Because he was determined to die, he put the knife to his chest with his right hand and held it tightly. Magistrate Liu opened the clenched fist of Li Weiru's left hand again, and there was a small p

Because he was determined to die, he put the knife to his chest with his right hand and held it tightly. Magistrate Liu opened the clenched fist of Li Weiru's left hand again, and there was a small paper roll in Li Weiru's hand. Magistrate Liu unfolded it and understood most of it: "So we are such colleagues." Magistrate Liu asked the land security guard: "This county wants to ask you, are Li Guanbao's family born and raised here?"

" Going back to the elder, Li Guanbao's family moved here more than 20 years ago."

"Do you know the address of his original hometown?"

"The villain asked several times at first. Li Guanbao and his wife didn't want to talk about it. Later, Li Guanbao drank too much and told the villain that his hometown was Lijiazhuang on the border of Cangshan, Shandong, hundreds of miles away from us."

"This county knows about it. You can bring a few neighbors to take care of the funeral arrangements for their family of four." The land security guard was surprised and suspicious: "Sir, this case has not been solved and the murderer has not been caught. How can we Just forget it?" Magistrate Liu waved his hand and said, "The county will come here in ten days to give you a clear explanation." Magistrate Liu arrived at the county government office and ordered Wen Neng. Two government officials, Wu Chao and Wu Chao, asked them to quickly go to the border of Cangshan, Shandong to investigate the situation at Li Guanbao's home in Lijiazhuang more than 20 years ago. They were given seven days to find out, so go back quickly.

On the morning of the seventh day, Wen Neng and Wu Chao came back. He reported everything investigated in Shandong to County Magistrate Liu in detail. After hearing this, County Magistrate Liu nodded and said, "That's it."

On the tenth day, Magistrate Liu and a thousand yamen servants came to Songzhuang again. The yamen servants sounded the gong and told all the villagers to come to the ground Bao's family listened to the county magistrate's trial of the Li family's extermination case. When everyone in the village, men, women, old and young, heard that the Li family was being exterminated, every one of them came.

When County Magistrate Liu saw that everyone in the village had arrived, he sat in the temporary court hall set up by the landlord's house. He slapped the table and said, "The murderer of the four members of the Li family is Li Guanbao's son - Li Weiru." !" Before Magistrate Liu finished speaking, it was as if he had sprinkled a pinch of salt in a boiling oil pan. The villagers immediately started shouting: "What? Li Weiru killed the whole family? Even a three-year-old child doesn't believe this. Li Weiru is a scholar. Normally, he is most concerned about ethics, integrity and filial piety. How could he kill his own relatives?" "That's right, I think the county magistrate wants to fool us mountain people!" "Bah!" Magistrate Liu slapped the table again and raised his voice. The voice said: "Neighbors, let me tell you a story first."

"This story must have started more than 20 years ago. This happened on the border of Cangshan Mountain in Shandong Province. There was a large village named Li Houyuan, where a wealthy man named Li Houyuan married a Qiu family and gave birth to a son named Li Guanbao. When Li Guanbao was fourteen years old, a mother and daughter came from a foreign country to beg for food. , the mother was dying of illness, and the youngest daughter was eleven or twelve years old, thin and yellow. Mrs. Li felt sorry for her mother and daughter, so she took them into her home. A few months later, the girl's mother died, and the Li family bought her. She was buried in the coffin. In order to repay the Li family, the little girl Han Shuzhen became a maid in the Li family. Seeing that Shuzhen was weak, Mrs. Li did not let Shuzhen do heavy work. Instead, she asked her to accompany young master Li Guanbao to the school every day. The young master brings tea and water."

Six or seven years have passed, and people say that my daughter has changed a lot and is becoming more and more beautiful. Han Shuzhen has grown into a tall and graceful girl, with a face like a peach blossom and a body like a willow. At this time, many people came to Li's house to propose marriage, either wanting to take concubines or wanting to be their son's wife. Mrs. Li is trying her best to find out about good people from Shuzhen. But Li Houyuan was unwilling to marry Shuzhen at all. He said to his wife: "Look, let's just keep one son for the official, which is too few. I want to take Shuzhen as my concubine and have a few more children until I grow old." We are happy together." Qiu didn't dare to go against the master's wishes, so she told the clan leader to set a date for the eighth day of March to hold a happy event for the master and Shuzhen.

Unexpectedly, when the young master Guan Bao heard that his father wanted to take Shuzhen as his concubine, he started to make a fuss. Shuzhen did not dare to beg the master, so she knelt down and begged Mrs. Li and said: "Madam, please help me and the young master. The young master and I are already married, and we already have the flesh and blood of the Li family in our hearts." Upon hearing this, Mrs. Li said with great joy : "I'm going to be a grandma soon!" I quickly discussed with the master to organize a happy event for my son.

Unexpectedly, when Master Li Houyuan heard this, his face turned green with anger: "These two ignorant beasts have been completely humiliated by them. I have already made an agreement with the clan leader, how can I bring it back and say it again? Give your concubine to your son as your wife? Besides, that bitch is not worthy of being the wife of the Li family. Huh! She wants to take over my Li family’s property. Tomorrow I will find the patriarch to punish them and drown them in the pond. I would rather die. Even incense can't make them get married."

Seeing how angry the master was, Mrs. Qiu was so frightened that she didn't dare to say anything more. At three o'clock in the night, seeing that the master was fast asleep, he got up secretly and packed a small package. He tiptoed into his son's room and said to his son with tears in his eyes: "Son, your father doesn't allow you to get married to Shuzhen. When the weather is dark, "Liang, take Shuzhen and run away as far as possible. As soon as day breaks, your father will ask the clan leader to sink you into the pond." After saying this, he stuffed the bundle into his son's arms and wiped it off his wrist. He took off the jade bracelet and said, "In the bag is more than a hundred taels of private money that mother has saved. The savings will be enough for you to buy a house and land. This jade bracelet is mother's dowry. From now on, if mother is not around, if you miss her, you should look at it more." Give me a few glances!"

The official guardian took Shuzhen and said goodbye to her mother in tears. Because they were afraid that their father would find out that they were chasing him, they ran out of the house quickly. It was already dawn and the two of them did not dare to stop. They hired a carriage and ran two or three hundred miles to Songjiazhuang in Xiapi. . The two of them saw that Songjiazhuang was surrounded by mountains and rivers, with fertile land and beautiful scenery, so they stopped moving forward and built a house and land in Songjiazhuang and settled down.

Magistrate Liu looked at the silent villagers, cleared his throat and said: "You may say, this is not as good as Li Weiru killing his whole family. You must know that everything has an effect and a cause. "As he said this, Magistrate Liu took out a piece of paper, showed it to the villagers and said, "I got this from Li Weiru at the murder scene that day." Magistrate Liu then read it to the villagers. Ting:

Kill my wife Wang Yuniang first. You should not go to Ting to have sex.

He made crazy remarks to humiliate me again, causing me to be killed.

Killing my father's "eldest brother" again will ruin the moral relationship and disrupt the family relationship.

Is he a father? Is he a brother? Dilemma, he lost his life for his mother’s jade bracelet.

You should not have a private alliance with the Lord for killing my mother Han Shuzhen three times.

If outsiders find out, how will you face all sentient beings?

Finally, I will kill myself and abandon all my family and family ties.

He killed his parents for the sake of his son in vain, and he killed his beloved wife for the sake of face.

Heavenly principles and ethics are the only thing to die. Who can I express my regrets to?

Li Weiru's last words

After reading the words on the paper, County Magistrate Liu went on to say that after reading Li Weiru's last words that day, he knew that Li Weiru killed his whole family out of concern for his face. According to what Li Weiru wrote, there must be a hidden secret, so Wen Neng and Wu Chao were sent to Shandong to find out, and the result was the story just told. It turned out that that night, the bride went to the courtyard to bring water to wash Wei Ru's feet. Suddenly she heard her father-in-law and her mother-in-law quarreling in a low voice. The bride was a child, so she went to the window to eavesdrop. It turned out that the father-in-law was complaining that her mother-in-law should not take care of Wei Ru in private. The jade bracelet on her wrist was given to her daughter-in-law. I just heard my father-in-law say: "That bracelet is a thought that my mother left for me. You gave it to your daughter-in-law without telling me. It is worn on your wrist. I can see it morning and night. Now that you gave it to my daughter-in-law, I want to miss my mother." , can you still try to pull your daughter-in-law’s arm?” Then I heard my mother-in-law say: “I’ve given you everything, and I can’t ask for more. I know that I’ve been thinking about your mother all day long. If I had become your father’s concubine, I wouldn’t have run away with you. When you come out, you have to call me mother as usual!" After saying that, my mother-in-law burst out laughing again, but my father-in-law said nothing again.

This was originally a joke between the two elders. Unexpectedly, Wang Yuniang told Wei Ru what she heard when she returned to her room. Finally, she made fun of Li Weiru: "I know everything about your parents, but why?" I don’t know whether you are the daughter of this father or your grandfather. If your mother was really pregnant with you, you would still have to call your current father “eldest brother”. After Yu Niang finished speaking, Wei Ru was slapped on the face. Not three days after her wedding, Yuniang was beaten by the groom. She was so angry that she fell on the bed and cried without taking off her clothes.

Li Weiru sat there, getting angrier and angrier as he thought about it. He was a scholar, and what he valued most was ethics, integrity and face. The more I think about it, the more I feel that if this matter gets out, how will I be able to see anyone in the future?

Really unable to resolve it, evil arose in his guts, and thoughts of murder arose. He went to the kitchen to get the boning knife used for weddings. He first killed his sleeping wife with a knife in his neck, and then went to the upper room and knocked on the door. Li Guanbao was still asleep. When he saw his son, he sat down and was about to ask what happened. Li Weiru went up and stabbed his chest, killing his father again. Li Guanbao didn't even make a sound before he died. He didn't know why his son wanted to kill him. When Han Shuzhen heard something going on outside, she wanted to take a look. Before she could get out of bed, she was killed by her son with a knife. Han struggled and pointed at her son, not believing that his son could kill her!

Li Weiru When he returned to his room, he felt that his sin was unforgivable and he did not want to live alone. He left his last words and committed suicide by drinking a knife. This is the reason why everyone in the Li family was killed.

Li Houyuan and Li Weiru kept talking about human ethics, but this county felt that they were doing it all for themselves. Li Houyuan forced his own son away because he could marry Shuzhen, and ended up relying on the door to look forward to his son when he was old. Return. Li Weiru killed his whole family again just to save his face. Is this for ethics or for himself? After saying this, County Magistrate Liu couldn't help but sigh to the sky.