Chapter 415: Cousin Pretending to be Stupid
The facts of my cousin's crime are very clear, and his lawyer can only start from the plot of his surrender. Moreover, the injuries suffered by my cousin were definitely not caused by my cousin.
As expected, Lawyer He raised objections again after his cousin's lawyer finished speaking.
"The defendant, Liu Baoguo, claimed that the injury to the plaintiff was unintentional. However, the fact is that he tied up the plaintiff against her will and locked her in an abandoned cellar, knowing that she was drugged and unconscious.
The plaintiff was allowed to lose the ability to survive on his own and the chance of being discovered and rescued by others, and was forgotten because of his addiction to gambling, another criminal act, causing the plaintiff to suffer great physical and mental harm.
Even if he surrendered himself after the incident, it does not mitigate the severity of the consequences of his crime. I hope the court will rule according to the law."
Finally, it was the turn of my cousin who had always had little presence.
Xia Junliang adhered to the principle of knowing nothing when asked, and he never asked about family affairs. He behaved like a stupid son of a landlord throughout the whole process.
The presiding judge asked, "Were you aware that your parents and grandmother were discussing your sister's betrothal gift?"
Xia Junliang said dully, "I don't know."
"Where were you?"
"I'm playing games in my room."
The presiding judge then asked, "Did you know when your grandmother and your parents knocked your sister unconscious?"
He continued with a blank expression: "I don't know."
"Where were you then?"
"Should be playing games in the room."
The presiding judge had a complicated expression, looking at him with disdain. "So, when the defendant Liu Baoguo took the plaintiff Xia Jundi away from your home, where were you? What were you doing?"
“If I’m not asleep, I’m playing games.
Aunt Judge, I only come out for meals, and the rest of the time I'm basically in my room playing games, so I really don't know what's going on outside."
I quickly covered my mouth and almost laughed out loud. My cousin was quite polite.
The silly, big man in his twenties called the presiding judge "Auntie," which almost broke the defense of the presiding judge in her thirties. She gritted her teeth and said, "Call me Presiding Judge."
"Okay, Aunt Judge." My cousin agreed readily.
Another chuckle sounded behind him.
My uncle and my dad were both very upset. My dad kept stroking his forehead and shaking his head. If his mother hadn't been here, he probably wouldn't have been able to stay.
The presiding judge held back for a moment and asked, "Do you know what the defendant Liu Huifang's purpose was in asking for a betrothal gift from the plaintiff's boyfriend?"
Xia Junliang's eyes flickered, but he still shook his head: "I don't know, it should be like my grandma said, for my sister's wedding."
As a vested interest in the whole thing, my cousin managed to get away with it quite cleanly.
This eldest grandson was very well protected by them. Even my uncle and my father thought that my cousin was innocent. He did not participate in the whole process. At most, he did not stand up to oppose it.
It is said that when my uncle was on trial, he said: "Junliang is still a child. Even if he objects, how can the elders listen to him?
I admit that what we did was inappropriate, but you shouldn't make things difficult for a child."
But if it wasn’t for the child that my uncle mentioned who insisted on buying a BMW X5, why would grandma have set her sights on my cousin?
The betrothal gift in a small county town is generally only 66,000 or 88,000 yuan, and the highest is no more than 188,000 yuan. At that time, my brother-in-law's family prepared a betrothal gift of 280,000 yuan, hoping to give my cousin enough face.
Unexpectedly, after learning that my brother-in-law's family was well-off, my grandmother wanted to ask for enough money for her grandson to spend his entire life, and she asked for a dowry of 1.28 million yuan.
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