In ancient times, if someone committed a crime, the method of punishment was often to use a board to spank that person in the courtroom, so the post of yamen who specialized in playing boards was created, which was much higher than the salary of ordinary yamen. Of course, this board yamen was not something that everyone could do. It was required that the person must be five or three thick, and the more vicious the appearance, the better. It was said that this would produce the effect of a door god, so that the person who broke the law would remember it for a lifetime after being beaten once, and would not dare to commit it again.

Zhang Long and Zhang Hu from Zhangjia Village, Haiqu County are brothers. They are burly and powerful, with dark faces and fleshy faces. One day, they were taken by county officials who were on patrol, and they were recruited into the county yamen to be the yamen who held the board. This job lasted more than ten years. During this period, they beat countless people. Here there are good people and bad people.

There is a Liu family manor in the west of Haiqu County, and there is a Liu landlord in Liu family manor. His family has thousands of acres of fertile land and a hundred mansions. His only son is Liu San. Relying on the family's wealth, he can also practice three-legged cat kung fu. On weekdays, he and a group of like-smelling guys oppress the common people and do all kinds of evil in the fish and meat village.

On this day, Liu San took a fancy to a little widow surnamed Wang in a neighboring village, and wanted to seize her. Widow Wang refused to obey. Liu San asked his subordinates to capture Widow Wang and ask the overlord to take the bow. Unexpectedly, Widow Wang was a fierce woman. Seeing that she could not escape humiliation today, she was so angry that she bit her tongue and committed suicide. This caused public anger. The villagers of that village, under the leadership of the patriarch, went forward to take Liu San and sent him to the county yamen. When the group of punks saw that something was wrong, they ran to send a letter to Landlord Liu.

The prefect of Yanzhou is the brother of Landlord Liu. When Landlord Liu heard that his son was arrest, he quickly sent someone to ride a fast horse to send a letter to his brother for help. Therefore, before Tao Ziwen, the county official of Haiqu County, interrogated Liu San, the prefect had already sent someone to send a letter, explaining the interests and letting Tao Ziwen weigh it. Tao Ziwen naturally did not dare to offend the prefect, so he deliberately escaped the crime for Liu San, and even invented a plot: widow Wang was a madman. That day, she committed madness and stabbed people when she saw him with scissors. Liu San happened to be walking there, and the madwoman stepped forward to stab him. Liu San was in self-defense before accidentally injuring the madwoman to death. For this reason, Landlord Liu also paid a lot of people "witnesses", so in the end, the prefect of Tao County only sentenced Liu San to a 50-board punishment. The punishment.

Landlord Liu learned that it was the Zhang Long brothers held the board, so he invited them to the largest Hongbin Building in the county in advance. After hinting at his relationship with the prefect, he also gave the Zhang Long brothers ten taels of silver, which was almost a year's salary for the two of them. When the two brothers saw the silver shining, they took the silver and carried it into their arms. When Landlord Liu saw this situation, he knew that these two people were also greedy for money, and a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

At the beginning of the board, Tao Ziwen simply sentenced Liu San's guilt and ordered the Zhang brothers to hold the board. The villagers craned their necks to look inside, but seeing the Zhang brothers' lazy appearance, as if they had not eaten for three meals, they swung the board and gently hit Liu San on the butt. Looking at the beaten Liu San, they were still lying there laughing, and the villagers scolded: "The sky has no eyes, these two guys must have eaten the benefits of others."

Soon after the fifty boards were finished, Zhang Long asked Tao Ziwen to test the sentence. Tao Ziwen pretended to come over and take a look. He found that Liu San's butt was only a little red, and even the skin was not broken. He waved his hand and asked the Liu family to carry Liu San away.

After Liu San got home, he jumped off the stretcher with a grunt. He patted his butt and said, "This board is comfortable, just like scratching an itch." After saying that, he went to Sichun Building to find the new kiln sister Du Juan to play.

Who knew that the next day, Du Juan ran out of the house naked and shouted in horror: "Dead, dead!" The prostitute in Sichun Building heard the news and went up to take a look. Liu San's eyes were wide open, his mouth and nose were bleeding, and he was already dead in Du Juan's bed. She hurriedly reported the case.

After receiving the report, the county magistrate Tao Ziwen did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly took Yang Zuo to check the case. After careful inspection, Yang Zuo found that he did not die of poisoning or injury. He could only say that he died of "sudden escape," and the case was settled.

In fact, this is all the credit of the Zhang brothers. Both of them are jealous of nature. After learning the truth about Liu San's murder of Widow Wang, their teeth were itchy with hatred. They could not wait to avenge the poor woman immediately. How could they sell their conscience for a mere ten taels of silver? In fact, the two of them drank Landlord Liu's wine and accepted Landlord Liu's silver. They were afraid that Landlord Liu and Taozhi County would find someone else to hold the board, so they agreed to stabilize them first, and then do something while holding the board.

It turns out that the two of them have been playing the board for a long time and have mastered a skill. If the person who suffered injustice was beaten, on the surface it seemed that the board was raised high and then fell violently. After the beating, the average person seemed to be bloody and the injury was not light. In fact, it was just a skin injury, and it was not a big problem. He would recover soon after being carried home; but if that person was extremely vicious, then I'm sorry. They would make the life of the person who was beaten worse than death, even if it was a dozen boards, it would make you remember it for the rest of your life. So don't look at the time when they beat Liu San, it seemed that they didn't use force, gently lifted it, and gently fell. In fact, they used internal force to directly shock Liu San's internal organs, but at that time, people couldn't see them. After a dozen hours, he will die, but it is impossible to guess the cause of death.

With this stunt alone, the Zhang brothers saved many people who had been wrongfully convicted, and naturally, they also punished many evil-doers.