"Lawyer Fang, this is what Ms. Cao asked me to hand over to you in the morning." Lee Myung-bak handed a letter to Fang Yi.

Fang Yi glanced at the envelope, there was no word, he didn't open it, he directly put it into the inner pocket of the down jacket, and then asked, "What did the doctor say?" Is there any hope? ”

"It's at an advanced stage, Ms. Cao should have known that she had cancer before she was caught, and she gave up treatment to speed up the spread of cancer cells, which is why she ...... so quickly, and the doctor said it might only take a week or two." Lawyer Song said.

Fang Yi looked at the sky in the distance outside the window, thinking back to the past, he speculated that maybe she already knew about her illness when she asked Fang Anzhi to live in the school.

More than half an hour later, the attending doctor came over and told everyone that the patient needed to rest and asked them to come back tomorrow. Everyone left the hospital, and Fang Yi wanted to invite Lawyer Song and Lee Myung-bak to have a meal to express their gratitude, but the two politely refused.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night, Fang Anzhi tossed and turned on the bed in the bedroom, tears as if he didn't want money.

After Fang Yi read Cao Xiaohui's letter in the study, his heart couldn't be calm for a long time, the cigarettes were one after another, and the ashtray had already been stuffed.

Fang Yi watched Cao Xiaohui go step by step from the small finance of a bankrupt company in a county to today, she was stubborn, worked hard, and showed off. In the end, I fell on the stress and depression of work.

Everything is for money, to be able to show off in front of everyone, and to give his son Fang Anzhi a better living environment. She is for herself and for her son.

What do people live for? Is money really that important? Is it really that important to be a human being? Fang Yi kept asking himself.

It is not easy for people in the world, hard work, hard work, hard work, scars all over the body, and in the end they hurt themselves, what is the meaning of life...... maybe it is rare to be confused is the best state.

A few days later, Zhou Ying told Fang Yi that there was a criminal case designated for him to handle, which was a homicide case. Fang Yi met with the party's daughter-in-law in the conference room.

"Hello, Lawyer Fang." A plainly dressed woman in her forties in the conference room quickly got up and said when she saw Fang Yi enter the door.

"Hello, you are Ms. Feng Guifen!" Fang Yi sat across from her.

"It's me." The other party was a little reserved, and his eyes kept flashing.

"Were you present at the time of the crime?" Fang Yi asked.

"I wasn't there, I was working in the factory at the time, and I found out later when something happened." Feng Guifen said with a bitter face.

"Do you know what's going on?" Fang Yi asked.

"I heard from the police that it was because my husband had an argument with him because he was fixing the sidewalk between our two families, and then my husband beat him to death in a fit of rage.

Lawyer Fang, our family and neighbors have always been at odds, our family is honest, and the other party often takes advantage of our family. There was a sidewalk between our two houses, and he raised the outside of his house to the base of the wall, and when it rained, water poured water into our house, and we quarreled many times about it. That's what I guess is all about. Feng Guifen had tears in her eyes. She raised her hand and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.

"Well, your husband's case is still in the procuratorate, do you know it?" Fang Yi asked.

"I heard that he has been sent to court, lawyer Fang, will my husband be sentenced to death?" Feng Guifen couldn't help but ask.

“…… How many people did he kill? Fang Yi didn't answer her directly, and continued to ask

"Four!" Feng Guifen said.

"Did your husband voluntarily turn himself in, or did he flee and be arrested?" Fang Yi was shocked in his heart, four lives, this case is hanging.

"I asked a lawyer to go to the detention center to see my husband, but the lawyer came back and said that my husband had turned himself in, and I didn't know what the situation was." Feng Guifen said.

"It's hard to say about the sentencing now, if there is a voluntary surrender, I can try to see if I can save his life, and recommend that the court give him a suspended death sentence, but I can't give you any guarantees." Fang Yi thought for a while.

"Thank you!" Feng Guifen wiped her tears and said.

After sending her away, Fang Yi had just returned to the workplace when her mobile phone rang suddenly, and it was her father Fang Youcai calling.

"Xiao Zhi...... Xiao Zhi ran away! Fang Youcai's anxious voice came from the mobile phone.

"Ahh Dad, don't worry, Xiaozhi is not small, he shouldn't be stupid, what's going on? Fang Yi was more anxious than his father, and endured it.

Xiao Zhi was drinking water from the cup just now, and suddenly the glass burst without warning, fell to the ground and shattered, and the water in the cup spilled Xiao Zhi's body, and he was stupid at the time.

Then he ran out of the house crying with tears in his eyes, and he ignored me no matter what I told him. Fang Youcai said anxiously: "You hurry up and get my grandson back, if your grandson loses it, don't come back." ”

"Okay, I'll look for it right away." Fang Yi hung up the phone, suddenly realized something, picked up the down jacket and went straight downstairs. Took a taxi directly to the hospital.

When he came to Cao Xiaohui's ward, he only heard crying in the ward, both old and young. Fang Yi chuckled in his heart, Cao Xiaohui is gone!

Cao's mother fell, and the old man Cao was not in good health, so he took the quick-acting heart-saving pill to handle Cao Xiaohui's funeral. Even if Cao Xiaohui was wrong, but she helped herself raise her son, Fang Anzhi's study was so good was all her credit, Fang Yi couldn't bear to watch Old Man Cao support his crumbling body and handle the funeral, so he discussed with him and contracted the funeral to a one-stop funeral service company in the county.

Old Man Cao nodded and agreed to Fang Yi's suggestion, and entrusted him to help hire a funeral service company. Old Man Cao handed Fang Yi a bank card with a password on it, and told him not to be afraid of spending money, there were only two old guys left in the Cao family who were waiting to die, and what was the use of asking for so much money when people were gone. You have to spend it, you don't have to save it.

It is the first time for Old Man Cao to be so "generous". In fact, it was not that he was generous, but that his daughter's death touched him too much, and he suddenly figured it out, feeling that he was too tired to live for the sake of face, money, and superiority in his life.

Fang Yi is busy, everything is in the eyes of Li Mingbo and others, although they don't say it, but everyone has a rod and scale in their hearts, Fang Yi is benevolent and righteous enough!

After Cao Xiaohui was buried, Fang Anzhi fell seriously ill, had a high fever, kept talking nonsense, and lay in the hospital for more than a week before being discharged.

Fang Yi ran on both sides of the hospital and the law firm, he had to take care of his son, and he had to fulfill the obligations of a lawyer to his clients. Originally, he wanted to change a lawyer to take on Feng Guifen's husband's case, but the other party asked him to do it by name, and Fang Yi had no choice but to continue.

In the detention center, Fang Yi met Feng Guifen's husband Gao Bo, Gao Bo is a man with axles, he is very sturdy, his face is honest, and there are no emotional fluctuations in his eyes. His front teeth protrude and are conspicuous, like rabbit teeth. Maybe he had already reported his mortal heart, but he was not so nervous.

"Gao Bo, I'm lawyer Fang Yi from Wanhua United Law Firm, do you know Feng Guifen?" Fang Yi asked.

"Yes, she is my daughter-in-law." High waveways. His tone was very calm, and Fang Yi couldn't help but glance at him more.

"Your lover has entrusted me to be your defense lawyer, this is the entrustment procedure, if you have no opinion, sign it." Fang Yi said and handed him the entrustment formalities.

Gao Bo didn't even look at it, and after signing it directly, he returned it to Fang Yi.

"I heard from your lover that there is a conflict between your family and the victim's family?" Fang Yi said.

"Well, their families are more domineering, and our family is honest, so we are always bullied by his family." Gao Bo nodded.

"What happened? Why did you kill four people in a row? Fang Yi asked.

"My family is neighbors with Gao Ming's (victim's) family, but our two families have a bad relationship. I often quarrel over trivial things, and the village has adjusted them, but it is useless......" Gao Bo told the case.

After the summer of last year, the victim Gao Ming took advantage of the fact that Gao Bo's family was no one and gathered all the soil on the sidewalk between the two families under the wall of his house, causing the rainwater to soak the courtyard wall of Gao Bo's house when it rained.

After the autumn harvest last year, Gao Bo was fine at home alone in the afternoon, and found that the courtyard wall was a little tilted, and the courtyard wall would have to fall if it went on like this. So Gao Bo took the pickaxe and repaired the sidewalks between the two houses.

Gao Ming's daughter-in-law Zhao Juan came out to pour dirty water, heard a sound in the sidewalk, and saw that Gao Bo was leveling the sidewalk with a pickaxe. She immediately put down the dirty bucket and crossed her hands on her hips to stop Gao Bo.

Then Gao Bo and Zhao Juan argued, Gao Ming also ran out after hearing it, and came to Gao Bo with a menacing attitude to accuse him of destroying his own courtyard wall, and shouted for him to lose money.

Gao Bo was stupid, he couldn't say that Gao Ming was a husband and wife, seeing that he was being bullied, and he couldn't say anything about each other, he hit the top beam angrily, Gao Ming was even more proud when he saw this, and kept humiliating Gao Bo until Gao Bo couldn't control his emotions and trembled. Gao Ming thought that Gao Bo was scared, and he intensified even more.

Gao Bo stared at Gao Ming's face, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that his face was ugly and hateful, and he suddenly picked up his head and smashed it at Gao Ming's head.

Gao Ming was proud, but he didn't expect that death would come in the next second, and the hammer was smashing on Gao Ming's head, and Gao Ming was knocked to the ground.

When Zhao Juan saw her husband being beaten, she immediately stepped forward and pulled her, fighting with Gao Bo. Gao Bo picked up the pickaxe again and smashed it at Zhao Juan, and the pickaxe smashed on Zhao Juan's shoulder, knocking her to the ground. At this time, Gao Bo's hatred for Gao Ming's family had reached its peak, and when he saw Zhao Juan falling to the ground and screaming in pain, he picked up his head and hit Zhao Juan several times again until she stopped shouting.

Subsequently, Gao Bo, who was still angry, broke into Gao Ming's house with a pickaxe, and it happened that Gao Ming's father heard his daughter-in-law's screams, and walked quickly out of the house to the courtyard door, wanting to go outside to see what was going on, and met Gao Bo who was fierce and vicious.

Gao Bo didn't say a word, he went up and knocked the old man to the ground, and then Gao Bo rushed to the house and stoned Gao Ming's eight-year-old son to death. Gao Bo, who killed four people in a row, was angry at this time, and he was afraid in his heart and fled to his sister's house.

The villagers passed by the sidewalk of Gao's house, and saw Gao Ming and Zhao Juan lying on the road, the ground was full of blood, and they were no longer breathing, so they immediately called the police. Soon after, an ambulance and a police car arrived, and after investigation, all four members of Gao Ming's family were dead.

After Gao Bo fled to his sister's house, he was persuaded by his sister and brother-in-law to surrender to the local public security organs, and then the public security organs transferred Gao Bo's case to the procuratorate for intentional homicide, and the procuratorate reviewed and prosecuted the case file and transferred it to the intermediate court.

"Gao Bo, do you regret it?" Fang Yi asked.

"I don't regret it, if I don't do this, my family will be bullied by Gao Ming for the rest of my life. My son will also be bullied by his family, one of me, four of his family, it's worth it! His family can't bully my family anymore. Although Gao Bo's words were hard, Fang Yi saw tears in his eyes.

"Have you ever thought about calling the police?" Fang Yi asked.

"Does it work? The police station has been here, but he (Gao Ming) is still like that. Gao Bo looked disdainful.

"Do you need me to help you bring a message to your daughter-in-law and children?" Fang Yi asked.

"I'm sorry for both of them. Let them live a good life, raise the child to adulthood, burn some paper for me on the Qingming Festival, if the child is admitted to college, think about going to my grave to talk about it. Gao Bo said after a moment of silence.

This has not yet been sentenced, Gao Bo first sentenced himself to death. In fact, this is not surprising, killing four people in a row, some old and some young, even if the master of law comes, he can't save him, Gao Bo has long figured it out.

After listening to it, Fang Yi had a very complicated mood, it seems that there is little hope for this case, so he can only try.

"Have you ever wondered what people live for?" Fang Yi asked suddenly.

Gao Bo was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, and shook his head: "I don't know." When I was a child, my family was poor, and I felt that food and clothing were my biggest goal, and now that life is better, I don't know why. Foolish. ”

When Fang Yi walked out of the gate of the detention center, Gao Bo's daughter-in-law Feng Guifen walked over quickly. At this time, the cold wind blew, and her face was red from the cold, and she put her hands in her sleeves, and her nose kept sucking, and it seemed that she had been waiting outside the gate for a while.

"Lawyer Fang, how is it?" Feng Guifen asked.

Seeing her expectant eyes, Fang Yi had mixed feelings in his heart: "Let's go, let's go to my car and talk." ”

Fang Yi started the car, turned on the heater, and after a while, the car became warm.

"I've talked to your husband and he's fine. However, he killed four people in a row, and the situation is not optimistic, so you have to prepare for the worst. Fang Yi pondered for a while and said.

After hearing Fang Yi's words, Feng Guifen immediately shed tears: "Lawyer Fang, I know that you are an expert in criminal matters, you can think of a way to do it." ”

"I'll give you an idea, you can try it, but ......" Fang Yi stopped talking, he didn't want to stimulate her anymore.

"Lawyer Fang, just say it directly, I don't want to leave regrets, but there is a glimmer of hope that I will try it too." Feng Guifen's tone was resolute.

"In this way, you go back to the village and write down how the victim Gao Ming's family bullied your family on weekdays, and let the village give you a certificate. Then you submit the certificate from the village to the court and the prosecutor. Fang Yi said.

"Okay, I'll go right away." Feng Guifen said.

"In addition, is there anyone else in the victim Gao Ming's family? Like his older siblings or someone else. Fang Yi asked.

"There was no one else in his house. His daughter-in-law's family has many brothers and sisters. Feng Guifen said.

"What does his daughter-in-law's family say? Can you issue a letter of understanding? Fang Yi asked.

Feng Guifen shook her head: "His daughter-in-law Zhao Juan's family came to me before, saying that they wanted me to pay 500,000 yuan, and my family didn't have that much money......"

Originally, Fang Yi wanted her to communicate with the victim's family to see if she could pay some money to get a letter of understanding, but now it seems that it is better to forget it. 500,000! A building in their county is only three or four hundred thousand, and the price is too great, so they can't sell the house and land, how will the two of them live in the future. The key is that even this may not be able to save Gao Bo, Fang Yi has to think about Gao Bo's family.

"In addition, your husband asked me to tell you to live a good life, raise the child to be an adult...... burn some paper for him on the Qingming Festival, and if the child is admitted to college, I want to go to the grave to talk about it. It seems that your husband already has a plan in mind. Fang Yi didn't want to say the second half of the sentence, but he didn't want to lie to her......

After listening to this, Feng Guifen silently shed tears for a while, she understood what her husband meant by this, nodded, got off the car, and rode the electric bicycle away.

Fang Yi looked at Feng Guifen's distant figure in the cold wind, and was silent for a long time.

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