Chapter 1397: He is truly despicable

The Ministry of Justice doesn't act like humans, but Chen Guanlou still has to.

He arranged for Qian Fugui to distribute the two thousand taels to the families of the prison guards who were purged by the Ministry of Justice. If any family was willing to let their child inherit the iron rice bowl of the Heavenly Prison, they could come to him at any time.

The result was that eighty percent of the families indicated they didn't want to continue eating this bowl of prison guard rice; the risk was too high.

The remaining twenty percent of families indicated they still needed to consider it, not sure whether they wanted to inherit the job of a prison guard.

He indicated he could understand.

No matter how much money you earn, you have to have a life to enjoy it. If you lose your life, everything is over.

Afterward, he began to perform his duties as a warden in earnest: patrolling the prison cells!

Arriving at the Grade C prison, it was still the same appearance as in his memory: dark, damp, ghostly, making one feel uncomfortable all over.

After patrolling more than half, he suddenly discovered a middle-aged man with delicate features locked in a cell, completely inconsistent with the temperament of the Grade C prison.

He asked Huang Ye, "What is his situation?"

"Reporting to the Master, this person was originally a Juren, but because of murder, his academic title has already been revoked. Therefore, he is locked in the Grade C prison."

"Who did he kill?"

"He killed his concubine! And the means were extremely cruel. His concubine was a good citizen!"

So that's it!

Chen Guanlou signaled for the case file to be brought over; he was quite curious.

A dignified Juren, not yet sentenced, had his academic title revoked. How much did the Ministry of Justice officials hate this person that they wouldn't even give him the final bit of decency?

The prisoner, Huang Wenhua, was from out of town, passed the Xiucai exam when he was young, failed the provincial exam repeatedly, and finally passed the Juren exam at the age of thirty. The following year, he went to the capital to take the exam and failed!

The Huang family were small landlords; to support his studies, half of the family property was sold, and they were already a bit unable to sustain it. Moreover, they had to cultivate the next generation of nephews and sons to study, and the family expenses were extremely high.

He himself also understood this point.

After failing the exam, he stayed in the capital, wanting to seek an official position with his Juren title.

Living in the capital is not easy, let alone opening up relations with the Ministry of Personnel; it costs at least one or two thousand taels, and at most, there is no upper limit.

He couldn't come up with this money at all.

Therefore, Huang Wenhua decided to take a concubine, take a concubine from a wealthy merchant's family, preferably a wealthy concubine from a family with few people.

And he really found one.

The concubine's surname was Hong; Mistress Hong's family had been in business for generations, and their family property couldn't compare to wealthy families, but it was still substantial. The Hong family had the intention of marrying an official, but hit walls everywhere.

At this time, Huang Wenhua stood out, indicating he was willing to marry Mistress Hong as a secondary wife, and would take Mistress Hong with him when he became an official in the future. He also said his main wife at home was in poor health, and when the main wife died, he would promote Mistress Hong to the main wife.

The Hong family was full of joy.

Huang Wenhua successfully married Mistress Hong, who had a substantial dowry.

After marriage, the couple lived in harmony and were very affectionate for a period of time.

Huang Wenhua took his concubine's dowry, made connections, and finally found an opportunity: an official position as a Seventh-Rank County Magistrate in a medium-sized county. As long as he paid the money, he could earn back the capital in a year or two.

If things stopped here, it would still be perfect.

It just so happened that someone was blocking his position. After inquiring and through a middleman, a certain superior who could make the final decision didn't love silver, but only loved beautiful wives. He had once had the luck to see Mistress Hong once and missed her day and night.

He only needed to offer his concubine, and at most in a month, he could exchange it for a bright future. Many people had done this kind of thing. The broker even advised Huang Wenhua to think it through; there was no need to care about a mere concubine.

Huang Wenhua struggled and thought about it, and finally figured it out. With a future, there would be women.

He was also worried that Mistress Hong would resist fiercely, which would ruin his big event. So he put on a show, pretending to be worried, and led Mistress Hong into the pit. After much persuasion, with promises and guarantees, Mistress Hong finally nodded and agreed to offer herself.

A few days before parting, the two were affectionate, as if it were a life-and-death separation.

Privately, Huang Wenhua had been guarding against Mistress Hong; he judged others by himself, absolutely not willing to do it willingly, and was very worried about mistakes halfway through.

That night, sleeping in the middle of the night, he was woken up by a need to urinate.

After waking up, he heard movement in the kitchen and secretly went to check. Seeing Mistress Hong get up early to cook breakfast for him, he was quite moved. Immediately after, seeing Mistress Hong take out a medicine packet and pour medicine powder into the bowl, he was suddenly terrified, furious, and the desire to kill arose!

She wants to kill me!

She wants to kill me!

Strike first to gain the advantage, strike later and suffer.

Huang Wenhua's desire to kill arose; he picked up a firewood axe and slashed at Mistress Hong—one slash, two slashes, three slashes...

A neighbor got up at night, heard the movement, followed the smell, climbed over the wall to check, and was so scared that his three souls went to two. A scream that pierced the sky exposed Huang Wenhua's act of killing his concubine to everyone's eyes.

The scene was so tragic that, according to the case file records, it was impossible to piece together a complete human shape.

Many veteran constables who had seen the scene couldn't help but vomit.

This case didn't sound complicated, but the murder scene was truly too cruel, and his character was even more despicable. Therefore, when the case reached the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice despised his character, revoked his academic title first, threw him into the Heavenly Prison, and chose a date for sentencing.

After reading the case file, Chen Guanlou couldn't imagine how tragic the crime scene was.

Huang Ye whispered in his ear: "The little one went to take a look and vomited on the spot. The ground was full of severed limbs, and the intestines were cut into pieces, too tragic to look at. No one expected that Juren Huang, who looked gentle and polite on weekdays, would be so cruel. It's one thing to spend a woman's dowry to seek an official position, but he also killed her. She didn't sell herself to him. This is truly going too far!"

Obviously, everyone despised Huang's actions; it was too vicious, without any bottom line.

Chen Guanlou asked: "The Ministry of Justice despises him; did no one speak for him?"

Huang Ye shook his head. "It is said that no one spoke for him; everyone was ashamed to be with him, so they revoked his academic title first, didn't allow him to enter the Grade A prison, and could only lock him in the Grade C prison."

Chen Guanlou nodded knowingly.

He also despised Huang Wenhua; this person is too despicable!

He tapped the prison door lightly. "Huang Wenhua, why did you kill Mistress Hong, just because you saw her suspected of poisoning?"

"You are Warden Chen. Hehe... shouldn't I have killed her? She wanted to kill me, of course I had to kill her! Why couldn't she just obey obediently, why couldn't she just honestly go accompany the noble? It was only a month; what did it matter?

I didn't even mind that she would be dirty in the future; I even promised to treat her twice as well. When my original wife at home died, I would promote her. I guaranteed it, why did she still have to poison me? Why, why, bitch! Ruining my future, bitch!"

This Huang Wenhua is indeed a bit crazy.

Looking at his current state, he is very manic!

Chen Guanlou sneered. "You are truly shameless. Without Mistress Hong, where would your future come from? You killed her life, yet you scold her for ruining your future."

"I didn't scold wrong!" Huang Wenhua suddenly stood up from the ground. "Since she married me, everything of hers is mine, including her money. I took her money to seek a future; it was looking up to her, it was giving her face. She didn't know how to be grateful, and even dared to poison me; she deserved to die! She deserved to be ridden by ten thousand people, deserved to be sent away by me, deserved it! Hahaha..."

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