I went to the door, but I couldn't hear the movement outside, and I scratched my head anxiously.
At this time, Yi Dazhuang leaned over from behind, patted my shoulder lightly, and signaled me to get out of the way.
He squatted down and stuffed his ultra-thin mobile phone through the crack of the bottom door, then stood up and handed me a wireless bluetooth headset.
As soon as the earphones were put on, all kinds of sounds in the courtroom were transmitted clearly in an instant, and even the coughing of the jury or someone in the public gallery could be heard clearly in the distance.
"...can you tell everyone what the kidnapper said to you when he met you?" I recognized the prosecutor's voice.
After a brief silence, Sheng Minou spoke.
"I arrived at the place designated by the kidnappers with the ransom money, and there I met No. 1 kidnapper Feng Jin. The first thing he said when he saw me was: 'Xiao Meng often mentions you, you are indeed very powerful.' These are his original words .”
"Then what did you say?"
"I realized that this matter might have something to do with Xiao Meng. I asked him if Xiao Meng ordered them to do all this, and he didn't deny it."
"Okay, thank you. Your Honor, I have nothing more to ask."
The judge then announced that the defense would then conduct cross-examination.
Chen Shunlai's current strategy is to get Xiao Meng out of the kidnapping case. Xiao Meng only asked Jin Ya and the others to steal evidence against Mei Teng from Yi Dazhuang, but he didn't instruct them to kidnap anyone, and he didn't even know about the kidnapping. Therefore, any evidence or witnesses that directly identify Xiao Meng's involvement in the kidnapping case will be questioned by Chen Shunlai.
I heard footsteps, and then Chen Shunlai's voice: "You didn't see Mr. Xiao Meng at the scene with your own eyes."
"The kidnappers didn't mention that it was Mr. Xiao Meng who planned the kidnapping."
"And when you asked him if Xiao Meng planned all this, he didn't deny it."
"I didn't admit it either."
"Why do you think the kidnappers would say that?" Chen Shunlai suddenly lowered his voice and asked, "Xiao Meng often mentions you, you are indeed very powerful."
For no reason, as soon as these words came out of his mouth, I felt that he was digging a hole. And the ensuing inquiry also confirmed my guess, he did dig a big hole for Sheng Minou to jump into.
"I don't know. But I guess it's because Xiao Meng did mention me often to them, and he has always been very concerned about my existence."
Chen Shunlai speeded up his speech, and seemed to have found an important breakthrough: "Mr. Xiao Meng cares about you so much. Is it because you were both good candidates for Mr. Xiao Suiguang's successor? You have a competitive relationship and are against each other, isn't it? "
Sheng Minou did not answer immediately, but said: "You are implying that my testimony to the jury is biased."
"Please answer my question, you are just a witness now."
My palms were a little sweaty, but I felt that Sheng Minou would not fall into the pit so easily.
"He does regard me as a competitor, but that is in the past tense. After breaking up with Ms. Xiao, I resigned from Mei Teng and I am no longer competitive. And just two months ago, Mr. Xiao passed me to draw up a will Xiao Meng also knows about the distribution of property under his name, if he thinks that I have prejudice against him, how can he agree with Mr. Xiao to appoint me as the representative lawyer and have full power to handle the will?" Sheng Minou's tone was filled with resentment, Just like a normal person who has been misunderstood, "Of course, after this incident, the will has been invalidated. I have also obtained Mr. Xiao's consent. If necessary, I can disclose the will in court."
If necessary... That is to say, he didn't really know whether he would use this information, but he chose to plan ahead, and he did use it. It seems that every step of the development of the matter, every fork, is in his expectation, and he knows everyone's reaction clearly.
Strategize and win a thousand miles. You don't need to see it in person, you can control the overall situation by calculation alone, which is probably the kind of person he is.
And... Although I can't see his expression, I am sure that he will mobilize every cell and every strand of hair in his body to make everyone believe that he is an upright and credible person.
Chen Shunlai wanted to use the past competitive relationship between Sheng Minou and Xiao Meng to imply that the testimony of the jury Sheng Minou was not credible, but he didn't want to lead to the will, which indirectly proved that Sheng Minou was fair and fair in his attitude towards Xiao Meng.
It seems that Chen Shunlai dug a big hole and waited for Sheng Minou to jump into it, but in fact, Sheng Minou took advantage of the big hole and kicked Chen Shunlai to the bottom of the hole instead.
Chen Shunlai realized that he was being targeted by Sheng Minou, and he didn't speak for a long time. I can imagine how ugly his face is now.
"I have nothing more to ask."
After his words fell, Yi Dazhuang quickly put the phone back. I shoved the earphones back into his hand and sat back on the bench as if nothing had happened.
Almost in the next second, the door of the waiting room was pushed open, and Sheng Minou came back among us.
"Welcome back." I raised my face and smiled at him, "Congratulations on successfully knocking out the great white shark with one tail."
Sheng Minou pressed his palm on my head, ruffling my hair vigorously.
"Did no one tell you that witnesses can't attend the trial?"
He sat down beside me, stretched his long legs, crossed his arms, and stared at the re-closed wooden door again.
I hugged my head, straightened my messy hair, and muttered in a low voice, "Yi Dazhuang's idea is none of my business."
Sheng Min'ou looked sideways at Yi Dazhuang who was diagonally behind, I only heard a rather unnatural light cough from behind, and then Sheng Min'ou turned his head back.
"Next, the prosecution will call a tainted witness in court. His testimony is very unfavorable to Xiao Meng. He is the deadliest of all witnesses, but also the easiest to impeach."
"why?"
"Because he is a witness and an accomplice. Although he has made a plea deal and no longer needs to stand in the dock for trial, human beings are inherently inferior. A despicable person will not suddenly become a criminal just because his sentence is reduced. Noble, he will just place all the blame on others."
"Will he lie in court?"
Sheng Minou looked at me: "Chen Shunlai will 'definitely' let him lie in court, so that he can prove to the jury that the other party is not an honest and credible witness."
He had guessed correctly that Gold Tooth had lied in court about having planned a burglary in the past, saying only that he was an accomplice. It had happened many years ago, and it happened in another city. Jin Ya thought it was okay to say a little panic, but Chen Shunlai seized this point and impeached him.
At that moment, his testimony was no longer credible in the minds of the jury.
The prosecutor was furious because of this. After the trial, he called Sheng Minou to the discussion room alone. No one knew what they said.
On the way back, Wu Yi discussed today's trial in the car, and seemed a little unfinished.
"It's so exciting. The master is really a master. The rhythm of the inquiry is easy to handle. Except for the teacher's a little carelessness, other places are tight."
I was a little envious that he could listen to the trial in an open manner, and asked, "Is it still too late for me to file for civil compensation? Is it possible to appear in court and participate in the lawsuit as long as I become a party to the case?"
"Yes, according to the law, as long as the crime violates your personal and property rights, you have the right to participate in the lawsuit as the plaintiff in the incidental lawsuit of the public prosecution case. In this way, you are both the victim and the party involved, and you can enjoy the right to be present at the trial and the right to inquire. , the right to reply, and even the right to appeal. You and Mo Qiu went to court in the same way in Luo Zhengyun's case before."
I leaned back in my chair: "Then I'm going to file a civil lawsuit. He turned my house into such a mess and caused me to be shot. Let him pay me..." I thought about it and came up with a number.
Wu Yi whistled: "Yes, very fine."
My medical expenses were all paid by Xiao Suiguang. After I was discharged from the hospital, he even sent someone to discuss the issue of compensation, and hoped that I could issue a letter of understanding to forgive Xiao Meng for his inappropriate behavior in this matter.
No matter how attractive the compensation is, I was committed to getting Xiao Meng's grandson out of jail, so I didn't agree. Of course, Yi Dazhuang did not agree because of my coercion.
But it's different now, and now I'm making a reasonable appeal to fight for the compensation I deserve. You can also watch a free show on the way, why not watch it
I immediately sent a message to Yi Dazhuang, asking him to submit the application together with me, and he agreed without hesitation when he heard that he could watch the trial in a fair manner.
When I got home, Sheng Minou entered the room first. I was changing my shoes when I heard a meow. When I looked up, I saw a naked kitten running out of the bedroom. He ran to Sheng Minou and put his front paws on him. , shouting eagerly louder than one.
"You sneaked to the bed to sleep again?" I went over and grabbed it by the nape of the neck and put it back in the cage.
In order to better treat the cat moss on the kitten, I bought it a cat cage, put it in the sun during the day to bask in the sun to sterilize it, and let it out to move freely after sunset at night. But the kitten is very smart, relying on its own fluidity, it can easily escape from the prison, even if it sleeps in a cage, it is the same, it has to go to sleep on the bed, and sleeps exclusively on Sheng Minou's side.
"I'm going to change the sheets." I sighed and walked to the bedroom.
When I passed the locked room, I stopped, touched the electronic lock on it, and asked Sheng Minou: "Brother, what's the new password?"
Sheng Minou was fiddling with his coffee machine, but he didn't turn his head when he heard the words. He turned his back to me and said, "What are you doing?"
He seemed to know what I was going to ask, without even needing to make eye contact.
"Clean up the things inside and free up the room for other uses."
"What's the use?"
The aroma of coffee permeated, he turned around, holding a small silver spoon in his hand, gently drawing circles in the white coffee cup.
"For example... boxing room?" I racked my brains and thought, "There are too many things in the living room, it is not convenient for boxing. With a special boxing room, hands and feet can be opened up. What do you think, brother?"
He took the spoon out of the strong black coffee and put it on the tray, then held the coffee cup in one hand, and took out his phone with the other to look through it.
"I'm off this Saturday."
I am waiting for his next words.
He took a sip of his coffee, put his phone back in his pocket, and looked up at me.
"At that time, I will open the door, clean up the contents, and then use it as you like."
The last time I stumbled into the secret room by mistake, it was just an accident to witness his repressed and forbearing heart. He has to lock his house with a code, which shows that for him, that room is a place that even he himself cannot enter at will. His secrets are kept there, and his pride doesn't allow me to go inside, even though I already know what's inside.
"Okay." I took a step back, but I didn't mean to hold hands with him to tidy up the room together.
When I go to bed at night, I lie on the tidy bed, and my nose is filled with the soft and fragrant aroma of newly changed sheets.
Looking at the dark ceiling, I can't sleep, and this insomnia has lasted for several nights.
Thinking of the intimate kiss in the waiting room, I turned over, stared at Sheng Minou's blurred silhouette, stretched out my fingers to stroke his cheeks, neck, and chest through the air, and then pressed down gently until it reached his waist belly.
Fingers tapped his body one after another, as if treating his body like a fine piano.
I leaned closer to his ear and blew into his ear canal: "Brother..."
He moved, turned his head, and grabbed my troubled hand at the same time.
"Sleep." His hoarse voice came from the darkness.
I chuckled, stepped back a bit, and withdrew my hand.
"I can not sleep."
Without waiting for Sheng Minou to say anything, I turned over and sat on him. He opened his eyes in an instant, and looked at me coldly under the twilight from the window.
Putting my hands on both sides of his body, I slowly leaned over and asked sincerely: "Brother, don't you hold back?"
He held my waist and didn't answer.
I kissed his chin, rubbed against his cheek, and my breathing became short of breath.
I asked him to touch the gunshot wound on my left abdomen, and said in a low voice, "The scabs have fallen off, everything will be fine."
He didn't move for a long time, he just stroked the new sensitive skin with his fingers, and didn't do anything else. I thought he would still bear it, my voice was trembling, and I coaxed him to finish my good words.
"Brother, you are the best..." I rubbed my whole body on him, "Just help me."
"I'm going to die if I hold on any longer, are you willing to let me die?"
"Where can you find such a cute little brother when I'm dead?"
"Brother, my good brother..."
Maybe he was really annoyed by me, Sheng Minou lifted me onto the bed with one hand, and then switched positions, I was lying down and he was sitting.
"You can help me." He put his thumb into my mouth, pried open the teeth, and said slowly, "but you can't disturb the neighbors."
Fart neighbor, he is the only one on this whole floor, and the sound insulation is so good that no one will complain when playing rock and roll. If you can't disturb the neighbors, he just wants to play tricks.
"Well..." I nodded hastily, and responded vaguely.
Afterwards, I covered my mouth the whole time. Even though I was crying and my saliva leaked from my fingers, I didn't let myself disturb that damned neighbor who didn't know where it came from.
In the subsequent trial, because Yi Dazhuang and I made additional claims, we were able to attend the whole process as parties.
Although Sheng Minou never mentioned it, from the clues, I guessed that the young prosecutor might have sought some of his opinions on the trial strategy. After all, from the previous conversation, it is not difficult to see that the prosecutor admires Sheng Minou, and they are even alumni of the same school.
The trial slowly reached a stalemate and became stinky and long. Chen Shunlai killed Xiao Meng. He hadn't been to the cabin. He didn't know that Jinya kidnapped me and Yi Dazhuang, and the prosecutor believed that Xiao Meng was involved. It was a kidnapping case accomplice.
Among them, there is a key witness on Xiao Meng's side, Xiao Meng's girlfriend. She confirmed that Xiao Meng was with her on the day I was kidnapped and did not leave all night.
In the first trial, the prosecutor cross-examined her, and Xiao Meng's girlfriend swore that Xiao Meng had been with her all the time, and she was an important absent witness of Xiao Meng. She also showed a clear conscience for the prosecutor's intensive questioning.
The prosecutor once had nothing to do with her, but in the second trial, he took out a stack of copies of the case, confirming that the other party suffered from severe anxiety and needed to take sleeping pills every day to fall asleep.
He also invited expert witnesses to ask whether the other party fell into a deep sleep after taking sleeping pills, and whether it was possible not to notice that the people around him had left for two or three hours.
Expert witnesses have expressed their professionalism that this is very likely.
Then in the third court trial, the prosecutor finally intercepted the surveillance footage of Xiao Meng driving out in the middle of the night on the night I was kidnapped at a gas station near Xiao Meng’s home.
Although the picture is blurry, Xiao Meng's car is very recognizable. Although Chen Shunlai can still attack the uncertainty in the expert witness's mouth to increase the credibility of Xiao Meng's girlfriend's testimony, showing that the other party has not slept to the point where it is difficult to tell whether the person next to the pillow has left the scene, but everyone knows that the monitoring Come out, it doesn't matter whether sleeping pills will make people lose consciousness completely. Xiao Meng lied from the beginning, the jury will not trust him, or his little girlfriend.
Xiao Meng was identified as the principal culprit, found guilty, and sentenced to 20 years of severe punishment. Yi Dazhuang and I also received corresponding compensation, and the amount was not small.
After the sentence was pronounced and the judge announced his withdrawal from the court, the prosecutor had a happy face and got up to shake hands with me and Yi Dazhuang, which was in stark contrast to the cloudy clouds on the other side.
"It's been hard work, everyone has worked hard."
Xiao Meng escorted him away, screaming for injustice all the way. Chen Shunlai walked out of the court alone with a dark face. Facing the media's long guns and short guns, he couldn't even squeeze out a basic fake smile.
He failed, and also lost to a fledgling young prosecutor. This was not only the Waterloo of his career, but also a great shame in his life.
When I walked out of the court, I saw Sheng Minou had stepped out of the waiting room, with his hands in his pockets, quietly staring at Chen Shunlai's embarrassed figure who was escorted by his assistant.
When I met him for the first time, the man was still in high spirits, with his back straight. He seemed to have aged a lot after only a few court trials.
"Mr. Sheng, thank you." The prosecutor walked out of the court with the crowd, met Sheng Minou, and extended his hand to him.
He didn't express his thanks, and everyone just regarded him as Xie Sheng Minou who helped to testify against Xiao Meng.
Sheng Minou looked at him, smiled, and reached out to hold the other's hand: "You're welcome."
On the way to the parking lot, I was really curious, and while Wu Yi and Yi Dazhuang were not paying attention to what they were talking, I approached Sheng Minou and asked him why he thought of adjusting the monitoring of the gas station.
Sheng Minou glanced at me and didn't deny that it was his idea.
"It takes more than a hundred kilometers from Xiao Meng's house to the wooden house in the mountains. I asked the prosecutor to check the fuel level of Xiao Meng's car, and found that there is more than half of the fuel left."
I suddenly realized: "So there is a high probability that he started after refueling."
"Let's take a gamble, I didn't expect to win the bet." Sheng Minou's tone was relaxed, rare and humble.
There will never be a shortage of experienced sharks in the shark tank, but they will always grow old, forget to be vigilant, conceited that they are invincible, and will eventually be torn apart and swallowed by young and fierce offspring.