TSBFL Chapter 76
Chapter 76.1: 认罪
[Plead guilty/ Admit One’s Guilt]
Chen Xing stood there looking at Zhou Qing and did not dare to look directly at those people. He gently snorted coldly in his heart, thinking now that together with the evil people, Zhou Qing have been brought to the court by the county magistrate, he should not be able to continue to deny.
Gu Lang, who was standing next to him, heard Chen Xing’s grunt, turned his head to look at him, looked at his indignant appearance, felt that his appearance was somewhat cute, he gently laughed, reached out to touch his head.
Chen Xing felt Gu Lang’s motion, his anger temporarily paused for a moment and subconsciously, he gently rubbed the hand that touched his hand, only after he finished rubbing, following the increasing strength of Gu Lang’s stroking his head, did he suddenly come back to his senses and remember what he had just done,so his face slowly reddened.
Next to the crowd who happened to see this scene, they immediately averted their eyes and made a look as if they didn’t see anything.
“Zhou Qing, this person in front of you, can you recognise him?” The county magistrate asked Zhou Qing who was kneeling on the ground as he pointed toward Huang Yao, who was being pressed by the officials and appeared to be particularly cowering at the moment.
Zhou Qing was already in a state of turmoil the moment he saw Huang Rou’s appearance, and when he heard the county magistrate’s question, his whole person was even more startled.
Zhou Qing first raised his head to look at the county magistrate on the platform, and then looked at Huang Yao who had been tortured in some way, and looked a little miserable, but he admitted through clenched teeth, “Yes, My Honour, I know him.”
After hearing him finish his words, the county magistrate’s expression became more and more serious, and said in a deep voice: “Then do you know why I summoned him to the law court?”
Zhou Qing’s eyes became more and more fleeting. His forehead began to break out in a cold sweat, but still bit the bullet and did not admit, “Your Excellency I do not know.”
“Good, good that you don’t know. (He mean it sarcastically)” The county magistrate’s tone took on a few moments of anger as he looked at Zhou Qing with unkind eyes, “Then this official will tell you that he was invited here by this official because he was accused of plotting and framing the small boss of surname Chen’s Restaurant along with you. Now this crime, do you admit or deny it?”
When Zhou Qing heard the county magistrate say this, he first glared at the man being pressed by the officials, then immediately turned his head to look at the county magistrate at the top, took two steps on his knees, and loudly pleaded on his own behalf, “Your Excellency, I’m not, I didn’t.”
Seeing Zhou Qing to this point is still in sophistry, the county magistrate’s anger is not light, he strikes the wooden block in his hands, towards the following kneeling man as he roared, “Things having reached this stage, you still do not admit it?”
That muffled sound of the shocking wooden block was like a blow to Zhou Qing’s heart, causing him to tremble. His heart had an instantaneous desire to admit the idea, but soon he thought of his uncle’s advice when he left. No, he couldn’t admit it, he’d be finished if he did. He still had plenty of time to wantonly squander, he couldn’t be sent to jail.
Therefore, with a face full of bloodstains, Zhou Qing took a few steps forward on his knees, and looked at the head of the county magistrate on his seat of honor as he cried out his grievance, “Your Honour, I didn’t do those things, and I’m not in cahoots with them (follow their bad example), it’s them who have ganged up to frame me. It’s them who are jealous of the life I’m living, so they falsely accused me of wanting to reap some benefits. I hope that your Honour will render fair judgment.”
Zhou Qing’s words at first still had a few moments of weakness (lack of confident because of guilty conscience), but as the shouting continued, his voice had a few more moments of misery in it, and if someone who didn’t know about it heard it, they would probably think that he was wrongly accused, which is why he was acting so miserable at this time.
Next to him, Chen Xing, who knew what Zhou Qing had done, looked at Zhou Qing’s appearance, and the mood that had just been pacified by Gu Lang became abnormally angry again. He clenched his fists, and had the impulse of wanting to punch Zhou Qing in the face. He couldn’t even figure out why the man in front of him could continue to lie even after reaching this point.
As expected after the county magistrate’s words fell, he heard the shopkeeper next to him shout, ”Your honor, it’s none of my business, all of it was Zhou Qing threatening me to do it. It was him who wanted to go and frame the small boss of that restaurant that made me do all of this, poisoning the dried goods was also his idea. It really has nothing to do with me, I have no grudge against the owner of the restaurant, how could I have done these things? I still hope that Your Excellency will have eyes sharp enough to perceive an animal’s autumn down—perceptive down to the minutest detail about this and return justice to this civilian!”
The shopkeeper’s rough and loud voice echoed in the hall, even shouting and crying, talking about how he was forced and finally had no choice but to get on this pirate ship, making everyone who heard it frown and look at him with a disgruntled expression. If it was a young girl crying like this can still cause the pity of the bystanders, however unfortunately a big old man crying like this is really unpleasant to look at.
In the end, it was still the county magistrate who couldn’t stand to look at him anymore and slapped the wooden block and said in a loud voice, “Be Quiet!”
All of a sudden, the field became extraordinarily quiet, all looking up to the county magistrate on the seat of honor, waiting to hear his next words.
The county magistrate looked at the silent everyone with satisfaction, and finally turned his gaze to Zhou Qing who was kneeling on the ground, with a few more points of impatience in his tone, “Zhou Qing, what else do you want to say? Do you admit what they have accused you of?”
The moment he saw Boss Zhong, Zhou Qing had a vague feeling that he was going to be finished yet by the time he saw the two packets, he had even despaired in his heart.
Now facing the accusations of so many people, Zhou Qing didn’t have half a rebuttal in his heart and the mood to do so. He could only lower his head and said, “I admit it. It’s just that I did so many things with the purpose of just giving that ungrateful restaurant owner a lesson, I really didn’t have any other meaning.”
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