There was a joke that said men must be nice to themselves. Once you get sick, other men will take your job, spend your money, live in your bed, sleep with your wife, and beat your kids.
All along, I felt that this was just a joke.
Now, listening to the white-bearded old man's indignation, Zhu Ping'an found that the joke was actually much gentler. The fact before him was even more cruel: a kind-hearted man saved a woman's parents, married this woman, and not only gave her fine clothes and delicious food, love and care, but also treated her parents as his own parents, gave her parents gold, silver and real estate, and responded to their requests; the kindness of this kind-hearted man continued, and he took in an orphan who was helpless and competed with pigs and dogs for food, fed him and clothed him, taught him how to survive, and found him a wife; however, the facts that followed were very cruel. This woman, whose parents were saved and who had fine clothes and delicious food thanks to the man, turned out to be fickle and had an affair; the orphan who was taken in turned out to be an ungrateful person, who repaid kindness with enmity, ate the man's food, spent the man's money, lived in the man's house, and slept with the man's woman... Judging from the reactions of the white-bearded old man and all the villagers in Majia Village, this cruel fact is true.
Good deeds will be rewarded
no!
Good deeds are not rewarded. This cruel reality tramples on the values that people have always adhered to and subverts the world's concept of good and evil.
really
After hearing what the white-bearded old man said, Zhu Ping'an felt like fucking the living daylights out. What a fucked up reality!
Not to mention the natives of the Ming Dynasty who valued etiquette and morality, who were indignant to the sky. Even Zhu Ping'an, who came from modern times, felt nauseated after hearing this story, and it took him a long time to calm down the nameless anger in his heart.
"Sir, killing one can serve as a warning to the hundred, and punishing the past can serve as a warning to the future! Ever since the adulterous couple on Chentang Road a hundred years ago, our Majia Village has not had such immoral things for more than a hundred years. For more than a hundred years, the village has been clean and prosperous, sir." The white-bearded old man was very emotional, and his body trembled with his voice.
People were also outraged.
These two are really fucked up!
However, pig-cage immersion is a form of lynching! What does lynching mean? Lynching refers to the punishment imposed on people without following legal procedures or the punishment imposed on people privately, which is against the law.
The ancients said: Do not give private rewards to satisfy public opinion, and do not punish privately to undermine national laws.
For example, if someone kills your best friend, you cannot seek revenge and kill the murderer. Instead, you should bring him to justice and hand him over to the government, and let the government punish him according to the law!
Therefore, we cannot throw these fucked-up facts and these fucked-up two people into a pig cage just based on our personal likes and dislikes.
With the laws and decrees in place, it is no longer a world of revenge and retribution, but one that must be governed by the law.
Of course, following the law does not mean that we do not care. In ancient times, there were many laws and regulations that were a hundred times more cruel and bloody than the death penalty, such as lingchi, quartering, beheading, boiling alive, pouring lead...
The Taizu Yuanzhang of our dynasty also had many tortures, such as the shoveling head meeting: corrupt officials were lined up in a pit and buried alive, leaving only their heads exposed on the ground, and then they were chopped off with a big axe, with one blow of the axe chopping off several heads; for example, scrubbing, which sounds elegant but is extremely bloody, the prisoners were stripped naked and placed on an iron bed, and then poured with boiling hot water, and then they were scrubbed with an iron brush until they were reduced to a skeleton; for example, pulling out the intestines, to put it simply, is to insert an iron hook into the anus, and then go straight in, hooking out all the intestines; and Yuanzhang's iconic skinning and filling with straw, peeling off the skin completely, making a human skin bag, filling it with straw and hanging it for public display...
The behavior of the man and woman in the pig cage was, to be precise, adultery. The Ming Dynasty had laws regarding adultery and the punishment was determined accordingly.
It depends on what the Ming Dynasty laws say about adultery.
Zhu Pingan put the official certificate and the ebony ivory card into his arms and searched for the relevant Ming laws in his mind. The imperial examination involved the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Pingan was not unfamiliar with it. Soon, Zhu Pingan had recalled the relevant laws and regulations and had an idea of how to punish.
Fortunately, this is not modern society. Modern society abolished the crime of adultery in 1997. If they were born in modern society, their promiscuous behavior would be just a moral issue, and the law would not punish it, which means adultery is not a crime. If they were public figures, at most, it would just enrich the gossip news to feed some self-media. What about hooking up, what about mistress, what... There are too many routines...
However, this is ancient times.
This is Ming Dynasty.
Unlike modern times, adultery was a scandal that people hated and hated in ancient times. In ancient times, adultery was a crime in all laws and regulations. It was not like the modern days where you could get into bed by your own ability...
The Ming Dynasty laws have very detailed provisions on adultery, with different punishments for different situations.
Zhu Ping'an's eyes swept across everyone and finally fell on the man and woman in the pig cage. He looked at them for about two seconds. How to deal with the man and woman depended on the specific situation, which needed to be clearly understood.
"Please take the towels out of their mouths." Zhu Ping'an walked to the pig cage and said to the young men.
ah
Take off the towel, are you going to let him go?!
“Sir, this…” Several young men were stunned.
The crowd was also in an uproar. People were very puzzled, their eyes were full of indignation. If they were not in awe of Zhu Ping'an's official status, they would have rushed over and beaten him half to death. However, even if they were in awe of Zhu Ping'an's official status, they would have classified him as a dog official.
In contrast to everyone else, the man and woman in the pig cage were extremely excited when they heard this, especially the woman, who had tears of excitement in her eyes. The man who looked like a human was also twisting his body in excitement.
"Sir, if we don't get rid of these people who are violating morals, our Majia Village will never have peace. If this continues, our Majia Village will go downhill, and I will not be able to face the elders and villagers, let alone the ancestors of Majia Village! If they don't commit suicide, then I will commit suicide and make amends to the ancestors."
As the white-bearded old man said this, he pushed away the crowd and was about to jump into the boiling river.
Zhu Ping'an was quick to move and reached out to stop the white-bearded old man. The people in Majia Village also reacted and quickly stopped the white-bearded old man.
"Please be patient, father-in-law. I have a few questions and need their cooperation." Zhu Ping'an stepped forward and bowed deeply, speaking sincerely, "After I have finished asking about the case, I will handle it according to the law."
"The emperor is subject to the same punishment as the common people when he breaks the law. You should have heard this, old man. Whether it's the emperor or the common people, they are all convicted according to the law when they break the law. Once I have learned about the case, I will naturally convict and punish them according to the law." After Zhu Ping'an finished speaking, he bowed deeply again.
The white-bearded old man looked at Zhu Ping'an for a long time before he sighed, waved his hand and ordered, "Listen to your orders, sir." After the white-bearded old man gave the order, several young men reluctantly took down the towels of the two people in the pig cage.
"Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. Your deed is of immeasurable merit. I will definitely build a shrine for you in the future and offer incense and worship you day and night." The man who could not be seen in human form kept thanking Zhu Ping'an as soon as he took off the towel.
"Thank you very much, sir. I will recite scriptures and pray to Buddha day and night to pray for your benefactor." The woman in the pig cage also kept expressing her gratitude.
After hearing what the two people in the pig cage said, the people of Majia Village cursed them angrily, calling them shameless and bastards.
"Excuse me, sir, when were these two people caught committing adultery?" Zhu Ping'an turned a blind eye and asked his father-in-law calmly.
"Just now, we caught them in bed. Everyone had heard about it before, but they just didn't catch it. This time we caught them red-handed."
The onlookers responded in unison, and the white-bearded old man and other village elders nodded.
"Is that what they said?" Zhu Ping'an asked, looking down at the two people in the pig cage.
The two of them were evasive, neither admitting nor objecting, which was equivalent to tacitly agreeing. They couldn't deny it even if they wanted to. How could they deny it when they were caught in the act by so many people
"Oh, so they caught the adultery on the spot." Zhu Ping'an nodded, then looked at everyone and asked, "I wonder if the victim, Master Wang, is here?"
Everyone focused their attention on one person. This person had a dark complexion and looked even more ordinary than the average person, but he was well dressed. He should be Master Wang. At this moment, Master Wang looked humiliated and extremely depressed, as if he had lost his soul.
"Was Mr. Wang present when the adultery was caught?" Zhu Ping'an asked.
"It was Master Wang who led us to catch the adulterer." The villagers replied in unison.
"It is a misfortune for our family, and I am sorry to have embarrassed you, sir." Mr. Wang nodded, sighed heavily, and bowed to Zhu Ping'an.
"Excuse me, please continue."
After hearing this, Zhu Ping'an nodded without asking any more questions. He stood up, bowed deeply to the white-bearded old man and the people from Majia Village, said something apologetic, and then turned and left.
ah
What
Everyone was stunned and didn't react for a moment.
"Sir, sir, please don't leave. Ask them to let us go, sir, sir..." The first ones to react were the man and woman in the pig cage. They looked at Zhu Ping'an's departing back and screamed heart-wrenchingly.
"Law No. 9 of the Ming Dynasty Code states: If a wife commits adultery with a man and catches the adulterer and the adulteress in person, they shall be killed immediately. According to the law, if the woman's husband catches the adulterer in bed, he can kill the adulterer and the adulteress on the spot..."
Killing... Beating to death, drowning, or drowning in a lake, what difference does it make...
Zhu Ping'an did not look back, but shook his head, read out the Ming law in a low voice, led the horse, mounted it and left.
Behind him, there were faint cries of despair and cheers, followed by neat "Hey Yo, Hey Yo, Hey Yo"... and finally the sound of two heavy objects falling into the water, which completely ignited the cheers at the scene.
"Our Majia Village can usher in another century of good times..."
The voice of the white-bearded old man looking up to the sky in celebration could also be heard faintly...
Why…
Zhu Ping'an sighed, squeezed the horse's belly hard, and quickened his pace.
Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and karma will prevail.
If you don't believe me, look up and see who God has spared. (To be continued.)8｝ ( )