Without waiting for Wang Yongan to explain, everyone walked into the Shanghai District Court, where Wang Yongan sat in the first row as a witness, and beside him sat a group of revolutionaries, Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, Ying Dehong, the chief of civil affairs of Jiangsu, and Huang Xing, the supervisor of the Qianchuan-Han Railway.

Among them, Huang Xing resigned from the Sichuan-Han Railway Supervision because Sun Yat-sen resigned as the director of the National Railway Bureau, and the biggest change brought to the central government by Sun Yat-sen's resignation was that Jiangbei made profits and obtained the rights of the National Railway Bureau, so Wang Yongan felt even more embarrassed. In order to alleviate this embarrassment, Wang Yongan had to look at the layout of the courtroom.

Since there is no concept of a court in China, the court after the establishment of the Republic of China completely copied the French court, and the most obvious difference between the French court and the English court is that there are no 12 jurors, and the presiding judge has a lot of power. On the plaintiff's bench sat Song Jiaoren's revolutionary comrades, and today the complaint was made against Hong Shuzu, the secretary of the Minister of Internal Affairs Zhao Bingjun. But Hong Shuzu refused to go to Shanghai to be investigated, so the defendant's seat was vacant, and a defense lawyer appointed by the court sat next to him.

After the trial began, a judge (president) who Wang Yongan did not know walked in, accompanied by six judges, all wearing beanies. The justices sit in the middle chairs, and the jurors sit on the left and right. Everyone stood up, everyone stood with their hands down, Hu Ding was no exception, and then the judge began to announce: "The court is open, please take a seat." ”

Wang Yongan was not used to this kind of Western-style trial, but he respected the judge and the law very much. The chief justice then gave a statement of the case, and then the prosecutor began the prosecution, accusing Ying Guixin and Hong Shuzu of planning the murder, and summoning the witnesses Wang Ah Fa, an antique dealer who had been doing business with Ying Guixin, and two student witnesses from Sichuan Province, among whom Wang Ah Fa offered Ying Guixin to give him the photo, and he passed it on to Wu Shiying. The prosecutor listed the evidence one by one, but everyone found that Wang Afa's quality was not high, and his speech was mixed with Ningbo dialect, which made people unintelligible, and the words were sweary, which made many people disgusted, and even the defender's lawyer interrupted and protested several times.

Then it was the turn of the key witnesses to appear, and the chief justice announced that he would take Wu Shiying, and after waiting for a while, suddenly a bailiff ran in in a panic and said, "Wu Shiying committed suicide." ”

For a while, there was an uproar inside and outside the courtroom, and Wu Shiying died?! The most important witness is dead?! How can Wu Shiying be able to prove that Ying Guixin instigated it, if it can't be confirmed that Ying Guixin is the murderer behind the scenes, then it is worthless to Hong Shuzu today.

The justices had no choice but to adjourn the trial, and because Wu Shiying was dead, there was no more evidence to prove that Ying Guixin instructed Wu Shiying except for a bloody testimony, so the French patrol had to release Ying Guixin.

After Ying Guixin was freed, he immediately fled to the north to take refuge with his master Hong Shuzu, but Hong Shuzu also made a great mistake, he actually sent someone to kill this troublesome Ying Guixin at the Tianjin Railway Station, which made the case confusing, and the idiom of killing people rose in everyone's hearts.

After Wang Yongan participated in this farcical trial, he only felt that the various conspiracies of the participants in this trial, all of which were under the control of the KMT, how could the court prove its innocence and accuse others?

After the trial, Chen Qimei invited Wang Yongan, Cheng Dequan and others to attend the banquet, but Wang Yongan was not willing to meet with Cheng Dequan, and he had no contradiction with Cheng Dequan, but because Cheng Dequan served as the governor of Jiangsu, Cheng Dequan's rights could only govern Suzhou, Wuxian, Wuxi, and Changshu, and he could neither govern southern Jiangsu, nor central and northern Jiangsu, especially in central and northern Jiangsu, relying on Wang Yongan and Jiangbei, and completely disdained Cheng Dequan.

But because of Chen Qimei's face, Wang Yongan still participated in the banquet, but Chen Qimei and others also found that the meeting between Wang Yongan and Cheng Dequan was very embarrassing. The next day, Wang Yongan took a boat to Pukou, and after joining the Zhenbian army, he officially began his westward expedition.

At this time, the 9th Division of the National Defense Army, the forward unit of the Zhenbian Army, had arrived in Wuhan and stayed in Wuhan for three days, which coincided with Christmas in the West, and the heat inside and outside the Wuhan concession was bright and peaceful, and the Chinese watched the lively experience of the gringo festival. Originally, in Western countries, Christmas was about staying at home with family, but many foreigners in China are bachelors, so they would rather go to bars or Chinese pubs to drink.

Hankou has five major concessions, namely the British Concession, the French Concession, the German Concession, the Russian Concession and the Japanese Concession. Of course, young people who drank too much could get into trouble, especially the arrogant British GIs, whose warships were parked outside Hankow, and the British were known for their drinking skills. At this time, a few over-drinking Britons drank too much and wandered around the streets.

A thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl came to a rickshaw with an oiled paper bag, and a dark and thin middle-aged man in his thirties saw the girl and bared his big yellow teeth and smiled happily and said, "Girl, you are here." ”

"Dad, my mother's steamed buns, minced meat." The little girl said with wide eyes and a smile.

"How can we make minced meat, how can our family have this money." The middle-aged man said that he was reluctant, but he still took the meat bun in his hand, took a bite of it himself, and then handed the meat bun to his daughter and said, "Come, eat with Dad." ”

The little girl turned her head drooling and said, "Dad, I'm full, my brother and I are full." ”

"It's too early for you to lie to your father, how much meat can we have, your mother must have only made meat buns for me, and you eat all vegetarian buns, right?" The middle-aged man stuffed the meat bun into the little girl's mouth and said dotingly.

The little girl chewed the meat filling, and her heart was very satisfied, today her mother only made three meat buns, one for her younger brother and two for her father, the meat buns are really delicious.

At this point, a drunken British soldier came over and shouted when he saw the rickshaw, "How about we take this damn rickshaw?" I guess this monkey-skinny Chinese guy won't be able to pull me. ”

"I don't believe it, John, you let him pull you for a lap."

John jumped into the rickshaw, the car almost jumped, and the middle-aged man was distressed, this was the car he borrowed money from his father-in-law and his brother-in-law's family, and the whole family lived a tight life just to pay off the debt, and it would be bad if the gringo broke it.

“GO! GO! GO! Chink!” (Derogatory term Chinese Yankee, squinting)