"I thought you'd warn him about it." Chen Jianqiu turned around, holding a cigar in his hand, and met Peal's eyes, "According to the procedure." ”

Pyler froze in place, he looked at Leonard's gun on the ground, and then looked up at Chen Jianqiu.

He came to his senses in an instant.

"It's your gun!" Pyler asked angrily. "You'll hand him the gun when you see me coming, right?!"

"You know I'm going to shoot, huh?!" He yelled hysterically, "There are no bullets in the gun you gave him!" ”

Chen Jianqiu walked over to Leonard's body, picked up the revolver on the ground, and inserted it back into the holster around his waist.

"I gave him a choice, but he didn't give it to you."

"He made his choice, but he left you with no choice."

Pyler grabbed his hair and was unusually annoyed:

"Why are you doing this? You know I'm investigating him, and it won't be long before anyone charges him and I'll be able to send him to jail! ”

Chen Jianqiu didn't answer his question, he walked to the back door and opened the door.

Camila walked in, followed by Sean, Abiot, Hanif, and a group of others, and with them was a dejected lawyer Maxen.

As soon as the lawyer went out, he was contained, along with the security guards who didn't know what was going on.

They had no idea where the people in front of them had come in.

Chen Jianqiu stretched out his hand towards Cami.

The woman took out a paper bag from her bag and handed it to Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu took the paper bag, didn't even look at it, and handed it directly to the dazed Pyler:

"My lawyer has sorted out all of Leonard's criminal information, and the rest of the evidence is in his own room upstairs, if you are interested, you can find it yourself."

If Leonard hadn't fired that shot, what awaited him was bankruptcy and a judge's trial; But he pulled the trigger anyway.

It was he who chose his own destiny.

Chen Jianqiu walked to Pyler's side, patted him on the shoulder, and said:

"You're a good cop."

With that, he led everyone out of Leonard's house, leaving only Sergeant Pyler, standing alone in the hall of the house.

The next day, news of Mr. Leonard's death spread throughout Lincolnshire.

The Lincolnshire upstart tries to kill someone over a debt dispute, but is shot dead red-handed by the heroic Sergeant Pyler.

There was a lot of talk, including those who owed Mr. Leonard money and Mr. Leonard's creditors.

It was only at this time that they discovered that this greedy merchant had no wife and no children.

They were very concerned about what would happen to Leonard's debts after his death. No one cares why Sheriff Pyle is at Leonard's house.

A few days later, Mr. Leonard's lawyer, Mr. Maxen, announced that he had gone bankrupt before his death because of short-term debt.

The debtors rejoiced, while the creditors were anxious.

When a man dies, his debts cannot be written off.

The chief judge of the Lincolnshire court was troubled, and according to the investigation, Leonard's debt problem was complicated, and the property under his name was measured at market value, and it was likely that he was also insolvent.

According to the information provided by Sheriff Pyler, there are also many violations of New Mexico law.

The county court simply simply does not have the ability to sort out these matters in a short period of time.

However, the creditors could not wait, and they began to exert pressure from various channels, including but not limited to assembling in front of the courthouse, no longer cooperating with judicial matters, threatening to dig up the judge's ancestral grave, and so on.

Because these old fritters have been through all kinds of things in Lincolnshire over the years, they know the professional ethics of this judge.

Basically equal to nothing.

The longer it drags on, the less likely they are to get back what they owe.

However, at this time, a Chinese grain merchant who claimed to be Leonard's biggest creditor walked into the judge's office.

He presented a package solution to the judge.

The judge listened to his plan and hesitated: "I'm afraid that other people in the town will object, so I won't agree." ”

"You don't have to worry about that." Chen Jianqiu handed him a piece of paper, "That lawyer Maxen, you must be familiar with it." ”

When the judge saw the piece of paper, his face changed drastically.

Above are all the records of Maxen's former master, "One Ear" Fred bribing him.

"Where did you get that?" The judge looked hesitant, "It's all slander, sir, it's all slander." ”

However, the piece of paper was pulled out of his hand and returned to Chen Jianqiu's hand.

"That's right, Mr. Judge, these are slanders." Chen Jianqiu tore the piece of paper to shreds in front of the judge.

He looked at the judge with a smile and a chill in his back.

"Then, let's follow your plan."

The judge turned around, took out the corresponding materials from the cabinet, and stamped Chen Jianqiu's plan.

Two days later, the farmer's trade at the entrance of Lincolnshire was packed with people who came to see the excitement.

The rows of seats in front of them were filled with local figures, many of whom were Leonard's creditors.

Today, the courts are finally willing to come out and solve these problems.

According to the usual practice, the court should take out the assets in Leonard's name and auction them in the same way, and then give priority to the income to repay the debt.

To be honest, many of his assets are very attractive, such as several well-located ranches, that mansion, etc.

However, when the bearded man in a black suit and top hat who represented the court walked up to the stage to officially announce the auction plan, almost everyone was dumbfounded.

All the assets were packaged and disposed of, including the loan sharks he gave out.

In addition, there is also Leonard's debt that is packaged together.

When you auction off assets, you also take on the corresponding debts.

As we all know, one of the reasons for Leonard's bankruptcy was not a lack of liquidity, but genuine insolvency.

And some of the high-quality assets that make their hearts and minds go to them are not even in this auction, and in the words of the mustache, due to the mortgage contract, they have been automatically vested in priority to the creditor.

The meat was all eaten, and a pile of bones remained.

This auction method, Leonard's assets, is worthless.

"I protest!" An older merchant, Leonard's largest creditor besides Chen Jianqiu, and the largest timber merchant in Lincolnshire stood up, holding on to his cane.

"This kind of auction method, no one will want it at all!" "The rights and interests of our creditors are not protected at all!" he said. ”

"yes, it's not like you're fooling us, the rest are bad assets." The other also stood up and said excitedly.

The mustache stretched out his hand to the bottom: "Eh, non-performing assets are also assets." ”

The bottom sneered.

Leonard does have a bunch of IOUs in his hands, but as long as you look at the name of the uncle who owes money on these IOUs, can you get them back?

The auction scene was chaotic, and some people were ready to leave, and in their opinion, there was a chance that there would be no results today; And some of them are grumpy, and they have already loudly denounced the explanation.

However, at this time, outside the trading market, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves.

Seven or eight horses appeared at the door of the market.

One more, two more later

(End of chapter)