Before getting off work, Ling Li went to the pantry to wash the cups, but saw Lawyer Cheng holding his head with a painful expression.

Ling Li grabbed him with some curiosity: "What's wrong?" Why are you in a bad mood? ”

Lawyer Cheng glanced at her with some grievances, with a hint of helplessness in his voice: "Aren't they all your sins? This little Qi seems to be quite clever and smart, but as a result, he is outrageously stupid! Pestered me for an afternoon, and I went crazy. ”

Ling Li asked for a while, only to know that Qi Wan had repeatedly emphasized the evidence of the defendant's guilt to Lawyer Cheng in the afternoon, and others broke it for her, and she also broke it back.

She had instructed Qi Wan to go to Lawyer Cheng to ask for precautions for handling the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and Qi Wan also went obediently.

Lawyer Cheng has been in the company for five years, and he is a talkative and easy-going person, ignoring any small groups in the firm, and never participates, only doing his own things seriously, and not saying much. This time I pointed out Qi Wan to ask for help, which was also in mind.

But it seems that the effect is not good.

Lawyer Xiao Cheng finally sighed deeply: "I see, Xiao Qi's career is a long way to go. ”

Listening to his evaluation of Qi Wan, Ling Li was very surprised.

Coming out of the pantry, Ling Li looked at Qi Wan who was pointing out by the window.

She hummed a song while flipping through the file, her eyes fluttering with excitement like a small firelight, and she looked like she had just been beaten with chicken blood.

Ling Li couldn't help but smile.

She thought that she was the only one who had no eyesight in this institute, but she didn't expect that among the smart people who were admitted to graduate school and passed the exam, there were also people with the same problems as her.

After five o'clock, Ling Li sorted out the outline of the defense, then locked the file in the cabinet, carefully checked the desktop for any missing things, and prepared to go home.

In front of him, a dark blue and somewhat familiar uniform flashed, and then the voice of the girl at the front desk sounded: "Lawyer Ling, there are police looking for you." ”

I don't know why she was approached by the police, Ling Li didn't come back to her senses stupidly, and when she heard others confirm her identity, she only nodded subconsciously.

The two policemen who followed Xiao Cheng in exchanged glances, showed her her ID, and then said, "We have some questions for you, I wonder if your unit has a relatively quiet place for us to work?" ”

Ling Li looked sideways at the empty conference room and nodded.

She didn't do anything wrong, so she was naturally not afraid of the police coming to the door, but she didn't know what she needed to do.

As soon as she sat down, one of the officers spread out the laptop she was carrying with her and began to take notes, while the first question from the other older officer was something she hadn't thought of.

The white officer asked, "May I ask you, do you know Zhou Qingchun from the Ling'an Branch of the Nanxi City Police Department?" ”

Ling Li nodded, a little puzzled why she asked about Zhou Qingchun.

It's just that the solemnity in their eyes made her more and more uneasy.

An hour later, Ling Li couldn't hold back the two policemen who had been sent away for questioning, and returned to his seat in despair, staring at the gradually gloomy sky outside the window, without saying a word.

Zhou Qingchun died.

Officer Zhou, who began eight years ago and appeared in her life from time to time, was found dead in her home in Nanxi three days ago.

The police didn't ask very deep questions, just routine questions, such as when they had met Zhou Qingchun, whether they knew who he had been in contact with, and how he behaved after the verdict in Zhong Chengheng's case.

These back-and-forth questions show that the police seem to suspect that Zhou Qingchun's death has a connection with her family's case.

Before the police left, Ling Li suppressed the surging emotions in her heart, and mustered up the courage to ask: "Officer Zhou's death, is it suicide or homicide?" ”

They glanced at each other, and then replied officially: "It's not certain yet, and we'll announce the results when we have specific results." ”

Getting an expected answer, Ling Li sat in a daze for a long time.

In the brief introduction of the police, she knew that Officer Zhou had been living alone these days. His wife went to the hot spring villa in the north of Funan to recuperate because she was unwell, and his son returned to work in the imperial capital after the Spring Festival.

Because the accountability procedure for Zhong Chengheng's case was launched, Zhou Qingchun was suspended and did not go to work, and there were not many friends who came and went on weekdays. It wasn't until a few days ago that the neighbor smelled a peculiar smell in the corridor and asked someone from the community to open the door, only to find that the person had already died.

After hearing the news of Zhou Qingchun's death, Ling Li's heart was shocked, and what followed was confusion, and fragments of the past poured into his mind.

After a while, when I saw her wearing linen and filial piety in the mourning hall, Officer Zhou choked up with tears in his eyes and speechless.

After a while, Zhong Chengheng was sentenced to death for the first time, and he personally sent her to the cemetery to comfort her family, and the result was empty.

And because of the gout attack, his left foot was slightly inconvenient and a little staggering back.

For a while, she was immersed in sadness and couldn't extricate herself, and when she noticed that her vision was blurry, and she hurriedly raised her head, but a tear slipped down her cheek and dripped onto her notebook, infecting a row of neat and neat handwriting.

The mottled ink color gradually faded, obviously it was gradually fading black, but in Ling Li's eyes, it was like blood.

It was already past six o'clock, and there were not many people left in the office, only Qi Wan saw the police come to the door, and she didn't leave for a while.

Seeing Ling Li crying, she didn't ask anything, just silently picked up the tissue box on the side and handed it to her.

Waiting for Ling Li to stabilize her emotions and put away her tears, Qi Wan handed her her own air cushion BB again, and said in a low voice: "Makeup, do you want to make it up?" lest Director Zhu see it and say about you. ”

Ling Li shook her head, she was not in the mood to talk to her, suppressed a burst of sourness in her nose, and picked up her backpack and went home.

On the subway, she was caught off guard by Officer Zhou's unexpected death and her head gradually calmed down.

There is no point in thinking about it now, no matter what Officer Zhou died, whether it was related to her family's case or not, everything can only be concluded after the official investigation report of the police comes out.

Three days later, although the news of the suicide of the policeman in Zhong Chengheng's case has not been reported, it has spread throughout the judicial circles of the capital.

For this reason, Zhu Jinchuan, who was in other provinces, also called her and told her.

First, the deceased has passed away, so let her not think too much, and don't carry burdens that are not related to her on her body.

The second is that he knows that she will be more or less affected. However, you should always remember that you are a lawyer, and you should clear your distractions when you work, put the interests of your clients first, and leave your emotions to work outside of work.

It is both comfort and beating, but it is very similar to Zhu Jinchuan's usual style.

The insider Lu Xiaoxiao didn't say anything, she didn't even have a comforting look, but she brought her some delicious pastries every day, what egg yolk crisp cheesecake blueberry tart Hokkaido cake, change the tricks.

Sweets can make people feel happy, even if Ling Li is not as sweet as Nan Zhiyi, she can have delicious snacks every day, which still makes her feel a little moved.

Nan Zhiyi, who was in Qiongzhou, didn't know how to learn about it, probably because of Tian Zhengyan's ventilation report.

He called her on the phone, but he didn't say anything substantial, just repeatedly told her to be safe, stressed to her that he wanted to knock down the sycamore branch that caused trouble outside the window, and asked her to find someone to live with her.

It's really not good, it's safer to let her move to her own house for a while, and live with Mi Li Guli than for her to be alone.

Ling Li's head was so big that he talked about it, especially about the Wutong branch, at least a dozen times in a phone call.

After all, it still couldn't withstand the magic sound, Ling Li went home and really found the people in the community, and cut off the cluster of branches that were placed horizontally on the windowsill of the living room.

Yang Qianfan, who is on the other side of the ocean and hasn't come out to join in the fun for a long time, seems to know about it, and left her a long paragraph on WeChat, the original text is as follows:

Spicy fried flower nails: Tomato girl, I heard that you have been entangled in lawsuits recently, and you are not at peace, and the old man is very worried. It just so happened that in the early years, I realized the method of Zhou Yi in a dream, and I used oracle bones to start a hexagram and measured your three synthesis bureaus, due south, Daji!

In a paragraph pretending to be a ghost, he deliberately made the words "Nan", "Zhi" and "Yi" into different fonts and added black and bold, Ling Li knew what this was implying at a glance.

Rao was in a gloomy mood because of Zhou Qingchun's sudden death, and she couldn't cry or laugh when she saw this passage.

Yang Qianfan is really persevering, since he added friends, every word he said to her on WeChat was related to Nanzhiyi.

Either ask her about Nan Zhiyi's situation, or always say that they have an affair, and take out the previous thing about pretending to be a couple because of confusing Wang Qi, and talk about it over and over again.

Over time, Ling Li blushed and panicked when she saw the hinted words from the beginning, and now there is basically no fluctuation.

It is said that the doctor did not become bad in debauchery, but was perverted in silence, and the sanctimonious Yang Qianfan was perverted and really painted in a strange style, and embarked on the route of middle-aged and elderly aunts who like to gossip and spread rumors.

As always, Ling Li was in no mood to reply to him at all, and threw the phone away at a glance, out of sight and out of mind.

In the past few days, whenever she is alone, she always thinks of Zhou Qingchun.

Officer Zhou and their family did not have a deep relationship, and before that case, it was only because she had needles at her father's place from time to time to treat gout that she had a little impression of this person.

After Zhong Chengheng's case was announced, Officer Zhou came to her once, and also told her that even if Ling Li was not investigated, he would investigate to the end and would never give up.

Like Zhong Zhuowen's stubbornness that his father is not a murderer, Officer Zhou has always insisted that Zhong Chengheng is the real murderer.

It is undeniable that he is for his dignity as a police officer and the bad impact on his career after the case is overturned, so he tries his best to prove that he was right back then. Or, even if it's wrong, he'll stay the course.

But he has been on Ling Li's side all these years, and his persistence may not be without the desire to let the criminal be punished and comfort Ling Li's family.

If the news that has been circulating these days is true, if Officer Zhou really committed suicide, what kind of thing will make an old criminal policeman who has been fighting crime collapse to the point of committing suicide?

It's a pity that Officer Zhou can't speak anymore, and it is unknown what kind of accident made him give up his life.

At six o'clock in the evening, Ling Li sat by the window with her laptop in her arms, bathed in the warm sunset of early spring.

She typed the last line of words in her hand, proofread the defense three times, saved it to the corresponding location on the hard drive, and then sent it to her mailbox to ensure that it was safe, and turned off the computer and left work.

Finally completed the most important part of the case, Ling Li was a little self-deprecating.

After all, she is also a person who has experienced strong winds and waves! Officer Zhou's unexpected death, although it caused her some trouble, still did not affect her daily work.

For Yuan Fei's case, these days, checking the data, checking the case, and checking the adjudication rules, it has made rapid progress. As for whether the thinking is correct, I have to wait for Zhu Dazhu, who returns from a business trip on Friday, to check for her.

When I got home from work, I thought I could empty my head and take a good rest, but when I got downstairs, Ling Li found that there were uninvited guests coming to the door.

Seeing the excessively tall long-legged girl Zhong Zhuowen standing under the banyan tree in the flower bed, she rubbed her eyebrows and sighed helplessly.

She knew why this child came, with Zhong Zhuowen's well-informed, it was nothing more than Zhou Qingchun's death.

However, there were unexpected things that happened.

Zhong Zhuowen, who has always jumped out, greeted her honestly with a worried look in her eyes, and then looked sideways.

Ling Li followed her gaze, but saw that she had never expected someone to appear here.

Shi Meina turned out from behind the banyan tree blocking Ling Li's sight, without a trace of emotion on her face, only said lightly: "Hello Ling Li, we meet again." ”