Dongfang Siyi habitually glanced at the wall clock, and there were still five minutes before the start of the trial, he got up and changed into a legal robe, and walked slowly through the silent judge's passage with the two people's assessors. The strong sunlight of midsummer shines through the glass windows, slanting from the outside, and it is bright and dazzling.

Clerk Xu Ming's eyes swept over the parties in the plaintiff's and defendant's docks, and then looked at the relatives and friends of the parties in the auditorium, and began to read out the courtroom discipline according to the script: "The courtroom is the place where the people's court exercises judicial power and adjudicates cases on behalf of the state. In order to preserve courtroom order and ensure the normal conduct of trial activities, courtroom discipline is hereby announced on the basis of the provisions of the "People's Court Rules of the People's Republic of China": (1) Litigation participants shall abide by courtroom rules, maintain courtroom order, and must not make noise or noise, and must not speak arbitrarily without the court's permission. No personal attacks, insults, slander, threats or abuse should be made in speeches. (2) Observers are not allowed to move around or enter the trial area at will, and are not allowed to speak, ask questions, or talk to litigation participants. No applauding, loud noise, or commotion. If observers have comments on the court's trial activities, they may submit them in writing to the people's court after the trial is adjourned. (3) All personnel, please turn off your mobile phones. Now, please check to make sure your phone is turned off. ”

Xu Ming looked at everyone in the audience and asked them to confirm that their mobile phones were turned off, and then continued to read out the court discipline: "No audio, video, photography, recording, and painting are allowed without the permission of the court." Smoking, spitting, and other acts that obstruct trial activities are not permitted. For those who violate court discipline, adjudicators or judicial police on duty will give oral warnings and reprimands, and those who do not heed the advice may temporarily detain or confiscate mobile phones, audio or video recordings, and other equipment, order them to leave the courtroom, or give them fines or detention in accordance with law, until criminal responsibility is pursued. The court discipline has been declared. ”

After Xu Ming finished announcing the courtroom discipline, he glanced back at the judge's passage, Dongfang Siyi and the two people's assessors were entering the courtroom, and Xu Ming announced: "All stand up, please invite the chief judge and people's assessors to enter the courtroom." ”

Dongfang Siyi and the people's assessors walked to the trial table one after another, sat down on the trial chair, Dongfang Siyi looked around at the two parties in the courtroom, and then nodded to several women's federation staff members in the audience, and then announced: "Please sit down." ”

When dealing with some special divorce cases, such as the woman who has been illegally violated and needs legal aid and other social help, Oriental Idea will take the initiative to help them contact the legal aid agency of the Justice Bureau, and sometimes contact the women's rights and interests protection department of the Women's Federation, so as to use the legal system and legal means to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the women and children involved in the case as much as possible.

Dongfang Siyi knocked on the gavel placed on the right side of the trial table, and the courtroom immediately fell silent.

"Now the court is open." Dongfang Siyi uses a professional language that abandons all joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and embraces all ups and downs, announcing the beginning of another plot in many life stories. As a professional judge, he has always firmly believed that no matter how high or low his position is, no matter how much property he has, all living beings in society are equal before the law, and judges are only the executors of the law and the adjudicators of contradictions and disputes.

The parties in the court may be suffering the most painful pain in their lives, and they are experiencing emotional changes in their hearts; may be carefully calculating his own interests and losses, and doing everything possible to collect all the evidence in his favor; Perhaps looking forward to a long-awaited ending, anxiously praying for a twist of fate. However, as a judge, Dongfang Ideology must treat each of them fairly without any subjectivity, discrimination and prejudice, so that each party can fully exercise his or her legal rights and fulfill his or her legal obligations.

Dongfang Siyi exchanged his eyes with the people's assessors sitting on his left and right sides, and then began the trial in accordance with the provisions of the procedure.

"Plaintiff, your name, gender, age, occupation, address?"

"I, Chen Shifa, male, born in November 1976, are in business, and live in Village B of A Town." After the plaintiff Chen Shifa finished answering, he habitually touched the shiny hair on the back of his head and glanced at the defendant's seat. This was the face of an originally simple peasant, but Dongfang Siyi saw a trace of cunning cold eyes from his two small eyes.

"Defendant, your name, gender, age, occupation, address?"

The party in the dock did not respond, she seemed to be caught in the world inside herself, and she had not yet been able to get out of it. She looked blankly at the last page of the copy of the complaint, the name behind the complainant. She had read the plaintiff's complaint many times since she received it from the court, and she still felt the need to reconfirm. She made a difficult confirmation in her heart: Yes, he signed it by himself, these crooked words, I didn't feel much when I looked at it before. Now, it reminds her of more than ten years.

She reaffirmed that she was not mistaken, and she would not be wrong. These three words are all too familiar to her, they were once associated with her youth, a whole decade of time. In the past, he always had to add sweet words such as "love you" or "miss you" in front of these three words.

Today, she finally knew that he was so ruthless, those sweet words were just a kind of fake and good-looking packaging that he took at will, tearing open those false packaging, he was just a negative man who had lost his conscience. She didn't seem to hear the judge's questioning, staring at the three familiar and unfamiliar names in the signature column, as if falling into the abyss, and the two lines of clear tears rolled down like broken beads.

Cheng Jingru, an officer of the Rights and Interests Department of the Women's Federation, who was originally sitting in the audience, signaled to the judge, and walked over after getting permission, handing her a few tissues while comforting her softly: "You have to calm down, for yourself and for the sake of your children, the law will definitely give you justice, and the Women's Federation will definitely help you." She calmed down from her uncontrollable emotions and nodded gratefully.

"Child, if you have anything to say, say it in front of the judge, in front of everyone. I know it's okay to talk here, this place is for you to talk. If you want justice, you have to say what you have to say. Her elderly mother sat in the gallery and looked a little anxious.

The defendant wiped away his tears with a tissue, finally calmed down, and looked up at the judge on the trial platform: "My name is Zhao Qiaofeng, female, born in October 1978, unemployed, living on C Street in Town A. After answering the question briefly, her face was a little less sad, and her expression was more confident and stubborn.

"Now for the forensic investigation. The plaintiff will speak first. Plaintiff, you can now state the grounds for divorce and the claim. ”

Plaintiff Chen Shifa took out a perfumed-sprayed handkerchief, wiped the beads of sweat from his greasy face due to nervousness, and took out a pair of gold-plated glasses from his pocket, and then in some panic, he took out a copy of the complaint from the black bag he was carrying and spread it out in front of him. He looked at the complaint he asked the lawyer to write, hesitated, turned his head imperceptibly and glanced at Zhao Qiaofeng in the defendant's seat, secretly swallowed his saliva, and tried to regain his composure, then he took a copy of the complaint and read it with his head down.

Every time Chen Shifa read the reasons written in the complaint, it was like moving a heavy stone, and he looked very struggling, and beads of sweat rolled down from his red and white face from time to time: "Since I married the defendant, my relationship has not been harmonious. She is a woman who hates the poor and loves the rich, and often quarrels with me over trivial matters. A few years ago, I started working as a salesperson for a company in order to earn money to support my family, because if I wanted to sell products, I had to travel a lot outside on business, so I met some friends. In order to do more business selling products, I have to often socialize outside, and the time to go home is bound to be less, not only does she not support my work, but also suspicious, and she intensifies her trouble with me, listens to other people's rumors at will, often says that I am not for no reason, and sometimes curses me with vicious language, so that I can't live normally, and I can't go out to sell and do business normally. My relationship with her has completely broken down. Now, I have no relationship with her as husband and wife, and I ask the court to divorce me from the defendant Zhao Qiaofeng......"

Listening to the words of the plaintiff Chen Shifa, the residual sadness on the defendant Zhao Qiaofeng's face slowly disappeared, and then a little contemptuous indifference appeared. The person in front of her has completely changed, into a stranger she never knew, into a hypocrite full of lies, reversing black and white, indistinguishing between right and wrong, and ungrateful.

"Defendant Zhao Qiaofeng, do you have any objection to what the plaintiff just said? You can now state your opinion. ”

Zhao Qiaofeng combed her somewhat unkempt hair with her hands, no longer panicked, and in the courtroom, she told her youth, hopes and disappointments with reason and evidence, like a documentary.

"I met the plaintiff Chen Shifa at the wedding of a friend, he was the bride's bridesmaid, and I was the bride's bridesmaid. If you only register your marriage after two years of acquaintance, it should be regarded as free love. Before I got married, I knew that his family was very poor, and he was in the countryside, and he was still very remote. And my family is in the town, my family has two storefronts, and I have opened a department store, and I do all kinds of small businesses all year round, and my family is still relatively good. Tell me, if I dislike the poor and love the rich, will I take a fancy to him? When our relatives and friends heard that I was going to talk about marriage with him, they all opposed this marriage and warned me that if I married this person, I would definitely suffer in the future. ”

Zhao Qiaofeng calmed down and continued: "At that time, I thought he was honest and reliable, I had a cold, he would accompany me to the clinic to see a doctor, I was tired of loading and unloading goods in my own store, he would always help me load the goods." It can be said that he knows cold and hot to me, and he said in every possible way that he will definitely treat me well in the future. I dispelled all my worries, and despite the opposition of everyone in my mother's family, I was determined to marry him. ”

She fell into a memory of the past: "Because of the opposition of my mother's family, after I married him, I almost cut off contact with my mother's family. In the first few years, we had a good relationship together. After three years of marriage, because I was not pregnant and did not have children, his family gradually expressed their dissatisfaction with me, and often lost their temper with me about it, and even said something unpleasant to me. At that time, I was also a little uneasy in my heart, and I felt ashamed of him, so I took the initiative to tell him, let's go to the town government to get a divorce certificate, I don't want to hurt you. He was very considerate and said to me, 'We didn't go to the hospital for a check-up, and we can't be sure if it's your fault or mine.' In short, you can't be blamed. When I heard him say this, I felt a warm feeling in my heart that he was a man who could take responsibility. Later, after much discussion, the two of us finally decided to adopt a girl, who is now 7 years old. At first, he also liked this child very much, and he also chose the name Yanyan. ”

Zhao Qiaofeng looked up at Chen Shifa, who was fidgeting in the plaintiff's seat: "A few years ago, he saw that his former classmates and friends made a lot of money by running sales outside, so he was tempted and found a way to find a company to be a salesman. Therefore, I did all the farm work at home. I didn't sigh bitterly in front of him, I thought, as long as he has this family in his heart, no matter how bitter it is, I don't complain. In the past few years, he has contacted more businesses, the business has gone smoothly, he has made a lot of money, and his family has built a few new houses, and his life has gradually improved. ”

When Zhao Qiaofeng said this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Where would you have thought that with money, he would change, become strange and ruthless." At first, I had illusions about him, thinking that he wouldn't do anything out of the ordinary. Someone reminded me that your man seems to have someone outside, and I had a big fight with them about it. Later, he had less and less time to come back. Even when he came back, he rarely spoke to me, and I didn't know what he was doing outside. If I asked him, he either didn't say a word, or he was angry at me for no reason. At the beginning of July last year, on the day he left home again, he took Yanyan out as well, and after a few months, he never returned. I have a friend, her husband is also with him to run a sales business, she can't bear to see me deceived by Chen Shifa, and has been kept in the dark, so she came to my house and told me the whole truth about Chen Shifa's bread woman outside, and I only then knew that he had another woman outside and another home. ”

"She, she, she's lying! I don't have a woman outside, and I don't have what she says, and I'm not the one who forgets Ben when I have money. I didn't ......" Plaintiff Chen Shifa felt as if he had been stripped naked in public, and stood up in disregard of the courtroom order to interrupt Zhao Qiaofeng's statement.

"Plaintiff Chen Shifa, please pay attention to obey the order of the court." Dongfang Siyi reminded.

"Dad, you're lying!" A little head poked out in the doorway, and then a little girl ran in from outside the courtroom. The little girl looked at Dongfang Siyi curiously, and said without timidity: "I am Yanyan." Then he pointed to Chen Shifa in the plaintiff's seat: "He is a bad father, he himself told me that he doesn't want my mother anymore, there is an aunt with him, he dances with that aunt every day, and sleeps with her." ”

Yan Yan stood in the courtroom, not afraid at all, and her immature voice echoed in the courtroom. The courtroom was silent. At Dongfang Siyi's suggestion, Cheng Jingru, an officer of the Rights and Interests Department of the Women's Federation, hurriedly walked down from the auditorium, nodded gently to Yanyan, smiled and took her by the hand, and took her out of the courtroom.

No one expected such a scene to happen in the courtroom, and the parties and their relatives and friends did not care that the child who followed them to the courthouse would run into the courtroom so boldly. When the child followed her mother and grandmother into the courtroom, she was stopped by the bailiffs on duty, and they could only let the child's aunt take her to wait outside the courtroom, but she didn't expect Yanyan to hear the conversation in the courtroom and push open the door and walk in.

The relatives and friends on both sides of the auditorium were stunned, and a carefully woven lie was exposed by a childish child's unscrupulous truth. A simple fact that could not be simpler was put in front of everyone. This sudden episode silenced everyone in the courtroom, who had to face the fact that the child had torn everything behind the window paper.

"Now proceed with the forensic investigation." On the trial platform, Dongfang Siyi resumed the trial procedure in a calm tone. The plaintiff Chen Shifa seemed to have suffered a blow to the head, he didn't expect Yan Yan to run to the courtroom by herself, and when she said such a thing, she could no longer hide the embarrassed expression on her face, and stared dejectedly at the few indictments in her hand that had been changed and changed by herself and her lawyer.

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