Dongfang Siyi knew that this was originally a newlywed couple who were childhood sweethearts, but after a night of accidents, they could never go back to the past. Some things can be forgiven, and some things can only become scars for a lifetime.

After several hours of mediation in court, amid the incessant accusations and curses of relatives and friends of both parties against Du Shaoyou, the plaintiff Ling Yuan and the defendant Du Shaoyou reached a divorce agreement.

Du Shaoyou, who had fully sobered up, bent down deeply in the face of Ling Yuan and bowed: "Yuanyuan, let me say sorry to you." I did something wrong, it's too late to regret it, there is no regret medicine in the world, and we will not have a chance in this life. I'm just a jerk and don't deserve love. I have no way to make up for the damage I have done to you, and I have no chance to regain anything, I can only say I'm sorry. ”

Du Shaoyou turned his head and glanced at the relatives and friends on both sides who were angry and arguing outside the courtroom, and said with some sadness: "I have decided, I will leave the forest farm tomorrow, no matter where I go to work, I can't stay here anymore, I don't have the face to stay anymore, I can only leave by myself to alleviate my harm to everyone." ”

After Du Shaoyou finished speaking, he bowed deeply to Ling Yuan with red eyes: "I'm really sorry, please take care of yourself." After signing the mediation transcript, he looked at the clerk Xiao Wang and asked softly, "Is there anything else I need to sign?" Xiao Wang said patiently: "You have to wait a little longer, the divorce mediation letter is being printed, and when the mediation letter is signed, your business can be over." ”

After Xiao Wang served the mediation letter to the original defendant and the two parties in court, Du Shaoyou walked out of the courtroom in a trance. In the courtyard outside the courtroom, a pair of disdainful eyes and saliva flew from the crowd of onlookers awaited him.

Du Shaoyou stubbornly glanced at his father, who was squatting in the corner of the courtyard with his head down. This man, who is usually hot and always speaks loudly, has completely lost his usual domineering, and shrunk there like a deflated ball. The weather-beaten face was a little distorted by sadness and despair, as if it was crying silently, and it seemed to be trying to suppress the anger in its heart.

Du Shaoyou walked out of the courtyard outside the courtroom alone with his head down, listening to the incessant scolding behind him, he walked forward mechanically with his somewhat numb feet. He didn't know what awaited him, but he knew that he would never be able to go back to the past, and the past he had ended in those legal documents that he had signed with his own hands.

No one noticed that there was a figure in the distance, flashing in the woods, Du Shaoyou, who was walking with his head down, didn't care, but the shadow quietly followed him. It wasn't until Du Shaoyou, who was alone, left the road in the forest, turned a corner, and walked on the path back to the village that she laughed unabashedly, and then said to herself: "Hmph, this is called retribution, who let your Ling family bully me as a woman." ”

Gradually, the crowd in the courtyard dispersed, and calm returned to the courtroom. Lao Li, a security guard hired by the court, is a retired employee of the forest farm, and while cleaning the cigarette butts and sundries discarded everywhere in the yard, he sorted out a few pots of flowers and plants that had been crooked by the crowd, and said to himself with some joy: "Fortunately, it's really fortunate that there are no broken bones, otherwise it would be a pity." Good flowers and plants, who is it to provoke? He brought these pots of flowers and plants from his own home, so he cherished them very much.

Dongfang Siyi gently closed the file and put it in the corner of the desk.

"Can I file these files directly when I bring them back?" The clerk Xiao Wang looked at Dongfang Siyi, who was still in deep thought, and asked, Dongfang Siyi raised his head, looked at Xiao Wang and said, "Sort it out, bind it, and send it to the archives for filing after returning to the courtyard." ”

In the warehouse of the court archives, all kinds of case file materials accumulated for decades are numbered and stored in rows of intelligent file dense shelves, and this divorce case will also lie quietly in a group of cabinets together with the hundreds of thousands of file materials that have been preserved for a long time, until the retention period expires and is destroyed according to the procedure, perhaps no one will care about it again, and their stories will soon be forgotten by people, leaving no trace.

Towards the end of the evening, after the day's trial tour, everyone got into the car and embarked on the return journey. The mountain road curves, and the forest area in spring is a continuous gallery, and the picturesque scenery is displayed in front of you.

Driving on the winding mountain road, a frame of endless landscape pictures rushing towards you, making you feel overwhelmed. The driver, Xiao Wu, was engrossed in driving the off-road jeep, staring at the road ahead without squinting, not daring to be negligent, and could only greedily breathe the fresh air filled with the fragrance of mountain flowers in the forest through the car window.

After turning a sharp corner, Xiao Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at the scenery outside the car window and couldn't help but admire: "It's really a paradise, if you can give me a choice, I am willing to stay here for the rest of my life." Dongfang Siyi, who was sitting in the back seat, smiled: "You are confused by the pheromones passed to you by the mountain. ”

Xiao Wu asked suspiciously while driving the car, "Pheromones?" What's that? The President is going to let me see it again. ”

Dongfang Siyi looked at the trees and flowers outside the window, and a few birds that occasionally stayed on the side of the road to play and forage for food flew away not far in front of the car. Dongfang Siyi explained to Xiao Wu: "Pheromones, also known as pheromones, refer to chemicals that are secreted into the body by individuals and detected by other individuals of the same species or other species through the olfactory organs, causing the latter to exhibit certain changes in behavior and emotion, psychological or physiological mechanisms. This chemical can be carried by the wind and then quickly spread by air movements. It is a message molecule in the animal kingdom, including humans, mammals, insects, and other species that communicate with each other and send signals such as courtship, vigilance, socialization, and cooperation. ”

Dongfang Siyi smiled and said: "For example, a bee discovered the source of a flower, and it can summon its own kind by emitting some kind of pheromone, so that the bees scattered in the distance will soon swarm to it. For another example, if the mountain has life, it emits various pheromones through the flowers, plants, trees, etc. on its body, so that Xiao Wu, who has a keen sense of smell, has a physiological and psychological reaction and resonance, so that he has the desire to live in seclusion in the mountain. ”

Xiao Wu couldn't help laughing and sighed: "It's amazing, nature can always make us feel the charm of life." ”

A butterfly was brought into the car by a gust of mountain wind at the moment when the speed of the car slowed down, and it flapped its five-colored wings, and it was at a loss to know where it was going. The clerk Xiao Wang carefully held it with both hands, sent it out of the car window again, looked at the butterfly that disappeared behind the car, Xiao Wang turned his head to look at Dongfang Siyi and said, "President, do you say that today's divorce case also has something to do with pheromones?" ”

Dongfang Siyi smiled and said, "If you are interested, you can use it as a case to do some research, and maybe you will find something valuable from it." I have been involved in the trial of marriage and family cases for nearly 20 years, and this is the first time I have encountered this kind of case. A groom unexpectedly left his childhood sweetheart and disappeared from the cave room on his wedding night. In the eyes of ordinary people, this must be a ghost obsessed with the mind, this ghost obsessed with the process, is it a pheromone at work? I am just a judge who is accustomed to examining and adjudicating marriage and family cases from a legal and moral point of view, not a psychology expert, nor a chemistry expert, I only know a little about the role of pheromones and the like, and I dare not jump to conclusions, but this case has undoubtedly given me a new understanding of marriage and family dispute cases. ”

As the off-road jeep drove off the winding road, it gradually darkened, and the mountains turned into a dark shadow behind the car. Xiao Wu turned on the headlights, easily swerved and drove onto the highway.

Dongfang Siyi's eyes were slightly half-closed, and he remembered Tolstoy's famous novel "Anna Karenina", "Happy families are similar, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes." Tolstoy summed up the aspects of love and marriage in a short sentence in the book.

Even though human beings have gone through different historical stages, different periods of civilization development, and the parties to marriage belong to different social classes, different social statuses, different nationalities, and different customs, the humanity that people show in marriage can always find a common shadow. Therefore, when people look at all kinds of tragedies with a bystander attitude, they can always get a kind of spiritual resonance from them, triggering deep contemplation in the soul.

The code of a happy marriage is actually very simple: mutual trust, mutual tolerance, and mutual affection. And unhappy marriages are strange, some make you sigh, some make you sigh, some make you laugh, and some make you puzzled.

"Let's not discuss legal issues for the time being, just from the perspective of human nature, you can talk about it, who should be the protagonist of the tragedy in this tragic drama of this divorce case? Who is the saddest person? Who is the most pitiful person? Who is the most sympathetic person? ”

Xiao Wang pondered: "I think the protagonists of the tragedy should of course be the plaintiff and the defendant in this case, to be honest, the plaintiff did not expect this incident before, and the defendant did not want such a thing to happen." He was coerced and confused for a while because of his misconduct before marriage, and perhaps for other reasons. For example, that Yi Songjuan may have drugged the water he was drinking, but this is just a guess on my part, and there is no evidence to prove it. is really a misstep into a thousand years of hatred, Du Shaoyou has lost the ability to control himself in that situation. ”

The driver, Xiao Wu, interjected while concentrating on driving: "As a live audience, I found that Ling Yuan's father is the most pitiful person, his daughter was bullied like this, but he couldn't find anyone to fight back, he was really powerful and had nowhere to go, and he could only watch the tragedy happen." I noticed that this father couldn't cry or shout, he really pity the hearts of parents all over the world, it was supposed to be a great joy worth celebrating, but it was turned into a farce by others. ”

Xiao Wang said very approvingly: "I agree with you, Lao Ling is indeed the most pitiful person. Relatively speaking, Du Shaoyou's father is the most sympathetic person, because he has to bear the infamy of having no way to teach his godson, which can no longer be shaken off, will follow him for the rest of his life, and will disturb his old age without peace. Of course, he can also not care, but judging from his performance on the scene today, he should be a person who values love and righteousness and reputation, and it is impossible not to care, but to care very, very much. Therefore, he is the one who deserves the most sympathy. As for the heroine of the tragedy, Ling Yuan, of course, is the saddest person, she and Du Shaoyou were childhood sweethearts, but they didn't expect such an ending, they must not be able to accept it, even if this pain cannot be said to accompany her life, at least it will make her miserable for a long time. ”

Dongfang Siyi looked at the scenery flying by outside the car window and said: "What you said is right, in social life, everyone has their own role, everyone will bear certain responsibilities because of their role, as well as the corresponding joys, sorrows, and sorrows, your analysis is in line with their own roles." However, you all ignore the existence of a person who is the real protagonist of this tragic drama, the real driving force behind it. It all seems to have been directed by her, and she is the initiator of this tragic drama. ”

Xiao Wang and Xiao Wu said almost in unison: "This person is Yi Songjuan." ”

Dongfang Siyi said meaningfully: "Although this person did not appear, her shadow is everywhere. I think we might meet her again in the future, because she won't rest on her laurels, and there will definitely be new stories. ”

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