The willows are bright

After eating late at night, he was already drunk. Huang Lushi asked the servant to bring a box of copper coins and said to Xiao Jiading: "Brother Xiao, thank you for saving my daughter. This is a little bit of gratitude. Please accept it!"

Xiao Jiading shook his head: "I never take money! This is the principle."

"This is not other money, it's thank you for saving the little woman's life!"

"No matter what the reason, I won't take money!" Xiao Jiading looked at him with drunken eyes and whispered, "You become a workshop and the staff. Maybe one day I will ask for your help. Of course, I will never violate the principle. If you help me, wouldn't it be thankful to me?"

Xiao Jiading knew that the Jinjiang flood control embankment was in Shaocheng County. If this project was completed, the Shaocheng County Government Office's Workshop would definitely be specifically responsible for it. If you buy the stone mountains and desert slopes on both sides of the shore, you will definitely be bound to deal with the workshop. Let's talk first, and it will be easier to do things at that time.

When Huang Lushi heard Xiao Jiading say this, he said that even if he had something to say, he still had to accept the thanks. Xiao Jiading insisted on not accepting it, so he had to give up and thankfully gave Xiao Jiading several glasses of wine. Then he asked his daughter to come out to play the flute to cheer him up.

After the banquet ended, Huang Lushi took the excuse of getting drunk and asked his daughter Huang Shijun to send her to Xiao Family Ding.

This time, Huang Shiyun did not support Xiao Jiading like she did last time. Although Xiao Jiading was still drunk this time, she was a little unsteady in walking. Xiao Jiading knew that she was shameless in the yamen last time, which really hurt her heart and did not dare to act intimate with her anymore. This happened that although Xiao Jiading had some changes in her perception of her, she was not as good as she was.

When he arrived at the door, Xiao Jiading felt that he had spoken a little too much last time, so he said drunk: "Last time at me... Thank you for taking care of me... I'm drunk and may not speak nicely, you... don't mind..."

When Huang Shiyun heard this, her eyes turned red, she turned around and wiped her tears, then turned around and smiled at him, saying, "Brother Xiao..." After saying this, she couldn't continue.

Xiao Jiading bowed and returned home.

The next morning, the magistrate of Kang County went to the hall to investigate the case, and the interrogation was the case of Wu's murder of Liu and Su Yunxia's mother suing him.

The previous case was witnessed by many people and the evidence was conclusive. Although his husband Su Laocai came to the hall to say that his wife was killed by accident and asked for lenient requests, County Magistrate Kang still made a jail sentence according to Xiao Jiading's verdict.

Then he tried Su Yunxia to sue her mother. She had to wear shackles when she went to the hall, so Su Yunxia was escorted to the lobby with shackles. Many people outside the lobby saw a beautiful woman coming to the hall and looked pitiful. Many people knew about this case and knew that she reported her mother to revenge her biological mother. So the look at her was very complicated, most of which was sympathetic.

Su Yunxia knelt down after entering the court. Because the case was very clear, County Magistrate Kang was too lazy to ask more questions, but just asked according to the procedure: "You sued your legitimate mother, which is not allowed by the law. Have you pleaded guilty?"

Su Yunxia slowly looked up and saw Xiao Jiading standing behind County Magistrate Kang. She smiled sadly and nodded: "I confessed..."

"Yes!" County Magistrate Kang picked up the verdict that Xiao Jiading had drafted and was about to announce the verdict when he suddenly heard someone shouting loudly in the outer corridor of the lobby: "Not accusation! Su Yunxia is wronged! Master!"

County Magistrate Kang frowned and said angrily: "Who is making noise outside?"

Immediately, two Zaoli rushed down, stood up the shouting person, and pressed him to the ground to kneel down. Su Yunxia glanced at him and saw that it was a middle-aged man, but she didn't know him. She didn't know why he wanted to be wronged for him. In fact, she had no wronged. When she complained, she already knew that it would be a death sentence and could only wait for death. So what could she say wronged?

Before he could speak, Magistrate Kang threw the order down and said, "Roaring in the court, let's beat him twenty first!"

Su Yunxia was surprised and looked at the executioner's execution and dragged the middle-aged man to the platform outside the court, and was surprised and grateful.

The executioner Zaoli took the thorn and thrust the man's thigh twenty times. The man was tough and didn't say a word. The onlookers were surprised to see someone coming out to call for the death row girl. They all confessed their guilt, so what else was wrong? They all looked at him with their necks stretched out and saw this man like this, and many people secretly cheered.

After the execution, the middle-aged man was brought back and pressed him down to kneel down.

County Magistrate Kang asked coldly: "Who are you? Why do you want to beg for the offender Su?"

The middle-aged man said, "My name is Cai Laoshan, it is... Su Yunxia's...birth father!"

This sentence made people in and outside the lobby shocked.

Su Yunxia turned around in surprise and looked at him. This was the unfaithful person her mother said that she refused to take her mother to elope and cause her mother to suffer a lot. Cai Laoshan also turned his head to look at him, his eyes full of love.

Su Yunxia turned her head and looked at Xiao Jiading again. She saw Xiao Jiading looking at her expressionlessly, not knowing what she was thinking.

Surprisingly, Su Laocai, the father of Su Yunxia, ​​who was being tried outside the lobby and was being summoned to testify in the hall. He opened his mouth to scold him, but when he thought of the man who was whipped twenty for shouting for justice, he immediately closed his mouth again.

County Magistrate Kang slapped the wood and said angrily: "Bold! Su Yunxia's biological father is obviously Su Laocai, how could it be you?"

Cai Laoshan said: "Everything that villain said is true. The villain and Su Yunxia's mother, Liu, grew up together since childhood. They were in love. Originally, the villain wanted to marry her as his wife. However, before the villain raised enough betrothal gifts, the Su family invested to take her as a concubine. The night before going out, I was very sad and found a way to make an appointment with her. In the woods outside the village, I wanted to take her to run away, but she didn't want to, and even said that she would be from the Su family in the future, which made me give up and find another good wife. I was so angry that I raped her regardless of her resistance...."

Suddenly, everyone outside the lobby was talking in a low voice, but unexpectedly, the case had such a dramatic change!

County Magistrate Kang was also full of surprise. When such a situation occurred, he didn't know what to do. He thought about it and asked, "So, do you think Su Yunxia was the one you raped Liu that night?"

"Yes." Cai Laoshan said affirmatively, "I didn't think so either. Later, I accidentally saw their mother and daughter on the street, and I suddenly realized that her daughter Su Yunxia looked very much like me. So I guess she should be my daughter. If Su Yunxia had not sued her legitimate mother, I wouldn't have said it. But now that such a thing happened, I can only say it. She is my daughter. I asked someone who understands criminal law and learned that if Su Yunxia was my daughter, she was not Su Laocai's daughter, and then Wu would not be her legitimate mother! Therefore, she was OK in suing Wu, and it did not violate the law of the king. Now that I heard that my daughter was going to be sentenced to death, I..., I can only let go and tell the matter out. She was wronged! Please be clear to the master!"

County Magistrate Kang was stunned. He didn't understand Wanwan inside and didn't know what to do, so he coughed gently. This was a signal, which meant that Xiao Jiading made up his mind.

Xiao Jiading immediately took a step forward and whispered in the ear of County Magistrate Kang: "First find out if what he said is the truth, then make a decision. If you don't work, you will withdraw from the court to investigate."

After saying that, County Magistrate Kang retreated.

After hearing what Xiao Jiading said, County Magistrate Kang knew what to do. He looked at Cai Laoshan and said, "She doesn't look like you. On the contrary, she looks a bit like Su Laocai!"

Cai Laoshan said: "She looks like when I was young, and naturally doesn't look like me now. If you don't believe it, you can ask the people in the village how I looked when I was young, and she looks very similar. Since this incident, I feel extremely painful, and I work day and night in the fields and get sun and rain, so I look very old, so I naturally don't look like it."

This is reasonable. County Magistrate Kang nodded slowly and said, "Since you believe you have committed a crime of traitor, our county will first put you in jail, send someone to investigate, and then make a ruling after it is found out! - Put Su Yunxia and Cai Laoshan in prison! Retreat!"

After saying that, amid the mighty voices of the Zaoli, County Magistrate Kang walked out of the back door of the lobby with his hands on his back, stepping out of the back door of the lobby.

Xiao Jiading followed him out and went to the signing room.

After sitting down, Magistrate Kang looked at Xiao Jiading and said, "Now, what should I do?"

In fact, the scene that happened in the lobby just now was when Xiao Jiading was instructing Cai Laoshan when he visited the grave. He asked Cai Laoshan to say that he raped Liu instead of committing adultery with Liu and gave birth to Su Yunxia, ​​which would protect Liu's reputation to a certain extent. However, in this way, Cai Laoshan's crime would be severe for half a year, which would be two years of prisoner. Cai Laoshan was willing to use two years of hard labor to exchange Su Yunxia's life. The two agreed on the matter, Xiao Jiading himself knew what to do about the next thing. But he pretended to ponder and thought for a while before saying, "Let's find out if what Cai Laoshan said is true first."

"What if it's true?"

"If it is true, Su Yunxia's charge of suing her legitimate mother will naturally not be established. Because she is not Su Laocai's daughter, Wu is naturally not her legitimate mother. At best, it can only be considered the adoptive mother who raised her. According to the criminal law, 'The person who raises her will kill her original life and listen to the lawsuit.' That is to say, if her adoptive parents kill her biological parents, she can report it and is not included in the ban on the crime."

County Magistrate Kang suddenly realized, nodded frequently, and said, "Then I will leave this matter to you. After you find out, you will make a decision!"

"yes!"

This result was expected by Xiao Jiading. After he came out, he found a yamen painter and took her to the yamen prison, asking him to paint a portrait of Su Yunxia.

When she arrived at the death row, Su Yunxia was sitting by the bed in a daze. The shackles on her neck had been removed. Seeing Xiao Jiading come in, she came over quickly. The melon-shaped face was pale and her eyes were red. It was obvious that she had just cried, and she looked at Xiao Jiading, and she wanted to speak but stopped.
Chapter completed!