When people weave a lie, there is always a tendency to cover up some information, and people tend not to distort the content that is not related to the information that needs to be covered up. This is the key to interpreting the story.
All the witnesses and evidence appeared in the yamen, the only two that were not brought to justice were the small dagger and the samurai sword. Looking through the movie reviews, I found that there is a lot of controversy about whether the murder weapon is a samurai sword or a small dagger. I will not complain about the ancient autopsy personnel here. After all, there are neither of the two things, and it is possible to judge from the wound.
In the final destination of the samurai sword, only the thief gave the statement "I changed the drink in the town", and here we assume that he is telling the truth.
The small dagger appeared in the confessions of the thief, the wife, and the witch, especially when the witch revived. She should have never heard the two versions of the confession, but said the dagger that did not exist in the evidence, which proved that The resurrection here is really the dead (samurai) speaking. The three appearances prove that it is real in the case, and it is impossible for the three to make up the same lie separately. In the woodcutter's statement, the dagger was not mentioned because he wanted to steal the dagger to cover up its existence, and when the monk said "the dead do not lie", he still insisted that the deceased was lying. So far the whereabouts of the dagger has been determined. But many people ignore a detail that the deceased (the samurai) said "then I felt someone pulled it from me" (it can be seen after a while), this sentence confirms one thing: the murder weapon must be dagger. Because if the weapon was a samurai sword, the samurai would not emphasize this detail. The samurai’s lies would only focus on how he died, and what happened after death has nothing to do with what needs to be covered up. It was the woodcutter.
The woodcutter's statement is the closest to the truth, in which the farce of the thief and the samurai confrontation has nothing to do with the woodcutter's purpose to cover up the dagger, the woodcutter does not need to emphasize the comic of the confrontation when weaving a lie, the only reason for it is true. There was a funny showdown.
Based on the above analysis, the original appearance of the story can be roughly restored:
The thief got excited and deceived the samurai to the crime scene and subdued her, and then lured the wife to the crime scene, the thief subdued the wife with the dagger and took her (during this time the woodsman was on the scene), and then the thief threatened His wife followed him, but his wife refused. After untying the rope on the warrior, the wife hoped that the warrior would avenge her, but found that the warrior was very indifferent and did not want to risk his life for her, so she broke down and cried. An insult to her and a ruthless husband who just want to kill them both accuse them both of being cowards, triggering a confrontation between the two, and the burlesque plays out. So far, the woodcutter has been telling the truth, but what happened next is something that neither of the four parties involved would admit: in the comical duel, when the two had lost their weapons, the wife held a dagger. Intervening in the battle, he stabbed the samurai to death, and the thief was shocked. He did not expect a woman to be so fierce. Although she got back her sword and samurai sword, she still chose to escape under the double panic of the duel of life and death and the strong woman, and then The wife also fled the scene, and finally the woodcutter pulled the valuable dagger from the samurai and reported it to the police.
In the process of restoring the truth, how the katana sword changed hands and ended up in the hands of thieves has puzzled me for a long time, and the above is the only way I can think of.
Then it is very simple to understand the lie of each party according to the characteristics of each party.
The thief valued fame, he was caught after falling off his horse, but he also made up an unconvincing reason for drinking water poisoning to maintain his false name, in the case, he needed to cover up his relationship with the samurai. Funny duel and frightened by his wife, so he made up 23 rounds to defeat the samurai and his wife's toughness excited him.
The wife valued her chastity and gentleness, so she wanted to cover up the fact that she planned a confrontation between a thief and a samurai and that she stabbed the samurai with a dagger, and exaggerated the indifference of the samurai, and emphasized by making up a request for the samurai to kill herself. own chastity.
The samurai valued his identity as a samurai. He needed to cover up the fact that he was timid and did not dare to stand up for his wife and was stabbed to death by his wife. He fabricated the fact that his wife asked the thief to kill her husband, and that even the thief was willing to execute his wife for him. .
The woodcutter swallowed the small dagger and needed to cover up everything about the dagger, so he fabricated the thief to kill the samurai with a long knife.
The veins of the lies have been sorted out. Even if a thief is caught and his life is short, he must maintain his own reputation. Even if a samurai dies, he must cover up the truth and maintain his "Bushido spirit". Private pockets at the expense of deceiving the yamen.
The viciousness of people makes ghosts shunned.
Seventy years later, this movie has become an allusion, and its historical value is far greater than its viewing value.
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