Urban Romance: The 7° Distance

After an in-court confrontation, Lawyer Wang's response during the second trial was obviously much calmer. Shu Qingfeng thought that he should have carefully studied the doubtful points he mentioned, so a few words made holes in the domestic helper's testimony. The servant was driven into a hurry, and blurted out: "Miss likes him and often harassed him, so he killed someone in a fit of anger."

"But you said last time that the victim hated the defendant because of the money loan issue, and the murder was due to a money dispute!" Lawyer Wang pursued and asked; "Your testimonies are contradictory. Do you know that your nonsense has already It constitutes the crime of perjury, as long as the charge is convicted, at least three years of fixed-term imprisonment!"

The domestic helper realized that she had slipped her tongue and murmured that she did not dare to speak nonsense again. Seeing that she had been bluffed, Lawyer Wang pressed her to ask, "So are you talking nonsense? Or was someone forcing you to say that?"

The domestic helper was frightened by him, and hurriedly defended: "I didn't just talk about it!"

There was an uproar in the courtroom. Attorney Wang achieved his goal and said with a smile, "You didn't talk nonsense, so someone forced you to say that? Is that person in court? Please point it out."

The domestic servant's eyes flickered, and he quickly glanced at Yuan Taixiang who was sitting in the front row. After a moment of silence, he suddenly burst into tears, and shouted, "I'm talking nonsense, I don't know anything, I didn't mean to harm anyone, I was wrong , don't sentence me..."

Lawyer Wang knew that the domestic helper would not dare to testify against Yuan Taixiang. Anyway, her testimony would not be used as a reference, and it was no longer a threat. His goal was achieved, and he did not force her anymore.The bailiff took the domestic servant down, and the witness was replaced by Yuan Taixiang. Lawyer Wang took out the verification materials and continued to ask, "What is the relationship between the witness and the victim?"

"I have a very good relationship with my sister-in-law, so she has entrusted me to take care of her shares in Wing On." Yuan Taixiang replied calmly.

"But more than a month ago, the victim suddenly transferred the shares to you for free. Can you explain the reason?"

"My sister-in-law is not in good health and needs to rest. She didn't want to worry about the company's affairs, so she offered to transfer it to me, but it was not a free transfer. I paid her the corresponding amount, but because the amount was too high, I paid it in installments."

"How much did you pay now?"

"200 million."

"That is to say, you only paid [-]% of the full amount at most, so if the victim passed away unfortunately, you are the biggest beneficiary."

"Objection!" Shu Qingfeng stood up and appealed to the judge: "I object to the fact that the defense lawyer judged my client's behavior with such a hypothetical inference. When the victim signed the contract with Wing On Company, no one could have predicted that such a regret would occur. the result of."

The judge agreed with Shu Qingfeng's argument and said to lawyer Wang: "Attorney for the defense, please pay attention to your wording."

"Yes, but I have my basis for saying this." Lawyer Wang picked up the prepared physical evidence and said, "This is the contact record of the witness in the past three months. I asked someone to check it, and it contained the most calls received. His contact person was surnamed Yan, who used to be a member of the gangster Daolonghui. It is not difficult to kill people with money.”

Seeing the information passed to the jury and others, Yuan Taixiang's expression changed, and he asked, "How did you find out my contact records?"

"About this point, I want to explain," Lawyer Wang said to everyone, "I didn't do anything against the law in order to find evidence, but the witness's mobile phone was bought in the name of his lover, maybe he His character is not enough to convince his lover, so his lover went to the telecommunications bureau to check his contact records."

As expected, the woman was more than successful than she was, Yuan Taixiang scolded bitterly in his heart, but his face remained calm, and said: "It's true that I have contacted Uncle Yan recently. He is my father's friend before his death. I don’t know, but he has a lot of research on antiques, and I happen to want to buy some pieces of Ming Dynasty porcelain, so I asked him to help identify them, is there any problem with this?”

Responding neither arrogantly nor humblely, Lawyer Wang was choked by the question immediately. Seeing his reaction, Shu Qingfeng couldn't help shaking his head. He thought that if he pointed out the problem, Lawyer Wang would check it out carefully, but he didn't expect that his inquiries were superficial. , the other party’s rhetorical question made him unable to continue. Seeing that Xiao Yao was also frowning, he couldn’t help standing up and said, “Thank you for the defense lawyer who took the trouble to check the contact records for my client, proving that he has antiques besides other people. Other than communication, there is no other bad behavior."

"no……"

Lawyer Wang still wanted to defend himself, but Shu Qingfeng didn't give him a chance, and he didn't want to spend his time on this kind of boring question and answer. Facts have proved that Lawyer Wang is still too young to fight the fox Yuan Taixiang, so he said directly: "Judge My lord, I think my client has explained the matter very clearly now, his only fault was signing a contract with the deceased before she was alive, and then playing antiques with people who are not very innocent."

There was a low laugh from the courtroom, Xiao Yao saw Lawyer Wang's face flushed with anger, knowing it shouldn't be, he couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips, Shu Qingfeng's words were really poisonous, and easily aroused the anger of his opponent, but in Being angry in the court is tantamount to messing with oneself, if Shu Qingfeng really wants to deal with him, then he will definitely have a headache.

Footsteps sounded, Shu Qingfeng got permission from the judge to question the defendant, walked up to Xiao Yao, put his hands on the edge of the table in the defendant's seat, looked at him with a smile on his face, Xiao Yao's heart immediately rose. Get up, look at him vigilantly, as a lover, he knows Shu Qingfeng very well, usually when Shu Qingfeng smiles like this, he has bad intentions.

"You are afraid, it seems that you have misunderstood me." Seeing Xiao Yao's reaction, Shu Qingfeng raised the corners of his mouth happily, and said, "Although I am not your defense lawyer, I will not harm you. After all, as our lawyer , the most hopeful thing is that justice will be done.”

It's best.

Xiao Yao complained in his heart, but he still savored Shu Qingfeng's words by the way, his eyes glanced at his hand holding the materials, his fingers moved slightly on the paper, like casual touch, fast and short, Xiao Yao barely read it He figured out that he was saying——Yuan Taixiang's criminal evidence had been obtained, so he could tell the truth.

Xiao Yao couldn't help but look at Shu Qingfeng again, wondering if he used some special means to obtain evidence.

"Let's start," Shu Qingfeng interrupted Xiao Yao's thoughts, "Did you propose on a whim that day? Or did you think about it for a long time?"

Why did the topic turn to them again?Xiao Yao began to suspect that Shu Qingfeng was using the answers to get a peek into his own mind, but there was nothing to hide, and said, "I have thought about it, but not for a long time."

It turned out that Xiaoniao had tried hard to think about their future, this sentence made Shu Qingfeng feel better, and then turned to the formal topic.

"Since you considered proposing to the victim that night, why did you go to her house after receiving her call instead?"

"No reason, it's just that she called me first."

"But according to the call records, you talked for nearly 3 minutes. If it was just an appointment, would it take so long?"

Xiao Yao understood Shu Qingfeng's intentions a little bit. Seeing Lawyer Wang standing up, as if about to interrupt, she hurriedly said: "She was very excited at the time, so I chatted with her for a while. She was a little nervous. When she got excited, she would say something. non-stop."

"Is it about a relationship between a man and a woman?"

The inquiry led to the topic, Xiao Yao deliberately hesitated, Shu Qingfeng seemed to have caught the handle, and immediately said: "It seems that you didn't tell all the facts."

"Objection!" Lawyer Wang called from the side.

"No, I told you everything!"

Xiao Yao's roar overwhelmed Lawyer Wang's voice, and after the roar was over, she lowered her voice unwillingly and said, "But at that time she was talking nonsense, I didn't mention it last time, because I was afraid that talking nonsense would lower As for her own credibility, as I said just now, when she is nervous, she will talk nonsense, and no one will take it seriously."

The interrogation began to turn around again, and there was a commotion in the court room. The judge had to signal everyone to be quiet, and said to Xiao Yao: "The defendant is obliged to tell all about what he experienced at that time. As for whether it is useful or not, this court will make a judgment."

"She said—" Xiao Yao looked at Shu Qingfeng, received his OK look, and said, "She said that Yuan Taixiang imprisoned her freedom and wanted to harm her, so she wanted to call the police."

"Why? My client has a sister-in-law relationship with the victim, and she has just accepted the victim's share transfer. There is no reason to harm her." Shu Qingfeng glanced at Yuan Taixiang who was in the court, finished speaking loudly, then turned to Xiao Yao, and said : "Defendant, I understand your desire to escape the crime, but this is not enough to qualify you to slander others. I hope you think it through before you speak."

"What I said is real!"

"The truth is that although the victim is physically weak, he has no mental illness, let alone hysteria as you said!" Shu Qingfeng followed up and said sharply, "What did the victim tell you that night? Could it be that she regretted it and didn't want to continue to associate with you? As a result, you broke up on the phone, but you were unwilling to be rejected and went to her house. You had a big fight because of this, and she beat you, It aroused your anger, so you killed her with a knife in a fit of anger, and then made up a lie about proposing marriage to win the sympathy of the jury!"

"I didn't!" Xiao Yao retorted loudly: "If I killed someone in a fit of anger, where did the murder weapon come from? I can't know in advance that there will be quarrels and deadlocks, and even kill people, so prepare the knife early in the morning? You Have you ever seen someone prepare a knife in addition to the ring when proposing?"

Shu Qingfeng was startled, and taking advantage of his hesitation, Lawyer Wang quickly approached and asked Xiao Yao first, "So what did the victim say that night?"

Xiao Yao frowned, as if hesitating whether to say it or not, Lawyer Wang hated iron but steel, he never thought that he would have such a big inside story that he didn't tell himself after cooperating with Xiao Yao for so long.

Just now, when Shu Qingfeng asked Xiao Yao a question, he knew that Shu Qingfeng had no good intentions. Sure enough, he led the question to the direction of arguing and killing people. Fortunately, Xiao Yao was smart enough to deny Shu Qingfeng's remarks, so at this critical moment, he Never give Shu Qingfeng another chance to refute, saying to Xiao Yao: "You have to trust the judge and jury, only by telling the truth can you save yourself."

"I don't know if it's the truth, because she was flustered and incoherent at the time, saying that Yuan Taixiang wanted to kill her because she knew the truth about her husband's death..."

"Yuan Tai'an?"

"Yes, she said that Yuan Tai'an would have a car accident. Someone tampered with his car. Yuan Taixiang instructed others to do it. After Yuan Tai'an died, his power was transferred to Yuan Taixiang's hands..."

"It's ridiculous." Shu Qingfeng sneered, "Yuan Tai'an's death was caused by drunken driving, and there were witnesses. Why did you say that he killed her? And it's been so long since the car accident, why did the victim say that my client wanted to kill her now? Why didn't you say it in the first trial, but now you say it?"

"I just thought it was absurd so I didn't take it seriously. He Lichun was a bit delusional. What if I said what she said nonsense without evidence and was accused of giving a false statement?"

"What if there is evidence?" After finally catching a straw, how could Lawyer Wang let it go?He asked nervously, "Think about it again, what else did the victim mention that night besides saying that someone killed her?"

Xiao Yao shook his head, this time he really didn't know, He Lichun didn't say anything other than calling for help hysterically, he didn't think that with Yuan Taixiang's scheming, there would be something in He Lichun's hands, she would suspect Yuan Taixiang, probably It was due to female intuition, or some clues, but these did not constitute the motive of Yuan Taixiang's murder.

"Defense counsel, you are too excited."

Seeing Xiao Yao's silence, Shu Qingfeng smiled beside him and said, "The defendant couldn't tell because he fabricated all these words from the beginning to the end. If there is any evidence, the police will notice it when they investigate the scene..."

"Clothes!" Xiao Yao interrupted Shu Qingfeng, "She mentioned clothes!"

Shu Qingfeng was startled, and looked at Xiao Yao strangely. He had seen Xiao Yao pondering, worried that he would not be able to make it up, and wanted to give him a hint. In fact, Xiao Yao just said it casually. The evidence of Yuan Taixiang's crimes has been summarized in the past few days. Yes, as long as you say it through Xiao Yao's mouth, you can prove your innocence in court.

Seeing Xiao Yao's expression didn't seem to be talking nonsense, Shu Qingfeng didn't interrupt him, but Lawyer Wang couldn't hold back, and hurriedly asked, "You mean the victim hid the evidence in his clothes?"

Xiao Yao didn't know, just now he suddenly thought of it during the conversation with Shu Qingfeng, He Lichun mentioned to herself more than once before she died to get clothes.

The black hand behind the scenes is Yuan Taixiang, so Xiao Yao's thoughts have been spent on how to bring Yuan Taixiang to justice. He Lichun loves beauty very much. When it came to Shu Qingfeng, he didn't think deeply about the content of his words at all, and only now did he suddenly think of how He Lichun suddenly mentioned clothes when he was extremely panicked.

He looked at Shu Qingfeng, and Shu Qingfeng also looked at him nervously, trying to see his thoughts clearly. At the critical moment, Xiao Yao tried his best to calm himself down and recall the conversation at that time - if He Lichun was referring to the evidence, then Yuan Taixiang must be Someone was sent to search through He's house, and the police might find it when they inspected the scene, but no one mentioned it. That proves that the clothes are not at home. With He Lichun's personality, her clothes are all...

"Dry cleaner!"

There was a flash of light in front of her eyes, like a flash of lightning, illuminating the accumulated dark clouds, Xiao Yao said loudly: "The evidence must be in the clothes sent for dry cleaning. She has several dry cleaners she goes to regularly, and she often stores her clothes in In the store, you can find it out with just one search!"

"Impossible!" An angry voice interrupted Xiao Yao's words. It was Yuan Taixiang's assistant who was sitting on the witness seat. He was originally one of the witnesses in this lawsuit. Out of nothing, Ms. He hasn't been to a dry cleaner at all recently!"

"Did you send someone to follow the victim? Otherwise, how can you be so sure that she hasn't been to the dry cleaner?"

Turning around, Lawyer Wang caught the assistant's speech disorder in time, quickly picked up the copy of the forensic forensic files, and said: "These data show that the victim had no mental problems during his lifetime, so what she said was not delusions, but the truth. In fact, someone really Follow her and monitor her, right?"

The assistant slipped his tongue and didn't dare to argue anymore. He turned his head to look at Yuan Taixiang. Yuan Taixiang snorted heavily and turned his eyes away, as if the matter had nothing to do with him. Lawyer Wang turned to the judge again and said, "Obviously, My client was framed and blamed. There must be records in the dry cleaners where the victim often goes, and it is easy to find out. I want to apply for police assistance here."

"It shouldn't be such a troublesome assistance."

The voice sounded at the door of the court, and several criminal policemen walked in quickly. The man at the head handed over the documents he brought with him to the bailiff, and said to the judge: "This is the evidence we just found about Yuan Taixiang's connection with several murder cases. , I believe it can prove the defendant’s innocence.”

These people are all members of the Serious Crime Squad, Shu Qingyang's subordinates. Seeing them, Shu Qingfeng knew that the elder brother's actions had finally been caught. He didn't come in person, probably to avoid suspicion, but the evidence he sent could definitely sue Yuan Taixiang , Xiao Yao provided the victim's testimony again, and it was no problem for him to be released in court.

Thinking of this, anger suddenly surged up, Shu Qingfeng turned his head and glared at Xiao Yao, the innocent look on Xiao Yao's face made him even angrier, and he really wanted to know how slow this guy must be to treat He Lichun so important. Ignore the past, if he thinks about it early in the morning, he doesn't have to take the risk of stealing the data.

Xiao Yao was still amazed by the swiftness of the police's action, until he felt a thorn in his back, and found Shu Qingfeng's angry stare, he smiled kindly, in exchange for a disdainful snort, Shu Qingfeng ignored his flattery, turned his head and nodded Walked away without returning.

Because the police provided evidence in time, Xiao Yao's suspicion was cleared up logically. When he heard that he was released in court, there was a lot of shouts from the court. He was taken off the dock by the bailiff, and Gu Shaoxuan was the first to rush over and hug him. , punched him hard again, and shouted happily: "Fortunately, the police found the evidence, otherwise you don't know how long your case will be dragged on. You are really lucky!"

Xiao Yao's chest was in pain from the beating, but he couldn't help laughing. Of course he knew that he was not lucky. Yuan Taixiang would be arrested at this time. It must be Shu Qingfeng's hands and feet. Thinking of Shu Qingfeng, he hurriedly poked his head to look. It's a pity that he was surrounded by colleagues and friends, and he couldn't see the scene outside the wall.

Compared with the rising joyful atmosphere of the defendant, Shu Qingfeng's place is much deserted, but for him, success or failure is good, the case is closed, it means the end of the work, go back to the seat to gather the documents, pick up the purse, and walk to the In front of Yuan Taixiang, ignoring Yuan Taixiang's livid face, he said lightly: "It's a pity that such a result happened."

Elegant demeanor, not at all annoyed by losing the lawsuit, yes, anyway, he took the commission, the success or failure of the case has nothing to do with him, and now the unlucky one is himself, not only failed to get the scapegoat smoothly, but also provoked the police , the calmer Shu Qingfeng was, the angrier Yuan Taixiang felt, and couldn't help scolding: "What did you do just now? If you didn't keep asking that guy repeatedly, he wouldn't just talk about it!"

"I just compelled him to plead guilty according to your wishes. It's a pity that the world is unpredictable." Shu Qingfeng spread his hands, looked innocent, glanced at Yuan Taixiang's assistant, and said, "If I knew from the beginning, Mr. Yuan, you and this If this case is related, this tactic would not be used.”

Is this implying that this result was caused because he was not honest?Yuan Taixiang followed Shu Qingfeng's eyes to look at the assistant, thinking that he had faced such a situation because of his stupidity, he was even more annoyed, he snorted heavily, turned and left, but was stopped by the police within a few steps. The arrest ticket was shown in front of him.

Shu Qingfeng didn't follow, but he could tell from the paper that it was an arrest and search warrant. It seemed that Yuan Taixiang would face several felony prosecutions in addition to He Lichun's case.

Yuan Taixiang was taken away by the police, and Shu Qingfeng was also about to leave, but he was stopped before he had gone far, and Lawyer Wang hurried to catch up.

"Lawyer Shu, doesn't it feel bad to lose the case?" the man asked sarcastically.

Shu Qingfeng didn't care about his provocation, raised his hand to support his glasses, smiled and said, "It's okay."

"You won't win, because you were wrong from the beginning! Helping bad people turn black and white, even if you have no conscience, but this world will always be evil!"

Lawyer Wang looked at him arrogantly, besides the joy after the victory, there was also an unconcealable pride in his brows. Maybe tomorrow he would become famous in the legal profession because he won himself, but for a person who just stepped into this profession For a newcomer who doesn't know how deep the water is inside, he can't judge whether this is a good thing or not. Shu Qingfeng looked at him with a smile, and vaguely saw himself back then. He also stepped into the legal profession that year, with no reputation background, some are just full of ambition and ambition.

"I'm not surprised you won," Shu Qingfeng explained the facts calmly, "Because I let you win."

Lawyer Wang did not speak, but stared at him coldly, his eyes were full of hostility and indifference, Shu Qingfeng smiled, approached him, and whispered: "You should be grateful for your luck, no matter who Xiao Yao's lawyer is today, he Because of this lawsuit, I decided to lose from the very beginning.”

"you……"

Lawyer Wang looked at Shu Qingfeng with unconcealable disbelief. From the moment he accepted the case until the case was settled, his mood went through several ups and downs. Even just now, he couldn't believe that he really won. A well-known barrister.

He raised his head, wanting to tell himself that Shu Qingfeng said this just to save face for himself, but the pride he worked so hard to prop up was quickly annihilated under Shu Qingfeng's gaze, and the determination and confidence exuding from Shu Qingfeng were strongly contagious Looking at him, he instinctively felt that what Shu Qingfeng said was the truth, which made him feel frustrated, as if he was the one who lost the lawsuit at this moment, and Shu Qingfeng had been manipulating the entire appeal process. And experience, there is no chance of winning at all.

"You have to work harder next time, because you can't be so lucky every time." Shu Qingfeng said: "Also, there is no absolute evil and good in this world, remember this."

After Shu Qingfeng finished speaking, he ignored the surprised man and turned to leave. Lawyer Wang watched him silently. This man, who was regarded as an opponent, was also an idol he had always admired.

He watched Shu Qingfeng walk out of the gate, took off his glasses, and threw them into the trash can beside him carelessly. Shu Qingfeng's back was so straight, he was as energetic and calm as after winning a lawsuit. The footsteps gave him the urge to follow, but soon the slender figure disappeared outside the courtroom. The outside was full of reporters who came to snatch the news, covering his eyes. He could only watch Shu Qingfeng go out, and kept going out. own line of sight.