Because she needed an ID card to enter the court, Huo Xiaorou asked Xiao Wenjia to stay in the car with her mother and wait, and she followed her cousin Han Lingren and her father to the third floor of the court. Yesterday afternoon, she had already returned to her hometown with her parents, and it was quite surprising that the court would be held so quickly. It's no wonder, after all, this is only a small county, naturally not as good as the international city of S, there is not much backlog of cases, and the court is naturally fast.

After entering the house, Huo Xiaorou found that the so-called courtroom was not at all the same as what she saw on TV. It was a room of about 80 square meters, and a high table was placed at the front of the room - it was a judgment seat, and directly opposite the judgment seat was a multi-person upholstered sofa, and in the middle of the sofa was a pine-colored coffee table, on which a glass kettle and several glass teacups were placed, which was considered an auditorium. On the far right side of the room, there are two sets of pine-colored tables and chairs, which are the plaintiff's seats. Opposite the plaintiff's bench is the defendant's bench with the same configuration.

"Don't be nervous, just just chatter normally, relax!" The judge was a thin middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties, dressed in a black suit, constantly flipping through the case file in his hand, raising his eyes from time to time to glance around once or twice, and speaking with a thick local accent.

Next to the judge was a young woman of twenty-seven or eighteen, dressed in a black suit and skirt, with her hair coiled high, and her whole person looking dignified and confident.

After Huo Xiaorou sat down, she looked around with interest, but she didn't find anything special, she just felt that this courtroom looked more like a meeting room, which made people nervous. Because the judge and his assistant were sorting out the materials in their hands, the room was relatively quiet for a while.

"Almost, Huo Xiaorou, isn't it?" The female assistant asked.

"Here!" was suddenly shouted her name, and Huo Xiaorou suddenly became nervous. Because she hadn't been to court, she didn't know how to respond, so she could only answer respectfully with a "yes".

The female assistant covered her mouth and smiled softly when she heard the other party being so formal, and then sorted out the information in her hand.

"Haha, don't be so nervous, you really don't have to be so nervous! Like I said, it's like nagging! The judge was amused by Huo Xiaorou's answer, so he hurriedly eased the tense atmosphere.

"The time has not yet come, and the defense has not yet come. Let's talk about property first! The judge looked at the information and said with a frown: "Why is there nothing?" ”

"That's right, we've just been married for a year, and we've only been around for two years since we realized it, and we don't have any property!" Huo Xiaorou scratched her bangs and thought about it carefully, there was indeed nothing to write about.

"The bride price is counted!" The female assistant interjected.

"Oh!" Huo Xiaorou said: "Then there is a set of furniture and a set of household appliances!" But it was pulled over before the registration, I don't know if it counts? ”

"Of course, forget it, this is a pre-marital property and belongs to the woman! This has to be written, you can talk about it carefully, and I'll record it! ”

"A dining table, six solid wood chairs—" Huo Xiaorou counted her dowry one by one.

"Excellent! What about after marriage? Are there any new things you bought after you get married? Like a car, a house, or something. ”

"I didn't buy the house, he bought the car before he got married, and it has nothing to do with me!"

"That's right, we don't want their car, that's none of our business!" Huo Yibao, who was sitting in the auditorium, interjected loudly.

"Others don't talk! Please continue with the plaintiff himself! The judge didn't look up, but continued, "Anything else?" ”

"There's nothing else, that," Huo Xiaorou hesitated for a moment and then asked, "I want to ask, it's about the bride price!" ”

"Well, you say!"

"Even if the man gave me a 100,000 bride price before marriage, do I need to return it?"

"This one is not needed! Your child has already been born, and the bride price is also given before marriage, so you don't need it! ”

"Okay!"

It was 2:20 p.m., and there were only 10 minutes left before the court began. At this time, Huo Xiaorou's heart could be described as mixed, she didn't know what kind of attitude she would have when she saw He Weiye later, she was afraid that she would be soft-hearted the moment she saw the other party. However, she was worried that if the two sides quarreled because of the wrong words, it would be really bad. To be honest, in order to be able to divorce, she exaggerated a little bit in the indictment - for example, it was written in the indictment that she was subjected to cold violence every day and had no relationship with her husband at all - such a lie made her have no way to feel at ease, and she was afraid that if the other party came over and confronted her, wouldn't it be exposed?

"Well, Mr. Judge, may I ask what if the other party does not come?" Huo Xiaorou said the thoughts that flashed in her head.

"This, actually, to tell you the truth, when I called the defendant before, I knew that the other party's attitude was resolute not to divorce, so if the other party didn't show up this time, then this time it would just be a formality!"

"Huh?! How so? Huo Xiaorou was anxious, and her voice also rose, "Then he can't say that he won't leave if he doesn't divorce, right?" ”

"Then you can't say divorce, just divorce!" The judge's tone was very solemn, and his expression became serious, "Then let me ask you, did you decide it yourself when you got married, but did anyone force you?"

Seeing that Huo Xiaorou didn't answer, the judge seemed to be unconvinced in her tangled expression, so he patiently explained: "If there is a problem in the marriage, it may be the main responsibility of one party, but from the beginning of the marriage to the uncontrollable result, the other party cannot be without responsibility at all." And there are many problems in couples that exist before they become husband and wife, but many people tend to focus too much on the relationship itself, ignore or even give up rational thinking, and therefore ignore many fatal problems for marriage. At the moment when they decide to get married, both of them have unshirkable responsibilities, so you can't say that you have no responsibilities at all. Since the beginning of a marriage is not decided by one person without authorization, its end cannot end arbitrarily because of the one-sided words of one party, it must be decided by two people together! ”

Huo Xiaorou frowned, didn't speak, and was silent for a while before she replied solemnly: "You are right, I am willing to get married." Not only that, but when I decided to get married, I went against my parents' wishes and insisted on marrying each other. ”

The judge nodded, and then said, "Your marriage is not particularly easy to divorce, because there is no actual reason for divorce, do you understand?" ”

"What do you mean?" Huo Xiaorou asked suspiciously.

"For example, cheating, gambling, violence, crime, etc., if there's this—"

"No, absolutely not!" Huo Xiaorou replied firmly to the judge's words, although she didn't think He Weiye was a good man, but he was not bad enough to break the law and discipline.

"Then the problem between you is mainly the problem of cold violence, but cold violence is really difficult to define, you know, that is, it doesn't have a scope, so-" The judge shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands to show that he was helpless.

Huo Xiaorou took a deep breath helplessly and stopped talking. In fact, when she filed the lawsuit, she met five women who went for divorce, four of them were young women around 25 years old, and one was a middle-aged woman of 38 years old. The marriage characteristics of these people are flash marriages and divorces, and the reasons for divorce are the discord between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the weak emotional foundation of husband and wife, and cold violence after marriage. One of the women, who looked to be twenty-eight or nineteen years old, had filed a lawsuit for the second time, but because the man did not agree, she still did not divorce.

"It's almost time, the defendant hasn't been there yet, there's no way, I'll call again and try it!" The judge walked out of the room briskly and stood in the doorway for a few moments, never making a phone call.

"Do you have a phone number from the accused?" The judge asked Huo Xiaorou, and after getting a nod from the other party, he continued: "You can make a phone call!" ”

Huo Xiaorou said "Okay" and quickly dialed He Weiye's phone. She put her phone to her ear and stroked her chest with her left hand. At this time, she felt her heart beat like a drum, and the sound sounded as if her heart was beating to her throat. She naturally knew that she was nervous, and she didn't know how she would react if she answered the other party's phone and heard the other party's voice.

"The phone you dialed is on a call—" is the response on the other end of the phone, and we all know that this response is either that the other party is really calling, or that you have been blocked by the other party. Huo Xiaorou is very sure that the response she got is definitely the latter, because what He Weiye is best at is blocking other people's phone numbers. This is also his stunt, she thought, and couldn't help but sneer.

"No one answered my phone-" Although Huo Xiaorou tried to call again, the result was still "on the phone", so she had to give up.

"If there are any other calls, keep calling!" The judge frowned and said in a tough tone.

"I'll fight!" Han Lingren raised his mobile phone slightly and said to Huo Xiaorou: "Tell me the phone number!" The result can be imagined, naturally it was impossible to get through at first, and when it was called again, it became "on the phone", which made everyone sigh.

"Okay, since the other party is reluctant to answer the phone, let's see if there is anything else that needs to be added! Oh, and the question about your children, mainly the issue of child support—"

Huo Xiaorou felt extremely disappointed, and even in her original imagination, the two sides would have a heated debate, but she really didn't expect He Weiye to be like a turtle with a shrunken head, and he didn't even dare to show his head.

What did I like about this man, she thought, what attracted me to such a man who had no responsibility and no courage?