Chapter 199: The Death Penalty and Ma Xiaodan
Hearings, presentation of evidence, arguments.
All this was in full swing, and from the evidence and the debate, I smelled an atmosphere of unease. The prosecution accused me and the third child of killing 20 people, causing 25 serious injuries and 30 minor injuries. A total of more than 60 people were injured, of which 80 percent were injured by the third child, while I was 15 percent in Shanghai, and the remaining 5 percent belonged to Xiao Nan. Moreover, the prosecution also accused me of being arrogant in the detention center, causing casualties. They also accused me of escaping from prison, escaping from prison, killing people, smuggling, and so on.
This series of charges was listed, and the presiding judge announced that the verdict would be pronounced on another day.
I was taken away, and Wang Yingli stood in the stands wringing her hands, tears in her eyes.
I know that something has happened in an extraordinary, and very serious. I was in the detention center for another week, and on a rainy day, I was taken to court again, the same people as last time, only this time there were two more people in the crowd that I didn't expect, my parents. My parents were accompanied by Wen Xiaoxiao to sit on the viewing platform, and my mother held a towel in her hand, and tears couldn't stop flowing.
Only then did I realize that the matter could not be concealed for a long time. So Lin Guoqing asked Wen Xiaoxiao to bring my parents to Shanghai to watch my verdict. Yang Yang's mother and Wang Yingli were comforting my parents, but my mother still couldn't stop crying. The father's face was gloomy, and his expression was very ugly. But my father didn't cry, my father was a strong man.
The presiding judge announced the outcome of the trial, and I was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, on more than 10 counts of homice, escaping from prison, smuggling, and endangering public safety. The third child was sentenced to death on more than 20 counts, but his sentence was not suspended. Xiao Nan was convicted of five counts and sentenced to 20 years in prison, suspended for five years, and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
As soon as the verdict came out, my parents couldn't stop crying. I stood on the interrogation table with a gloomy face. The death penalty was suspended for two years, which means that I will not die. But the third child is directly going to be killed, and the result of this trial is absolutely unfair. Everything that the third child and I did was justified defense, even if some of the third child's defense methods were a little excessive. But in this sentence, there is no mention of the northerly wind that almost killed us.
I, the third, Xiao Nan. All three of us agreed to appeal for a second hearing. The Jing'an District Court accepted our lawsuit and we were taken away. As I was leaving, I looked at my tearful parents in the stands and smiled at them. My parents were the only people in my life who couldn't make them sad, but I repeatedly put myself in danger and made them sad.
When we came back from Europe, Xia Wanyu and I were full of ambition. But reality has given us another slap in the face. The death penalty is probably the highest punishment in the world. In fact, how can one erase the traces of a person in this world other than death?
I was sent back to Detention Center No. 1 to await a second trial.
I sat in the detention center, not impatient or impatient, sitting cross-legged, like a god.
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The whole autumn is spent in this incomprehensible feeling. Time never stops because of a person's joys and sorrows. When early winter came, I was working in the detention center. Looking at the first snow of the year, I was stunned. The snow was falling, and I was standing in the snowy detention center wearing a cotton coat issued by the detention center. Life is unpredictable, and five years ago, I would never have imagined that I would stand here and look up at the snow when the snow fell.
When I was younger, I always hated the business women who wrote about you and me, especially the novels about feelings during the war. I always feel that this kind of article is a bit of a businesswoman who doesn't know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the meaning of the backyard flowers across the river. Especially in those novels, the heroine stands in the snow, looking up at the sky, looking forward to the hero's return.
I always think that it is an egg pain.
But now, as if I were in a different world, I feel an invisible pressure of time. I felt the pain of separation, and I wondered, perhaps, many years later, when I remembered the scene now, I would not smile indifferently. When the snow fell, I met someone who would never have been able to visit me. It was the second day of the first heavy snowfall, and it had been falling for a day and a night, and the next morning it was still drifting, and the prison guards summoned me to say that someone had seen me. When I got to the interview room, I saw someone who surprised me, surprised, and amazed.
A person who I thought would never take the initiative to meet me in my life.
Ma Xiaodan.
Ma Xiaodan was wearing a goose-yellow down jacket, with a plush ear warmth on his head, and a mask, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and the whole person was wrapped in a down jacket like a fat penguin. When she saw me, she took off her mask, picked up the communication phone behind the bulletproof glass, and could see the white mist spraying out of her words.
I would never have thought that Ma Xiaodan would come to see me, and it was at this time. In the past few years, Ma Xiaodan has her own life. I myself have long forgotten her, the so-called painful youth, the painful first love. All disappeared with the passage of time, and only the friendly smile when we met again remained. She is not as beautiful as before, she has no makeup, but her skin is not bad, she is a beauty, her skin is white and beautiful. A pair of big eyes are very cute. Although the years have brought her a bit of maturity, I can still vaguely see her lively and cute figure on the high school campus.
Ma Xiaodan pointed to the phone, and I realized that I hadn't picked up the communication phone.
I quickly picked up the phone, and then I heard Ma Xiaodan's voice: "Are you okay?" ”
I didn't know how to answer her, so I subconsciously said, "It's okay." ”
I looked at Ma Xiaodan and asked her hurriedly, "Why do you want to go back to Shanghai to see me." ”
Ma Xiaodan said: "I heard about you and wanted to come and see it, but unfortunately I didn't make enough money and couldn't come back." It took months of hard work to make money and come back to see you. ”
I'm a little dumbfounded, hasn't Ma Xiaodan developed his career in Hong Kong all these years? Could it be that she has been serving dishes in the restaurant all the time? Ma Xiaodan saw through my thoughts, smiled and said: "Hong Kong is a blessed land, but what is needed there is a talent with education and skills, I don't know anything, so I can only do some sales and work as a waiter in a restaurant, I am not afraid of your jokes, life is very difficult." ”
I noticed that she was holding the phone with a cotton glove on her hand. I know that she gets chilblains on her hands every winter, and I'm afraid this year is especially serious. Because she kept switching the phone between her hands, and she also rubbed her hand under the table.
[PS: The chapter has been scheduled, the next chapter is at 0:00 in the evening, and then 8.0012.00, it's all tomorrow, Ha Lu Ha. 】