Chapter 401 Sue Her for Defamation
Gu Siqing stood on the podium and asked everyone to bear witness. The audience was silent and no one spoke.
People tend to seek benefits and avoid harm. Gu Siqing didn't explain why she asked everyone to sign. The students didn't know whether they should sign or not, and whether signing would have any impact on them.
Pang Qiong watched Gu Siqing stand at the podium and ask everyone to testify for her, but no one cooperated. He snorted in mockery. At that moment, Gu Siqing realized she had made a mistake. High school seniors were already eighteen or nineteen years old, and they already knew what it meant to be indifferent.
But this didn't affect her. With Qu Anyi as a witness, she could find one or two more people in private to sue Pang Qiong. Thinking of this, she was about to turn around and leave the podium when Kang Yuanze stood up and walked up, signed his name on the letter with a pen, and then said to the classmates, "I'm not dating Gu Siqing. Pang Qiong is spreading rumors. I hope everyone can testify."
After saying this, he looked at a few boys he was close to. They stood up and walked to the podium to sign. With them as the first step, the rest of the class came up to the podium to sign.
As the class monitor, Kang Yuanze was quite influential. Soon, everyone in the class, except Pang Qiong, signed. Pang Qiong sat at the bottom, her face tense. She was a little scared. After all, there was no evidence for what she said. If Gu Siqing reported it to the teacher, she would definitely be punished.
And Kang Yuanze's family has a strong background
She now regrets saying those words just for the sake of having a good time.
Kang Yuanze saw that everyone had signed, and then asked Gu Siqing, "What do you want to do?"
Gu Siqing looked at Pang Qiong and said word by word, "I'm going to sue her for defamation."
This sentence brought a deathly silence to the class. No one had expected Gu Siqing to actually go to court to sue Pang Qiong. They thought Gu Siqing would probably sue the teacher. After all, as a student, shouldn't the teacher solve any problems?
After hearing what she said, Kang Yuanze said, "Then I will sue her for defamation too."
He is one of the parties involved and of course a victim, so he can sue.
The air in the class seemed to be stagnant. The students couldn't help but look at Pang Qiong. They saw that the muscles on her face were tense and distorted, and her hands were clenched tightly together.
She had never imagined that Gu Siqing was going to sue her in court. This was completely different from suing a teacher. Aren't they students now? Why would Gu Siqing think of suing her in court?
But her pride made it difficult for her to stand up and apologize. Moreover, she felt that Gu Siqing was dating Kang Yuanze. She had seen them riding bicycles home together several times.
Kang Yuanze is so aloof and never interacts with girls, but he talks to Gu Siqing all the time. If they are not dating, what are they doing?
Gu Siqing stood on the podium and looked down at Pang Qiong for a moment. Seeing that she was still sitting there motionless and had no intention of apologizing, she sneered, then walked down the podium with the notebook.
In fact, if Pang Qiong was smarter and apologized sincerely now, she wouldn't really sue her. After all, a lawsuit is a troublesome thing. Now she is in the third year of high school, and her study time is so tight!
But Pang Qiong still acted as if she was doing nothing wrong, so don't blame her.
When Gu Siqing got home from school at noon, she told Gu Jianguo and Wang Yueju about this. They were so angry that they couldn't help themselves. Wang Yueju gritted her teeth and said, "It's ruining a girl's reputation. If this happened in the village and spread like this, her life might be over."
Gu Jianguo asked, "What do you want to sue her for?"
Although Gu Jianguo had some legal awareness, he really didn't know that slandering people was illegal.
"Sue her for defamation." Gu Siqing explained the crime of defamation to her, and Gu Jianguo once again felt that being educated was a good thing. In the past, in the village, if someone spread rumors and seriously hurt someone, the strong-willed victim would just hit them, while the weak-willed would just endure it.
Who would go to court for something like this? Everyone thinks that anything that goes to court is a big deal.
"Okay, don't worry about it, I'll take care of it." Gu Jianguo said.
It’s my senior year of high school now, and nothing is more important than studying.
"This is just a small case, just give it to Xia Yi. Hasn't he already passed the lawyer's license exam?" Gu Siqing felt that this case was a good opportunity for Xia Yi to practice.
Gu Jianguo thought for a moment and said, "Okay, your mother and I will go to your grandfather's house this afternoon and tell them about this. Just study hard."
"I know." Gu Siqing really didn't take this matter to heart. Her act of going to court to sue Pang Qiong was already a good proof that she had nothing to do with Kang Yuanze and Qi Hang.
As for whether this incident would affect Pang Qiong's studies, that was not her concern. However, Pang Qiong was already in her third year of high school, and she was still jealous of Qi Hang, so she probably didn't have much time to focus on her studies.
After lunch and a short rest, Gu Siqing returned to school and studied hard in class as usual.
Gu Jianguo and Wang Yueju went to the Xia family. Xia Qingzhang, Xia Zhengming, and Xia Yi were not at home, so they told Old Lady Xia about Gu Siqing. Old Lady Xia was also very angry when she heard it, "How can someone so young be so vicious?"
"That's right." Wang Yueju said, "A girl's reputation is very important."
Gu Jianguo said from the side: "Xiao Si means to sue her in court for defamation. Didn't Xia Yi pass the bar exam? It depends on whether Xia Yi can handle this matter."
Mrs. Xia was stunned when she heard his words. She had thought of contacting Pang Qiong's parents and then the school to ask Pang Qiong to apologize to Xiao Si in public. But she never expected that Xiao Si would actually want to sue in court.
She asked, "Why are we going to sue her in court?"
"Xiao Si said to sue her for defamation." Gu Jianguo explained to Old Lady Xia what defamation is. Old Lady Xia felt that she had learned more. Although she had some education and worked in an organization when she was young, she had never heard of the crime of defamation.
"Our little fourth child is the one with the right ideas. It's a waste of time to reason with them." At this point, Old Lady Xia whispered to Wang Yueju, "I didn't tell you before that Kang Yuanze is from the Kang family in this courtyard. His grandmother mentioned to me a while ago that she has a crush on our little fourth child."
Wang Yueju didn't know about this. She said, "Xiao Si is still young. It will take several years for her to get married."
"That's what I told her too," said Old Lady Xia. "I think Yuan Ze has some ideas, but the Kang family is too chaotic. It won't work."
She told Wang Yueju about the ridiculous things Kang Yuanze's father had done. After hearing it, Wang Yueju immediately said, "You must never enter a family like that."
"I felt the same way, which is why I didn't tell you." Old Lady Xia continued, "Sanjing and Xiaosi are both very outstanding, and many families are interested in them. Respectable families are fine, waiting until the children are older, but for some people, it's a different story."
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