After wasting nearly an hour in vain, Xiao Jiading still didn't ask anything. This is actually something he had already predicted. Now that you've done what you're supposed to do, that's it. So, Xiao Jiading left the women's cell, and when he went outside, he met another scribe who was also participating in the recording of prisoners, and this scribe's case had two criminals to question, one in the men's cell and the other on death row.

Because of the tight time, he was afraid that it would be too late, so he begged Xiao Jiading to help interrogate the one on death row. This scribe was transferred from another state, and Xiao Jiading was not easy to refuse, so he agreed. He took the outline of the inquiry he had already written and went to the death row.

There are not many prisoners sentenced to death in this county, and many of the cells are empty. As I walked inside, I finally saw a prisoner in a death row cell, who was bald, wearing heavy shackles, handcuffs and leg irons, and wearing dirty monk's robes, but he was a monk. I couldn't help but take a closer look, and saw that she had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and a graceful figure, and she turned out to be a female nun.

He immediately thought of the murderer in their temple that Nun Tonghui had just said. Could it be her?

Xiao Jiading took a few more looks. The nun lowered her head and leaned against the wet bluestone slab wall, as if she had fallen asleep.

In the back cell, there are no death row inmates who look like monks, and it seems that the one just now is the murderer nun that Tonghui said.

Xiao Jiading recalled that when Li Ke, the king of Shu, came to the prison to record the prisoners during the day, and met one by one to listen to the grievances, the nun did not shout grievances, nor did she react at all, it seemed that she had accepted her fate.

Finally arrived at the death row prisoner to be questioned, and after the questioning, Xiao Jiading walked out and passed by the nun's cell. He stopped and looked at it carefully, because this nun was very thin and thin, and she looked weak and weak, and she really didn't look like a murderer who hacked people to death with a knife!

Xiao Jiading looked at her for a while, and felt a little strange the most, so he hit the iron fence with the inkstone in his hand, and when there were a few sounds, the nun slowly opened her eyes and looked at Xiao Jiading.

Xiao Jiading asked, "What's your name?" ”

The nun straightened up. Lowered his head and whispered: "The name of the law is Tongyun." ”

"What did you get arrested for?"

"Murderous ......"

"Killed whom?"

"......" Tongyun paused for a while before he spit out a few words with difficulty, "My aunt ......"

"Why do you want to kill her?"

"Quarrel, kill in a fit of anger."

"Kill with what?"

"Knife ......"

"Where did the knife come from?"

"He had a sword on his body. The yamen has been confiscated. ”

"Did you really kill your aunt?" Xiao Jiading asked the biggest doubt in his heart.

The nun nodded without hesitation: "I killed it." ”

Xiao Jiading was a little deflated, and he actually asked casually. I found her voice very calm and soft. If not on death row. No one would have felt that such a voice was actually made by a death row inmate.

Xiao Jiading didn't ask any more questions, turned around and left, and after handing over the materials to the scribe, he returned to his residence.

Because he had a case assigned by the princess here, he did not hand over another case to him, and the princess's case had no hope of continuing. Instead, he suddenly relaxed.

The next day, in the morning, it was Li Ke, the king of Shu, who went to the hall to ask about the case, because there was no case of Xiao Jiading, so he didn't have to go to the lobby. It's free for a while. Some have nothing to do. Seeing that it was still early, he changed into civilian clothes, walked out, and wandered around the county.

After wandering around, I actually walked to the only temple in the county, the White Crane Temple. This temple is not big, but the incense is quite prosperous, and the pilgrims are shuttling in and out.

Xiao Jiading remembered that this was the place where the female nun Tonghui and Tongyun practiced, and there was nothing to do, so he walked in.

He was wandering around the temple when he suddenly heard two nuns talking about something and walked past him, and he heard two of them: "Tongyun will definitely not kill his aunt, she was brought up by her aunt, just like her own mother, how can she kill her?" The other said, "Yes, I heard that when she learned that her aunt had been killed, she fainted with grief." "Poor thing! She was sentenced to death, and the real murderer secretly didn't know how happy Lu Dao was......"

Xiao Jiading's heart moved, looking at the two nuns who walked over, they obviously thought that this case was an unjust case! Judging from the reasons they said, this Tongyun was raised by the deceased, and this kind of affection is naturally very deep, and under normal circumstances, they will not kill people, especially for a monk, this possibility is even smaller. Moreover, judging from the fact that Tongyun fainted on the spot when he heard the news of his aunt's murder, if he didn't pretend, it proved that the relationship between the two was very deep, how could he kill his aunt?

Could it be that there is really a grievance in this case?

Xiao Jiading thought about it, anyway, there is nothing else to do now, so it is better to go and transfer the file out and take a look.

So, Xiao Jiading turned around and came out, returned to the yamen, found the master book of the official in charge of filing the file, and accessed the file of the case. He is a member of the Admission Section and has the power to review all cases. So the file was transferred out smoothly. After the death penalty was imposed, the case was not reported to the state government. After receiving a notice of recording a prisoner, he waited for the recording of the prisoner to pass before reporting it. So all the files are in the county office.

Xiao Jiading looked at it and read the confession first. Suddenly, he sighed, it turned out that the deceased in this case, that is, the aunt of the criminal Tongyun, turned out to be the host of Qingfeng Nunnery in Yizhou City! That Qingfeng Nunnery is a temple opened by the Emei faction in the city of Yizhou. I once went there to find Huiyi.

He suddenly became interested and looked more closely. The facts of the case are as follows: Tongyun became a monk in Baihe'an, Wan'an County, and her aunt was the presiding officer in Qingfeng Nunnery, Yizhou, and she went to Qingfeng Nunnery to see her aunt and stayed there for a few days. When she left, her aunt Zhixian Shitai personally sent her to the outside of the city, and the two had a dispute because of the old things, Tongyun pulled out the ring knife and hacked her aunt to death, hid the body in the grass, and then fled back to Anwan County.

Because of the fact that her aunt Zhixian sent her out of the city, many people in the temple knew about the Tao, and Tongyun carried a ring knife for self-defense at that time. She was the last person to see the deceased, so he suspected her and sent her to the yamen. There was no torture, so she took the initiative to admit that she killed her aunt and told her what had happened. After asking, Tongyun said that he had repeatedly cleaned it with clean water, so there was no blood stains. So the case was decided.

Xiao Jiading then looked down. He saw the autopsy in the autopsy. I looked at the examination of the body surface of the corpse. Sensing that something was not right, his gaze inadvertently fell on the autopsy time recorded in the corpse. I couldn't help but sigh,——The time of the autopsy was noon the next day when Tongyun confessed to the time of killing!" And the time of the killing that Tongyun said was the morning of the previous day! It stands to reason that the autopsy should have been thirty hours after the murder of the deceased. However, the autopsy recorded in the corpse showed that both hands and feet were able to move, and there were no obvious injuries or marks around the corpse!

This is strange, it stands to reason that zombies and corpse spots will appear about two hours after death, but the corpse of Zhixian Shitai lasted for thirty hours without appearing! Both hands and feet can still move. When the corpse of the Tang Dynasty recorded the autopsy, this corpse spot was an obvious mark, which was to be recorded, since there was no record, it means that the corpse did not appear at that time!

Xiao Jiading is not a professional forensic doctor, and he has not studied the early corpse phenomena such as mortis and corpse spots, which is just some of the superficial knowledge of "Forensic Science" when he was an undergraduate. But these are the basics of forensic medicine, and you shouldn't be wrong. The major contradiction in the timing of this case made him vigilant all of a sudden.

He still calmly read all the case files, and in the later testimony, the testimony of the nun of Qingfeng Nunnery said that the time when Zhixian Shitai and Tongyun left was the same as the time when Tongyun said they left.

Could it be that Tongyun actually killed her aunt Jihyun Shita at noon the next day?

Xiao Jiading decided to verify.

He came to Baihe'an again, this time, wearing the robes of a scribe from the yamen, accompanied by the catcher of Wan'an County, to investigate.

The presiding officer of Hakuzuru-an personally received them. The question Xiao Jiading asked was: "When did Tonghui return to Baihean?" ”

The host thought for a while and said, "It's been a long time, I can't remember it clearly, and I'll know it when I check the records of the morning class." ”

The morning and evening classes in their temple are recorded every day, which is equivalent to the current attendance. Soon, the record book was brought, and after the host flipped through it, he pointed to one of the pages to Xiao Jiading, and Xiao Jiading looked at the time of the record, which was the same day that the corpse was examined!

The place where the body was found was a barren slope more than ten miles outside the city of Yizhou. It's at least a full day walk from Wan'an County! Of course, the speed of horseback riding is a bit faster. Xiao Jiading looked through the records again and found that Tongyun's name was also on the record of the evening class that afternoon, that is, Tongyun participated in the morning and evening chanting that day, and there was an hour's rest time in the middle, which happened to be the time for the autopsy. Because the corpse has not yet shown mortis and corpse spots, it means that the time when the deceased was killed should have been within two hours before the autopsy, that is, the time when the deceased was killed was close to noon. At this time, according to the records of the chanting book, Tongyun did not leave in the White Crane Temple.

In just one hour at noon, no matter how fast the horse is, it is impossible to go back and forth from Wan'an County to the outside of Yizhou City.

This means that Tongyun actually didn't have the time to commit the crime?!

How so?

Is there something wrong with your own reasoning? (To be continued......)