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When Yan Zun was Inspector of Yangzhou, he heard a woman weeping by the roadside while making a tour of his jurisdiction, but there was no grief in her cries. He asked whom she was mourning. “My husband was burned to death,” she replied. Yan Zun ordered his officers to carry the body over and spoke to it. When he had finished, he told them, “The dead man himself says he did not die in a fire.” He then had the woman detained and set someone to guard the body, saying, “There must be foul play.” An officer reported, “Flies are gathering around his head.” Yan Zun ordered them to uncover it and examine it. They found an iron awl driven through the crown of the skull. Under interrogation, the woman confessed that she had killed her husband because of an adulterous affair.