“…It was around the third day.”

At this time, the witness was desperately changing his mind, trying to deal with the situation in front of him, and he said with a bitter look on his face.

"There are still people on both sides of the street that have not been sleeping, so the light from the windows facing the street allows the villain to see the person's face clearly.

The villain could see clearly that he was indeed an adulterer living at the entrance of the alley!"

"oh?

That's right?"

The young official smiled and then asked, "Then tell me now, which family is not sleeping?

Which window leaked the light?”

After the witness made up nonsense, he finally made up the lies.

Then he saw the young official waving with a smile, asking the recorder to take the written confession and let him sign and write it? - This is called "A word enters the public, and no one can pull it out"! After the four people finished the trial, the testimony of the four witnesses was summarized into Zhao Yufan.

He sat on a chair and looked down at the four confessions, then looked up at the four witnesses and said, "Some of you four people said that the moonlight was bright in the sky that night, just so that you could see the adulterer's face.

Some people said that the moonlight was very dark that night and nothing could be seen."

"Two people said that they could see the adulterer's face clearly through the lights from the windows on the street, but the locations of the windows they confessed were completely inconsistent with them."

"Some people even said that his clothes were gray, and some said that they were wearing black... The testimony of the four of you was contradictory and did not match each other. At least three of them didn't tell the truth! Come! Each person beats for forty boards first!"

With Zhao Yufan's order, a yamen runner immediately came to press the four witnesses to the ground, swung the big board and beat them! "Sir, the master!"

The witnesses screamed in pain when they went down. They used their hands to slash the blue bricks on the ground and trembled all over, and shouted loudly: "The young people really can't remember what happened at that time, so there are bound to be any mistakes in the confession they said!"

"Stay on, did I ask you to stop?"

Zhao Yufan looked at the yamen runners who were beating the board, and his cold eyes immediately made them more intense.

"Accuses the widow of adultery, this is related to the innocence of his life!"

Zhao Yufan said coldly to the four witnesses below: "If you can't remember clearly, do you dare to talk nonsense?

Do you know if this is a sin of slandering human life?”

After the board was finished, the surrounding people's doors were shocked silently by the official power exposed by the young boy.

The yamen runner pulled four witnesses with blood on their butts to Zhao Yufan, and saw the young official lowering his head and smilingly said to them: "Do you think you'll be finished if you get beaten?"

I tell you, this is just a warning.”

"I will ask someone to continue to examine you. Every time your testimony doesn't match, it's forty boards."

"If someone among you confesses first and says he has committed perjury, the other three people who have not confessed will be punished for deceive the government and testify for forgery, and assassinate the 800-li dangerous military state... and drag it down for me and continue the trial!"

"I'll help! I'll help!"

"Don't let it go! Listen to me first!"

At this moment, a strange scene happened.

Before Zhao Yufan's words could be finished, four witnesses were already rushing to get up.

While their legs were trembling in pain, they reached out their hands and tried hard to stop others.

Afterwards, the four witnesses gave each of the three sons twenty taels of silver, and asked them to commit perjury in the adultery case, and they admitted it in their original form.

Zhao Yufan immediately ordered people to take the four of them out separately, gathered the three sons and four witnesses to discuss the scene of the testimony, and recognized the situation at that time, and signed the documents and sealed them.

Zhao Yufan took their new certificate and stood up from the chair, walked to the cordon, and showed the four certificates to the people around him.

"Dear elders, have you seen it clearly?"

At this time, Zhao Yufan's tone was filled with an inspiration and shouted to the people: "The four confessions were put together, and there was no mistake in the slightest mistake. This is their true testimony!"

The people around him immediately burst into joy. Amidst the clapping, the widow who was kneeling on the ground with the child crawled on the ground and burst into tears! "Mr. Zhao is the master of Qingtian! The young man is like a god to judge the case! You must leave your name, and the little woman will set you a ranking of immortality at home, burn incense and worship every day... I am innocent in this life, and I finally come back today!"

At this time, the widow was crying and was about to faint. Li Muyu hurried over and helped her up, warmly comforting her.

Zhao Yufan then sorted out the case clearly and wrote down the case in the document.

When he saw the governor, Lord Zhao, standing with his hands on the side, he watched the fun with a smile.

He handed the case back to the county magistrate and let him conclude the case.

At this time, Lord Zhao said loudly: "This case is clear and there is no doubt about it."

"The defendant Zhang did not commit any moral behavior. The crime of false accusation by three Zhang brothers was undoubtedly confirmed, and the four witnesses were guilty of falsely making testimony."

"Each of the four witnesses involved in the case was 80 years old, and ordered the return of the stolen money and apologized to the widow who was wronged in the case."

"The three brothers of the Zhang family bribed witnesses, falsely accused widows, played with the law, and misled people's innocence. Each of them was fined 600 taels of silver and was assassinated to Cangzhou!"

"The oil mill and houses involved in the case are still sentenced to the orphan and widowed mother.

The eighty taels of stolen silver returned by the witness and the 1,800 taels of silver confiscated by the false accuser were all awarded to Zhang as compensation."

"After that, all the real estate property should be used as the private property of the mother and daughter.

She can choose someone to marry by herself, and no one else can interfere!”

"This case is over, are you all right?"

When he said this, the county magistrate actually smiled and raised his head, and asked the people around him.

"good!"

At this time, the people nearby were all convinced and answered the Zhao County Magistrate loudly.

There were also bold people who spoke out to Zhao County Magistrate: "The officials in this world have never asked us ordinary people whether it is good or not. The county magistrate is the first one!"

"I'm afraid it's not," Zhao Jinding smiled and shook his head, "The officials sent by the head of the Song Dynasty to various counties are all hundreds of times better than me.

They followed the orders of the head of state, and all official duties were subject to the health and will of the people."

"So there will be more and more such things in the future. All the villagers and elders just wait and see!"
Chapter completed!