Huo Jialan's face turned pale after being squeezed by Gu Nianzhi. She nodded slowly, her voice getting weaker and weaker: "... On the night when my mother passed away, I... my mother suddenly made an internal call and asked me to go downstairs to see her."
"Then what?"
"It was already late at night, and I was asleep. I was woken up by her phone call, but I heard her voice was very weak, so I hurried downstairs to take a look."
"Wait, you said it was late at night?" Gu Nianzhi confirmed again, "You said before that you found out that your mother had died early in the morning? Did you go to your mother's room before that?"
Huo Jialan pursed her lips in pain, closed her eyes, and said with a choked voice: "Yes, I also went to my mother's room the night before."
Bai Jinyi's heart beat violently, blood washed through her blood vessels, and even her eardrums were beating.
She never expected that that night... Luo Xinxue would still have the energy to call her daughter!
Before that, she was pretending to be dead!
While Gu Nianzhi asked Huo Jialan, he looked at Bai Jinyi carefully from the corner of his eye.
Not a single change in Bai Jinyi's expression escaped her eyes.
She nodded secretly in her heart, knowing that she was going in the right direction.
In the case ten years ago, there were almost no direct evidences, so the only way to find possible direct witnesses was to find them.
Huo Jialan was the first person to discover Luo Xinxue's death that year. Either she was the murderer, or she should know the most about the situation.
Gu Nianzhi summoned Huo Jialan as a witness, which was also a strategy of killing two birds with one stone.
She asked calmly: "Then tell me what you saw the night before."
Huo Jialan pursed her lips, looked at Bai Jinyi sitting in the dock, and said slowly: "That night, my mother called me on the intercom and asked me to go to her room. After I went, I saw my mother lying on the ground. …”
Her tears finally fell.
Although it has been ten years since this incident, she is still suffering in her heart all the time.
"Falled to the ground? Why did he fall to the ground? Did you see anyone else in the room?" Gu Nianzhi chased after him.
"... There was no one else in the room. I don't know why she fell to the ground. When I went down, she was already unconscious. The phone receiver hung from the bedside table. The room was turned into a mess, and there were still things on the floor. Scattered letters." Huo Jialan wiped her tears. "I lifted my mother up and put her on the bed. She seemed to be asleep. I pushed her, and she opened her eyes, looked at me, and fell asleep again. ."
"Your mother called you on the internal line and asked you to go to her room, but she didn't say anything?" Gu Nianzhihu asked, feeling it was very unreasonable.
"Yes, maybe she was speechless at that time. If I had known that my mother would die the next morning, I would have pushed her awake that night and asked her what she had to say..." Huo Jialan covered her face. , cried very sadly, "I really didn't know that night would be the last time I would see my mother."
Gu Nianzhi waited quietly for a while, until Huo Jialan's crying stopped, and then continued to ask: "You mean, your mother's room was robbed the night before she died?"
Huo Jialan nodded, "Yes, someone should have broken into my mother's room. I originally thought it was just my mother who saw those love letters and smashed the house into a mess in a rage. Now that I heard you tell me that my mother did not commit suicide, I finally remembered What happened that night probably wasn’t caused by my mother herself.”
"This is strange." Gu Nianzhi spread his hands again, "With the status and defense of the Huo family, how could it be possible that they were robbed? Huo Jialan, think about it again, what was the situation at that time?"
Huo Jialan's eyes flickered, and after a while, she finally said slowly: "...With the status and defense of the Huo family, thieves from outside will definitely not be able to get in. But what if the thief is the Huo family, or someone familiar to the Huo family? ?”
Gu Nianzhi was waiting for Huo Jialan to say this.
She thought about this issue carefully when she was studying this case.
To find any clues that Bai Jinyi committed the crime, Huo Jialan must testify against her.
Huo Jialan was almost the only breakthrough in this case.
But it was not easy for her to speak. Huo Shaoheng even used a lie detector, but with little success.
With the help of Director Wang, an evidence appraisal expert, Gu Nianzhi locked in a birth certificate among Luo Xinxue's belongings.
Starting from this birth certificate, Huo Jialan had to confess Bai Jinyi in order to clear his suspicion.
Gu Nianzhi followed Huo Jialan's words and said, "Listening to what you said, you seem to know something about this person? Do you know who that is?"
Huo Jialan hesitated.
Jin Dazhuang immediately shouted: "Objection! The plaintiff's lawyer deliberately induced a confession!"
"The objection is valid." The judge knocked the gavel, "The plaintiff's lawyer may not induce a confession."
Gu Nianzhi immediately changed his explanation: "Huo Jialan, in fact there is no such thief, you made everything up! The real murderer of your mother is actually you!"
"It's not me!" Huo Jialan screamed in panic. She pointed at Bai Jinyi in the dock: "She! It's her! When I went downstairs to find my mother, I saw her just leaving my mother's room!"
There was a deathly silence in the courtroom, and then there was a crash, like a drop of water falling into a pan of oil, and sparks immediately flew everywhere.
"Really seen?!"
"How can it be?!"
The fifteen barristers from the Bai family looked at each other and asked each other, fearing that they had heard wrongly.
Bai Jinyi's whole body was trembling, and her face turned extremely pale for a moment, but she quickly sat up straight, closed her eyes and sneered: "Rumors and slander! Huo Jialan, in order to exonerate yourself, you made it up too outrageously. .Do you know that giving false testimony in court is a felony!"
"Really?" Gu Nianzhi walked to Bai Jinyi's dock, clasped his hands behind his back, and looked at her carefully, "But what Huo Jialan said was very logical and in line with the situation at the time. -Bai Jinyi, do you want to explain, ten years What did you do in Luo Xinxue's room the night before? She was almost unconscious at the time. Did you feed her sleeping pills? Bai Jinyi, don't forget, you are also a psychiatrist and can also prescribe sleeping pills. Bar?"
Bai Jinyi refused to open her eyes and look at Gu Nianzhi. Her voice was calm and sharp: "She said I went to Luo Xinxue's room and I went there? I also said she killed her mother. Do you believe it? Let's talk about me As a psychiatrist, of course he can prescribe sleeping pills. Is it possible that all psychiatrists who can prescribe sleeping pills are suspected of murder?"
"Of course not all psychiatrists who can prescribe sleeping pills are suspected of murder." Gu Nianzhi shook his finger at Bai Jinyi, "But there were only psychiatrists related to Luo Xinxue and those who could freely come and go from the Huo family. Are you alone, a white physicist? Or should I call you a white psychiatrist?"
Bai Jinyi wanted to refute, but Jin Dazhuang had already held down her hand, shook his head at her, then stood up and said to the judge: "Your honor, given that the plaintiff has new evidence, we require a certain amount of time to investigate this person." New witness.”
The judge nodded, "Agree. The court will be held again in three days."
The gavel fell, and the second round of hearings ended.
Bai Jinyi was taken back to the detention center by the judicial police. Her situation is special and she is not allowed to be released on bail for the time being.
Huo Jialan was emotionally unstable and was also suspected. Huo Shaoheng's people sent him back to Huo's house. Of course, he was also detained by many people, which was more strict than a detention center.
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This is the first update. A reminder about monthly tickets and recommended tickets!
Second update at 2pm.
ps: Thanks to the leader of "Guanghan Palace Master A" for the He's Bi that was rewarded yesterday.
mwah! (To be continued.)