Before a court hearing began, he received a call with news of his mother's death. His marriage also turned red, his wife had an affair, he was about to divorce, and he had to fight for custody of his daughter.
He had never seen grandpa's daughter want to go back with him, but he said that no one wanted to stay in that kind of ghost place, so he left his daughter to his wife for the time being. Returning to his hometown alone, the small county town that has remained unchanged for a hundred years could not arouse any goodwill from him.
When I came to my mother's body, I saw my elder brother and my mentally handicapped younger brother. My younger brother's favorite thing every day is to take a camera and shoot everywhere. My brother used to be an excellent baseball player, but he had to give up because of a car accident and injured his hand. Now he runs a tire factory, and his two sons are now playing baseball at school.
My father is a judge in this small county. The first time I saw my father after coming back was when I was in court to listen to my father's case. A divorced couple, the husband refused to pay child support, and the father ordered the husband to sell the truck to pay his ex-wife child support.
The fact that the father forgot the bailiff's name in court caught his attention. He told his brother that his father may have started drinking again because he forgot the bailiff's name, and his brother said his father had been sober for more than 20 years.
Due to different ideas, his relationship with his family is not so harmonious. He just came back and couldn't integrate into family life. When I came to Feilu Restaurant for breakfast in the morning, my father and two brothers had finished eating and were about to leave. He met his ex-girlfriend here, seemingly unchanged for decades, and has been working here as a waiter.
After the funeral, the three brothers went to the bar to drink. They met the person who had just been sentenced by his father to sell the truck, and almost had a physical conflict. He was good at court debate and left the other party in a huff. The bartender's crush is attracted to him, and they quickly develop into a one-night stand.
He accidentally fell while cycling alone on the road, met his ex-girlfriend again, and found out that the woman with whom he had a one-night stand turned out to be his ex-girlfriend's daughter.
The next day, he rushed to the earliest plane to leave. When he opened the garage, he unexpectedly found that his father's car had serious collision marks. The father, who had just woken up, had no memory of what happened the night before, and was still asking who hit his car. Bad.
He didn't understand this and boarded the return plane. Before the plane was about to take off, he received a call from his brother. His father's car had been hit by a witness, and the person who was hit is now dead.
When he got home, his father only remembered that he went to the supermarket to buy things, but did not remember that the car had hit someone. The police investigation further clarified that due to the special identity of the deceased, the case was prosecuted for murder.
The father, who has been a judge all his life, left fingerprints and took pictures as a suspect at the police station. After the bail father came out, he was besieged by the family of the deceased.
On the way home, my father told the whole story of the incident. Many years ago, my father tried the case of the deceased and his wife. Because the deceased pleaded guilty at the time, he was given a light sentence by his father, but the man brutally murdered his wife immediately after he was released from prison. He was sentenced to 20 years by his father, who was recently released from prison.
In the case that no favorable evidence could be found to prove innocence, the lawyer asked the father to make a statement according to his own statement. The father did not like the behavior of the lawyer's son, so he hired another lawyer. This lawyer is completely rookie. Without the proper role of a lawyer, he was completely restrained by the prosecution.
He angrily left the seat. They also lost the chance to keep the case at trial.
During his stay at home, he gradually discovered something about his father in the video taken by his younger brother. My father, who didn't like playing chess and hated doctors, would find a doctor to play chess.
Hearing the case in a small county was not good for his father, and his decades as a judge had made him countless enemies. When talking to his father again, he asked about the specific circumstances of that night. His father said that when he drove home, he remembered that he had forgotten to buy eggs, and then returned, but he could not remember the exact time, maybe he had left the car.
He asked his father if he started drinking again. The father denied it. The father said that he was undergoing chemotherapy for bowel cancer. The father kept this matter from everyone, only their mother knew. He asked his father to make the matter public in order to gain some sympathy. Father categorically refused, he did not want everyone to question the case he tried last year because of his physical condition. He even cites several examples of the illnesses that ruined the reputation of President I in old age. Although the son believes that the so-called reputation is far less important than the impending imprisonment, the father still insists that the facts speak for themselves.
The newly hired lawyer believed that he really could not take this responsibility, and he persuaded his father to hire him to handle the case. He picked up his daughter for vacation and repeatedly warned her in the car that her grandfather was not an amiable person, even strict. But the grandfather who saw the granddaughter for the first time loved the granddaughter very much, and the granddaughter also liked the grandfather very much.
The formal trial is about to begin. Before the trial, he practiced court procedures with his father, who did not cooperate. There was another quarrel between father and son. He called his ex-girlfriend, smashed the window and got into the Feilu restaurant where they had fond memories of the past. Recalling the past, his girlfriend told him that she had already bought the restaurant. Since it was said that he would eventually leave here, the two of them parted ways.
When he got home, he found his father collapsed in the bathroom. His father's condition had made him unable to take care of himself completely. They came to the doctor's cabin, and the doctor told him that his father's cancer was at an advanced stage, and his father came here for chemotherapy.
When chatting with his daughter, the daughter talked to him about the topic of divorce. The daughter was very sad, but it was also a helpless ending. Sending my daughter to the airport, my daughter said it was the best vacation in her life. At the same time, he also thought of the date he left that year, guessing that the daughter of his ex-girlfriend was his daughter.
He was called by the police station to watch footage of the night, which showed an inconsistency in time with his father's statement, and he was extremely distressed. The prosecutor had confronted him in previous cases and hated every time he succeeded in freeing the felony from the punishment of the law. The prosecutor suggested an out-of-court settlement and negotiated a sentence, otherwise his father would be charged with first-degree murder.
Back home, a hurricane suddenly blew. The family hid in the basement. While waiting, everyone watched the video shot by the younger brother. The younger brother recorded a lot of warm pictures. When the footage of his brother's car accident was shown, the father kicked the camera over emotionally and ran out of the basement.
A quarrel. The car accident that year was caused by his brother taking drugs and racing cars. At the time his father sentenced him to jail, rather than the lighter community service. He therefore resented his father for being too cruel, and his father thought that was the only way to solve his rebellious problem. After that, his hard work in law school and his reluctance to go home all stemmed from this.
In another court session, the video played in the court showed that his father bought eggs at the supermarket and met the deceased. It was not that he forgot to buy eggs as he started to say. After seeing the video, the father seemed to remember something, collapsed into the courtroom, and the trial was adjourned.
He was in the hospital discussing with his father who they thought was the best lawyer, and his father named one of the most honest lawyers he had ever met.
In another court session, the father admitted on the witness stand that he remembered the situation when he met the deceased, and the deceased insulted his dead wife. He did not remember afterward whether he struck the dead with his car. At the same time, the father's illness was also made public in court.
When he talked to his ex-girlfriend again, the ex-girlfriend said that the father of the child was his brother, but fortunately not his own daughter. But that's also his niece, and it feels quite bloody.
The jury's final verdict was to deny first-degree murder, but to admit manslaughter and sentenced to four years in prison. A few months later, he took his father home on medical parole. They came to
the small lake where his father took him fishing when he was a child , and recalled the good times. Father also passed away peacefully.
The small county town flew the flag at half mast for his father's departure, and he also decided to give up his job in the big city and stay in this small town.
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