8. Wang Ma's final choice
As soon as these words fell, the lobby was silent, and even the people who were standing outside the door and talking about it quieted down. Everyone understands that my words undoubtedly sentence me to death, and the county magistrate will never be soft on me at this time.
"Yun, what nonsense are you talking about?" Wang Ma was so anxious, "I understand that you are filial, but you can't be so confused, I have committed the law of the country, how can you deny it for me!" ”
"I'm not talking nonsense!"
Wang Ma suddenly sighed, stared into my eyes and said, "Good boy, if you have this heart, Wang Ma will be content." Wang Ma will never be able to protect you in the future, you have to be obedient and must live well! After that, he said loudly to the county magistrate: "The guilty woman Wang knows that her sin is unforgivable." But Liu Yun is pure and simple, and he is filial, so don't wronged her! ”
After saying these words, Wang Ma finally looked at me reluctantly, and suddenly pulled out the dagger that she had hidden at some point, and inserted it into her chest when we were all caught off guard.
"Wang Ma!" I ran over crying, but I only had time to catch her soft body, she leaned on me and said the last words of her life: "I finally got Mrs. Xue Yan right......"
The whole yamen was stirred up by this sudden change, only I sat quietly holding Wang Ma in my arms, my eyes were empty, only a roar was left in my head, and time seemed to have returned to three years ago, that moment when I was at a loss, as if I was abandoned by the whole world-
"Why? I obviously have proof that he is not the murderer? Why should I make a commutation defense, when he could have done a not guilty defense? ”
"Xiaoying, you are still young, you don't understand! The police have been investigating this case for so long, and you let them go without saying that you are not guilty, how do you let them confess? In fact, they also know that they have arrested the wrong person, and if you make a mitigating defense, the case will be won immediately, and everyone will be happy! The mentor said.
"Why are you so unflexible! He has been locked up for so long, won't he be released soon? If you make such a fuss, everyone tears their faces, and he just convicts him, what can you do? That's what the leader said.
"No, yes is yes, no matter how difficult or dangerous it is, even if I want to gamble on my future, I have to give it a try! Because—"I swore before all the teachers and students that for the sake of the thousands of vulnerable people in this world who need to be protected, for the sake of justice and justice, for the sake of this righteousness between heaven and earth, I have engaged in the profession of law." "Because I promised the client."
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"This court formally announced the verdict, the defendant Shexiang, the crime of intentional homicide was convicted, and the final judgment of the second instance decided to uphold the original verdict and carry out the death penalty."
It was the most regrettable decision I ever made in my life, because of my persistence, because of my ignorant oath and ridiculous sense of justice, I completely ruined a person. I will never forget the moment I came out of the courthouse, the sky was gray, the earth was gray, the people were gray, and even the future of my once bold words was bleak. It turns out that my stubbornness cannot be exchanged for so-called justice; It turns out that a mouth full of justice and justice can't save a person; It turns out that I was wrong, I was completely wrong, how could I think that my blood alone could shake such a powerful unspoken rule?
However, today I didn't do anything, and Wang Ma still died. Ridiculous, Zhang Xiaoying! You are not as good today as you were three years ago! Three years ago, you had the courage to fight against the odds, but today? Do you only have the courage to watch Wang Ma die? What about your knowledge, what are you studying hard for so many years? Could it be that it is just to watch a person die unjustly?
"Miss Zhang, Miss Zhang, you said we would definitely win, you said I would be fine, Miss Zhang, I still have children, I can't die yet! Miss Zhang, I beg you, I kneel down for you, please, Miss Zhang, you save me! ”
"Miss Zhang, you said I would be able to see my son soon, what about my son? Let me meet him! Oh my God, let me die as an old woman! You let go of my hard-working son, you can't let my white-haired man send a black-haired man! ”
"Xiaoying, I told you a long time ago that it's not a good thing to be too opinionated."
"Bad guy, you're a bad guy, you pay back my dad, you pay me back my dad......"
It turns out that my persistence and my belief have always been at the expense of others!
Mother Wang, you want me to live well, of course I can't live up to your wishes. However, with such a sacrifice of yours, how do you want me to live with peace of mind?