Yin Zheng frowned, his expression shifting unpredictably.
Liu Qingqing was already extremely nervous, feeling like she was being roasted on a fire. Every minute and second she spent standing there was an unprecedented ordeal for her.
However, despite their unease, Huang Bo still shouted outside, "Bring witnesses!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the courtroom doors opened again.
Under the watchful eyes of countless people, a woman in a white coat with a striking and heroic appearance slowly pushed a wheelchair into the courtroom.
A middle-aged man with an oxygen tube in his nostrils sat in a wheelchair.
As if he were still recovering from a serious illness, the middle-aged man looked haggard and listless, as if he were about to die from a short breath.
"Who is this?"
"A patient?"
What testimony can he give?
As the middle-aged man was wheeled in, most of the people present were filled with doubt.
But Liu Qingqing and Yin Zheng's pupils contracted violently, as if they had seen a ghost.
"How is that possible?"
"He's still alive?"
Perhaps they were too shocked, because the two of them exclaimed out loud, so much so that many people around them heard them.
Especially Liu Qingqing, after the initial shock, she slumped back into the dock, her face filled with endless despair.
If she had been clinging to a sliver of hope just moments before, that hope vanished completely with the appearance of this middle-aged man.
Soon, the dashing woman arrived in the courtroom, pushing her wheelchair.
"Plaintiff, who is the witness you have called?" Judge Xie Jiahui asked.
Huang Bo pointed at the extremely haggard middle-aged man in the wheelchair and said loudly, "He is the victim in this case, Ren Guoliang!"
These words shocked the entire audience.
"What? He's Ren Guoliang?"
"Isn't he dead?"
"How did they manage to get out alive again?"
"What exactly is going on?"
Not only were the audience members and media reporters present stunned, but even the presiding judge, Xie Jiahui, was taken aback.
"Wasn't Ren Guoliang, the victim in this case, already dead? What's going on here?"
Huang Bo did not answer the question that everyone had. Instead, he gestured to the woman who was pushing the wheelchair in, saying, "Ms. He, please explain the whole story to everyone."
"good!"
He Miaoyin nodded, glanced around the room, and when she saw Liu Qingqing and Yin Zheng, her eyes instantly turned icy cold.
Liu Qingqing's delicate body trembled, and she subconsciously lowered her head, not daring to meet He Miaoyin's gaze.
Although Yin Zheng was still trying to remain calm, his face was already deathly pale and cold sweat was streaming down his forehead.
His eyes darted around, his mind racing.
Now, he's not thinking about how to defend Liu Qingqing anymore; he's thinking about how to extricate himself perfectly from this case.
As Liu Qingqing's defense lawyer, if he knew that Liu Qingqing had hired someone to commit murder and even paid for it, and he failed to report it, he would also be guilty of harboring a criminal.
"Mr. Ren, why don't you tell us yourself?"
He Miaoyin patted Ren Guoliang on the shoulder.
In his wheelchair, Ren Guoliang nodded slightly, his weak voice escaping his lips, "My name is Ren Guoliang. I am a victim in this case, but I am also a participant."
No one spoke.
The room fell silent, everyone straining to hear what Ren Guoliang was about to say.
“I sell pork at the market and my income was pretty good, but my wife died of a terminal illness when my daughter was three and a half years old.”
“My daughter, Ren Xiaoqiao, was born with leukemia and often needs to undergo chemotherapy, the cost of which is far beyond what I can afford.”
"Over the years, I have been living frugally, but the high medical expenses have still left me with a heavy debt."
“I borrowed from every friend and relative I could, until everyone was afraid of me.”
“Just a few days ago, a friend of mine who owed me money contacted me and said he could help me settle the debt in one go and also cover all my daughter’s future medical expenses.”
"I didn't care whether it was true or not, and I went out with that friend."
"after……"
He pointed to Liu Qingqing in the defendant's seat, "The person my friend took me to see is her, Liu Qingqing."
"You're talking nonsense. I've never even seen you. You're slandering me..."
Liu Qingqing could not refute him.
But as she spoke, she herself couldn't continue.
Ren Guoliang's weak voice continued to echo throughout the venue.
"She said she could give me 200,000 yuan, but I would have to risk my life."
“If I agree, she will give me 50,000 yuan in cash first, and if things go smoothly, she will give me the remaining 150,000 yuan.”
“If anything happens to me, she will ask my friend to give it to my daughter, Ren Xiaoqiao, under the guise of buying lottery tickets.”
"At that time, I was overwhelmed by financial pressure, and when I was tempted by such a large sum of money, I didn't think twice and just agreed."
"So, Liu Qingqing gave me a packet of rat poison and told me to go to the No. 1 branch of Niangui Roasted Green Pepper Sauce Company to buy a bottle of roasted green pepper sauce, and then mix the rat poison with it and eat it."
"I did it for the money!"
"Sure enough, not long after I ate it, I felt a sharp pain in my stomach, like being stabbed with a knife, until I eventually fainted from the pain."
"As for what happened afterward, I have absolutely no memory of it."
"until……"
He glanced back at He Miaoyin standing behind the wheelchair. "When I woke up in the morgue, the first thing I saw was Miss He."
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