In the end Chen Yu Zhou was dragged out of the courtroom.
Chen Ruhai was so angry that he nearly vomited blood, and his whole old face was deadly grey and unbearably ugly.
In order to make sure that I was 100% nailed, they hired two of the best criminal lawyers in the city to help defend Chen Yuzhou.
The judge shouted for silence many times, but the atmosphere was not silent at all.
So many cameras were pointing at the scene, so many eyes were staring, so many people around the world were staring at this elaborate farce by the Chen family and their son, and it was the father and son who were finally on stage.
This is a joke!
The judge adjourned the hearing for another day, and I was pressed into custody by the police. Countless guns were pointed at me, and some even chased after me, despite the odds in the courtroom.
Chen Ruhai, a*sisted by his lawyer, failed to stand up several times and slumped in his chair.
He and I both knew very well that this was a big game, and even if he had the power of the heavens, it would be impossible for him to save his son.
Chen Ruhai tried to catch up with me, but the lawyer grabbed him later.
“Mr. Chen, let’s take a long view! ”
I was swarmed forward by the police and kept hooded and shoved into the police car.
“Excuse me, the witness retracted his confession in court, was it true that the police were harbouring favouritism in the investigation of the case?”
“Our investigation found that Chen Yu Zhou is a small and prestigious person in Tong City, while Zhang Chao is just an ordinary citizen. Is this really an unjust and false case?”
“Sorry, we have no comment.”
The police officers, who were dazed and confused by the reporters, had to follow the example of their Hong Kong counterparts in TV dramas and keep their mouths shut. In this stormy climate, anyone who said a word out of turn could have his or her future ruined.
“Go, ship this god back quickly!”
After transporting me back to the Public Security Bureau as if I were a plague, no one at the Bureau dared to bother with me for a while.
After these policemen had discussed the matter, Xu’s deputy bureau was away, busy dealing with the reporters who flocked to the station, so the others had to discuss throwing me back to the prison first.
On the way back to the detention centre, the cells I pa*sed were cheering and the police were looking awful.
“Zhang Chao, you’re so awesome!”
“Zhang Chao, give it a go!”
I didn’t expect that the prisoners locked up in the cell were cheering for me, and I was a bit teary-eyed.
“Second brother, second brother!”
I heard a different voice, it was the prison cell where Old Qiu was locked up. Old Qiu was partly excited and his face was red.
He reached out a hand from the bars and grabbed my arm, “You’re too good too, even Chen Yu Zhou was set upon by you.”
The policemen, their faces blacker than coal, knocked Qiu Lao Si’s hand with their batons, “You are well-informed.”
Qiu Lao Si laughed and said with a deceitful smile, “You cops only arrest those from our Red Lantern Club, and those from our Red Lantern Club are all Zhang Chao’s brothers, so the people in this prison heard about the matter of doing justice for Heaven, so they must be well informed.”
The prison guard gave a stifled grunt, “Then you should calculate for yourself when you can get out.”
Qiu Lao Si was so excited that he was not frightened at all by the guard’s two words.
“Brother Qiu, let’s go out and talk again.” I said.
The prison guard pushed me forward and pushed me to a single room at the far end.
“Two brothers, another upgrade for me, not only am I given a single room now, but the soundproofing is so good?”
The two guards looked at me and I looked at you, and the taller one grunted, “Be good to yourself.”
The next police officer neither released me nor dared to continue arraigning me, and each station still had to feed me well, just in case outsiders thought I was being abused in the police station.
After a week or so, two prison guards appeared in my view with a man in leather boots, and then an old acquaintance stood before me.
Zhou Xiaoqiang held his transcript in both hands, pinned behind his back, and yelled down to the two guards, “You leave first.”
His eyes were like wild animals, spewing out a hatred that wanted to execute me, his face throbbing with angry black temples, his cheeks puffing out because his teeth were clenched so tightly.
The two guards glanced cautiously at Zhou Xiaoqiang, a little uneasy.
“Little Zhou, don’t do anything rash. There are so many eyes outside now, if he has any more injuries, we can’t say anything!”
My hands were pinned behind my back and they had no intention of opening them for me. Zhou Xiaoqiang sneered and came up to punch me in the stomach.
My abdomen is the softest part of my body, and even those who have practiced it cannot withstand this punch.
Then there was a tearing pain in my scalp and with the pull I was forced to look up at Zhou Xiao Qiang.
Zhou Xiao Qiang’s eyes were bloodshot underneath, a drop of sweat hung from the tip of his nose, and I could hear the clack of his pressed teeth rubbing against each other.
“Don’t worry guys, you can’t even get an injury test if you hit your stomach.”
Zhou Xiao Qiang let go of me and I dry heaves twice as he has a kick to my stomach.
“Zhang Chao, you can still laugh. Do you really think that by making a scene like that, this case will be flipped? We can wait until the heat has dissipated before the trial starts.”
I winced in pain, but when I heard him say that, I couldn’t help but laugh.
Zhou Xiaoqiang yelled down, “What the hell are you laughing at? You’re smart, aren’t you! Let me tell you, it’s useless. In this city, if you dare to set us up like this, you will end up with a bad death!”
I leaned against the wall for a while to catch my breath, and after recovering my strength for a while, I couldn’t stop laughing.
Zhou Xiaoqiang squeezed my jaw, squeezing it so hard that my jawbone clacked.
“I’ve heard that soldiers have hard bones, I’d like to see if you can still laugh when your bones are broken!”
“I’m laughing at your stupidity, and now you’ve come to beat me up to take the P*ss out of me, who the hell are you doing that for?”
Zhou Xiao Qiang laughed coldly, “You played us police officers like fools and made us lose face, who do you think I’m doing this for? I tell you, this police skin is not yours to insult!”
I pooh-poohed, now that it’s come to this, still using the word police as my own cover, putting gold on my face, it’s really shameless, insulting to my police uniform.
“Are you doing it for the honour, or for the thigh of Chief Xu, it’s not easy for you to hug him as a thigh, is it?”
With my mouth pinched in my hand, I couldn’t speak clearly, I could only spit out the words very unclearly.
“It’s useless for you to bash me with such words. He is the chief, I am his soldier, if you humiliate him, you are humiliating me. Zhang Chao, you are too bold, in this Tong city, you think you can burn us to death by scratching a match? Ridiculous, in the end it will only be you who dies.”
“I return the same words to you.”
Enraged by my calm look, Zhou Xiao Qiang’s hand grew harder and harder, to crush my jaw as if it were, almost forgetting the principle of not leaving scars on my body.
Suddenly, a rush of footsteps came from the distance, and the two guards froze for a moment, then rushed up to pull Zhou Xiaoqiang.
Zhou struggled for a moment, no match for two men, and he let go of me with a roar of rage.
In less than a few seconds, the group of footsteps that had just come was a group of seven or eight policemen, embracing a man with white hair, a man who was not very old, just suffering from white hair, and was actually probably only in his early sixties, with half-squinted eyes and a lazy look.
He slowly and methodically walked up to Zhou Xiaoqiang, who went limp on his butt. Before the man could speak, just a look made Zhou go weak.
Not a single person at the scene dared to speak, everyone looked like they were mute.
The man stared at Zhou Xiaoqiang and the two prison guards up and down for a long time before two words emerged from his mouth, “Await to be sentenced”
Zhou Xiaoqiang and the two guards were apprehensive, but they did not dare to beg for mercy because they knew that the military badge on this man’s shoulder represented the weight of his words.
The man paced into the prison cell, and Zhang Rongmao, the director of the Tongcheng Public Security Bureau, followed in his footsteps.
