All the elderly neighbors came, packing the small courtyard to the brim.
Shen Xin made a cash offering, and as it was being recorded, he noticed Chen Chao's name on the list.
But he didn't see Chen Chao in the courtyard.
He must have slipped in quietly and already left.
After that, Shen Xin didn't see Chen Chao again. He only heard that the case had been submitted to the prosecutor's office and was going through the proper channels.
Apparently, there were some complications.
Gao Jinrui was intent on pleading guilty, but his large extended family, including his son, clearly didn't want him to receive the death penalty. The Gao family had apparently hired a high-profile lawyer. They wanted to have the case classified as a fatal hit-and-run, with the burial of the body being classified as desecration of a corpse.
