A romantic murder case in Qing dynasty, because a shoe gave birth to a curse, the twists and turns of the case are staggering.

I have written dozens of strange cases of the Qing Dynasty, and I am free today. I'll write another one to relieve your boredom. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a famous scholar named Bai Haogezi, who wrote a classical Chinese work called "A firefly window and a different grass". In this work, there is such a bizarre and tortuous murder case, which is really staggering after reading it.

In the area of Dingzhou in Zhili, there was a villager named Li who married Zhao Xiuer from a neighboring village. After marriage, they farmed men and wove women, and their lives were very harmonious. Li lost his father in his early years and lived with his mother. Since Zhao Xiuer took the door, all the things that served her mother-in-law fell on her daughter-in-law. Zhao Xiuer is virtuous and treats her mother-in-law like her own mother. It is a hundred years' blessing for Li to marry such a good daughter-in-law.

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Because of this, it has become a heart disease for Li. He was filled with beauty when he saw his daughter-in-law's beauty. He is worried all day that someone will kidnap Zhao Xiuer. Over time, he became a heart disease. He is wary of Zhao Xiuer everywhere, and he is very strict with him, so that Zhao Xiuer is not allowed to go out easily. Because of the tight watch, Zhao Xiuer didn't even have a chance to go back to her family, which made her parents-in-law very dissatisfied.

The next autumn, my father-in-law put on a big play in the village. It happened that Li's mother had improved a lot, so her father-in-law asked someone to take her daughter back for a few days. Mother-in-law promised to come down, and Zhao Xiuer drew an eyebrow, put on new clothes, and went back to her mother's house beautifully dressed. The trip lasted for several days and Li felt tortured. He personally went to his father-in-law's house and asked Zhao Xiuer to go back with him. But Zhao Xiuer said that she didn't stay with her parents enough, and she would have to stay for a few more days before going back.

Li was touched by a rebuff, and secretly complained on his way back alone, which gave birth to evil intentions. He thinks that his wife is not virtuous, regardless of the mutual affection between husband and wife, he just wants to be happy alone, so he wants to humiliate his wife. After he went home for dinner, he went back to his father-in-law's house in the evening, then secretly went to the place where he played and hid in the corner to find Zhao Xiuer. When she saw Zhao Xiuer leaning against a wall, she was watching a play and dancing happily with several sisters. His heart is getting more and more annoyed. He slipped to the place where Zhao Xiuer stood, hid under the eaves and stretched out a hand to touch Zhao Xiuer's foot, took off one of her shoes and slipped away in his arms. When Zhao Xiuer saw that the shoes were missing, she thought they were street children in the village. Afraid that her relatives would laugh at her afterwards, she quickly wrapped her feet with a handkerchief and told her parents that she was going back to her husband's house.

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Her parents are strange. They enjoyed the play very well. Why did they leave? But Zhao Xiuer was stubborn and said she would go back. She also said that her feet were weak and asked her father to escort her back with a donkey. She had planned to go back to her mother's house at night to avoid the story of losing her shoes. Why are you so nervous about losing a shoe? That was the case in those days, and women's feet could not be easily exposed. Besides her husband, her feet in front of other men will be notorious for easy virtue.

Father's mother-in-law found an animal driver in the village to send her daughter back to her mother-in-law's house. Zhao Xiuer's mother-in-law is still awake, and she doesn't understand when she sees her daughter-in-law coming back late at night. Zhao Xiuer lied that she heard that her mother-in-law was ill and was anxious, so she didn't come back until evening. Mother-in-law thinks daughter-in-law is filial. Zhao Xiuer went back to her room and saw her husband Li asleep. She put down the stone in her heart and secretly went to find shoes to change.

Before she found Li's shoes, she got up and lit the oil lamp, sarcastically saying, "You have the face to come back. I thought you ran away with those actors? " Then Li looked at her feet and scared Zhao Xiuer to shrink her feet back. Li asked her why she was missing a shoe. Zhao Xiuer bowed her head in shame and said nothing, but Li stood up and called Zhao Xiuer shameless. Even if he chopped it into a paste, he wouldn't feel resentful. He must tell her where the shoes are, or he will expose her scandal and divorce her.

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Zhao Xiuer cried and said that she didn't know where to put her shoes. Li insisted and her mother-in-law came to stop the fight. Li was scolded for more than an hour until she was tired. Zhao Xiuer knelt on the ground and cried for a long time, fearing that her husband would become childish and tell her neighbors about her scandal. She was afraid that her eyes would be laughed at, so she tied a foot-binding cloth to the beam and hanged herself.

After a sleep, Li saw that Zhao Xiuer had disappeared, so he got up and looked for it. In the outhouse, Zhao Xiuer is hanging from the beam. If you touch it again, it will get cold. Forcing people to die is a capital crime. He didn't want to die, so he had a trick. He untied the body, secretly carried it out, threw it into the well of a nearby temple, and then quietly returned home. After dawn, he ran to his father-in-law's house and said that he would take his wife back. My father-in-law said that he had sent his daughter back last night, but Li said that he had never seen anyone at all. My father-in-law took him to the concierge, who didn't come back because of something. Father-in-law thinks that the porter killed his daughter, so he sued the magistrate's office.

Magistrate Hu's adult is an honest official. When the porter was arrested and asked, he said that he had been wronged and told the story of Zhao Xiuer talking to her mother-in-law last night. Master Hu confronted Zhao Xiuer's mother-in-law, who was honest and said that her daughter-in-law did come back last night. Gal, the biggest suspect became Li, Li cried and wronged, Hu's adult let a person hit his board, after 20 boards, Li Cai told the truth and told Hu Da that the body of * * * was in the temple well.

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Lord Hu took someone to salvage it. When he found it, the body was not a beautiful woman, but a bald monk. Charming mother becoming a monk is the first anecdote in the world.

What happened? What a coincidence. After being thrown into the well, Zhao Xiuer came back to life after being poured with a pot of cold water. Seeing herself in the well, she shouted for help, which happened to be heard by the monk in charge of the vegetable garden. The monk thought someone slipped and fell into the water, so he took the rope to save her. He threw the rope in and let Zhao Xiuer catch it, trying to pull her up. As a result, Zhao Xiuer's hands were weak and she tried several times without success.

Just then, Sun Xiaosi, a rogue who lives not far from the temple, came running. He told the monk that it was not good. The monk had better go down the rope to the well and tie the rope to the woman. He rescued the woman and then pulled the monk up. The monk thought it made sense, so he went down the rope to the well and tied the rope to Zhao Xiuer. Sun Xiaosi pulled Zhao Xiuer up and saw that it was Li's beautiful daughter-in-law. This boy can't help but have evil thoughts. He picked up a big stone and threw it into the well. The stone hit the monk on the head and the monk was killed in the well. Sun Xiaosi took Zhao Xiuer, who was already in a coma, home and did something.

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Afterwards, Sun Xiaosi threatened her that she was also involved in the monk's death, and if anyone caught herself, she would say that Zhao Xiuer was an accomplice. At that time, her reputation would not only stink, but also go to jail. Zhao Xiuer was frightened by him and could only be blackmailed by him. Sun Xiaosi asked Zhao Xiuer to go to other provinces with him, and they were a happy couple. Zhao Xiuer said it was not impossible, but her shoes were left in the well and she couldn't show them to people without shoes on her feet. She asked Sun Xiaosi to find her a pair of shoes, and she went to other provinces with him.

Sun Xiaosi tied her up and went to look for shoes. I searched for nothing for one day and went to look for it the next day. Coincidentally, I don't know who left a pair of three-inch shoes on the edge of a field. Sun Xiaosi picked it up and took it back to Zhao Xiuer excitedly. As a result, it was put on Zhao Xiuer's feet, but it was the right size. Just as Sun Xiaosi was happy, the door of the house was kicked open and several officials rushed in from the outside. They put in a fat beating first, and then they beat it firmly.

After he and Zhao Xiuer were taken to the yamen, Mr. Hu had Sun Xiaosi beaten again. Sun Xiaosi told the truth and confessed to killing the monk and taking Zhao Xiuer away.

How to solve a case with a pair of shoes? This is Lord Hu's plan. After salvaging the monk's body, he saw a small shoe in the water. He concluded that the woman was not dead and must have been taken away by the wicked. A woman can't walk without shoes, so he asked Li to find out all Zhao Xiuer's shoes and ordered her to put them in different places. Whoever picks up the shoes will follow secretly. Sure enough, Sun Xiaosi picked up the shoes and the official's son followed him to find Zhao Xiuer.

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The case was revealed, and the villain Sun Xiaosi was beheaded to compensate the monk's life. Li is much ado about nothing, and his behavior is no less than that of a wicked man. In the end, he was jailed for falsely accusing and framing others. Zhao Xiuer is allowed to marry someone else, so that she doesn't have to live with Li.

After the case, Mr. Hu was rewarded by the court and his official position rose by one level. Only that the most hateful person in this matter is not Sun Xiaosi, but Li. If he is not narrow-minded, there are still so many things. There are countless people like Li throughout the ages, and there are such people around me. I wonder if you have it with you?

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