dhibooks Chapter 662 Court Opening
Chapter 662 Court Opening
In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the trial.
Early in the morning, the entrance of the government office was crowded with onlookers, even the trees and roofs on both sides of the road were covered with people, just to see what would happen to Sima Jincheng when he was dealt with.
Some people couldn't squeeze in, so they sat in the nearby teahouse and restaurant. Naturally, someone who inquired about the news came to tell them.
As soon as the time came, Yu Wenjing opened the court for interrogation on time. Yu Wenhong and Yun Zhanfei sat on the left to listen, and on the right were officials from the government office.
Although Yu Wenchang asked Yu Wenjing and Yu Wenhong to interrogate this case together, but obviously, Yu Wenjing did not take Yu Wenhong seriously, and he never asked his opinion from the beginning to the end, and he was completely alone. People call the shots.
But Yu Wenhong didn't care, he wouldn't say anything if he didn't ask, and he wouldn't intervene.
This made Yu Wenjing somewhat satisfied with Yu Wenhong.
It's just this satisfaction, but it didn't make Yu Wenjing set his heart on killing Yu Wenhong. The name of the Holy Prince has always been a thorn in his heart.
When the Sima family completely collapses and Yu Wenming is no longer a threat, he will start to deal with Yu Wenhong.
"Open court!"
Yu Wenhong withdrew his gaze from Yu Wenhong, and ordered in a deep voice.
The noise outside gradually died down, and everyone listened to the voices from inside the courtroom with bated breath.
The first is the family members of the victims. These people add up to hundreds or even thousands of people. If all of them appear in court, there will be no room in the court.
In the end, only a few were selected to bring lawsuits to court to sue.
Although everyone knew about Sima Jincheng's crimes through the papers that were spread that morning, but hearing it from the victims again, they couldn't help being very angry, and everyone cursed Sima in their hearts. Jin Cheng.
"Bring the prisoner Sima Jincheng to court!"
Sima Jincheng was also escorted to the court soon.
After being held in the cell for several days, Sima Jincheng looked very bad at this time, wearing prison clothes, disheveled hair, and withered face.
If not everyone present knows Sima Jincheng, there is absolutely no way to connect this person in front of him with the arrogant and vicious Sima Jincheng from before.
However, although Sima Jincheng looked very pitiful, no one felt sorry for him.
Now it's all his own doing.
Sima Jincheng staggered and knelt on the ground. He looked at Yu Wenjing and the others in front of him, and then at the crowd around him, his eyes full of fear.
He didn't even understand what was going on.
Due to time constraints that day, Sima Weibo didn't have time to explain to Sima Jincheng in detail, but just told him to leave quickly.
Afterwards, he was knocked out, and when he woke up again, he was on the way back to the cell under escort, and all the rotten eggs and rotten leaves in the sky were overtaking him, and he passed out again immediately.
When he woke up for the third time, this morning, he was woken up by being splashed with cold water, and then brought to the court.
The scribes at the side read Sima Jincheng's criminal evidence one by one.
"Sima Jincheng, do you admit to these crimes or not!"
Yu Wenjing slapped the gavel and snapped at Sima Jincheng.
"What crime? I don't admit it, I don't admit it!"
How could Sima Jincheng be the one who obediently confessed his crimes? He is not stupid. If he confessed these crimes in public, even Sima Weibo would not be able to keep him, so he immediately denied it.
"deny?!"
Yu Wenjing sneered, now that the evidence is convincing, Sima Jincheng can't help but not plead guilty!
"Call witnesses!"
Three days was enough for Yu Wenjing to investigate enough things, not to mention that Yun Zhanfei and Yu Wenhong had already collected the evidence and handed it directly to Yu Wenjing.
In the face of such ironclad evidence, it is impossible for Sima Jincheng to argue back!
"I, I, I didn't do this! I didn't do any of this!"
Facing this series of pressing questions, Sima Jincheng was powerless to resist, but he refused to admit his guilt.
He also thought about delaying time and waiting for Sima Weibo to rescue him.
"You dare to quibble! Use punishment!"
Yu Wenjing was not in a hurry for Sima Jincheng to plead guilty. With so much evidence, even if Sima Jincheng denied it, it was enough to convict him.
But Yu Wenjing didn't directly convict him. He wanted to torture Sima Jincheng first, and then he had to vent his anger.
The guard stepped forward and grabbed Sima Jincheng, lifted him onto the board, and told him to lie down.
"Use torture?! You can't torture me, I want to see my father, father save me, save me!"
Sima Jincheng's eyes widened, and he struggled desperately, screaming at Sima Weibo for help while struggling.
"Master!" A servant of the Sima Mansion at the door shouted loudly, which attracted the attention of the court hall.
Sima Jincheng turned his head and recognized that the person was Sima Weibo's personal steward, his face brightened, and he immediately shouted: "Call father to save me, save me!"
"Master, plead guilty!"
The steward didn't leave, but nodded to Sima Jincheng and mouth-shaped to remind him to confess his crime.
Now that Sima Jincheng has been caught, denying the crime is useless. The difference between pleading guilty and not pleading guilty is whether he will be punished or not.
"what?"
Sima Jincheng was stunned for a while, he couldn't believe it for a while, if the other party was not an old man beside Sima Weibo, he would have wondered if this person was bought by Yu Wenjing.
"Who is making noise! Drag it on!"
Yu Wenjing frowned tightly, his eyes were full of displeasure. Torturing Sima Jincheng in private was easy to attract criticism. How could he be willing to miss out on such an honorable opportunity to beat Sima Jincheng!
Soon the steward who reminded Sima Jincheng was dragged down by the guards.
Sima Jincheng was lying on the stool, tightly bound. He looked at the direction in which the steward was taken away in surprise, not sure whether the other party's reminder was true or false.
"what!"
The board hit Sima Jincheng's ass hard, and Sima Jincheng howled in pain.
"Okay, good play!"
Seeing Sima Jincheng's appearance, applause erupted from the crowd.
This has to be treated differently. The steward of Sima's family reminded Sima Jincheng, and he was taken down and locked up.
The loud voices of these crowds were directly ignored by Yu Wenjing.
"Stop, stop hitting!"
Sima Jincheng's face was pale with pain, and a dense layer of sweat oozed from his forehead.
At this moment, Sima Jincheng really realized his current situation.
Sima Weibo didn't show up when such a big thing happened, but just asked his servants to come forward, which meant that Sima Weibo couldn't save him right now.
Now that he pleaded guilty, when he is in prison, there will not be so many people watching, so it will be convenient for Sima Weibo to rescue him.
Sima Jincheng, who thought he had figured this out, pleaded guilty immediately without hesitation.
"I plead guilty, I did all those things, I plead!"
Yu Wenjing snorted coldly, apparently dissatisfied with Sima Jincheng's confession so quickly, but he still wanted to torture him for a while longer!
It's just that he has pleaded guilty now, so it's not good to continue the fight, otherwise his reputation will be damaged.
Yu Wenjing waved his hand, telling the guards to stop the punishment and continue the interrogation.
With Sima Jincheng's cooperation, everything that followed went very smoothly.
"Read Sima Jincheng's crimes."
Yu Wenjing finally had Sima Jincheng's crimes read out one by one, and at the same time announced the punishment for Sima Jincheng - the death penalty!
Now put in prison, waiting for Qiuhou to be executed!
"Death, the death penalty?!"
Sima Jincheng waited until here to recover. He stared at Yu Wenjing with wide eyes, and then at Yu Wenhong and Yun Zhanfei beside him, confirming that this was not scaring him, but a real sentence of death.
"You, you can't sentence me to death!" Sima Jincheng shook his head, his eyes full of fear.
"Even if the emperor broke the law and committed the same crime as the common people, you, Sima Jincheng, committed a capital crime, so naturally you will be sentenced to death!" Yu Wenjing looked at Sima Jincheng indifferently.
At this moment, all the anger he had used on Sima Jincheng in the past was finally exhausted.
The current Sima Jincheng is already dead in his eyes, and there is nothing worthy of his anger.
"I, I don't!"
The shadow of fear of death shrouded Sima Jincheng's heart. He struggled desperately to escape, but both the shackles on his body and the guards on both sides prevented him from moving.
"Take them down and imprison them, and execute them together with the first batch of prisoners in Qiudong."
Yu Wenjing was not interested in seeing Sima Jincheng again, so he waved his hand and asked someone to take him down.
After the case review was over, Yu Wenhong and Yun Zhanfei did not stay, but left.
"Let's see what the Sima family will do next."
Yu Wenhong and Yun Zhanfei looked at each other, and there was a flash of understanding in their eyes.
Obviously, in their view, the matter of Sima Jincheng is not really over yet.
The crowd dispersed quickly, and Sun Dehua followed in the crowd, supported by his servants, and walked towards home in a daze.
"Young Master Sima was sentenced to death?"
Sun Dehua's eyes were full of confusion and fear. Sima Jincheng was his biggest backer. Now that Sima Jincheng has collapsed, who would he rely on?
Without Sima Jincheng's help, it meant that Sun Dehua still couldn't participate in the scientific examination.
He is destined to be just a poor scholar in the future, and his fantasies and extravagant hopes for the future seem to have all been shattered right now.
"Husband."
Zhao Yi dreamed that Sun Dehua came back, and couldn't help shaking.
Recently, because of Sima Jincheng's incident, Sun Dehua's temper became very irritable, and Zhao Yimeng suffered greatly from it, and now his body has been beaten badly.
"Bitch!"
Sun Dehua looked at Zhao Yimeng and couldn't help cursing, just after a few words, he couldn't help but coughed heart-piercingly.
Zhao Yimeng suppressed her fear and supported Sun Dehua to sit on the stool with her servants.
"Don't bring the medicine yet!" Sun Dehua regained his composure and scolded.