Early on Friday morning, Ling Li sent the defense statement of Yuan Fei's case to Zhu Jinchuan, who was on a business trip, by email. Half an hour later, Zhu Jinchuan called back and discussed the issue of defense with her.

Ten minutes later, after hanging up the phone, Ling Li sat silently in his place without too much expression on his face.

Qi Wan turned her head to look at Ling Li, who had just sat down, with a worried expression, and deliberately lowered her voice: "Sister Ling, when you called, how was the director's voice?" Does it sound unhappy? ”

Listening to her roundabout and asking if she had made Zhu Jinchuan unhappy just now, Ling Li was a little ridiculous.

During this time, because of the unexpected death of Officer Zhou, her energy was a little scattered, and she didn't have time to soothe Qi Wan's emotions, so the girl became more and more cautious.

She shook her head lightly: "It's okay, don't be afraid. The director will only return from Gyeongju in three days, and you will have some time to prepare. ”

"Oh!" Qi Wan bit her lip lightly and nodded, her face was obviously uneasy.

Ling Li understands her mood very well at the moment, and is about to put the results of her hard work for a week in front of Zhu Jinchuan, whether it is good or bad, whether she is scolded or regarded as nothing by him, she often knows in a few minutes, and she can't help but not be nervous.

I used to suffer like this. Especially when he put the result of losing the case in front of him twenty-four times in a row......

Fortunately, this time, Zhu Jinchuan still recognized her defense ideas, and after a cursory glance, he said that he had roughly passed the test, but he just told her that she still needed to polish it again.

The court informed that the date of the trial was also set, just half a month later.

However, through the in-depth digging of the facts of the case and the application of relevant laws these days, Ling Li has become more and more aware of what the outcome of the case will be.

That is, losing the case.

Even if she adjusts her defense thinking and emphasizes the dereliction of duty of the court and the procuratorate from the perspective of not increasing the sentence on appeal, she is not optimistic.

After all, this is a matter clearly stipulated in the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law, and she wants to turn the tables unless the lawsuit is brought to the National People's Congress.

Compared with the ups and downs of previous cases, the first legal aid case in her career is destined to end in a bleak ending.

Compared with the calm waves of work, Zhou Qingchun's sudden death obviously shocked her even more. In fact, when the news that Officer Zhou's cause of death was suicide spread, Ling Li knew that this was mostly the truth.

Later, Shi Meina came to the door, and there was second-hand news she got from Lu Xiaoxiao's ex-boyfriend, and the two sides corroborate, and all the details matched.

The police have basically ruled out the suspicion of homicide, not only because the way of death is highly consistent with the suicide, but also because the door is locked and the windows are closed, and there is a completely secret room, and the surrounding monitoring is called, and no abnormal people appear.

As for what happened to Officer Zhou during his lifetime, Shi Meina said it very well. He was investigating the matter of the source of *, as if something unexpected had happened, and he was very depressed in those days, and often drunk, and his colleagues and neighbors had heard of it.

As for the last time, I couldn't think about it, and I was impulsive to the point of suicide, which everyone didn't expect.

Ling Li sighed a little abruptly, and the big stone in her heart was compacted a little more.

Officer Zhou's death is likely to be inseparable from her family's case, and an old criminal policeman who has been struggling on the front line for more than 20 years ended his life in such a hurry and miserable, and after his death, he also carried the infamy of "fear of crime and evasion......

Although he will no longer run away at every turn like before, he can't even think about the case, and he will feel uncomfortable for a long time when he hears someone mention it, but once again because of the case that killed someone, for Ling Li, there is really some unbearable weight in life.

And if Officer Zhou really committed suicide because he found some clues in the case, then what did he find? It's a pity that the police investigation did not go deeper, or rather, the results of the in-depth investigation were beyond her reach.

The court's verdict, Zhong Zhuowen and Nan Zhiyi's consistent analysis, Shi Meina's conviction, and Officer Zhou's suicide, all the clues point in one direction.

Zhong Chengheng seems to have really been wronged. But in this case, who is the real culprit?

Surrounded by bad emotions and questions in her head for a few days, Ling Li didn't have the heart to care about anything else, and when she came back to her senses and found her former neighbor to inquire, she learned that Officer Zhou's body had been cremated, and she didn't even make it to the funeral.

I don't know if it's because the case is unclear and I fell into anxiety and uneasiness again, Ling Li always had a pair of eyes staring at her behind her back, although there was nothing expected after turning around, but when she was alone, she still felt a little creepy.

For several nights, it was too late after she walked her dog, and she didn't dare to go home alone, so she rested in the guest room of Nanzhiyi's house.

After that, I ran to the study to choose some simple and easy-to-understand books, and squeezed together with the books and rice grains Guli to settle down.

Knowing that he had drilled the tip of the bull's horns again, Ling Li forcibly suppressed the negative emotions and maintained a superficial composure, only hoping that time could dilute everything.

But a sudden accident made her collapse again, and the spirit of the strong fight collapsed in an instant.

Before eating at noon, when Ling Li cleaned up the table, she found that the file of Yuan Fei's case was missing.

She clearly remembers that she was locked in the cabinet, and she would check it every day when she got off work, and if she left for a long time, she would also put it away, just for fear that the file would be lost.

And the lock, intact, no one had touched it at all.

Ling Li was anxious to find a big pass, and even suspected that he had put the file in someone else's office by mistake for a while, but after asking a lot of questions, he still had no clue.

Qi Wan on the side saw that her hair was a little messy in a hurry, and kindly reminded: "It won't be taken home, right?" ”

Ling Li thought about it carefully, and indeed when she went home the day before, she didn't bring anything empty-handed, and shook her head.

Qi Wan was a little uncertain in her eyes: "Yesterday, I remember Sister Ling, you went out with this bag, could it be the file?" ”

As soon as she said this, Ling Li was also a little unsure.

She can't keep her mind awake these days, and it's not impossible to forget something. Once the file is taken out of the house by her and lost in public, the consequences are unimaginable.

Although all the materials in the lawyer's hand are photocopied, and there is no problem of losing the original, on the one hand, it is more troublesome to go to the court to copy the materials, and it needs to go through layers of approval, and sometimes it may be difficult.

On the other hand, her case is special, involving a lot of little girl's name information and details of being molested by Yuan Fei, which is really not suitable for widespread circulation.

In this era of self-media, there are too many people who like to hunt for curiosities, once this file is lost in public, the person who was picked up gets some information on the Internet, and the privacy of minors is published, it is not a trivial matter.

Of course, the person who posted the information couldn't get a good place, but she Ling Li was also a link that led to the incident, and she couldn't run away. The most troublesome thing is that if it drags down her reputation, Zhu Jinchuan will definitely not be able to spare her.

Thinking of Zhu Jinchuan's dark eyes, Ling Li couldn't help but shudder.

As soon as Qi Wan said it, she also wondered if she had taken the file back for a while, and she couldn't sit still, and wanted to go home immediately to see if the file was missing at home.

Qi Wan grabbed her: "Sister Ling, don't worry, we can take a look at yesterday's surveillance first to see if you went out with the file." ”

Being reminded by Qi Wan, Ling Li remembered that in the corridor at the door of the law firm, there was a camera that happened to be diagonally facing the door.

Because of the special location of the camera, the assistants have complained that the security company is too unfriendly, and they will be photographed if they arrive late and leave early.

Accompanied by Qi Wan, Ling Li went to the monitoring room on the first floor of the building to explain her intentions, wanting to retrieve the surveillance video of the camera at the door of their house the day before.

The security guy didn't agree at first, and he had to strictly follow the procedures, and he had to ask the person in charge of their law firm to issue an explanation before he could get it.

Ling Li frowned and thought that Zhu Jinchuan was not there, and was about to ask if the certificate issued by the other partner was counted, but Qi Wan quietly pulled her to the wall and whispered: "But take a video, don't alarm the director, right?" Maybe the dossier will pop up in a while? This is a big deal, and what didn't make a big deal has become a big thing, right? ”

She said very reasonably, but Ling Li shook her head with a sad face, and sighed helplessly, "No way, if you don't have a certificate, what else can you do?" I can only go and be scolded. ”

Qi Wan squeezed her hand and whispered, "I don't think it's going to be done." ”

After that, Qi Wan actually used her tricks and began to coax the security brother in a low voice.

To say that the energy of a beautiful woman is big, she kept screaming all the way to her brother and brother, and after a few words, the little brother was in a good mood, and the businesslike face that was just now gradually loosened and the corners of his mouth rose.

In the end, the little brother reluctantly opened an opening and agreed to let them watch the video.

As a result, it took more than ten minutes to find the video, and then watched the interval from five o'clock to half past five in a fast-forward way, and it was easy to see Ling Li going out, but his hands were empty, and there was nothing.

Seeing that he had found it, the security guy paused the video, just fixed on the moment Ling Li went out, glanced at her, and said in Mandarin with a thick Funan accent: "Is it you?" ”

Ling Li sighed and nodded.

In addition to being disappointed, she also sighed in her heart, she was not good-looking, and when she was recorded by this low-pixel camera, her appearance was even more unpleasant, her expressionless face was full of shadows, and she was a drug addict alive, no wonder she was disgusted by her brother.

Qi Wan, who was standing aside, hurriedly thanked him, but the little brother took out his mobile phone and had to scan her WeChat.

Thinking that in order to help herself let Qi Wan be harassed, Ling Li was a little reluctant, and was about to speak out to help relieve the siege, when she suddenly glanced at the upper right corner of the computer screen.

Because the camera is diagonally facing the doorway, part of it is inside the hall, in the form of a fan, extending from the bottom left of the screen to the top right.

The position in the upper right corner of the screen is exactly the corner from the large office area where Ling Li is, with the pantry on the left and the office area on the other side on the right.

Around the corner, there was a faint figure, holding something in his hand, which was also fixed there by the pause button.

Ling Li stared at that place with some suspicion, always feeling a little strange. Taking advantage of Qi Wan's being entangled by the little brother, she pulled the progress bar, slowed down, and watched it twice.

When the little brother added WeChat and was satisfied with the release, Qi Wan called her softly behind her, with a hint of helplessness in her voice: "Sister Ling, let's go." ”

Ling Li hurriedly turned off the screen, stood up in a daze, and went upstairs to the office.

Sitting down in her seat, her mind still a little messy, and it was easy to calm down, and she began to sort out the questions about the whereabouts of the file.