Crime scene: 162 mystery solving puzzles to find out who the murderer is

Chapter 38 The Yellow Paper

During the reign of Tiansheng in the Northern Song Dynasty, the magistrate of Jiang County, Renshou County, Sichuan Province, accepted a land lawsuit not long after he took office.The plaintiff, Zhang, was a petty official in charge of tax collection, and sued his neighbor, Wang, for occupying 20 mu of his fertile land for no reason.

Wang defended: "There is no such thing. The 20 mu of land was left by my grandfather. Last year, Zhang came to my house to collect taxes and said that if the land was put under his name, he would not have to pay taxes or perform corvee. I am doing this for I was worried about not being able to pay the tax, so I agreed. At that time, we agreed to write on the paper that my land property should be allocated to him, but in fact the land property still belongs to me.”

Zhang said: "Ten years ago, the Wang family encountered an urgent matter and offered to sell 10 mu of land to me. There is evidence to prove it."

The county magistrate took the papers and reviewed them carefully.This folded note was written on white rice paper, the paper has turned yellow, and the edges of the paper have been worn a lot, as if it has been aged for a long time.The magistrate folded and unfolded the written documents, unfolded and folded them.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, he slapped the gavel, and shouted: "Bold and unreasonable, you dare to forge documents and deceive the county, and you still don't recruit from the truth!"

What flaw did the magistrate find in the written documents?
[Answer] If it is a document from 10 years ago, and it is stacked for preservation, it should be yellow on the outside and white on the inside.And this piece of paper is yellow inside and out.After interrogation, Zhang finally confessed: Last year, he and Wang made a written statement, deliberately omitted the time, took it home and filled in the date 10 years ago, and dyed the written statement with tea juice to turn the paper yellow.

(End of this chapter)