With the bang of the gavel, the trial began.
This was the first time that the village had adopted such a formal stance; in the past, mediation was always privately led by Village Chief Li and Clan Chief Zhao.
Unless someone has committed a heinous crime, he must be punished in front of the entire village!
Chen Yunxuan put down the gavel and looked at the paper that Lin Tongxi had torn off.
"This case will be judged by a five-member panel, with Lin Chenxuan as the presiding judge. I am you."
"Village Chief Li and Clan Chief Zhao will serve as deputy judges, responsible for assisting in the trial. Lin Tongxi will serve as legal advisor, responsible for consultation. Su Ruoxue will serve as clerk, responsible for record-keeping. Zhou Tiezhu will serve as the head of the police station, responsible for maintaining order."
"The court is now in session. First, let's introduce the basic information of the case. The parties in dispute are the Li family and the Zhao family. Please each nominate two representatives to come forward and speak."
The villagers were talking and discussing who to nominate.
The Zhao family quickly sent representatives, namely Zhao Gengnian and Zhao Sangui.
"Fugen, you're here the earliest, so go ahead!"
"This...it's ok for me to go, and you can ask Ershun to come along."
"Ershun, you come on too! Look how proactive Zhao Laosan is."
The Li family put forward Li Fugen and Li Ershun as representatives.
"Okay, now each side will send one person to face us, with their backs to the villagers, and perform the rock-paper-scissors motion."
"Rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, paper beats rock. Whoever wins gets to speak first!"
Chen Yunxuan introduced the rules of rock-paper-scissors to determine the order in which both parties speak.
This case is rather special because both parties accused each other of assault, and it is actually unclear who is the plaintiff or defendant.
But the cases had to be arranged in order, so they were divided by rock-paper-scissors.
"Sister Ruoxue and I will demonstrate it to everyone!" Lin Tongxi and Su Ruoxue stood up and stood in corresponding positions.
"Don't make a sound!" Zhou Tiezhu brought a few outsiders to face the villagers, blocking their view.
Seeing the people in front of him standing still, Chen Yunxuan announced that both sides would start playing rock-paper-scissors.
"Are you ready for action?"
"Yes!" they said in unison.
"Please ask the head of the village to disperse and let the villagers see."
The people blocking the way dispersed, and then the villagers saw the result of the rock-paper-scissors game.
Lin Tongxi is stone and Su Ruoxue is cloth.
"Report to the presiding judge, Lin Fangshitou, Su Fangbu, Su Fangsheng!" Zhou Tiezhu shouted in his loud voice.
"Okay, then it's Su Fang's turn!" Chen Yunxuan said, and asked everyone to return to their seats. "Everyone, do you understand now?"
Faced with such a novel trial method, the villagers began to discuss again.
"Xiaoya, this rock-paper-scissors game is really fun. Let's try it next time we play."
"I've lived all my life, but this is the first time I've seen a trial like this."
Chen Yunxuan slammed the gavel again, asking both sides to send people to play rock-paper-scissors.
After a round of rock-paper-scissors, the two sides ended up in a tie, both were stones.
"Li Chougen, why are you throwing stones?" Zhao Sangui smacked his lips.
Li Fugen spat, "If I want to play stone, I will play stone. If you play stone, I will play cloth to beat you."
"Okay, okay, let's have another round!" Zhou Tiezhu urged the two to continue playing rock-paper-scissors.
As a result, after five rounds, the two of them either played paper or scissors at the same time.
The villagers watched the same scene five times and were speechless.
"Li Fugen, Zhao Sangui, I didn't expect you guys, who usually quarrel so often, to be so in sync with each other when you punch."
"Who has a telepathic connection with this brat? Li Chougen, are you peeking at me?"
"If I had peeked at you, you would have lost!"
"..." Chen Yunxuan was speechless and looked at Lin Tongxi.
Lin Tongxi held his head helplessly. This was such a speechless thing that happened during his first trial. "Let's change people to guess... The results of these two people's rock-paper-scissors are the same as copy and paste."
"Copy and paste?" Chen Yunxuan asked in a low voice.
"It's okay...it means to change people." Lin Tongxi continued to hold his forehead.
After both sides took turns playing rock-paper-scissors, the result came out quickly. Li Fang won, so the Li family spoke first.
Li Fugen stood up and was the first to tell what he had seen and heard.
"My dear officials, please give us some justice! The Zhao family is so arrogant and unreasonable..." Li Fugen said a lot of long-winded words, but apart from attacking the Zhao family, there was no nutritious content.
If Zhou Tiezhu hadn't stopped them, the Zhao family would probably have gone up and beaten him.
"Talk about the matter!" Chen Yunxuan slammed the gavel again.
"Fugen! Learn something!" Village chief Li couldn't stand Li Fugen's words. In the trial of a case, it was not the case that whoever spoke first or cursed the most was the right.
Li Ershun came forward, patted Li Fugen, and signaled him to step aside: "Hey! Let me do it!"
"Second Uncle, Elder Zhao, and several young men, this is what happened."
“As soon as I came here, I saw the Zhao family attacking Wang’an.”
"Because the other side had more people, the Li family was beaten badly and begged for mercy."
"But the vicious Zhao family didn't stop and beat Wang An and the others until they bled."
"My family was bullied, so I called for help, and then the fight continued."
Zhao Sangui also refuted at this moment: "Bullshit! It's clearly you who are outnumbered and bullying the minority. When the clan leader and I went there together, more than ten of you beat up the eight of us. How dare you!"
"Who is bullying the minority here?" a villager asked in confusion.
"Brother Chenxuan... this is too ambiguous. Tell them..." Lin Tongxi whispered a reminder in front of Chen Yunxuan.
Following Lin Tongxi's instructions, Chen Yunxuan directed the subsequent testimony of both parties: "Please both parties provide more specific information on the time and number of people. Li Ershun, you go first."
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