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Story 80: Zhang Xiao Tong’s Injustice
Zhang Xiao Tong’s Injustice
Author: Anonymous
In the last years of Dading, Emperor Shizong of the Jin Dynasty, Zhao Shiquan, a native of Wuqing (now part of Hebei), was a merchant traveling to Xijing (now Datong, Shanxi). Whenever he passed through Baideng (now southeast of Yanggao, Shanxi), he often stayed at Zhang Xiaotong’s house and stayed with Zhang’s wife. adultery. After Xiaotong found out, he secretly prepared for revenge.
One day, the rider Chuan got drunk and strangled him to death with Zidingguo’s general, Chuan, and threw his body into the wild. Shi Quan did not return to his hometown for a long time, and his son came to Baideng to look for him. Xiaotong had an enemy named Bai Zhongyou, so Xiaotong put the blame on him and told Zhao Shiquan’s son, “Bai Zhongyou knows where your father is.” Zhao sued the officials, who arrested Bai Zhongyou, beat him and sentenced him to death row.
In the early Ming Dynasty of Zhang Zong, Bai’s wife sued the court, and Dali Temple sent official Jia Shouqian to handle the case. After Duke Jia arrived in Baideng, he made a secret visit to Mingcha. Someone said a strange thing: Zhang Xiaotong and his son once drove a mule to a certain place and rested under a tree by the roadside.
The mule just ate grass and walked away casually. His son Dingguo Angry, he whipped the mule.
The mule suddenly said in human language: “If you kill Zhao Ke, come and beat me.” Zhang and his son looked at each other and turned pale. Another day, Xiaotong’s wife was fetching water to drink from the mule, and the mule said again: “You killed someone, but you wronged the Bai family.” The Zhang family and his son were afraid that the incident would be revealed, so they killed the mule to silence him, and everyone in the county knew about it.
When Jia Gong returned to the court, he reported that the court sent his grandson, a member of the Ministry of Punishment, to Baideng for punishment. Sun put Xiaotong and his son on trial and admitted immediately when asked. Therefore, everyone said that the laws of nature cannot be falsely accused.
