Chapter 69

Wen Ning realized that during this period of time, she seemed to have missed out on some important point that caused her to be negligent about this shift in the case.

The rest of the group did not seem to have too many emotional ups and downs about Wang Xueqing’s arrival and testimony.

She suddenly recalled a detail of their previous time together.

On that day, she and Zhou Yinchu were shooting a photo of the two of them together, suddenly he did not say anything, tentatively want to leave the scene first, this is not Zhou Yinchu’s usual style.

Perhaps, in other things Wen Ning did not have too much certainty, but Zhou Yinchu in general is not really cold to leave her.

Especially in terms of the atmosphere at the time, it was impossible for him to leave himself behind for other trivialities.

She then dialed Gu Lu’s number.

The original suspicion was verified, but Gu explained that Zhou Yinchu’s visit was reasonable.

It was just an integration between the old and new legal teams.

Thinking about it, perhaps Wang Xueqing was involved in the case at that moment, as to why they did not tell themselves, was it to create a surprise?

There was no way to know what kind of tactics she had used to convince Wang Xueqing.

Wen Ning did not have time to think about it.

The court hearing had already begun to proceed in an orderly manner.

“After our investigation,” the prosecutor’s office truthfully reminded the lawsuit and formally charged the defendant Wu Zhiwei with “intentional homicide” rather than “causing death by negligence”.

Next came the statements of several witnesses.

The defendant’s daughter, who attends Center Street Elementary School, confessed what she saw and heard: “That day, Mr. Li came to our home for a home visit …….”

The voice was timid.

She launched a long narrative around the events of that day.

It was because of another unsigned injury, even after the hospital treatment and rehabilitation, her respiratory tract was still affected for life, her breathing became rapid: “Dad was going to choose to ‘educate’ me on the spot, while Mr. Li thought that I was a good student and a good child, and that any educational approach should not be solved by violence ……”

“But my father, as if he wanted to prove something, hit me, and I was dragged all the way from the house to the outside.”

“And then stood by that railing, which isn’t very high in a residential building, and the glazed tiles were shattered beyond recognition.”

Her body couldn’t help trembling, and she coughed several times in a row, fearing that her father’s compelling gaze would once again be projected on her as she testified, “I was then pushed down by him while he was questioning me, and Mr. Li fell down along with me in order to protect me, and I can’t remember what happened after that.”

And her father of that defendant to her great righteousness is very spiteful, public, all lawlessness screamed and scolded: “You that is not open-eyed, I will educate you a few sentences, you are not also discharged?”

“It’s all because of that man’s bad luck that he himself fell down!” He pushed his own culpability cleanly.

“Daring to pass gas with others to victimize your own father, but you’re really something!”

The girl’s beads of tears were dripping silently.

The judge immediately said “silence” on the spot.

Wenning’s heart hangs in mid-air, after all, Wu Zhiwei did not confess to his crimes, and his lawyer has repeatedly raised the “loose railings”, “old neighborhoods and property issues”; next, the second witness is also known as Wang Xueqing, compared to Wu’s detailed narrative She knows how to get to the point better than the kids.

“This is the home visit I was supposed to conduct, and Mr. Li of the case was there to accompany me.”

She Woods glanced towards Wenning in court.

And then adjusted and aimed at the microphone, “So, I should have witnessed the entire picture of the victim’s murder.”

“He was trying to obstruct the defendant from verbally abusing and beating her daughter, as he had already realized the unsafe nature of that corridor, but when Wu Zhiwei saw this, he scolded him for being a cowardly and fearful man, saying that scolding his daughter was just for them, the useless teachers.”

Wang Xueqing’s eyes deepened, painful and sobering undercurrents flowing under her eyes as she carefully recalled the highlights of those conversations, “Saying that their family doesn’t welcome us meddling teachers.”

“And how could Wu Zhiwei, who is familiar with his residence and surroundings, not understand the potential threat of that stairway, he pressed on step by step, it’s also possible that in the situation on the spot he was already drunk and his self-consciousness was blurred, so he just went right on ahead and if it wasn’t for his pushing and shoving, it’s unlikely that that teacher Li and his students would have fallen down the stairs.”

She finished the above in one breath, “Judge, that’s all I have to state.”

Thereafter, the case plus other details were organized, no matter how much the defendant did not admit, this is the nail in the coffin.

Added to this, the previous preparation of all parties, the case gradually came to light.

This is no longer an accident simply dealt with, but in the “intentional homicide” conviction and sentencing, in China such a strict legal country, a death and an injury is enough to make the court pronounced on the spot, based on Wu Zhiwei’s passionate murder, was sentenced to death, deprived of political rights for life.

Wen Ning stood up and rose on the spot, covering her mother-in-law’s tearful eyes and smiling joyfully.

At this moment, she didn’t need to think about her brand new identity beside Zhou Yinchu for the sake of it, as they had long years ahead of them to be with each other, and at this moment, she was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief purely for the sake of one of the dead getting a fair trial.

Afterwards, she planned to go to Lee Yuanzhe’s grave, and she didn’t let anyone accompany her, including Cho Inchu and his assigned driver.

It never occurred to her that she would run into Wang Xueqing in such a large cemetery.

Was she repenting for her previous behavior?

Probably not.

Wang Xueqing was also an extremely stubborn person, and although she didn’t know about her change of heart today, she also knew that up until today, she still had no shame.

Wang Xueqing took the initiative to open the conversation, “Aren’t you curious as to why you can bump into me here?”

“His tomb is at the top of the mountain, you can also say whatever you have to say to him,” Wen Ning also wouldn’t warm up to Wang Xueqing just because she did what she was supposed to do, she had seen all of Ms. Wang’s repeated transgressions before, “If it’s because of the testimony of your appearance today, and I need to say a ‘thank you’ then ……”

Wang Xueqing interrupted her, “Wenning, I don’t need your thanks.”

She came forward and asked with a fluttering brow, “You really don’t know anything at all?”

Wen Ning couldn’t say what she felt, but she didn’t have a good feeling about Wang Xueqing, who she had testified against even if she did, “What is it?”

“Just not the least bit curious as to why I was unwilling to appear in court in the first place, and I went to court today to testify?”

Wen Ning replied, “Perhaps, you also just want to but not be ashamed of yourself.”

“Wen Ning, you’re so naive, you really aren’t worldly at all yet, thinking so beautifully of the people in this world.” Wang Xueqing’s out-of-focus pupils were still aimed at her, “But I wouldn’t think that way, I’m going to dissect the most bloody side of it for you to hear.”

Wen Ning was puzzled, not knowing why Wang Xueqing had to pester herself at this point, after this matter had come to an end, “Torturing me, is your pleasure?”

“If you understand the relationship between Mr. Li and I, perhaps you will also be able to understand all the things I do.”

“It seems you really don’t know.”

She kindly laughed, “Your current husband didn’t bother to tell you a word for fear of hurting your feelings.”

“What exactly are you selling?” Wen Ning was chagrined, she didn’t want to involve Shang Yinchu in everything.

This season, if not for new mourners, very few people would come to this cemetery in Nanshan, amongst the sparsely populated group of cemeteries, it’s always silent and empty, while it’s very easy to make people gloomy.

Wang Xueqing blinked her eyes towards wildly:

“I didn’t expect that after Li Yuanzhe’s death, you can still be protected so well by those around you, you say, how can I not be jealous of you?”

“Say what you have to say, after that, I still have to sweep the grave and talk to Li Yuanzhe about the outcome of the trial in court today.”

“Don’t be in a hurry.”

“It’s not a story that can be told so easily.” She laughed with crimson eyes.

“Once upon a time, in a small rural village in northern Suzhou, there was a girl whose family didn’t even have a refrigerator or decent furniture, and she studied but didn’t get ahead, only wanting to rake in a few extra dollars of pocket money every day from her mom and dad or her siblings, just to buy herself some nice but impractical decorations.”

“But she’s still very earthy, those shiny things don’t look good on her, after all, dark skin.” Her yellowish-white-toned skin was very eye-catching in this context.

“Later, there is a place as if other people’s children clean-cut senior appeared in his world, he told her, perhaps there is a different life, do not have to be a copy of the previous generation, do not have to repeat the junior high school dropout, foreign workers to have a child’s life.”

She said with more than a smile on her face, “She had a crush on him like everyone else.”

“For his sake, she studied all the way through high school with great difficulty, and afterward, she even attended a local teacher training school.”

Wen Ning could hear the identity of that person, but her first reaction was still, “Then isn’t what this girl did a positive transformation?”

“Positive?”

She stood in the steamy heat and laughed to herself, “Then she wouldn’t have become what she is today.”

“Perhaps you could have listened to the story, and on the eve of graduation, her contact with him became more and more frequent, and since he was already in a teaching position within the system, the country girl really needed his advice as well.”

Her gaze grew weary, but she raised an old-fashioned, moving smile that only comes when she’s caught up in memories, “He recommended a few schools in their hometown, and even, encouraged her to try and enroll in a school in Jiangcheng.”

A certain kind of hatred hadn’t even begun to show when he said those, “She was sure she wanted to come to this city because he was here.”

Her face changed, “And him, do you think a normal adult male would be completely unable to read what’s going on in a little girl’s mind?”

“The urge to be near him is so externalized and obvious.”

Another rattled off the details in between, “He never took the initiative to confirm something with her, but a vague ambiguous vibe is always easy to generate, and she came to his city to see him.”

“They fell in love.”

Wen Ning seemed like she really hadn’t gotten to know Lee Yuanzhe’s past, and she didn’t seem to look at his love history very favorably.

“You go on.”

“But that boy did something that she could never forgive for the rest of her life.” A frustrated yet unforgivable expression appeared on Wang Xueqing’s face.

“In less than a month, he asked to break up with her, and she couldn’t tell the cause, thinking that she must have done something wrong.”

“However, he had merely met the more desirable and beautiful city girl.”

“That’s the end of my story,” Wang Xueqing asked with interest, “Wen Ning, if you were me, would you be more generous than me in forgiving him and delivering those testimonies for him?”

Wen Ning’s head was stuffy.

Her guess was not wrong; Wang Xueqing was the heroine of the story, and not surprisingly, her own former husband, Li Yuanzhe, was the boy she had a crush on.

“I asked him to accompany me on a home visit, also because I expected that he wouldn’t dare to reject me at all, because he was afraid-”

Wang Xueqing simply spread everything out, showing her wounds in full toward her, “Fear that you would know about that past he had with his female coworkers.”

Wen Ning tugged at her brows, “Are you sure that Li Yuanzhe’s people can also do things that betray?”

“Seamlessly not, after all, he even chased you for so long, but to turn his back on me and give up on our shared dream of settling down in Jiangcheng, he is indeed a shameless and selfish villain.” Wang Xueqing responded almost immediately.

Honestly, Li Yuanzhe was the most patient suitor Wenning had ever seen.

But she had also never thought that he had originally had a stable and beautiful relationship that could be sustained before.

However, when she recalled that Li Yuanzhe had been depressed and bored after marriage for a while, it was probably related to Wang Xueqing, who had returned to Jiangcheng and enrolled in the same school, which made sense.

Although he is enthusiastic, but may not be next to the home visits one by one to go, take on too many duties, for the original Li Yuanzhe, it is very easy to cause others to want to eagerly in the education system to promote the misunderstanding of wealth.

Li Yuanzhe in those matters of his school, when to be ancient, when to avoid, always clearer than her.

“You still don’t believe me?”

“Do you need me to spread out our letters from those years of correspondence in front of you?”

Wenning said firmly, “No need.”

“But even if he couldn’t do right by you before, even if he’s already dead, I’m not qualified to ask for your forgiveness of him. Besides, this is not something I should have bothered to ask for, I was unaware of it, but where I knew, perhaps there was no such possibility for me and him.”

Wen Ning’s mind was calm: “You were able to pass the exam to Jiang Cheng, I think you should also be a very powerful girl.”

Wang Xueqing was shocked, “Wen Ning, you’re not angry?”

“How can I be angry now?”

“Finding out that my honest and loyal husband even has a ruthless and uncaring side?” Wen Ning laughed to herself, as if she didn’t have such a deep attachment to her past marriage, “Discovering how mercenary he was when he weighed the pros and cons, and then going to step on his grave a few times?”

At this, Wang Xueqing also knew it by heart, “You can’t do such a thing.”

“It’s better for me to come, I always have to take out my anger, even if he’s already dead, or because he was implicated by me ……”

Wang Xueqing spoke bluntly, “Wenning, but I still don’t like you.”

“You are too beautiful, you don’t know how much capital your beauty is, how many people are willing to go through fire for you.”

“Li Yuanzhe gave up his moral conscience for you, and your current husband is even …… more of a person like him, I thought that when he heard the past, he would tug on his eyebrows and tell me to shut up, but he even listened patiently and told me about other options besides Center Street Elementary School, and asked me to go to court to testify. ” Wang Xueqing said with an unbelievable face.

“A big shot with a big name in Jiangcheng can love a house to such an extent.”