Xuanyuan Jue

Chapter 22
"Bitch!" Hu Tuhu gritted his teeth angrily when he saw that the woman ignored the "Lushui couple"'s affection for self-protection.He jumped up from the kang, pressed the woman under him a few times, kicked and beat him.

The woman did not show any weakness, she wailed and bit and scratched Hu Tuhu's face.For a moment, two naked men and women on the kang wrestled into a ball.

"It's really fucking wrong!" Seeing that the two were too miserable, Lu Ban's beard almost exploded.He swung his knife and chopped it on the kangqin, and said angrily, "Stop it all! If you dare to act violently again, I'll chop you off!"

Seeing that Lu Ban's head was really angry, how could the two on the kang dare to fight?They were all frightened and stayed there, not daring to move.

"Okay," Feng Shen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, pointing at the two of them, "Hurry up and get dressed, what do you look like naked?"

When Widow Wu heard this, she remembered that she was still naked, so she hurriedly put on her obscene clothes and padded jacket.Hu Tuhu did not dare to be negligent, and hastily put on his trousers.

Because he came in a hurry, Lu Ban never wore chains and shackles on his head.Seeing that the two were dressed properly, without saying a word to them, he took off the butcher's belt and tied them tightly.

Afraid that the two would continue to yell, Lu Ban pulled the quilt again, pulled out some cotton balls, and stuffed their mouths tightly.

After binding the two, Feng Shen went to the pigsty in the backyard.He looked at it carefully for a long time, but found that there was nothing unusual.

The return journey is not close, and it is really inconvenient to escort the couple.After discussing with Lu Bantou for a while, Feng Shen planned to go to the village to hire a cart, load them in the cart, and then drive them back to the government office.

After the discussion between the two, Lu Bantou stayed behind as a guard, while Feng Shen went to the village to hire a car.After asking for a long time, they finally found a family with a mule cart. After negotiating the price, the farmer drove the mule cart to the door of Hu Tuhu.

After throwing Hu Tuhu and the woman into the car, Feng Shen and Lu Bantou also quickly jumped into the car.Knowing that Feng Lu is the official of the yamen, the farmer naturally didn't dare to ask more questions, he shook off the whip and lashed the mule's rump, and started to drive the cart obediently.

The mule was good at walking, and after a while, he rushed to Shuntian Mansion.After Feng Shen paid the fare, he and Lu Bantou escorted the male and female criminals to the lobby.At this moment, some yamen servants rushed to Zuixianlou to report the letter. After checking the letter, they hurried back with the official guards guarding there.

Everything was ready, and everyone just waited for Fu Yin to ascend to the court to settle the case.

Hearing that there was another strange case, Fu Yin hastily adjusted his official uniform and rushed from the back office to the lobby.Butcher Hu and Widow Wu committed adultery and were caught in the act. They came to the lobby feeling guilty and afraid, and they both confessed before interrogation.Fu Yin asked the two of them to draw a charge, and then sentenced them to be punished with a cane.Taking advantage of this time, Feng Shen and Zha Wuzuo rushed to perform an autopsy on the strange corpse.

According to the third volume of No. 30 of the Daqing Law, anyone who is in a relationship with an adulterer can get eighty sticks; and a married man can get ninety sticks.Wu's family is a widow, so the governor ordered the government servants to beat her up to eighty times.Butcher Hu seduced and raped Widow Wu, of course he must be punished, but he was also implicated in the next case, so Fu Yin first recorded the board he received, and he will be punished for both crimes after the next case is tried.

On the government official's official case, there are four lottery holders.There is a word engraved on each lottery, which is exactly the word "strict law enforcement".This "executive" signature is the arrest order.The other three are the white-headed, black-headed and red-headed lottery.The colors of the three orders are different, so their functions are naturally different.The white-headed lottery has one board each, the black-headed lottery has five boards each, and the red-headed lottery has ten boards each.Not only that, but if you use the white head, then this board will be a pain in the flesh at most, and it will not hurt the bones.If blackheads are used, the skin will be torn apart and the flesh will be bruised. If you carry them home, you will definitely not be able to get off the kang within ten days and a half months.And the red-headed order is specially designed to deal with those heinous and tricky people.If the yamen servants see that the magistrate threw a red stick, they must use all their strength when executing the punishment, and do it according to the plan.Often when a red sign comes off the board, even if the murderer survives, he will have to shed a layer of skin alive.

This crime of adultery should not be forgiven lightly.But when Fu Yin thought that Widow Wu was a girl, he also murmured in his heart.If the punishment is light, I'm afraid I won't be able to serve as an example to others; but if the punishment is severe, I'm worried that the woman won't survive the torture and die in court.After much deliberation, Fu Yin decided to make a compromise.He drew sixteen black-headed lottery sticks in a row, threw them down the hall, and ordered the left and right to start the punishment of the cane.

All the Yamen servants were ordered to rush forward and push the Widow Wu to the ground, took off her trousers several times, and began to beat her.

Because the black-headed lottery was thrown, the yamen servant who executed the punishment also knew it well.When the plank fell, it intentionally avoided the bones on the thighs, but specifically picked the thick fleshy place on the tip of the buttocks to get off the plank.But even so, Widow Wu was wailing again and again, in pain.

After only a dozen boards, the flesh on Widow Wu's butt turned red with blood. She struggled desperately while begging for mercy.But how do those yamen servants care about this?He just pressed his head and feet hard, and continued to swing the board down.

Halfway through the beating, Widow Wu was in so much pain that she couldn't make a sound, her mouth was drooling, and she lay on the ground and twitched.The flesh on the buttocks also turned up at this moment, rotten like mud.

By the time the [-]th board was finished, Widow Wu had already passed out from the pain.One of the lower body was incontinent, and a bubble of thick urine smeared all over the floor along the crotch.A few yamen servants didn't shy away from it, they pulled her pants up and hurriedly lifted them down.

Seeing this, the butcher Hu who was kneeling under the hall was even more frightened.Before Fu Yin could speak, he kowtowed repeatedly.

After the trial of the adultery case, the next step is the murderous serious case.With a slap of the gavel, the relevant suspects were brought to the court together.

Fu Yin first asked the shopkeeper and waiter of Zuixianlou, but the two were just flustered and insisted that they had no knowledge of the matter.When the cook Niu Er was awaiting trial, Niu Er was still talking as before.After trial and trial, the key to the case fell on the butcher Hu.

Just as Fu Yin was about to speak, Feng Shen and Zha Wu came back from the autopsy.Therefore, Fu Yin first put Hu Tuhu down and asked them what progress they had made.

"Report to my lord," Feng Shen bowed to the hall, "I just checked for a long time, and I have been able to confirm that under the strange pig's skin, it is really a human corpse!"

"There is such a thing?" Fu Yin was taken aback, "Feng Jing, why did the human corpse grow in the pig's skin?"

"Don't worry, my lord," Feng Shen waved his hand, "Why don't you first interrogate this butcher, and then make a decision."

"Alright!" Fu Yin nodded, and turned to the butcher Hu, "Butcher Hu, hurry up and invite you to commit murder!"

"I'm wronged, my lord!" Hu Tuhu wailed, "At best, a villain would kill pigs and goats...how could he have the guts to kill people?"

"The mansion asks you," Fu Yin pointed to Niu Er and said, "Do you recognize this man?"

"I recognize it!" Hu Tuhu nodded repeatedly, "He...he is the cook of Zuixianlou!"

Fu Yin nodded, and asked again: "Did you send him a meat pig this morning?"

"Yes... yes..." Butcher Hu hurriedly said, "This Niu Er is the villain's regular customer... The villain will send fat pigs to him every day... Today the villain is up at five o'clock, Picked a bite and sent it to Zuixian Tower... When it was delivered there, Niu Er thought the pig was too thin, so he gave the villain a good beating..."

"Don't talk about it!" Fu Yin slapped the gavel and shouted, "Where did the pig come from? Why don't you tell me?"

"Yes..." Hu Tuhu shrank his neck in fright, and quickly told the truth:

As mentioned earlier, this butcher does not raise pigs himself, but sells some from outside through other means for slaughter.If he encounters that kind of old and sick pig, he will not dislike it, so he will buy it at a low price, and when someone wants meat, he will kill it and cut it.

In recent days, it has been snowing and the official roads are slippery, so it is inconvenient to go out to sell pigs.Helplessly, Zuixianlou used a lot of it, and Niu Ercheng was urging for pigs all day long.In desperation, Butcher Hu pushed his wheelbarrow and ran around the outskirts of the city to see where he could find cheap meat pigs.

But at this time, when the New Year is approaching, the pig farmers in the farms are not willing to sell, and they all plan to wait until the year before the year to slaughter them and keep them for their own use.Therefore, Hu Tuhu searched for several days, but did not sell a few.Even if you get it occasionally, the price is naturally not cheap.Coupled with the low price for Niu Er, this handover won't make much money.

Butcher Hu thought to himself: If he raises the price for Niu Er, he is afraid of offending him, and then he will lose this long-term customer;Just when he was in a dilemma, Hu Tuhu met an ugly man named Lai Qing.

Na Laiqing has a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, speaking with a foreign accent.He heard that butcher Hu wanted to sell pigs, so he rushed three pigs to him.

Seeing that Lai Qing's pigs were too thin, Butcher Hu didn't want to buy them at first, but when he asked the price, his eyes widened in shock.

Nothing else, Lai Qing's asking price is indeed terribly low.Seeing that it is profitable, wouldn't Butcher Hu not be tempted?The butcher Hu has been thinking for a while, planning to raise the fat pigs sold at a high price first, and then sell them for money when the price rises in the next year.And the lean pig that was obtained from Lai Qing was slaughtered first to deal with Zuixianlou.

When the banknotes were due, Hu Tuhu was still a little worried.Although Lai Qing's pigs are thin, the price is ridiculously cheap.After asking a few more words, Lai Qing stopped covering up and told Butcher Hu directly that his pigs were all stolen from nearby farmers' homes, so he didn't dare to sell them for a high price. up.

Hearing that it was stolen goods, Hu Tuhu was a little confused.But Lai Qing couldn't help persuading him from the sidelines, and the pig was indeed cheap, so he bought it all from Lai Qing as soon as he got mad.

After buying the three lean pigs, Butcher Hu temporarily kept them in a pigsty in the backyard.But who would have thought that after only one night, the three lean pigs disappeared.

(End of this chapter)