After dinner, Xu Huaisong called Liu Mao to confirm whether the colleague in charge of Zhou Jun's case was at the law firm. After receiving a positive reply, he drove over.
Liu Mao turned his head and told the news. In the hall, the lawyers who were about to get off work all stretched in twos and threes, as if being choked by fate.
The one who had just turned off the desk lamp was the first to turn it back on, and said, "Suddenly remembered that there is still a document that has not been sent, so you go first."
Immediately afterwards, the one who just closed the laptop also slapped his head: "Hey, look at my memory, I missed a report and didn't do it." Said and sat down.
In an instant, the entire hall fell like the wind passing through the grass.
A minute later, everything was back to the orderly state it was half an hour ago, except for the sound of crackling keyboards and flipping books, making it even more passionate.
Liu Mao, who was standing at the door with a bag, sighed and returned to the office.
The two young girls at the front desk followed suit.
"What do you think Xu Lu likes to drink?"
"coffee?"
"Concentrated? American? Latte? Mocha?"
"You can't go wrong if you have prepared everything. What are you so excited about?"
"Oh, the last time Xu Lv returned to China, you must not be there? After seeing you in person, you won't be so calm now!"
I showed up half an hour later.
The two were ready to go, and they were about to warmly welcome them with a perfect smile with eight teeth, but they froze when they only showed four teeth in the middle of the grin.
At the main entrance of the law firm, their Xu Lv walked over with a girl by the hand.
The girl who was being led didn't look at the road the whole time, but tilted her head and smiled as she talked to him. When going up the steps, he pulled her hard with his hand, and said, "Walk at your feet when you walk."
The girl curled her lips, and withdrew her hand from his palm, muttering with a hint of preposterous attitude: "I want to see my feet... Did you pull my hand for nothing?"
Then, they saw that their Xu Lv snatched the girl's hand back with a smile, and said, "Then let me see."
The two of them lost their four-toothed smiles, and they regained their normal expressions after cheering up. When Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu passed the front desk, they said in unison, "Hello, Xu Lu!"
Xu Huaisong stopped and said to them, "Ask someone to go to my car and share the supper with everyone."
The two hurriedly responded "OK", and only after he left the hall did he lose his face: "The furthest distance in the world is when you fall in love at the first glance and fall in love at the next glance..."
"I was here to prepare him the espresso latte mocha, but he brought me heavy dog food..."
The two of them hugged their heads and screamed.
Ruan Yu, who had just turned up the stairs, heard the slight noise, looked back in the direction of the hall, and asked, "What's wrong with them?"
Xu Huaisong thought for a while, then smiled inexplicably: "Maybe it's because I'm happy to have supper."
The two went up to the hall on the second floor, Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu stood outside the door and took a look in.
Immediately, a group of people stood up and greeted: "Xu Lv."
Xu Huaisong nodded to them, then turned around and explained to her: "This is the general office, and the conference room is upstairs."
Ruan Yu also nodded to the people who were looking at her, then pulled Xu Huaisong's cuffs, signaling him to leave quickly.
He looked down at her hand, smiled, turned his head upstairs, and asked her on the way: "Find you a rest room, or do you want to go to the conference room with me?"
"meeting room."
Xu Huaisong nodded.
When the two arrived, Liu Mao, Chen Hui and another female lawyer were already waiting inside. After a few people said hello, an assistant came in to deliver coffee.
Seeing Ruan Yu, he hesitated to speak and glanced at Xu Huaisong.
Meeting her eyes, he paused the hand that took the coffee, and waved his hand to signal that he would not drink: "Give me plain water."
Liu Mao looked at Ruan Yu and then at him: "I finally know how to nourish my stomach."
Xu Huaisong flew over with a sharp look: "What are you doing here, a civil lawyer?"
"Hey? Then you, who have never passed any exams, are here..."
Xu Huaisong's face darkened, Liu Mao stopped instantly, taking his face into consideration and did not continue.
Ruan Yu pursed his lips, looked up at the ceiling and stopped laughing.
Boiled water is in place, and several people get to the point.
The criminal lawyer in charge of this case is called Zhang Ling, who looks to be in her early forties and quite capable.
Ruan Yu heard Chen Hui call her "Sister Zhang", and after thinking about it, she remembered that this was probably the day Xu Huaisong returned to China for the second time. He ran into trouble on the construction site, which caused Chen Hui to rush away and was unable to send them off. The female lawyer who came to the law firm.
Zhang Ling handed Xu Huaisong a stack of documents, and said, "After talking with the client, I sorted out this document, you can read it first." Then she turned to Chen Hui and said, "Xiao Chen, let me explain the details."
Chen Hui walked to the whiteboard, picked up a marker pen, wrote key information on it, and said: "According to the client, the victim was not at the scene when he was killed. About 20 minutes before the incident, he was driving He had a verbal conflict with the victim, so he parked the car on the side of the mountain road and got out of the car to breathe."
"The reason for the conflict?" Xu Huaisong asked.
"The victim checked the client's mobile phone in the car and found several ambiguous text messages, which seemed to be evidence of his cheating."
"Is cheating really there?"
"It does exist." Chen Hui nodded, "The client said that once a month ago, he acted impulsively after drinking after a fierce argument with the victim, and then broke contact with the victim, that is, a one-night stand. But the other party from time to time Will come to correspond with him."
Xu Huaisong nodded: "Continue to talk about the situation at that time."
"The client said that after he got out of the car, the victim got out of the car, and the verbal conflict with him turned into a physical conflict. The piece of flesh under her nails was rubbed off his forearm at that time."
"Then, the victim said harshly, 'There must be a way to make you regret it', returned to the car and drove away."
"Fifty minutes later, the client who was on the side of the road received a call from the victim's father. It turned out that the victim's father could not contact her again after receiving her daughter's call for help. During this period, the client called the police and went through several The channel obtained the client's mobile phone number."
"The victim's father was very emotional and asked him what he had done to his daughter. Through the conversation, he learned that half an hour ago, the victim had asked his father for help on the phone and said, 'Zhou Jun, let me go'. His first reaction was to think of When I heard the phrase 'there must be a way to make you regret it', I mistakenly thought that it was her making things difficult."
"So, he called the victim's mobile phone. The call was connected by the police who had arrived at the scene of the crime. He judged from the sound of the siren that the victim had indeed had an accident. It was also in that noisy phone call that he vaguely heard 'the driving recorder chip is missing, Found a claw hammer' and so on."
"The client hung up the phone in a hurry. Combining the above, he suspected that the victim took death to avenge himself, and planned to blame him for his death through the flesh under the fingernails, the fingerprints of the claw hammer, and the call for help. Therefore, he chose In order to hide, and in the middle of the night, forced to borrow the mobile phone of the owner of the night snack stall on the side of the road to ask Brother Song and Miss Ruan for help."
Xu Huaisong frowned: "What caused him to firmly believe that this was the victim's revenge? It's impossible to come to this conclusion based on a single threatening word."
"Yes, this is the key point of this case." Chen Hui nodded, "According to the client's statement, the reason why he thinks so is because the victim has committed similar acts."
"In the quarrel just a month ago, before the two broke up, the victim made the same threat to him, and indeed posted a photo of the wrist cutting in the circle of friends, although it turned out that it was a small fight to scare him, But it still cast a shadow over him."
"This is evidence in favor of the client. Is the circle of friends still there?" Xu Huaisong asked immediately.
"Deleted, but there may be witnesses, or a chance to recover."
"What's going on with the police?"
"The second suspect has not been found for the time being, and the police tend to suspect that the suspect has adapted the real situation. They believe that it is relatively safe for the victim to drive away, and the murder is more likely to occur in the physical conflict described by the client."
Ruan Yu frowned upon hearing this.
Xu Huaisong caught the change in her expression and asked, "What's wrong? I have an opinion to share."
She let out a low "ah": "I just think that the statement 'driving away is relatively safe' is reasonable, but it is not reasonable. Normally, the driver is of course a powerful group, but in this case, the driver must be considered. The person is a woman who first learned that her boyfriend was cheating."
Xu Huaisong nodded: "Go on."
"According to the client's description, I think the victim should be an impatient and impulsive person. How far can such a person really drive the car after driving away in a rage? If I were her, knowing her boyfriend..."
Xu Huaisong coughed and looked suspiciously.
The originally serious occasion suddenly became weird, and Liu Mao let out a "chi" laugh.
Ruan Yu plucked Liu Hai to clear his throat: "I mean, in that case, the victim might have stepped on the brakes after driving for a while and stopped to calm herself down. Maybe the accident happened after she stopped?"
Zhang Ling nodded: "I agree with this speculation."
Xu Huaisong also let out a "huh". In addition to using myself as an example, it is quite worthy of recognition.
Zhang Ling continued: "This is what we have learned so far. The follow-up investigation and evidence collection will take one month before the case enters the review stage."
Xu Huaisong nodded, flipping through the documents and discussing the details with her, until nearly ten o'clock, when he saw Ruan Yu cover his mouth and yawn. He closed the file: "It's getting late, that's all for today, hard work."
Zhang Ling and Chen Hui went downstairs together.
Seeing the two come back, the lawyers in the hall below seemed to be pardoned.
Someone sighed: "Not bad, it will end before ten o'clock. I thought that according to Xu Lv's schedule, you would chat until midnight."
While packing up the materials, Chen Hui said "tsk": "You don't understand this, do you know what is the 'short board effect'? Xu Lu goes to bed in the middle of the night, but Miss Ruan is sleepy, so you can't press it." Is your girlfriend's schedule coming?"
Someone uttered a "wow", "Is that really Xu Lu's girlfriend?"
"Hey, why do I hear this surname so familiar? A while ago, did our law firm accept a client surnamed Ruan?"
"That said, it seems like I've seen it before. I felt familiar just now."
"What's the matter? Can the lawyer and the client succeed? Why have I taken so many cases for so many years and failed to succeed in any of them?"
"Hehe, don't even look at it. What kind of divorce cases are you accepting?"
"Can you ask Xu Lv to tell us about your experience in chasing the client?"
"As for Xu Lu's frigidity, it is estimated that his sister is chasing after him desperately?"
When Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu went downstairs, they just heard these last words.
Ruan Yu didn't respond yet, Xu Huaisong, who was about to turn downstairs, was silent, let go of her, and turned to enter the hall.
A group of gossip people turned serious in seconds: "Xu Lu is good!"
Xu Huaisong said "um", and stood silently by the door for a long time. When everyone thought he was going to get angry because of these gossips, he smiled and said: "First, the basis for fully performing the duties and obligations of a lawyer In terms of innocence, the client's demands can be appropriately accommodated."
Everyone was stunned and confused.
Xu Huaisong continued to talk eloquently: "Second, you can use case discussions. Make an extra appointment with the client for business reasons. It is recommended to meet at meal time."
Someone gave a low "wow" and understood what he was answering.
"Third, you can lie occasionally. For example, in order to pay off your colleagues downstairs, ask your colleagues to answer an emergency call, saying that something went wrong in the law firm, and then, as a matter of course, go to the client's home alone to discuss the matter."
I don't know who led the applause, and there was thunderous applause in the hall: "Xu Lv, tall!"
Xu Huaisong nodded to them and smiled: "Leave work early." Turning around after speaking, he saw Ruan Yu by the stairs with an expression of "I'm about to cry".
He took her hand and walked downstairs: "Why, you know that I was wronged when I deliberately dismissed Chen Hui and lied to you?"
"It's not important anymore..." Ruan Yu pouted and shook his head, "I don't care about being talked about by people I don't know, they are your subordinates, your face is more important, why..."
Why did she go out of her way to explain who is chasing whom in order to protect her face.
Xu Huaisong smiled and scratched her nose lightly: "I like it."