Qi Xi originally thought that she and Gu Yan could solve the crisis for Cheng Junliang, but she and Gu Yan did not expect that after only one day, she and Gu Yan received Cheng Junliang's desperate call for help—
"The client refuses to say anything, and I must pay her 120,000 yuan immediately, or I will immediately complain to the Lawyers Association." Cheng Junliang said anxiously and helplessly, "I originally asked her to come to the coffee shop to communicate, but now she I got a few people to block me in the coffee shop, and asked me to sign a letter promising to give her money within three days, otherwise I would not be let go... "
The matter was urgent, Qi Xi and Gu Yan couldn't care about anything else, they rushed to the coffee shop where Cheng Junliang was blocked almost immediately, and the two of them finally saw this client—
Surprisingly, the other party looked very young, but his style was quite sophisticated. He obviously came prepared and brought a few burly men with him.
Qi Xi ordered a cup of milk tea for the other party to ease the atmosphere, then looked at the other party with a smile, and said in a gentle tone: "We are Cheng Junliang's friends, let's sit down and discuss things slowly, we also know about yours , Cheng Junliang is collecting money."
Hearing that Cheng Junliang was collecting money, the other party's mood finally eased, and he waved his hand to let a few burly men who were traveling with him leave first, while he sat down.
During the conversation, Qi Xi got a general idea of Cheng Junliang's client. The other party's name was Lu Juan, who was actually two years younger than Qi Xi and the others, but she dropped out of school at the age of sixteen and came out to work. Based on the number of working years, she was quite a I'm old, so I'm already very social.
Although the level of education is not high, Lu Juan looks quite shrewd.
It was obvious that Qi Xi and his party were lawyers, but in the communication and negotiation with Lu Juan, when money was involved, Lu Juan was pressing every step of the way and was very strong, showing the momentum of not giving up an inch.
Pan Zhendong, who owes Lu Juan 120,000 yuan, is her ex-boyfriend. The two work together in KTV. They are both strangers and similar in age. Therefore, they have a lot in common and soon fell in love and lived together.
"We have a very good relationship. We originally planned to get married this year. I took him back to my hometown to meet my parents in the middle of last year. But because my parents wanted a gift of 100,000 yuan, he couldn't afford that much money at once. From me After he came back from his hometown, he claimed that he wanted to save up for a gift in order to marry me, so he had to save all his money."
Lu Juan took a sip of milk tea, paused, and then continued: "I thought about it, and I think it's reasonable. After all, I have an older brother in my family. My parents must use the gift money to find a wife for my older brother." , and will not subsidize our small family, Pan Zhendong does not dislike our family, and is willing to live with me in a down-to-earth way, I am also very touched."
Qi Xi understood a little: "So all the expenses between you are from you?"
Sure enough, Lu Juan nodded: "That's right, I will pay for the rent, water and electricity, and daily food and drink. But the income of KTV work is not high. He has saved a lot of money for a long time. He said he I met a boss, in order to marry me as soon as possible, I decided to start a business with my boss, but I lacked a start-up capital... "
Qi Xi frowned: "So you lent him the money?"
Lu Juan nodded: "The money I earned over the years was spent on food and drink, and the rest was sent to my family. I don't have any savings, but for Pan Zhendong's success in starting a business, and for us to collect enough gift money to get married and start a family as soon as possible." , I borrowed an online loan, and actually only borrowed 50,000 yuan, but the interest rate has now become 120,000 yuan."
Not surprisingly, Pan Zhendong's entrepreneurial venture seems to have failed.
When Lu Juan said this, she was also a little depressed: "How do you know that not only did he not make any money, but he also lost a lot of money, filling in all the money he saved for marrying me before. Now the online loan on my body is overdue , I was called for debts every day, I didn’t dare to turn on the phone, and the manager of the KTV was harassed, so I even lost my job, Pan Zhendong couldn’t pay me back, and he refused to find a Work and go to work and pay off the debt slowly, and still only think about continuing to start a business with that 'boss', asking me to borrow an online loan again, saying that this time it will definitely succeed... "
Hearing these words, Qi Xi was quite embarrassed. She never thought that such a shrewd Lu Juan would be so naive when she encounters love.
Without experience, how can such a venture succeed.
After all, there are very few talents who can successfully start a business. Most people are very lucky to have stable jobs and income.
Unexpectedly, at this point, when Lu Juan mentioned Pan Zhendong, she couldn't help beautifying him: "Although he doesn't have much money, he treats me really well. He is indeed the best person I have ever met in my life. I am a human being, treating me better than my parents."
When Lu Juan spoke up to this point, her eye circles couldn't help turning slightly red: "The debt collector came to me every day, and I was in a bad mood, so I quarreled with him all day long, and ended up losing my relationship. In the end, he broke up with me, but He acknowledged all the money owed, gave me an IOU of 120,000 yuan, and promised that he would be responsible for my online loan."
Lu Juan sniffed: "I don't want to be emotional or not now, I just want to get the money. Pan Zhendong really made a little money with the small entrepreneurial boss recently. He could still get money with this IOU. I went to ask for money, but lawyer Cheng Junliang lost my IOU!"
Sure enough, as soon as we got into the topic of money, Lu Juan's shrewdness came back: "Now that Pan Zhendong knows that I don't have an IOU, he refuses to admit that he asked me to borrow money! When he broke up with me and wrote the IOU, he still had some feelings for me. I am willing to be responsible like a man, and now we have broken up for a while, and his business has improved and needs more investment costs, so I heard that the IOU is lost, and I plan to renege on it!"
When Lu Juan said this, she glared at Cheng Junliang who was at a loss and said, "So the money that I was supposed to get back, but because you lost my IOU carelessly, I will not come back! Do you know that 120,000 is a sum of money?" How many years will it take me to save the numbers? Do you know what kind of debt collection companies have forced me to do if I don't have the money! "
It has to be said that Lu Juan's emotions can be controlled freely. As soon as she finished questioning Cheng Junliang, tears fell down the next moment, and her emotions took a turn for the worse: "Lawyer Cheng, you must be responsible to me. You must give it to me. My parents don’t know about this, otherwise they will definitely kill me. Not only did I not take the money home this year, but I am also in debt. I have to pay back the money within a few days, and now I have insomnia every day. If you don’t give me this money, I won’t be able to live, and I can only think of death…”
Cheng Junliang had never seen this battle before, and the problem was indeed caused by his own negligence, so he immediately felt embarrassed and guilty: "I... I don't have so much money, how about I pay you in installments... You give me a period of time..."
Lu Juan waited so clearly that this was the sentence, she wiped her tears, and immediately said: "That's fine! If the debt collector can see me and pay back a little money first, he won't push me so hard, but you can't do it all at once. If you pay me back, what if you ran away after repaying the first few sums? Why don't you write me a written statement today, and write clearly when the 120,000 yuan will be repaid in the end, and then you can slowly pay me back. , everyone is at ease, I will forget about this matter, and I will not tell your boss, nor will I report it to any bar association, everyone is ordinary people, and we must forgive others and forgive others."
Cheng Junliang was obviously moved, but when he was about to agree to Lu Juan, Gu Yan stopped him—
"There's no rush for the paperwork. Cheng Junliang has just started working and doesn't have that much money. He came to us to collect together. He wants to give you the money, how to install it, and the progress of the installment. We still need to discuss it. Well, I will ask you to meet here tomorrow."
Lu Juan looked at Gu Yan for a few times, and probably still felt that Cheng Junliang could run away like a monk but couldn't run away from the temple. Seeing Cheng Junliang's face full of shame, she didn't refute, thought for a while, and agreed to Gu Yan's plan.
**
As soon as Lu Juan left, Cheng Junliang's expression collapsed: "Is there any place where I can do private work of English translation of legal contracts? I'll take it if it's cheaper..."
"Don't worry about this." Gu Yan frowned slightly, "I only have one question, since Lu Juan and Pan Zhendong broke up a long time ago, you lost the original IOU, obviously only she and you should know about it, Why did Pan Zhendong know all about this? How did he know that the IOU was lost? How could he be sure that it must be gone, so he dared to refuse to pay back the money?”
Gu Yan pursed his lips: "Unless Lu Juan took the initiative to tell him that the IOU was lost."
That's right!
Qi Xi finally knew where Lu Juan's deep sense of disobedience came from.
Everything seems reasonable, but the reasonableness of Lu Juan's various reactions always gives people a well-designed feeling. She seems to have preset the feedback she should make in each scene, pretending to be cruel for a while, subdued for a while, and crying poorly for a while. Threatened for a while, but now I think about it, it's almost watertight.
Cheng Junliang was still a little dazed, but Qi Xi came to his senses. She looked at Gu Yan: "So you think there's something tricky about Pan Zhendong's refusal to pay back the money?"
Gu Yan nodded: "It's not that easy to start a business, not to mention that according to Lu Juan's description, Pan Zhendong came to work after graduating from technical secondary school, and he didn't learn any skills. He was a small manager who managed waiters in KTV. This Environment, not to mention being able to meet any particularly high-level big bosses, just with his experience alone, it is hard to say that he can turn around and stop losses soon and still make money if he goes to start a business with the "big bosses" he knows."
When Gu Yan said this, Qi Xi understood.
If Pan Zhendong had no money at all, even if Lu Juan had the original IOU, she could win the lawsuit and apply for compulsory enforcement, but nothing would be enforced.
In this case, even if the IOU is lost and recovered, Lu Juan will not get a penny even if she wins the lawsuit. On the contrary, she still needs to pay the lawyer's fee.
But if Lu Juan claims that Pan Zhendong has the money to pay her back now, and just refuses to pay back the money on the grounds that she has no IOU, then the culprit that Lu Juan can't get 120,000 yuan will become the one who lost the IOU. Cheng Junliang, using this excuse, can make Cheng Junliang compensate her for the loss.
After all, Cheng Junliang also graduated from law school, and he was a little confused in his own incident before, but now that Gu Yan clicked here, he also understood.
He suddenly realized: "Under normal circumstances, if Pan Zhendong really has money to return to Lu Juan, Lu Juan would never tell Pan Zhendong that she lost her IOU."
"That's right." Qi Xi also had lingering fears, and she almost believed Lu Juan's words just now, "I didn't expect her to be younger than us, but she has more calculations than us."
Only then did Cheng Junliang fully react, recalling the suspicious clues in the past: "No wonder I said at the beginning that she was in a hurry when I lost the IOU, but after a few days, she was not in a hurry. I communicated with her and continued to sue for her. Even after the plan that she might win the case without an IOU, she was instructed to continue to go to Pan Zhendong to obtain evidence, and even asked Pan Zhendong to sign a new IOU if possible, but she was really not active about it, not that Pan Zhendong could not be contacted. That is to say, Pan Zhendong refused. At first I thought it would be difficult for them to communicate emotionally after they broke up, so I asked her for Pan Zhendong's contact information, and wanted me to find him by myself, but Lu Juan also pushed back and refused to give it to me... "
The three of them looked at each other a few times and knew that the matter was not going to be resolved.
In the profession of lawyers, once the client and the lawyer are of the same mind, it will be profitable, but if the client has a small heart in his heart and the lawyer's flaws and mistakes in his hands, it will be troublesome.
Qi Xi also became frowning: "I'm afraid even if you want to get Pan Zhendong's contact information, you will not be able to go to him to obtain evidence, because Pan Zhendong and Lu Juan may have already colluded."
After all, Cheng Junliang lost the IOU, and as long as Lu Juan and Pan Zhendong do their best, it will be a win-win situation for both of them—Lu Juan can get the money from Cheng Junliang, and Pan Zhendong will no longer have to be responsible for the debt, perfect completion Debt transfer and zeroing out.
Cheng Junliang looked depressed, but Qi Xi had an idea: "When Lu Juan handed over the original IOU to you, did you have evidence? Did you sign the original handover form? She handed over the materials to you and there is a third person present Is it? Is there surveillance in your office to prove that she handed it over to you?"
Cheng Junliang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "I haven't signed the original handover form, she gave it to me by herself. The rest of the lawyers in the firm went out that day, so I received her alone, and there is no surveillance in our office area."
Qi Xi thought for a while: "Then how did you communicate with her after you lost the IOU? Did she make any recordings or other evidence?"
"This matter is too big. I feel that wechat texts disrespect her, and I can't explain it clearly on the phone, so I apologized to her face to face and talked about it. The subsequent communication was also to express my apology and sincerity. It was done face to face. I’m also pretty sure she didn’t record anything, because she didn’t know what was going on when she was first asked out, and it’s impossible to prepare recordings and evidence collection in advance.”
After Cheng Junliang finished speaking, he felt pain again: "Ah, actually, I sorted out the rest of the evidence, and thought that as long as Pan Zhendong didn't find out that I had lost the IOU, I could win the case. It's all ruined."
Cheng Junliang's eyes were a little red, and there was real despair and helplessness in his eyes: "120,000, how long will it take me to save up to 120,000 if I don't eat or drink..."
He also had deep dark circles under his eyes, and his face was very haggard and gloomy. I'm afraid he hasn't had a good night's sleep in a while.
Qi Xi thought for a while: "Actually, there is another way."
Cheng Junliang looked at her hopelessly, apparently not taking it seriously.
Qi Xi took a deep breath: "Although you lost the IOU first, you could have made up for it, but now that Lu Juan doesn't cooperate with the evidence collection and is determined to blackmail you, then she is not benevolent, and we are not righteous."
Cheng Junliang was at a loss: "What do you mean?"
Gu Yan pursed her lips: "What she means is that Lu Juan did lend money to Pan Zhendong, but as long as there is not enough evidence to support it in law, this fact will not be recognized. Then, even if you really lost Lu Juan's The IOU, but Lu Juan has no evidence to prove that she gave you the original IOU. As long as she can't prove it, the law will not recognize this fact, so fundamentally speaking, from the perspective of law and evidence, you simply confiscated it. I’ve been to Lu Juan’s original IOU, and I haven’t lost it at all.”
Qi Xi really looked at Gu Yan with admiration, he seemed to be able to quickly understand Qi Xi's way of thinking from the minutiae every time.
"Yes, that's what Gu Yan said." Qi Xi blinked, "This is also a completely normal litigation strategy. Although you are also a trainee lawyer, you have never stipulated that a trainee lawyer cannot encounter legal problems or become a client. Then, regarding you as my client, I put aside your identity as a classmate, and stand completely from the perspective of a lawyer, and I will definitely give you such advice in your case."
Once you think this way, the problem will be solved.
"Lu Juan lost the lawsuit because Pan Zhendong refused to admit the loan because he didn't have the original IOU. Then once Lu Juan sues you, claiming that you lost the original IOU, you can use the same strategy as Pan Zhendong. If you don’t admit that you have received the original IOU, then there is no such thing as you losing it, and naturally you don’t need to be responsible.”
After Qi Xi finished speaking, he glanced at Cheng Junliang and added: "After all, there is no evidence to prove that you have received the IOU. There is also no evidence to prove that you lost the IOU."
When she said this, Cheng Junliang's eyes lit up completely, and he was so emotional all of a sudden, he directly held Qi Xi's hand and said in a grateful voice: "Qi Xi, it's you! You are so amazing! Why didn't I expect that?" !"
Probably Qi Xi came up with this solution first, Gu Yan looked at Cheng Junliang and Qi Xi who were dancing and danced, with a very cold expression on his face: "Can you stop being so excited before the matter is resolved."
The man was critical and said: "Holding hands and being happy, people who don't know think that you are going to get married. Is this such a good thing?"
Having said that, Cheng Junliang immediately let go of Qi Xi's hand in embarrassment, and scratched his head in embarrassment: "This time, thanks to the two of you who gave me an idea, I am also a trainee lawyer myself, and I know that it takes so much energy and time. Things can't be taken advantage of by lawyers, if you want, can the two of you represent me in this case together? Just treat me as your client, and I can leave it to you to handle the subsequent communication and confrontation with Lu Juan. "
Cheng Junliang's face was very ashamed: "I don't have any brains, I'm afraid of showing timidity in front of her and I'm afraid of making mistakes again."
Afraid that Qi Xi and Gu Yan would refuse, he immediately added: "Although I know this case is small and the lawyer's fee is not much, I still hope you can help me with this."
Qi Xi thought for a while, then looked at Gu Yan eagerly: "Can we take it?"
Gu Yan frowned: "Recently, I heard from my sister that there will be a labor dispute class action case soon. Just the evidence and materials alone will take a few suitcases. It may be tiring later. I suggest..."
Qi Xi couldn't help pouting, she would subconsciously do this every time she was rejected, like an angry little puffer fish, and then she looked at Gu Yan pitifully: "Is it true that you can't accept it?"
Gu Yan was stunned for a moment, then coughed, he looked away unnaturally, but his voice was still calm: "I didn't say no, what I just wanted to say is that I suggest to solve it as soon as possible after answering, Deal with it in a short front, and don't affect the subsequent class action cases."
Very good! It turns out that Gu Yan and his own thoughts are the same!
However, both of them are trainee lawyers and cannot handle cases independently. Even if the source of the case is taken by themselves, they need to be named by a teaching lawyer.
On the way back to the law firm, Qi Xi was very proud: "Lawyer Gu will definitely praise us, right? Although the amount of the case is small, we have just practiced, and we have a strong thinking about expanding the source of cases. Generally speaking, we are so teachable, Our future is bright!"
It's a pity that compared to Qi Xi's vision, Gu Yan doesn't seem so optimistic: "Don't think too much."
"Could it be that Lawyer Gu's requirements are particularly high, and praise is particularly rare?"
Gu Yan didn't answer any more, just pursed his lips and frowned slightly.
Qi Xi didn't care too much, she felt that even if Gu Xuehan didn't praise them, he could at least recognize their efforts.
**
It's just that Qi Xi didn't expect that when she and Gu Yan reported to Gu Xuehan about their plan to take over Cheng Junliang's case, what they got was not only praise, but Gu Xuehan's downcast face and merciless criticism—
"You guys are just fooling around!"
Gu Xuehan's tone was filled with restrained anger: "Who came up with such a bad idea?"
How did he hit the muzzle of the gun
It was Qi Xi who reported the case just now, and now facing Gu Xuehan's questioning, although he was apprehensive and afraid, Qi Xi still decided to stand up and admit it.
But before she could speak, she heard Gu Yan's voice taking a step ahead of her—
"it's me."
Gu Xuehan showed obvious dissatisfaction: "What do you think?"
"Legally speaking, the operation you envisaged is indeed no problem, it can shirk responsibility to the maximum extent, and there is no problem with the strategy of responding to the lawsuit, but do you really have a clear conscience when you operate this way?"
Gu Xuehan's expression was solemn and serious: "Cheng Junliang's client is indeed not perfect, and he does have a lot of selfishness, but Cheng Junliang is a lawyer, and as a lawyer, he has the duty of a lawyer. If he hadn't lost the original IOU first, Lu Juan would have Do you think of the current method? Since Cheng Junliang himself is the instigator, the first reaction should be to make up for the loss of the client as much as possible."
"As lawyers, although we should consider as much as possible for our clients when we consider issues, the legal issues dealt with by lawyers are, in the final analysis, dealing with interpersonal issues between people. Whether it is divorce or infringement disputes, the end point is It’s a human problem. To handle a case properly and properly, the purpose should not be to suppress and do everything possible to harm the rights and interests of the other party for your client’s sake, but to strike a balance.”
"Of course, you can use the methods you mentioned to deal with Lu Juan, but will Lu Juan be convinced? No, what does 120,000 yuan mean to a person like her? Barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, she will use any means to go For bothering Cheng Junliang or you who are the lawyers handling the case, even if the Lawyers Association complains to the court, there is no evidence to prove that the original IOU has been handed over and nothing can be done, but Lu Juan has a lot of ways to make the three of you unable to work and live normally. No matter what Whether it’s pulling banners and sending harassing text messages or exposing it online, you don’t want to open this Pandora’s box.”
Gu Xuehan looked at Gu Yan: "As a lawyer, you may meet all kinds of clients, but what kind of people are the clients, we can't become people like Lu Juan because of this, we can't use evil to fight evil, clients Our badness is not a valid reason for our badness."
What he said made Qi Xi embarrassed and ashamed.
Indeed, at that time, she was only thinking about helping Cheng Junliang shirk responsibility, she was completely thinking about how to get out at the legal level by relying on legal professional operations, and she didn't think about the rest of the follow-up at all.
"Professionals do professional things. Lawyers should protect the rights of their clients, but lawyers should also have a holistic view. Many clients don't know whether their demands are the most suitable for him. Just like Cheng Junliang, he is in it. Currently I can only short-sightedly think of escaping the 120,000 yuan compensation liability first, but since you want to represent him, as Cheng Junliang’s lawyer, you should not be like him, but should look at the overall situation: once Cheng Junliang shirks Will Lu Juan go crazy if she loses responsibility? Lu Juan has lost control of her emotions, and spreading this matter everywhere is a good thing for Cheng Junliang's future? "
"Lu Juan knows that the two of you single-handedly made Cheng Junliang do this. She knows that you two are lawyers. While pestering Cheng Junliang, she will kill you two at the same time."
Gu Xuehan's tone was full of hatred, "Gu Yan, are you using your brain?"
…
Because Gu Yan blocked the responsibility, Gu Xuehan's firepower was also concentrated on Gu Yan. Not only did she not blame her own brother, but she criticized it even more severely.
Gu Yan has always been the darling of the school and teachers at school, this is almost the first time Qi Xi has seen him being trained like this.
In the final analysis, the person who really wanted to practice this plan was himself. Although Gu Yan also thought of this operation, he never supported or persuaded Cheng Junliang to do so in terms of his attitude.
Although he didn't want to be reprimanded, and didn't want to leave a bad impression on the boss, Qi Xi still had a pale face in the end, intending to stand up and admit: "Lawyer Gu, I'm actually the one who made this plan..."
But before she finished speaking, Gu Yan interrupted her: "It has nothing to do with you."
After Gu Yan finished speaking, he looked at Gu Xuehan calmly again: "It's my problem that one person does something while the other is in charge."
Gu Xuehan was obviously even more merciless towards her younger brother, but Gu Yan pursed her lips and didn't say a word. In the end, she forcibly endured all the infamy alone.