October 23, 2012

I woke up from the room, Zhang Hengli sat unkempt in front of the coffee table and startled me, and the dark circles under my eyes were about to fall to my chin.

"You're not still looking for the tenth man, are you?"

He looked at me pitifully: "What if I can't find it?" Do you really have no one to recommend? ”

"Me! I! I said.

"Who?"

"I, Ye Xijia!"

"If you don't believe it, you won't copy it!"

"I will!"

"I don't know you yet?"

"What do you know about me? Sister has received it, has sister copied it? The letter of 1,000 words, 15 people! ”

He lay on the pile of papers: "Don't sacrifice for me like that, the two of us don't have a relationship of true affection, it's weird." ”

I went back to my room and took out the second grade Chinese textbook from the bookshelf and pulled out a piece of stationery.

I threw the letter on the coffee table: "This letter is still in the world, and it has finally worked!" This was the first letter copied at that time, I was young, my grades were not good, the words were ugly, and I could copy a lot of typos, my mother really couldn't read it, so I didn't send it. ”

"A lot of words are blurred, crying and writing?"

"It's not crying, it's too late, I want to sleep, and I keep writing, yawning and shedding tears!"

"Oh, I thought I was forced!"

"I just moved to Changsha for less than a month, and I don't know who sent it, the first letter in my mother's life is dedicated to this kind of thing, you count, you count, it seems like more than a thousand words, to 15 people, you say that you Changsha people lack virtue!" I pointed to Zhang Hengli's nose and said.

"This doesn't have to be done by Changsha people! It's your former friends and relatives! ”

"My dad received the first letter, the second day our family moved to Changsha, and the fourth day my mother received the second letter, and I haven't had time to notify my relatives and friends of the new address! This is my first impression of your Changsha! ”

Zhang Hengli waved his hand disdainfully: "How many years have you been here, you don't seem to be from Changsha!" ”

I gritted my teeth: "No! ”

"If you dislike my territory, you have to write to you!"

"Write, hurry up! Don't write about your dark circles up to your neck! ”

"And who are you going to send it to?"

"It's your business!"

After his eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, and chin twitched from top to bottom in order, he asked, "Are you going to hurt someone?" Hurt 10 people? ”

"Where do you think the 15 letters in our hospital have gone? Hasn't this courtyard been peaceful for so many years? ”

"You say...... Did their family tear up the letter to do this? ”

I kicked it over: "You're really a baby in the cradle, it's a person who doesn't know people!" Write or not write about you? ”

He nodded again and again: "Write, write!" ”

I threw the "lucky letter" that Zhang Hengli gave me into the trash can next to the elevator in the law firm's office.

"Lawyer Ma, this is the coffee I brought here, please drink it."

"Oops, you're welcome!"

"What's this called, I rarely drink coffee, I don't understand!"

"Cappuccino."

"Mine is yours?"

"It's the same. It won't be to your taste, will it? ”

"No, it's to your taste, you like it? Is it because it's sweeter than your average coffee? ”

"I don't know."

I really don't know.

I've only drunk it once or twice in Germany, and I didn't think there was anything special, but I seemed to have an inexplicable good impression when I came back.

"Lawyer Ma, could there be a third lawyer we don't know about, Yi Xu has already authorized it to other lawyers, so he doesn't look for others out of respect for that lawyer?"

"Nope. I looked it up. ”

"Only that lawyer, who went to that once?"

"Yes, no one else." Lawyer Ma said: "By the way, your friend, what is his personality, does he belong to the eight-sided exquisite type?" How about popularity, will you make friends from all sides? ”

My heart was beating violently: "Lawyer Ma, do you mean that Yi Xu will be bullied inside?" I heard that the police use violence to extract confessions by torture, and the prisoners in the detention center are also like hooligans, he is being bullied? ”

"Extorting confessions by torture has had a great negative impact on society in the past two years, and the police know that the parties will have lawyers to come forward, so they have some scruples and dare not be too blatant. But it's hard to say about the prisoners, and the newcomers will always be punched and kicked when they enter, unless they know how to socialize, or ......"

"Or what?"

"Let's put it this way, it depends on who is locked up together, if the people in the same room are economic criminals, the elderly, especially those who engage in corruption and bribery, are the laziest to cause trouble. But this kind of probability is a bit small, and those who are lucky will not enter that kind of place, and if they do, how much luck will they have? In addition, there are some people whose family members have dredged up the relationship, and they can be good people in it, and they can not be bullied. ”

Yi Xu has no family, he is too lazy to save himself, and he still cares if he can be a man?

"Lawyer Ma, do you have any relationship to dredge up, I want to rescue him from it, and I hope that he will be safe and sound inside, and he will not be hurt when he comes out." I'm not a good boy who talks politely on weekdays, and when I talk to him, I open my mouth to say "you", and when I get nervous, I become "you".

"It's not a big deal, it's just that there are some costs involved, are you okay with that?"

"I can." I say without hesitation. Although he did not hesitate, his heart was shocked.

"Even if you don't take the initiative to come over today, I want to invite you to come over, mainly to talk about your plans. If the client refuses to hire a lawyer, do you still have to insist? ”

"If he doesn't sign, can't you do anything? You said that it was just a bit of a detour, or you could do a lot of things, or you could help the case, it would help him, right? ”

"I have to tell you in advance that I will do the best I can to the best of my ability, but there is one thing that I can't do even if I try, and that is that I can't defend myself in court."

"If you can't defend yourself, if Yi Xu really goes to the interrogation table, you can only sit and wait to die?"

"In such a major criminal case, the government will send him a lawyer at that time, but when a lawyer appears, it is generally already the third stage, that is, the prosecution stage."

"Then it's too late and too passive! I can't accept that the first two stages are ignored, what if the police don't find key witnesses? What if the police ignore some of the evidence? What if the lawyer does not intervene until the last stage and does not have enough time to prepare? What if the lawyer is recommended by the government and is biased towards the police? ”

"We are on the same page. Moreover, if we can find evidence in time to prove Yi Xu's innocence, or the unavoidable factor of the crime, as long as the evidence is submitted to his lawyer within the deadline, it can also affect the sentencing outcome. Just ......"

"You say."

"Still the same question. It is not a normal way to view the file, it will cause some business costs, just now you said that dredging the relationship to protect his flesh and skin, to put it bluntly, it is to spend money. What is your budget and what is the upper limit of what you can afford, I hope you will think it through. ”

"You tell me, how much money is needed, I'll go back and prepare, there's nothing to think about."

"Maybe you need to spend an extra forty or fifty thousand, or even more. Of course, I will ask for your consent for every subsequent expenditure. We will reimburse this part of the expenses. ”

"No problem."

"I admire you for not giving up."

"How long do we have?"

"Each stage of a criminal case has its own time limit, and we are now in the investigation stage, which is the first stage. After the procuratorate approves the arrest, the case is investigated by the public security organ for a period of two months. This should be followed by a review for prosecution phase and a trial phase. Most cases take about six months to complete the three procedures. But for individual cases, the time can be as short as three months, or as long as more than a year, depending on the complexity of the case, you need to be mentally prepared for this time span. ”

"Okay. Do you know how the case is going now? ”

"According to what I have heard, the case is still under investigation. Both men and women were stabbed directly into the heart with knives, and the stab was fatal. When it was found, the murder knife was still in the heart of the male deceased, with Yi Xu's fingerprints on it, and the police checked the video of the elevator and the floor, and there were only two deceased and Yi Xu in his house before the crime. Have you been to his house? On what floor? ”

"The ninth floor."

"Yes." Lawyer Ma said: "With the high floors, it is unlikely that others will climb in from the balcony. The police did not find any footprints or fingerprints of other people, there were no traces of a fight at the scene of the crime, and the residents of the community did not find anything unusual. There was no fourth person at the scene of the crime, and the suspicions were all on Yi Xu for the time being. That's all the information I have now. ”

"Is the male deceased Yi Xu's mother's boyfriend?" I asked.

"The initial suspicion of the police is. Didn't you say you didn't know the male deceased? ”

"I don't know. Yi Xu has joked a few times before that he wants to take a man home. The one I can bring back is my boyfriend! ”

"He wants his mom to bring the man home?"

"Yes." I said, "I understand, the police suspect that Yi Xu is dissatisfied with his mother's finding a boyfriend, so he has murderous intentions." ”

"Based on my experience, the police will consider this aspect."

"It's ridiculous. I've been with him for more than five years, and his birthday wish every year is to hope that his mother will have a home. The police's suspicions are primitive, and there is no substantial evidence, right? I heard from their colleague that he was the manager of the Shenzhen branch, and I could go to Shenzhen and ask his colleagues, friends, neighbors, and family. ”

"Don't go yet, I'll take a look at the situation found by the administrative brigade here, and when I need you, it's not too late to go."

"Where's his dad?"

"I don't know, he doesn't know himself."

"We need to find him." Lawyer Ma took a sip of coffee: "As far as I know, Yi Xu not only did not accept the help of the lawyer, but also did not speak several times during the arraignment. His dad is now his only relative, and maybe he can get Yi Xu to speak. ”

"Yi Xu's father didn't stay with them before he went to kindergarten, he almost never mentioned his father, and he had no feelings for a long time."

"Then you'll have to find it." Lawyer Ma said: "Do you know that there are any important people who have weight in his heart? ”

"The girlfriend I mentioned to you earlier." "I don't know her, and I don't have her contact information, but I'll find her, no matter how I do, even if it's a little bit of a dig in the ground." ”

"We have two priorities, first, I will keep an eye on the progress of the police. Second, find someone who will allow him to speak. If he is willing to speak, he may be able to accept a lawyer, and our work will be easier to begin. ”

"Do you need me to run errands to Yi Xu's house and the male deceased's house to investigate the situation? Like the relationship between three people or something? ”

"These cops have already done it, and we don't need to spend time on it. Just wait for my news. If I need your help, I'll let you know as soon as possible. Your focus is to prepare the funds we need, you are young, and you are not the daughter of a rich family, and these money should cause you a lot of pressure. How many cases have crushed one family after another...... I also have a daughter, and I want her to grow up and have a strong, stress-resilient heart just like you have now. ”

"Thank you. By the way, one of Yi Xu's neighbors has a good relationship with Yi Xu's mother and has secretly taken care of Yi Xu for many years. Yi Xu himself didn't even know who it was. Will the police ignore it? ”

"This is valid information, if someone deliberately conceals the intimacy with the deceased, there are only two possibilities, one, the person is related to the case. Second, he was afraid that others would think that he was related to the case. I will provide this clue to the police, you don't go, if the police can't ask, you can't ask, and you may even be startled! ”

"Okay."

"What do you mean by 'secretly taking care'?"

Yi Xu has always grown up in a single-parent family, and his mother is busy with her career most of the time and does not come home. I didn't worry about Yi Xu, so I set a time for Yi Xu to go home every day, for fear of playing in the wild. When he was a freshman in high school, Yi Xu went home several times late and was reported by his neighbors. But he didn't know which one. ”

"I see. In addition, I will find his father through the household registration system, as for his girlfriend, I don't think there is any weight, if she has weight, the lawyer she hired will not be refused. And that's a pretty muddled person. Even if we find it, it doesn't necessarily help us substantially. In such a major criminal case, she actually found a lawyer who specializes in economics! ”

It was as if a voice was coming through the wall and vibrating my eardrums: they lied.

October 23, 2012

I woke up from the room, Zhang Hengli sat unkempt in front of the coffee table and startled me, and the dark circles under my eyes were about to fall to my chin.

"You're not still looking for the tenth man, are you?"

He looked at me pitifully: "What if I can't find it?" Do you really have no one to recommend? ”

"Me! I! I said.

"Who?"

"I, Ye Xijia!"

"If you don't believe it, you won't copy it!"

"I will!"

"I don't know you yet?"

"What do you know about me? Sister has received it, has sister copied it? The letter of 1,000 words, 15 people! ”

He lay on the pile of papers: "Don't sacrifice for me like that, the two of us don't have a relationship of true affection, it's weird." ”

I went back to my room and took out the second grade Chinese textbook from the bookshelf and pulled out a piece of stationery.

I threw the letter on the coffee table: "This letter is still in the world, and it has finally worked!" This was the first letter copied at that time, I was young, my grades were not good, the words were ugly, and I could copy a lot of typos, my mother really couldn't read it, so I didn't send it. ”

"A lot of words are blurred, crying and writing?"

"It's not crying, it's too late, I want to sleep, and I keep writing, yawning and shedding tears!"

"Oh, I thought I was forced!"

"I just moved to Changsha for less than a month, and I don't know who sent it, the first letter in my mother's life is dedicated to this kind of thing, you count, you count, it seems like more than a thousand words, to 15 people, you say that you Changsha people lack virtue!" I pointed to Zhang Hengli's nose and said.

"This doesn't have to be done by Changsha people! It's your former friends and relatives! ”

"My dad received the first letter, the second day our family moved to Changsha, and the fourth day my mother received the second letter, and I haven't had time to notify my relatives and friends of the new address! This is my first impression of your Changsha! ”

Zhang Hengli waved his hand disdainfully: "How many years have you been here, you don't seem to be from Changsha!" ”

I gritted my teeth: "No! ”

"If you dislike my territory, you have to write to you!"

"Write, hurry up! Don't write about your dark circles up to your neck! ”

"And who are you going to send it to?"

"It's your business!"

After his eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, and chin twitched from top to bottom in order, he asked, "Are you going to hurt someone?" Hurt 10 people? ”

"Where do you think the 15 letters in our hospital have gone? Hasn't this courtyard been peaceful for so many years? ”

"You say...... Did their family tear up the letter to do this? ”

I kicked it over: "You're really a baby in the cradle, it's a person who doesn't know people!" Write or not write about you? ”

He nodded again and again: "Write, write!" ”

I threw the "lucky letter" that Zhang Hengli gave me into the trash can next to the elevator in the law firm's office.

"Lawyer Ma, this is the coffee I brought here, please drink it."

"Oops, you're welcome!"

"What's this called, I rarely drink coffee, I don't understand!"

"Cappuccino."

"Mine is yours?"

"It's the same. It won't be to your taste, will it? ”

"No, it's to your taste, you like it? Is it because it's sweeter than your average coffee? ”

"I don't know."

I really don't know.

I've only drunk it once or twice in Germany, and I didn't think there was anything special, but I seemed to have an inexplicable good impression when I came back.

"Lawyer Ma, could there be a third lawyer we don't know about, Yi Xu has already authorized it to other lawyers, so he doesn't look for others out of respect for that lawyer?"

"Nope. I looked it up. ”

"Only that lawyer, who went to that once?"

"Yes, no one else." Lawyer Ma said: "By the way, your friend, what is his personality, does he belong to the eight-sided exquisite type?" How about popularity, will you make friends from all sides? ”

My heart was beating violently: "Lawyer Ma, do you mean that Yi Xu will be bullied inside?" I heard that the police use violence to extract confessions by torture, and the prisoners in the detention center are also like hooligans, he is being bullied? ”

"Extorting confessions by torture has had a great negative impact on society in the past two years, and the police know that the parties will have lawyers to come forward, so they have some scruples and dare not be too blatant. But it's hard to say about the prisoners, and the newcomers will always be punched and kicked when they enter, unless they know how to socialize, or ......"

"Or what?"

"Let's put it this way, it depends on who is locked up together, if the people in the same room are economic criminals, the elderly, especially those who engage in corruption and bribery, are the laziest to cause trouble. But this kind of probability is a bit small, and those who are lucky will not enter that kind of place, and if they do, how much luck will they have? In addition, there are some people whose family members have dredged up the relationship, and they can be good people in it, and they can not be bullied. ”

Yi Xu has no family, he is too lazy to save himself, and he still cares if he can be a man?

"Lawyer Ma, do you have any relationship to dredge up, I want to rescue him from it, and I hope that he will be safe and sound inside, and he will not be hurt when he comes out." I'm not a good boy who talks politely on weekdays, and when I talk to him, I open my mouth to say "you", and when I get nervous, I become "you".

"It's not a big deal, it's just that there are some costs involved, are you okay with that?"

"I can." I say without hesitation. Although he did not hesitate, his heart was shocked.

"Even if you don't take the initiative to come over today, I want to invite you to come over, mainly to talk about your plans. If the client refuses to hire a lawyer, do you still have to insist? ”

"If he doesn't sign, can't you do anything? You said that it was just a bit of a detour, or you could do a lot of things, or you could help the case, it would help him, right? ”

"I have to tell you in advance that I will do the best I can to the best of my ability, but there is one thing that I can't do even if I try, and that is that I can't defend myself in court."

"If you can't defend yourself, if Yi Xu really goes to the interrogation table, you can only sit and wait to die?"

"In such a major criminal case, the government will send him a lawyer at that time, but when a lawyer appears, it is generally already the third stage, that is, the prosecution stage."

"Then it's too late and too passive! I can't accept that the first two stages are ignored, what if the police don't find key witnesses? What if the police ignore some of the evidence? What if the lawyer does not intervene until the last stage and does not have enough time to prepare? What if the lawyer is recommended by the government and is biased towards the police? ”

"We are on the same page. Moreover, if we can find evidence in time to prove Yi Xu's innocence, or the unavoidable factor of the crime, as long as the evidence is submitted to his lawyer within the deadline, it can also affect the sentencing outcome. Just ......"

"You say."

"Still the same question. It is not a normal way to view the file, it will cause some business costs, just now you said that dredging the relationship to protect his flesh and skin, to put it bluntly, it is to spend money. What is your budget and what is the upper limit of what you can afford, I hope you will think it through. ”

"You tell me, how much money is needed, I'll go back and prepare, there's nothing to think about."

"Maybe you need to spend an extra forty or fifty thousand, or even more. Of course, I will ask for your consent for every subsequent expenditure. We will reimburse this part of the expenses. ”

"No problem."

"I admire you for not giving up."

"How long do we have?"

"Each stage of a criminal case has its own time limit, and we are now in the investigation stage, which is the first stage. After the procuratorate approves the arrest, the case is investigated by the public security organ for a period of two months. This should be followed by a review for prosecution phase and a trial phase. Most cases take about six months to complete the three procedures. But for individual cases, the time can be as short as three months, or as long as more than a year, depending on the complexity of the case, you need to be mentally prepared for this time span. ”

"Okay. Do you know how the case is going now? ”

"According to what I have heard, the case is still under investigation. Both men and women were stabbed directly into the heart with knives, and the stab was fatal. When it was found, the murder knife was still in the heart of the male deceased, with Yi Xu's fingerprints on it, and the police checked the video of the elevator and the floor, and there were only two deceased and Yi Xu in his house before the crime. Have you been to his house? On what floor? ”

"The ninth floor."

"Yes." Lawyer Ma said: "With the high floors, it is unlikely that others will climb in from the balcony. The police did not find any footprints or fingerprints of other people, there were no traces of a fight at the scene of the crime, and the residents of the community did not find anything unusual. There was no fourth person at the scene of the crime, and the suspicions were all on Yi Xu for the time being. That's all the information I have now. ”

"Is the male deceased Yi Xu's mother's boyfriend?" I asked.

"The initial suspicion of the police is. Didn't you say you didn't know the male deceased? ”

"I don't know. Yi Xu has joked a few times before that he wants to take a man home. The one I can bring back is my boyfriend! ”

"He wants his mom to bring the man home?"

"Yes." I said, "I understand, the police suspect that Yi Xu is dissatisfied with his mother's finding a boyfriend, so he has murderous intentions." ”

"Based on my experience, the police will consider this aspect."

"It's ridiculous. I've been with him for more than five years, and his birthday wish every year is to hope that his mother will have a home. The police's suspicions are primitive, and there is no substantial evidence, right? I heard from their colleague that he was the manager of the Shenzhen branch, and I could go to Shenzhen and ask his colleagues, friends, neighbors, and family. ”

"Don't go yet, I'll take a look at the situation found by the administrative brigade here, and when I need you, it's not too late to go."

"Where's his dad?"

"I don't know, he doesn't know himself."

"We need to find him." Lawyer Ma took a sip of coffee: "As far as I know, Yi Xu not only did not accept the help of the lawyer, but also did not speak several times during the arraignment. His dad is now his only relative, and maybe he can get Yi Xu to speak. ”

"Yi Xu's father didn't stay with them before he went to kindergarten, he almost never mentioned his father, and he had no feelings for a long time."

"Then you'll have to find it." Lawyer Ma said: "Do you know that there are any important people who have weight in his heart? ”

"The girlfriend I mentioned to you earlier." "I don't know her, and I don't have her contact information, but I'll find her, no matter how I do, even if it's a little bit of a dig in the ground." ”

"We have two priorities, first, I will keep an eye on the progress of the police. Second, find someone who will allow him to speak. If he is willing to speak, he may be able to accept a lawyer, and our work will be easier to begin. ”

"Do you need me to run errands to Yi Xu's house and the male deceased's house to investigate the situation? Like the relationship between three people or something? ”

"These cops have already done it, and we don't need to spend time on it. Just wait for my news. If I need your help, I'll let you know as soon as possible. Your focus is to prepare the funds we need, you are young, and you are not the daughter of a rich family, and these money should cause you a lot of pressure. How many cases have crushed one family after another...... I also have a daughter, and I want her to grow up and have a strong, stress-resilient heart just like you have now. ”

"Thank you. By the way, one of Yi Xu's neighbors has a good relationship with Yi Xu's mother and has secretly taken care of Yi Xu for many years. Yi Xu himself didn't even know who it was. Will the police ignore it? ”

"This is valid information, if someone deliberately conceals the intimacy with the deceased, there are only two possibilities, one, the person is related to the case. Second, he was afraid that others would think that he was related to the case. I will provide this clue to the police, you don't go, if the police can't ask, you can't ask, and you may even be startled! ”

"Okay."

"What do you mean by 'secretly taking care'?"

Yi Xu has always grown up in a single-parent family, and his mother is busy with her career most of the time and does not come home. I didn't worry about Yi Xu, so I set a time for Yi Xu to go home every day, for fear of playing in the wild. When he was a freshman in high school, Yi Xu went home several times late and was reported by his neighbors. But he didn't know which one. ”

"I see. In addition, I will find his father through the household registration system, as for his girlfriend, I don't think there is any weight, if she has weight, the lawyer she hired will not be refused. And that's a pretty muddled person. Even if we find it, it doesn't necessarily help us substantially. In such a major criminal case, she actually found a lawyer who specializes in economics! ”

It was as if a voice was coming through the wall and vibrating my eardrums: they lied.