The Four Great Cases of Wu Zetian

Chapter 26

See the county officials and scholars pedantic and exposing the kilns and eunuchs are shrewd
But he said that Mr. Di heard that Bi Zhou had mentioned it, and ordered Hong Liang to be held in the inn first, and brought back to the Yamen tomorrow morning to interrogate the adultery.Hong Liang took the order.Di Gong was already sleepy, so he went into his room and slept with his clothes on.At the hour of the next day, get up and clean your face.After everything is over, shill Tao Gan and bring Tang Dezhong.Di Gong took a look at him, but he was a pedantic and cautious person, because he was a juren, so he didn't dare to be too negligent. At that time, he got up and asked, "is your surname Tang and your name is Dezhong?" The surname is Tang, and the name is Dezhong. I don’t know why my father’s father sent him to Taiwan at night. I have never dared to try my hand at things. If a person is a human being, but still wants to be detained by tolerance, and an official enters the door, he does not know how to deal with the unruly supervisor, rogue and treacherous? If the person does not know the reason, he still asks his father to explain it clearly. " Di Gong heard him say such pedantic words, it is indeed an honest move.Nai said: "Your husband is both good in character and learning, and has been admired by this place for a long time. It can be seen that you have acquired a different kind of jade, and the jade and stone have different shapes, and the education is not uniform. Is it the same?" Tang Dezhong listened and said, "Although what my father said is reasonable, the students he teaches are all descendants of aristocratic families. They have no time to spend in the day and night, and they are especially strict in studying at night. The homework is not too deep. And they never leave Huhu, where is there any accident? Could it be that my father misunderstood people's words?" Di Gong said with a smile: "Since I took office in this county, I have been seeking truth from facts. If there is no evidence to visit, I have never acted recklessly. Your husband said that the disciples you taught , are all disciples of the aristocratic family, do the children of the aristocratic family follow the rules? Let me ask how long has your student surnamed Xu been with your husband? His actions are all related to human life cases. Such behaviors are extremely illegal. Does your husband know?" Tang Dezhong replied: "This is even more strange. Others may be suspicious, but Mr. Xu has nothing to do with it. You can't say that he is the murderer just because his surname is Xu. Only then did your messenger say that the man surnamed Xu In the murder case, the father lived in the temple, and there was a person surnamed Xu. This is a fantastic and bizarre thing. What is there to rely on? And this fact is the father, Meng Lang. There is no trace of the case. The coffin was opened for inspection, and the body was turned against Sitting down, missed the future, and couldn't take care of himself at this time, so he pointed to the surname Xu as the murderer. Don't say that his father is a registered gentry. Ignore it." Seeing that Tang Dezhong insisted on denying Xu Detai on behalf of Xu Detai, Duke Di couldn't help being furious and said, "Because you are an example, you are the flesh and blood of poetry and prose in this county, so you don't want to involve innocent people. You don't know, you are confused and careless. In order to prevent the investigation, you dare to attack the county. If you don't show the evidence, how can you, this stupid rotten Confucian, be convinced!" After speaking, he ordered people to keep him in custody, and immediately brought Xu Detai's adulterer up for interrogation.

Tao Gan promised to send someone on duty to He Kai's house to bring the prisoner.They were ordered to go, and after a while, they were brought.

Seeing him kneeling on the ground, Di Gong took a closer look at him, and found that he was a very beautiful man.I thought to myself: "No wonder that whore has taken a fancy to him. I hate him. He is a good-looking man, but he is not righteous. He has committed such a crime. This county has to punish him." Immediately shouted loudly: " Are you Xu Detai? This county has been visiting you for a long time, and now that you have been seized today, how will you commit adultery with Bi Zhou, how will you murder Bi Shun, and tell the facts one by one, so as not to be punished. It can be seen that the legislation in this county is the strictest. , since you opened the coffin last time, please punish yourself, if you don’t get to the bottom of this matter, you won’t give up in your heart! If you confess carefully, the county may perform extra-legal grace to spare your life; if not, That is based on real evidence, and you cannot deny it!" Xu Detai saw Di Gong's stern words, although he was afraid in his heart, he refused to admit it when interrogated at this moment, so he replied: "Students are descendants of aristocratic families, ancestors and fathers, all of them Foreign officials. The family law is strict, how dare you go beyond the etiquette? Besides, Mr. Tang gets along day and night, eating and drinking together, this is a clear proof of the students. Father's stage has no reason to raise the quality in the dark night, involving adultery, no matter what you dare to do. Watching and hearing for days, They all came and passed by. I also ask my father to investigate and investigate again, and release the innocent, which is really a virtue." Di Gong said with a smile: "You can only deceive that faint gentleman of yours with clever words and confessions. This county is very clear about the details. , how can you allow you to pretend to be cunning? If you don't use torture in this case, it will be difficult to confess. Let's go with you and uncover the underground kiln. Where did it lead? I don't allow you to argue." After speaking, he hurriedly got up and ordered Ma Rong and other officers to bring back Tang Dezhong and Xu Detai to file a case.

After everyone went out, they suddenly cried and yelled outside, cursing all the way inside, only to hear the woman say: "You dog officer, it hasn't been many days since you released my daughter-in-law. It turns out that the murderer was captured and brought to confront her." , but that's all, suddenly and invisible, dragged good people, and in the middle of the night, many men rushed into the house. What's the reason? You are the one who picks up the man, and you are the one who releases him! Don't do this matter today Ming, don't say that I am an old and useless person, and I will go to Yanzhou with you to twist the charges, and I will not survive anyway because of the crime of disobedience to the officials." He walked towards the inside crying.Di Gongzhi is the Tang family, and hurriedly said, "You came just in time. I can take you with me, so that you don't know this ambiguous place." He also ordered servants to bring Bi Zhou's family to He Kai's house.After the order was finished, everyone left the store and came to Tang Dezhong's house.At this time, everyone in Huanghua Town knew about this matter, and came to investigate the case, and they all crowded together and stood in front of the door.Di Gong went in first, sat down in the study, and waited for the group to arrive. Then he came to Xu Detai's room, pointed to the underground kiln and asked, "Since you are a student of a family of scholars, you should keep your own place. Why are you under the bed frame in the bedroom? What's the use of digging this underground kiln? Is there anything harmful down there?" Xu Detai didn't speak at all when he arrived.Ma Rong stepped forward and said: "Since the grandfather has dug up the square brick, the bottom is nothing but a secret door leading to other places. Little man, let's go and explore again." Then he took the candlestick from Mrs. Qiao's hand and went inside a photo.There is only two or three feet deep, and a deep pond goes straight to the wall. The upper and lower sides are cut with wooden boards, and there is no soil.

Seeing that the brass bell was only in the air, he knew it was a secret signal, so he pulled the bell rope and made a loud sound.

Seeing a wooden board in front of it, it suddenly opened down, but it was a small round hole with four or five layers of quilts.Ma Rong stepped up from the technical stage, and there was a place about four feet square.I can't see the way in all directions, and I don't know where it leads to the next door.He was watching everywhere, and when he raised his head, he saw that there was a square brick on it to support his head. He was not happy, so he handed the candlestick to Mrs. Qiao, raised his hands above his head, and took the square brick.A faint light shot in from above, and then I stretched my head to look out of the cave, it was on the bedpost in Bi Shun's room.Seeing that the case had been solved, Ma Rong stood in the room by himself and ordered Qiao Tai to open the door. From the gate of Bi's house, he went around to the street and arrived at the gate of Tang's house.

When everyone saw him coming in from the outside, they were all surprised. They saw him saying to Tang: "The back door of the Zunfu has already been admired. Please come and have a look." Di Gonggong was in the room, waiting for the next news. Sitting quietly, he suddenly heard Mrs. Qiao come in and talk in front of her. She knew that she had reached the partition wall.Immediately asked: "Mrs. Qiao came up. But where does it go?" Mrs. Qiao replied, "It's under the foot of the bed. Please go down and have a look." Mrs. Di said, "Take Mr. Tang and Mr. Bi Tang together." Bring them here, and go down with the county, and they will be subdued by both of them." As they spoke, the officers and men had already mentioned the two of them, and they went from the foot of the bed to Bi's house one after another.At this time Tang Dezhong was stunned with anxiety, wishing he could die immediately.Mr. Di said to him, "Did you see this with your own eyes? You don't need to go out, but you did the murder case. Didn't you know it because you were ignorant and didn't teach it strictly?" Then he said to Bi Tang: "Your son Enemy, I have already captured this location. I found it in your wife's room. No wonder she stays at home all day and keeps the door closed, but there is another way. Could it be that the two of you are confused and caused Bi Shun to suffer great harm?" Bi Shun When the Tang family arrived at this time, he knew that he was fooling his daughter-in-law. Thinking of his son's death, he couldn't help but feel pain in his bones, screamed, and passed out on the ground.When Tang Dezhong saw Xu Detai, a student who did extremely illegal things, and he stayed with him all day long, he didn't know the secret, knowing that the crime was innocent, he was so anxious that his eyes shed tears, and he said to Duke Di: "I really don't know about this matter. Knowing that there is such an incident, it must not be caused intentionally. Now that the father has announced it, and there is no way to educate people, I have to admit my guilt willingly, and ask my father to punish Xu Detai." Seeing his situation like this, Di Gong said a few words of comfort , and then ordered someone to wake up Tang with ginger soup.Seeing him gnashing his teeth, getting up and going to her daughter-in-law to find Xu Detai desperately, Mr. Di hurriedly stopped him and said, "Why are you so ignorant? In the past, this county defended your son's justice and explained it to you like that. You are so stubborn. Now the case is now It has been announced, the person has been captured, and it is the day of your son's revenge, so you should wait for the county to torture and understand, and then punish the crime, why did you make trouble for no reason, and miss the county's business." Bi Tang heard these words , I had to cry in front of Mrs. Di and said: "It's not the old woman who made trouble in front of Mrs. Di, but because my son was made too poisonous by this bastard. I didn't know it before, and I thought Mrs. Di was an enemy. Now it's obvious, I wish I could eat her The meat of the goods. If the Grandfather hadn't been able to discern the details and be an upright official, my son's injustice would really sink to the bottom of the sea." Before he could finish speaking, when he saw tears streaming down his face, he cried bitterly.Di Gong ordered people to help Bi Tang out, and ordered Tang Dezhong to release all the students from the library, temporarily seal off the houses, and order people to fill up the cellar. Bi Tang did not need to bring a case. Church.

After the order was finished, Ma Rong and He Kai had already expelled all the idlers and others. All the criminals were brought up, and the adulterers were handed over to the official media for custody, and the adulterers were put in prison.I don't know what will happen next, let's see the next chapter.

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