Yes, that's right!
If his daughter barged into the courtroom, he would definitely kick her out. But if she appeared as a witness, he would not let her out, regardless of whether she was his daughter or not, and he would even allow her to speak!
"What do you want to say? Who are you going to testify for?" Lord Li asked, his head throbbing.
"I'll testify for Bai!" Li Jinyu shouted, "I'll prove that this man is falsely accusing her, and that Bai did not commit murder!"
"Miss Li!" To everyone's surprise, the man actually knew Li Jinyu. He knelt down beside her and whispered, "You can't help this murderer lie just because you're her good friend, can you? Besides, you are her good friend, who knows if you'll side with her? My wife died, and she still can't rest in peace. You can't do this!"
That man practically said that Li Jinyu was inhuman.
"You're the one who's heartless!" Bai Nuo said in a deep voice. "Miss Li and I aren't friends! She's just a customer in my shop. You say she's heartless, but look at you! Even though your wife is dead, shouldn't you at least give her some clothes to wear? She's still wearing only her undergarments. So many people have seen her disheveled state. Even if you tripped me, isn't this your beloved newlywed wife? How could you bear to treat her like this?"
Bai Nuo's voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for the people in the hall to hear, and for the onlookers to hear as well!
Even Lord Li craned his neck to look at the corpse lying below the main hall, frowning as he said, "Why didn't you dress your wife? Don't you know this is very indecent?"
Especially for the deceased, we should maintain a solemn demeanor, as this is a sign of respect for the dead.
"One..." The man hadn't expected Bai Nuo to provoke Lord Li into targeting him with just a few words. Moreover, not only Lord Li, but the onlookers were also whispering among themselves, "In the heat of the moment, he forgot..."
It's true that even the most meticulous plans can have flaws. Why didn't he think of putting a piece of clothing on her at the time?
"You simply couldn't remember to dress her, could you?" Li Jinyu said sarcastically, then shouted at her father, "Sir, that's exactly what I'm talking about! This man is lying! He doesn't love his wife at all!"
"You're talking nonsense!" the man retorted loudly. "My wife and I have only been married for a year!"
"Does being married for a year have anything to do with whether you love her or not?" Li Jinyu said. "Sir, just one day before the return incident at Duobaoge, I ran into this man and his wife on the street. I saw him hit her with my own eyes. He hit her on the back and pinched her arm. If you look at her, you will definitely see the wounds on her body."
She refused to believe that the wound would disappear in just a few days!
"Master, summon the coroner!" Lord Li glanced at his daughter and said in a deep voice.
The man turned pale when Lord Li said to call the coroner. When did Li Jinyu see this?
He didn't see anyone else around when he hit her!
"Son-in-law!" the man's family member called out in a low voice after he remained silent, "Say something!"
Lord Li looked down at everything below and said calmly, "If you have anything to say, wait for the coroner to come and examine the body before you speak!"
"Sir!" Seeing the man's unsteady and useless state, his family member spoke up personally, "We refuse to examine our young lady's body. She is already dead. To desecrate her body would be disrespectful to the deceased!"
Lord Li, having served as an official for many years and navigated the workplace for so long, had long since developed a silver tongue. He immediately sneered, "You people come out without even dressing properly, and you want to blame others for disrespecting her? Isn't this all for the sake of investigating the case? This is for her own good. Do you really want to see her remain unjustly accused?"
The coroner lived inside the government office and arrived very quickly. Basically, he arrived just as Lord Li finished speaking. Without any unnecessary words, he simply wrapped a white cloth around the woman's body and went inside.
Those present could only see a circle of white cloth in front of them, and the silhouette of a person inside the white cloth.
After about half an hour, the coroner finally came out and said, "Sir, this woman in labor has indeed been beaten; there are marks on her back and arms."
"A woman in labor?" Not only Lord Li, but even Bai Nuo stared at the coroner in shock.
“That’s right!” The coroner nodded. “She gave birth about twenty days ago, but strangely, I didn’t find that object on her body. It seems to have been torn off!”
It's been torn off!
Although the coroner spoke in an extremely cryptic manner, Bai Nuo still understood. Not only Bai Nuo understood, but Lord Li and everyone else present also understood why the coroner spoke in such a cryptic way.
Because it is truly bloody and cruel.
“She came to see me a few days ago, saying that she bought a menstrual pad from me and it wasn’t feeling well…” Bai Nuo looked at the coroner and asked, “Was it caused by the menstrual pad?”
The coroner chuckled lightly, "This woman doesn't even have any bodily parts left, so why would she need a menstrual belt? Miss, when did this woman who has just given birth arrive at your place?"
"About five days ago!" Bai Nuo thought for a moment and gave a definite answer.
"This woman has also been dead for about five days. It's estimated that she died not long after seeing you," the coroner said.
Bai Nuo looked at him in confusion, but Lu Ying and Xia Donglai did not find any signs of bleeding on the woman's body!
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