The Shaman Woman just three to five minutes, the curse was finished. Chu Xiaoxin watched with great interest, seemingly not having heard enough. He took out another hundred yuan and handed it to the Shaman Woman: "Later, I'm going in to watch the trial. Grandma, you can help me beat the bell outside until I come out, okay?"
"Alright! You can do it all day long!" The Shaman Woman put away Chu Xiaoxin's hundred-yuan bill, picked up the tattered shoe again, and began a new round of rituals.
Chu Xiaoxin then looked at Song Tianyao: "What did you just say?"
"I'm telling you you're in a good mood, are you praying to the gods? If a slut could really kill her opponent, doing business wouldn't be so tiring, would it?" Song Tianyao said to Chu Xiaoxin.
Chu Xiaoxin has been living a very carefree life for the past two weeks. Song Tianyao gives him 20,000 yuan every day. No matter where he goes to have fun, he is guaranteed at least 10,000 yuan to donate money all over the world. So Chu Xiaoxin throws one or two thousand yuan into each of the various schools, hospitals and Elderly Homes, pretending to be Philanthropist, and doing a great job.
Moreover, some time ago, at Song Tianyao's suggestion, he generously donated Hong Kong dollars 500,000 to the Anglican Church Hong Kong and Macao Diocese Britain Macau in his personal capacity. This was the largest cash donation ever made by China person to the Anglican Church Hong Kong and Macao Diocese and Macau since the war. This generous act prompted Archbishop He Mingguang to personally copy a page of the Apostles' Creed and present it to Chu Xiaoxin. He also inscribed the eight characters "Not to serve others, but to be served" for Hong Kong Oxfam, which were adopted by Chu Xiaoxin and Mrs. Bess as the motto of Hong Kong Oxfam.
If Chu Xiaoxin hadn't insisted on remaining a seeker of the faith and not a member of the Anglican Church, the archbishop would probably have been prepared to baptize him personally.
"Sincerity is key, right? Even if it doesn't work, it's still fun to hear it." Chu Xiaoxin, Song Tianyao, Chu Xiaozhong, and the others turned and walked towards the Hong Kong High Court, saying this.
Across the street, the Zhang Family also drove over. Zhang Yuqi, Zhang Yulin, Ding Jiafeng, A-Yin, Alice got out of the car. However, seeing the Chu Family heading into the courtroom, Zhang Yuqi and the others deliberately slowed down and did not enter the courtroom at the same time as the Chu Family.
Because Zhang Yujie is involved in charges such as trafficking military supplies and medicines during the Embargo Order, instructing others to set fire to Hong Kong Colonial Government property, and maliciously inflating drug prices, which exceed the maximum amount of one million Hong Kong dollars in the Hong Kong District Court, the case has been directly transferred to the Hong Kong High Court Court of First Instance.
"How long do you think Zhang Yujie will be sentenced to this time?" Chu Xiaoxin asked Song Tianyao after they entered the courtroom and took their seats.
Song Tianyao shook his head. "Hong Kong law is for the poor; how could the rich possibly be guilty?"
"But if Zhang Yuliang insists..." Chu Xiaozhong also felt that Song Tianyao's words made sense. In Hong Kong, the law is used to intimidate the poor, but he still hoped to see Zhang Yujie tried and imprisoned.
"It's no use. The most exciting part of this trial isn't the guilty verdict, but the way Zhang Yuliang confronts Zhang Yujie when he appears as a witness. Aren't we here to see the final curtain fall on this grand drama? The brotherly feud is the grand finale."
Chapter 175 Taking Advantage of a Crisis
Zhang Yujie looked extremely grim when he was led out of court. Although the Zhang Family had also hired barristers through a law firm to defend him, the lawyers standing opposite him, wearing wigs, were a team of lawyers representing the Attorney General's Chambers, comprised of some of the most famous practicing barristers in Hong Kong. Many of the barristers defending him were his students.
Zhang Yuqi told him that the Attorney General's Chambers had preemptively outsourced all the top barristers in Hong Kong to prosecute this case, which was defined as a major commercial crime, and the Zhang Family could only try their best to hire other top barristers to defend them.
Moreover, Zhang Yuqi hadn't managed to win over Zhang Yuliang even after two weeks of trying.
This made Zhang Yujie Zhang Yuqi very unfriendly when he appeared in court.
He had not been convicted before, but was detained on suspicion, so he was still wearing his own black suit with a trench coat over it, standing in front of the defendant's seat in court, his tycoon demeanor unchanged.
Since a wealthy person like Zhang Yujie was being tried, he could naturally request that the trial be closed to the public. Unrelated victims were not allowed to enter the courtroom. Therefore, most of those sitting and watching in the courtroom were Pharmaceutical Association members, including Chu Xiaoxin and Song Tianyao. Their excuse was that when the Customs seized the Pharmaceutical Association's warehouse, a batch of medical sutures from Likang's warehouse was also seized and sent to the Customs dock warehouse. The Customs warehouse was then set on fire, so Likang could also be considered one of the victims.
In reality, the total value of that batch of medical sutures was only three thousand Hong Kong dollars, and they had already expired after being stored in the Likang warehouse.
If Chu Xiaoxin hadn't insisted on coming to the court hearing and asked Song Tianyao to find a way to resolve the situation, Song Tianyao would have completely forgotten about the medical sutures worth three thousand Hong Kong dollars that he couldn't sell.
Hong Kong law is quite interesting. Regardless of right or wrong, the plaintiff and the defendant depend on the strength of their respective legal teams. So, frankly speaking, once the senior and well-known lawyers representing the Attorney General's Chambers put on wigs and went to court, Zhang Yujie's defense team was already mentally prepared to concede defeat.
The veteran barristers on the other side were experts who knew Britain and Hong Kong colonial law laws by heart. Their specialty was exploiting legal loopholes to help the wealthy escape punishment. They could turn murder into manslaughter and fraud into legal business activity. Similarly, when they were in the plaintiff's position, they could find a single fault and tear the defendant to pieces.
These senior lawyers took turns presenting their arguments, accusing the defendant Zhang Yujie of various misdeeds. For each charge, they presented evidence that seemed irrefutable to outsiders, and for each charge, they had witnesses to testify.
The impassioned and impassioned arguments made Chu Xiaoxin and Chu Xiaozhong's expressions unconsciously turn serious, as if Zhang Yujie had truly committed an unforgivable crime. But in reality, it was nothing more than smuggling contraband. Which Pharmaceutical Association members present in court today hadn't done the same thing as the Zhang Family?
"If this continues, I think it wouldn't be an exaggeration for Zhang Yujie to be sentenced to hanging. He's a complete failure. I'm focused on doing charity, and the Zhang Family maliciously steals the raw materials that Likang needs. Even God will take away such people!" Chu Xiaoxin nodded repeatedly and whispered his inner thoughts to Song Tianyao.