Lu Xiaoxiao was dressed in a bright suit, with a tall posture, humming a song in her mouth and dangling a coffee cup. After swaying around for a long time, she stopped at Ling Li's lattice, looked at Ling Li who was lying on the table and was struggling to write, and said, "You really ran to read the papers?" ”

Ling Li looked up from the thick stack of notes, pushed her glasses that had slipped off a little, and replied, "Of course I want to go, if it weren't for this case, I wouldn't have come back." ”

Hearing her natural tone, Lu Xiaoxiao was stunned, and laughed after a few seconds: "It's okay, Xiao Lingzi, you can be regarded as long-willed." In the past, the wilting three punches couldn't make a fart, but this time the anger value burst into the head of Zhu, and he can also let him wipe his face and invite you back, it seems that he is about to get down. ”

Ling Li hurriedly looked around, and found that her colleagues were so busy that no one cared about their conversation, so she lowered her voice and said, "Can you be less loud?" ”

Lu Xiaoxiao threw a flattering look at her, still with an unrestrained loud voice: "What are you afraid of, there is no place to keep your master here, and if you don't agree, you will open up, this is the aura of criminal defense, otherwise, how can you fight with those prosecutors who are fierce and justifiable and want to punish us on behalf of the moon?" ”

Finally, her unscrupulous words lured Ma Zanwei out of the office next door

He poked his head out and glanced at Lu Xiaoxiao helplessly: "Xiao Lu, I have to be angry when you are usually angry, do you want to teach Ling Li badly and make Jinchuan angry, just to take over his partner position?" ”

Lu Xiaoxiao stuck out her tongue and smiled, finally less rampant.

Lawyer Ma shook his head, glared at Lu Xiaoxiao fiercely, and warned in his mouth: "You just talk too much, when can you be quick to say and quick to act, then you can be considered a teacher." ”

The interaction between the old and the young in front of him made Ling Li very envious.

Lu Xiaoxiao's master, Ma Zanwei, is one of the founders of Chengda Law Firm.

Lawyer Ma usually doesn't talk much, always smiles like a good person, but when he arrives in court, he is full of firepower, daring to do and dare to speak, that aura, even if the prosecutors who have the support of the state's public power, they can rarely speak loudly to him.

Mr. Ma has also been on the front line of criminal defense and has not changed his original intention for many years.

And the reason why a hot girl like Lu Xiaoxiao, who has a distinct personality and shows off her talents, can get into Ma Lao's eyes is probably because she is straightforward and bold and careful, which is exactly in line with Ma Lao's own style.

It's a pity that she Ling Li didn't have such luck, and she couldn't meet a good teacher who was willing to guide her.

After Lawyer Ma finished teaching his apprentice, he turned his head to look at Ling Li again, and his eyes behind the reading glasses were full of soft smiles: "Xiao Ling, it's a good thing to have your own persistence, your master, you have your master's difficulties." Don't be afraid, if there's anything you don't understand, just ask me. ”

With that, he went back to his office.

Being beaten by her master, Lu Xiaoxiao was honest for a while, and after a while, she ran over and winked at Ling Li: "How is it, have you gained anything from grading?" Is there any clue that can overturn the previous identification conclusion and prove that Qu Jia was actually in an abnormal mental state at that time? ”

Ling Li was still moved by Lawyer Ma's words just now, and now her attention returned to the case, and she shook her head: "The previous appraisal conclusion should not be a big problem, judging from the current facts of the case, Qu Jia did have full criminal responsibility capacity when he committed the crime." ”

Lu Xiaoxiao frowned: "Then how could you kill your daughter in a moment's quarrel?" ”

Ling Li picked up the file reading record in her hand and said to her, "I found something new in the file. Maybe we were wrong in our thinking. I have a new speculation about the case, I don't know if it's reliable or not, so you can help me think about it. ”

Three days ago, Ling Li returned to the office and applied to the court for reading the file as soon as possible. Probably because of the special nature of this case, the judge did not make it difficult and quickly agreed to the application, so that she could see the results of the preliminary investigation by the public security and the procuratorate very smoothly.

The facts of the case were not much different from what she had known before, but there was something in the catalogue of evidence that she did not expect.

The inquest record at the scene showed that on the table at the scene of the crime, there was a bottle of cough syrup with an unclosed cap, but the abnormal smell that was obviously not syrup attracted the attention of the police, so evidence was collected for testing.

Laboratory tests revealed that the liquid was not cough syrup at all, but something chemically known as 1-1-dimethyl-4-4-bipyridine cationic salt, commonly known as paraquat.

This herbicide is extremely toxic to humans, there is no specific antidote, and the mortality rate of oral poisoning can reach more than 90%, and the death process is very painful.

The residential building rented by Qu Jia and Zhou Ze is less than 50 square meters with one bedroom and one living room, and there is neither a garden nor flower pots for planting flowers.

In other words, there is no place where paraquat can be used. After Zhou Ze's identification, the bottle used to hold paraquat was the same medicine bottle that Xiaoyuzi had taken when he was treating pneumonia.

In the days after the incident, Xiaoyuzi had a cold and would take the leftover cough medicine when she was sick when she coughed.

When Lu Xiaoxiao heard this, she had a somewhat incredulous expression: "Could it be that Qu Jia didn't kill people out of anger?" ”

Ling Li nodded solemnly: "Yes." Moreover, I suspect that Qu Jia originally planned to kill Xiaoyuzi and commit suicide. ”

She pointed to a few lines in the transcript: "This is the testimony of Qu Jia's neighbor in his 40s who used to work as a farmer, showing that Qu Jia once asked questions about paraquat, how much adults drank to die, and how many children were." I speculate that she had planned to take the poison with the grapefruit, but knowing the pain of paraquat death, she covered the pomelo first. ”

Speaking of this, Ling Li stopped, turned the pen in her hand, and had a thoughtful expression: "After that, she was arrested before she took poison." As for why she didn't take poison for two hours after the killing, I can't figure it out. ”

After being silent for a while, Lu Xiaoxiao sighed: "Compared to the pain of the digestive tract being corroded and the organs slowly failing, just a few minutes of suffocation is really much better." Perhaps Qu Jia was also scared, so he didn't drink paraquat for a long time. ”

Ling Li shook her head and said, "She's not afraid of death, you can recall how she looked like she was bent on dying in the detention center, as if she didn't care about anything anymore." ”

After a pause, Ling Li sighed again: "The current reasonable explanation is that Qu Jia thinks that Xiaoyuzi is not Zhou Ze's child, so he has been reluctant to do a paternity test. But the problem of going to the house was imminent, and in the end she got into the horns and wanted to get rid of it. However, compared to two lives, her empathy is not a big deal at all, how could she be so stupid and poison such a cute child? ”

Lu Xiaoxiao's voice was also muffled: "Qu Jia is only twenty years old, and her mind is not yet mature, and after killing her daughter, she knew that she was actually Zhou Ze's child, and she was stimulated, so she went crazy." ”

The hidden truth behind this case made both of them a little breathless.

Lu Xiaoxiao patted Ling Li on the shoulder: "Your case is too entangled, as powerful as I feel uncomfortable when I hear it, you can encounter this kind of human tragedy for the first time in a criminal case, you are really lucky." ”

Ling Li was also a little helpless. The case is still full of suspicions, too many places that she can't see clearly.

For example, Qu Jia kept talking in the detention center that someone would snatch Xiaoyuzi, what is the origin of this? For example, why didn't Qu Jia take paraquat two hours after Yuzu's death?

The most important thing is that who is the man who has emotional entanglements and even physical relationships with Qu Jia but hides them so deeply?

These questions, like a thin layer of mist, shrouded the facts of the case that she could clarify, and the haze made it impossible for her to see through several of the key cause and effect relationships.

As Qu Jia, a suspect in this case, many questions can only be answered from her.

However, according to the feedback from the presiding judge, Qu Jia did not have a moment of soberness at all, and the whole person was crazy and aggressive, and he had been sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.

Qu Jia has gone crazy, and the facts of the case that she can investigate stop there.

Ling Li hesitated again and again, and called Qian Liting, asking her to see Qu Jia and see if she could get some new clues about the case.

Compared with Qu Linjiang, who had a resolute personality and almost beat her and Zhu Jinchuan that day, Ling Li was more willing to deal with Qian Liting, and felt that she should be better at talking.

On the phone, Qian Liting didn't lose her temper with her, her tone was quite calm, she just hung up the phone after asking Qu Linjiang's opinion, but there was no reply.

Ling Li waited for a whole day, and finally couldn't bear to call again, only to find that Qian Liting's phone could no longer be reached.

After that, she stubbornly dialed Qu Linjiang's mobile phone again, but she still didn't get through.

Ling Li finally understood that these two couples might have blacklisted her.

Ling Li said that she understood their approach, but after thinking about it, she still didn't want to give up.

Ling Li tried her best to avoid the interrogation and patrol of the security guards, and despite the cold air, the weather dropped several degrees at once, and ran to the Qu family's small villa area to wander for several days, and finally waited for Qian Liting, who was going home alone, one evening.

Ling Li's appearance made Qian Liting slightly stunned, the two looked at each other for a while, Qian Liting finally sighed, opened the door, and said, "Lawyer Xiao Ling, come in." ”

It's still the small open-air garden, still sitting at the round table on the balcony, and it's still the two of them. It's just that Qian Liting's eyes were swollen, her eyes were full of bloodshots, and she was a lot haggard in just a few days, and her original hope of saving Qu Jia was also shattered, her eyes were gloomy, and she was lifeless.

The weather was already a little cold, Ling Li picked up the teacup on the table, and warmed his already frozen hands with the hot water in the cup.

She took a sip of tea, felt the warmth slide from her throat to her chest and abdomen, stabilized her trembling body, and began to slowly talk about what she found when she was reading the court file.

When talking about the paraquat in Qu Jia's house, Qian Liting stood up from her chair and looked at Ling Li with wide eyes: "Paraquat? You mean, Jiajia has paraquat in her hand? ”

Ling Li hummed with a heavy face to express her affirmation, Qian Liting was stunned for a while, and her eyes were a little blank.

After a while, she said: "Wang, who tidied up the garden for us, said that a bottle of paraquat was missing from the utility room, could it be that Jiajia took it?" ”