixed a little chronic poison into the drug she wanted to use. After she took it and slowly died of poisoning in her sleep, the servant girl could replace it. Who knew she bought This drug is for the master... If I had known this earlier, I wouldn't have dared to poison the drug if I killed the servant... The servant was confused for a while, please forgive me, please forgive me..."

When she said this, there was already an uproar in the hall. No one expected that behind this murder case, so many people would be involved, and there would be so many bizarre stories. It was really unimaginable and embarrassing.

When Na Hua heard Qingmei's confession, she had become a poisoned murderer unintentionally, she couldn't help being startled and angry, she rushed forward to fight with her, but the yamen servants had already held her back and pushed her down.

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The magistrate sat upright in the hall, he slapped the gavel forcefully, and everyone was silent.

He swept his eyes away and shouted: "Everyone in the hall is waiting for the judgment."

Wu Guo, Sima Hen and the others hurriedly knelt down, only to hear the magistrate say: "Qingyang county government's arrest of head Wu Guo has nothing to do with this case, there is no need to punish him, and he will step aside."

Wu Guo thanked the lord, got up and stepped aside.

The magistrate said again: "Sima Hen, chief arrester of Qingyang County's Shuilu and Lulu Roads, and his wife, Mei Nuxue, although you and your husband have no intention to kill, you have the intention to kill. Sima Hen dismissed the chief arresting officer of the county yamen, temporarily replaced by Wu Guo, the chief arresting officer of the county yamen, and I sentenced you and your wife to thirty sticks each, to be executed in court, as an example to others."

Sima Hen heard that the magistrate's sentence was much lighter than what he had imagined. It was obvious that the magistrate thought of his husband and wife's suffering, and his affection was encouraging, so he wanted to give a light sentence. He couldn't help being very grateful, and knocked three times. , Thank you and said: "Thank you for your kindness, my lord. Cao Min is willing to suffer the punishment of sticking for his wife. I hope you will allow me."

The magistrate glanced at Mei Nuxue, saw her pale face and weak body, he was afraid that she would not be able to bear the [-] rod punishment, so he immediately nodded in agreement, threw down a lottery ticket, dragged Sima Hen down from the left and right, and took off his clothes and pants Peel it down to the bottom of the buttocks, and start to fight.

The executioner Zao Li respected the chief arrester very much. When he struck, he was merciful and only used seven percent of his strength, but even so, after forty or fifty blows, his skin was already ripped apart, and his clothes were stained with blood. Passed out from pain.

Mei Nuxue watched from the sidelines, she was sobbing already, she was asking the magistrate to use the remaining ten sticks on her body, when suddenly a person stood beside her, knelt down and said: "My lord, I am willing to be punished ten times with the stick for Sima Hen's behalf , please forgive me, my lord."

Sima Hen looked at it painfully, but it was Wu Guo who he had tried his best to frame and set the blame before. Seeing that he ignored the previous suspicions and was willing to be punished on his behalf, he was ashamed and moved, and his heart was hot, and he was about to shed tears.

Seeing that Wu Guo has such a heart, the magistrate secretly nodded his approval and said, "That's fine."

Wu Guo thanked the lord, and immediately fell down, received ten strokes of the stick, he was fine, and stood up by himself.

Mei Nuxue also hurried forward, and helped her husband up with tears in her eyes. The husband and wife faced each other, choked up and couldn't speak, as if it had been a lifetime.

The magistrate then sentenced: "Qing Mei, maid of Meifu, you buy poison to kill people. Although you are not the person who directly poisoned you, you can be regarded as an accomplice. This government punishes you as an accomplice. You will be sentenced to exile for two thousand miles, and you will never return. Township. Can you accept the sentence?"

Qingmei shed tears, kowtowed and said: "Your maidservant accepts the sentence."

The magistrate slightly turned his head, looked straight at Hua Xiangrong with his sharp eyes, and said: "Master Hua, you poisoned and killed your own husband and blamed others for the sake of family property. Sentence you to death, and you will be executed after the autumn after the report is approved. Can you accept the sentence?"

Hua Xiang's face was ashen, his whole body trembled like sifting chaff, his feet got wet suddenly, and he lost control on the spot, with a sound of ah, he was so frightened that he fainted and paralyzed to the ground.

The two yamen servants on the left and right immediately stepped forward and dragged her down.

The magistrate glanced at everyone, and finally said: "Before any new officials arrive, all the government affairs of the Qingyang county government will be temporarily represented by Lu Wenchao, the county magistrate, and Wu Guo will be fully responsible for the criminal arrest. If there is no objection, immediately Back out."

Everyone in the hall hurriedly sent the prefect to leave, and the three classes of yamen servants shouted together: "Wei——wu—"

(End of this chapter)