Chapter XXII: Facts and Eloquence
Finally, it was Ji'an's turn to play.
"Good! Young Master Shi's trick is really good! Just a few words can brand the witness as a person who has been bribed and has misbehaved. Ji An applauded with a smile and sarcasm, the sour "Young Master Shi" was the real Jinli needle.
"However, are the witnesses really as untrustworthy as Young Master Shi said? I must remind you that what Young Master Shi said just now is not true at all, as you can see, the witness is indeed the person who appeared at the scene on the day of the incident, not a random person who just said. As for why the witness was there that day? Although this point has nothing to do with the facts of the case, it is very curious, so Young Master Shi cleverly targeted this point and told us that the witness was a stalker and voyeur, so what he said was not credible....." Ji An began to briefly explain Shi Lei's arguments.
Ji An paused, and then said: "However, compare your heart to yourself, please substitute the position of the witness, if he didn't stand up and testify today, he could have been hiding behind, no one would know what he did that day, and he didn't have to be accused of stalkering and voyeurism at all." The reason why he has to endure all this is only because he has stood up, he is like the ancient drummer who has to be punished with thirty slabs before he can see the official - today, no matter what the outcome of the hearing is, no matter who the culprit of this theft case is finally planted, he can't erase the negative opinion of others, so why does he stand up? If what he said was not the truth, what motive did he have to discredit Young Master Shi? ”
"Is it for the money? In terms of wealth, compared to Young Master Shi, I am just mud in the ground, just like what Young Master Shi just said, it is not difficult to buy a dozen witnesses casually according to his financial resources...... So, if it's for money, how can a witness be on my side? I don't know how much you know about Young Master Shi, but I would like to quote some newspaper information. Ji An took out a few newspaper and weekly covers.
"The title of this one is: 'The Shi Family's Young Master Deceived the Teacher to Destroy the Ancestors', the content is based on the earlier business school professor re-grading incident as the theme, the reporter suspects that the young master Shi did not successfully get a high score and used his hand to the professor to coerce and induce the professor to revise the score; There is also this one: 'Macau University and Young Boys Recruit Soldiers and Horses to Play with the Junior Brother of the University', the content is based on the theme of how Young Master Shi has united with the sons and brothers in the upper circle and marginalized other students since he entered the school......" Ji An suddenly showed disdain when he saw his classmates.
As he expected, because Shancheng University has a public page that anonymously posts all campus gossip, students are no strangers to these rumors about Shi Lei.
No one has ever been willing to be trampled on by privileged elements, and the superficial meekness and flattery are only because people know that no matter how much they look down on these arrogant rich second generations, they are powerless to kill each other.
However, today is a big exception: the high-ranking Young Master of the Shi Family stood in the position of being judged, and the judges were the people whom Young Master Shi disdained in the past.
This is exactly the intention of Ji An's sentence of "Young Master Shi" - to arouse a sense of opposition between his classmates and Shi Lei.
After Ji An successfully aroused the disgust of his classmates towards Shi Lei, he pretended to play a round objectively: "Of course, the credibility of newspapers now is not as good as before, and I bring up these newspapers not to show that Young Master Shi is really a rich second generation with no one in his eyes as they say." I just want to illustrate Young Master Shi's public image - maybe none of this is true, but for ordinary people who don't know him in general, these newspapers more or less affect their impression of Young Master Shi. ”
And today's Witness is one of the general public. In other words, in his mind, Young Master Shi is the rich second generation who has no one in his eyes, loves to find trouble, and bullies others. So, back to the original question: Why are the witnesses coming forward today? When he stood up, the first consequence that could be expected was to be looked down upon and equated with the words 'stalker'; Second, in his heart, this is a big trouble with endless troubles, because in his heart, Young Master Shi is such a powerful and unreasonable existence, as for everyone, you can see that he was made to tremble by a glare from Young Master Shi just now. If it weren't for the truth, what stronger reason would there be to support him? Ji An said forcefully.
Ji An knew that the innocence of students was often easier to be impressed than the teachers who were accustomed to seeing people's warmth and coldness, so he penetrated the first line with his sincere eyes until he threw himself at the student representatives sitting in the back row.
"Imagine if you were a witness, would you be able to stand on this stage and tell the truth? Maybe if you change your position, you will find that the witness is not only as unbearable as Fang Caishi said, but he is even more courageous than ordinary people. Yes, the witness may really be a stalker, but even if he is a stalker, he is also a stalker who is not afraid of power and can stand up for the truth! Ji An ended neatly with an impassioned sentence.
Ji An bent down and bowed, and when he straightened his waist again, he heard thunderous applause from the audience, and almost thought in a trance that he had just finished a debate - in fact, who said it wasn't? Only with the eloquent cooperation of facts can we give full play to our strength.
With Ji An's exit, this hearing entered the stage of closed-door deliberation.
Ji An, the "fake old man" and Shi Lei sat outside the door.
Ji An seemed to have lost his true qi, and retracted as a deputy consciousness to rest, leaving only Mu An and Shi Lei staring at each other.
Suddenly, a pure white skirt appeared in front of the three of them.
Mu An remembered that when he first saw Fang Ting, she was wearing this skirt - although Shen Baixian said that the first time he and Fang Ting met was in junior high school, but in Mu An's heart, the one on the mountain was the first time.
"What are you doing here?" Mu An asked blankly.
"Can't you come and hear the results?" Fang Ting said as a matter of course.
Mu An didn't know why he was uncomfortable all of a sudden, it seemed that Fang Ting's arrival made him even more worried about the result, he was originally confident, but he suddenly became uncertain.
If he was still expelled from school after tossing for most of the day, he didn't want Fang Ting to witness that he was like a lost dog.
"But..... It's going to be a long time coming. Mu An unconsciously wanted to send Fang Ting away.
"Then let's wait for Luo." Fang Ting replied disappreciatively, and then stood by Mu An's side.
Fang Ting stayed quietly on the side, obviously not saying anything, but inexplicably absorbed Mu An's attention, his face was hot, and he didn't care about fighting with Shi Lei.
Several people were silent like this, and they didn't know how long they waited, and finally a teacher recalled Mu An and the other three to the venue of the hearing, but turned Fang Ting away.
This is also the reason why Mu An doesn't want her to wait with him - if he is withdrawn from school, he will personally tell Fang Ting the news at the same time as he comes out again.
At the moment when the door closed, Mu An saw Fang Ting's slightly pale face in the crack of the door, just like that time on the mountain, something touched the bottom of his heart, and then he didn't know where the impulse came from, he pushed the door open again, and Fang Ting shouted: "If I hadn't been expelled from school this time, we would have ...... together."