Director Yu first recounted what happened that year. As the director of the street, she knew the residents' personalities, if not all of them, at least in general.
Ji Hong's original character was immediately betrayed. "When her husband was still alive, Ji Hong often left her children with the old lady to take care of her, and she dressed up beautifully to play cards. All the neighbors knew about this. As the director of the street, I certainly cannot wrongly accuse anyone.
Later, her husband died, and she took all the valuables in the house and ran away, leaving behind six-year-old Luo Shaoqiang and two-year-old Luo Shaoying, who were living with their elderly grandmother...
Until now, she came back and said she wanted to make amends with the child, crying like a pear blossom in the rain, as if she loved the child so much that she couldn't bear to part with him.
The jury stopped Director Yu from making his final remarks which were full of suspicion and lacked evidence.
After Director Yu, it was Zhou Xiang's turn to make his statement, but Zhou Xiang did some calculations first.
As for food, the price of rice and flour was 0.27 yuan per catty in 1986 and 0.8 yuan per catty in 1995, increasing by 0.07 yuan each year. Each child under the age of ten is entitled to one catty of rice or flour per day.
People over ten years old definitely eat more. Even if they eat two kilograms of rice or noodles a day, she no longer takes into account the increase in Luo Shaoqiang's appetite after he turned 15. So, with this rough estimate, the two children spent a total of 5,800 yuan on rice or noodles.
Oil, salt, and firewood are not included, but what about the food? Even if we deduct the money from the children, we still have half of the food allowance, right? Let's say 2,900 yuan.
Eggs, two children had one egg every morning. In 1986, eggs cost 8 cents, and in 1995, eggs cost 0.3 cents. The price increased by 3 cents every year, for a total of 1,230 yuan.
Tuition and miscellaneous fees were 5 yuan in 1986 and 125 yuan in 1996, increasing by 15 yuan each year. For two children, there were two terms each year, for a total of 2,340 yuan.
As for clothes, even if each person is only given one set of clothes according to the four seasons each year, two people will have eight sets of clothes a year. In 1986, one set cost 20 yuan, and now it costs 60 yuan. With an increase of 5 yuan per year, the total cost is 2,880 yuan.
The total is yuan, add oil, salt and firewood, and make it an even number, so it’s yuan!
"Ms. Ji Hong, please pay the fee first, and then we can discuss other things. Do you think these two children can grow up by just starving?"
Seeing Ji Hong wanted to refute, Zhou Xiang did not give her a chance and continued, "Ms. Ji Hong, you may say that my random calculations constitute blackmail.
However, please ask the jury to calculate whether it costs so much money for an ordinary family to raise two children for 9 years?
Please ask the jury to look at the clothes and shoes and socks of the two children. Are their value more than 60 yuan now?
If Ms. Ji Hong argues that the two children deliberately wore them for today, then please open your eyes and look at the clothes they are wearing. Are they new clothes? If you say they are old clothes that you put away and only let them wear them today, then please open your eyes and look at the height of the two children.
When Luo Shaoqiang and Luo Shaoying heard this, they immediately stood up.
Zhou Xiang continued, "These two children are taller than normal for their age, which fully proves that we take better care of them than the biological children of ordinary families.
So, with their rapid growth rate, can they still wear last year's or this spring's clothes?
Not to mention that I just calculated that each person has one set of clothes for each season. If it was really one set of clothes, they should be wearing autumn or winter clothes now. However, look, the two children are wearing coats and sweaters, formal clothes for late autumn.
Ms. Ji Hong, if you are reluctant to pay this money, it proves that your talk about compensation is a lie, and your talk about loving your child is also a lie.
A mother who loves her children, I will not mention your past actions, I will only talk about the present. Now you, who have the conditions to raise two children, behave like a mother who loves her children. You will definitely feel that I am being too harsh on them by only wearing four sets of clothes a year.
Any mother will feel that no matter how good the things she gives her children are, they are not good enough, let alone if you have a compensatory mentality. If you have a compensatory mentality, then you want the stars and would rather give the moon. That is called compensation.
If you cannot afford this fee, everything you say is empty talk, because if they go back with you, their living conditions may not even be half as good as they are now.
I have finished speaking, and I ask the jury to investigate."
Zhou Xiang bowed to the judge's seat and then sat down.
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