Chapter 595 You're lying!

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Su Xiaosi's mind went blank for a moment, and she glared at the second-in-command, "When did I ever ask you for a kickback? The house was a wedding gift from my teacher to me and my wife Yu Qing!"

The second-in-command gave him a disdainful look and gestured for the lawyer beside him to produce the evidence.

A receipt for the purchase of the property, a photocopy of the property certificate bearing the name of the second-in-command, and a document proving the transfer of ownership to Su Xiaosi.

Su Xiaosi felt as if she had been slapped in the face.

His eyes widened in disbelief. "How is this possible?! This house is clearly..."

"Witnesses: Yu Qing and Fei Wenzhou."

When the judge called the two men to identify the house, Fei Wenzhou said, "I was unaware of it. I had spent all my money helping Su Yushun escape the debts he incurred at school, and I didn't have any spare money to help him buy a property."

"teacher?!"

Fei Wenzhou's words struck Su Xiaosi like a thunderbolt. Su Xiaosi looked at Yu Qing anxiously, "Yu Qing, you said you brought the keys and the property certificate. You can definitely prove I'm innocent. Please tell me quickly..."

What do you want me to say?

Yu Qing frowned, looking at Su Xiaosi's disappointed eyes, shook her head and said to the judge, "The teacher did not buy him a house. I went to him before the Chinese New Year, and he took me there. He said that the second-in-command transferred the house to him. He didn't say how it came about, and I didn't ask."

"You're talking nonsense! You're all talking nonsense!"

Su Xiaosi looked at the two familiar faces before him, yet they felt utterly foreign. Overwhelmed with emotion, he gripped the table and glared at Yu Qing, demanding, "Why did you lie? Yu Qing, you were the one who came to me saying it was a wedding gift from the teacher. Why are you saying this now? Do you know that what you're saying will kill me? You…"

"Su Yushun, are you crazy?"

Yu Qing was even more agitated than him, and she accused him, "To help you keep your bachelor's degree and graduate from Tsinghua and Peking University with a clean record, your teacher used all his savings to pay off your debts, and now you're actually smearing him! You're going to ruin his reputation! You're going to go to jail yourself, and you want to drag me and your teacher down with you? How could you be such a person? I must have been blind to even consider marrying someone like you!"

"That's not how it is, it was clearly you, you framed me..."

Even if Su Xiaosi was slow-witted, he realized by now that the two of them had done it on purpose. He was puzzled, and felt a sense of bewilderment and helplessness, as if he had been betrayed by both his most respected teacher and his closest lover. "Why?"

"Yes, we'll design you."

Yu Qing's eyes were full of sarcasm. "The teacher used all her savings to cover your losses so that you could embezzle, take bribes, and accept other people's houses and money. I've suffered with you for the past six months to take the blame for you so that you could smear me and the teacher. I knew you were a dishonest person in school, and I thought you would learn from your mistakes and not do this again. It seems you haven't changed at all!"

Yu Qing's eyes reddened as she looked at Fei Wenzhou, her voice trembling with tears.

“Teacher, you saved the wrong person, and I trusted the wrong person. Su Yushun doesn’t deserve our help.”

Fei Wenzhou glanced at Su Xiaosi with disappointment, sighed, and turned his head away.

Su Xiaosi watched the two of them singing in unison and felt it was extremely ironic.

He shook his head, looked at the judge, and said, "...I admit that it was wrong of me to accept money. I also accept small favors from superiors in the past, but although this house is in my name, I did not ask for it. They are trying to frame me, but I do not admit it."

"Where's the evidence?"

The second-in-command sneered, "Su Yushun, what matters in court is evidence. Do you think you can just say it's not true?"

"I have no evidence."

"It's ridiculous. You can't produce any evidence, but we have witnesses and physical evidence. You still want to deny it? Do you think you can deny it?" The second-in-command's eyebrows flashed with smugness as he exchanged a glance with Fei Wenzhou.

No matter how much evidence they presented, Su Xiaosi refused to admit it, insisting that the house was brought by Yu Qing, and that she claimed Fei Wenzhou bought it for them as a wedding gift because he felt sorry for their hard life in a small town.

The game became a stalemate for a time.

During the recess, Su Xiaosi suddenly remembered, "The second-in-command said the house would be transferred to me, but I have never appeared at any real estate transaction center. I also had my ID card with me on the day the property certificate was transferred. You can go and verify this."

The smile in the second-in-command's eyes faltered slightly.

Fei Wenzhou and Yu Qing exchanged a glance and both frowned.

The first court hearing was adjourned due to unclear ownership of the property and insufficient evidence, pending further investigation before a new hearing date is set.

As Su Xiaosi was leaving, he told his public interest lawyer that he wanted to see Su Laoda and asked the lawyer to pass on a message to Su Laoda that he had not asked for the property and that the property was part of a scheme they had tailored for him.

He told the truth in court. Please, Boss Su, save him one last time for the sake of our shared motherhood.

If Boss Su doesn't believe me, he can check it out.

If he utters even a single lie, let him rot in jail!

The lawyer glanced at the sleeve he was holding and at the same longing for driftwood in Su Xiaosi's eyes, and nodded.

Su Xiaosi let go of his hand and was taken away.

It's no wonder he's so concerned about the ownership of the property. The law stipulates that those who embezzle or accept bribes of less than 100,000 yuan will be sentenced to five to ten years in prison. If the amount exceeds 100,000 yuan, the sentence will start at ten years, and could also be life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Excluding the property worth over 20,000 yuan, Su Xiaosi embezzled and accepted bribes totaling over 90,000 yuan, just a few thousand to 100,000 yuan short. However, if he had actively demanded the property, the consequences would have been far more than just ten years...

Su Xiaosi was genuinely scared.

Ten years. He's only twenty-one now, and he's only gone through two decades. Twenty-one to thirty-one, the best ten years of his life, he doesn't want to waste them all in prison.

The lawyer relayed the message, and Su Lao Da and Su Lao Er discussed the matter.

Su Lao Er looked at Su Lao Da and asked, "Big brother, didn't you promise Lao San that you wouldn't interfere?"

"no the same."

Boss Su shook his head, "Xiao Si should pay the price for his mistakes. I don't care if he goes to jail to atone for his sins, but it's unacceptable for others to try to frame him! There's something fishy about this real estate matter. I suspect that Fei Wenzhou, Yu Qing, and their second-in-command set up a trap beforehand to deliberately make Xiao Si go to jail for longer..."

"Do you think they're lying?"

Su Lao Er frowned. "What if Su Xiao Si is lying?"

"Xiao Si said if I don't believe it, I can check it out."

The eldest brother Su looked at the second brother Su and said, "He also mentioned the transfer date on the property certificate. He didn't show up at any transaction center on that day. It's easy to check in a small town like this. If he were lying, he wouldn't have the confidence to say that."

Su Lao Er remained silent for a while.

"Okay, I'll have someone investigate."

Boss Su nodded, "Then you have to be quick. I'm afraid Fei Wenzhou's people will erase the traces first, and then Xiao Si will have to take the fall even if there's no evidence."

"Okay, I understand."

Su Lao Er's eyes darkened, and he made a phone call to go out and find someone.