#Topic 24 Crime-Punishment-Injustice
Here are the stories on #Topic 24 Crime-Punishment-Injustice
快刀 Fast Blade
武強一大姓 An influential family of Wuqiang…
余某者老於幕府 A certain Mr. Yu had long been a private secretary…
里人閻勛 Yan Xun from my town…
獻縣捕役某 A certain bailiff from Xian County…
齊大，獻縣劇盜也 Qi Da from Xian County was a violent robber…
A violent robber manages to elude the authorities, even when all his accomplices get caught.
周景垣前輩言 Elder Zhou Jingyuan said…
Several examples of fathers revenging their daughters.
仲尼不為己甚 Zhongni refrained from going to the extreme
Several examples of appropriate sentences for crimes.
河間府吏劉啟新 Liu Qixin, Official of Hejian Prefecture
A discussion of filial and unfilial animals leads to consideration of unprecedented cases.
冤鬼戲台告狀 A Ghost with a Grievance Complains on Stage
A Ghost adresses his grievances to Judge Bao on a stage.
城隍神酗酒 City God Drinks to Excess
A mix-up with names has an innocent man arrested and sentenced by a drunken City God. Guandi steps in to rectify the injustice.
河間一婦 A woman from Hejian
A man seeking richess away from home discovers his wife’s unloyalty to him when he returns home.