After a while, the owner of the village came, a tall and thick man, wearing a silk white robe and a red cloth belt around his waist. He had a square face and big ears, looking powerful. He looked at Yin Manyuan, who was wearing official uniform and had a serious face, and said, "The little owner of the village is a little disappointed." It's just that I don't know what happened in Luzhuang, so I ask the county magistrate to forgive me.
Do you have a woman named Lingxiang in Luzhuang? Yin Manyuan asked straight to the point.
oops! County Grand Master, Lingxiang is my woman. She is the daughter of a nearby horseman’s wife. She is knowledgeable, courteous, and law-abiding. She will not make any mistakes, right? The owner of the village was very scared in his heart, but he had to calmly show off to the magistrate that she was a good person.
May I have your name? Yin Manyuan waved the riding crop in his hand, pointed it at him and asked.
Hehe, my name is Lu Hu, I am the owner of Lujiazhuang and the county magistrate. I was offended and failed to report it in time. As Lu Hu said this, he bowed his back and felt uncomfortable in his heart.
Master Lu, if you say your woman has not made any mistake, then you have made a mistake or a crime. Yin Manyuan remembered that the water ghost Qi Wu said that the water ghost Jianming was dragged to the Moon River and drowned by his friend Lu Hu for some reason. Now that he was facing the number, he deliberately pointed it out.
Alas, county magistrate, don’t be joking. In our Lujiazhuang, not only I, Lu Hu, will not make mistakes or commit crimes, but even the people here will not make mistakes or commit crimes. Under the discipline of the Lu family's etiquette and law, they are all good people who cannot be said to be bad. Lu Hu spoke a lot of self-praise, but Yin Manyuan was unwilling to listen, but said in a commanding tone, Master Lu, call your woman here and I want to question her.
County Grand Master, I'm very sorry, Lingxiang went back to her parents' home today. Lu Hu lied. He was already sensitively aware of the incident where he drowned his friend who was not guilty of death in the Moon River without anyone noticing. Could it be that Magistrate Yin had a clue? And hold on to it? His heart was pounding.
All right! One day's grace. You can send Lingxiang to the county government office tomorrow morning. I'll wait in the courtroom. Any delay will be at your own risk. Yin Manyuan said a few words and led a group of government servants to catch their heads and whip their horses away.
When Lu Hu returned home, he looked at his wife who was sitting on the chair in the hall, picking up the soles of her shoes, and said, "Lingxiang, this is terrible. The newly appointed magistrate of the county, Yin County, may know about it." Lingxiang became nervous. She stopped what she was doing and asked, "What's the matter?" Lu Hu made a gesture of pressing down the water, and then said, it's not about the Moon River. It should be unknown to the gods and ghosts. I guess you won't tell it, and I will definitely not tell it. The dog officer seems to have caught wind of something. .
Lingxiang's mind suddenly flashed back to the scene where her husband drowned her lover in the Moon River. It was a dark and windy night, and she was carrying a lantern to keep her husband company. It should be said that the couple conspired to murder him. For many years, no one mentioned it in a calm situation. That was because No outsider knows about this. Thinking of this, she said, Lu Lang, what's so scary? No one saw it anyway. Even if the dog officer suspects you, there is no evidence. If you don't admit it, what will he do to you?
Lu Hu kept shaking his head and said, Lingxiang, you know, after all, I pushed the person into the river and drowned him. If that dog officer catches me and tortures me, I won’t be able to bear the physical pain and I will most likely say it out. What's even more frightening is that the dog officer wants me to take you to the Yamen Court for questioning tomorrow morning. Today he passed by the village on a big horse and asked me to call you out. I lied and said that you had gone to your parents' house and were not at the village, so he let me go. You can't escape tomorrow!
After hearing this, Lingxiang was worried at first, and then had an idea. She said, Lu Lang, I won't go tomorrow. If you go, don't go empty-handed. Bring one hundred taels of silver to the county magistrate, saying that this is a little thought from the people of Luzhuang. If the magistrate asks about me, you can continue to lie and say that I didn't reply yesterday. Then he asked the county magistrate, what do you want from me, Ma Lingxiang?
Lu Hu said, this is a good idea, I might as well try it. Of course Lu Hu was not very happy, mainly because he was reluctant to part with one hundred taels of silver, but on the other hand, thinking about it, it was worth it to buy peace!
The next morning, in the Shapo County Yamen Court Hall, Yin Manyuan, dressed in official robes, was sitting there, waiting for Lu Hu to bring his wife Lingxiang to see him. However, after waiting for half an hour, there was still no sign of anyone. There is an unknown fire. How dare you, Lu Hu, not listen to what I, the magistrate, say? I will arrest you and your wife Lingxiang together another day to investigate the murder case that happened in Moon River. It would be strange if I don't put you, Lu Hu, on death row.
Suddenly the yamen servant came in and announced that there was a man outside the yamen who claimed to be the owner of Lujiazhuang and asked to see the county magistrate. Yin Manyuan frowned and asked, is it just Master Lu? The yamen servant said that there was only one person, Master Lu. Yin Manyuan waved his hand and said he couldn't see him. Just as the officer turned around and left, Yin Manyuan stood up again and said loudly, "See, use a rope to tie Master Lu to see me."
After a while, I heard people shouting "Unjust Accusation" outside the Yamen. Then Hu Captou and his team tied up Lu Hu and escorted him to the court. They ordered him to kneel down, but he did not kneel down and kept shouting "Unjust Accusation". Yin Manyuan slapped the scaffolding and said sternly, "Why are you being wronged?" You are involved in a murder case, yet you dare to claim that you are unjust?
Lord Magistrate, don’t talk nonsense! What murder did I commit? Isn't this a huge injustice? Lu Hu said sternly.
Hu Captou and the others also felt inexplicable. They had never heard that Lu Hu had committed any murder. If he had indeed committed a murder, Hu Captou would have been the first to know.
Hu Captou, I order you to prepare your horse and go to Lujiazhuang now to capture Ma Lingxiang for questioning. Yin Manyuan made gestures while talking.
yes! Hu Captou bowed his hands and left.
At this time, Lu Hu said tremblingly, Magistrate Yin, please give me an order to untie me! I, Lu Hu, am indeed a good citizen, and the people in my Lujiazhuang are all good people. I heard that you took up your new post in our Shapo County. In order to support your work, the people of Luzhuang also donated one hundred taels of silver for me to bring to the Yamen. This was also to support you as the director of Yin County Magistrate, but you, Yin Magistrate County, misunderstood I mean well.
Several government officials noticed that his pocket was bulging, and they estimated that the one hundred taels of silver were in it. At this moment, Yin Manyuan said that we are not talking about donating money now. We will decide whether to release you after our wife is captured and the case is heard.
Unjustly accused! Unjustly accused. Lu Hu was impatient and kept shouting.
If you make any more noise, I will have the guards gag your mouth with a piece of cloth. Yin Manyuan said seriously.
Lu Hu became more honest and stood silent.
A few days later, one of the two water ghosts in the Moon River was happy and the other was depressed. The happy one was Jian Ming and the depressed one was Qi Wu. That's because Yin Manyuan, the magistrate of Shapo County, ordered a group of government officials to go down to the river to search for Jian Ming's remains to find evidence that Lu Hu drowned Jian Ming. This can be said to avenge Jian Ming, and of course Jian Ming is happy.
He also knew that when he had an affair with Ma Lingxiang and was caught cheating, under normal circumstances he could be beaten up, handed over to the clan leader for family law treatment, or escorted to the government for punishment. In short, he would not be punished with death.
But what made him frown was that a group of government officials went down to the river and did not find his remains. They only fished Qiwu's bones from the river bed under the millstone and claimed them as his remains. All the skin and flesh on this skeleton were gone, all eaten by the fish, leaving only a skeleton. Taking this as evidence, Lu Hu was tortured and made to admit that this was the evidence that he secretly drowned the adulterer.
After he drew the pledge, he was put on death row. It became clear that his body had been washed to the lower reaches of the Moon River by river waves because it had not been fixed. No one had ever discovered it. The body was highly decomposed and was eaten by fish in the aquarium. Only a handful of bones sank there. In the mud and sand at the bottom of the river, no one knows yet.
Seeing that he didn't care about it, he thought about it. People are bound to die. Even if the body is buried in a coffin, it will still be nothing in the end. The only immortal thing after death is the soul.
Although Yin Zhixian caught the enemy who killed Jian Ming and sentenced him to beheading, which was regarded as a redress of injustice, Jian Ming was not grateful to Yin Zhixian. He knew that Magistrate Yin ordered the arrest of Lu Hu because the drunkard was not interested in drinking, but in women. Lu Hu's wife, Ma Lingxiang, was beautiful and charming, with beautiful features and fair skin.
The county magistrate Yin was drunk at the first sight, and secretly made up his mind that if he didn't snatch such a beautiful woman away, he would be wasting his term as county magistrate. But the robbery was done by a bully, and as the county magistrate, he had his own so-called legitimate methods. That is to arrest Lu Hu and Ma Lingxiang together and imprison them in different prison cells. It is like winning a game of chess. He will go on step by step until he captures Lu Hu's chess piece, and then naturally Get the trophy he has coveted for a long time - Ma Lingxiang.
