Li Hui tortured sheepskin to solve the case, Fan Yi

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Li Hui, the secretariat of Yongzhou in the Northern Wei Dynasty, tried such a case one day.

A salt merchant went to Yongzhou City with a bag of salt on his back and met a woodcutter selling firewood on the way. After a walk, they rested together under a big tree. When they stood up and went on their way, they quarreled about a sheepskin lying on the ground. They all said it was their own, and finally they fought. Passers-by took them away and told them to complain to the governor of Li Hui. "Let's go!" People rushed to the state capital with red faces.

Li Hui, the satrap, asked them to talk about the ins and outs of the matter.

The salt carrier scrambled to say, "This sheepskin is mine. I have been selling salt everywhere with it for five years. "

The woodcutter also shouted, "You are shameless! How dare you say that my things are yours! I always wear it to keep warm when I go into the mountains to cut firewood, and I always carry it on my shoulder when I pick firewood. "

The two men spoke plausibly, and he couldn't see who was true and who was false for a moment.

Li Hui said to the two men, "Go to the front hall first, and the trial result will be available soon." After the two men withdrew from the lobby, Li Hui asked the left and right officers: "If you torture this sheepskin, who is its owner?" About feel very strange, heart did Sarah laugh didn't answer. Li Hui ordered: "Put the sheepskin on the mat and hit it forty times!" After 40 games, Li Hui picked up the sheepskin and looked at it. He said, "It really can't bear to fight. It has confessed." Then he shouted, "Send them up!"

After the salt merchant and the woodcutter went to court, Li Hui said, "The sheepskin has confessed, and the salt seller is its owner."

The woodcutter blushed and said, "My Lord, how can sheepskin confess?"

Li Hui pointed to the scattered salt crumbs on the table and said, "Look for it yourself."

The woodcutter knew that he couldn't be cheated any more and had to admit his mistake.

Two men carrying firewood and salt fought over a sheepskin. When everyone could not decide, Li Hui used the method of "torturing" sheepskin to determine the ownership of sheepskin. Smart, alert, experienced, careful observation and rigorous judgment are vividly displayed on the paper. The article uses action and language description, which plays a finishing role in portraying the plump image of the characters.