Although she didn't want to admit it, but after being called into the office by Qian Heng to give him such a lecture, Cheng Yao felt better all over for a few days, and even the coriander-flavored chocolate showed a bit of unfinished aftertaste.
Could this be the legendary Shaking M masochistic physique? ? ? Knowing that it is highly poisonous, but going to the source of the poison? ? ? Is it possible to be addicted to drugs? can't you? Cheng Yao felt that she must be thinking too much...
"My mother, have you read the news?" Just as Cheng Yao's thoughts were flying wildly, Tan Ying held her mobile phone and said in a shocked tone, "Since the ban on alcohol in India, many people have been forced to remove alcohol from the shelves. Use the method of drinking cobra venom instead, drink it once for a month, in addition to drinking, you can also use it for bibimbap! Drinking poison can actually be addictive!"
"..."
—
But no matter what, Chen Qingmei was very satisfied with the result of the first trial in Dong Shan's estate dispute case, but to Cheng Yao's surprise, neither Jiang Wenxiu nor Dong Min chose to appeal, and they accepted the result of the first trial. That's how the first-instance judgment came into effect.
Cheng Yao originally thought that she would have to face the wrangling of the second trial, but the case came to an end so easily, she was not only relieved, but also a little disappointed.
However, thinking about it from the position of Jiang Wenxiu and Dong Min, this might be a relief for them. The parent-child relationship is already a firm fact, and wrangling over the amount of inheritance will be a exhausting time and mental waste for everyone.
Instead of wasting time on such things, it is better to let go of the past and welcome a new life.
Dong Shan died, love and marriage disappeared, but his daughter was still there, and she was closer to him than ever at any moment. After this incident, the original arrogant character gradually restrained, began to mature, and began to learn to grow.
There are losses and gains.
After seeing some people and things clearly, I became braver and firmer.
Cheng Yao recalled Jiang Wenxiu's appearance at the end of the final trial, and her straight back was still lingering in her memory.
If it was her, no matter what kind of life it was, it would be wonderful.
Whether a person is happy or not is not determined by money, nor does he rely on others to get it, but strives for it by himself.
"People are responsible for their own decisions."
For some reason, Cheng Yao kept replaying Jiang Wenxiu's last words in her mind.
What is she trying to express
Take responsibility for your decision to choose Dong Shan but get cheated on, don't you blame others? Or is he responsible for the result of letting Chen Qingmei take advantage of Dong Shan's father and accepting the verdict
Cheng Yao didn't know. But she always felt that not only Jiang Wenxiu was responsible for her own decision, but Chen Qingmei was also responsible for everything she had done. Every behavior of every person has corresponding consequences.
Of course, in addition to thinking, Cheng Yao, as always, adhered to her own good habits. Every time she finished a case, she would make a summary analysis of the case by herself, and also make a review and reflection on her performance.
At the beginning, this case was just a case where Dong Shan sought a divorce at any cost. Cheng Yao even felt a little discouraged and disappointed about such a simple case at first, with a somewhat impetuous mentality, but a simple case may eventually become complicated. The details of family cases are complicated and even ever-changing. At any time, no case should be taken lightly.
At the same time, the most important thing in family cases is communication. Lawyers not only need to exercise their professional legal ability, but also need to have strong communication skills, and be able to communicate well with their own clients and the other parties.
No matter what, because of Qian Heng's words, Cheng Yao was no longer confused, and she was full of energy again.
The profession of lawyer is not as noble as imagined, but it is also not as miserable as imagined.
Law and morality, fairness and justice, procedure and substance, how to balance these relationships in one's own profession may be the meaning of being a lawyer.
Being a lawyer is a job to support one's family, but if the lawyer's work is done to the extreme, isn't it an art and a game
—
It's just that he had just written his summary and analysis in the middle, when Bao Rui suddenly opened his mouth.
"Chen Qingmei gave birth."
Cheng Yao was very surprised: "There is still more than a month before the expected date of delivery, how come you have already given birth?"
"She was walking on the road that day. It had just rained and the road surface was very slippery. She didn't care and fell down. Fortunately, there was no one passing by that section of the road. An enthusiastic truck driver happened to pass by that day. She was taken to the hospital immediately."
Bao Rui's face was mysterious: "But that's not what I want to talk about, the most unexpected thing for you, do you know that there is something wrong with Chen Qingmei's son."
"what?"
"She was probably in a good mood after winning the lawsuit. She didn't control her diet. Didn't she look a little bigger than before when you saw her last time? It is said that she has gained more than ten pounds recently, and the fetus is bigger than expected But she insisted on having a normal delivery in order not to leave scars on her stomach. At the beginning, the prenatal examination predicted that there would be no problem with a normal delivery. Unfortunately, she didn’t know what happened when the delivery was halfway through. It dragged on for a long time, causing the child to lack oxygen and even choked on the amniotic fluid."
"Was the child alive when it was born?"
Whether a child is alive at the moment of birth is crucial to inheritance.
If it is a stillbirth at birth, it means that the child does not exist and the heir does not exist. The retained inheritance will return to the rest of Dong Shan's inheritance and be divided equally among the remaining three legal heirs: Jiang as the spouse Wenxiu, Dong Min as a child, and Dong Shan's father as a parent.
If the child was alive at the moment of birth and has survived, then the inheritance share will naturally belong to him, and it will be managed by his guardian Chen Qingmei. However, except for safeguarding the rights of the children, this part of the property shall not be disposed of arbitrarily.
And if the child was alive at the moment of birth, but cried a few times, and failed to survive due to various problems, then Dong Shan’s inheritance will still be inherited by him, but after he inherits, because of death, a new inheritance will be triggered immediately. After the child died, this part of Dong Shan's inheritance automatically became the child's inheritance, and was inherited by his legal heir, that is, his biological mother Chen Qingmei.
"Alive." Bao Rui added, "I'm still alive, living well."
While Cheng Yao breathed a sigh of relief, he also sighed with some unknown.
It's just that her sighing was not over yet, Bao Rui spoke again.
"But the baby is not normal and can't breastfeed on his own. He was just diagnosed with cerebral palsy today." Bao Rui used declarative sentences, "It should be due to the lack of oxygen for too long during the dystocia."
Cheng Yao opened her mouth, and didn't know what to say for a while.
"But this is not the most reversed thing. The climax is that when Mr. Dong heard that he had a grandson with cerebral palsy, he almost fainted." Bao Rui shook his head, "I heard that Mr. Dong sent someone to the maternity hospital to make trouble. , saying that he does not recognize this grandson..."
As a result, before Bao Rui's gossip was finished, Cheng Yao received a call from Mr. Dong.
"Xiao Cheng is a lawyer?" The old man's voice trembled, "I want to meet you..."
—
Because of the old man's health, Cheng Yao made an appointment with him in a coffee shop not far from his nursing hospital. The nurse pushed a wheelchair, and old man Dong sat in the wheelchair with a gray look on his face. Before he learned that he would have a baby The state of ecstasy of the grandson.
"Lawyer Xiaocheng, I regret it. We will not count on this case." Mr. Dong said anxiously, "Help me withdraw the paternity test that I made. I won't do it. I don't recognize it. This grandson, I just want our Minmin, and we will give all of our property to Minmin."
"Mr. Dong, but this verdict has come into effect." Cheng Yao tried to explain in simple and easy-to-understand language, "What's more, even if the verdict has not yet come into effect, you agreed to the paternity test and have already cooperated with the extraction The blood sample has already confirmed that the child in Chen Qingmei's womb is related to you by blood and is the biological son of your son Dong Shan. This is an indisputable fact."
"I... I don't know, I don't know why the child born has a problem, I should have known earlier, I wouldn't do that kind of appraisal at all!" Mr. Dong almost lost control of his emotions, "Now Minmin doesn't come to see me anymore, Wenxiu They don’t come to see me anymore, they only send me money every month, and when I call them, they ignore me, at first they don’t answer the phone, these days I heard that Wenxiu is going to take Minmin to study abroad for a while, So... so what should I do? It's so far abroad, will I not be able to see Minmin in the future?"
The old man babbled, with a distraught look on his face: "But what's the use of me being rich? I don't want money. I just want a family and a beautiful family. I also thought that I would take over this child. Well, that woman doesn't need to enter the house, and I will take care of the child's inheritance, and the woman won't get any of it. In this way, the family is not short of money, and having multiple children is just a pair of chopsticks I think Wenxiu and Minmin will always accept it..."
Cheng Yao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Old man, this child's biological mother is still alive, and she is the legal guardian. You want to take this child over to be raised by you, and your plan to manage the inheritance is impossible from the very beginning... "
…
Until finally Cheng Yao left, Mr. Dong still couldn't accept or understand why the relationship with his granddaughter and daughter-in-law for decades was gone if he said it was gone. He just made a mistake accidentally. It would be too much for them to do this. Absolutely. Even if their inheritance is reduced because of their own behavior, can family affection be measured by money
But Mr. Dong will probably never understand that when he tilted the balance towards Chen Qingmei because of the sex of the fetus, it was he himself who cut off the family relationship and trust, pushed his granddaughter and daughter-in-law away with his own hands, Jiang Wenxiu and Dong Min were not disappointed because of money...
Perhaps everything, in the dark, has long been determined.
—
A few days later, Cheng Yao heard Bao Rui talk about the latest developments in this matter, and Mr. Dong asked someone to go to Chen Qingmei's place to make trouble a few times. High fever.
And Mr. Dong also had other distant relatives who gave him advice. Right now, Dong Min has decided to change his mother's surname. Although the child has cerebral palsy, it can be regarded as the last Dong blood in the Dong family. Mr. Dong was probably afraid that Chen Qingmei would secretly kill the child for inheritance, so under the instigation of these distant relatives, he sent a group of relatives including three aunts and six wives to keep an eye on Chen Qingmei, and those distant relatives took the money and naturally did their best.
As a result, Chen Qingmei not only has to worry about the newborn baby with cerebral palsy every day, but also has to deal with a group of distant and poor relatives who have evil intentions.
"Of course these relatives will not give Chen Qingmei the opportunity to 'accidentally' cause an 'accident' to the child. After all, the child is gone. Where can they find an excuse to ask Mr. Dong for money? Mr. Dong takes care of his grandson and takes a lot of money."
A group of people with their own ulterior motives actually check and balance each other to achieve a balance.
For Chen Qingmei, she has successfully let her child inherit the inheritance, and she has achieved her goal. However, such a life, I don't know whether it is luck or misfortune. The future of a baby with cerebral palsy, even if she has money, is not so easy. As a guardian, she is afraid that she will spend her whole life in order to fight for such a legacy.
As for Xie Ming, whether Xie Ming can take on the future of this baby with cerebral palsy together is a question mark. If it was a healthy baby, he might be able to persist... But a baby with cerebral palsy, even the biological father, might choose to give up. There are too many things in life that can cool down love...
Everyone is responsible for their actions.
What Jiang Wenxiu said was absolutely correct.
Life is not a sprint, but a long-distance race. Those who are proud of leading at the beginning may not be able to go all the way smoothly.
—
No matter how embarrassing it is, the case of Dong Shan's inheritance was completely closed, and Cheng Yao received a huge sum of money.
That night, in her room, Cheng Yao couldn't hold back, and called her parents to announce the good news.
As a result, the old couple didn't care about Cheng Yao's work at all, they only cared about Cheng Yao's private life.
"I heard from your mother that you have a boyfriend recently?"
"Forehead… "
"Xiaoqian, right?" Cheng's father said in a rather headache tone, "I heard that Xiaoqian not only has a bad family background, but also isn't very motivated, except for a face that can be seen..."
Cheng Yao was about to go along with the flow and say that she had broken up, but she heard Cheng's father change the subject directly: "By the way, your mother and I will come to City A next Sunday to attend the reunion of our high school classmates, and let's take a look You, do you see what you want us to bring?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Cheng Yao immediately forgot about Qian Heng, "I want to eat beef chili sauce made by my mother, and braised pig's trotters! Sauced duck! Spicy rabbit legs!... and char-grilled lamb chops!"
Father Cheng scolded Cheng Yao with a smile, saying that he did his best, but when he hung up the phone, he probably thought of Qian Heng, and became unhappy again: "Tell me, why is this person so different from other people? There used to be a classmate named Qian, right?"
again and again...
As soon as Cheng Yao heard about this classmate surnamed Qian, Cheng Yao knew it was going to be bad.
Ever since she was a child, Cheng Yao has heard Cheng's father scold "the one whose surname is Qian" angrily for countless times. Probably because he hated the other party too much, in order to show his contempt and disdain, this classmate was not allowed to have a name in Dad Cheng's mouth, and was always replaced by "surnamed Qian".
Sure enough, Cheng's father said angrily: "This person surnamed Qian used to be my deskmate, a man, but he ended up drawing 38 lines all day long! He still has to sign a sentence with me. If I exceed a little bit, he will pay him money; Although the grades are good, but he is not very good. Once I served him with delicious food and drinks for a month in the final exam, and begged him to give me a peek at the final exam, so I almost knelt down and called him dad. White-eyed wolf, wiped his mouth, didn't recognize anything, didn't even show me a multiple-choice question! Your dad failed me! It's only 3 points away! I almost got a handicapped parking space when I went home to call your grandpa gone."
…
Father Cheng babbled and scolded for a while before finally entering the stage of concluding his speech: "As a result, this kind of strange thing is living a very healthy life. It is said that there are private jets! Fortunately, he will not go to this high school reunion! I I really don’t want to see him!” He sighed dejectedly, “In short, this society is just unfair, to tell you the truth, I was superstitious at first, and I always thought that he got so rich because of his surname Qian. With this surname, it is destined that he will not be short of money in this life, but now I don't believe this kind of statement either."
Father Cheng sighed again: "Look, the same surname is Qian, my tablemate is so rich, but Xiaoqian is so poor, do you think this is reasonable!"
"..."
Dad, in fact, people with the surname Qian are indeed very rich...
Cheng Yao listened to Cheng's father nagging for a while, how deteriorating the world is now, and criticized the society for a while, and was so teased by him that he completely forgot to talk about Qian Heng, so he finally hung up the phone.
Coincidentally, Qian Heng, who stayed at the law firm to work overtime, came back not long after the call was hung up.
Cheng Yao didn't delay for a minute, and hurried out of the room, with a flattering smile on her face, she snatched Qian Heng's bag: "Hey, boss, I'll carry it!"
As soon as Qian Heng took off his coat, Cheng Yao quickly snatched it up again: "I'll hang it up for you, I'll hang it up for you." While holding Qian Heng's coat, she praised, "The boss is the boss after all. Others just can't catch up with this style, look, you are wearing this windbreaker, this temperament, this style, it's so unique!"
Qian Heng glanced at Cheng Yao: "Unique? Cheng Yao, are you blind?" Qian Heng snorted coldly, with undisguised dissatisfaction in his voice, "Now the streets are full of imitations of Burberry trench coats, among ten men Nine are wearing clothes. I just took the elevator upstairs, and I also clashed with another person. I am still a bald man, and I don’t have a good reputation. Don’t hang up this clothes and throw them away for me.”
"..."
This flattery was a bit embarrassing, it hit the horse's feet...
But will this be difficult for Cheng Yao
impossible!
Cheng Yao said in a hurry: "Boss, I don't think this clothes can be thrown away!"
Qian Heng frowned as expected, and looked at Cheng Yao with some difficulty: "Why?"
"Although this dress is serious, it is precisely because of this that it shows your uniqueness! Let people know what it means to be imitated all the time and never surpassed!"
"..."
Cheng Yao met Qian Heng's playful eyes, and continued: "I'll iron it for you later. Drink a cup of hot water to warm it up first, because it's cold outside..." She poured Qian Heng a cup of hot tea while talking.
Qian Heng didn't answer, he glanced at Cheng Yao, and said in a calm voice, "Tell me, what do you want from me."
Cheng Yao immediately waved his hand to deny: "No, no, I just thought, Dong Shan's case is also over, the boss is going to move out, I am bathed in the advanced thinking of the boss, and the opportunity to accept the advice of the boss's professional elite is getting better and better. Less, I also want to express something!"
Qian Henghao calmed down: "So?"
Cheng Yao bit the bullet: "I'll just ask you when you're leaving, and I can pack it for you. I've lived here for so long, so there must be a lot of things. I can help with storage and cleaning."
Qian Heng sneered: "Cheng Yao, dare you drive me away."
"No no no, how dare I!" Cheng Yao rubbed her hands and explained: "No, my parents are coming next Sunday. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, I will tell them when I think about it. The two have already broken up, in order to verify this, why don't I help you move your house while you are free recently?"
As if to prove her own words, Cheng Yao added: "To be honest, I kind of miss our co-rental life. If the boss is going to leave, I will...I will miss you! Although we only rented together It's been a month, but for me, the boss is as kind as my family now, and I feel very sad in my heart, but I can't let the boss abandon the luxurious villa and stay with me because of my selfishness. Living in such a tasteless place!"
Qian Heng sat on the sofa, folded his hands on his lap, looked at Cheng Yao, noncommittal.
Cheng Yao swallowed her saliva, and said persistently: "But there is a good saying, tell me to go home and have a look, boss, you are gone, I welcome you here anytime, you can treat this place as your second home Already!"
Qian Heng smiled slightly: "Then that is to say, in your own heart, you really hope that I will continue to live?"
"Then why not!" Cheng Yao flattered subconsciously, "It's my honor to share a room with the boss!"
"Then I'll just continue to live with reluctance."
Cheng Yao:? ?
Wait, how is this different from the agreed script? ? ? The boss, a sick man, can't live in a big villa, so he can continue to endure this kind of mid-range (low-end in his opinion) community? ? ? What happened to Qian Heng? I'm afraid it's not sick!
Qian Heng admired all the complex looks on Yao's face, and then slowly took out his mobile phone and held it in front of Cheng Yao: "Just explain this rental information to me."
Cheng Yao's scalp went numb, and she felt that things were going to get worse...
Probably in order to facilitate Cheng Yao's viewing, Qian Heng "kindly" enlarged the font—
At this moment, there was a line of large characters on the screen of his mobile phone.
"Good house for rent! The only condition: I can repair the plumbing myself! Not the best!"
"..."
Qian Heng pursed his lips and smiled: "Do I need to scroll down to show you the picture of the room in this post to prove that it was you who posted it?"
Cheng Yao quibbled: "The layout of this type of room is probably similar to the furnishing style of the hardcover room. Boss, this is really not me!"
It's not that Cheng Yao is bragging. When she posted a post on the Internet forum in City A, she did some special work. The photos she took of the house carefully avoided recognizable parts. This post has been posted for three days, and there are many people who want to see the house, so Cheng Yao is gearing up and waiting for Qian Heng to move out. When new tenants come in, firstly, they can share the rent, and secondly, they can also share some housework. It couldn't be more perfect.
Facing Cheng Yao's sophistry, Qian Heng didn't say anything, he just took his mobile phone, found one of the photos of the listing, and then zoomed in on a certain corner of the photo.
Cheng Yao squinted her eyes for a long time before finally discovering the problem.
The corner that Qian Heng magnifies is a dining table table leg, and there are almost negligible small characters engraved on it——
"Dora I love you"
Cheng Yao looked at the leg of the table calmly, and sure enough, she saw the same character at the same position...
At this moment, there was only one voice in Cheng Yao's heart - fuck Dora!
Quality too! How can you randomly engrave characters on the table legs! I wish you all love! die fast!
However, in this battlefield without gunpowder smoke, in this battle with ironclad evidence, Cheng Yao has only one thought at the moment - I am defeated...
Cheng Yao was disheartened: "Boss, listen to my explanation. I'm just a poor little lawyer. You moved away. I really can't afford the rent. Don't I want to find someone to sublet it earlier..."
Qian Heng was in a good mood today. He didn't even go into Cheng Yao's request for renting. He said calmly, "Don't worry, I will pay the rent. There are some things that don't need to be packed."
"Hey?"
"It's fine to keep my room as it is." Qian Heng smiled, "This house is really close to Junheng. One day I have to work overtime in the office too late, and if I need to get up early the next day, I can live here It's also very convenient. Besides, didn't you let me go home and have a look?"
"..."
That's really just polite talk! ! ! And the boss who comes back to live from time to time sounds more scary than the permanent boss. This is more terrifying than the head teacher who makes surprise inspections from time to time, and is more terrifying than the head teacher who checks at a fixed time every day! ! !