Chapter 23: The Truth
The morning light shattered the hospital room all over the floor, and Kuroko was slightly choked up about what had happened to him. Wang Yu and Zhang Ping listened quietly, while the middle-aged man recorded in detail.
As time passed, among the three people who listened to the record, some of them gradually blurred their eyes with tears, and some slowly gritted their teeth.
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After leaving school, Pan Hao did some work successively. Because he can endure hardships and has a very straightforward personality, Pan Hao is very popular with his boss and colleagues. But because he doesn't even have a high school diploma, Pan Hao often does the dirtiest and most tiring job with little pay every time.
Although he tasted the unprecedented bitterness brought by life, the cheerful Pan Hao did not complain, let alone be decadent. On the contrary, he worked harder. Because in his heart, he already has a plan for his future life. He wanted to wait until he had saved enough money to open a small shop of his own, a delicatessen.
In order to achieve this goal as soon as possible, Pan Hao quit cigarettes, did not often go out with colleagues for recreation, and never bought himself a so-called famous brand.
The hard work paid off, and after a few months of thrift, Pan Hao's bank account finally gathered some start-up capital for the delicatessen. However, after some investigation, Pan Hao found that this money alone was not enough to have a small store of his own.
Just when Pan Hao was distressed that the funds were not too sufficient, he suddenly heard that his best friend Wang Yu had become a professional basketball player overnight. After the joy, Pan Hao did not go to Wang Yu, but took the 20,000 yuan borrowed from Wang Yu to run his delicatessen.
Although business has not been very good since the opening of the small shop. But it is barely enough to maintain the living expenses of a family of three, and for this, Pan Hao feels very happy in his heart.
But slowly, Pan Hao found that his small shop's business was not good because his food was not delicious enough, nor because he was not doing well. It's because many stalls are chaotic on the street in front of their small shops, stealing or affecting their customers.
Annoyed, Pan Hao had more than once approached the chengguan office responsible for managing this area to report the situation, but the problem had not been solved, and they had not even sent anyone here to take a look.
In the face of Pan Hao's distress and incomprehension, some neighboring shops told the real reason why the chengguan did not control the chaos on the street in a private chat, because the stall owners had paid a lot of 'protection money' to the chengguan.
There are also chengguan team members who hinted to Pan Hao that as long as he is willing to pay, he can also put the stall on the street, but the stubborn Pan Hao doesn't pay attention to this at all, he still keeps running between the chengguan office and his own small shop again and again, noisy.
Pan Hao, who has an upright personality, is unwilling to make compromises, he always believes that as long as he continues to react like this, someone will one day come to protect the legitimate rights and interests of his small shop.
Sadly, after two months of traveling, not only did the stalls in front of Pan Hao's shop not get any management, but the business of his deli became even worse.
After being coldly perfunctory by those government officials when he reacted to the situation again, the anger that had been suppressed for a long time in Pan Hao's heart finally gushed out. Not only did he get into trouble with the dogs of the chengguan office, but he also beat up the deputy director who had been playing with him.
In that fight, although Pan Hao deterred many miscellaneous chengguan team members, it also formed a deep bond between him and the chengguan.
In the detention center, Pan Hao was beaten with his head covered. After coming out, although Pan Hao no longer continued to react to the situation, he was still unwilling to hand over the 'protection money' to those miscellaneous chengguan team members. He would rather his little shop close at the end than cheapen the brutes who eat people and don't spit out bones.
On the day of the incident, because he received a call from Heizi the night before asking him to pick him up and Liu Lili at the station this morning, Pan Hao specially called his parents from home early in the morning to help him watch the store.
In the dawn, the market began to become lively.
After Pan Hao left, his parents, who did not know the situation, saw that many shops on the left and right had set up stalls on the street, and they also set up a stall on the street in front of the store, and put a lot of cooked food on it.
In the midst of the shouting and shouting, just as Pan Hao's parents were happy because their business was good, suddenly six or seven men with fierce faces got out of a law enforcement van on the side of the road in the distance. For some reason, these guys didn't even glance at the other stalls, and walked straight to the front of Pan Hao's parents' stall.
Seeing that it was a uniformed chengguan team member who came, Pan Hao's father took out his wallet from his pocket and hurriedly said all kinds of good things. But these six or seven men didn't even look at the RMB handed over by Pan Hao's father, and they just wanted to take everything away.
In the bitter pleading, I don't know which chengguan team member pushed Pan Hao's mother to the ground, but this action completely angered Pan Hao's hot-tempered father.
However, two fists were invincible to four hands, and after a moment of confrontation, Pan Hao's father was immediately kicked to the ground by these men.
If the matter ends here, maybe the director of the chengguan office who came here temporarily to show off his might not be killed. What is hateful is that after those men knocked Pan Hao's father to the ground, they didn't seem to be able to relieve their hatred, and they actually took out steel pipes and wooden sticks from the van one after another under the director's order.
It was another round of heart-wrenching beatings, and Pan Hao's father lying on the ground had no strength to resist at all. Pan Hao's mother on the side knelt on the ground and protected her husband tightly, and her hands and face were also stained with blood at this moment.
Seeing that the resentment in his heart had come out, the eldest turtle grandson actually spat on Pan Hao's father's body with hatred when he turned around and was about to leave. Just as these miscellaneous pieces wanted to get in the car and leave, Pan Hao, who had just rushed back, saw the scene in front of him and immediately rushed out of the crowd with a strange scream.
Seeing that his parents on the ground were covered in blood, the furious Pan Hao didn't have time to think about it, and immediately grabbed a machete from the stall selling meat next to him and rushed towards the men like crazy.
"Call me."
The director of the urban management office had already sat in the car, but relying on his large number of people, he jumped out of the car and picked up a steel pipe first. However, the strange thing is that the original subordinates who were very arrogant and domineering, when they saw Pan Hao rushing over at this moment, no one paid attention to the orders from the director's mouth, and immediately turned around and ran away one by one.
Sadly, the director, who originally wanted to deter all the vendors by suppressing Pan Hao, had not fully reacted to the reason why his men had run away, and Pan Hao, who was holding a machete tightly in his hand, had rushed in front of him like a madman. In his anger, Pan Hao knew that it was this beast who had just ordered his parents to be beaten to death.
The next moment, amid the frightened screams of the crowd, Pan Hao, who had completely lost his mind, raised the cold machete in his hand high, and then slashed down at the head of the man in front of him.
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The crowd dispersed, the cold wind stopped, and the stinking blood still flowed slowly down the blade, dripping to the ground, silent but dazzling.
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Listening to Heizi choking up and telling the whole story, Wang Yu gritted his teeth fiercely to prevent the tears that had already been filled in his eyes from flowing down. Just as he wanted to open his mouth to comfort the sunspot who was full of self-blame, he suddenly saw the middle-aged man who had been taking notes close the computer and stood up.
"Lawyer Zhang, is it possible to win?" Wang Yu asked nervously.
"It's hard to say, but according to what Guo Mingming just said, the fact that Pan Hao killed people does exist." The middle-aged man said and reached out and rubbed the bridge of his nose, then said, "Let's not think too much about it first, now we have another more important thing to do." ”
"What's the matter, lawyer Zhang, just say. I'll do it right away. Wang Yu hurriedly stood up from his seat.
"Okay, you go to the court immediately now to postpone the date of the trial for a few days, and we have to buy time to collect more strong evidence." After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he turned to Zhang Ping and said, "Accompany me to the detention center, I want to meet my client." ”
"Okay, let's go." Zhang Ping nodded, suddenly grabbed Wang Yu, took out a card from his bag, and said, "Take this, you will use it in the court later." ”
"Alright, don't waste time. We split up and met at my hotel at 8 p.m. ”
The middle-aged man patted Wang Yu on the shoulder as he spoke, and then strode out. Zhang Ping nodded at Wang Yu and immediately left the ward.
"Don't be cranky, I'll get busy first. I'll call Lily and Manman in a moment and ask them to come and accompany you. Wang Yu patted the sunspot, and just wanted to turn around and leave, but was pulled by the sunspot, "What's wrong?" Anything else? ”
"Xiao Yu, I'm sorry for the mouse, I shouldn't have asked him to pick me up at the station, if it wasn't for me, this incident wouldn't have happened, I'm sorry for the mouse..."
"Let's not talk about that, you have a good rest."
Wang Yu comforted Heizi, but his eyes couldn't help but turn red again, and then he said hatefully: "Don't worry, Heizi, no matter whether the mouse can survive this time, I will definitely not let go of the policemen who beat you two in the detention center, I will definitely make this group of brutes pay the price." ”
"I'm sorry..."
"I'm sorry..."
The sound of crying lingered in my ears, and the grief hit my heart.
Who is waiting for a miracle?
Who still expects justice to survive in the world?
Outside the hospital, the sun was warm, but the breeze was biting chill.
Wang Yu stood on the side of the road with an expressionless face, took a deep breath, reached out and stopped a taxi, and then sped away in the direction where the court was located.
(Three shifts a day, the first shift today.) Please forgive me for being a little late. )