A week before this monthly test, Jia Jia's verdict was handed down. Given that Jia Jia was only seventeen, the court was lenient—she received a nineteen-month sentence and was ordered to pay the victim 23,000 yuan for emotional distress.
Where would Jia Jia get the money to pay, and besides, she was jailed, so who would pay? The only option was to have Li Jia's mother pay it. Li Wen had dropped out of school at fifteen and had never held a proper job over the years. Now that Jia Jia was incarcerated, she was even more helpless. So she approached Tan Jing again, hoping Tan Jing would advance the money.
