That's it! They must have been bribed by the Wang family to frame me!
"Your Honor, please see the truth! I have been wronged!"
Deng Hongyi ignored his shouts and turned his gaze toward the hall:
"The aggrieved couple, Wang Shouren and his wife, and the found child, Wang Bao'er, were brought to the court."
Before the words were even finished, the crowd outside the hall parted to both sides like a tide, making way for a narrow path.
The clerk, holding a fire-and-water stick, cleared the way, and the cloth merchant Wang Shouren, supporting his almost exhausted wife Wang, staggered in.
Even so, Wang still held tightly to a boy who looked to be about five or six years old.
The child's face was pale, his eyes were terrified and blank, like a frightened little animal, he was curled up tightly in his mother's arms, his body still trembling slightly.
When Wang saw Zhao Laoshi kneeling below the hall, the fear and despair that had been building up for days instantly erupted.
With a piercing scream, she grabbed the child and lunged forward to attack, yelling, "You heartless villain!"
Wang Shouren held his wife tightly, his eyes red and tears streaming down his face. This usually respectable businessman was now also in tears.
He managed to utter only a few words through gritted teeth: "Your Excellency, please decide! Your Excellency, please decide!"
The crowd outside the hall was ignited by this tragic scene.
The clerk clearly stated that there were two eyewitnesses, and an accomplice who was imprisoned also testified.
Every family has a child, but human traffickers have always been the most despicable and deserving of death.
"What a tragedy! Look at that child, he's so terrified!"
"I heard it was found in the cellar of a dilapidated mortuary outside the city. It was dark, cold, and damp, and the person was chained up. What a tragedy."
"That's right! When we found her, her face was deathly pale, and she was barely clinging to life..."
"This kind of depraved thief deserves to be torn to pieces!"
The suppressed murmurs suddenly rose, coalescing into a wave of anger...
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