Chapter 196: Use your usual tricks for a quick victory
The biggest snowfall this winter is knee-deep.
It's March 9th weather, so cold that one's bones are chilled.
Lu Ying was brought to court wearing a thin prison uniform and heavy shackles.
He was imprisoned for more than ten days and was tortured until he lost his appearance.
Even close relatives will feel strange when they see him like this.
At this moment, his two deep-set eyes were searching eagerly in the hall, like a drowning man looking for straw to hold on to.
He repeatedly told the housekeeper to find the best lawyer for him.
But where is the shadow of the lawyer in the hall?
His eyes dimmed, but there was still unwillingness in them.
Maybe because of the heavy snow, the lawyer hasn’t had time to go to court yet!
Maybe today is just a routine interrogation, not the most important time, right?
He must comfort himself in this way, otherwise he will go crazy.
"The suspect knelt down and listened to the charges being read out in court." A bearded clerk stood on the steps holding a dossier and began to read out.
Lu Ying's charges include, in addition to concealing a large amount of tax returns and bribing officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs, fabricating crimes to murder others, and paying for murders.
He originally thought that there was only Huangfu Ge's case, but who would have thought that in addition to this, there were seven or eight other families who were suing.
It turns out that Lu Ying has stolen other people's secret recipes more than once over the years.
Huangfu Ge’s family was not the only one who was harmed by him.
In the past, these people did not dare to do anything to him, but now that he is a powerful person, how can they let him go?
"Your Majesty, it is clear to you! The villain was wronged! When these people saw that the villain was caught, they added insult to injury and took advantage of the situation." Lu Ying shouted that he was wronged.
He had made up his mind that he could not plead guilty no matter what. He wanted to live and tried his best to survive.
But Yang Yin didn't look at him, and only ordered: "Have the suspect sign a signature and sign the case, so that the case can be reported to the police."
The tone was as ordinary as saying to kill a fly.
Lu Ying's hair stood up when he heard this, and he shouted: "Why is this?! Where are the accusers? Where are the witnesses? Shouldn't they be confronted in court and then settled at trial?!" p>
He thought he would have to wait until the end of the year no matter what, and the case would not be concluded within a few months.
"You're a cunning person! You're already on the verge of death, and you're still acting like a fool." Someone on the side immediately scolded him, "Which one of you has been wronged? Telling you that being tough won't do you any good."
Lu Ying sneered and said: "Don't think that I don't know how the lawsuit is fought. You are clearly just trying to give in and end the case in a muddle!
I don’t accept it! I want to sue! Even if I lose everything, I can’t be convicted so clearly!”
Lu Ying is right, the normal process of hearing a case is indeed not like this.
But his case is special. No matter who is suing him or trying him, they only want his life.
Where is the time to fight with him? Naturally, the trial will be concluded quickly. He will plead guilty and be punished, and everyone will be relieved.
"How dignified is it to roar in court?!" Yang Yin's face darkened and a punishment stick flew out, "Come on, put on the stick!"
Seeing this situation, Lu Ying not only refused to apologize, but laughed wildly: "What a great official power! It is not difficult to convict me, but some people don't even think about it.
All my money and supplements have been fed to dogs for so many years! Don’t blame me for being unkind to you now! Rabbits even bite people when they are anxious!”
The executioner heard what he said was so unbearable that he immediately came up and blocked his mouth.
The chief bookkeeper said: "The suspect is now trying to jump over the wall and climb randomly. He must be punished and convicted as soon as possible!"
Lu Ying really didn't expect that after how many times he bribed the court and harmed others, he would now be treated the same way.
Originally, since the interrogator asked about the dispute between him and Huang Fuge that day, no one had interrogated him again, and he thought there was room for change.
Who would have thought that he would go to court today and directly read out the charges, and then ask him to sign and stamp them.
Even if he had harmed people through the law, there would have been at least a formality to get away with it, but now he is so straightforward and explicit.
He wanted to laugh, but his mouth was blocked.
Then there was severe pain in both legs.
He heard the sound of his leg bones breaking, like breaking a birch branch on a winter night.
Then he lost consciousness.
When he opened his eyes again, he found that he was lying on the ground, and someone had just finished pressing fingerprints with his hand.
"I don't... plead guilty..." He was furious, knowing that it was in vain but still making the final struggle.
No one paid any attention to him, and the two government officials dragged him down like a dead dog.
"The case has been concluded, please submit the file."
"If you report it today, you will get a reply tomorrow. We have to arrange for someone to search his home."
This was the last conversation Lu Ying heard.
In a small alley deep in the East City, there is a small courtyard.
Huangfu Ge took the porridge handed over by his wife and praised with a smile: "It smells so good."
"Your favorite red bean and corn porridge," Luo Dongqing also smiled, "You haven't eaten it for many years, right?"
"Well," Huangfu Ge took a sip and sighed, "I have been dreaming about this sip and thought I would never be able to drink it again in my life."
"Speaking of dreams, I had a dream at night." Luo Dongqing lowered his eyes with sadness, "I dreamed of Yun Qing, and he was very happy and told me that the debt owed by that person would be paid off. I asked him where he was going. He said he was leaving and came to say goodbye to me.
In all these years, I have never dreamed of him. But the situation in this dream was just like the real thing. He was still wearing the same ultramarine cotton robe he wore when he left the inn.
He promised me that day that he would come back when the lights were turned on. I waited and waited in the inn, and when it got dark, I didn't see his shadow.
Later, the official found me and said that he had been beaten to death in the suburbs. The most fatal injury was a kick in the heart.
I still remember that the day I went to collect his body, it snowed so heavily.
He was only twenty-two years old at the time, and was originally going to get married in October. But because of your business, he accompanied me to the capital. Who would have thought that he would never be able to go back."
"It's all my careless friendships that have harmed you." Huangfu Ge couldn't help crying, "I was in prison these years, and I wasn't afraid of being beaten, scolded, tortured, or hungry or cold. What I was most afraid of was dreaming back at midnight, thinking of you.
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"I really didn't expect that you and I would meet again in this life." Luo Dongqing had mixed feelings, "I never thought that I would see that traitor ruined."
"Ah Qing, I owed you too much before." Huangfuge held his wife's hand and sighed, "From now on, I will treat you well every day I live. There is no way I can repay your kindness in this life."
If there is an afterlife, I am willing to be a cow or a horse for you."
"Okay, let's eat the porridge! If the porridge is cold, you won't be able to eat it." Luo Dongqing put the porridge bowl into his hand again, "Who knows if there will be a next life? Live one day in the future, and you and I will stay together for the other day.