Chapter 56 Truth

Speaking of this, Zhao started crying, crying very sadly, and after a while, he continued: "I really didn't mean to strangle him, I was just too scared, and the whole person was faint." When I found out that he was dead, I was terrified, and I ran desperately to find Liu Xiangzheng and told me about it. He blamed me for not going to him, and told me to hurry back and dispose of the body. I asked what to do. He said that the body was cut into pieces with a knife and burned in a stove. Moreover, he repeatedly told me that if the matter was revealed, he must not admit that they had fornication, otherwise it would affect him. If I get caught, he can still find a way to spend money to get me out of the area, but if he goes in, there will be no way. When I came back, I did just that, and I couldn't imagine that the body couldn't be burned, and I heard Tong shouting her son outside. I was afraid to find the house, so I quickly put out the fire and blew the lamp to sleep. I knew that she would come to me the next day if she couldn't find the child. The body had to be disposed of before that. So I got dark, put all the pieces in the basket, and washed the floor with water. The next day, at dawn, I got up and went out and threw away the corpses and clothes. That's it. ”

Xiao Jiading asked, "Did Liu Xiangzheng tell you how he rescued you?" ”

Xiao Jiading knew that Liu Xiangzheng might talk about how he saved people in front of the Zhao family, so as to invite merit, make the Zhao family grateful to him, and be with him even more desperately. Sure enough, Zhao nodded and said, "He said it just now, saying that he gave a very heavy gift to Zhong Facao of the state capital yamen and Deng Quansheng of the county yamen, and then he also found those witnesses, including Tong, and said that if the yamen asked them again, they would change their testimony." also gave a lot of money, especially Tong, who sent a lot of money, saying that it was compensation for their family. He also threatened that if he didn't change his tune, he would get them in trouble in the future. As a result, these people changed their tunes. ”

"Well," Xiao Jiading had already thought of this, his biggest doubt was the murder weapon, and asked: "You use that kitchen knife to split the body, and you have to cut off several hard bones, why is there no curl and gap on it?" ”

Zhao said: "The bones are cut with a small axe, and the kitchen knife is only used to cut meat." ”

Xiao Jiading slapped his head, he was really stupid, how could he get old and think about what kind of kitchen knife blade was not bent and notched, suspected that the soap in the evidence room was a ghost, and he also suspected that he was a ghost, but he didn't think that she could use two knives!

Xiao Jiading said: "What about the little axe that chops bones?" ”

"I threw the bones together."

"Where did you throw it?"

Xiao Jiading was very afraid that if he said that he would throw it into the river, it would be troublesome. Fortunately, Zhao said: "I threw it in a tree hole outside the village." ”

"Take us to find it!"

This is very critical evidence, Xiao Jiading asked Dai Zhutou to take the Zhao family, come out of the back door, avoid the crowd of Liu Xiangzheng who was teasing the street in front, and went straight to the outside of the village, under the guidance of the Zhao family, a small axe was extracted in a tree hole, the blade of the axe has been bent in several places, and there are two gaps. There are dark red blood marks on it.

Xiao Jiading ordered people to be brought to Luo Cunzheng's house, and asked the servants to make a record of extracting physical evidence such as finger bones and axes, and asked the witnesses Luo Cunzheng and the squires to draw a pledge on the record to testify.

Xiao Jiading ordered Zhao to be taken down and imprisoned, and at the same time, he ordered Tong to be taken away.

Tong Shi seemed very excited, when she saw Xiao Jiading, she immediately knelt down, and without waiting for Xiao Jiading to ask, she gushed unconsciously: "Master, I didn't tell the truth before, I saw Zhao fornicating with someone, and I clearly saw that it was a man, and the back was very similar to Liu Xiangzheng, but I didn't see it clearly, I didn't dare to talk nonsense, and now I caught them fornicating, proving that what I saw that day was indeed him!" A few days ago, he sent me a large sum of money and said that I should change my testimony, otherwise, he would make me look good in the future. I was scared, so I changed my mind. I told a lie, I'm sorry for the big man, please forgive me! ”

Say goodbye, knock knock kowtow.

It seems that this Tong is very eager to severely punish the murderer of her son, she has always believed that it was the Zhao family who broke the adultery by herself, and now, Zhao and Liu Xiang are being arrested for fornication, and his scruples have been put down, and the resentment of the murderer in his heart has prevailed. So, as soon as he saw Xiao Jiading, he immediately told the truth.

Xiao Jiading nodded: "I'm glad that you can tell the truth, you tell you the details of the bribe that Liu Xiangzheng offered to you to ask you to change your testimony." ”

Tong told what had happened, and went back with soap, and handed over a large amount of money that Liu Xiangzheng had bribed him to the government.

Then, Xiao Jiading sent someone to find the witness who witnessed Zhao's body at the scene of the dumping, and it didn't take much effort, the witness saw that Liu Xiangzheng had been arrested, and the government was investigating this matter, if he didn't say it, he was afraid that he would be affected, so he admitted that Liu Xiangzheng sent money to change his testimony. He also handed over the bribe money.

After the last, Xiao Jiading ordered Liu Xiangzheng to be brought.

This incident made Liu Xiangzheng's whole person collapse. He was escorted in, and Xiao Jiading and the others immediately pinched their noses, because Liu Xiangzheng's face and body were covered with feces and urine splashed by the villagers, and Huang Chengcheng stinked. Xiao Jiading hurriedly ordered him to be taken outside, and after rinsing him, he brought him back and knelt on the ground.

Xiao Jiading asked: "Liu Xiangzheng, what else do you have to say?" ”

Liu Xiang's face was like ashes, this kind of thing was caught red-handed, and there were so many people witnessing it, he had no way to quibble, he bowed his head and didn't say anything.

Xiao Jiading said: "I might as well tell you that all the important witnesses, including the victim's mother, have recanted their testimony, and I know that there must be someone behind the road." And this person, if he wants to rescue the Zhao family, he should be the adulterer of the Zhao family! Therefore, I deliberately admit that there is insufficient evidence in this case, and Zhao should be acquitted. I know that if you let the little wolf go, the little wolf will go to the old wolf, and you can pull this behind the scenes to the forefront! So, I asked people to squat near Zhao's house and wait, and sure enough, when the adulterer came, he caught one, but to be honest, I was surprised, I didn't expect it to be you. ”

These words are half-truths and half-truths. He actually knew from Daisy that Liu Xiangzheng was having an affair with a woman in Huangyan Village, which was said by Liu Xiangzheng's sister-in-law, and the woman was caught having an affair with Jin Laosan, a big family in Huangyan Village, and Liu Xiangzheng threatened to sink the pond, and the sister-in-law of the Liu family told him in public about it. So Daisy heard. It's just that I don't know who that woman is. Xiao Jiading quickly suspected that it was the Zhao family. And he is the only one who is a township leader, with a lot of money, and a very good relationship with the state and county, and he has such financial resources and connections to do it. Therefore, Xiao Jiading actually asked the beautiful female Ni Huiyi of the Emei faction to arrange two groups of people to follow Liu Xiangzheng and Zhao's houses respectively, so that they were caught in one fell swoop. But Xiao Jiading didn't say that, because the news came from Daisy, and he was afraid of causing trouble to this little girl.

Liu Xiangzheng hung his head and said: "It's me who is confused for a while, Xiao Zhiyi, you just raise your noble hand and let ...... go"

"Confused?" Xiao Jiading sneered, "It won't be like this, right?" You spent money to bribe officials, used coercion and inducement to force witnesses to retract their testimony, and helped Zhao, a criminal who killed people and broke corpses, to get rid of the heinous crimes! You're not confused. ”

Liu Xiangzheng shuddered and said, "What does Xiao Zhiyi mean by this?" ”

"What do you mean? Hehe, Zhao, Tong, and the villager who witnessed Zhao's appearance at the scene of the dumping of the corpse have all truthfully told them that you bribed them to change their testimony, and also took out the money you paid for the bribe and handed it over, and said that you also paid bribes to the state government and county officials. Do you still want to quibble? ”

The reason why Xiao Jiading did not directly name the targets of his bribes was Zhong Facao and Deng Quansheng, because he still didn't know how deep the water was in this matter, and he couldn't venture before the situation was clear. He didn't want to get justice for anything and pull himself in. After the worst case, justice was not served, and the small life was gone first.

Liu Xiangzheng lowered his head, thought for a moment, and said: "I admit to fornication, and I don't admit that I paid bribes!" ”

The maximum penalty for bribery in Tang Law is three years in prison, which is only one year higher than fornication, while the combined punishment of several crimes in Tang Law adopts the principle of punishment from one felony, that is, if multiple crimes are committed, they are not punished together, nor is it punished below the total sentence above the maximum sentence as in modern Chinese criminal law, but only the heaviest punishment. Therefore, even if he admits to his bribery in front of sufficient evidence, it will not be more than a year. However, what he was worried about was implicating Zhong Facao and Deng County, the targets of the bribes. Tang Luzhong was convicted of accepting bribes with a maximum sentence of hanging, and the property he gave to Zhong Facao and Deng County Lieutenant was enough to execute them at least twice. He doesn't say anything about it now, he just hopes that Zhong Facao and County Lieutenant Deng can come forward to protect him.

Liu Xiangzheng's attitude, Xiao Jiading has fully taken it into account, and he didn't expect Liu Xiangzheng to talk about it. Then he said: "Then you first tell me in detail how to fornicate!" ”

There is no way to deny this when he was arrested, and Liu Xiangzheng did not hide it, and said it all in 1510. He didn't admit anything else except fornication.

Xiao Jiading looked at him, changed his words, and suddenly asked, "How did your sister-in-law and Jin Laosan from Huangyan Village die?" ”

Liu Xiangzheng couldn't help but shudder, and lowered his head: "I don't know what you said." ”

"You don't know what to do? Then let me remind you. Your sister-in-law had an affair with Jin Laosan in Huangyan Village, and after you were caught, you were going to sink them in the pond according to the patriarchal law, but your sister-in-law threatened you with an affair with a woman in Huangyan Village, so you ordered them to be released. But a few days later, both of them died inexplicably. How did they die? Are you killing people? ”