Transmigrated To Another World: General, I'm Not Your White Moonlight - Chapter 86

Chapter 86: Public Trial (2)
Cao Jianbo didn’t want to see Duan Sida’s fake performance, so he picked up the wooden slab and slapped it on the table.

Pak!

“Silence!”

Duan Sida closed her mouth and did not dare to speak. After a moment of silence, Cao Jianbo asked again, “Do you know Master Chen, the owner of the Chen family’s village? What is your relationship with him?”

The moment Duan Sida heard Master Chen’s name from Cao Jianbo’s mouth, his heart sank. Duan Sida knew that Cao Jianbo already knew everything and only asked because he needed to let people know about his crime before Cao Jianbo could announce the punishment. Since he couldn’t get out of this predicament, Duan Sida decided to drag everyone into the water.

After making the decision, Duan Sida looked up at Cao Jianbo and said, “Answering Da Ren. This commoner knows Master Chen. Ten days ago, he came to propose marriage to this commoner’s niece and gave us one hundred taels of silver as a betrothal gift.”

“Did you accept his marriage proposal?” Cao Jianbo asked again.

Duan Sida nodded and said, “Yes, Da Ren.”

As soon as he answered, Cao Jianbo slapped the black wooden slab on the table, frowned, and asked, “Do you know how old Master Chen is?”

Duan Sida gritted his teeth and said, “Yes, Da Ren. He is seventy-eight years old this year.”

Cao Jianbo slapped the black wooden slab on the table again, pointed at Duan Sida, and asked, “Do you know how many young ladies died in his hands? Do you know that accepting a betrothal gift and forcing your niece to marry someone without her consent is the same as human trafficking? This is a crime punishable by beheading!”

Seeing Cao Jianbo’s terrifying words, Duan Sida’s whole body trembled, and his mind went blank. After a moment of silence, he finally realized how serious his situation was.

He slammed his head on the ground repeatedly and begged in horror, “Da Ren, please spare my life! I- I was blinded by greed. I really had no intention of selling my niece.”

After listening to his words, Cao Jianbo’s face darkened.

He slapped the black wooden slab on the table and said angrily, “How dare you lie during the trial! If you didn’t intend to sell her, then why did you break into her house with the gangsters from the Chen family village in the middle of the night? Why did you accept the betrothal gift without telling her? Isn’t this an act of forced marriage and selling people?!”

As soon as he said these words, Duan Sida turned pale. Seeing his panic, Cao Jianbo narrowed his eyes and said, “Duan Sida, you will be sentenced to fifteen years in prison for human trafficking and attempted kidnapping. Come, guards! Drag him out!”

Duan Sida collapsed to the ground when he heard Cao Jianbo deciding his fate. When the Yamen guards dragged him out, he saw Duan Yixin among the crowd. Duan Sida reached out to her and shouted frantically, “Bitch! This is all because of you! I will kill you! I will kill you!”

Listening to Duan Sida’s curse, Duan Yixin calmly watched the guards drag him out. After Duan Sida was dragged away, Cao Jianbo said, “Bring Duan Sizhi and Zhao Xiaohua in.”

After he said that, the two Yamen guards went to lead Duan Sizhi and Zhao Xiaohua out of the prison. Not long after, the two of them were pushed into the hall and forced to kneel on the cold floor.

Seeing their embarrassed and panicked expressions, Duan Yixin raised her eyebrows slightly and thought, ‘I didn’t expect that the Yamen would arrest them. It seems that Cao Jianbo is really a good and just official.’

Just as she was thinking about this, Cao Jianbo slapped the black wooden slab on the table and said, “Zhao Xiaohua, do you know your crime?”

Zhao Xiaohua lowered her head and said tremblingly, “Answering Da Ren, this commoner doesn’t know.”

After she answered, Cao Jianbo said, “Bring the victims in.”

Soon, five men walked in, then knelt on the ground and said at the same time, “This commoner meet Da Ren.”

Cao Jianbo looked at the many injuries on their bodies and asked, “Are you five the ones who reported Zhao Xiaohua?”

A young man in his early twenties nodded and said, “Yes, Da Ren.”

After saying that, he opened his clothes, letting everyone see the bloody bandage on his chest and abdomen, and then said, “When this crazy woman stabbed my chest and abdomen a few days ago, I almost died. Thanks to Heaven and that divine physician, I can survive this disaster.”

When everyone saw the injuries on his body, they all gasped in shock. How could a woman hurt five strong men by herself? Are the men in Yunshan Village so weak that they can’t win against one woman?

When others are comparing the men of Yunshan Village with the men of other villages, Duan Yixin stares at the bandage on the young man’s chest and thinks, ‘He is very lucky to survive. If the knife had moved another three millimeters to the right, he would have died on the spot. But whoever could save this man, that person’s medical skills are superb.’

While Duan Yixin was still staring at the young man’s wound and wondering how the physician saved his life, Cao Jianbo asked, “Zhao Xiaohua, do you admit your crime?”

Zhao Xiaohua shook her head and said, “This commoner only stabbed them out of self-defense. This commoner was not at fault. Besides, they imprisoned this commoner for no reason.”

Cao Jianbo looked at the five men and asked, “Is what she said true?”

One of the five men nodded and said, “Da Ren, because Duan Sida was a fugitive at that time, we kept her and her daughter at her home. The village chief was afraid that Zhao Xiaohua would help Duan Sida to harm his niece, so he asked us to guard Zhao Xiaohua and her daughter, Duan Xiyan.”