On the way home in the carriage, Hobart couldn't wait to open the file and read it.

As Barton said, the case was simple, the defendant, Mr. Robin, borrowed £200 in cash from his friend Mr. Henry for investment, but Mr. Robin's investment failed, and it is said that he lost all his money.

Mr. Henry, on the other hand, was in dire need of money recently, and after failing to collect the debt, he had to take his former good friend Mr. Robin to court.

Mr. Henry had IOUs, witnesses, and sufficient evidence to close the case almost as soon as the trial began.

Although he was just going through the motions, Hobart still attached great importance to the first court session in his life, and began to rehearse in his mind the fierce argument with Mr. Robin in the courtroom, and finally applied to the judge for enforcement, and Mr. Robin finally lost the bridge.

At dinner, Christine asked the maid to pour Hobert a glass of wine: "Tomorrow you will officially work, this is an important step in life, have a drink to celebrate." ”

Hobert didn't refuse, and after a few sips of wine, he gradually became talkative: "Donna, even if I'm not watching you at school, you are not allowed to fall in love, those boys are still too immature." ”

Donna pouted, "I don't need you to take care of me, besides, there are a lot of mature and stable boys, or very humorous and talkative." ”

Hobert took a sip of wine and said, "No, no, no, you don't know, I'm a boy, and I know better what they're thinking." ”

Although Hobart is somewhat estranged from this family, both the original owner and the current Hobart have tried to fulfill their responsibilities as a brother.

Especially no matter where he goes to school, Hobert is one level older than Donna, so he naturally has the psychology of protecting Donna.

Christine smiled and said, "It's up to Hobert about this." ”

Donna stuck out her tongue very ungracefully, as if listening to Hobart's words, but whether she would do so was another matter.

After dinner, Hobart returned to his room and took out the papers and looked at them a few more times, imagining all kinds of possibilities and accidents, and did not even go to the "Land of Disorder" to continue exploring.

But what happened in the magistrate's court the next day was far beyond Hobart's expectations.

Hobert still travels to work in his family's four-wheeled carriage, which takes Donna and Taryn to school and then to the magistrate's court.

There are a number of magistrates' courts in Beckland, and the case is taken up by the Magistrate's Court of the Joewood district.

Although there are two large windows in the magistrate's court, the light is still not very good, except for the judge's bench, the plaintiff's bench and the defendant's bench, there is only a small sitting area with two rows of rough wooden benches.

Today's defendant, Mr. Robin, is not at all guilty as Hobart imagined, wearing a shabby coat and a patched hat.

In order to show respect for the court, Mr. Robin took off his hat and held it in his hand, and pleaded: "Your Excellency, Mr. Lawyer, please give me a month, and I will definitely pay back the money after a month."

"Or let me be separated, 2 pounds a week, no, 3 pounds is fine, please don't sell my house, I don't want to lose my family, and I don't want our family to move to the East End or the Bridge."

This was something that Hobart did not expect, and when he read the information, he unconsciously sided with the plaintiff, and kept thinking of the defendant as a villain, but Mr. Robin obviously did not intend to repay the debt, and he also had his own troubles.

Hobert flipped through the information again, and the only asset in Mr. Robin's name was his small house.

He tried to put away his sympathy: "Mr. Robin, I sympathize with your plight, but if you don't auction off your house to pay off the debt, my client's family will go bankrupt, do you want them to move to the East Side or the Bridge District?" ”

Mr. Robin had nothing to say and glanced at his former best friend with some shame.

Mr. Henry, too, was obviously a little unbearable, but he still said nothing, as Hobart said, if he relented, the whole family would suffer.

Hobert added: "Mr. Robin, I have read in the information that you have a stable job with a salary of about 3 pounds a week, and a house inherited from your father, and you do not have to pay rent.

"£3 is enough to keep your family close to the 'middle class', so why do you have to take the risk of investing? You are an adult, and since you have chosen to invest, you are responsible for your choices.

"I suggest you rent a house in the East End and work hard, and you may not be able to buy back the house that was auctioned off in a few years."

He finally said, "Your Excellency, I apply for enforcement. ”

The judge had long been impatient, and he immediately agreed to Hobart's request.

After the auction of the defendant's assets, the court will pay a handling fee of not less than 10%, which is the main source of income for the Magistrate's Court.

In the civil and economic cases of the Magistrate's Court of the Kingdom of Rune, the proportion of judgments enforced is very high, and many middle-class families have gone bankrupt as a result.

After the case of Mr. Henry and Mr. Robin was over, Hobart was distraught and sat in the gallery for ten minutes before going out to take the public carriage back to the law firm of Aslan Barton.

Hobert first went to report the outcome of the case to Patton.

Barton, who was sitting in the leather seat, glanced at Hobert: "You look tired. ”

"I'm just ......" Hobert smiled wryly, "I just suddenly realized that I used to live in such a cold world." ”

He had only lived in the small world of Beckland's high society, and he had forgotten that this was Rune, and this was Beckland, an era of primitive accumulation of the capitalist class.

"What are you when we are?" Barton took a sip of his coffee: "We're a pack of wolves in Beckland, and we're going to bite off a piece of meat when we see a sheep." ”

Hobert was stunned: "This is the lawyer?" ”

Barton smiled: "If you think that lawyers are 'pioneers of justice', then you are very wrong, but if you don't have justice in your heart, then you are by no means a good lawyer." ”

He said, "Go back and rest today, come over early tomorrow morning, and follow me to deal with an economic dispute entrusted by Earl Hall." ”

Hober nodded, "Okay." ”

On the way back, Hobert gradually figured out some problems, he should not have defined the personality of the plaintiff and the defendant early, his client could not be completely on the side of justice, and some clients may not even be on the side of justice.

But as a lawyer, he still has to fight for and defend the interests of his clients, which is the court, but outside the court, he can do his best to help those who deserve help.

During dinner, Hobert asked the maid for a glass of wine and said to his adoptive father and adoptive mother, "Father and mother, thank you for your protection in the past, and today I know what the world is like without your protection." ”

Christine patted Hobert on the shoulder with relief: "Time flies so fast, you have grown up in a blink of an eye." ”

Lisa Mon was so moved by Hobert's sudden thanks that she almost burst into tears.