The Four Great Cases of Wu Zetian

Chapter 2

Hu Dijia slanders himself and Hong Dutou finds out about it
It is said that Di Renjie took Hu De and Kong Wande with him on a mission, ready to go to meet each other.When he retired, he was passed on the work of Wu Zuo, issued three bangs, and put on Yuanfu. At that time, he came straight to Liulidun with the certificate of the officer.All the residents along that road, when they heard about the murder case, knew that Mr. Di was an upright official who would surely avenge his grievances. One by one, they followed his sedan chair to watch.In the afternoon, it was already in the town.Zhao San, Hu De's buddy, and Guo Liwen, the township director, had prepared a mansion and came to welcome him.Di Gong first asked a few ordinary words, then got out of the sedan chair and said, "Let's go to Kong's house for a survey in this county, and then go on stage for inspection." After speaking, he went to the door of the inn first, and saw two dead bodies. Underneath, he was killed by a knife wound.Immediately it was reported that Hood asked, "Did this corpse fall here?" Seeing that Di Gong asked this first, Hood hurriedly replied: "Grace of the lord, this is Kong Wande's intention to harm people, so he will kill the corpse. Abandoned at the entrance of the town for later denial. The villain can't involve the innocent, so he still moved in front of his house. I beg you to see clearly." Di Gong didn't wait for him to finish, and then shouted: "You dog head, this county doesn't ask Who is the murderer? Since you are serving as a public servant, how can you know how to break the law? Do you know what the crime is for moving corpses? Regardless of whether Kong Wande intentionally harmed someone, since he abandoned the corpse at the entrance of the town, you should first report to the county and explain the reason You can only ask for instructions to seal it after the county has inspected it. Why do you despise the king's law and dare to move these two corpses here! This is deceitful and deceitful, and it can be seen; Injustice, go ahead first. The county will punish you severely first, and then torture you severely." Order the guards, and beat two hundred punishment sticks.Immediately, he shouted continuously, his flesh and blood were torn apart.All the people in that town knew that Kong Wande was wronged and was framed by Hu De, but it was a murder case, so they dared not get involved in it. Seeing Di Gong's way of doing this, everyone admired him and said: "Sure enough, the reputation is worthy. What a shrewd and honest official!"

After beating Hood, he still insisted on his word, and Di Gong was only demanding, so he brought everyone into Kong Wande's house and asked Kong Wande, "Although your house has more than ten houses, but yesterday's guests, Let me explain which house you live in." Kong Wande said: "Only enter the three backward rooms, the villain's couple and my daughter live in the east two rooms are kitchens, these five houses are never lived in, and only move forward. Let's go together, let Keju wish the two guests came here yesterday, because the villain is a silk seller, he will always have money, so it is not appropriate to go forward, so please invite him to stay in Zhongzhu" said and led When Di Gong arrived at Zhongjin, he pointed to the house above.Di Gong and the others went in to have a closer look, and they saw that there were still traces of food and wine on the table, which had not been removed, and there were two chamber pots in front of the bed. Since the inn has been open here for decades, the passers-by will definitely stay here more. Could it be that there were only two of them yesterday, and no one else?" Kong Wande said: "There are three other guests. One is selling fur goods to Shanxi; the other two are master and servant, who came here from Henan, and now they are here because they are sick, and they are still going to sleep!" Di Gong first brought the fur customer to question, and said, "Yes. His surname is Gao and his name is Qingyuan. He has been doing this for many years, and he has lived here. The two guests yesterday did go out when the sky was getting brighter, and they didn't hear anyone shouting at night. Why did he die? I don’t know.” When he brought the servant up again, he said the same thing, and said that the master was sick and hadn’t slept all night. If there were other reasons, how could there be no movement.

Everyone in Di Gong's audience said in unison that it was not Kong Wande who killed him, and he was even more puzzled, so he had to go back inside and look everywhere, but there was still no trace.He said in his heart: "This case is obviously a death outside. If it is inside this house, it is the gang of three who deny it. How can there be no trace?" I was confused, so I had to come out.At the entrance of the town, he saw that the place where Yuan was killed was bleeding profusely and scattered all over the place, and there were no people living in the left and right areas, so he had to bring the nearby residents of the town to interrogate.They all said they didn't know the plot.

Because I had seen a passer-by before, I knew this case happened, so I called Di Jia and investigated carefully, only then did I know that it was a customer of Kong's shop.

Di Gong thought to himself: "Could it be that this land armor did it? It's getting late at this time, so I can't confirm it. I'll pay close attention to it overnight to see what's going on. I'll check and discuss it tomorrow morning."

After thinking about it, he said to the village director: "This county has always asked about cases as soon as they arrived, and concluded as soon as they asked, so I got a report today, so I came to investigate immediately. But the murder case is serious, and it cannot be done properly unless it is tested in the daytime. The county will stay here for one night, and the inspection will start tomorrow." Instructing the guards to take care of them, he went to the mansion and talked with the township Dong Guo Liwen.

Calling everyone to retreat, the general Hong Liang shouted: "Kong Wande is definitely not responsible for this case. This county is afraid that Hood will do this, but he will come out on his own and harm others. Go and investigate for a while." , return quickly."

Hong Liang immediately took the order to come out, went to Zhao San, the guy from the land armor, and saw a guard on duty, and said: "I followed my grandfather to handle this case. It's a pity, even though we are people who eat at the public gate, we can't be innocent and good people. At this time, we are already hungry. Hood is the first in this place, so why don't we prepare a glass of wine? We are not in vain. Who doesn’t know about your honesty, after returning to the yamen tomorrow, we will give food to the workers, and then we will have to pay it back, will it really make us starve?” Zhao San heard Hong Liang’s words, and hurried up to say hello "Don't be angry, Hong Dutou. This is our land armor. We are tying our hands for the case. Forget to ask someone to prepare it. Even if Dutou and everyone are hungry, I will treat you to a cup. It's in the restaurant on the East Street of the town. Let's have a random meal." As he spoke, he sent two other people to guard the corpse, and he and the crowd came to the restaurant.Seeing that they were officials from the county, those little girls knew that they were here for the murder case, so they rushed up to ask questions and serve a lot of food and wine.Hong Liang said: "I am not like an ordinary servant. When I encounter a case, I will eat and drink, take the money from the victim, and then walk away with some silver. You can bring two pieces of ordinary meals and eat two pieces. A glass of wine, forget it. The total amount of food and silver will be given to you later." Everyone sat down as they said.

After Hong Liang knew that Hu De was beaten, he was detained at Kong's house for Qiao Tai and Ma Rong. I just thought that Lao Er Kong had a lot of silver, but people refused, so he came up with this poisonous plan to move the corpse in front of his house. Isn’t it too hot? Where did he go last night? This is the place in front of you. Patrol, can't even patrol? Now the grandfather has beaten him with two hundred punishment rods, and tomorrow he will hand over the murderer. Don't you think this is asking for trouble." Zhao Sandao: "You don't know the inner plot, because You chiefs are not outsiders, so dare to say this. Our land armor, because of the enmity with Confucius, he is only willing to give a few copper coins on New Year's Day, and usually wants to move a penny with him. No. Hu De was gambling at Li Xiaoliuzi’s house last night, and lost all his debts. At daybreak, he had no choice but to get away. Suddenly, there was a commotion in the town, and the murder case was revealed. He found out that it was someone from the Kong family. So I came up with this idea and wanted to avenge this. I knew it was not Wan De, but I was scolded for trying to blackmail him. Wouldn’t it be wrong to hurt others and hurt myself instead? But this case is really strange Well, it obviously happened in the morning. I just came back from there after I called the police watch. This happened before I woke up. Although Lao Er Kong is a stingy person, I think he would never dare to take this matter. Do."

After Hong Liang heard these words, he also vaguely agreed, thinking that according to him, this matter was not Hood anymore, but he wanted to blackmail him for a few taels of silver.Now that he has attempted to do what he wanted, and he has been severely punished for two hundred boards, it can be regarded as paying off the crime, but the murderer is unknown, so this matter is not easy to handle.Immediately gobbled it up, finished the wine and dinner, calculated the account, and asked him to collect it at the mansion tomorrow. He said goodbye to the public, came to Di Gong, and said what he had just said.

Di Gongdao: "This case is very strange. If it wasn't Wan De's work, it must be that these two people had exposed their money elsewhere first, and were seen by gangsters to follow them here. When he was leaving this morning, he was caught off guard and hurt his life. Otherwise, why both of them were killed in the town. Since the county is the parents of the people, it is necessary to avenge the grievances of the deceased, so as to be able to deal with the king above and the people below. Let's wait for tomorrow's inspection, and then check and seize it. "At that time, Hong Liang withdrew and waited for the inspection tomorrow morning.I don't know what will happen next, let's see the next chapter.

(End of this chapter)