Husband and Father Youwei

Chapter 86 Beheading and Exile

 While waiting for the Li family, the Tu family and others to be brought, Su Bai also sued the county magistrate, accusing the Jiang family of Langzhou prefecture four years ago to bribe Dong Chang and others to rob and kill the Wen family master and others outside the city of Langzhou. The entourage waited for five people.

Although Su Bai did not get the letter written by Li himself as evidence like Tu Lin did, but as long as he has the evidence of those bandits, he can still question the Jiang family.

So the county magistrate interrogated Dong Chang, but he didn't expect Dong Chang to deny it in court, saying that he had never killed any master Wen, which made Su Bai tremble with anger. Fortunately, the robbery and murder could not be done by Dong Chang alone, there must be someone with his accomplices, so starting with Jiang Biao, the second leader under Dong Chang, he brought up the captured bandits one by one and interrogated them separately.

Because the county magistrate promised that these bandits could be punished for their crimes and meritorious deeds as long as they confessed the truth, someone soon confessed, and this person was Jiang Biao. He is the second head of Heifengzhai, and he is quite trusted by Dong Chang. He also participated in the robbery and murder of the Wen family master, and he personally contacted the person sent by the Jiang family, and he still remembers that person. look like.

The county magistrate immediately ordered the master to draw the person according to what Jiang Biao said, and then sent someone to Jiang's house in Fucheng to bring him in for questioning. Su Bai's case is different from Tu Lin's. Tu Lin's case is complete with witnesses and material evidence, no need for another trial, he can be convicted just by bringing him in, but Su Bai only has the bandit's confession, so he needs to investigate carefully. .

Not long after, the servants who went to Lijiagou came back, and at the same time brought back Li Shi, Tu Fu and Tu Wenqiang's family. As the plaintiffs, Tu Lin and Ruan Tang stayed in the hall and did not leave. Seeing Li's blank face, Tu Fu, Tu Wenqiang and others were terrified.

Li Shi, Tu Fu and others naturally also saw Tu Lin and Ruan Tang, but before Tu Fu and Tu Wenqiang said anything, Li Shi suddenly pushed Tu Fu aside, took out a pair of scissors from his arms and straightened them. Go to Tulinza.

Although Li Shi's action was very sudden, but Tu Lin kept looking at her, how could he let her succeed. Mrs. Li didn't even get close to Tu Lin's body, and was kicked out by Tu Lin.

Father Tu originally wanted to say something to Tu Lin, but this scene made him turn red in an instant, and he was dumb on the spot with his mouth open, like a choked chicken, who originally wanted to ask Tu Lin for help. Seeing this, Tu Wenqiang could not speak for help.

The guards didn't expect that Mrs. Li would not only cooperate with the bandits, but also dare to commit murder in front of the court. He was no longer polite, and directly squeezed Mrs. Li's arm, and pushed him to kneel on the ground. Even Tu Fu and Tu Wenqiang were angered. As for Song's mother and daughter and Tu Yu, a woman and two children, no one made things difficult for them.

The county magistrate gave a slap on the hall, and the hall became quiet.

Although there is already conclusive evidence, the process still needs to be followed, so the county magistrate Mr. Zheng asked: "Mr. Li, you colluded with Dong Chang, the bandit leader of Heifengzhai, and ordered him to order Jiang Biao, Hei Wu, Qiao The three of Xing wanted to kill the whole family of the Tu family in Zhuxi Village on September 15th, can you plead guilty?"

Before Mrs. Li could speak, Father Tu hurriedly said: "My lord, my son and his mother have been in the countryside all this time. Heifengzhai, I have never heard of it at all, how could it be, how could it be collusion to kill people? My lord clearly sees, we are wronged—" Although I have learned from the yamen guard who escorted them that they were arrested because of Li However, Father Tu felt that this was impossible, and at this moment in the hall, he couldn't help but justify and cry for grievances.

When Tu Wenqiang heard this, he suddenly turned his head to look at Mrs. Li, his face was full of disbelief, and there was even a trace of hatred. He knew that Mrs. Li would not let his eldest brother Tu Lin's family go, so he and his wife Mrs. Song have been watching secretly these days, for fear that what Mrs. Li did would affect the whole family, but he didn't expect to take all precautions and still not be able to guard against it. Mrs. Li didn't know when she colluded with the bandits.

Although Tu Wenqiang is not a weapon, he also knows that gangsters are a serious crime of ransacking his home and beheading. If he is convicted, not only Li will not live, but his whole family will be implicated. This is just to avenge the dead Tu Wendong, so, How could he not hate Li Shi.

The county magistrate, Mr. Zheng, saw Father Tu complaining about injustice. Mrs. Li lowered her head and said nothing, and couldn't help frowning. Then he waved his hand and asked the guards to show Father Tu the letter of Li's accomplice, and said: "This is Mrs. Li's personal letter. It is clearly written why she killed the Tu family and how she told Dong Chang about the Tu family. I have not wronged her." Father Tu and Tu Wenqiang quickly picked up the letters, and wrote a letter

. See if it's sealed. They all knew Li's handwriting, so they both turned ugly when they saw it at first sight. But looking at it, Tu Wenqiang showed a dumbfounded expression, while Tu Fu looked at the letters, his eyes turned red instantly, and his hands even began to tremble, but he still couldn't believe the contents of the letters.

However, Tu Wenqiang couldn't bear it anymore, and turned his head and shouted at Li Shi, "Mother, is everything written in this letter true? Second brother, is he father's son?" Li Shi still didn't say a word

. Hair, also motionless, like a dead body, but now she is indeed completely heartbroken. Tu Lin was still alive, and she also failed in her last attempt, and finally she failed to avenge her son, and her collusion with the bandits was also exposed. At this point, she has lost all hope and has nothing to say.

However, in the eyes of Tu Fu, Li's silence is like being silent. He was betrayed, cuckolded, and raised children of other men and wives for more than 20 years. This made Tu Fu feel unprecedented. Humiliated and angry, at this moment, he didn't even care about being implicated by Mrs. Li and being accused of being a bandit.

Thinking of his love for Tu Wendong in the past twenty years, thinking of Li's deception to him all the time, thinking of his own son Tu Lin who has been wronged for Tu Wendong and Li's, thinking of Li's collusion with bandits to kill Tu Lin's family , Father Tu looked at Mrs. Li, his red eyes were full of ferocity and hatred that had never been seen since the two got married.

He trembled his lips, anger, remorse, all kinds of intense emotions surged in his chest, which made him a little speechless for a moment, "You...you..." Before he finished speaking, Father Tu felt his eyes go black for a while. , shaking his body, he fell to the ground.

Tufu's sudden fainting was beyond everyone's expectations. Although according to the law, Tufu would be convicted as a family member of a gangster, but he was not guilty of death, so the county magistrate ordered the guards to arrest Tufu. Carry him down to the hall, and then find a doctor to see him.

Father Tu was taken away, and the case will continue to be tried. Although Mrs. Li doesn't speak, there are witnesses and evidences. It doesn't matter if she says nothing, but there is one more thing, that is, who sent the letter to Mrs. Li? For Dong Chang of Heifengzhai.

Although Mrs. Li and Dong Chang didn't say anything, when they interrogated other bandits just now, someone explained that it was a middle-aged man in his forties who came to the bandit village a few days ago to deliver a letter to Dong Chang. A woman like Li Shi.

But Mrs. Li didn't speak, and Father Tu fainted again. The county magistrate had no choice but to ask Tu Wenqiang's family, asking them if they knew who Mrs. Li had been in contact with in the past month, and said that as long as they confessed, they could relieve them as appropriate. their punishment.

Tu Wenqiang immediately thought about it carefully. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Li, who had been silent on the side, suddenly spoke up and said, "No need to ask any more questions, I just said, I hired a beggar to deliver the letter for me." The county magistrate asked again:

" Where is the beggar now?"

Mrs. Li then said, "To be a bandit is a serious crime. He took my money and ran away."

The county magistrate couldn't help frowning.

Tu Wenqiang looked at Li Shi, but said, "Mother, you haven't even been out of the village, where did you meet any beggars?" "

Shut up! I say beggars are beggars." Willing and strict.

But Tu Wenqiang gave a wry smile, ignored Li Shi's scolding, and said, "It's Uncle and the others. They helped you. Am I right?"

In the past month, Mrs. Li has been staying at home, only occasionally chatting with neighbors in the village, and has never heard of any letters. In addition, she went to the home of her uncle, the village chief Li Chengxiang, and Li Chengxiang's only son, now That's forty-two years old.

"Shut up! Shut up!" At this time, Li Shi no longer had the lifeless look just now, and shouted at Tu Wenqiang hysterically, still struggling, trying to rush towards Tu Wenqiang, but her appearance made everyone present Everyone has understood something.

The county magistrate immediately asked Tu Wenqiang, "Who is your uncle? Where does he live?"

Tu Wenqiang took a last look at Mrs. Li, then turned his head, and said calmly, "My uncle is Li Chengxiang, the former village head of Lijiagou. , the home is in Lijiagou."

The county magistrate nodded, and immediately sent people to Lijiagou again, not wanting to wait for the guards to come back, but only brought back Li Chengxiang, his daughter-in-law Zhou, grandson Li Lang, grandson-in-law and There were five great-grandsons, but his son Li Yaozu was not caught. Presumably, they saw the guards arresting Li Shi and the others, and when they knew the matter was exposed, they ran away ahead of time.

However, although Li Yaozu ran away, his father, wife and children were all there, and the county magistrate interrogated them one by one. At first, no one confessed to Li Chengxiang and others, but finally the county magistrate imposed a cane. Li Chengxiang was beaten a few times, but he kept gritting his teeth until he passed out. Seeing this, the county magistrate asked the guards to drag Li Yaozu's son Li Lang outside the hall for torture. Now Li Yaozu's wife, Mrs. Zhou, couldn't bear it any longer. The place was explained.

It turns out that Li Yaozu didn't escape too far away, he was even still in the Lijiagou, but he was hiding in the old house of the Tu family where the Tu Lin family lived in the old site of the Lijiagou. So the guards had to go to Lijiagou for the third time.

After such tossing back and forth, the guards had a lot of resentment and anger, so when they successfully caught Li Yaozu and brought him to the county government, Li Yaozu was already bruised and swollen. Obviously, he had been dealt with a lot. The sentence that Li Yaozu tried to escape explained the past.

Li Yaozu fled first, and was identified by the bandits from Heifengzhai after he was brought to the lobby, there is no longer any excuse. And Li Yaozu also knew that he was doomed, so to protect his family, he only said that he delivered the letter to Heifengzhai on behalf of Li Shi. The family didn't know about it, and he was just helping to deliver the letter. I don't know anything.

Because Mrs. Li also cooperated with his words and took all the blame on herself, she believed that everything was planned and arranged by her alone and had nothing to do with others, and there was indeed no evidence to prove that Li Chengxiang and Li Yaozu conspired with Mrs. Li, so The crime of murder has nothing to do with Li Chengxiang and Li Yaozu.

Now that the matter has come to an end, it is basically clear how Li's collaborating with the bandits and murdering Tu Lin's family. Since all the people involved in the case have arrived and the witnesses and evidences are complete, there is no need for another trial, and the county magistrate began to pronounce the sentence in court according to the law.

Li's fornication with bandits and murder of human life were both punished and sentenced to death. His family members and others, because of their good attitude in pleading guilty and meritorious service in the trial, were only sentenced to confiscation of property and not to custody.

Li Yaozu had an affair with bandits, escaped and resisted arrest, and was punished for both crimes. He was sentenced to exile in Xijiang. His family members and others committed the crime of harboring and sheltering, and should be sentenced to three years in prison according to the law. However, only Li Chengxiang and Li Lang were taken into prison, and all other family properties were also searched.

As for bandits such as Dong Chang and Jiang Biao, there were other cases involved in them, so they were only convicted first, and they were punished together after all cases were tried.

However, because gangsters and murders are major cases, although the county magistrate has made a verdict, it still needs to be reported to the Ministry of Criminal Justice in the capital, and the punishment can only be executed after approval and approval are obtained after review. Fengyang is thousands of miles away from Beijing, and it takes several months to go back and forth, so Li can live for a few more months. But winter is coming soon. Although Tu Lin has never been in the prison of the county government, he knows that it is definitely not easy to treat. Li is not young for women and children. For her, the extra few months are not good. It is torment.

Now that everything has finally settled, Tu Lin and Ruan Tang bid farewell to the county magistrate Mr. Zheng, and then prepare to go to Shilixiang with Zhao Changping to pick up Tu An and his daughter. Unexpectedly, the county magistrate stopped them, and then asked the guards to give them five hundred taels of silver.

Although the government ignored Heifengzhai in recent years, when Heifengzhai was the most rampant in the early years, the county government once issued a reward document, stating that no matter who caught the bandits or reported the news of the bandits, they could get rewards.

Tu Lin first captured three bandits, and later even the bandit leader Dong Chang was captured. It is not an exaggeration to say that Tu Lin's greatest contribution to the successful suppression of bandits this time is not an exaggeration, so the county magistrate took out the five hundred taels of silver It was given to Tu Lin as a reward. Although five hundred taels is a lot, it is nothing compared to the property confiscated from the bandit village.

The money came in a fair and honest way, and Tu Linde was honest and innocent, so he accepted it and thanked the county magistrate Mr. Zheng. After all, it has been several years since the reward was offered, if the county magistrate didn't tell them, they wouldn't know about it.

After taking the silver, there was nothing more to do with Tu Lin and the others, and the three of Tu Lin bid farewell to the county magistrate Mr. Zheng again. Then when he was about to leave, a servant suddenly came to report to the county magistrate that Li Chengxiang was dead.