Several newly built apartment buildings of about 20 stories stand on the Beiguan coast.
At this time, Lu Ming, accompanied by Wen Liangyu, was wandering around the top floor of the 22nd floor of Building 1.
These buildings, named "Left Bank Garden", are the newest luxury apartment buildings in Beiguan. The floor height and apartment prices also set new records in Beiguan.
The top floor is a duplex structure. The inner room is extremely luxurious, with large floor-to-ceiling windows on all four sides, providing a 360-degree circular view without blind spots. The natural scenery outside is cleverly transformed into a transparent view of the interior. When the electric curtains are pressed, it is extremely private.
Moreover, Building 1 has the best view. To the south, there is the blue sea and sky, and to the north, there is the huge Ferris wheel of the Borna Amusement Park. At night, the Ferris wheel has flashing colorful lights, and the visual effect is excellent.
Outside, there is an extremely safe open balcony with a small blue swimming pool.
This is the "penthouse" concept of luxury apartments that is emerging in Donghai.
Wen Liangyu smiled and said, "I know you are busy, but I want you to come here to see if this place is okay. You see, this place feels completely different from the villa in Hepu Road. I feel like you need a penthouse like this."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "Are you sending me off?"
Wen Liangyu immediately smiled happily, "Of course, otherwise why would I bring you here?"
Lu Ming immediately waved his hand: "I like this place very much, but I introduced you to this project. I guess all the profits from it, Fourth Brother, wouldn't be enough to buy this apartment. Wouldn't it be a waste of time? I'm afraid you'll even have to pay for it..."
Zuo'an Garden was built by a major client of Baoyin Bank, and that major client was also one of the investors of Lu Ming's Han Dynasty Private Equity Fund.
Wen Liangyu was also given some of the projects here, mainly the later exterior building projects and interior decoration.
After all, when I became familiar with that big client, the construction here had already started. For example, Building 1 was built first, and the construction company used was a construction company in the city, after all, the company had better qualifications.
Lu Ming was thinking that Wen Liangyu had a big internal discount and wanted to give him one. Besides, there were only a few penthouses in Zuo'an Garden, and to get one, you had to have money.
My business partner actually asked me if I could keep any, but I didn’t come to see it and just said no.
Now that Wen Liangyu has been tossed around in circles, I really feel a little regretful.
But the money Wen Liangyu earned from Zuo'an Garden might not be enough to buy the penthouse apartment in Building 1, because compared with the penthouse apartments in other buildings, the penthouse apartment in Building 1 is the largest and most luxurious. There is only one apartment on the entire top floor. In fact, this should be considered the 23rd floor, and the layout of the apartments on the 22 floors below is two different concepts.
After deducting various expenses from the project that Wen Liangyu took over from this real estate project, he himself probably wouldn't get much.
After all, it was the first time I cooperated with my business partner, the materials were sufficient and the quotation was not high.
"What's the big deal about money!" Wen Liangyu smiled: "Qianxing, I spent a lot more money than this to get into this kind of circle you let me into, and I never even got through the door!"
With another smile, Wen Liangyu said: "What's more, Qianxing, your current identity is exactly my brother's nemesis!" He laughed as he said that.
He smiled bitterly in his heart. He could not see the cards behind this little brother at all, and there was no need to think about it. It just meant that with his current status, it would be considered too high for him to make friends with him.
Fortunately, when I first met him, he was still a nobody, and I understood his temperament and knew that he was very loyal.
With all the mess the Zhao family has gone through, if it were someone else, the Zhao family would be finished.
Hearing Wen Liangyu's words, Lu Ming smiled, walked to the French window on the west side to look at the scenery, and suddenly exclaimed: "Is that Fernald College? It's quite close!"
Wen Liangyu smiled and said, "Yes, Qianxing, it's convenient for you to go to school. Go to middle school, right?!"
Lu Ming was helpless, but when he thought about it, he originally wanted to go there once every two weeks, but except for the time when he just reported to school, he had not been there until now.
Too busy.
I might as well wait until the end of the year for the final exams and take the test. Although I am not good at foreign languages, I am confident in other subjects.
Of course, you don’t have to answer the questions with all your strength, just give it a try.
The final exam results are out, and at least there should be no danger of having to cut back to the first year of junior high school.
I am not good at one subject, but I am not a real bad student.
Lu Ming said, "Okay, Fourth Brother, I'll be disrespectful to refuse. But it's hard for me to come here on weekdays, especially since I'm busy recently. It's not good if no one lives here and it's unpopular. You can find someone to help me clean the room every day, which can also be considered popular. The property fee here should not be low, and there should be a housekeeper, right?"
Wen Liangyu smiled and said, "No problem. Let me ask Xiaoling to come every day. I'm not sure if I need a maid. If she moves around and touches you, and then lies on your bed for a while, how dirty is that?"
"How can I trouble my sister-in-law?" Lu Ming was helpless. Jia Xiaoling had seen Fourth Brother Wen's lover before. She liked to wear cheongsam and was a very graceful woman.
"Don't worry about it!" Wen Liangyu waved his hand and said, "It's almost done? You're also very busy."
Lu Ming looked at his watch and nodded: "Yes, I should go back!"
Fourth Brother Wen is quite considerate.
…
Inside the Husky Hotel, prosecutors and patrolmen were busy coming in and out.
In Lu Ming's room, Lu Ming was discussing the closure of one of the chains of evidence with several team leaders.
Starting from Jordan, all the prosecutors could do nothing but listen. This Commissioner Lu was too meticulous in examining the chain of evidence and considered almost all the loopholes that the opposing lawyers might target. He was truly the ceiling of criminal defense lawyers and one could not help but admire him.
The "red line" phone on the table rang. Lu Ming picked up the phone and listened to the conversation on the other end. He frowned slightly and turned to look at several people: "Just now, Booker showed up and turned himself in at the Third Police Station." The Third Police Station is in the West District.
Everyone was stunned.
After thinking for a while, Lu Ming waved his hand and said, "Little Renault, catch him too!"
Several team leaders immediately stood up and took action.
Lu Ming paced back and forth, thinking about something.
"The court will give them all heavy sentences?" Han Annie's voice came from the side in a clear and crisp voice.
All along, Han Anni had been fulfilling her duties as a secretary and never asked any questions. This was the first time she inquired about the case.
"I think it's okay. The variables are Booker and Raynor. I think we should prosecute them as the two principal offenders." Lu Ming pondered, "Let's see how Booker gives his confession!"
Returning to the table, picking up the case and the countless confessions, Lu Ming looked at them again.
On the other side of the screen, Han Annie looked at Lu Ming, who was working with a frown, completely immersed in the case, and blinked her big eyes. This bad guy was completely different at this time.
"Annie, is the mattress I changed for you comfortable? I recently found a good thing for foot massage, which is very relaxing. I will buy it for you later!"
Lu Ming suddenly stretched and said that he seemed to have reached a certain stage in the transcript and wanted to take a break.
Han Anni was speechless. She turned back to look at her notes and pretended not to hear.
Lu Ming remained silent until more than two hours later.
The phone rang suddenly and urgently, and Lu Ming immediately picked up the receiver.
Inside, Zhang Xianhe's excited voice was heard: "Commissioner, this is great. Booker confessed that Little Renault is a pervert who likes to collect the brains of victims. Moreover, there are a lot of victims' brains in bottles in Little Renault's bedroom and refrigerator. Little Renault likes to sleep with these brains! This pervert, can he deny it?"
Lu Ming hummed, hung up the phone, and pondered.
The phone suddenly rang again.
Cantona called, "Commissioner, it seems that little Renault is well prepared. He is accompanied by a great lawyer named Richard Hansen. He is from the capital, but his attitude is very good. He said that his client is willing to cooperate with our investigation and will go with us."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Ming thought for a while and pulled out a drawer. Inside was the 949th Yearbook of the Imperial Bar Association, which was last year's yearbook.
After flipping through a few pages, I saw Richard Hansen's name. No wonder it felt familiar.
He is a very famous criminal defense lawyer in the imperial capital, with a remarkable record in the yearbooks, especially at the end of last year, when he represented a prisoner sentenced to death in an appeal to the Supreme Court. In front of the justices, he severely criticized the police's methods of coercion and inducement of confessions.
Ultimately, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that before interrogation, police must clearly tell the person being interrogated that he or she has the right to remain silent, the right to find a lawyer, etc.
It is similar to the Miranda warning in my previous life.
And in this world, it is called Richard's Right to Silence.
Nowadays, many local police stations in the empire are promoting the implementation of Richard's right to remain silent.
Of course, areas with a strong sense of autonomy, such as the East China Sea Metropolitan Area, still have their own set of legal standards. The rulings of the Federal Supreme Court can be used as a reference, but they are not binding.
But no matter what, this lawyer Richard is considered to be one of the top criminal defense lawyers in the empire.
The yearbook also said that in view of Richard's outstanding contributions, the Imperial Bar Association is preparing to award him the title of Senior Barrister next year for a one-year probation period.
Richard is a sixth-grade barrister. Above that, there is senior counsel, and then there is Queen's Counsel.
Not to mention the royal counsel, there are only about ten of them alive. If you don’t count those who have retired, you can probably count them on five fingers.
As for Senior Barrister, there is no longer any assessment score requirement. It is a title awarded by the Imperial Bar Association to the barristers who have made the most outstanding contributions.
There are only ten vacancies each year, and overall, there are only a few dozen senior barristers in the entire empire.
It can be said that Richard is about to reach the pinnacle of the legal profession.
This Richard is obviously several levels higher than the barristers he had dealt with before.
The Renault family has invested a huge amount of money. To hire such a lawyer, one needs connections and family lineage.
Otherwise, I'm afraid of Richard and I won't bother to care about him.