65 The side branches are destroyed
Since it is a trial, of course, it will not just listen to one side, after Lu Lu finished his statement, the * official routinely asked Abel to come out to confront him. How could Abel admit that there was nothing to do, not to mention that his fiancé was still sitting on the side. However, for Lu Lu's strange appearance, even if Abel doesn't have a fiancé, he won't think it's an affair.
But there were also the head of the Ukletian family and the Duke of Douglas on the jury, who were not well-wishers.
One asked: "Brigadier General Abraham, if I remember correctly, you have signed a guardianship contract with Mr. Lu Shiqing, and you have also held an engagement ceremony in front of the public, don't you know that you are committing bigamy?"
The other immediately chimed in: "Since Brigadier General Abraham and the accused have emotional entanglements, I am afraid that it is not appropriate to sit on the witness stand." ”
In addition to the two of them, there are other jurors who don't know the truth and look at each other, who doesn't know that these two families are making trouble with the Yue family, they just listen to it. It's a pity that Marshal Adi refused to let go, he sat next to the *guan, he cleared his throat, coughed, and the *guan suddenly became excited, remembering the words of the queen's first chamberlain before the trial.
* The official hurriedly opened his mouth to stop the discussion in court: "It is not yet time for the jury to discuss, and according to the law, the jury members cannot ask induced questions, and if some members make mistakes again, this court will invite you out of the jury for the crime of disrupting the trial." ”
In fact, jury members do not only sit in the courtroom, but often encounter situations where some members are not available, some members need to recuse themselves, and so on. This was the most time they had come, not only because of the Queen's attention, but also because they were all curious about this inexplicable case.
Despite the noble status of the jury members, no one dared to challenge the authority of the * official, and it was a great shame to be asked out of the jury in court. And no one is deaf, didn't they hear that cough from Marshal Adi?
After the jury subsided, the courtroom fell into an awkward silence, and the ** officer spoke: "May I ask the witness, is the defendant's words true?"
Abel touched his fiancé while touching his hair, and replied: "Honorable * judge and jury, the defendant's statement is really false. I did have a relationship with the defendant in the tea star, but my fiancé and my fourth brother-in-law were present at the time. At that time, we didn't know that my fiancé was related to the Lu family, but we just encountered the defendant who wanted to rob my fiancé of the goods he chose, and there were a few arguments in the process, thanks to the fourth brother-in-law to help solve the siege, and later listened to the fourth brother-in-law explain that the other party seemed to be doing a lot of things to bully men and women in the tea star. ”
"She is also very shameless to say that she is underage!" Lu Shiqing interjected indignantly. However, he was quickly pulled by Abel, and then remembered that this was still in the courtroom, but his puffed up expression looked at the overflow of female jury motherhood, and he invisibly stood on their side.
Originally, the *guan needed to warn Lu Shiqing about this kind of roaring court, but unfortunately, the *guan had already roughly counted the message from the first attendant, so he pretended not to know about it, and the jury was all human spirits, and no one came out to stand out.
Originally, it was impossible to use words that seemed to be like this in the testimony, but Abel stated what Lu Shihuang told him, so it was not impossible to use such a description. Referring to this, the official had no choice but to ask again: "Who is the fourth brother-in-law of the witness Abraham, and what does it have to do with the defendant Lu Lu?"
"My fourth brother-in-law, Lu Shihuang, is the in-law of the defendant Lu Lu, and they can barely be regarded as distant cousins and brothers. Abel replied truthfully, "There is nothing to hide."
At this point, Lu Shihuang must be summoned, so the *official asked the jury: "Did the jury summon Lu Shihuang to testify in court?"
Before anyone else could say anything, Marshal Adi calmly spoke: "It's better to call and ask for clarification." ”
The others echoed one after another, either they had no opinion, or they didn't dare to have an opinion, in short, after getting the result, the official asked: "Is Lu Shihuang in court?" But today's trial is not a public review, so Lu Shihuang is not present, just worried that his younger brother is waiting nearby.
When the knights of the chamber went to ask Lu Shihuang to testify, the Lu family sisters and brothers were still confused, but this did not prevent them from supporting their younger brother's determination. Lu Shihuang also packed the tickets for his brothers and sisters: "Don't worry, I will definitely write down the trial situation and tell you exactly what." ”
Lu Shilu couldn't wait to beat him up when he saw his smug expression, it was amazing to be able to go to the audit?
When Lu Lu saw Lu Shihuang testify in court, he shouted: "These people are all deliberately framing me for the purpose of robbing the Lu family's property! If you go to the tea star to inquire, who doesn't know that I, Miss Lu Lu, is the dream lover of the whole planet? Who do I want to fancy They all come over one after another, and they have always been begging for you and me, how can they be regarded as bullying men and women!"
Lu Pengcheng was simply angry at his daughter's indifference, and sure enough, the official announced that he would let the court knight take the defendant down to calm down, and her protest was invalid if it had nothing to do with the case.
Since it has been proved that Lu Lu and Abel's "love" is purely false, the statement that Constance gave tea to the Lu family as a gift is naturally not true. Originally, according to the procedure, it was necessary to summon Constance to be questioned, but after Constance had talked nonsense so many times, Marshal Jo had thrown her brain in the stinky ditch to let her come out to testify, and he had warned in advance that he would cut off relations with her once he appeared in court.
Constance didn't plan to protect the Lu family, this result was within her expectations, so she naturally stayed at home obediently under the donkey.
However, since the star thieves confessed to the side branch of the Lu family, and Lu Lu's self-defense reasons are not valid, it proves that those star thieves have a relationship with them, and the smuggling charge must not be able to escape. Lu Pengcheng was also a little stunned in the dock, although he loved this only daughter very much, but when he knew that the other party's brain was not enough, he never planned to train her to be an heir, so he naturally didn't pay attention to her messy things, anyway, the female is just the one who makes people hold it in the palm of her hand, isn't it, just live happily.
In fact, as early as when he was plotting to seize the Lu family's property, Lu Pengcheng planned to have another heir, otherwise why would he work so hard to make wedding dresses for others? Unfortunately, although he had many secret lovers, he could not give birth to a son and a half daughter, let alone a female cat or a tomcat, not even a female or a male! This once made him wonder if his deceased original pair had done something to his body, after all, there was a family head wife who gave birth to four cubs, oh, now it is five cubs, this kind of thing is in front of the jade, how can he not believe that the Lu family's genes are not good.
Lu Pengcheng didn't think about it at all, or he didn't want to think about it, even if he was a side branch of the Lu family, the blood relationship with the descendant branch had long been far away, and there was no way to compare whether the genes were good or not. And it's not that he didn't think about letting Lu Lu recruit more, and he personally cultivated the children he gave birth to, but Lu Lu has a lot of male and female lovers, and none of them can make her pregnant with cubs!
To this day, Lu Pengcheng is also a little disheartened, how could he be willing to completely destroy the foundation he laid single-handedly? So when it was his turn to be questioned, he decisively abandoned Lu Lu: "I'm sorry for raising my daughter like this, but please understand my fatherly heart, my partner died early and left such a baby female, I didn't dare not give her anything, but I didn't expect to develop such a temperament like her...... She even dared to collude with the star thief, I thought she was sensible and worked hard for the family business, I ......"
Marshal Adi interrupted him unceremoniously: "So, you mean, everything is your daughter's own decision?"
It's not that Lu Pengcheng doesn't want to bite Constance into the water, but he is not a fool, first, he has no evidence, and second, is it cheaper to drag Constance into the water?
Hearing this, even the *official expressed his contempt for Lu Pengcheng, if he is really a loving father and daughter who can teach him like this, I'm afraid it is deliberate, right? However, if it is involved, it will inevitably drag out the extraneous branches of the Yue family, and the *guan did not investigate deeply, but asked the jury directly: "Please ask the jury to start discussing." Guilty or not?"
Some female aristocrats are very disdainful of this, and even their only daughter said that they would give up if they gave up, who would dare to be with them? And many years have passed, Lu Pengcheng has long since remembered the faces of the three elders, but the three elders are a person who holds grudges, if it wasn't for Lu Pengcheng's stinginess, how could he have been reprimanded by the queen and almost kicked out of the senate?
After a short discussion time, the jury found all guilty, and it was not Lu Lu's own crime, but the entire side branch of the Lu family.
The three elders spoke on behalf of the Senate: "If I remember correctly, this Mr. Lu Pengcheng once planned to bribe me twenty years ago to ask for the title of their heir, but I sternly refused. It shows that he is full of resentment towards the children of the Lu family, and it is obviously impossible for his daughter to suppress the other party by means of tea smuggling. I think he must be fooling the jury. ”
Lu Pengcheng was simply shocked by the shamelessness of the three elders, even if he explained that it was the three elders who asked him to pay bribes and was refused, it would be useless to the current case.
At this time, Marshal Adi took out the evidence that Lu Pengcheng bought the star thieves more than 20 years ago: "Lu Pengcheng had already had dealings with the black market more than 20 years ago, and hired star thieves to attack the head of the family and the wife of the head of the family. The queen was very angry about this, if all the side branches of the world did this, who would dare to hand over the family affairs to the side branches?"
The royal family also has a lot of side branches, and even if these side branches are not in the order of succession, they may ascend to the sky in one step if the descendants are destroyed. But that's not the case, if they all do it like Lu Pengcheng, which family would dare to give a side branch?
It is not surprising that the jurors took the queen so seriously, and I don't know which royal side branch they were warning about?
No matter what speculation they had in their hearts, the jury was very cooperative in determining that Lu Pengcheng colluded with the star thieves to commit smuggling, □□ and other crimes for the purpose of murdering his grandson, and the other participants in the side branch were not innocent. In the end, Lu Pengcheng was sentenced to life electrocution as the first offender, and the rest of the henchmen involved in it were sentenced to life hard labor, and all the properties of the side branch were deprived and returned to the Lu family.
At this point, the side branch of the Lu family, which was in the tea production star Xuanhe for a while, finally came to an end. 166 Reading Network