Chapter 387: Break
The next day, we opened a question.
‘Dongdongdongdong’ As the awe-in-the-top bulge sounded, twelve burly figures, wolves with their eyebrows raised, black and red hats, pheasant feathers in their temples, soapy red male uniforms, and high-soled black boots; yamen runners holding long sticks of water and fire, stood face to face under the hall.
Silence in a formal fifth-rank official uniform, sitting upright behind the big case, with a plaque of "Mirror hanging high" above my head, and behind me was the fangs of the river and sea. The huge screen of the rising sun set off the young Master of the Mansion with great majesty!
Silent took a deep breath, picked up the gavel on the table, and slapped hard: "Sheng... Hall!"
‘Wei...wu...’ The sound of water and fire sticks from the three yamen runners hitting the ground.
"Teach people to criminalize Huang Qi..." said silently.
A sound of chains wiping through the floor, and a blind man with disheveled head was clamped by two yamen runners, one left and one right, brought to the lobby, kicked his knees back, and then knelt straight on the ground.
There was a buzzing sound in the crowd... The case was tried in the second hall, and idle people could not see it, but today is a major human relationship case of "son killing father" and a big earth-shaking incident. Therefore, according to the rules, representatives from every street and every yard must be sent to listen. When they go back, they have to preach to their neighbors to serve as a warning to others.
Chen Silent frowned slightly, and slapped the aggro and said, "People of all kinds are kept quiet!"
The yamen runners poked the water and fire sticks on the floor tiles, making a shocking "crack" sound, which made people outside feel numb, as if they were about to be spanked, and immediately became silent.
‘I can’t blame you and want to be an official, it feels so good.’ I thought silently and said seriously: “Come on, bring the miserable master…”
A man with a similar appearance to the blind man, but aged similarly, was also taken into the lobby, kneeling on Huang Qi's left, saying, "Master Qingtian is the master!"
"Who is the victim?" asked silently. Although it was a waste of time, the procedures cannot be abolished.
"The third household in the east of Shiqiao Street, Tong'anfang, Wu County, is called Huang Shi." The miser said.
"What's the matter?" asked silently.
"The little man, the brother Huang Qi, who is worse than beasts, kills his father!" Huang Shi said in a crying voice: "Yu Da killed my old father the day before yesterday!"
The crowd immediately started to make noise. Although the incident had spread all the time, it was still extremely shocking to hear the victim say it in person.
The crowd calmed down again with the sound of the "trumpet" of the gavel. Silently asked the blind man again, "Who is the one wearing the shackle?" The main function of this question is to verify the correctness.
The blind man said: "The sinful people Huang Qi."
The onlookers outside said 'huh', and it turned out that the reply should be 'Caomin Huang Qi' or 'Caomin I don't know what crime', etc. Huang Qi's reply was "Caomin Huang Qi." The master has not yet convicted the case, so why did he plead guilty?
The silent face sank, "What crime have you committed? Come from the truth."
Huang Qi bowed his head and said, "The criminals committed the crime of killing their fathers. They know that they are serious and dare not hide anything. Master Qingtian, every crime committed by the criminals is true, and they should be cut into pieces."
Not only the audience, but also the third yamen runners looked at each other. Judging from their years of experience, as soon as they came to court, almost all the defendants would deny them in every way, and they would not admit their conspiracy without reason.
Why did the defendant become a plaintiff and rush to admit the account today? Are you afraid of being reincarnated by mistake? But he confused everyone, but said silently: "Huang Qi, the criminals of the people, according to the criminal law of the Ming Dynasty, will all murder their parents be executed. Are you going to be killed by these 3,600 knives?" Although his tone was plain, the murderous aura between the lines still made people shudder.
Huang Qi was indeed scared like a sieve of bran. His sweat beads were flowing down the ground, but he still said without changing his original intention: "The criminals know that the crime is true, please give it to the master."
It was really strange that Tang Monk was sitting on Zhu Bajie. Everyone thought to himself that he had convicted himself before he had seen someone come up. However, they were also disappointed. This case would definitely not be tried again, which was really boring.
Sure enough, seeing that the Lord of the Mansion seemed to believe it, he said to the blind Huang Qi: "You are really a very evil person and deserve to be cut into pieces. I have decided to slander you as soon as possible."
Huang Qi was so scared that he collapsed on the ground, trembling like a sieve.
Then he heard the silent voice and said, "Don't expect to be reborn again! Who else do you want to see? I will be kind to you outside the law and call you to say goodbye."
Huang Qi burst into tears and said, "No more, I have no hope of falling in love with you."
"Don't you even miss your own son?" said silently, "He is outside." He said without caring about Huang Qi's agreement, he ordered someone to bring Huang Qi's son.
After a while, Huang Qi's son was heard, standing timidly beside his blind father. He heard a silent voice: "You father and son have nothing to say, as today is the last chance!"
After hearing this, the son grabbed Huang Qi's hand and lowered his head to sobbed. Huang Qi's unsightly eyes had turbid tears, and he trembled with his son's face and said, "Son, you must be a good person in the future. As long as you live a peaceful and conservative life in the future, I will have no worries about my father." He said in a low voice and choked and said, "Don't miss me, my eyes are blind, and it is not worth missing..." Perhaps thinking of the terrible cuts, the blue veins on the back of his hand swelled up, and he held his son's arm tightly, as if he wanted to vent something, his son still looked sad and panicked, lowering his head without saying a word, allowing his father to pinch it.
Chen Si immediately ordered his son to retreat. The blind man refused to let go, and the two yamen runners stepped forward and dragged the child out. The child never said a word and allowed the yamen runners to drag him away.
Huang Qi thought the verdict was announced next, so he knelt on the ground and waited tremblingly. Huang Shi and Yijiao also waited with breath, but he didn't expect that Lord Mansion Master was not in a hurry at all. He actually picked up a book and read it with relish, as if he had forgotten that it was in the lobby.
After waiting patiently for a while, the crowd began to whisper, thinking, "Which is this singing? Why do you think the book is coming?" Gui Youguang, who was taking the transcript, couldn't read it, and whispered: "Master, should we pronounce the verdict?"
"Oh..." Shunshu put down the book and said slowly: "Take the criminal to the back hall."
Huang Shi was immediately anxious: "Sir, why don't you announce the verdict?"
"I will not let the people interfere with the case?" I glanced at him silently and said, "Put your mouth!" Then two yamen runners went up and grabbed them firmly without saying a word. They used a small board one foot long and one inch wide to slap Huang Shi's mouth.
He beat his lips into a sausage in two strokes, which made Huang Shi whimper, "Stop hitting, I shut up, I shut up..." The yamen runner beat him a few more times before letting him go. The pain made him squirm on the ground with his head in his arms, but he didn't dare to make any noise.
After a while, Chen Mo ordered people to call back the son of Huang Qi. As soon as he came to court, he ordered him to take it off left and right, press it to the ground, pull out his pants, and then beat the board.
The boy was so scared that he shouted, "Why do you want to hit me?"
"Why?" Silence slapped the agglomeration heavily, and shouted with a blue face: "Your father admitted everything just now. You beat your grandfather to death. You still want your father to pay for the crime. You still don't come to the real way to avoid the pain of flesh and blood!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole house was quiet. Even Huang Shi, who had two sausages, widened his eyes and looked at his nephew in disbelief.
The yamen runners knocked on the water and fire stick together at the right time and shouted: "Take!"
He scared Huang Qi's son to kneel down on the ground with a thump, and said tremblingly: "It's true that I beat my grandfather to death, but it was his own idea for my father to come and confess his guilt. It has nothing to do with me. Please spare my life!" After that, he kowtowed repeatedly.
The extremely quiet field was in an uproar. Everyone was unbelievable about the sudden change. They were talking about it for a while, and it was noisy like a vegetable market!
"Silent! Silent!" Chen Si slapped the arbor and said, "There is noisy, a wisp of the palm!"
When they saw Huang Shi, who looked like a duck, everyone stopped their voices, fearing that they would receive two large meat sausages.
He looked at Huang Qi's son silently and said, "I won't come from the real thing, so I won't be able to get rid of my flesh and blood."
The child was less than sixteen years old and was already scared. He heard this and he poured beans into the matter. He told me that the whole family had no other job, and they made a living by relying on a workshop and a few looms. However, because his father was blind and his grandfather was not happy, he always favored his uncle and handed over the workshop to his uncle. His uncle was even more mean, and he didn't give a son to his father who was unable to work...
The huge gap between the rich and the poor and the uncle's family made the boy very painful, so he recorded the account on the grandfather who favored his uncle and discriminated against his father. The relationship between the grandparent and grandson was extremely bad. Finally, one day, after a fierce quarrel, he sharpened the wooden sword with himself and attacked his grandfather from behind. At that time, his father was the only one in the family. He found out that this was frightening, but for the sake of his son, he came up with a solution.
Silence then made people take Huang Qi back. Seeing that his son had recruited him in full, Huang Qi could no longer hide it. He confessed to the fact that he was punished instead of his son. Finally, he bowed and cried and said, "Sir, it is said that it is the fault of the son who is not a godfather. Please forgive him for his life and punish me, a father who has no choice but to teach his son."
He glanced at the dead young man in silence and said in a deep voice: "The case has been clear. Let's detain the father and son for the time being. The public trial will end here today. As a result, after this official's consideration, a verdict will be announced." He looked at Huang Shiyi meaningfully and slapped the auspicious wood and said, "Get out!"
Although everyone was still unsatisfied, they had to kneel down and send him to the Lord of the Mansion together.
In the signing room, Wang Yongji and Gui Youguang sat opposite each other. Gui Youguang asked with a smile: "How can you be sure that it is Huang Qi's son?"
After the silence of the case, he had already removed his official uniform, changed into a light blue robe with a big collar, and sipped a sip of fragrant tea and said, "That is Lingchi's crime. If it weren't for the close relatives of his flesh and blood, who would have suffered it on his behalf?" He put down the teacup and said, "After noon yesterday, I called the daughter of the deceased, that is, Huang Qi's sister. I asked about their relationship in detail, and guessed that the real murderer was his son, so today I deliberately let them part with life and death. When the boy's unnatural behavior and unreasonable expression, I felt a secret in my heart. Then I asked when he was restless, and the truth was naturally revealed."
"Sir, wise!" the two of them said in convincingly: "We can't wait."
"Don't say this," Chen Si shook his head and said, "Let me tell you how to judge this case first?"
"According to the Ming Dynasty, those who kill grandparents will be punished with the same crime as those who kill parents will be executed by Lingchi." Wang Yongji said: "There is also a 'Whoever knows that a companion wants to commit murder and wants to commit a plan to kill others, and does not immediately stop him from being rescued, and after being killed, he will not sue him for one hundred sticks.'" He paused and said: "So what the subordinate means is that Huang Qi is a hundred sticks, so he will not be held responsible for the crime on behalf of others... After all, it is normal for a father to want to protect his son."
"It's OK," Gui Youguang said: "I agree with Runlian's judgment."
"Then how do you judge his son?" asked silently.
"This..." Wang Yongji hesitated: "He will be fourteen years old soon, and the 'sometimes' is no longer applicable, so there is no reason to give a light sentence."
"It seems you support Lingchi?" said silently.
"Yes." Wang Yongji nodded and said, "This is a serious crime of human ethics. If the sentence is not severe, it will be difficult to calm the public's anger and promote education."
"Where is Duke Zhenchuan?" Chen Shu asked Gui Youguangdao.
"The officials basically agreed with Runlian's opinion," Gui Youguang thought for a moment, "But after all, he was a teenager, and it seemed a bit inappropriate to use Lingchi... I think he was young, so he would be sentenced to hang." He said in a deep voice: "This case is already like this. If you report to the province, the Censorate will definitely increase the verdict, and it should be a 'dead' in the end."
After saying that, he asked with Wang Yongji and said, "What do you think of it, sir?"
"The crime is hateful, and the feelings are pitiful..." Chen Shu shook his head and sighed.
After hearing the silent words, Wang Yongji said, "Sir, that violent young man is so inhumane that he must not be forgiven, nor can he forgive!"
"I know!" Silent nodded heavily and said, "But just exchange for one life. Don't pay his father too. Instruct them to put the stick on the light when they execute the execution."
Gui Youguang said: "Sir, even if you want to save people, you can't use this method, otherwise outsiders will only think that it is the person below who sympathizes with Huang Qi, but they will think that you are too strict."
"What you said makes sense, then just stick thirty." Silently nodded, "Let them not hurt people."
"This is OK." Gui Youguang nodded.
"Also," said Chen Si: "According to Huang Qi's sister's report, their father has long ignored the accounts, and they are all Huang Shi's wife's wife. The one who is harsh on Huang Qi's family is Huang Shi's wife. This woman often uses the excuse of "father not allowed" to not give Huang Qi the living expenses she deserves, and instigates the relationship between her father and Huang Qi. As a result, the father-son relationship becomes increasingly stiff, making Huang Qi's son believe it and mistakenly regard his grandfather as his enemy."
"When it comes to this tragedy, it is inseparable from Huang Shi and his woman's evil deeds." As he said that, he gently buckled the table and said, "You can't make them proud, otherwise how can Huang Qi live in the future?"
"Even if this statement is true," Gui Youguang said: "We cannot punish their sins, we can only condemn them."
"What's the use of condemnation?" said silently: "Wait, after ten days and half a month, they should give the handle themselves." He said in a low voice: "Send someone to stare at the Huang family. Once Huang Qi's wife is driven out, please come to her."
"Sir..." Gui Youguang was sophisticated and seemed to have awakened: "Do you want to fish?"
"No," Chen Si rolled his eyes and said, "I am Jiang Taigong fishing, and I hope those who take the bait."
Seven days later, he passed by again. When the miserable Huang Shi stood in the hall, he was silent and was about to lead the criminal, when he heard the drum sound outside.
Silently stopped the trial and ordered people to bring in the drumbeater. When Huang Shiyi saw the visitor, he couldn't help but change his face and said to himself: "What is this woman here for?" The visitor was the sister-in-law who had just been driven out of the house by him! But his mouth has not yet swelled, and he dared not talk too much if he beat him to death.
Chen Silently asked her who she was and what she told her?
The woman cried: "Minister woman Huang Li, sued her uncle Huang Shi's family and drove me out of the house innocently."
"Is this a matter?" asked Huang Shi silently.
"Her man and son both committed crimes and were imprisoned." Huang Shi said: "What qualifications does she have to live in our Huang family?"
"Oh," Chen Si nodded and said, "That's it, okay." He said, slapped the awkward and said, "Take someone to commit suicide."
Huang Qi was brought up and silently pronounced: "Huang Qi, you have covered up the murderer of the ancestor and tried to take the blame for him. According to the law, you are punished with a hundred sticks. However, the love between father and son is a great affection for human beings. As a father, you wish to bear it on behalf of your son, which is understandable, so it was reduced to thirty sticks. Do you have any objection?"
Huang Qi naturally had no objection to such a light sentence.
Chen Si looked at Huang Shi again and said, "After the execution, your brother can be released. Don't you want him and his wife to go back?"
Huang Shi knew that he could not resist, so he gave in and said, "Yes."
Chen Si asked again, "Can your father leave a will?" He dared to bet that there was no.
"What will?" Huang Shi said ignorantly.
"It seems that there is nothing left," said quietly: "Come on, present the Huang family's property list."
The yamen runner presented a piece of paper to the adults, looked silently and said, "Your family has two houses and nine looms, right?"
"Sir, our family only has one property," Huang Shi said with a sagging face: "There are only five looms."
Chapter completed!