Chapter 12: Exile

Seeing this scene, Bishop slowly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with the middle finger of his right hand, and then said sadly: "It seems that this little fat man is still in the dark." www.biquge.info After saying this, he paused briefly between Ferdinand and Rory before re-entering the judgment seat, then he stretched out his right hand and pointed forward, and said solemnly: "Now the facts are very clear, we can be sure ......." ”

The sentence was not finished, but the clerk saw that Bishop was standing there like a clay sculpture, and no one knew what was happening, so he hurried forward to find out.

Bishop saw the clerk approaching him and immediately grabbed him, and slowly pulled his head to his mouth and whispered, "What is the name of this murderous arsonist?" The clerk replied nervously: "His name is Ferdinand, my lord, and the other five are Andy, Eric, Rory, Sean, and Rubin from left to right." ”

After hearing this, Bishop immediately stretched out his voice as if he was reborn: "We can be sure that the defendant Ferdinand, who killed his lover and burned down the bar, has clear facts and conclusive evidence, and cannot be denied, and the rest are all accomplices and will be punished together." ”

The jury, who had been hiding in the break room, heard Bishop announcing the verdict and immediately returned to the courtroom, but they did not say anything. Because they know that this stupid boy will not pay attention to their words at all, so whether or not the jury participates in the verdict is up to the director to decide. These people had already agreed in the break room that there was no need to disturb the director's Yaxing as usual, and it would be wise to just be applauded by a crowd of spectators.

Ferdinand watched the clerk quickly record his trumped-up crimes, and a hint of helplessness appeared on the corner of his mouth. After everything was done, Bishop picked up the verdict written by the clerk and looked at it carefully from top to bottom, and then said loudly, "I'm going to use the penal token." ”

The people in the Department of Justice know very well that since this lord took over here, words have become a luxury and are difficult to see. All written descriptions were gradually replaced with pictures, even the verdict.

The clerk took out the penal token from under the judgment table and respectfully brought it to Bishop. These wooden penal tokens are carved with various patterns, exactly as the director intended, the more vivid the better.

Bishop picked up a token engraved with a carriage and handed it to the clerk. Ferdinand didn't care about his punishment at all, he was even more worried about the fate of the children around him, he looked at the clerk and took the token solemnly and said: "The Alston Judicial Bureau has officially announced that Ferdinand and his gang are convicted of murder and arson, and sentenced to exile. ”

As soon as the verdict was announced, everyone in the courtroom was taken by surprise. The jury members thought that Ferdinand's gang would not have survived even if they had not committed a crime, because the director really needed this opportunity, but they were just surprised, and they were completely unsure of the meaning of such a sentence and whether there was any hidden secret behind the exile.

After the clerk had read out the verdict, he looked at the token in his hand, and he was immediately stunned by the carriage engraved on it, and he knew very well that he had to sew the mouth under his nose at this time, even if the meaning of the token was completely different from the result of Bishop's meeting, he should be dazzled.

Ferdinand couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard the verdict, and he watched the silent Andy and the stupid Rory, whose inner entanglement finally eased a lot, after all, the punishment of exile was no different from release for him.

The entire courtroom was silent, and everyone was constantly speculating about how such a verdict would come about. But the most shocking thing to hear the clerk announce the verdict was the director, who could be described as shocked when he heard the word "exile", he did not know what method to use in the rest of the day to suppress the anger in his heart, nor did he know how to hide the expression of remorse on his missed opportunity, he stood there completely, as embarrassed as he did not know the name of the defendant in the course of his generous speech.

With tears in his eyes, he watched as Ferdinand and Andy were escorted by the guards into the carriage of exile. The clerk later recounted the absurd trial while drinking with a friend.

According to his recollections, Bishop was supposed to sentence Ferdinand and his gang to the punishment of the split, but he did not know how to read, nor could he read the verdict, and even the content of the punishment token he asked for was not very familiar, so that he mistook the token of exile for the token of the split. But he did not correct the mistake in court, because he compared the verdict of Ferdinand and his gang with the illiterate secrecy of the head of justice, which he considered more important. And through the trial of this case, he not only received his father's praise, but also successfully entered the Senate, because the emperor believed that this young man had a heart of fraternity and would definitely be able to become a pillar of the country in the future, so at every gathering of nobles would hear Bishop describe that miraculous experience.

Some of the drunken clerks drank all the beer in their cups and said sadly: "The convoy escorting the prisoners was robbed by bandits a few days after leaving the city, and the poor children are now uncertain about their fate and death." With that, the clerk stared at the straight gravel path outside the tavern with an almost confused look, which stretched out of the city like a gray blade stuck at the edge of the Hogan Forest.