Desperate

After all, Jiang is still old and hot. The representative of the Senate looked at Cen Lu with a pleasing expression. The old man's slightly cloudy eyes looked kind, but there was still an unconcealable desire flashing in the deepest part: "Professor Cen, we all know that you don't With experience as a witness, don’t be nervous, just tell what you know.”

Hearing the old man's voice, Cen Lu tilted his head to look at him with dignity, while slandering in his heart whether it was you who asked Xie Xingchui to warn me not to talk nonsense.Then he didn't speak directly to him, but just started to tell the story of the incident: "Report to the jury, I am a teacher in the Department of Mathematics of the Imperial University of Technology, and I have a teacher-student relationship with Second Lieutenant Zhou Pushen. This is the premise."

The hearing officer nodded: "Professor Cen, please continue."

Cen Lu took a breath: "Last Thursday morning at [-] o'clock, I started teaching calculus as usual, and just after the class started, Dr. Li Zhou broke into the classroom with a gun and took a student hostage, and asked me for a certain document. "

Cen Lu originally wanted to make nonsense into money extortion, but then he thought that so many students present had seen him hand over the manuscript to Li Zhou, and the cover-up seemed to be more obvious, so he simply said it.

Sure enough, Li Changqing looked like a hyena smelling meat: "What document?"

The military lawyer immediately stood up and retorted: "The request to dismiss the question has nothing to do with this case." Liang Qian silently looked at Cen Lu amidst Li Changqing's roar, and the look in his eyes made Cen Lu a little unclear.

"The question is dismissed," said the hearing officer.

Cen Lu continued: "I want to deal with the prisoner as much as possible, but because the other party is emotionally armed with a gun, I can't put my student in danger, and it's not good to stimulate him, so I'm always under the control of the prisoner. Fortunately, after When the prisoner was about to go mad, Second Lieutenant Zhou Pushen felt in time..."

Xie Xinghang heard Cen Lu's undisguised favoritism, and his head was covered with sweat. He raised his hand to adjust his glasses, thinking that Cen Lu would not be so easily persuaded.

It's just that people are under the eaves, how can they not bow their heads everywhere.

The representative of the Senate's expression froze, and he slashed fiercely at Liang Qian who was sitting at the side comfortably, thinking that this grandson is indeed not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he bought Cen Lu first, and he did it without anyone noticing. .

Over there, Li Changqing still regarded Cen Lu as one of his own, and asked him while jumping: "Professor Cen, you recall that Second Lieutenant Zhou's shot didn't hit you or the hostage, but it also hurt you! Do you think... "

Hearing this, Cen Lu glanced at him coldly, and the pale gray eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses showed a look of contempt: "Second Lieutenant Zhou never hurt me at all, the wound I went to the hospital for treatment was done by gangsters."

Zhou Pu looked at Cen Lu intently, his eyes so straight that he almost peeled off his suit up and down to check if he was injured anywhere else.

Liang Qian felt ashamed for him, so he coughed lightly as a reminder, and Zhou Pushen restrained himself a bit.

All the representatives of the Senate saw this undercurrent. The old man squinted his eyes, and looked at Li Changqing who was like a clown beside him, thinking that this idiot was really unreliable.

What is even more desperate is that this kind of idiot is actually one of the only remaining fruits of the Senate.

The representative sighed secretly and resorted to his trump card.

"The prosecution has asked for a third witness to be called."

Liang Qian's expression turned serious.

The Senate kept the matter of the third witness well hidden, and the military never heard of it.Liang Qian glanced at the half-smiling face of the representative of the Senate, and sneered inwardly: It seems that these old foxes knew that Cen Lu would not be obedient, so they reserved their hands.

A figure stumbled up in the auditorium, turned his head three times at a step, and cast his gaze at the parents who were still sitting in the auditorium.The third witness was not very old, but his figure was really generous.With great difficulty, he mustered up the courage to walk to the witness stand, but someone occupied the magpie's nest, and there was no intention of giving way to him.

Cen Lu stood still on the witness stand, motionless.

The hearing officer had a good impression of this handsome colleague, so he reminded him kindly: "Professor Cen, you can leave now."

Cen Lu ignored him, but stared at the childish little fat man in front of him, and instantly understood the plan of the Senate.

This child is clearly the first student held hostage by Li Zhou!At that time, Zhou Pushen had the idea of ​​giving up the hostage and killing him and Li Zhou together.This child was born in an out-and-out aristocratic class, and the jury is mostly composed of elites from all walks of life, plus the people who were placed in the jury by the Senate, Zhou Pushen will undoubtedly lose this time.

Cen Lu couldn't help rubbing his brows, Second Lieutenant Zhou was born as a civilian, and he was also a member of the military.It is undoubtedly the thorn in the side of the old nobles. Once the jury assigns the Senate to control it, what will happen!

Cen Lu tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart, and looked up at the prosecutor's seat.Li Changqing got a suggestion from his elders, and immediately stopped the hearing officer: "Professor Cen doesn't need to leave. The prosecution requires testimony to be compared." Seeing that Cen Lu's face turned paler, Li Changqing couldn't help but feel a little more pleased, thinking that it's really a turn of events: " Professor Cen was not injured, but if the hostage is replaced by someone else, it may not be certain."

The focus of the audience was on the boy in an instant, and the little fat man was shocked, and while bathing in the cannibalistic eyes of Cen Lu and Liang Qian, he tremblingly said: "I...my name is Wang Haochang... I am from the Department of Mathematics. A student of ... was also the first hostage to be taken ... by the gangsters."

Li Changqing saw that Wang Haochang was about to shrink back, so he squeezed out a greasy smile: "Don't be afraid, child, we won't engage in crooked ways, just tell the truth."

Hearing the words, Wang Haochang glanced at the dark place behind the prosecutor's seat, as if suddenly gaining confidence, he raised a fat hand, and although his stubby fingers trembled a little, he pointed at Zhou Pushen exactly: "This... this second lieutenant... originally wanted to kill me and the prisoner!"

As soon as this sentence came out, the audience was in an uproar.

The air in the auditorium cooled down extremely quickly, and the temperature inside and outside seemed to be opened up in an instant. The raindrops outside the floor-to-ceiling windows slanted on the glass windows in an endless stream.

To kill someone, sometimes only one sentence is needed.From the corner of Cen Lu's eyes, most of the members of the jury had begun to whisper, and there was undisguised malice in Zhou Pushen's eyes.

A triumphant smile appeared on Li Changqing's face.It's over, he thought.

The hearing officer frowned like an octogenarian. He pushed up his glasses and turned to Cen Lu, "Professor Cen, is Wang Haochang's testimony true?"

Cen Lu didn't look at anyone in the auditorium, his eyes only fell on Zhou Pushen with drooping eyelids.One of his wrists was firmly fixed on the fence, and he was forced to turn his body awkwardly, but he still stood tall and straight in the center of the cage. deterrence.

Zhou Pu deeply felt Cen Lu's gaze, and raised a pair of obsidian-like eyes, the ice under his eyes shattered completely the moment it touched Cen Lu, leaving only a gentle undercurrent turbulent.He looked at Cen Lu from a distance, and said silently:

Tell the truth bro.

I don't want you to violate your heart for me.

I don't want you to make things difficult for me.

So bro, you just say what you want to say.

Cen Lu miraculously understood Zhou Pushen's lip shape, as well as the forgiveness behind that advice.Ripples of bitterness spread in the bottom of my heart, Cen Lu squeezed the handle of the microphone, and tried to ask himself:

What is more important to you?

Memories engulfed him untimely like a tide. His father wore the same gold-rimmed glasses as his, and the boy's hand was wrapped in the man's warm palm. Warm words poured down from the top of his head:

"Xiaolu, Dad wants you to be an upright, kind, and honest person."

Personality and life, what is the most important thing?

"I, I didn't plagiarize other people's papers. Xiaolu, you believe in Dad, if you don't believe in Dad, then Dad really has only one person."

If, a lie can save a person's life.

For the first time in his life, he had the urge to protect someone.Cen Lu lowered his head, not daring to look into the eyes of the boy and the hearing officer, pinching the microphone so hard that his fingertips turned white, he said in a hoarse voice, "Second Lieutenant Zhou didn't..."

"I admit that I had the intention of sacrificing the hostages." A soft but firm voice interrupted the voice in the microphone.

Liang Qian was in a hurry, she stood up from her seat without caring too much, "Zhou Pushen, shut up!"

"Silence!" The hearing officer slammed the gavel, his expression turned cold.The officer on the side gave Zhou Pu a deep look, and pulled the corner of Liang Qian's military uniform, begging the major to sit down.

Cen Lu felt his throat was on fire, and the flame spread in all directions like a prairie fire, burning from his throat to his heart, igniting all the blood there.The fire burned out, leaving only black coke, dragging his heart and falling down.

Li Changqing smiled at the jury like a spring breeze in March: "My lord, the defendant has admitted it himself, and I suggest that you hand over the defendant to the Senate for disposal."

Someone in the jury said: "If it is handed over to the Senate, what is your plan?"

"Well," Li Changqing raised his legs again, "Zhou Pushen is a commoner, but he doesn't care about the lives of noble children. The Senate will naturally submit it to the highest court for trial, and the sentencing will be handed over to the procuratorate..."

"That's right." A mellow female voice suddenly interrupted the communication between the jury and Li Changqing. The voice was as beautiful as a nightingale singing, with dangerous sweetness and pitch.

Li Changqing was stunned, and before he could react, he saw the beautiful officer next to the lost dog Liang Qian walk down the seat, and the white stiletto heels made a crisp sound on the marble floor. Walk towards yourself.

"You...what are you going to do..." Li Changqing looked at the female officer's unkind expression, and raised his hand to block the document. Even if the other party was a woman, for Lawyer Li, who never worked out, the only thing he could do was to be beaten up.

But Dou Huaiye was not interested in the fat man with a greasy face, and stopped in front of Zhou Pushen.She ignored the hearing officer's order to return to the seat, raised her head slightly and asked the second lieutenant who was half a body taller than her: "I ask you, do you really have the idea of ​​putting the students' lives at risk."

Restrained by one hand, Zhou Pushen stood at attention honestly to the officer: "Yes."

"Okay, very good," the woman clapped her hands twice with a smile, and the ends of her chestnut hair fell from her ears charmingly, "Squat down."

Zhou Pushen squatted down obediently, with the top of his hairy head facing the officer.

Dou Huaiye sneered, the two lips painted with dark red lip gloss were like delicate roses, but this rose stretched out a slender leg in black stockings with lightning speed, and slammed the slender The high heels stepped on Second Lieutenant Zhou's head!

Cen Lu suddenly raised his head, and saw a trickle of blood trickling slowly from Zhou Pushen's pinna into the collar of his military uniform.

Li Changqing and the hearing officer were stunned, and even forgot to stop this blatant atrocity for a moment.

The slender and slender leg was still exerting force, and it jumped up with a beautiful arch, and kicked Zhou Pushen's head fiercely. Zhou Pushen was kicked so hard that he hit the railing, and the wood of the railing was stained red with blood.

The man didn't make a sound, just kept silent and let blood flow all over his handsome face.

There was no sound in the auditorium for a while, the only sounds that could be heard were the "bang bang" sound of the soles hitting the skull, and Dou Huaiye's cold question: "Second Lieutenant Zhou, I don't know if you still remember the regulations of the military department."

Zhou Pu prostrated deeply in the small space of the cage, his eye sockets were swollen so high that he couldn't see Dou Huaiye's position.There were blood stains on the bridge of his tall nose, and the man tried to spit out the blood from his mouth: "Imperial Military Law... No. 17... everything..."

"Louder!" The female voice yelled sharply, and another horizontal side kick hit Zhou Pushen's cheekbone.The man was kicked halfway, and hit the opposite railing. The fixed arm was bent at a strange angle, making a scalp-numbing snapping sound.

"Yes!" Zhou Pushen roared, with his limp arms barely hanging by his side, he spat out the broken teeth in his mouth, with a vague bubbly sound in his voice: "Imperial Military Law No. First, those who disobey will be punished with whips!"

Cen Lu didn't look at Zhou Pushen whose head was covered with blood, but stared blankly at the half of Zhou Pushen's spit-out teeth in a daze.

"Everyone heard it." One foot was still on the top of Zhou Pu's deep hair, the milky white heel was completely stained red with viscous blood, all the broken hair on Dou Huaiye's temples had fallen, and some sweat was sticky. On both sides of her pointed chin, she raised her head, and her roll-brimmed hat was slightly askew: "My lord, Second Lieutenant Zhou Pushen has already confessed to the crime, and retrial is a waste of time. Why don't you hand it over to the military for execution as an example."

"Who am I looking at?" The beautiful woman stood on the high platform of the auditorium and squinted her eyes, as if looking down on all sentient beings, and glanced at the surrounding sweaty subordinates, "A scum of our military department like Zhou Pushen .”