Prefect Wang's move to "shift the blame" was both sudden and ruthless!
He was forced into a corner and decided to sacrifice the pawn to save the king, shifting all the blame onto the Gao family in order to protect himself!
Young Master Gao was startled by his sudden roar!
Looking at Prefect Wang's fat face, twisted with fear and anger, his heart sank instantly!
He knew that this gluttonous lackey, who was usually well-fed and fed, would finally turn on its master when faced with a life-or-death situation!
However, Young Master Gao was not his good-for-nothing cousin after all.
After a brief moment of panic, he quickly calmed down, and his brain began to work frantically!
Witness testimony? Physical evidence?
The woman surnamed Xiao did indeed produce the so-called "skin flakes" and "fabric fibers," and her foolish cousin did indeed expose the scratches on his hands.
but!
These are all just indirect evidence!
Who can prove that the skin flakes and fibers were definitely found under Liu Yu's fingernails?
Who can prove that the scratches on his cousin's hands were definitely caused by Liu Yu, and not by him accidentally touching them?
As long as there is no direct evidence and the person refuses to admit it, there is still room for maneuver in this matter!
Thinking of this, a hint of ruthlessness and determination flashed in Young Master Gao's eyes!
He suddenly turned around and kicked Gao Changsheng, who was already slumped on the ground like a lump of mud!
"You worthless piece of trash! Explain yourself to me and my lord! What exactly happened?!"
Gao Changsheng screamed in pain from the kick, which brought him back to his senses.
When he saw the suggestive and threatening look in his cousin's eyes, he instantly understood!
Suddenly, he clutched his head and began rolling around on the ground frantically, muttering incoherently like a madman!
"My head... my head hurts so much... I don't know anything... I don't remember anything..."
"Murder? Who killed someone? I didn't kill anyone... Hehe... Butterflies... So many butterflies are flying around..."
As he spoke, he grinned foolishly, and even drool dripped from the corner of his mouth. His crazy and eccentric behavior was so lifelike!
Feigning madness!
This is the most shameless, yet most effective, way to escape punishment!
If someone is deemed mentally unstable, even if they have actually killed someone, they can receive a lighter sentence or even be acquitted!
"you……"
When Prefect Wang saw this, he was so angry that he trembled all over. He pointed at the Gao brothers and couldn't say a word for a long time!
He never imagined that the Gao family would be so shameless!
The people outside the court were stunned by this sudden turn of events, and then burst into a cacophony of angry curses!
"Shameless! Utterly shameless!"
"Killed someone and then pretended to be insane? Is there no justice left?!"
Young Master Gao, however, turned a deaf ear to the angry curses around him.
He slowly straightened up, and a cold, provocative sneer reappeared on his face.
He turned his head away from Prefect Wang and instead focused his gaze on the "Master Xiao," whom he had been wary of from beginning to end!
He retaliated, his voice filled with smugness and arrogance!
"Master Xiao! You saw it?"
"My cousin... he's mentally ill! He's a madman! Can you really take the words of a madman seriously?"
"You say he killed someone? Ha! That's slander!"
"You said he has scratches on his hands? Maybe he accidentally scratched himself when he was having a fit of madness!"
"You say you have witnesses and physical evidence? Who saw it? Besides you and your silver-tongued wife, who else saw it?!"
He approached Xiao Che step by step, his arrogance reaching its peak once again!
"You surnamed Xiao! Let me tell you! Everything requires evidence! Without seeing it with your own eyes, you think you can slander the Gao family based on your few baseless guesses? You... dream on!"
These words are a complete distortion of the truth and a sophistry!
Yet, for a moment, it's hard to refute!
yes!
From beginning to end, all the evidence and inferences came only from Xiao Che and Lin Wanwan!
They have no third-party witnesses!
Just as Xiao Che's eyes gradually turned cold, preparing to speak and use even harsher methods to crush the other party's last struggle—
A clear, melodious voice, like a nightingale singing in a valley, suddenly rang out from outside the courtroom, from the dense crowd!
"Who said... there were no witnesses?"
"I am the witness!"
The sound, though not loud, was like a thunderclap from a clear sky, instantly drawing everyone's attention!
Everyone turned to look.
The dense crowd parted to make way for them.
Lin Wan-wan, dressed in an elegant dress, was helping the sobbing Granny Liu as they slowly walked out of the crowd.
Behind them followed three or four neighbors who looked tense yet indignant!
"It's you?!"
When Young Master Gao saw Lin Wanwan, his pupils suddenly contracted!
When Xiao Che, who was in the hall, saw Lin Wanwan, a knowing smile flashed in his eyes.
He knew that his queen would never leave him to fight alone.
Lin Wanwan ignored the astonished look in Gao Gongzi's eyes.
She helped Granny Liu walk straight to the front of the courtroom, bowed to Wang Zhifu in the hall, and spoke in a clear, firm voice.
"This humble woman, Lin, greets Your Excellency."
"My lord, this young master Gao just said that we have no evidence to prove that his cousin Gao Changsheng had a motive for murder. Now, I will present the witnesses and physical evidence!"
She turned around, looked at her neighbors behind her, and said loudly:
“These people are all Liu Yu’s neighbors! They can all testify!”
"Gao Changsheng, the second young master of the Gao family, has been lusting after Miss Liu Yu's beauty for the past six months. At least three times, he has brought his servants to her door to force her into marriage! He even openly declared—"
She paused, then her voice suddenly rose, her questioning tone like a heavy hammer, slamming into Young Master Gao's already pale face!
“If you don’t obey me, I will make sure your whole family suffers a terrible death!”
"May I ask, Young Master Gao? Does this kind of behavior constitute a motive for murder?!"
At the same time, Granny Liu, who was standing to the side, trembled as she took out a broken door panel with knife and axe marks on it, along with several pieces of furniture that had been smashed to pieces from her bosom!
She placed these things heavily on the ground and cried her heart out!
"My lord! This is the physical evidence! This is the furniture that those beasts from the Gao family smashed when they came to force me into marriage last time! My poor daughter... she was killed because she refused to submit!"
Witness testimony! Physical evidence!
When these two things appeared in court at the same time, Young Master Gao's shameless excuse of "no motive" and "empty talk" instantly collapsed!
A perfect and irrefutable loop of evidence has been formed!
"Shameless! The Gao family is utterly devoid of conscience!"
"Forced marriage failed, so he killed someone! After killing someone, he even tried to smear their reputation! Is this...is this even human?!"
At this moment, the people's anger was completely ignited!
If the anger before was merely out of morality, then the anger now stems from a fear of sympathizing with one's own kind!
Today, the Gao family can treat Liu Yu this way; then tomorrow, they can use the same method to treat themselves!
"Severely punish the Gao family! Severely punish the Gao family!"
The roar of shouts was so loud it almost blew the roof off the entire government office!
Looking at the irrefutable evidence before him and listening to the deafening shouts around him, Gao Gongzi's mind went completely blank for a moment!
It’s over!
This time, it's completely, utterly, utterly over!
This woman has completely blocked all escape routes!
On the ground, Gao Changsheng, who was still pretending to be crazy, finally realized when he saw his familiar neighbors and the furniture he had smashed with his own hands that he... had nowhere to escape!
Driven by extreme fear, his reason completely collapsed!
He suddenly leaped to his feet, as if possessed, grabbed the sleeve of the young master beside him, and screamed in an extremely shrill voice:
"Brother! Help me! Brother! Please save me!"
"It was you! You made me do it!"
"Tell me! As long as I handle things properly, Father's position as Salt Commissioner will be ours!"
The words had barely left his mouth!
The entire venue was deathly silent!
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