Cao Yun said: "Father Xu is forty-five years old this year, Xu Na, you are twenty years old this year, and you have only lived with your father for three years at most. Here I would like to ask a question. As far as I know, in a normal sense, you wouldn't sell yourself to help your father survive. ”

Xu Na replied after a while: "My mother is a person who pursues material life, and my father went to prison for the first time to satisfy her material desires. After my dad went to jail, my mom divorced him, and my uncle adopted me. My uncle is very old, in his fifties, unmarried, unemployed, and on subsistence allowances. I also adopted me to get the money from the welfare home every month, as well as the 500 alimony my mother gave me every month. ”

After Xu's father was released from prison, Xu Na was about five years old. In order to let Xu Na have the same bright clothes and delicious snacks as her peers, Xu's father returned to his old business, this time he was much smarter, he only started twice a month, and did not start with the same target, and also learned various techniques such as stepping on points and picking locks in prison.

In those two years, Xu Na's life was like that of a princess. Xu's father doesn't work either, so he takes her to play and eat every day. If you don't want to go to kindergarten, you won't go, as long as it is Xu Na's request, Xu's father agrees to all of them.

The good life lasted until Xu's father was arrested again. Xu Na's uncle died of alcoholism, and Xu Na was taken over by the welfare home. The teachers in the welfare home never spoke ill of Xu Na's father, and also took Xu Na to see Xu's father every month at his own expense. Father Xu therefore made up his mind to be a new man. went to junior high school, Xu Na boarding school, and the welfare institute gave a certain amount of living security. On holidays, Xu Na will go back to the welfare home to help, and she will definitely go to see her father once a month.

Xu Na: "He cursed and swore to me that he would make money on his own and would never do anything bad again." ”

Gao Shan Xing said: "You mean, the relationship between father and daughter is still secondary, mainly because you think he was wronged." ”

Xu Na nodded: "I believe him." I saw him several times in the detention center, and he told me that he had been wronged and made me believe him. As long as I believe in him, he will be blind even if he dies unjustly. So I kept thinking about how I could help him. ”

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Cao Yun asked, "How do you know me?"

Xu Na said: "As my classmate said, a friend in the dormitory at the university told me that this kind of case must find a good lawyer to have a chance to overturn the case. I asked her, who is a good lawyer? She said that Ling Hulan and several other lawyers, I had approached them, and either they could not see them, or they told me very tactfully, and they could not spare time to take on this case. ”

Cao Yun smiled bitterly, nonsense, you have no money. That's right, such as Ling Hulan is rich, she doesn't care about a million lawyers' fees. But this is a matter of principle. Otherwise, she is a pro bono lawyer, not a business lawyer. In the name of Ling Hulan, if she doesn't charge money this time, she will definitely be on the news, and I don't know how many people will come to her in the future. If she shouts miserably, Xu Na is not qualified to be ranked in the top 100. Even if Gao Shan Xing wants to take over the case, she has to lend money to Xu Na, and Xu Na has to have a plan to repay the money.

Xu Na said: "My classmate said, otherwise you will find a person named Cao Yun." I asked who Cao Yun was? She said that it was a lawyer who had been banned by her grandmother, and that it should be quite miserable now. ”

"...... "Xu Na, don't be so honest, okay? I am the last choice, and I admit it, who makes herself young and handsome." The real reason for finding yourself is because you are miserable.

Seeing Cao Yun's helpless expression, Xu Na immediately said, "No, I searched for you on the Internet and found that you are very powerful, so I went to look for you...... Really, I'll look for Ling Hulan once. In order to see you, I squatted on the other side of the South Lake for two days. ”

As soon as he said this, he was much more comfortable, and Cao Yun asked, "How do you know that I am going to Nanhu?"

"There is a picture on the Internet news, which is a picture of you fishing in Nanhu. I went to Nanhu and asked the uncles, and they said that you only come occasionally and don't know your phone number. I didn't dare to go directly to you, so I tried my luck here in Nanhu. ”

Cao Yun: "You still came to the lawyer's office to find me." ”

Xu Na whispered: "Because I have money." ”

Cao Yun: "How did you come up with it...... That, medication?"

Xu Na said: "If he pays 100,000 yuan, I will ...... 20,000 is not enough, and I have been thinking about how to get the money...... I thought again, middle-aged people shouldn't dare to call the police, who knew that this would happen. ”

Cao Yun said: "100,000? To be honest, I don't want to touch this case without 5 million, the risk is too high." After spending more than an hour to understand the facts of the case, I only found a little clue and thought, and there was no direction for defense at all. ”

Xu Na said: "I will also borrow five million." ”

Gao Shan Xing was stunned for three seconds: "Children, don't talk nonsense." "100,000 can, 5 million...... His compassion doesn't seem to be up to that standard. Cao Yun will accept five million directly unceremoniously, this is the rule.

Cao Yun smiled and pondered for a while: "The ugly words are ahead, and the risk is entrusted to one million." Believe me, it's already a very low price, and without this price, even if I wanted to, I wouldn't have wanted to. I believe that Miss Gao and Yun Tuhao will solve this million problem. Also, I have to meet your father before I can decide whether to take this case or not. ”

Yun Yin opened his mouth and said: "Cao Yun, you can turn over this case, I have no problem with paying one million privately." It doesn't sound so simple to me, the prosecutor has already paid attention to Xu's father's non-confession, so he will interfere with legal aid and send the case to Guo Xiaotian. But even in this case, there was no improvement. I think the only breakthrough for you is the real reason why Xu's father was half an hour late when he returned to the Phoenix Community, Xu's father told the truth and found a witness, so it was possible to overturn the case. ”

Cao Yun said: "I have the opposite opinion with you, I don't think it is possible for Father Xu to have witnesses. The death penalty, and the vow to the precious daughter. I think he knows that even if he explains, I'm afraid he won't be able to overturn the case. But that's a little bit of a clue to me. ”

Yun Yin asked curiously: "People don't tell their lawyers the reason in the first and second trials, can you ask them?"

Cao Yun said: "If I can't ask, why should I get such a high lawyer's fee?"

……

How to pry open Xu's father's mouth?

It's simple, just bring Xu Na. Xu Na had a tough attitude and threatened, and Xu's father recruited it very easily.

Why was Xu's father still reluctant to explain his whereabouts half an hour after leaving Wang's fish soup after he was sentenced to death?

Two reasons.

One reason: Father Xu, who entered the palace for the second time, knew that no one would help him testify about the truth.

There is another reason: after explaining the truth, Xu's father couldn't face Xu Na.

How tiring is being a fishmonger?

Wake up at 3 a.m. and ride a tricycle to the wholesale fish market to pick up the goods. Then rush back to the vegetable market to set up the stalls. Every time a fish is sold, it is killed, the internal organs and scales removed. Even if you wear your hands, your hands are often injured. It's fine in the summer, but in the winter, every work project is painful.

The busiest morning market usually ends around 9 p.m., when you have to watch the stalls until around 2 p.m. Next, according to the market requirements, the stalls must be washed and cleaned. Next, the bucket basin will be used to carry the remaining fish onto the tricycle. At about four o'clock, the day's work is basically completed.

There are no days off, but if you take a few days off, your stall may be lost. A fish stall in the wet market is a popular resource. Xu's father was able to get the stall, and it was also the way for the relevant departments of the police to go through the back door after the second palace was released from prison. If Xu's father fished for three days and dried his nets for two days, not to mention that the stall was occupied by outsiders, it would definitely be occupied by fishmongers on the left and right. And the rent of the stalls in the wet market is expensive.

In general, the income from selling fish is not low, and in terms of profit, it is normal to make a base of 300 a day, and it is normal to break 1,000. But it's pure hard-earned money.

The reason why I said so much is that it was the foreshadowing made by Xu's father. Hearing this, Cao Yun knew that Father Xu was probably going to do something bad.

Next, as Cao Yun expected, the half hour after Xu's father disappeared was to step on the spot. Wangjia fish soup, the farmer's market belongs to the shantytown, and there are big fish in the shantytown. Xu's father's target is a local, a charter wife.

Some people in urban and rural areas have a few, or even a dozen, of their own houses that are rented out to migrant workers for rent. This situation is not uncommon, in some places the urban and rural demolition, some people can make up dozens of houses.

In the information age, even the ancient profession of thief has begun to decline. It stands to reason that most people don't have much cash in their homes. Even if there is a burglary, kidnapping and transfer, there are no international resources, and the police can easily inquire about the recipient's situation.

Except for gold.

In modern young people, it is more accurate to say that people born in the 80s are not sensitive to gold, and gold is not beautiful in jewelry. Second, gold still has considerable mining potential on the earth, and it is not a scarce resource. Third, in some cities, the gold of a body is not worth a bathroom. However, most women before the 80s had an indissoluble bond with gold. It is said to have stemmed from the scarcity and advantage of gold at the time of their marriage.

As for the preservation of gold value is completely foolish, compared with the price and price of gold ten years ago, twenty years ago, and thirty years ago, we can know that gold is one of the fastest depreciating commodities.

But there are many people who like gold jewelry, and they don't wear it much every day, and they like to hide gold at home. Xu's father saw that the target was a typical gold collector. Although gold does not hold its value, it has other advantages. An advantage, small size, high value. The second advantage is that it is easy to sell stolen goods.

Xu's father has been conducting a two-week investigation of the target, and his target is a woman in her fifties who lives alone on the third floor of a three-story building. The first floor is a storefront, the second floor is rented, and the third floor is self-occupied. Women like to play mahjong and often play until eleven or twelve o'clock in the mahjong parlor not far from their home.

On the day of the incident, the temperature was relatively low and it was raining, and Xu's father found that the target was not absent from the mahjong game. Xu's father squatted in the dark to observe, and it was not until 11:5 that the woman left and went home.

Father Xu, as a member of the second palace, integrated the theory and practical operation of the prisoners in the prison, and he himself had already mastered the timing and method of attacking. The only problem is that Xu's father promised Xu Na that he would not do anything illegal again.

On the other hand, Xu's father was favored by his parents since he was a child, and although he was poor, his life was not bad. When I grew up, I had an easier job to support myself. It wasn't until after marriage that he found that he couldn't satisfy his wife's material desires, so he began to burglarize. Jail, get out of jail, steal, go to jail again.

The year of selling fish can be said to be the most painful year for Xu's father, and he can't bear this hardship.

Xu's father admitted that if he hadn't been arrested, he planned to do it in a few days. On one side is the expectant gaze of the girl, and on the other side is the work that he lodes. He struggled and hesitated, and finally decided to return to his old job.

"Lawyer Cao, I don't want to die too. See if you can get a life sentence, I'm full of old friends and acquaintances. I got used to living in it. I have endured all the hardships of this life this year, and I really can't live this kind of life. ”

The said moving bricks is very tiring and bitter, but the people who move bricks are not moving bricks for themselves, if it is only for themselves, they will not suffer this hardship. Some say that they are the real child slaves. But children are the hope and motivation in their hearts. The same is true for Xu's father, Xu Na is the motivation for him to persist for a year. The difference is that Xu's father has never been able to get used to such a life.

The father and daughter who said it cried through the glass, and Xu Na didn't know that her father was under so much pressure. Xu Na regretted that she didn't know her father, and Xu Na told her father that in the future, you will do some odd jobs to support yourself, and you can support him when you work.

After Cao Yun and the others restrained their emotions a bit, they asked, "Did you kill someone?"

Father Xu looked at Cao Yun and replied, "No." ”

……

After leaving the detention center, Xu Na was sent back to school, and Cao Yun returned to the lawyer's office. Ignoring Gao Shan Xing's inquiry, he went to the backyard to look at the horizon in a daze. It wasn't until night fell that Gao Shan Xing arranged a simple dinner on the backyard table that Cao Yun came back to his senses. But even when he sat down to eat, Cao Yun still didn't say a word.

After asking twice, Gao Shan Xing stopped talking and ate together silently.

"I ...... Don't like this kind of criminal case. Cao Yun finally spoke: "I took over some criminal cases in the Eastern Tang Dynasty, such as Ma Yu's perjury case a few days ago. The more serious one is the Yezi case. I don't have any particular ideas, the perjury case is a petty crime, and I already have a relatively clear view and idea of the Yezi case. ”

Gao Shan Xing asked, "This case?"

Cao Yun did not answer positively: "I know that Ma Yu committed a crime, I let him not have to go to jail, I have no pressure at all." Because the harm of Ma Yu's case is low. Xu's father was a homicide, and his methods were extremely cruel. As a criminal lawyer, one must unconditionally trust his client that he has not killed anyone. ”

Gao Shan Xing understood: "Do you suspect that Father Xu killed someone?"

Cao Yun didn't know whether it was better to nod or shake his head: "I don't know." I'm a lawyer, not a detective, and I can't see the truth. I won't be happy if I lose this case, and I won't be happy if I win. On the contrary, winning or losing will leave me with a burden. ”

If Father Xu had no criminal record, unless he was anti-personality, Cao Yun would believe Father Xu and would not brutally stab him seven times in a row. With such a subjective judgment, Cao Yun will work hard to win the lawsuit.

If Xu's father confessed to murdering, Cao Yun would try to reduce the punishment of Xu's father under the law and find a way to save Xu's father's life.

"I tried to convince myself to trust him, but I didn't believe him. The reason is that Xu's father has testimony and evidence to prove that he did not kill anyone. ”

"I don't understand. "If there is testimony and evidence, why don't you trust him?"

"What he has is conditional evidence that can be used as the main evidence, and Xu's father said that he disappeared for half an hour when he was targeting a woman, and that the woman came home from the mahjong parlor at 11:05. If it can be proved that the woman accidentally returned home at 11:05 p.m. on the day of the crime, it means that Xu's father witnessed this fact, so it is impossible for Xu's father to kill between 10:50 and 11 o'clock. ”