Chapter 5: The Man
The car was made like this, obviously it couldn't be driven, Fang Miao called the insurance company, and then waited in the same place.
Coincidentally, she waited a few minutes before noticing a car parked at the mouth of another alley not far away, and soon the owner of the car was sent out of the alley by a young woman talking and laughing.
And the owner of the car is none other than Yan Zheng.
looked at Fang Miao and straightened her eyes, maybe her gaze was too hot, so that she was caught by the other party as soon as she turned her head.
Fang Miao felt embarrassed in her heart, but she still had a generous smile on the surface.
On the other side, Yan Zheng maintained a warm smile on his face as he had met before, he walked towards Fang Miao unhurriedly, approached, and saw the car completely broken at a glance.
"What's going on?" he asked, his voice nervous and angry, a mixture of shallow emotions, and a seductive face.
"It may be that you have offended someone in a lawsuit, and now you are being retaliated against. Seeing that the smile on the other party's face gradually dissipated, Fang Miao explained slightly, "I have already called someone from the insurance company to deal with it." ”
"It's hard to get a taxi here, I'll take you back in a moment. Yan Zheng turned his head sideways, without the seriousness he had just now.
His tone was very natural, which made it difficult to refuse, Fang Miao hesitated for a while, and finally agreed.
Not only because it is difficult to get a taxi, but also because there may be some unknown dangers hidden here, and it is not appropriate to be reserved at this time.
After the insurance company took the car away, Fang Miao got into Yan Zheng's car.
In fact, it will be somewhat embarrassing to get along with Yan Zheng, he is a person who talks little, but sometimes he will take the initiative to talk, just like just now, but after getting in the car, his attention has been on driving.
This sense of distance will always give people an illusion, an illusion of acquaintance and strangeness.
Fang Miao felt unnatural about this atmosphere, and took the initiative to find a topic: "Why is Doctor Yan there, I saw just now that someone sent you out, go to relatives?"
"It was my patient's family who came here today to give her son psychological counseling. Yan Zheng replied without taking his eyes off the intersection ahead.
Fang Miao let out a light "oh", and asked curiously: "Now the psychiatrist is also going to come to the door to serve?"
It seems that as far as she knows, it is the patients who take the initiative to diagnose and treat.
"No, it's the patient who doesn't want to go out, so I came here on purpose. "He was concise and to the point, and he said everything very lightly.
Fang Miao didn't ask much, and she had a new understanding of this Doctor Yan in her heart.
It was close to evening when the car drove to the law firm, she got out of the car and waved at Yan Zheng, but the person who thought she was going to leave suddenly got out of the car.
"I would venture to ask, is Miss Fang still drinking the Chinese medicine before?" The corners of his mouth curved slightly, as if he had returned to the appearance when he first met, he was a doctor, and she was a patient.
Fang Miao was stunned, and quickly replied truthfully, "Twice a day is absolutely correct." ”
Before today, it was very regular, I'm afraid that she didn't even have time to decoct the medicine when she was busy these days, and she was embarrassed to say this.
The other party didn't move, staring at Fang Miao decisively, and after a few seconds, his voice was calm and said: "That's good, if the headache gets worse, you can come to me at any time." ”
Xu is heart has a ghost in her heart, Fang Miao always felt that he had something to say, but in the end she didn't dare to ask openly, and nodded obediently.
After the instructions, Yan Zheng stepped into the car, and watched him bend and leave, before she turned around and entered the building.
As soon as he entered the law firm, before Fang Miao came back to his senses, everyone in the law firm poked their heads out of their office area as if they had discussed, with an inexplicable smile on their faces.
Fang Miao rubbed her thumping temples, and walked towards her office with a blind eye sweeping the gossip of everyone, the appearance of being unapproachable undoubtedly extinguished everyone's gossip fire.
When she was about to touch the doorknob, she suddenly thought of something, and looked back at several assistants who were still probing their brains.
"I'm going to work overtime tonight, you just have to go straight after work. With that, she went straight into the office.
The remaining few people looked at each other, sighed in unison, and didn't have time to ask who the handsome guy downstairs was......
Fang Miao worked overtime to investigate the case entrusted to her by Ms. Bai Huiwen last Sunday.
Defendant Bai Yang is Bai Huiwen's son, and a few months ago he had a girlfriend named Zhou Yan, and the two lived in a double house, and just a week after the two dated, Zhou Yan's ex-boyfriend came to the house and asked to get back together.
When Poplar arrived, the two got into a verbal altercation, and Poplar fell from the third floor and was taken to the hospital, where doctors determined that he had suffered a severe spinal fall and could face lifelong paralysis.
In addition to Zhou Yan at the scene of the crime, there was also an injured man on the ground, who was her ex-boyfriend Chen Yifeng, who died after being sent to the hospital.
After the incident, the police learned from Zhou Yan, a direct witness to the case, that Bai Yang had already carried a murder weapon when he entered the scene of the crime, and he was holding a knife to hurt people during the dispute.
After testing, the fingerprints on the knife were consistent with Bai Yang, and due to sufficient evidence, the procuratorate has filed a case against Bai Yang as a defendant, but in view of his current medical condition, no arrest will be made for the time being.
Fang Miao flipped through the case materials, tapping her fingertips on the eyewitness column a few times, and recalled the conversation with the defendant in the hospital in the afternoon......
"Were you carrying a murder weapon when you entered the scene?"
"Really, why do you all ask that?" Poplar lay on the hospital bed, blushing sharply.
Fang Miao stared at him closely, and said, "What did you see after you opened the door?" Or, what did Chen Yifeng do to your girlfriend?"
“……”
"It's precisely because you saw it that you couldn't help but want to kill him! You first stabbed him in the shoulder from behind, but you didn't expect Chen Yifeng to be very capable of fighting, you were forced to the window by him, and when you realized that there was no guardrail to protect you, you began to stab him with a knife in a panic, right?"
"That's not the case!" he denied again, "I didn't stab him at all, I just pushed them away, but the man was crazy, and he was trying to push me downstairs all along, and if it weren't for that, how could I be lying here like a wreck?
"That is to say, Chen Yifeng did misbehave towards Zhou Yan, and you saw it with your own eyes?"
"I don't see it, it's just your speculation that doesn't exist!"
It was useless to say more, Fang Miao left her chair and looked at Bai Yang with fluttering eyes: "Do you know who the person who testified against you is? At least tell the truth to your defense lawyer, even if it is ...... It's the ones you killed. ”
She walked out, and just as she was about to go out, the person on the hospital bed suddenly said, "I didn't kill him, after all, how can a person be so ruthless as to kill someone?"
Believe it or not, this case will not be much simpler, but the more you dig deeper, the more doubts there are.
At night, the desks were covered with stacks of case materials written in black and white, and the sound of turning pages was heard one after another.
Bai Yang's last words did not dispel Fang Miao's suspicions, even so, in fact, the biggest doubt about this case in her heart was not here, if she wanted to solve it, it was far from enough to rely on these case records.
Now Zhou Yan's family has temporarily avoided all interviews on the grounds that the incident is urgent and frightened and amnesiac, and the case has entered a bottleneck period.
Maybe she really waited too long, and she wanted to stand in court as a defense lawyer too much.
Fang Miao breathed a long sigh of relief, the braids that had been tied up were loosened and scattered on her back shoulders, she got up and walked to the window to look at the night.
"Isn't it...... Am I getting something wrong again?" she raised her hand to touch the cool glass, her voice was weak, and her heart sank again and again.
Across a wide street, there were a few families in the opposite building who had not yet rested, and a few lights shone through the windows, emitting a faint light in the night when they couldn't see their fingers.
Looking out the window, Fang Miao's heart seemed to be a gap that was constantly expanding, all the hope and all the enthusiasm were being swallowed up little by little, she was a lawyer, no matter what kind of predicament she faced, she should deal with it calmly, but this time she couldn't afford to lose!
The sky is white, the dawn of dawn replaces the veil of night to brighten the whole world, and the world covered by the morning glow heralds another new day, and the sun is slowly rising.
At half past nine in the morning, colleagues from the law firm came to work one after another, and Meng Chaoge specially bought a breakfast when he came.
She knocked on the office door, but there was no response, the blinds were drawn, and she couldn't see the movement inside, she was really worried, so she took the initiative to push the door in.
"Lawyer Fang?" she asked, clearing her throat tentatively.
Fang Miao heard someone come in, and held her forehead and squinted at it.
"You won't really stay up all night, right? It's just a case, can you commit such a crime, it's a big deal to be handed over to other criminal defenses, you..."
"Okay, don't talk about it, let's go out if there's nothing to do. Her voice was not high, and some of the dissatisfaction could still be heard.
"Okay, it's me who talks too much, didn't you eat last night? Meng Chaoge ignored her excesses, put the morning aside, and then left.
The office returned to its previous quietness, Fang Miao put down the pen in her hand, closed her eyes, and frowned uncomfortably, remembering the tone of her voice just now, she didn't want to do that, but that kind of emotion would be uncontrollable.
"This is my business card, you can contact me if you need to. ”
"If your headache gets worse, you can always come to me. ”
Yan Zheng...... Can she really go to him, or can she really be completely cured by receiving treatment? but, from the bottom of her heart, she really doesn't want to try!
The office hours in the morning are not long, and it is time for lunch in the blink of an eye.
In the rest room, several assistants and lawyers gathered together to discuss various topics while eating.
In the past, most of them were gossiping, but today's focus is on Fang Miao.
"I think Lawyer Fang must be under too much pressure at work, otherwise find a psychiatrist for her to counsel?" Meng Chaoge proposed.
Everyone agreed: this is a disease, it must be cured!
The matter of finding a psychiatrist ended with a unanimous vote, and after lunch, Meng Chaoge quietly checked it in private, and finally found a "Heal Psychological Office".
Just listening to the name is good, and everyone who has been there says it is good, so she chose this place with a little finger, and the appointment time is set for next Friday.
When it was time to get off work, Meng Chaoge and the other two assistants almost dragged Fang Miao out of the office and "invited" her, for fear that she would work overtime.
During this period, several people were really afraid that she would get angry, but fortunately she didn't.
Knowing that Fang Miao had not driven in the past few days, Meng Chaoge specially called her an online car-hailing car and personally sent her to the car.
The express train went all the way unimpeded, and it took more than ten minutes to reach the outside of the community.
Fang Miao walked all the way to find the key from the bag, and after looking for half a day, she realized that she was in too much of a hurry, and the key fell on the law firm, she patted her head, a little annoyed.
While it was still early, she had to go back to the law firm again, and thinking like this, she turned around and walked back.
In the parking space not far away, a man got out of the car and walked around the front of the car to face her face to face, the distance was narrowing, as if being pulled by some force, the two of them stopped and looked at each other.
In the dim twilight, the man was stunned for only a second, and then pulled the corners of his lips and smiled faintly.
He laughed like that, and it was really fascinating... Fang Miao thought to herself, and she was being watched by him like this, and she didn't know how to react.