no longer ordinary friends

"So, what happened to the traffic accident case that shocked Nanri County?" Jiang Xianghuai was still thinking about it.

"Did Xiaobai not tell you?"

"I want to hear from you." Jiang Xianghuai touched his left cheek with the tip of his tongue and laughed.

Zhou Zhicheng's eyelashes trembled, and she turned to look at him, and he was also looking at her. Her dark eyes were like stones lying quietly in the shallow bay of Nanri Island, dark and deep.

These five years of work have brought her a lot of changes. Although she has only experienced two relationships, she has handled countless divorce cases, and she has seen countless hideous and ugly scumbags. Iron, too, should be rock solid.

He had broken her heart before, and she would never be like before, with only him in her eyes, and a casual word from him could make her heart flutter and become suspicious.

Zhou Zhicheng withdrew his gaze, and said in a low voice: "It's just a well-regulated dangerous driving case, drunk driving, the family of the person involved didn't take it seriously at first, thinking it was his territory, just ask your acquaintances to find out the relationship between the police and the prosecution. They didn’t rush to find a lawyer until they were prosecuted by the prosecution. The time was tight, the case was small, there was not much room for defense, and there was not much money, so lawyers with some qualifications in Nanri County were unwilling to take over.”

"So, this case is now in your hands?" Jiang Xianghuai raised his eyebrows, "The client's requirements are not low, right? They want to find a lawyer with qualifications or skills? If someone with qualifications is unwilling to take it, then he will find one." Have some education?"

Zhou Zhicheng nodded: "Well, I also need a case source, so I will take it if I can."

"What about the client's request?" Jiang Xianghuai asked.

"He personally prefers probation and innocence." She said, and couldn't help laughing, "His mother kept telling me that he only drank a little wine that night and was very sober, but in the blood test report, His alcohol level has already far exceeded the limit for drunk driving."

"Do you believe it?"

Hearing Jiang Xianghuai's question, Zhou Zhicheng pursed his lips and tilted his head, as if thinking of something, he became a little annoyed: "Do you think I've always been so stupid, would you believe what the person told me unconditionally?"

Jiang Xianghuai chuckled, and said hastily, "How could I have such a meaning?"

However, she has been so stupid before. When she was an intern in his team, she believed whatever others said, but there was no problem with external cooperation. Only that time, another male intern in the team fought for the only reserved spot. , made up a story that he heard the secretary's sister speak ill of her to the boss.

She was really sad when she heard that, and she was out of her mind all day, until after get off work at night, he took her back and asked her what was wrong in the car.

Her voice was muffled: "A friend of mine told me that it was what happened to my friend during her internship. She usually felt that the colleagues and leaders she met at work were very good and she was very happy. She said that he heard the secretary's sister tell the boss that she was not practical, that she was not serious about her work, and that she came in through connections.

"Which colleague told you?" He frowned, with a serious expression on his face. The secretary of their team is Sister Lin, who would never gossip like this behind his back. What's more, Zhou Zhicheng is a French university student with good grades in school and a good command of English. The level is good, she entered the team through the normal interview process, and there is no need for him to let her through the back door.

"It's my friend's problem, not me," she retorted quickly.

"Oh." He laughed, "Then you have a strong ability to empathize. You are more sad than your friend about your friend, and you are crying out of tears."

She didn't want to say it, so he didn't force her to ask. It was very easy to find out who was spreading the rumors. He just observed a few interns in the same period carefully, and soon discovered the male intern who had a high self-esteem and was a little narrow-minded. As an intern, he cast a wide net and told similar rumors to the interns in the same period, which made people panic.

So, Jiang Xianghuai picked an appropriate time and talked about the intern with the big boss's partner near the elevator. It is not recommended to keep the beating, and it happened to be heard by the intern.

The intern had strong self-esteem, and knew that the senior knew about his provocation, so he resigned voluntarily.

Before resigning, he also left Zhou Zhicheng with a lot of "classic" cold water remarks, such as "You are actually similar to a female worker in Mindy, regardless of the salary of [-] to [-] a month, the working hours are so long, the hourly salary is lower than Female workers are still low”, such as “Being a lawyer is not stable, because Party B’s status is low, I am so good, I am more suitable for the public examination, and your girl is even less suitable to be a lawyer” and so on.

Of course, after he left the job, Zhou Zhicheng knew that he had been cheated by him, and he was ashamed and annoyed that he was so stupid.

So, until now, Zhou Zhicheng still regards the experience of being cheated as a dark history.

Jiang Xianghuai said seriously: "Of course I know you won't believe it. Lawyers will not unconditionally believe what the client said. People are selfish, so naturally they will only provide some evidence and remarks that are beneficial to themselves."

"Yeah, as an ordinary lawyer, I can't know the truth. I still don't know, and I don't need to know whether he really has exceeded the alcohol limit."

"So, you started with procedural justice?" Jiang Xianghuai whispered.

"Ah."

"In the relatively conservative and backward legal environment of Nanri County, isn't it a bit difficult?" Jiang Xianghuai frowned slightly.

Zhou Zhicheng lowered his eyes and said with a smile: "This is backward, but not stupid. Most of the judges and prosecutors are old. Maybe their legal knowledge is a bit lacking, but they have a more simple legal emotion."

Jiang Xianghuai said calmly: "Illegal evidence is excluded..."

She breathed a sigh of relief: "At that time, I looked through evidence such as transcripts and test reports, and found that the blood drawing process of the hospital violated the regulations. Most hospitals know that alcohol swabs cannot be used, but our county hospital did not notice this when we did the test. One point, alcohol swabs were used, which polluted the blood, and the test tubes and instruments used for the drunk driving test have the specifications stipulated by the law, and the equipment used by the county hospital is not up to standard."

When Jiang Xianghuai heard this, she understood. In the first small criminal case she took after she became independent, she pleaded not guilty and applied for the exclusion of illegal evidence. For a fledgling lawyer, for a relatively feudal and conservative county law Environmentally speaking, this is indeed a bold and challenging move.

The pressure she faced at that time must not be small. You don't need to think about it. Someone will definitely call her a young lawyer who wants to get rid of drunk driving.

So her apprentice Ye Bai said that she promoted the rectification of Nanri County's medical transportation system by herself, which is really not the slightest exaggeration.

"After a period of controversy at the time, the prosecution adopted my defense opinion and returned it to the police to conduct a supplementary investigation. However, it has been so long since the incident, and the person involved has no alcohol in his body, and there is no compliant backup blood. It can only be dismissed for lack of evidence.”

"Then your client must be very happy."

Thinking of him, Zhou Zhicheng couldn't put his words into words: "He was very happy, so happy that when he saw me, he said—as expected of a talented lawyer, he was very good at turning black and white, and the money was not wasted. He said he was confused that night, indeed. Drunk, so angry that his mother beat him by the side."

His praise was more uncomfortable than cursing, and at that time they were still in the traffic police brigade, when an old policeman heard this, he glared at Zhou Zhicheng, probably blaming her for colluding with the "bad guys", and snorted coldly: "A nerd who reads dead books."

He didn't even say who he was scolding.

The old policeman became more and more angry. He couldn't judge whether he had met the standard for drunk driving, but drunk driving was inevitable. He scolded the man severely, deducted points, fined him, and fined him to do a week of voluntary street sweeping activities.

That street happens to be just downstairs of Kai Lun's law firm.

Every day when Zhou Zhicheng rides a small e-donkey to work, he can hear the young man shouting enthusiastically downstairs with a broom on his shoulders: "Big lawyer, master of litigation stick, top student, lawyer Zhou! Good morning!"

If his mother hadn't stopped her, he might really have given her a pennant with the words "reverse black and white".