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"I don't care whether the people in his family are dead or alive." Chu Zhongxiao's tone was very cold, as if the hostility in her heart hadn't diminished at all these years, "It's Ye Yinling who has an adopted daughter, I think It's too risky to keep her, Lang Lang insists on staying, and still be his assistant. I didn't understand this at first." She thought Huo Yang didn't know the inside story, so she mentioned, "The name was changed, so it was called Ye... what Yi .”

She took another sip of wine, her voice was hoarse, and there was a sharp mockery in her breath, "Ye Lang's crime of being involved with gangsters and society should have sentenced me to punishment."

After a while, Huo Yang asked, "Is there any way for me to meet him?"

Chu Zhongxiao was categorical, "No. You will influence him!"

This tone made Huo Yang furious, "What do you mean?"

"What's the use of you going to see him?" Chu Zhongxiao's voice was covered with frost, and because of the occasion, he kept his volume down, sounding cold and unreasonable, "You go to see him now, and, yes, What, what, use?"

"Okay!" Huo Yang is also very irritable now, but the two of them yelled at each other to no avail. In a rage, he swept the teacup on the table to the ground, walked repeatedly among the debris on the floor several times, but still couldn't calm down, " Chen Tianshi went to prison to meet him today, saying that he didn't cooperate at all, and directly demanded to defend himself. What is he planning to defend? He knows exactly what evidence the prosecution has! Tell me, in his current state, you want me to sit idly by Don't you care?!"

When he forced himself to calm down, all of a sudden, Chu Zhongxiao's inexplicable hostility towards him, her unfinished words just now, and the horrifying cold doubts all emerged faintly.

"What do you mean—what's the use of me going to see him 'now'?" Huo Yang bit the word "now" heavily, "What did he see with the electric shock? Tell me clearly."

Chu Zhongxiao's answer was very crisp - he hung up the phone directly.

Communication with potential witnesses failed, and Assistant Guan couldn't be reached.Huo Yang went to the bathroom, unbuttoned two shirt buttons, and washed his face vigorously with cold water.

With his hands on both sides of the sink, water drops fell down his chin drop by drop.As soon as he closed his eyes, the tense strings in his mind continued to tighten again, what Chen Tianshi said to him today, what Chu Zhongxiao said to him just now, all turned into white noise buzzing in his ears.

Behind all of this, there seems to be a huge shadow, and he has lifted most of the only curtain that covers the sky—now only one corner remains.

But he subconsciously resisted and was afraid, not daring to stretch out his hand.

It seems that there are still some scourges dormant in the dark.

Huo Yang took another long vacation.His partners were all very surprised. Sitting in the hotel box, they were so shocked that they couldn't speak for a while after listening to him finish the story with a slow speaking speed.

Someone asked hesitantly, "This...Ye Lang, who are you?"

Old Zheng knew all the inside information and gave him wild winks, but Huo Yang waved his hands, "There is nothing to hide, and I can't hide it from you. That's the relationship between us."

Everyone is an adult who is rushing three times and four times. Speaking of which, it's okay, and it doesn't seem so impactful.Old Zheng was so frightened by his coming out in public that he almost lit his napkin on the lighter.

Silent.

Huo Yang looked around at all the faces present, from all corners of the country, some of them had deep friendships and traveled through mountains and dangerous places together;

"I don't know when the court will start. The trial will last for a few days. After the trial is over, I may not be able to start working immediately. It can't be solved in a few months." Huo Yang said, "If you want to discuss what you want, ask me What I signed, I will sign now."

"What are you talking about!" Old Zheng quickly interrupted him, "Sign fart, do you think you are such an important person, we can't go on without you?"

After a while, someone in the seat also broke the deadlock, tightened his belt, and said nonchalantly: "I don't even know what I'm here for, hey, isn't it for dinner? Hurry up, I'm starving to death."

Everyone woke up like a dream, and quickly became active, urging the waiter to serve the food and pour the wine, without mentioning any "signing things".The older one reprimanded Huo Yang by the way: "Betray the organization and solve personal problems by yourself! - Do parents know about this?"

Old Zheng: "Oh, his parents left early, and they killed him."

Afterwards, the topic was easily diverted, and everyone continued to talk about stocks, the market, trivial things, and who bought something new.When the dishes were served, everyone wanted to sit with Huo Yang, who was accompanied by the host, to bring the wine. He got up, filled the wine glasses one by one, and then stood in his seat.

"Thank you." After Huo Yang said this, his voice became hoarse.He quickly turned his face away, blocking the red eye sockets.

Entrepreneurship is difficult and dangerous, everyone works hard, and no one has an easy life.It is not difficult to understand and be considerate, but it is not a matter of making a concession.This little warmth is not much, but it is squeezed out from the cold.

These days, Huo Yang basically didn't have a serious meal, and he couldn't sleep well, either he had severe insomnia, or he was groggy and couldn't wake up all day.Everyone staggered from the wine, he didn't know how he got home, he fell asleep for four or five hours in a daze, and woke up painfully at five o'clock in the morning. He was so sleepy that he vomited blood, but he didn't fall asleep again. .

He got up, took a shower, dealt with something casually, and went out to drive at eight o'clock, dragging himself to Lawyer Chen's house again.

"He still doesn't cooperate?" He nestled into the couch, his face could not hide his tiredness, and asked while pinching his temples.

"When I saw him yesterday, I seemed to have loosened my tone a little bit. But there was no progress." Attorney Chen paused, and this famous lawyer, who was poisonous and poisonous, hesitated, "Just... let me give you a sentence. coming."

These days, no matter what Huo Yang asked lawyer Chen to bring, or what to bring, Ye Lang did not respond.This made him raise his head, "Huh?"

Lawyer Chen looked at him, "He told you to leave him alone, find a girl and live a good life."

Huo Yang was quiet for a moment, and laughed uncontrollably, even though he didn't want to laugh at all from the bottom of his heart, "I'm not looking for anyone."

"Then I'll return it to him next time." Lawyer Chen stood up, sat down at the desk, turned on the computer, and looked at his notes, "Isn't Guan Yi in touch yet? It doesn't matter if you can't, you can call the police." The authorities forced her to appear in court."

Huo Yang said: "Lawyer Chen, you said last time that the evidence submitted by the prosecution has obviously been carefully scrutinized, and logically speaking, it should be very difficult to obtain evidence..."

Lawyer Chen nodded, "What do you think?"

"That Guan Yi, she is the adopted daughter of one of the victims... Could these evidence be submitted by people around Ye Lang, such as Guan Yi, or other close subordinates, Ye Lang deliberately left evidence—or even Instruct them to collect evidence and clear themselves of suspicion by the way?"

He felt that this kind of guessing was too far-fetched, and added: "I'm just guessing."

Lawyer Chen didn't speak immediately, and he asked after a while, "Do you think he just surrendered himself?"

Huo Yang didn't speak, he was on the verge of drowsiness, until he heard Lawyer Chen say something like this: "I'm considering the possibility of letting you meet the client... I was shocked. Don't look at me, this is illegal , but if he insists on not cooperating with me until the trial, I can't let him smash my signboard."

He put on his glasses, "The general trend is set, and not even gaining the trust of the person concerned, these are two different degrees of failure. I leave this burden to Chu Zhongxiao and let her solve it."

Chu Zhongxiao is an independent director and a temporary position, and has no direct leadership over Gao Yue Law Firm. If she can persuade a senior partner to jump into the pit, it must be because of her aunt, not her "young and talented" In the halo of "for" - the youngest chief data analyst of JP Morgan Chase in China, and also serves as a financial consultant for many companies, with more than one billion in capital flow in her hands, but that doesn't mean she has any presumptuous capital.

"Who can she turn to?" Huo Yang lay back on the sofa again, after a hangover, his headache was about to explode, his eyelids were sore and heavy, "I've looked for the leaders of the provincial department and the city bureau, but nothing worked. They said they had to think about it."

"The Chief Prosecutor," Lawyer Chen said casually, "because this case involves some big corrupt officials. This Chief Prosecutor Liu is a subordinate of her parents. Vice President. It is said that he is more greedy than Chu Yushan."

"Oh," Huo Yang didn't care about how she felt when she begged such a person, he only cared about one thing, "When can I see him?"

"You go back to sleep first." Attorney Chen saw that his eyelids were constantly fighting, and wanted to drive him away.Huo Yang stuck to the sofa, took a nap with the blanket in his arms, got up and walked around helplessly, asking for help, and went to clean up when he had nothing to do, which really made Lawyer Chen dumbfounded.

Huo Yang finally came into contact with the real situation of the case.

According to the evidence submitted by the prosecution, Ye Han is suspected of harboring and covering up murderers, illegally buying and selling, possessing guns, ammunition, medicines, etc.He disappeared on X.X., XXXX, and was illegally detained by Ye Lang and others. He was shot to death a few days later, and his body was salvaged from the river the next morning.According to the forensic report, except for some beating marks on the deceased, there were no obvious signs of abuse.

The chain of evidence under this allegation is very complete.First of all, the testimonies of many people were collected, proving that there was indeed a conflict of interest between the defendant and the victim.After that, the defendant used various means to seize the victim's position in the family business, and involved the victim's downfall of a series of forces.The victim then retaliated and attempted to murder the defendant many times, with vile methods that even caused public incidents—that is, since then, the police began to intervene in the investigation, and the prosecution's first report materials were submitted anonymously to the public security organs.

Retaliation failed, the victim fled to the border between Yunnan and Burma, was escorted back to China by the anti-narcotics police, and began to bluff and deceive again until he was caught by the defendant.

Huo Yang felt a sudden headache while reading the part of "Multiple Attempts to Murder the Defendant".Kidnapping, arson, and car chase, knocking the defendant's car into the river, and that time was the cold winter of January...

He looked at the time and found that the events of the past ten years gradually matched: Ye Lang's mental problems became more serious after Ye Han fled abroad.He sits firmly, does treatment, takes a long vacation...but what does he do during the vacation?

Chu Zhongxiao helped him manage the business. Judging from the information, Guan Yi was temporarily dismissed during that time, but she probably wouldn't accompany Ye Lang on vacation.So what is she doing?

These are key pieces of information, and the worst thing is that Ye Lang's son-in-law didn't cooperate at all.

Huo Yang had a particularly severe headache today.

The more mundane and hustle and bustle crowded his world, the more the figure of that person flashed every now and then.When flipping through the paper, watching the numbers in the elevator beating, in the morning, evening, late night, in the gap between traffic jams, when he exhaled a long puff of smoke, he always fell into the memory unconsciously, everything was silent, and then he was caught by the loudspeaker The sound wakes up.

He had to turn on the starry sky projection every night and watch it for a long time before falling asleep, numbly letting all kinds of memories spew out.

But the strange thing is that he can't feel the emotions that he should feel. He doesn't feel any of those laughs and kisses, silence and hostility.

It's as if he's encased himself in a space capsule, preventing any radiation from getting in and eroding his self-defeating resolve.

These days, Ye Lang sent a few more words through Lawyer Chen, nothing more than telling him to give up. Huo Yang responded patiently at first, and then told Lawyer Chen directly: "Tell him to 'get out'."

Then it stopped there, and Lawyer Chen said that his attitude was obviously relaxed, at least he would not deal with the case directly when talking about the case.According to him, as far as the current situation is concerned, passive resistance is also considered a kind of cooperation.

After more than a week, there was finally movement from the detention center.I don't know which level of leadership is operating. The day before the trial, Lawyer Chen told Huo Yang that he could go to see Ye Lang.