"Zhang Ruiming, can you put away your simple theory of human nature and goodness? Many people in this world don't need the kind of "help" you think you think, you didn't look like this when you used to prosecute, but now you are so simple? Even I just heard the meaning of the surname Zhou, people don't want to fight this lawsuit at all, just like you, exhaust everything, and finally get a meaningless result. People just want to find someone who takes money from Quan Jian and leaves, only you, the elm head, think about going to bang your head and break the blood flow all day long. ”

"Are you saying that the Zhou family doesn't want to fight this lawsuit anymore, it's me who is ......?"

Zhang Ruiming's tone was a little confused, it was not that he didn't see Zhou Qiangnong's strange appearance before, but he was still thinking about how to avoid risks for the Zhou family at that time, and he didn't even consider that Zhou Qiangnong was ready to withdraw the lawsuit.

This case is now the last straw that brought down Quan Jian, if the Zhou family retreats, without this little spark, it will be difficult to expose this super-large-scale counterfeit drug group.

Zhang Ruiming was silent, his face was gloomy, and he said after half a sound.

"Maybe when I was in the Public Prosecution Department before, I was handling criminal cases at that time, and my heart was preset to face those people who were cheated and abducted, murdered and set fires, and the main position at that time was the national prosecutor, and I didn't have much contact with the victims, so I didn't fully experience the pain, so I always had some ......precautions in my heart."

Zhang Ruiming lowered his head, and the blurred faces of Wang Yuanchao, Wu Xiaoqin, and Xiao Zhouyang appeared in front of him.

"Nowadays, when we engage in public interest litigation, although most of them are not criminal cases, but in the process of investigation and evidence collection, I have more contact with the victims, and more people will consider it from the perspective ......of these vulnerable people.

Before he finished speaking, a warm little hand covered Zhang Ruiming's mouth, and Tang Shi said with a burst of displeasure on his face: "Bah, can you talk nonsense? ”

Zhang Ruiming smiled bitterly and removed his wife's hand, "I'm just saying a hypothesis......"

"Assumptions don't work!"

In the face of Tang Shi's tough attitude, Zhang Ruiming had no choice but to retract his previous analogy and beg for mercy: "Okay, good, I just want to say that the consideration point of my current case handling is more to stand on the incomparably broad position of "the people", and I can't help but sympathize with victims like the Zhou family in my heart, and I will not consider my own position many times, which is my problem." ”

Hearing Zhang Ruiming's confession, Tang Shi's gaze eased a lot, the corners of her mouth twitched, and a look of worthlessness for Zhang Ruiming was squeezed out on her face.

"If you want me to see, since you started to do public interest litigation two years ago, these things are all thankless, think about it yourself, Chinese people are selfish, as long as a thing is not involved in themselves, or some damage that is not clear to understand, everyone is too lazy to care, besides, how big will a force that can make everyone silent? Like Quan Jian, like the case of Feng Binbin half a year ago, aren't they all big groups and big companies that have fallen into the rain, and these people have complicated roots and don't know how strong the forces are, so how far can you do it alone? If you take 10,000 steps back, you will handle this case, what can you do? Who will remember your merits? Didn't a sage say in ancient times: The people of the ancients did not benefit the world at the slightest loss, and they did not take it; they did not take anything from the world. No one loses a single bit, everyone is not good for the world, and the world is governed. Isn't this just a simple market economy? If you want me to see, this old saying is very true, the core spirit of your public interest litigation has been wrong from the beginning, how can you let one or two of you junior prosecutors stand out for the whole world, and this is something that one or two of you prosecutors can do well? Moreover, this kind of thing that will endanger your life and block the future of the whole family, I don't think this is a "loss of a slight," but almost a loss of your whole body. ”

Hearing that his wife would actually quote the words of the ancients Yang Zhu to criticize himself, Zhang Ruiming couldn't help but feel funny, although Tang Shi didn't know that this was actually said by Yang Zhu, who was criticized by later generations, but it was quite good to be able to use the classics, his wife didn't like to read these ancient books before, but after becoming a family, Zhang Qingcang has always advocated a strong family atmosphere to edify and educate Xuanxuan, the most important thing in the family is stacks of books, every day Zhang Qingcang holds his granddaughter "Zhihu also" , even with Tang poems soaked in this pile of ancient texts every day, I didn't expect Xuanxuan's reading habits to be formed yet, but the Tang poems were edified, and as soon as she opened her mouth, there was a string of ancient metaphors.

But listening to his wife's not simply using "a dime to pluck out" to explain Yang Zhu's thoughts, Zhang Ruiming was still very happy in his heart, and he smiled: "Do you know who said this?"

Tang Shi glanced at him, she knew that her husband's reading volume was amazing, far more powerful than her own three buckets of water, but she still didn't give up: "I don't care who he said, anyway, it was said by the ancient sages, I think it makes sense, you see" Everyone does not lose a single bit, everyone is not good for the world, and the world is governed." "Isn't this the case in Europe and the United States, everyone does their own thing, everyone does not cause trouble to the country, isn't it capitalism, marketism, and the wicked themselves

There are wicked people grinding, everyone also takes care of themselves, isn't it very good, why do you prosecutors need to do those big things that can't be done, you have this right, for the sake of these thousands of yuan of wages, to challenge those hundreds of millions of large groups, large companies, isn't it difficult to shake the strong strength of the other party, but if you are given a greater power, enough to harvest these enterprises and companies at will, then it is either that you have a huge space for rent-seeking by virtue of this power...... So I see, from the perspective of the reform of your unit, this public interest litigation is because after the two reversals of your procuratorate, it will give you a compensation and another sword, but from the perspective of system design, the strength of this sword is difficult to control, if it is too blunt, you can't deal with these multinational groups, if it is too sharp, and no one restricts you, so ah, I think it is not reasonable at all. ”

Seeing that Tang Shi could think so deeply, Zhang Ruiming didn't expect it, it can be seen that his wife has put a lot of effort into her job, but he completely disagrees with his wife's point of view, especially when he heard his wife faintly say that public interest litigation may become the source of power rent-seeking in the procuratorate, he said with a straight face: "What you said makes some sense, but I absolutely disagree with this matter of power rent-seeking, our prosecutors are a team that pays attention to clean government, and the management is quite strict, there is no such thing as what you said." ”

"Hey, I didn't mean you...... I mean, although you don't have any ideas in your heart, what if some people do......" Tang Shi was frightened by Zhang Ruiming's serious tone, but still forcibly explained.

"No...... I can be sure of this, okay, back to the "ancient sage" you mentioned earlier, I won't argue with you first, I'll just ask a little bit, do you know that the paragraph you just said was said by the "ancient sage"? It is the "unstoppable" Yang Zhu!"

"Ah~ it's him. ”

Tang Shi didn't expect it to be said by this person, and regretted that he still didn't read the whole book, but he quoted a well-known villain, and the argument was weakened a lot.

"Yes, it's him, do you know how Mencius criticized him? Mencius said: Yang Tzu takes it as me, plucks a hair and benefits the world, not for it. Mozi and love, Moding is good for the world, for it. This passage is so well-known that everyone understands the truth...... Wife, I know that you have suffered a lot of grievances over the years because of my work, and I have been worried for so long, and I feel uncomfortable, I understand, but there is nothing wrong with public interest litigation, there is a very famous concept in jurisprudence, called "tragedy of the commons", which is about this kind of evil behavior that violates everyone, but everyone is hoarding their own position and considering the cost and is unwilling to come forward, but this kind of behavior must always be stopped, so there is a new cause of public interest litigation in judicial reform. And as a prosecutor, this is my duty and my obligation. ”

This passage, Zhang Ruiming said quite gently, but very firmly, that is, he wanted to communicate with his wife calmly and understand each other, after Tang Shi listened to it, he was not as calm as he imagined, only to see that the wife who had cared for each other for more than ten years, in the long-term depression, really couldn't bear it, and broke out again.

"Don't tell me these big truths, I can't hear them, and I don't want to hear them! I just can't figure out a simple truth: Why do you have to take care of things that no one else cares about? Why is it always my husband who is hurt, our family! You can't be selfish once! You can't think about it for yourself! After you got into this case, think about it for yourself, how many times have you been besieged? You almost lost your life! Now that people are going to bankrupt our family, what kind of "tragedy of the commons" are you talking about here!? You're a tragedy yourself!"

In the past few months, Zhang Ruiming has almost always been unable to see people, every day is wearing stars and moons, either he doesn't go home for dozens of days on a business trip, or he goes home very late every day, he creeps in after his daughter sleeps, and early in the morning, he goes to work before Tang Shi and his daughter get up, and he can't see anyone at either end. I finally heard that he came back from a business trip and took his daughter to pick up the plane, but he saw the damn "little three" surnamed Ye, and these people who couldn't see people's fatigue were forgotten, but Zhang Ruiming almost died that night, that attack completely shattered Tang Shi's bottom line, so that she had palpitations during this time, and she couldn't live with peace of mind, and now I heard that the other party had pointed the finger at the little wealth that the Zhang family had accumulated so hard, how could Tang Shi be able to hear Zhang Ruiming's current rhetoric.

Tang Shi completely broke out, the sound of the car window glass buzzed, at this time, as if with Tang Shi's collapsed mood, Tiangong roared, "pop" a few bean-sized raindrops smashed on the front windshield, and then there were two booms of thunder, and the pedestrians outside the window ran to dodge, and the entire street immediately dispersed, leaving only a few vehicles parked on the side of the road, accompanying the two people who were facing each other in the car.

Zhang Ruiming looked up at the sky, he suddenly felt a little helpless, at this time the rainstorm had fallen, the crackling and pounding rain kept washing the body of the two cars, but the two people in the car seemed to be unaware, no one cared about the rainstorm outside the car, the depressing atmosphere in the car was not inferior to the angry Tiangong outside the car.

Zhang Ruiming sighed, he pulled the handbrake up again, and said with a low expression: "The rain is so heavy, since we can't go, let's make it clear now." ”

"I've wanted to ask clearly, Zhang Ruiming, in your eyes, is this job more important than me and your daughter? Or are you more important than me and your daughter?"

"I said, I'm a prosecutor and that's my duty...... And you said that those parties, in my opinion, I just have an empathy for them, and I want to stand in their position and help them, which is completely different from my feelings for you and Xuanxuan, and there is no way to compare them......"

"Then why do I feel like you have to care more about these bullshit parties who can't be beaten!?"

Tang Shi's eyes were red, she didn't back down on this issue, and didn't give him a chance to mix with it at all, after she said this sentence fiercely, as if she thought of something ridiculous, she sneered, and said in a very sarcastic tone: "Now that people surnamed Zhou are bent on reconciling and getting money, it's good for you, after being used as a gun to do so many things in vain, now people are disgusted like dogs, people obviously don't want to tell you about the settlement amount before, worried that you will share other people's money!" What are you talking about here about the duties of a prosecutor, you have been sold and are still counting the money!"

After Tang Shi finished speaking, her eyes did not shy away at all, and she looked at Zhang Ruiming fixedly, she wanted to take this opportunity to completely convince her stupid husband that she didn't want him to do these thankless things again, let him get his career back on track, and didn't want his family to worry about his work anymore.

She felt that what she said was very thorough, and what she said was a little too sharp, worried that it would cause Zhang Ruiming's disgust and angry counterattack, but what she didn't expect was that Zhang Ruiming, who was originally able to argue and speak sharply, and could always persuade her, did not reply at this time, or even a word of justification, but smiled bitterly, and then looked at the window next to him silently.

Crackling, the heavy rain outside seemed to drown everything, in front of the car window was the crazy rain and fog that the wipers could not sweep away, and the whole world seemed to be upside down into the vast sea of rain curtains, and everything else in heaven and earth seemed to cease to exist, except for the noisy sound of rain.

But in Tang Shi's heart, this small carriage shrouded by heavy rain was so quiet.

The husband's side face is still good-looking, these days of running, he has lost a lot of weight, his beard is not taken care of much, sparse and sparse messy long, long long, short short, at first glance, I didn't pay much attention to the last time I shaved my beard, and I wiped it twice and left, probably in a hurry to go to work......

Tang Shi has not had the opportunity to look at her husband quietly for a long time, she suddenly found that Zhang Ruiming was actually much older, and the fine lines at the corners of her eyes could not be seen when she was usually noisy and jubilant, and she only noticed her husband's smiling curved eyebrows at that time, but now, after experiencing this painful pull between the two, when Zhang Ruiming drooped his face and the two were entangled in pain, she noticed that her husband was really old.

Did you just say something a little heavy? Did it make him sad? Should I say something?

Just when Tang Shi hesitated, worried about how far her husband's heart would collapse, Zhang Ruiming turned his tired face and finally spoke.

"Wife, I know you don't like Qiangnong just now, to be honest, when I first met this person, I didn't like him either. ”

"It's not that I don't like it, I have nothing to do with him, and I won't have any dealings in this life, I just think ah, this person is quite unlucky, my daughter has such a thing, and I don't have any money, and now Quan Jian is finally willing to lose money, he can count it well, but what is it that he uses my husband......"

Zhang Ruiming shook his finger and stopped the irrelevant words under Tang Shi, he still continued softly, his voice was warm, but there was no trace of anger.

"Actually, I thought very much like you at the beginning, at the beginning I saw Zhou Qiangnong and his brother, Zhou Dali, these two people only wanted me to stand up for them, and they were not willing to spend a penny to hire a lawyer to protect their rights and interests through due legal procedures. I know that they are legally illiterate, and I also think they are stupid, and they will actually believe in Quanjian's extremely crude deception, and I even think that they should be deceived, and they should be deceived if they have no culture, no money, and no social experienceThe funny thing is that they have already fallen into this trap, but this trap has harmed more than 200,000 of their perpetrators, and even used their ugly appearance to publicize and use it everywhere, treating Xiao Zhouyang's photo as a kind of human blood steamed bun, do you think, this is also deserved?"

"No, I didn't mean that......" Tang Shi was a little frightened by Zhang Ruiming's calm narration, she was not so indifferent and ruthless, at this time she was worried about her husband's mental state, and hurriedly said out loud.

Zhang Ruiming ignored his wife's answer, and instead showed a helpless smile, "I think they deserve it." ”