Lawyer

Chapter 284 Childhood
At noon on Friday, after having lunch in the restaurant downstairs, Cao Xiaohui was about to lie on the sofa in the office and squint for a while, when she suddenly received a call from Fang Yi.Fang Yi discussed with her to take Fang Anzhi out on weekends to relax. Junior high school is very stressful, and the bowstring is easily broken if it is stretched too tightly.

Thinking of working overtime on weekends, Cao Xiaohui agreed to Fang Yi's request.

In addition to eating and drinking, the city is a place for consumption, and there is nothing interesting.After discussing with his son, Fang Yi finally decided to go back to the village for two days to relax.

Fang’s family was poor back then, and they could only eat meat during the Chinese New Year. A pot of big white radish was stewed with more than a dozen slices of fatty meat. It smelled like meat, but what came out of the pot with chopsticks was always white radish slices.

Later, life got better and he could eat meat every month, but for Fang Youcai, stewing a pot of braised pork is always the best way for him to love his grandson.

But for Fang Anzhi, at this time of the year, what he craves is not grandpa's braised pork, but the frozen persimmons that grandpa picked from the mountains in late autumn and put them on the south wall of his yard for natural freezing.

The persimmons grown in the mountainous areas of the village are lantern persimmons, not the flat persimmons that are common in the north.It is said that this kind of lantern persimmon is used to make persimmon cakes in Jin Province. It is sweet and delicious.

In order to save time on the road, Fang Yi deliberately borrowed a car from Li Shuming. When the father and son returned to the village, Fang Youcai was wrapped in a down jacket, sitting on the steps at the gate of the courtyard, basking in the sun while smoking cigarettes, his eyes flickering from time to time. He glanced at the entrance of the village.

It wasn't until the car stopped in front of the house that Fang Youcai realized that his son and grandson had returned.

After lunch, Fang Anzhi couldn't wait to run out of the house, went to the bottom of the south wall of the yard and lifted the plastic sheet, put four red persimmons that were as frozen as stones into the pot, covered it with the plastic sheet, and curled up. With a basin on his neck, he turned and ran into the house.

"Why is this kid so unheard of? I just finished eating, and I can't bear to eat frozen persimmons later!" Fang Youcai blamed Fang Anzhi, looking at Fang Anzhi who ran into the house.

"It's okay, Grandpa, I'll eat later, take cold water for a while." Fang Anzhi said with a grin.

Fang Yi glanced at the persimmons in the pot, and said with a smile, "Dad, don't worry about him, the persimmons are as cold as bricks, he can't eat them."

Half an hour later, Fang Yi and Fang Anzhi, each with a small spoon, scooped up the icy persimmons around the basin, eating for a while and stopping for a while, complaining endlessly that it was too cold, but even so, the two No one wants to stop.

Seeing the father and son eating happily, Fang Youcai also wanted to join in the fun, but his teeth are not good, so think about it or forget it.

The period of wandering in the village was the best time for Fang Anzhi. There is no mother's supervision, no teacher's constant reminders, and no pressure to study. It is simply heaven.

Fang Yi looked at his son with a mouth full of persimmons, and suddenly remembered his childhood, and turned to look at his father beside him: "Dad, is there still a primary school in our village?"

When Fang Yi was young, every village had a primary school, and Fang Yi spent six years in the primary school in the village.At that time, the sky was always blue, the air was very fresh, and small fish and turtles could be seen at the bottom of the river. Now...

"In recent years, young people in our village have gone out. Most of the villagers are old people. There are more teachers than students in the school. As early as five years ago, the Education Commission issued a policy to merge schools, and the primary schools in several nearby villages were merged into one. I went to the village, and now the school in the village is rented out to someone and turned into a pig farm." Fang Youcai said, taking the cigarette holder from his mouth.

Fang Yi got up, went to the window, and looked in the direction of the school.The classrooms made of stone and slate, the blackboards plastered with cement, the uneven classroom floor, the briquette stove lit in the classroom every winter, and the wood and briquettes piled up in the corners are all the good things that will never go away in his memory. time.

I don’t know when, the song that was popular all over the country at that time sounded in his ears: on the banyan tree by the pond, Cicada was calling for summer; on the swing by the playground, only butterflies rested on it; the teacher’s chalk on the blackboard , still desperately twittering and writing non-stop; waiting for the end of class, waiting for school, waiting for the childhood of games...

The second trial of Ding Dashan's intentional injury case finally opened. In the fifth trial court of the Provincial High Court, Fang Yi glanced at Prosecutor Zhang who was on the public prosecutor's bench opposite.

The second-instance collegial panel is composed of three judges, one male and two female. The female judge sitting in the middle is in her 40s, with a round face, shoulder-length hair, and a pair of glasses. She looks very professional.

After the previous procedures were completed, the presiding judge announced the start of the court investigation, followed by the male judge who read out the first-instance verdict.

"Next, the appellant Ding Dashan will read out the petition or state the reasons for the appeal." said the presiding judge.

"Zhou Long was stabbed by me and died after falling to the ground, but he climbed the wall and entered my house without my permission. I stabbed him in the process of self-defense. I think the court of first instance sentenced me too severely , request the court to change the sentence according to law." Ding Dashan said.

Although he didn't understand the specific meaning of self-defense, Ding Dashan knew that this word might save him from spending a few years in jail.

"The defense lawyer of the appellant Ding Dashan announced the reasons for the appeal." The presiding judge said.

"The defender believes that the appellant Ding Dashan's stabbing of the victim Zhou Long was excessive self-defense and he should bear criminal responsibility, but the punishment should be reduced or exempted. The specific reasons are as follows:..." Fang Yi changed the content of the previous communication with the procuratorate come out.

"Appellant Ding Dashan, do you have any objection to the facts and charges identified in the first-instance verdict?" asked the presiding judge.

"I have no objection to the charges, but I have objections to the facts and the sentencing. I was guilty of excessive self-defense, and the court of first instance sentenced me to 15 years in prison, which is too heavy a punishment." Before the trial, Ding Dashan met with Fang Yi, and Fang Yi will defend The plan told him.

"The prosecutor questioned the appellant about the facts identified in the first-instance judgment," said the presiding judge.

"Okay, presiding judge. Appellant Ding Dashan, when you saw the victim Zhou Long climbing up your wall, did you have a knife in your hand?" Prosecutor Zhang asked.

"I didn't have a knife. It was after nine o'clock in the evening. I had already locked the gate. I didn't think he could enter the yard. I never thought he would climb the wall to get closer to the yard." Ding Dashan recalled.

"What purpose did you go back to the house to get the sharp knife? The victim Zhou Long is your son-in-law, why did you use the knife against him?" Prosecutor Zhang asked.

"My daughter is divorcing Zhou Long. Before that, Zhou Long came to my house several times and smashed several pieces of glass on the windows and doors, almost hurting people.

That night, he refused to listen to dissuasion and climbed over the wall to enter the courtyard, and threw stones at me. I only have my wife and my daughter's two children at home, and I was afraid that he would harm us.So I went back to the house and took a sharp knife, trying to scare him away. "Ding Dashan said.

(End of this chapter)