The Silent Reforms of Eldridge Chapter 41

The next day, the boy's body floated up from the pond, and the township police went to the county to report it. The county checked the body for injuries, but could not find the suspect. The boy's brother complained, saying that his brother originally lived in Wang Yanshang's house, so how could he die in the pool? Besides, there were stab wounds on his body, so the Wang family must have murdered him. Wang Yanshang went to the governor's office several times to protest, saying that the boy had gone home the day before, and there was no guarantee that he had fallen into the water and died. As for the injuries, who knew what happened.

Wang Yanshang's father-in-law was a veteran in Qianwei County and often visited the government offices. So he bribed clerks and government officials with heavy sums of money and spread rumors that Wang was not the victim of the boy. This interfered with the presiding officer, so the case could not be settled. The case was brought to the provincial level for trial, but still could not be decided. Magistrate Sheng brought Wang's younger brother to the case, repeatedly enlightened him, and beat him dozens of times, and severely interrogated him: "You and the suspect live in the opposite house, didn't you hear anything?" Wang's younger brother couldn't be forced, so he shouted Wang's name said: "I really can't bear it anymore. I can't hide the murder for you anymore." So Wang's brother confessed what he saw that night. The county magistrate later interrogated the maid Guixiang and the workers who carried the body. The confessions were very clear and the crime scene was vivid in their minds, so the murderers were brought to justice.

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Wang Luozi of Renshou County is the son of a martial artist. He is twenty-one years old and has a dissolute nature. There was a widow named Fan in the same village. She had only one young son at home, who was just seventeen years old. She married a daughter-in-law of about the same age. The widow went out to plow the fields, while the young daughter-in-law stayed at home. Wang Luozi passed by the door and turned into the house to try to tease her. The daughter-in-law scolded her, and then they dispersed after the quarrel. When the widow came back and found out about the incident, she complained to the landowner and wanted to discuss matters with Wang Wusheng. The neighbor advised her: "Since the attempted molestation failed, forget it. Besides, Wang Wusheng has always dominated the village, and you, a widow, can't win against him." The widow thought the same, so the matter was settled.

A few days later, Wang Luozi made an appointment with five people, including a gangster named Peng and a dismissed police officer from Jiading Prefecture. After the second watch, he knocked on the widow's door and asked to borrow a fire. The widow, Mrs. Fan, returned home at midnight. There is no fire, and the door will not be opened. Wang Luozi asked the bandit surnamed Peng to knock on the door again and said, "I am the leader of the Sub class in Qiancun. I came here at night and it started to rain. I want to borrow a bamboo hat and I will return it to you tomorrow morning." There is indeed someone in Qiancun. A policeman named Su. Mrs. Fan believed it and asked her son to unlock the door and come out to see. The widow's son was immediately held down by the five Peng bandits, tied up with a rope, and thrown into the paddy field outside the door. Her son shouted for help. Fan got up and went out to rescue her son. However, Peng Bandit and others stabbed her left armpit with a knife, causing her to fall to the ground and cry out.