Chapter 058: Hu's daughter blocks the road to protest injustice, Sun Shaozong encounters another strange case

However, Sun Shaozong left Shuntian Prefecture with the "comic book" and other things in his pocket, feeling very sad. He waited respectfully for Dai Quan to get on the sedan chair, then he took his mount and prepared to climb on it.
But at this moment, a young woman suddenly jumped out from the side, threw herself in front of the horse, knelt down, and banged her head on the ground while screaming, "Unfair, unfair! Please, sir, redress my injustice!"
Faced with this sudden situation, Sun Shaozong was relatively calm, but the horse was a little frightened. It raised its head, neighed loudly, and kicked its hind legs wildly. If it had not been for Sun Shaozong's extraordinary strength, it would have run away at full speed.
Sun Shaozong was afraid of hurting the woman who was crying out for justice, so he quickly led the frightened horse aside and tied it to the stone lion in front of the door. Then he turned around and took a closer look at the woman.
In just a short while, the young woman's forehead was already bleeding, but she seemed unconscious and continued to bang her head on the bluestone slab. Her determination to die showed that she had a huge grievance to redress!
Sun Shaozong quickly stepped forward and helped her up with both hands, comforting her: "Sister-in-law, please get up quickly. If you have any grievances, just speak up. Why do you have to treat yourself like this?"
The young woman couldn't help but feel happy when she heard this. She raised her hand to wipe away the blood that had seeped into her eyes and was about to start confessing her grievances.
"Sun Tongpan!"
However, at this moment, one of the Dragon Guards impatiently urged, "His Majesty and the Emperor are waiting to hear your story. Why are you staying here for so long? If His Majesty blames us, we can't afford it!"
Damn~
This guy really has no vision!
The street where Shuntianfu is located is a busy section of the inner city, with a constant flow of cars and pedestrians. Now, seeing a woman "blocking the street to cry out for justice", a hundred or eighty passers-by have already surrounded her, and seeing that the woman's face was covered in blood, they all felt sympathy and pity.
In this situation, even if you are really in a hurry to leave, you should find another decent reason. How can you just say something so bluntly: The emperor is waiting to hear your story, and we can't delay?
Isn't this obviously a smear campaign against the emperor?
Therefore, Sun Shaozong put on a serious face and said solemnly: "Your Excellency is wrong. Your Majesty summoned me to the palace to question the case in order to understand the suffering of the people. How can you blame me for delaying some time just because someone blocked the road to complain about injustice?"
As he spoke, he tore off and bandaged the wound on the young woman's forehead himself. He then said righteously, "What injustice have you suffered? Tell me slowly!"
Seeing Sun Shaozong's response, there was a burst of applause from all around. The young woman was so moved that she burst into tears. If Sun Shaozong hadn't stopped her, she would have knelt down and kowtowed to the great magistrate.
After calming down a little, the woman wiped her tears and cried, "My father is a butcher. Because he made some money around the New Year, he wanted to help us, so on the 29th day of the first lunar month, he asked my husband to come..."
It is said that the young woman's husband Zhou Liang went to the home of his father-in-law, Hu the Butcher, on the 29th day of the first lunar month. The father-in-law and son-in-law got drunk. Originally, Hu the Butcher wanted to keep Zhou Liang overnight, but Zhou Liang was worried about his wife being alone at home, so he insisted on going home that night.
The butcher and his wife Hu could not persuade him, so they gave Zhou Liang several pounds of pork that they had packed long ago, along with thirteen taels and eight cents of silver, and told him to use the money to start some small business in the spring.
Zhou Liang thanked her profusely and left , staggering all the way back home. He gave the silver and pork to Mrs. Hu and then fell on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
Mrs. Hu hid the silver in a safe place first. She then thought that as the weather was getting warmer, several pounds of pork would be wasted if they were not eaten all at once. Therefore, she took the package of meat to the kitchen and planned to cut it into small pieces and marinate them first.
Who knew that after unwrapping the oil paper package, what was inside was actually some kind of pork, but a bloody human head!
Hu was so frightened that she screamed continuously, which first alarmed the neighbors and then the officials of Daxing County. After questioning, the officials took Zhou Liang and Hu the butcher back to the county government for interrogation.
At first Zhou Liang and Hu the butcher refused to confess their guilt, but two days later, the officers dug up a body dismembered into seven or eight pieces near Hu the butcher's home. Now that the facts were all there, the father-in-law and son-in-law could no longer deny it.
So Daxing County charged them with conspiracy to murder. Hu the butcher was sentenced to immediate execution, and Zhou Liang was sentenced to beheading and imprisonment.
But Mrs. Hu refused to believe that her husband and father would conspire to murder, so she sought help everywhere in the past few days. She also heard that there was a "God-like Judge Sun Tongpan" in Shuntian Prefecture who was good at solving all kinds of strange cases. If she could invite him to personally investigate the case, maybe Hu the butcher and his son-in-law could be saved.
Therefore, early this morning, Hu first inquired about Sun Shaozong's appearance and figure, and then waited outside the gate of Shuntian Prefecture.
"Your Excellency is wise!"
Then Mrs. Hu explained, "My father only has me as his daughter, and he treats my husband like his own son. Even if he really killed someone, why would he send the head to my house? There must be some misunderstanding here!"
Sun Shaozong frowned when he heard this and said in a deep voice: "I saw the case file two days ago. It clearly stated that Hu the butcher and his son-in-law confessed to the murder..."
"grown ups!"
Mrs. Hu immediately knelt down again and cried, "Daddy and husband were tortured into confessing! I asked someone to go to the prison the other day and found that daddy was fine, but my husband was beaten all over his body and is now dying. He could pass away at any time!"
Confession under torture?
These four words made Sun Shaozong feel a little embarrassed. No matter whether this matter was true or false, as long as he intervened, he would definitely offend the magistrate of Daxing County.
only……
Looking at Hu who was kneeling on the ground, and then looking at the expectant and trusting eyes of the people around him, how could Sun Shaozong say the word "refuse"?
Alas~
Anyway, my job as a criminal judge is to rectify unjust, false and wrong cases, so it is inevitable to offend people.
"You get up now."
Sun Shaozong pulled Hu up again, turned around and told the yamen runner on duty at the door, "Go to my courtyard and call Zhou Da over. Have him take my name card and go to Daxing County. No matter what, we must save Zhou Liang's life first!"
Wait for the bailiff to take the order.
Sun Shaozong said again: "Hu, go back and bandage your wounds first. When I come back from the palace, I will thoroughly investigate this case again. If there is any injustice, I will definitely help you clear your name! But..."
As he spoke, his eyes became sharp and he said in a deep voice: "But if there is nothing strange about this case, I will hold you accountable for slandering an official appointed by the imperial court!"
Mrs. Hu had just gotten up, but upon hearing this, she immediately knelt down and swore, "Sir, I am willing to guarantee with my own life that my husband and father are absolutely innocent!"
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