Xiao Meng caused such a big disaster, although Xiao Suiguang tried his best to distance himself from him, but he still has the blood of the Xiao family on his body. He was convicted of a felony, which is of no benefit to Mei Teng's current situation. After all, Xiao Suiguang couldn't bear to abandon him ignore.
Before Sheng Minou set up his own company, Meiteng had another cooperative law firm in Qingwan. Later, when the contract expired, Xiao Suiguang planned to re-sign Sheng Minou, so he didn't renew the contract. He didn't want the contract to be almost gone, so Xiao Meng's incident happened. . The two parties broke up, so Xiao Suiguang had to go back to the previous law firm, and promised that if he could win Xiao Meng's lawsuit and reduce the impact, he would sign a ten-year long contract with the other party.
"Didn't you say that you might not be able to pay?" On the way to the court, Wu Yi talked about the current situation with me all the way, while Sheng Minou quietly handled official business on his mobile phone.
"A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Jintai Law Firm's interests are paramount. If you have money, you can take any case. I guess it has been paid in advance." Wu Yi turned a green light and drove the car into the gate of the court, "Jintai's Chen Shunlai , jackals among beasts, great white sharks among sharks, you have to be careful."
"Is it great?" I glanced at Sheng Minou, who was concentrating on sending emails, and said deliberately, "Better than my brother?"
Wu Yi got stuck in an instant: "Uh... the profession of lawyers is incomparable, and there is no hierarchy, right? The teacher has only become a trial lawyer not long ago, so there must be a gap in popularity and the number of lawsuits he has fought, which is normal."
I nodded: "So Chen Shunlai is better than my brother."
Wu Yi paused again, with a softer voice: "He is a textbook-level figure..."
Since he is a textbook-level figure, it is natural to benefit a lot from listening to his defense, and Wu Yi parted ways with us outside the court. Sheng Minou and I went to the waiting room to wait for the summons, while he entered the court to listen to the case.
In the waiting room, Yi Dazhuang had already taken his seat, holding a computer in his arms, typing two words, frowned, thinking for a while, and typing two more words.
"What are you doing?" I kicked his foot.
Yi Dazhuang suddenly came back to his senses, turned on the computer and greeted us: "Brother Feng, Lawyer Sheng, you are here. It's nothing, just writing a manuscript. It took me a long time to hold back 500 words, and I was so worried that I was bald."
The chairs in the waiting room are connected in rows, a bit like a park bench. I sat down beside Yi Dazhuang, leaned on the back of the chair and stretched my waist.
"I said, why do you feel that you have been haggard recently? It turns out that it is because of your lack of hair."
Yi Dazhuang was startled, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone to look at himself, fiddled with his bangs.
"Really less hair?"
I laughed to myself and didn't reply to him.
Maybe they didn't want to be crowded together, Sheng Minou didn't sit in the same row with us, but chose to sit in front of me.
Yi Dazhuang was stinky there, I leaned forward on the back of his chair, tilted my head and whispered in his ear: "Brother, is this the first time you sit here? Are you nervous?"
Sheng Minou finished replying the last email, put away his phone, and leaned back with his arms folded.
"It's not me who should be nervous."
After he said this meaningfully, a voice calling for all to stand came from the direction of the court, and the trial began.
A round wall clock was hung on the heavy wooden door leading to the courtroom. When the trial went on for 20 minutes, the bailiff opened the wooden door and informed the judge to summon Yi Dazhuang to appear in court.
Yi Dazhuang stood up quite nervously, straightened his clothes, and walked out through the door.
After the door was closed again, I leaned closer to listen to the movement outside, but I could only hear a muffled sound.
"Did you hear that?" Sheng Minou asked behind him.
I turned around resentfully, and sat next to him: "No, I can't hear anything."
Sheng Minou stared straight at the door leading to the court, as if he could see through the solid wood door and see everything behind.
"Do you know the difference between a lawyer who goes to court and a lawyer who doesn't go to court?"
I thought about it carefully, but I couldn't figure out the answer he wanted, so I could only shake my head honestly.
"do not know."
"The difference is that lawyers in court regard the courtroom as a stage, witnesses as props, themselves as protagonists, and the jury as the audience. You have to act emotionally to convince the audience that what you say is true."
No wonder he has great acting skills, he can always fool me around, it turned out to be a professional advantage.
"Good lawyers, all of them have acting skills at the actor's level... isn't it?"
Sheng Minou seemed to understand what I meant, his eyes squinted, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly.
"you guess?"
His behavior, which he didn't know whether it was provocative or provocative, could easily arouse the fire in the man's heart.
I approached him slowly, with a clear goal, and went straight to his beautifully curved lips.
"There is monitoring here." Sheng Minou didn't dodge or cater to me, his eyelids lifted slightly, and he stared at a certain position behind me.
"Then I... hurry up?" I leaned over to touch the corner of his lips as I said, propping up the back of the chair with one hand.
I didn't want to go deep at first, so I stuck it up and licked his lips carefully. I wanted to retreat after I tasted the sweetness, but then I retreated and he chased after me, directly attacking the city, intertwined with my lips and teeth, and didn't seem to mind monitoring at all. . If it weren't for the location not allowing it, it might have developed into some kind of unsuitable sport for children.
Another 20 minutes later, Yi Dazhuang was sent back by the bailiff with a dazed expression and pale face, as if he had gone through a cruel and inhuman interrogation.
Seeing him like this, alarm bells rang in my heart. This Chen Shunlai is really so powerful, it makes people stupid
"Mr. Lu, please follow me." The bailiff politely invited me to court.
I looked back at Sheng Minou, he raised his chin: "Go."
The prosecutor in this case was young, and it was time when he was full of energy and wanted to make some achievements. Before that, he had asked Sheng Minou and me to his office many times to inquire about the details of the case. It can be seen that he attaches great importance to Xiao Meng's case.
But at this time, he was sitting on the prosecution's seat, with a solemn face and sweat on his forehead, completely gone from his previous complacent appearance. He seemed to have suddenly changed from a confident hunter to a poor prey who was counterattacked.
There was only one defendant, Xiao Meng, sitting in the dock. Jin Ya pleaded guilty after being arrested. He knew very well that he was not like Xiao Meng. He was defended by a barrister. Identify Xiao Meng's tainted witness.
Xiao Meng was dressed in a suit with a dignified expression, while the middle-aged man sitting next to him looked much more relaxed. It should be his defense lawyer—the textbook-level character Chen Shunlai.
"Textbook" is about forty years old, with a regular and elegant beard, slightly gray sideburns, and a tall and straight figure. Although he doesn't look a little like Sheng Minou, he feels magically the same.
They are all the kind of ruthless people who are handsome and seem to be harmless, but the moment you turn around after shaking hands with him, they will hit you hard on the back of the head with a metal rod.
I took a seat in the witness stand, the prosecutor took a few deep breaths, got up and walked towards me, and began to question me.
"Mr. Lu, can you tell everyone what happened on the night of October 9?"
I nodded and began to recall: "I came home that day and found that the house was in a mess. I thought I had been burglarized and was going to call the police..."
"When you woke up, you found yourself in a strange environment, and at the same time you heard Xiao Meng and the kidnappers talking, right?"
The young prosecutor then asked a few more questions and ended the questioning. He returned to his seat and replaced the defense lawyer for cross-examination.
When Chen Shunlai stood up and walked towards me slowly, I vaguely saw a great white shark with a mouth full of fangs swimming towards me, and I couldn't help becoming nervous.
Chen Shunshi stopped in front of me and asked: "You said you heard three people talking, and you should be locked in another room at this time. How can you be sure that the kidnapper is talking with Mr. Xiao Mengxiao?"
"I recognized his voice, and they called him 'Xiao'."
"Have you met Mr. Xiao before?"
"I've seen both sides."
"Does it add up to ten hours?"
"No."
"That's why you recognized Mr. Xiao's voice just because of the two-faced relationship. It seems that you have an excellent memory, Mr. Lu."
"Thank you." I gladly accepted his compliment.
"What did they talk about?" Chen Shunlai continued to ask.
"Golden tooth and the others messed up the matter. Xiao Meng was very angry and accused them of kidnapping me. Jinya said that they are now grasshoppers on a rope and they will not die sincerely. Let him rest assured that Xiao Meng let them Just make sure you do it nicely and cleanly, and then go."
"So the two kidnappers have conflicts with their benefactors, and they are not so united, and during the day and night when you were kidnapped, you never saw what they said...'surnamed Xiao'."
"… Yes."
"When you were beaten, coerced, and shot, except for the two kidnappers, my client, Mr. Xiao Meng, was not there, and you have no evidence to show that he knew what happened to you, did you?"
Oh, I finally know why the prosecutor and Yi Dazhuang have such ugly faces. This man's questioning routine is really deep, not much worse than Sheng Minou.
He implied to the jury that I hadn't actually seen Xiao Meng at the crime scene, and Xiao Meng didn't know what the kidnappers had done to me. Maybe Xiao Meng just wanted to get the things back, but he didn't participate in the kidnapping incident, and he never wanted to hurt me. Even, the man who appeared on the scene and I heard the voice might not be Xiao Meng, after all, I don't believe what I see.
It's a good thing that Jinya is not dead and is still alive. If he died, he might push everything to the two kidnappers and pick himself into a white lotus.
"Mr. Lu, you have such a good memory, don't you just forget it?" Seeing that I didn't answer, Chen Shunlai asked again.
There was a smile at the corner of his mouth, but there was a knife hidden in the smile. I looked at him and said unwillingly: "Yes, I have never seen him at the scene, and there is no evidence that he knows everything I have encountered."
Chen Shunlai nodded in satisfaction, and said to the judge, "I have nothing more to ask, Your Honor."
Back in the waiting room, I went in, and Sheng Minou just came out, and I only saw him briefly.
"It's a great white shark that eats people and doesn't spit out bones, you have to be careful." When the two brushed each other, I whispered in his ear.
It was Sheng Minou who answered me with a disdainful snort.
I turned my head and saw that behind the wooden door that kept closing, Sheng Minou strolled towards the witness stand, like a megalodon that smelled blood and jumped into the shark pool, without any fear of fighting another giant shark.