"Smack!"

With a loud slap, Wu Xing Zhou's face was distorted because of anger, and he couldn't understand his hatred with one palm, and he split his head with a cane, and the gold-inlaid cane hit Wu Jintang's forehead, and blood flowed immediately.

"Dad, what do you want to do, you want to kill your eldest brother!"

A delicate girl rushed out, she first used her petite body to protect Wu Jintang, and then took out a silk handkerchief to wipe Wu Jintang's blood.

Wu Jintang pushed her away, and knelt on the ground with a puff: "Sister, you get out of the way, my brother did something wrong, and my father beat her well!" ”

"You still dare to slam your mouth!" Wu Xingzhou rushed two steps, but he felt that the sky was spinning, and his feet fell to the ground with a soft face.

The girl and Wu Jintang were in a hurry at that time, and hurriedly supported him on the chair, pinched people, and called doctors again, and worked for a long time, Wu Xingzhou coughed twice and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, which can be regarded as a leisurely awakening.

"Daddy, Daddy!" The girl put her arms around Wu Xingzhou's neck, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Dad, my son is at fault, even if you fight, don't be angry!" Wu Jintang knelt on the ground, hugging his father's thigh.

Wu Xingzhou also lost the sharpness just now, two lines of muddy old tears flowed out of the corners of his eyes, stroked his daughter's hair, and said bitterly: "My Wu family is different from other Hui merchants, our ancestors are cold, your father and I started to be apprentices to others at the age of thirteen... How much suffering I have endured and how many grievances I have suffered, there is no need to say... Since I started doing business, I have held a belief and taken the word "sincerity" as the foundation of my life! But, Jintang, you, you... have done something to insult your ancestors! How should my Wu family gain a foothold in the future! ”

Wu Xingzhou knocked on the teak floor with his cane, heartbroken.

Wu Jintang drooped his head and didn't say a word, just secretly looked at a piece of paper on the table with the seal of the Military Advisory Office out of the corner of his eye.

It was a summons from the provisional court of the Military Counsellor on suspicion of fraud.

"Master, Barrister Fang is here!" The butler said softly.

Wu Xingzhou hurriedly wiped away his tears, glared at Wu Jintang and said, "Don't retreat yet!" ”

The girl covered the wound on her brother's forehead with a silk handkerchief and helped him retreat, Wu Xingzhou looked at his son's forehead that was still bleeding, his eyes were full of pity and sadness.

Not long after, a middle-aged man wearing a top hat and holding a cane walked in, took off his hat to greet Wu Xingzhou, the housekeeper took his hat and cane, and the middle-aged man sat down in a big way.

"Lawyer Fang, you know all the sins that the dog did! Shame, shame! Wu Xingzhou said as he spoke, and he became angry again, and his cane knocked the floor with a "knock" sound.

Lawyer Fang comforted: "Don't be sad, the situation has changed so dramatically, Brother Yinfu's approach is just human nature, if you change anyone, I'm afraid you will think the same way as him!" ”

"Times have changed? If the situation changes, can you lose your conscience? Wu Xingzhou's anger did not subside, and he said sharply.

The housekeeper quietly handed over the coffee and quietly retreated behind Wu Xingzhou.

Wu Xingzhou sighed, glanced at the fluttering summons on the table, and felt that the paper weighed so much that his chest could barely breathe.

Son of a wive, how can you do such a shameful thing! I was angry and hateful in my heart, but it was inconvenient to attack in front of outsiders, so I had to test softly: "Nephew, do you see that this lawsuit is fought, how will it be won or lost?" The nephew is a rare legal talent in China, and even the court has personally participated in such a major event as the formulation of the constitution... ”

Lawyer Fang shook his head with a wry smile, and then shouted at the housekeeper: "I'm tired of the old man to invite someone to come, and I want the kind of village husband and foolish woman who hasn't read a book and doesn't understand anything!" ”

The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, and he didn't move his hands, Wu Xingzhou said to him: "Do it according to the nephew's explanation!" ”

From time to time, a laundry maid called up, this person was rough-handed, gray-haired, full of confusion, rubbing his hands on the apron crampedly, looking helpless, at a glance, he had never seen much of the world.

"Let me ask you a question, if a person owes money, and others refuse to pay it back after several times, is this considered wrong?" Lawyer Fang asked kindly.

"Killing people to pay off debts and paying off money is justified! How can it be good to pay the bills? The maid said without thinking.

Lawyer Fang asked with a kind smile again: "For example, a creditor surnamed Zhang died, but handed over the original business to the one surnamed Wang, and the one surnamed Wang came to collect the debt, but the debt was not repaid, is this wrong?" ”

The maid said disdainfully: "The creditor is dead, but the debtor is not dead!" How can you not pay off the debt you owe to others? ”

Lawyer Fang smiled: "Okay, you go down!" ”

The housekeeper retreated with the maid, and Wu Xingzhou barely squeezed out a smile and said: "This village is a fool, nonsense, don't mind the nephew!" ”

Lawyer Fang smiled bitterly: "Shi Bo doesn't know, after going to court, it is this kind of village fool who decides the winner or loser of this lawsuit!" ”

Wu Xingzhou was puzzled and said: "I have also seen the court of this foreigner, and I have also been to the trial office in the Shanghai French Concession, and they are all convicted by ** officials in accordance with the law!" ”

Lawyer Fang's face was long, and he subconsciously stirred the coffee with a silver spoon and said: "Shi Bo doesn't know, there are two major categories of foreign law, one is the civil law system, which is convicted by the law, and the other is called the common law system, which is convicted by jury!" And the composition of the jury is for the most ordinary people, they don't understand the law, they only know the truth of the common people's lives... So, their thoughts will be the same as the maid just now, Shibo, just imagine, after these people go to court, will they think that the virtuous brother of Yinfu is not guilty?

Shibo, if it is a civil law system, I will come forward to fight a lawsuit, as long as the judge is impartial, I have absolute certainty, win this lawsuit, and even overturn this case immediately! There is no explicit law that is not a crime, but this case uses the common law system, and it is some ordinary people who judge whether they are guilty or not, and case law is applied! Even if there is no law, as long as the jury finds guilty, it is guilty! Forgive me for being incompetent, Shibo should please be smart! ”

Wu Xingzhou is confused, there are still people in this world who let the people who slaughter dogs on the street to convict people! And it sounds like foreigners also have countries that use such means!

Isn't this a matter of carelessness for human life?

Wu Xingzhou suddenly felt that this foreigner's court seemed to be more nonsense than the yamen of the Qing Dynasty!

"Nephew, you can't stand idly by! You know more about foreigners, give me an idea! ”

Lawyer Fang took a sip of coffee, shook his head and said, "Shibo, in fact, Brother Shi's matter is not a big deal, my opinion is that it is better to reconcile!" It's just a matter of 80,000 taels of silver, so why bother to see it? ”

Wu Xingzhou was provoked to anger, and sighed: "Jintang, this little brute, is greedy for small profits, and for a mere 80,000 taels of silver, he wants to destroy the innocence of my Wu family!" ”

Lawyer Fang nodded and said, "Shibo, the purpose of the other party's lawsuit is that the drunkard doesn't mean to drink!" His purpose is to ruin the reputation of the Wu family... Shibo, you think, if this fraud charge is confirmed, even if the Yin Mansion brother is only sentenced to one day in prison, the reputation of the Wu family will be over! Who will dare to do business with the Wuhu Wu family in the future? Fang Jin's plan is to settle out of court and eliminate the invisible, which is the best policy! ”

What a means! The Wu family once borrowed 80,000 taels of silver from the Wuhu Daqing Bank, last month the Wuchang uprising, Anhui is also responding, the Huaishang army is divided into three roads, the Qing officers and soldiers are falling apart, those who have borrowed the loan from the Daqing Bank, they all started the idea of repaying the debt, anyway, the Qing Dynasty may be over, who repays the loan is a fool! The manager of Wuhu Bank in Daqing once demanded money from Wu Jintang, who was in charge of business, but Wu Jintang also delayed again and again, and did not plan to repay the money.

Now the Wuhu branch of Daqing Bank has actually changed its appearance and become Guanghua Bank!

Unexpectedly, this matter was used by the Military Advisory Office to make a fuss... You have to force yourself to comply!

Good, that's great! Guanghua, Chai Guanghua, isn't this the expression of Chai Dongliang, the leader of the revolutionary army! After a long time, this guy got the bank into his own hands!

However, the Wuhu branch of the Daqing Bank currently owes depositors a large amount of deposits and cannot be cashed, so I don't know how this Chai Guanghua will deal with it?

Wu Xingzhou wanted to understand this, and he was no longer angry, people didn't use knives and guns, but grabbed their handles, who is to blame? Thinking about it again, yesterday I saw with my own eyes in the room the head of the Military Advisory Office, although he was young, he had a very clear understanding of the general trend of the world.

After yesterday's dinner, the Englishman Sassoon and the Frenchman Glenn both said that this Chai Dongliang is a very difficult guy to deal with, and he has a strong nationalist spirit!

"It seems that I am going to personally visit the leader of the revolutionary party... I'm afraid that the Qing Dynasty is really coming to an end!" Wu Xingzhou was a little depressed, but vaguely felt that he was young, tough, and skillful, and that the future of this Chai Dongliang was unlimited.