After dinner, Xu Huaisong called Liu Mao and confirmed whether the colleague in charge of Zhou Jun's case was in the law firm. After receiving a positive response, he drove over.

Liu Mao turned around and told the news. In the hall, he stretched his arms in groups of three or two. The lawyers who were about to get off work all stopped their movements, as if they were strangled by fate.

One of the people who had just turned off the desk lamp was the first to turn on the light again and said, "Suddenly I remember that there was still a document that had not been sent, so you can go first."

Immediately afterwards, the one who had just closed the laptop slapped his head: "Oh, look at my memory, I missed a report and didn't do it." He also sat down.

In an instant, the whole hall was as if the wind had passed by the grass.

A minute later, everything returned to the orderly state half an hour ago, with the crackling sound of keyboards and the clattering sound of flipping books, which became more passionate and full.

Liu Mao, who was standing at the door with his bag, sighed and returned to the office.

Two young girls at the front desk were busy.

"What do you think Xu Lu likes to drink?"

"Coffee?"

“Concentrated? American? Latte? Mocha?”

"You can't be wrong if you prepare everything. Why are you so excited?"

"Oh, you must be nowhere to be here last time Xu Lu returned to China, right? After seeing me, you will not be so calm now!"

I appeared half an hour later.

The two of them were ready to greet each other with a perfect smile of eight teeth. They grinned halfway, and only four of them were exposed and they froze.

At the main entrance of the law firm, their Xu Lu led a girl and came with a windy place under his feet.

The girl who was led didn't look at the road all the way, turned her head and smiled. When she went up the steps, he used his strength, pulled her, and said, "Let's look at her feet when she walks."

The girl curled her lips and pulled her hands back from his palm. She had a slight stance of being rude and muttered: "I still want me to see under my feet... Did you pull your hands for you in vain?"

Then, they saw that their Xu Lu smiled and took the girl's hand back and said, "Then I'll see."

The two of them didn't even smile with four teeth. They cheered up and returned to their normal expressions. When Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu passed by the front desk, they said in unison: "Hello Xu Lu!"

Xu Huaisong stopped and said to them: "Call someone to go to my car and share the midnight snack with everyone."

The two of them quickly responded, and only then did they lose their faces after he left the hall: "The farthest distance in the world is that they just fell in love at the last moment, and the next moment..."

"I prepared a concentrated American latte mocha for him here, but he brought me heavy dog ​​food..."

The two of them cuddled with headaches.

Ruan Yu, who had just turned up the stairs, heard the slight abnormal noise, looked back at the direction of the hall, and asked, "What's wrong with them?"

Xu Huaisong thought about it and smiled in an unknown way: "Maybe I'm very happy to have a midnight snack."

The two went up to the second floor to the hall, and Xu Huaisong took Ruan Yu to stand outside the door and glance inside.

Immediately a group of people stood up and greeted: "Xu Lu."

Xu Huaisong nodded to them and turned around to explain to her: "This is the Tongguan Office, and the conference room is upstairs."

Ruan Yu also nodded to everyone who looked at her, then pulled Xu Huaisong's cuff and signaled him to leave quickly.

He looked down at her hand, smiled, turned to go upstairs, and asked her on the way: "Search you a rest room, or do you want to go to the conference room with me?"

“Conference room.”

Xu Huaisong nodded.

When the two arrived, Liu Mao, Chen Hui and another female lawyer were already waiting inside. After several people said hello, an assistant came in to deliver coffee.

When Ruan Yu saw it, he looked at Xu Huaisong with a slight silence.

When he met her gaze, he took the coffee hand and waved his hand to signal not to drink: "Give me boiled water."

Liu Mao looked at Ruan Yu and then looked at him: "I finally know how to nourish my stomach."

Xu Huai Song flew over and said, "What are you doing here as a civil lawyer?"

"Hey? Then you haven't even taken a single exam here..."

Xu Huaisong's face turned dark, and Liu Mao stopped him in an instant, taking into account his face and said nothing.

Ruan Yu pursed his lips and looked up at the ceiling to stop laughing.

The boiled water is in place, and several people are on the topic.

The criminal lawyer in charge of this case is Zhang Ling. She looks very capable.

Ruan Yu heard Chen Hui call her "Sister Zhang", and after thinking about it, he remembered that this was probably the female lawyer who was probably Xu Huaisong had trouble on the construction site on the day when he returned to China for the second time, which caused Chen Hui to rush there and could not send them to the law firm.

Zhang Ling handed Xu Huaisong a stack of documents and said, "After talking to the client, sorting out this information, you can take a look first." Then she turned to Chen Hui and said, "Xiao Chen will tell you the details."

Chen Hui walked to the whiteboard, picked up the marker, and wrote the key information on it while saying: "According to the client's statement, when the victim was killed, he was not at the scene. About twenty minutes before the incident, he was driving and had a verbal conflict with the victim, so he parked the car on the side of the mountain road and got off for breathing."

"The cause of the conflict?" Xu Huaisong asked.

"The victim looked through the client's mobile phone in the car and found several ambiguous text messages, which were suspected to be evidence of his cheating."

“The cheating behavior does exist?”

"It does exist." Chen Hui nodded, "The client said it was an impulsive behavior he had done after a fierce quarrel with the victim, and then he broke off contact with the other party, which was a one-night stand. But the other party would come to communicate with him from time to time."

Xu Huaisong nodded: "Continue to talk about the situation at that time."

"The client said that after he got off the car, the victim got off the car, and he evolved from verbal conflict to physical conflict. The piece of flesh in her nails was rubbed from his forearm at that time."

"Then, the victim made a harsh statement and said, "There must be a way to make you regret it." He returned to the car and drove away."

"Fifty minutes later, the client who was on the roadside received a call from the victim's father. It turned out that the victim's father was unable to contact her again after receiving a call from her daughter for help. He called the police during this period and obtained the client's mobile phone number through multiple channels."

"The victim's father was very excited and asked him what happened to his daughter. Through the conversation, he learned that half an hour ago, the victim asked his father for help on the phone and said, 'Zhou Jun, let me go'. His first reaction was to the sentence, 'There must be a way to make you regret it', and mistakenly thought that she was making a mistake from it."

"So, he called the victim's cell phone. The phone was connected by the police who had already arrived at the scene. He judged through the sirens that something happened to the victim. It was also in the noisy phone that he vaguely heard the words "The dashcam chip was missing and a claw hammer was found."

"The client hung up the phone in a hurry. Combined with the above, it was suspected that the victim had revenge on himself with death, and planned to blame him for his death through the flesh in his nails, the fingerprint of the claw hammer, and the call for help. So, he chose to hide, and in the middle of the night, he borrowed the phone of the owner of the roadside midnight snack stall 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? Just a threatening statement would not lead to this conclusion."

"Yes, this is the key point in this case." Chen Hui nodded, "According to the client's statement, the reason why he believes this is because the victim has had similar behaviors."

"Just in that quarrel a month ago, before the two parted unhappily, the victim sent the same threat to him and did post photos of his wrist cutting on his circle of friends. Although it was finally proved that he was a small fuss to scare him, he still left a shadow."

"This is evidence that is beneficial to the client. Is the circle of friends still there?" Xu Huaisong asked immediately.

"It was deleted, but there may be witnesses, or there may be a chance to recover."

"What's going on with the police?"

"No second suspect was found yet, and the police tend to suspect that the suspect has adapted the real situation. They believe that driving away is a relatively safe act, and the murder is more likely to occur in the physical conflict described by the client."

Ruan Yu frowned when he heard this.

Xu Huaisong captured her expression change and asked, "What's wrong? I can say something if I have any opinions."

She said softly: "I just think that the statement 'driving away is relatively safe' is reasonable, but it is not very reasonable. Generally speaking, the driver is of course a strong group, but in this case, it must be considered that the driver is a woman who first learned that her boyfriend cheated on her."

Xu Huaisong nodded: "You continue talking."

"According to Zhou Jun's description, I think the victim should be an impatient and impulsive person. Can such a person really drive the car after driving away angrily? If I were her, I knew her boyfriend..."

Xu Huaisong coughed, his eyes turned in doubt.

The originally serious occasion suddenly became weird, and Liu Mao let out a "sneer" laugh.

Ruan Yu plucked his bangs and cleared his throat: "I mean, in that case, the victim might have stepped on the brakes after driving for a while, and stopped to calm down. Maybe the accident happened after she stopped the car?"

Zhang Ling nodded: "I agree with this speculation."

Xu Huaisong also said "hmm". In addition to using himself as an example, it is quite worthy of recognition.

Zhang Ling continued: "This is what I have learned at the moment. The subsequent investigation and evidence collection will take a month to wait for the case to enter the prosecution stage."

Xu Huaisong nodded, looked through the information and discussed the details with her. Until nearly ten o'clock, he saw Ruan Yu yawning with his mouth covering his mouth. He closed the document: "It's getting late, let's do it today, thank you for your hard work."

Zhang Ling and Chen Hui went downstairs together.

Seeing the two of them coming back, the lawyers in the hall below were as if they had been amnesty.

Someone sighed: "It's not bad, it's over before ten o'clock. I thought according to Xu Lu's schedule, you will have to chat until midnight."

While packing up the information, Chen Hui said "tsk": "You don't understand this. Do you know what the 'shortcoming effect' is? Xu Lu slept in the middle of the night, but Miss Ruan was sleeping, so she must not follow her girlfriend's routine?"

Someone said "Wow": "That was Xu Lu's girlfriend just now?"

"Hey, why do I hear this surname so familiar? A while ago, did our law firm take on a client named Ruan?"

"I think I've seen it before, I just thought it looked familiar."

"What's going on? Can lawyers and client succeed? Why have I been dealing with so many cases over the years but not one of them succeeded?"

"Haha, you don't even look at what kind of divorce case you're taking."

"Can you ask Xu Lu to tell us about your experience in chasing the client?"

"Just Xu Lu's coldness, it's probably because the girl chased her desperately, right?"

When Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu went downstairs, they just heard the last sentence.
To be continued...