There was a joke once, saying that men must be kind to themselves. Once you fall ill, another man will take your job, spend your money, sleep in your bed, sleep with your wife, and beat your children.
I have always felt that this was just a joke.
Now, listening to the grief and indignation of the white-bearded old man, Zhu Pingan found that the joke was much gentler, and the fact in front of him was even crueler: a kind-hearted man saved a woman's parents, married this woman, and not only gave her a beautiful coat
Jade food, love and care, and treating her parents as his own parents, giving her parents gold, silver and real estate, and responding to her requests; this kind man's kindness continues, taking in a helpless girl who competes with pigs and dogs for food
He was an orphan, gave him food and clothing, taught him how to survive, and married him a wife; however, the facts behind it were very cruel. This woman, who had been rescued by her parents and had a good life with her man, became a womanizer and cheated on her; this woman
The orphans he took in turned into white-eyed wolves, repaying kindness with revenge, eating men's food, spending men's money, living in men's houses, and sleeping with men's women... Judging from the reactions of the white-bearded old man and the villagers of Majia Village, this cruel man
The fact is true.
Good things come to you?
no!
Good deeds are not rewarded with good deeds. This cruel reality violates the values that people have always adhered to and subverts the world's view of good and evil.
really
After listening to the white-bearded old man's words, Zhu Ping'an felt confused in his heart. What a fucking reality!
Not to mention the Ming native who valued ethics and ethics looked up to the sky with anger, even Zhu Ping'an, who came from modern times, felt a sense of guilt in his heart after hearing this story, and could not calm down the nameless karma in his heart for a long time.
"Sir, killing one person can serve as a warning to others, and punishing those in front can deter future ones! Ever since a pair of adulterers and adulterers on Shentang Road a hundred years ago, our Majia Village has not seen such immoral things in more than a hundred years.
The wind is clean and everything is prosperous, sir." The white-bearded old man was very excited, and his body trembled with the sound.
People are also very angry.
These two are really fucked!
However, soaking in a pig cage is a lynching! What does lynching mean? Lynching refers to punishments imposed on people without following legal procedures. Or punishments imposed on people in private, which are all against the law.
The ancients said: Do not reward privately to satisfy public opinion, and do not punish privately to violate national laws.
For example, if a person kills your friend, you cannot seek revenge and kill the murderer. Instead, you should bring him to justice and hand him over to the government, who will punish him according to the law!
Therefore, regarding this damned fact and these damned two people, we can't just go into the pig cage based on our personal likes and dislikes.
After having the laws and regulations, it is no longer a world of grudges and grudges, but must be carried out according to the laws.
Of course, following the laws does not mean that you don't care. In ancient times, there were many laws and punishments that were a hundred times more bloody and cruel than Shen Run. What about Ling Chi, about splitting a chariot into pieces and quartering a body into pieces, about cutting people in half, cooking people alive, etc.
Filled with lead...
Emperor Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of this dynasty, also used many torture methods, such as the shovel-head meeting: corrupt officials were lined up in rows to dig a pit and buried alive, with only their heads exposed on the ground, and then used a big ax to cut off several heads;
For example, scrubbing, which sounds elegant, is actually extremely bloody. The prisoner is stripped naked and placed on an iron bed, poured with boiling hot water, and then brushed on the body with an iron brush until the person is reduced to a skeleton; for example, intestine removal,
To put it simply and comprehensively, it involves inserting an iron hook into the dung door, then pushing it straight in, and hooking out all the intestines; there is also Emperor Yuanzhang's iconic peeling and stuffing method, where the human skin is completely peeled off and made into a human skin cloth bag, which is stuffed inside.
Hanging behind the straw for public display...
To be precise, the behavior of the man and woman in the pig cage is adultery. The Ming Dynasty punished adultery according to its laws.
This depends on how the Ming Dynasty laws stipulate adultery.
Zhu Pingan put the official ultimatum and the ebony tooth plaque into his arms, and searched for the relevant laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty in his mind. The imperial examination involved the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Pingan was no stranger to this. Soon, Zhu Pingan had already set the coefficients of the relevant laws and regulations.
After recalling it over and over again, I already have a good idea of how to punish him.
Fortunately, this is not a modern society. Modern society has abolished the crime of adultery in 1997. If they were born in a modern society, their sloppy behavior is just a matter of moral style. The law no longer punishes it, which means that adultery is not guilty. If it is
As for public figures, at best, they just enrich the gossip news to feed some self-media. There are too many routines such as hookups, mistresses, and so on...
However, this is ancient times.
This is the Ming Dynasty.
Unlike modern times, adultery in ancient times was a deeply abhorred and unforgivable scandal. In ancient dynasties, adultery was a crime under any law. This is not a modern day where people get into bed on their own merits...
Regarding adultery, the laws of the Ming Dynasty are very detailed, with different punishment provisions for different situations.
Zhu Ping'an's eyes swept across the crowd, and finally landed on the man and woman in the pig cage. He looked at them for about two seconds. How to deal with this man and woman depends on the specific situation. This score is clear.
"Please take the towels off their mouths." Zhu Pingan walked to the pig cage and said to the young men.
ah?
Take off the towel, are you going to let someone go?!
"Sir, this..." Several young students were stunned.
There was an uproar among the people. People were very confused and their eyes were filled with indignation. If they had not respected Zhu Pingan as an official, they would have swarmed in and beat Zhu Pingan half to death. But even if they respected Zhu Pingan as an official, they would have beaten Zhu Pingan half to death.
Ping An was classified as a dog official.
Contrary to everyone else, the man and woman in the pig cage were very excited when they heard the words, especially the woman, whose eyes were filled with tears of excitement, and the man who could not be seen as a human being also twisted his body in excitement.
"Sir, if we don't get rid of these immoral people, our Majia Village will never have peace. If this continues, our Majia Village will be in decline, and I will not be able to face my elders in the village, and I will be even more ashamed of my ancestors in Majia Village! What if?
If they don't indulge themselves, then I will indulge myself and make amends to my ancestors."
As the white-bearded old man spoke, he pushed aside the crowd and was about to jump into the rolling river.
Zhu Ping'an had quick eyes and quick hands, and reached out to stop the old man with white beard. The people in Majia Village also reacted and quickly stopped the old man with white beard.
"My father, please be patient. I have a few questions that require their cooperation." Zhu Ping'an stepped forward and bowed deeply, speaking sincerely, "When I finish asking about the case, I will handle it in accordance with the law."
"When the emperor breaks the law, he is guilty of the same crime as the common people. I should have heard of it. No matter whether the emperor or the common people, they will be convicted according to the law when they break the law. When I find out the facts of the case, I will naturally convict and punish them in accordance with the law." Zhu Pingan finished.
Again deeply surrendered.
The old man with white beard looked at Zhu Ping'an for a long time, then sighed, waved his hand and said, "Listen to your orders, sir." After the old man with white beard gave the order, several young men reluctantly put the towels of the two people in the pig cage.
Taken it off.
"Saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. Your Majesty's move is of immeasurable merit. I will definitely build a shrine for you in the future and offer incense to him day and night." The invisible man kept talking as soon as the towel was taken off.
Thanks to Zhu Pingan.
"I have thanked you, sir. I will chant sutras and worship Buddha day and night, and pray for my benefactor." The woman in the pig cage also kept thanking her.
After hearing the words of the two people in the pig cage, the people in Majia Village angrily cursed the two people, saying they were shameless and scolded them.
"May I ask my father-in-law, when did you find out about the adultery between these two people?" Zhu Ping'an turned a blind eye to this and asked his father-in-law calmly.
"Just now, we caught him raped in bed. Everyone has heard about it before, but we didn't catch him. This time we caught him on the spot."
The crowd of onlookers replied in a flurry, and the white-bearded old man and other village elders also nodded.
"What are they talking about?" Zhu Pingan asked, looking down at the two people in the pig cage.
The two people looked evasive, neither admitting nor objecting, which was equivalent to acquiescence. They couldn't deny it even if they wanted to. How could they deny it when so many people caught him in the act?
"Oh, that means he was caught on the spot." Zhu Pingan nodded, then looked at everyone and asked, "I wonder if the victim, Mr. Wang, is here?"
Everyone focused their attention on one person. This person had a dark complexion and looked more ordinary than ordinary people, but he was well-dressed. He must be Mr. Wang. At this moment, Mr. Wang looked humiliated and in an extremely low mood, as if he had lost his soul.
"When the adulterer was caught, was Mr. Wang present at the scene?" Zhu Pingan asked.
"It was Mr. Wang who led us to catch the traitor," the villagers replied in a flurry of voices.
"The misfortune of our family makes you laugh." Mr. Wang nodded, sighed heavily, and cupped his hands towards Zhu Pingan.
"Excuse me, please continue."
After hearing this, Zhu Pingan nodded, without asking any more questions, stood up, bowed his hands deeply to the white-bearded old man and everyone in Majia Village, said something apologetic, and then turned and left.
ah?
What?
Everyone was stunned and didn't react for a while.
"My lord, my lord, please don't leave. Ask them to let us go, my lord, my lord..." The first person to react was the man and woman in the pig cage. Looking at Zhu Pingan's leaving figure, there was a burst of heartbreaking emotions. cry.
"Law 9 of "Minghuidian": If a wife commits adultery and catches the adulterer in the place of adultery, she should be killed immediately. According to the law, if the woman's husband catches the adulterer in bed, he can be killed on the spot. Dead adulterer and adulteress..."
Kill... what's the difference between death with a stick, drowning, or sinking into a lake...
Zhu Ping'an did not look back, shook his head, recited the Ming Ling in a low voice, led the horse, got on his horse and left straight away.
Desperate cries and cheers were vaguely heard from behind, and then followed by neat hey, hey, hey... Finally, there were two sounds of heavy objects falling into the water, which completely ignited the cheers at the scene.
"Our Majia Village can usher in another hundred years of good times..."
The voice of the white-bearded old man looking up to the sky in celebration could also be vaguely heard...
Why……
Zhu Ping'an sighed, clamped the horse's belly hard, and accelerated his departure.
Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the way of heaven is reincarnation.
If you don’t believe it, look up and see who God will spare. (To be continued.) 8