Ling Li hurriedly went in, but heard him say, "I still have something to explain to you, so I've been waiting for you to come back." Did you turn off your phone in court and forget to turn it on? ”

Ling Li was reminded by him before she remembered that her phone was not turned on.

Sure enough, several text messages prompted that she didn't receive a call from Zhu Jinchuan.

She was a little sorry, and asked Zhu Jinchuan honestly: "Master, is there anything you need me to sit on?" ”

Zhu Jinchuan said with a relaxed expression: "There is a case to be held the day after tomorrow, you have to do it, I don't know if you have forgotten?" ”

Ling Li was shocked, opened the journal book and confirmed it again and again, before relieving himself and said, "No, the theft case will not be reported until next week, Master, are you mistaken?" ”

"No," he said, shaking his head, "think again." ”

Ling Li racked her brains and didn't fish out what kind of case she needed to appear in court from her memories, and flipped through the journal, but still found nothing.

Could it be that her memory is really too poor and her IQ is too low, and she directly destroyed the copied materials like last time?

She was really nervous: "Is there really a case that I forgot?" ”

Zhu Jinchuan smiled and uncovered the mystery: "Think about it, you are not a lawyer in this case. ”

Zhu Jinchuan didn't lie to her, and three days later, the case he said was tried - and it really had to be her.

Ling Li played as a victim, and she didn't know when she had submitted a power of attorney and entrusted Zhu Jinchuan as her lawyer.

That is, the case of Jin Yu's rape and intentional homicide, which was tried together after being reviewed and prosecuted.

After almost a year of investigation, all the evidence is in place, and Jin Yu will be punished by law.

This case involves the privacy of dozens of young girls, so it is not tried in public.

However, Ling Li and Zhu Jinchuan, one is the victim of attempted homicide, and the other is the lawyer entrusted by the victim Ling Li, but they finished listening to the case.

The procuratorate's sentencing recommendation was the death penalty, and after hearing the trial, it was decent, and Jin Yu's lawyer was very low-key, basically following the procedure, and did not boldly defend his innocence.

The trial lasted five hours.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, when he came out of the courtroom, Zhu Jinchuan turned his face slightly and gave his prediction of sentencing: "Death reprieve or indefinite, with the right to strip away, you can't get to death, and you can't even get to the death reprieve." ”

Deprivation of power is tantamount to deprivation of political rights, death penalty is equivalent to immediate execution of the death penalty, and commutation of death sentence is equivalent to death reprieve and commutation of sentence, which is usually five to seven years longer than a direct death sentence with a suspended sentence.

People like Zhu Jinchuan who are used to criminal crimes are used to such abbreviations.

Ling Li was not very satisfied with this result, but there was no way, some victims accepted compensation and issued an understanding agreement, and some victims were not even willing to be questioned at all, and there were only three who were willing to testify, and all of them were in the form of testimony.

Those who are unwilling to testify will not talk about it for the time being, after all, they were all sexually assaulted when they were young, and it is not strange that they are unwilling to face this past, but Ling Li, who accepts compensation, can't figure it out.

Dignity, a sense of security, and a healthy mind, how can money buy these things?

But at this point, she couldn't do anything better.

Zhu Jinchuan saw that she was sullen, and he also knew where her bad mood came from, so he smiled at the corner of his mouth: "It depends on whether the procuratorate wants to protest, if Qu Jia's mental condition improves during the second trial and he can go to court to testify in person, maybe the result will be different." ”

Ling Li nodded, still weak.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Jinchuan raised his eyebrows, a little surprised, "I'm so depressed before the verdict comes out?" I see you've been listless all this time, what are you worried about? ”

Ling Li opened her mouth, but found that her voice was hoarse, her throat ached faintly, and she didn't want to speak.

Moreover, she didn't know how to explain to Zhu Jinchuan.

In fact, her mood is good and bad, it all depends on what Nan Zhiyi said and did to her, and a few days ago, because of these problems, it affected the state of work, which caused a case to almost make a mistake when submitting evidence.

Although Zhu Jinchuan did not blame her, let alone ask her to submit any written explanations or anything about this serious mistake, and the lawyers and assistants who had been in the Chengda office for a long time did not say anything.

But she vaguely knew that at least a few of the new lawyers and assistants were quite complaining.

A salaried lawyer who has not done even the most basic things well, or in the case of an assistant, such a mistake that is not trivial or serious should be reflected in the salary.

Zhu Jinchuan not only did not mention the deduction of wages, but even proposed that the salaried lawyer should be given an appropriate share when he held a partnership meeting, after all, 3,000 yuan is indeed too little for young people now.

This is also what Lu Xiaoxiao told her, after all, there are only a few salaried lawyers in the firm, and this matter was raised by Zhu Jinchuan, and it is likely that it was because of her.

Thinking of Zhu Jinchuan's cold and warm face, it seemed that he was not close to her, but in fact he helped her a lot, Ling Li was so close that she couldn't help but raise her face at him, and said aggrievedly: "I'm hungry." ”

I wish Jinchuan a smile. All of a sudden, the second sister of the Ling family, who used to be as stubborn as a cow, has become what she is now, and she looks pitiful at every turn, but she is cuter than before.

The slap-sized face in front of me is used to seeing it, so I don't dislike it as plain water. At least, her tea-crystal eyes are moist and transparent, her cheeks are pink and white, and her lips are red and pouty, indescribably vivid.

His heart was soft, and he couldn't help but raise his hand to rub her hair, and said softly: "Okay, Master will take you to eat." ”

Suddenly noticing that the temperature of the palm of his hand was wrong, Zhu Jinchuan frowned, reached out to pull her bangs away, and his palm touched her forehead.

After a few seconds, he let go of his hand, and his voice was serious: "Ling Li, you are having a fever, haven't you noticed it yourself?" ”

Ten minutes later, next to the roadside pharmacy.

Zhu Jinchuan got out of the car with Ling Li, bought a thermometer and symptomatic medicine at the pharmacy, and watched Ling Li drink the medicine with a bitter face.

She had a fever, less than 38 degrees, which was considered a low-grade fever, and the doctor at the pharmacy took a look, and the preliminary diagnosis was tonsillitis, which required antibiotics and antibiotics to clear away heat and detoxification.

Antibiotics are easy to say, and the doctor's Pudilan oral liquid is really bitter enough to make people sick to their stomachs.

Ling Li drank the medicine, but she just complained about the bitterness, but she was counted down by Zhu Jinchuan for a while.

For example, a person of her age doesn't know how to take good care of herself, and for example, a small case can make her feel like a big enemy and get too nervous, and she actually has a weakened immunity and is infected with tonsillitis.

In the end, he even said that if he was also sick, it would be Ling Li's pot.

When she lowered her head and honestly accepted his count, she didn't dare to reply a word, hoping that he would finish complaining as soon as possible.

At this moment, Zhu Jinchuan's phone rang.

Seeing that the caller ID was the phone on it, Zhu Jinchuan temporarily stopped preaching, and after listening to a few words after connecting the mobile phone, he hung up and called Ling Li: "Someone is looking for you, the phone has been called, you see if your mobile phone is not turned on?" ”

Ling Li was reminded by him and hurriedly took out her mobile phone from her bag. Sure enough, before going to court just now, because of the continuous APP push, she was upset and turned off.

Hurriedly pressed the power button, and a minute later, she saw a prompt on her phone that there were more than a dozen missed calls.

The earliest one was three hours ago, and five numbers in a row were displayed, all of which were calls from Nanzhiyi.

And the next few are unfamiliar landline numbers.

Ling Li was stunned, and there was a faint feeling of uneasiness in her heart.

Is there anything important about him looking for her in such a hurry?

After thinking about it, she still called up Nanzhiyi's number first and dialed it.

On the other end of the phone, it rang for at least a few dozen seconds before someone connected.

There was an embarrassing thing that she didn't want to remember before, and Ling Li hadn't figured out what kind of mentality she should face him, so she only fed him and fell silent.

And Nan Zhiyi, who called the phone, was obviously much more anxious than her.

"Fan Mei," his voice was nervous and hurried, "Zhong Zhuowen, have you been looking for you before?" ”

"No," she replied, wondering how he had remembered to ask about it.

Suddenly remembered a phone call from the court a few days ago, she hurriedly said: "A few days ago, I received a call from her, but I was in court at that time and didn't answer it. Later, she didn't call again, and I thought it might not be important, so I didn't call either. ”

"When?" He asked.

"Three days ago." Ling Li replied, exhaling and breathing, and suddenly a sense of foreboding gradually appeared in his heart.

It was rare to hear him speak in such a heavy and anxious tone, and it was rare for him to take the initiative to call her.

Something important must have happened.

After a few seconds, she took the initiative to ask, "What's wrong?" ”

Nan Zhiyi didn't answer immediately, some heavy breathing sounds came from the earpiece to Ling Li's ears, and she couldn't help but get nervous.

More than ten seconds passed, and after a long sigh, he said, "Zhong Zhuowen, it's missing." ”

Half an hour later, the Dongcheng District Public Security Bureau.

Zhu Jinchuan accompanied Ling Li to the police station, and only reported that Zhong Zhuowen was missing, and a police officer took them upstairs.

And in the corridor, I just happened to meet Nanzhiyi after making a record.

"You're here." His simple three words, his eyes were covered with clouds, so that Ling Li couldn't see his emotions.

After a hurried meeting, Ling Li stayed in the interrogation room for an hour.

In the interrogation room, the two policemen asked Ling Li some questions about Zhong Zhuowen, including how they met each other and how they had been in recent interactions.

After Ling Li answered the questions truthfully, she also learned some information about Zhong Zhuowen's disappearance from the police.

Zhong Zhuowen disappeared three days ago, that is, on the day she called Ling Li, and lost contact with the outside world.

She told her family that she was going to live with a classmate from another place for two days, but the classmate said that he had never seen her.

Because Zhong Chengheng has been entangled in lawsuits for eight years, and Shi Meina has been running around to save him, Zhong Zhuowen has been very independent since she was a child, and it is not less when she goes out alone.

When she didn't return at the scheduled time, and the phone couldn't get through, her family called the police.

According to the evidence and surveillance obtained, five days ago, Zhong Zhuowen bought a ticket from Ruodu to Pyeongchang, and after getting off the bus at the Pyeongchang Passenger Transport Center, she got on a bus from a small county town named Guangwu.

According to the driver and attendant of the car, she did not go to Guangwu, but got off the bus halfway.

That place used to be a rampant area for mountain bandits, but after liberation, it was a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to suppress bandits and rectify bullies. Later, the abundant coal resources were explored, and for a time there were many small coal kilns, overmining led to the hollowing out of the mountain, and after several major safety incidents, the local government came to rectify them, coupled with national policies, and the small coal kilns were closed.

Today, the place is depressed, and the town called Heishui, which once arose due to the development of the coal mining industry, is gradually declining.