Chapter 287 Wronged Prison

Zhu Shusheng, a native of Yanggu County, is young and unobstructed. A man was widowed and lived alone. He was lonely and unbearable. So he asked the matchmaker to kiss him. He came to the matchmaker's house and met a young woman. She was beautiful. After inquiring, he learned that the young woman was the matchmaker's neighbor. He immediately said to the matchmaker, "Please ask my mother to plead for me and marry the young woman next door as his wife." The matchmaker laughed and said, "She is a married woman. How can she marry you? Unless you kill her father-in-law."

The scholar said, "That's a good idea. That's it." A month later, the young woman went out to collect debts, was killed, and abandoned in the wilderness. The county magistrate arrested the scholar for interrogation. The scholar was not the murderer, and he was even wronged. The county magistrate did not listen and suspected that the scholar had an affair with the young woman, and the two murdered the deceased together. At present, the young woman was arrested in court, severely tortured, and the young woman made a move and confessed indiscriminately.

The county magistrate took the confession to the scholar and ordered him to confess his guilt quickly. The scholar said miserably, "The young woman next door is innocent. I coveted her beauty and killed her father-in-law. The real culprit is me, which has nothing to do with her." The county magistrate asked, "What kind of voucher do you have?" The scholar said, "There is a blood coat at home as proof."

The county magistrate sent his men to search the scholar's house. He did not find the blood clothes. He was angry and hateful. Instead, he spread his anger on the scholar and beat him again. The scholar said, "The evidence is indeed at home. My mother can't bear to see me die, so she refuses to take it out and wait for me to go home to look for it."

The servant escorted the scholar home. The scholar said to his mother, "With or without blood clothes, I will definitely die. It's better to take blood clothes and get rid of it early death." The mother burst into tears, entered her son's bedroom, took out a coat, cut her arm with a dagger, dripped the blood, soaked it red, and handed it over to the government officials for recovery.

The county magistrate received the bloody clothes, and the physical evidence was in hand. He immediately sentenced the scholar to death, and he was beheaded after autumn. On this day, the county magistrate was sitting in the hall. Suddenly, a man broke into the hall and stared at the county magistrate angrily and scolded, "Such a stupid official is also worthy of governing the people?" The county magistrate was furious and immediately ordered his men to arrest the man. The yamen locked the man firmly. The man sneered slightly, his arm shook, and the huge force came out. Suddenly, the yamen fell to the ground. The county magistrate was shocked and wanted to run away. The man shouted, "I am the general of the next warehouse next week. Dusk official, if you take another step, you will take your life immediately. Listen to me, everyone. The murderer is another person named Gong Biao, which has nothing to do with the scholar. After saying that, he fell to the ground.

After a long time, the man woke up with a pale face. He was surprised and said, "Why did I get to the county government? Did I leak the news and the matter was exposed?" The county magistrate was surprised and immediately detained the man for interrogation. It turned out that he was not someone else, but a palace sign.

At the beginning, the young woman went out to collect debts. When Gong Biao learned the message, he intercepted and killed him halfway. He wanted to seize the money. Unexpectedly, the deceased's pocket was empty and he didn't get a penny. Instead, he owed a life. Later, when I heard that the scholar was arrested and imprisoned, I was glad. Working at home on this day, I suddenly ran to the county government in one breath, and I didn't figure out the reason until now.

The county magistrate asked the reason and immediately closed the case. Gong Biao was sentenced to death for intentional homicide. As for the scholar, he was acquitted. Due to the confusion of the trial, the county magistrate was finally removed from office, imprisoned, and soon died in prison.

After the scholar was released from prison, he never forgot the young woman and came to propose marriage again. The young woman thanked him for saving his life, so she promised her body.