After two months of taking over the case, Ling Li finally met the most critical person in the case, the defendant, Zheng Qijie.

He is wearing a white T-shirt and orange-red vest, with a height of one meter and eight meters, but his back is slumped, and at first glance it seems to be more than one meter seven.

The other feeling is haggard, puffy, and gloomy.

As for his appearance, except for the short-cut steel thorn-like hair on the top of his head, which is impressive, his face belongs to the one that you will forget immediately after a few seconds of viewing.

Zheng Qijie stood still, looking at them condescendingly.

His eyes were a little gray, and his eyes were not sharp, but they made Ling Li very uncomfortable.

How to say it, the eyes are lifeless, and they are still carrying

He remained motionless for a long time, and finally sat down in front of the iron door where the lawyer and the suspect were separated, and said, "My lawyer does not seem to be you. ”

The voice was hoarse, and a little weak, and it seemed to be a little lacking in qi.

Zhu Jinchuan didn't answer, stood up and took out a pack of cigarettes from his trouser pocket, and threw it through the crack in the iron door.

Zheng Qijie's eyes lit up obviously, and he couldn't move his eyes off the cigarette box, and he swallowed saliva with a huge range of movements.

The prison guard picked up the cigarette case from the table, checked it, and then took out one and put it in Zheng Qijie's mouth, and even lit a cigarette for him.

After that, the guard took a step back and stood against the corner.

Zheng Qijie was still smoking a cigarette as if no one was around, wanting to use up his lung capacity with every puff, and he couldn't wait to burn it to the end.

Ling Li was dumbfounded.

No, this Zheng Qijie has been imprisoned for more than a year, and he can let the prison guards light cigarettes and hand them out, is he a prison bully?

Zhu Jinchuan knew that he wanted to be crooked when he saw her expression, and he lowered his voice close to her ear, and explained helplessly: "Those who wear orange vests are all felons, and it is inconvenient to move in shackles and shackles, and the prison guards are generally not too embarrassed." ”

Ling Li hurriedly put away the fragment of "prison situation" in his head, followed Zhu Jinchuan, and sat down at a long table in front of the iron door.

Zhu Jinchuan didn't ask questions in a hurry, but waited for Zheng Qijie inside to finish smoking the first cigarette.

When the second cigarette began to ignite, in the thick smoke, Zhu Jinchuan opened his mouth: "We are the lawyer entrusted by Tang Aoxue's mother, my surname is Zhu, and the surname Ling next to me is to come today to ask about the case." ”

Hearing his self-introduction, Zheng Qijie's eyes didn't move, as if he had expected it.

After a long while, he took a puff of his cigarette, spat out a round smoke ring, and looked up with interest as the smoke ring curled up.

The smoke ring grew fainter and fainter, and finally disappeared.

Zheng Qijie finally opened his mouth, and his voice was calm: "I really don't remember any laws and regulations that say that the victim's lawyer can meet with the criminal suspect." Oh no, now that I'm prosecuting, I'm supposed to call myself a defendant. ”

Ling Li's heart tightened, but Zhu Jinchuan's expression did not move, with a somewhat self-deprecating voice: "It seems that we are going to run for nothing today." ”

Zheng Qijie smiled and said nothing, but the corners of his lips were raised, and his eyes were still stagnant without the slightest fluctuation.

Half of the second cigarette was smoked, Ling Li finally couldn't help it, and after thinking about it, she asked, "Tang Aoxue, where is it?" ”

Zheng Qijie turned his head to look at her: "I said I didn't know, even if I said I knew and told you, you are not a policeman, this is not signed or detained, it means that I didn't say it." ”

Ling Li was speechless for a while, only feeling that Zheng Qijie was like a mirror in his heart, very calm, completely aware of his situation, and completely aware of what he was doing.

And the expression and gray eyes he had when he spoke, it was terrible.

Ling Li's throat rolled, swallowing her saliva, and after more than ten seconds, she still insisted on asking: "Can you tell me?" Her mother couldn't find her again, and she was afraid that she would die again. You haven't seen a woman lose 40 pounds in two years, it's really miserable. ”

Zheng Qijie's expression was still unmoved, and he turned his head to look at Zhu Jinchuan: "This ......"

He stopped talking, his eyes looked up, as if he couldn't remember what to call Zhu Jinchuan, and finally took over after dozens of seconds: "Lawyer Zhu, right?" This little sister you brought is a bit unprofessional, and it is recommended to strengthen the training. ”

Zhu Jinchuan's eyes were slightly weak, and he replied: "Thank you for the reminder." ”

Ling Li couldn't hold it back, slammed her fists on the table, and after Zheng Qijie heard the voice and turned his head to look at her, he grabbed his glasses and threw them on the table, his voice was uncontrollably excited: "You pervert, shrinking turtle!" I can't admit what you've done, can you sleep at night? Aren't you afraid that Tang Aoxue will come back to settle accounts with you as a ghost? ”

Zheng Qijie's eyes finally fluctuated, flashing with Sensen's coldness, and a few words popped out from between his teeth: "The person who can't sleep won't be me." ”

Ling Li couldn't help but shrink her shoulders when she saw it, and her voice stopped abruptly.

When the prison guard heard the movement here, he came up to stop it: "This lawyer, please pay attention to your words and deeds when meeting with the suspect, otherwise the interview will end immediately." ”

Zhu Jinchuan hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, we'll pay attention." I'm sorry Mr. Zheng, my apprentice is a little emotional, I'll let her review it when I go back. We are here this time to attach the civil part of the ......"

"Lawyer Zhu, I don't know what you're here for, and I have nothing to say," Zheng Qijie interrupted him before he finished speaking, "Lawyer Yu has already explained what I can and can't say, he is the one who can really help me." Don't waste time on me. ”

After he finished speaking, he turned his head to the prison guard in the corner: "Cadre, I want to go back to the cell." ”

Zhu Jinchuan shrugged his shoulders, looked sideways at Ling Li and said, "Let's go, call it a day." ”

Ling Li pursed her lips and nodded, and quickly picked up her glasses and put them on.

The four people in the meeting room split into two groups, each going in opposite directions.

Ling Li followed Zhu Jinchuan to get up, put the chair and turned around, listening to the sound of the shackles on Zheng Qijie's feet rubbing against the ground behind him, and the shoulders that were tense just now were a little relaxed.

Before she could finish her breath, Zheng Qijie's voice suddenly came from behind her: "Wait a minute! ”

In an instant, her cold hair stood up, and she didn't dare to turn her head in her heart.

Fortunately, Zheng Qijie's words were said to Zhu Jinchuan.

What he said was: "Congratulations to the lawyer, your cigarettes." ”

Ling Li finally breathed a sigh of relief, and looked back with some curiosity, only to find that Zheng Qijie was looking sideways at the pack of cigarettes that Zhu Jinchuan threw into the room just now, with a rather tangled expression on his face.

A little reluctant, but also hesitant.

The newly opened ones were only drawn two, and there are eighteen left.

Zhu Jinchuan looked relaxed when he heard it, and he didn't turn his head back: "Take it, I know it's a good thing here." ”

Zheng Qijie lowered his eyes and looked at the desktop, stretched out his hand several times and retracted it, and finally gritted his teeth and looked at Zhu Jinchuan's back: "Thank you." ”

Out of the meeting room, through the iron door, you can also hear the sound of the shackles dragging on the ground as they fade away.

Zhu Jinchuan stood in place, and he didn't know why he suddenly talked about another topic: "Do you know that the prison guards in the detention center are the most annoying and unruly people, if someone deliberately makes trouble and fights, the prison guards have a way to rectify people, there is a way to let people who are not felons wear shackles for a whole day, and when to take them off after that depends on the mood. One can imagine how painful these shackles are on the body. ”

Ling Li was speechless: "So powerful? ”

As soon as she came out of the meeting room, she was no longer in a state where she was so excited just now, and her expression began to be rich.

Zhu Jinchuan looked at her: "Of course it's amazing, if you wear that thing for a long time, your hands and feet will be deformed." In short, it is better for people not to commit crimes, whether it is a detention center or a prison, they can survive, but it is definitely not an easy place, it is very bitter and bitter. ”

Hearing his words, Ling Li suddenly quieted down, and while walking, he remembered that he looked a little strange when he walked alone.

It turned out that this was the case, he had worn shackles for eight years, and he couldn't take them off when he sleek, no wonder his gait was unsteady when he went to court, and he still had some extraneous figures.

She hurriedly put away her thoughts and stopped thinking deeply.

Things have happened, the damage has been irreversible, whether it is apology or sympathy, these are worthless.

She lifted her breath and exhaled it slowly, soothing her emotions, and then quickened her pace to catch up with Zhu Jinchuan, who was a few meters away.

Unexpectedly, after only taking two steps, the person who appeared in front of her made her eyes full of astonishment, and she almost lost her breath.

Yu Wenzhong was sweating profusely, and the clothes on his body were half dry and half wet, and it seemed that he was in a hurry just now. And Qi Wan behind him also reversed her usual flawless makeup, her hairstyle was messy, her face was mottled with sweat, and her eyeliner seemed to be spent.

As soon as they saw Zhu Jinchuan and Ling Li coming towards them, the two of them also slowed down.

A few seconds later, two groups of men met and stood in the middle of the hallway.

Zhu Jinchuan and Yu Wenzhong faced each other, less than half a meter apart, and they both broke through the safe distance between each other.

Ling Li felt furious when she saw it. She found that since Yu Wenzhong appeared, her little heart began to beat faster again.

I wish Jinchuan is still so close to him.

But he noticed that this person was almost half a head shorter than Zhu Jinchuan, and the two stood together, and he seemed to have to tilt his neck slightly in order to keep looking at Zhu Jinchuan. It looks a little funny.

But Ling Li didn't have the heart to laugh, and silently waited for who would fire first.

This time, Yu Wenzhong couldn't hold his breath again.

Yu Wenzhong narrowed his eyes and said in a hateful tone: "Lawyer Zhu, Lawyer Ling, if you violate the lawyer's ethics like this, aren't you afraid that I will go to the Lawyers Association to complain?" ”

"What do you complain about me? Before Zhu Jinchuan could answer, Ling Li turned his head to look directly at Yu Wenzhong, "The law does not stipulate that as a victim's lawyer, he cannot come to meet with the client, but the defendant's lawyer cannot privately seek evidence from the victim without the permission of the procuratorate." With such an insignificant character as me, where is it worth facing you like a great enemy? ”

Yu Wenzhong's eyes narrowed slightly, looked at her carefully, and said, "I didn't expect that the second sister of the Ling family, who was vulnerable back then, is still promising. Yes, with a bit of your sister's demeanor, amazing. ”

Yu Wenzhong is powerful, if he is not very aggressive, he does not bring any too fierce words, but Ling Li just can't help but be stabbed hard by him, and he can't wait to turn into a ball and roll up to stab him.

Ling Li took a few breaths to suppress his anger and said, "I'm here for the reconciliation of the attached civil part. ”

Yu Wenzhong grinned: "I don't care what excuse you came to, it's just that you want to get something from Zheng Qijie." I said that the meeting was obviously normal, how did the public security bureau push back and obstruct it? It turned out to be ambushed here. ”

When Qi Wan heard this, her silver teeth clenched: "Shameless, relying on the support of the public prosecutor, do some such indiscriminate means, Ling Li, you are just as shameless as your sister!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Ling Li and Zhu Jinchuan's faces changed at the same time.

Yu Wenzhong waved his hand to stop Qi Wan, who was still trying to speak quickly, stared at Ling Li a few times, and then turned to Zhu Jinchuan: "I'm afraid that you have made a mistake in your wishful thinking." I've only met my client once, but I know he's not a rookie who can do it in person. Although he is willing to be a handyman, after all, he is a doctor who has returned from studying hard overseas, and Zhu Lawyer may be able to cope with it, but with Lawyer Ling's qualifications and qualifications, it would be good not to be tricked by him. ”