Xu Huaisong, who scored 82 points, was watched by Ruan Yu and recited the law for a week.
For seven days in a row, every night before going to bed, I sat on the bed shoulder to shoulder with her, with a mountain of books on my lap, and was drawn by her to memorize each of them.
But in the end, it usually ended with Ruan Yu falling asleep in his arms because he was so bored.
One day after a week, Sister Zhang called and asked him if he would go to Suzhou City together to investigate Zhou Jun's case.
It has been nearly ten days since the case entered the prosecution stage. Zhang Ling and Chen Hui have successively interviewed several key figures in the case. This time they went back to Suzhou City to conduct an in-depth investigation of the defendant.
As Xu Huaisong was a classmate of Zhou Jun in his youth and a neighbor in the same area, if he participated in it, to a certain extent, it would help improve the cooperation of the interviewees and collect more information beneficial to the defendant.
So without hesitation, he asked Zhang Ling about the departure time.
Ruan Yu was sitting next to him revising the script, listened to it a few times, waited for him to hang up the phone, leaned over and said, "Can I go with you?"
Xu Huaisong glanced at her: "Are you going to watch me recite the law on a business trip?"
She had a disgusted expression of "not knowing good people": "Isn't I also familiar with Su City? I want to help."
Xu Huaisong smiled: "Is there no meeting arrangement tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?"
Ruan Yu confirmed with a glance at the Huanshi platoon meeting: "It will be the day after tomorrow."
The meeting frequency of Huanshi during this period is generally about once every ten days. Ever since she met Wei Jin and Sun Miaohan at the apartment that night, she has not been to the company and has been revising the script remotely.
However, after knowing that the movie might be out of print, her enthusiasm will inevitably be frustrated, and her work efficiency will also drop a lot.
Seeing her frantically revising the script, Xu Huaisong took her to Su City the next day.
Chen Hui was driving, and Zhang Ling was in the co-pilot and reported to Xu Huaisong in the back seat: "As mentioned earlier, the client mistakenly believed that the key reason why the victim took revenge with death was a wrist-cutting post she posted on Moments a month before her death. Photo. I investigated the matter and confirmed that the victim downloaded the photo from an online platform. That is to say, the victim did not really commit extreme acts.”
"Aiming at this point, the prosecution may raise questions: first, the client has been in a relationship with the victim for one year and three months, and there is no reason why she cannot recognize her wrist. Second, there is no scar on the victim's wrist. In the month, I kept it from the client."
"But according to the client's statement, his first reaction when he saw the photo was very flustered, and he didn't make a careful identification at all. Then the photo was quickly deleted, and the victim's wrist was wrapped in gauze for a long time, and then he put on a watch. He doesn't think his girlfriend will lie to him, and he has never verified it."
Ruan Yu let out a "hiss" when he heard this.
"Huh?" Xu Huaisong turned his head.
Ruan Yu thought for a while and said, "I made up the psychology of the victim and the client, but there is no basis."
Knowing that she had a bigger brain than anyone else here, Xu Huaisong felt that it might as well listen, and said, "You can talk about it, the investigation is a process of bold guessing and careful verification."
"The client cheated after drinking on the night of the quarrel with the victim; and the victim released the wrist-cut photos early the next morning after the client cheated, right?"
"right."
"Then I think, maybe the victim knew that the client was cheating before posting the photos, or more precisely, it was because she knew the client was cheating that she released the photos in an attempt to tie him up with guilt and fake a circumcision." wrist incident."
"Originally, she reconciled with the client after the incident, thinking that this method worked, but that day in the car, she saw the record of his one-night stand again, so she collapsed on the spot."
"Because of the guilt of derailment, the client may have been unwilling to face the victim's scar subconsciously, so he didn't take the initiative to verify it, or even if he did, the victim covered it up."
Zhang Ling said silently: "But what evidence can prove these inferences?"
This Ruan Yu didn't know. She is a romance writer. From the psychological point of view of love, she came up with such a result, which can be said to be reasonable, but finding evidence is the specialty of lawyers.
Xu Huaisong thought for a while and said, "Did the victim have any close female friends before his death?"
"Two college roommates."
He nodded: "After arriving in Suzhou City, Miss Zhang will contact these two people. Xiao Chen and I will visit the client's residence as originally planned."
Ruan Yu followed Xu Huaisong to Zhou Jun's house.
Zhou Jun's original address was in the same area as Ruan Yu's and Xu Huaisong's grandma's. After that area was demolished, he moved to a simple resettlement house here.
Because the resettlement house is in the countryside and the transportation is inconvenient, Ruan and Xu's family didn't want it at first, so they took the compensation instead.
Chen Hui carried a briefcase and took a planner to lead the way in front of the two of them.
After a whole day, the three visited five families together.
The sixth object of investigation was a mutual friend of Zhou Jun and the victim, who had average family conditions and worked in a vegetable market. It was evening when the three of them arrived at each other's house, and they heard from his wife that he was still selling fish and hadn't returned home. I made several phone calls but didn't answer, probably because the vegetable market was too noisy and I didn't hear it.
Xu Huaisong glanced down at his watch.
Because it was the last household, Ruan Yu guessed that he didn't want to procrastinate too late, so he suggested, "Then let's go to the vegetable market."
She is not tired of being a girl, so Xu Huaisong and Chen Hui had no objections, and drove to the vegetable market.
The two men were in suits and leather shoes, and they didn't fit in with the atmosphere of slaughtering fish and meat in the vegetable market. After getting off the car, they all stood at the door, not knowing how to get in.
Ruan Yu, who often buys vegetables and cooks in the kitchen, is familiar with the way. He glanced inside, pointed to a row of river fresh seafood and said, "It should be there." He said and led the two of them through a row of meat section.
Just as they were about to walk past the meat stand, the three of them rolled over an empty drink bottle under their feet.
Xu Huaisong pulled Ruan Yu and told her to "be careful". As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a middle-aged man in an undershirt walk over, bent down and picked up the bottle into a plastic bag.
The plastic bag was full of empty beverage bottles, and it looked like it was going to be sold for money.
In the countryside, this situation is not surprising. But the three of them were about to go around, but they saw the middle-aged man raised his head, stared at Xu Huaisong in a daze, squinted his eyes that didn't look bright, and stammered, "Xu... Lawyer Xu?"
Xu Huaisong blinked his eyes twice, as if he was searching for this person in his memory, but he didn't remember it for a while, so he fell silent and said politely, "Hello."
The other party let go of his hand in excitement, and threw a bag of drink bottles on the ground with a clatter. He was about to shake hands with Xu Huaisong, but he stopped when he looked down and saw his dirty palm.
Xu Huaisong was puzzled: "You know me?"
"Lawyer Xu, don't you remember me? Ten years ago, you helped me with the lawsuit..."
Xu Huaisong was stunned. How could he help someone to file a lawsuit ten years ago
After being stunned, he faintly realized: "Maybe you are talking about my father?" He frowned as he spoke, and carefully identified his facial features, "Mr. Jiang?"
Jiang Yi was stunned for a moment: "Oh, it's Lawyer Xu's son, I'm confused..." He smiled embarrassedly, "Yes, no one grows younger as he grows older, but you really look like your father... "
Ruan Yu was confused and looked at Xu Huaisong.
Xu Huaisong's eyes fell on Jiang Yi, and after looking at him for a long time, he asked, "You all these years?"
He picked up the plastic bag and said, "It's fine, I'm fine, where's your father?"
Xu Huaisong said silently, "He's also pretty good."
At this point in the conversation, someone outside the market threw an empty drink bottle into the trash can, and there was a bang. Jiang Yi tilted his head when he heard the sound, greeted Xu Huaisong hurriedly, and ran out to pick it up.
Xu Huaisong stood where he was, pursed his lips and did not make a sound for a long time.
Ruan Yu and Chen Hui didn't dare to ask, until they heard the voice of a middle-aged woman at the fresh food stall in front of them: "Did you see that! The murderer is doing well, and the lawyer who helps the murderer is also doing well. In this world oh!"
As he spoke, he picked up the washbasin where the fish had just been killed, and poured a ladle of water in the direction of the three of them.
Xu Huaisong quickly pulled Ruan Yu behind him.
Blood splashed on the toe of his shoe, but he said to Chen Hui without saying a word, "Let's go, continue the investigation."
When we came out of the vegetable market, it was already dark. The work of Xu Huaisong and Chen Hui ended smoothly, but Zhang Ling faced the relatives and friends of the victim. The situation was more complicated. It took a whole day to talk to only one of them, and nothing was asked yet.
Chen Hui said, "I'll send Brother Song and you guys back to Hangzhou first, and I'll pick up Sister Zhang tomorrow."
Xu Huaisong looked at Ruan Yu: "Would you like to stay at my house for one night?"
"Is Auntie home?"
"exist."
It is indeed too troublesome for Chen Hui to come and go, but it is also abrupt to go to Xu's house without preparation, Ruan Yu thought for a while and said, "Then let's find a hotel?"
Xu Huaisong nodded, and asked Chen Hui to follow Sister Zhang, and picked a place to have dinner with her. After eating, I searched the map on my mobile phone and found that there was a hotel within a few hundred meters, so I went for a walk with her.
There were no other people on the secluded walking path, and Ruan Yu was finally able to ask: "Is that person I met in the vegetable market the defendant in the murder case ten years ago?"
Xu Huaisong has been in a low mood since he met Jiang Yi. He gave a low "um" and said after a while, "I'm only thirty-five years old. When the incident happened, he had just graduated from Sushang University. The future looks bright."
Ruan Yu was taken aback.
Looking at the appearance of the man just now, she didn't find it strange that he was forty-five.
Ten years can actually make a man in his prime age like this.
Have a good time? Who would believe it.
Ruan Yu frowned and said, "What kind of case is it?"
"Rape and murder."
Ruan Yu took a breath.
Xu Huaisong patted her head: "If you don't talk about this, you will be shocked."
The two took a room at the nearest hotel.
Maybe it was because of something on his mind, Xu Huaisong was absent-minded the whole time, and Ruan Yu was also shuddered by the "rape and murder case", and followed him upstairs in a daze.
So when they swiped their cards to enter the door, the two discovered that this hotel seemed a bit unusual. —A bathroom with a transparent glass wall, a large mirror on the ceiling, and various furnishings in the room that look like fitness equipment.
They seem to have walked into some wonderful place.