So the clerk coughed and said, "Xiao Zhiyi, the so-called affair, as long as it means sexual intercourse, everyone knows the meaning of sexual intercourse..."

"I don't know!" Xiao Jiading said coldly, "If you find evidence, which sage said that an affair is a sexual intercourse? "

"This..." the clerk smiled awkwardly. In fact, how the case was judged had little impact on him. Naturally, he would not risk the offense of the Prince of Shu to make a serious case. So no sage said this, even if there was, he would not point it out. After thinking about it, he turned to it: "I think they knew what the word "anxious" refers to, and they also knew what the crime of rape was. So when they signed the transcript, they did not raise any objections."

"It doesn't mean it's not mentioned at that time. Didn't it be proposed now? Besides, do you have any evidence to prove that the Zhou Gong ceremony was performed before the marriage?"

"This is their confession."

"But now their confessions have been overturned, and not only is there no evidence to prove their crimes, but there is also a very important evidence to prove that they did not commit crimes!"

After hearing what she said, there was evidence of innocence. Several people were surprised and looked at him together.

Xiao Jiading said: "Didn't Tonghui say that she had been dating her husband for almost a year before she got married to him. - Think about it, if they really had rape, why didn't she get pregnant this year? And she got pregnant just two months after marrying her husband? This means that she didn't have an affair before, but she didn't have an affair at all!"

County Magistrate Liu and others were stunned when they heard this.

In fact, Tonghui and her husband had an affair before, but they did not have a year of love, but only two or three months. Tonghui knew that she could no longer practice meditation. So she married her. However, because Tang Chu did not pay attention to the case itself and paid too much attention to literary talent, so she did not find out the two specific time of love. It was just a general saying that Tonghui had an affair with this man during his monastic period. So Xiao Jiading taught them to say that they had a long time of love, which became an important evidence to prove that they did not have a happy love. Indeed, they had not been pregnant for a year, and they became pregnant for two months. To a large extent, they did not have a real love affair in the past year.

As for this problem, both of them voluntarily pleaded guilty when handling the case, the clerk who handled the case relaxed, did not carefully record the confession, and did not record the case in a comprehensive and accurate manner. Therefore, Xiao Family Ding took advantage of the loophole.

The book recorded the eyeballs and turned their eyes a few times. Although it was not recorded accurately at that time, he had some impressions, as if he was saying that the two had an affair shortly after becoming a monk. However, he didn't care about this time, so he didn't record it. If he recorded it accurately, her husband should have said something different from her. So he said, "Why don't we interrogate her husband? Maybe her husband will tell a different situation."

Xiao Jiading shrugged and said, "Of course we have to interrogate her husband. Let them confront her."

Soon, Tonghui's husband was taken up by the raptor and knelt on the ground. He exchanged his eyes with his wife, and saw hope in each other's eyes.

Because the two of them had already unified their attitudes in advance, there was naturally nothing different. Her husband told them that the two of them could only kiss and hug them, and there was no affair. Moreover, after a year of getting along, they got married and gave birth to their first child a year later.

When they saw that the confessions of the two were very consistent, they naturally could not have thought that Xiao Jiading, a clerk from Yizhou, would help them get rid of their crimes, and secretly tampered with them. Xiao Jiading helped them. They were only in the form of suggestive induction. Even at the worst possible, this matter was exposed. They could not get any handle on Xiao Jiading, because there was no evidence left, and Xiao Jiading just induces them to say this, and did not explicitly let them say this. In the eyes of outsiders, Xiao Jiading had no motivation to help her get rid of her crime, so at best it was just an inappropriate working method.

This case is not a death penalty case, so County Magistrate Liu and others didn't care much. Since the case was not handled solidly, they were helpless. Although they felt uncomfortable, they dared not show it on their faces. They had to think about how to please Xiao Jiading for a while, otherwise why would they have to speak up for themselves in front of the Prince of Shu?

County Magistrate Liu did not dare to neglect, so he immediately went to the court to make a referee. The sentence was made to Tongyun and Tonghui and his wife be innocent and released in court!

This was a desperate situation. The three of them were so happy that they didn't know what to say. But they didn't dare to express their gratitude to Xiao Jiading, but just looked at him with gratitude.

After seeing off Tonghui and his wife, Xiao Jiading left Tongyun, called her aside, and asked her, "Are you planning to go back to Baihe Temple?"

Tongyun shook his head sadly: "The sisters in the temple no longer regard me as sisters. Although they are letting me go now, they are afraid they won't accept me. I, I'd better find another place to practice."

Xiao Jiading said: "I have a suggestion. I wonder if you would like it?"

Tongyun looked at Xiao Jiading gratefully: "Brother Xiao, you are my savior. I will do whatever you want."

Xiao Jiading whispered: "I have a good relationship with Master Huiyi, the new leader of the Emei Sect. If you are interested, I can recommend you to practice in Qingfeng Temple in Yizhou. Your aunt is the host there. When I went to the temple to investigate, the people in the temple didn't believe that you did this case. They knew that your relationship with your aunt was as close as a mother and daughter. They also sympathized with you. Now that you are acquitted, they will accept you."

Tongyun's eyes turned red, nodded, and choked, "It would be great if he could go to Qingfeng Temple to practice. Thank you Brother Xiao."

"Then let's just say that."

Tongyun raised her tears and looked at Xiao Jiading: "Who killed my aunt?"

Xiao Jiading was suddenly speechless and didn't know how to answer.

In fact, Xiao Jiading himself did not know who Tongyun's aunt Zhixian Master killed him. He just found out that the two men and women who Tongyun saw in the Zen room that day were the side princess Lu and the former Yizhou No. 1 talented man Zhong Wenbo. He also suspected that the two people misunderstood that Zhixian Master Zhixian broke through their affair and killed people to silence him. But he didn't know the specific details. Princess Yang took over the subsequent incident and did not let her intervene. He evaded Tongyun's crime, not because he caught the real murderer. Although the real murderer had been secretly executed by Princess Yang and his body was burned, he changed Tongyun to guilty on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence. Now, Tongyun asked who killed her aunt, and he couldn't answer. Even if he knew that this matter was related to Prince Shu's **, he could not tell him.

Tongyun saw Xiao Jiading’s embarrassment, smiled bitterly, and said, “Please, Brother Xiao, please be careful, catch the real murderer who killed my aunt, and avenge my aunt.”

Xiao Jiading nodded: "Okay! I will do my best, don't worry. I will tell you any news in time."

Xiao Jiading wrote a letter of sponsorship to Tongyun, asking her to go to Mount Emei to meet the head of Huiyi, and she would make arrangements. Tongyun thanked him again, and said goodbye with gratitude to Xiao Jiading.

Because the prison recruitment work has temporarily stopped, Xiao Jiading is also preparing to return to Yizhou. He did not want to rush to travel, so he decided to rest in Wan'an County for one night before setting off again.

Xiao Jiading was about to go back to the inn, but County Magistrate Hu had already been waiting in the distance. Seeing that he had finally finished his work, he hurried over and said with a smile: "Xiao Zhiyi did his best to recruit prisoners in Wan'an County, and worked hard and made great contributions. We are very grateful. Therefore, we prepared a small amount of wine in the restaurant to express our gratitude. We also invite Xiao Zhiyi to come."

Xiao Jiading said: "Okay, drinking wine is of course a good thing."

Hearing that Xiao Jiading agreed so happily, County Magistrate Hu was very surprised and hurriedly said, "Then it's settled. I'll go and tell the county magistrate now, and we'll go right away."

Just as he was speaking, two clerks came over, holding a small bag in his hand, and asked County Magistrate Hu, "Countymate Hu, these are the relics of the murdered Master Zhixian. Master Zhixian only has Tongyun, a relative. Should these things be returned to her?"

"What are they?"

"We are all small things that are worthless, and we didn't look carefully. They are all installed here."

Xiao Jiading said: "Of course, the things of the deceased must be returned to the relatives of the deceased. Tongyun has just left, so you can chase them out quickly and hand them over to her."

The two clerks quickly agreed and ran out with the bag.

County Magistrate Hu also hurriedly called County Magistrate Liu. Xiao Jiading stood there and waited. After a while, the two clerks came back dejectedly and said, "I didn't find her, she didn't know where she went."

Xiao Jiading said: "Since it's not a valuable thing, let me leave it to you. Anyway, I will go back to Yizhou tomorrow, and I will give it to her after I return to Yizhou."

The two clerks were overjoyed and quickly handed over the things to Xiao Family Ding.

Seeing that they were about to leave, Xiao Jiading stopped them and said, "Don't you need to register?"

"No," said a clerk. "These are relics, not evidence of crime, nor are they valuable. So we didn't register at the beginning, and now we don't need to register."

Xiao Jiading nodded, and after the two clerks left, he opened the small bag and took a look. There was only a deflated purse bag inside the bag, and there was a string of Buddhist beads, a moon-white handkerchief, a copper key, and a thin Buddhist scripture. He took it out and read it. There was only three cents in the bag, and the Buddhist beads were just ordinary peach wood Buddhist beads, which were not valuable. The handkerchiefs, keys and Buddhist scriptures were of course not valuable. However, the Buddhist scriptures contained the signature of Master Zhixian and the inscription of the eyebrows, which were worth collecting as relics. I believe that Tongyun hoped to be left behind. So he put the bag in his arms. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!