I'll make the decision on my brush

Xiao Jiading left the jail and went back to the signing room to call Shutong Wenyan, asking him to prepare his pen, ink, paper and ink, and follow him out to investigate the case. Then, the two of them arrived at the class room.

Captain Dai and others were interrogating a captured thief in the house. When they heard that Xiao Jiading was coming, they hurried out to meet him. Xiao Jiading said, "Take a few people, follow me and go investigate the case!"

Captain Dai quickly agreed, called five constables and took out the horses. Several people got on the horses. Xiao Jiading said, "Go to Kuliu Village where Cai Laoshan is first!"

Captain Dai is an old captain and knows all the villages in the county well. He now takes them to Kuliu Village.

When I arrived at Kuliu Village, I first went to the village chief’s house. The village chief was also named Cai, and he was still Cai Laoshan’s distant cousin.

After Xiao Jiading learned about it, he immediately spread the paper and pen, and began to record while asking. He said, "It just so happens that I will ask you first. Cai Laoshan said that he and Liu grew up together since childhood and have always had a close relationship. Is that true?"

Cai Cunzheng immediately said, "Yes, the two families are very close. I heard that the two families had the intention to get married at that time. It's a pity that the Cai Laoshan family is relatively poor, and Liu's father is sick for many years and has no money to treat the disease. That's why he agreed to the Su Laocai family's request to take a concubine and gave his daughter to the Su family as a concubine. Many people knew about this at that time."

"Then have you seen them make out together?"

"No, but for young people, it's normal for them to be sneaky together if they like it. Many people in the village are like this."

When Xiao Jiading recorded, he wrote Cai Cunzheng's words in a literary way: "The two people are in love and meet in the countryside in private. It is understandable." This seems to be that Cai Cunzheng can prove that the two have an affair together.

After the record, Xiao Jiading did not show him the transcript because Tang Lu did not ask the person being questioned to read it. He directly asked Cai Cunzheng to sign and seal it.

The testimony of Muramasa has a very strong proof.

Then, Xiao Jiading took out the portrait of Su Yunxia for Cai Cunzheng to see, and said, "They said, Su Yunxia looks very much like Cai Laoshan when she was young. Do you think she looks like her?"

Although Cai Cunzheng recognized Cai Laoshan, he actually couldn't remember exactly what a person looked like when he was young in ancient times without photography technology. He only had a vague impression, and sometimes he didn't even have this impression. Many people with the surname Cai in Kuliu Village have more or less relatives. Cai Laoshan's family is very poor. As the saying goes, "No one is asking about the poor in the downtown area, but there are distant relatives in the deep mountains." A poor family, Cai Village, as a rich man, rarely set foot in, so he didn't have a deep impression of Cai Laoshan. He had never seen Su Yunxia before. After seeing the portrait that had been painted by Xiao Jiading, he tilted his head and thought about it, but he was not sure. However, he was implied by Xiao Jiading's words just now, "It's quite similar."

Xiao Jiading immediately made a identification record, describing that after Cai Cunzheng's careful identification, he concluded that Su Yunxia was very similar to Cai Laoshan when she was young. Cai Cunzheng also signed and copied.

With these two evidences, Xiao Jiading felt much more at ease.

Then, Xiao Jiading asked Caicun to call some elderly people in the village to ask questions and identify them.

In ancient times, the law emphasized entities over procedure, which was a tradition of thousands of years. This was even more so in the Tang Dynasty. There were few specific regulations on procedural things, such as how to inquire, how to inquire, how to inquire, who took a record, and no regulations were made. When a case arrived at the punishment room, in many cases, the inquiry was the inquiry that the criminal room clerk asked himself to record by himself, which gave many opportunities to cheat. In addition, there was no regulation on inquiry of witnesses, so there was no problem calling people together to ask them.

The reason why he chose the elderly was that these old people had seen Cai Laoshan when he was young, and at the same time he was mature and steadfast, and his testimony was relatively reliable. However, years of experience in agency cases made him know that the elderly's memory had seriously subsided due to their age problems. Unless it was a matter of a particularly deep impression, it was difficult to remember, and it was even more respectful and easy to be implied by others and followed the crowd. This was exactly what he hoped.

When these old men of seventy and eighty-year-olds came in tremblingly and stood restrainedly in the hall, Xiao Family Ding said in a majestic voice: "Everyone, I am here to investigate the Cai Laoshan, who is the daughter of the Liu family, today, and tell me what you know."

He set the tone as soon as he came up and directly affirmed that Cai Laoshan raped Liu, but this sentence was not recorded, and the people in the yamen did not know it at that time. For those present, it was a powerful psychological hint that made them unconsciously recall it from this perspective.

Sure enough, an old man said that Cai Laoshan was not authentic. He had seen Cai Laoshan forcibly hugging Liu, and some said that Cai Laoshan peeked at the Liu family to take a bath. Some people said that Cai Laoshan came out of the Liu family, and Liu was crying at the door, etc. In fact, these things might have been really seen, but by chance. After being hinted by Xiao Family Ding, these old people thought about that. So they added their own inferences and said that what was originally normal was full of love and even **.

Xiao Jiading naturally recorded the descriptions of these old people with inferences, which became ironclad evidence to prove Cai Laoshan's attempt to rape Liu's family.

Then, Xiao Jiading took out the portrait and identified it for these people. Of course, these people had never seen Su Yunxia. The most important thing is that these old people are basically dizzy and can see clearly. Xiao Jiading said in his opening remarks that many people say that the portrait makes people look very similar to Cai Laoshan when he was young. Do you see, right?"

This hint naturally played a leading role, and the portrait was not particularly unrestrained, so these old people all said that they were very similar, really very similar.

In this way, as Xiao Jiading expected, he obtained the evidence he hoped.

Cai Village was holding a banquet to entertain Xiao Jiading and the others. Because they were in a hurry to handle the case in the afternoon, Xiao Jiading did not eat wine at noon. After a hurry, he said goodbye and left Kuliu Village with Captain Dai and others.

The next goal is naturally Su Laocai’s family.

Captain Dai went to Su Laocai's house to communicate, so he knew the road. The group returned to Yizhou City and came to Su Laocai's house. When the gatekeeper saw the yamen's tolerance, he quickly made it to the living room. At the same time, someone quickly informed the master.

Soon, Su Laocai came and nodded and smiled.

Xiao Jiading said, "Call out all your concubines, I want to ask questions!"

Su Laocai quickly went to call someone in person.

Xiao Jiading asked the headmaster Dai and other constables to go outside the gate to guard the police. Wen Yan prepared the pen, ink, paper and ink, grind the ink, prepared the pen, and then went out.

Everyone arrived soon. Su Laocai had nine wives and concubines. Yuan Peiwu and Wu's concubine Liu were all in prison and the other was killed. There were only seven. They all stood honestly behind Su Laocai.

Xiao Jiading said: "I am here by the order of the magistrate of Kang County to investigate the case of Su Yunxia suing her mother. When I was promoted to the court in the morning, a villager named Cai Laoshan suddenly said in the court that Su Yunxia was not from your Su family, but his daughter. He raped Liu's birth the night before Liu's family entered the Su family. We had already gone to Kuliu Village, the village where Cai Laoshan is located. Local villagers confirmed that before Liu's family entered your Su family, Cai Laoshan did covet the Liu family and had also acted like ** Liu family. We took Su Yunxia's portrait to identify them, and many people said that it looked quite like Cai Laoshan when he was young. We also asked for your opinions on this matter. What do you think?"

As soon as this was said, it was like a scoop of water pouring into a oil pan, and it was immediately frying. There was a saying that a woman was equal to five hundred ducks, and there were seven here, which was like entering the duck farm and chattering. The second aunt kept spitting on the ground: "Bao, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, I said, no wonder! Bah, bah, bah!"

Shortly after the fourth aunt entered the door, Su Laocai married the fifth aunt Liu and took away her favor. Before the fifth aunt gave birth to a daughter, Su Laocai was quite favored by Wu. The fourth aunt had always held a grudge. Now, after hearing what Xiao Jiading said, he immediately shouted: "Yes! I see her daughter's charming appearance, and I have long suspected that she is not a seed of our Su family. I told you that you don't believe it. Now, I'm right?"

The seventh aunt also said, "Why don't you believe it? I said yes at that time. Didn't I scold Liu, saying that her slutty fox must have had a lot of affair with others. Her daughter might be a bastard?"

The eighth aunt also said, "I just said that our master doesn't like her so much. He must have known that she was stealing people outside. Unexpectedly, she gave birth to a daughter. Now, the master has raised a bastard for more than ten years! This is a big accusation!"

At this time, the third aunt spoke, she was a person of duty, frowned and said, "You can't say that. I believe that Liu is not that kind of person, then Yunxia must be the master's child..."

"Nonsense!" The second aunt roared and pointed at the third aunt's nose: "What do you know? You eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha's name all day long. How do you know about that slutty fox? You know that you are good to her. Are you secretly making connections with her with a wild man?"

Immediately, the Fourth Auntie, the Seventh Auntie and others all spoke and scolded the Third Auntie.

The third aunt and the fifth aunt Liu were in a similar relationship, but they just sympathized with her experience, so they wanted to say a few fair words, but they didn't expect that the second aunt would dare to say anything else. So they quickly shut up.

The sixth aunt had a good relationship with Liu. When she saw the third aunt talking fairly, she was besieged by the second aunt, and she bowed her head and said nothing. The youngest aunt was the ninth aunt who had just entered the door and was favored. The fifth aunt, who was bullied by the eldest lady at that time, did not threaten her at all, so she didn't care about her.

Xiao Jiading recorded calmly that he only remembered those words that Su Yunxia was not a child of the Su family, but did not remember the words of the opposite third concubine.

This is what I call my brush.
Chapter completed!