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The cell phone tucked in his trousers suddenly vibrated, which seemed particularly abrupt in the empty courtroom.

Jin Zhou looked down subconsciously, but before he took out his mobile phone, three judges came in from the door and interrupted his movements.

The recess time is over, no matter how urgent the call is, you can only hang up.

The defendant was detained by the bailiff and returned to the court. The presiding judge knocked on the gavel and said expressionlessly, "Now the sentence will be pronounced in court."

The strategy of misdemeanor defense was not wrong. In the end, the judge adopted Jin Zhou's defense opinion and reduced the defendant's sentence.

"Lawyer Jin, thank you so much!" The defendant kept thanking Jin Zhou, "I must be a good person who abides by the law in the future!"

Most offenders will have this feeling after being sentenced, but whether they will learn from it after they are released from prison is another matter.

Jin Zhou encouraged the defendant a few words and asked him to study more inside, then went outside the court and called Huzi back.

The corridors of the courthouse were silent and empty, shrouded in a solemn and solemn atmosphere.However, at the same time that Jin Zhou's mobile phone sounded a call notification, a noise erupted in the criminal court next door, and a woman in business attire rushed out and shouted into the mobile phone: "I have big news here. Leave me the headlines tomorrow!"

is a reporter.

This idea came to Jin Zhou's mind.

If he remembered correctly, the criminal court next door was trying a rape case that received a lot of social attention, and the presiding judge was his old acquaintance, Yang Shiyu.

If it was normal, Jin Zhou would definitely join in the fun and see what kind of big news it is, but unfortunately, he has something to do today, so he doesn't have so much time to stay in the court.

"Brother Jin, when are you coming?" Huzi's voice came from the phone, dispelling Jin Zhou's curiosity, "Brothers can't wait."

"What's the reminder?" Jin Zhou looked away from the noisy neighbor, "Didn't you say that I am appearing in court?"

When he came to the parking lot of the court and sat in the driver's seat of the car, Jin Zhou looked at the rearview mirror, loosened his tie indiscriminately, and unbuttoned the top of his shirt.

Randomly messing up the bangs fixed with hairspray, the upright young man in the mirror suddenly became a little more decadent.

Jin Zhou usually doesn't like to wear a suit, but in order to impress the judge, he has to act like an elite, after all, that's what a professional lawyer should look like.

Rolling up the cuffs of the suit to the forearm, and holding a cigarette in the corner of his mouth, Jin Zhou changed back to his usual sloppy look, and completely lost the shadow of the verbal confrontation with the prosecutor in court just now.

Ten minutes later, Jin Zhou parked his car in front of a hair salon.

Huzi and his brothers had been waiting for a long time. As soon as Jin Zhou arrived, they surrounded Jin Zhou and went straight to the inner warehouse of the hairdressing shop.

None of the employees in the store dared to stop Jin Zhou. In the small warehouse, the shop owner was hiding in the corner. He was trembling all over, but he stretched his neck and shouted at Jin Zhou: "Speak up if you have something to say. If you mess up, I'll call the police!"

In this world, the one who owes money is the uncle.As long as the method of debt collection is slightly overdone, the other party will clamor to call the police.

"Report." Jin Zhou put his hands in his trouser pockets, kicked away the chair at his feet, and approached the boss step by step, "We will let the police judge."

Compared with the five big and three thick boys behind him, Jin Zhou has a thin body and wears a suit. He looks somewhat educated.But in this situation, everyone knows that educated hooligans are more terrifying.

Seeing that Jin Zhou was not afraid of the police at all, the owner of the hairdressing shop had no choice but to soften his attitude, and discussed: "Brother, I really have no money, you can tell Brother Liu, can you give me a few more days?"

"You have no money?" Hu Zi heard this, stepped forward, and slapped the boss, "You don't have any fucking money and still go to gamble?"

The other brothers also wanted to do something, but were stopped by Jin Zhou's eyes.

The "Brother Liu" that the boss called, his full name was Liu Yongchang, he ran many entertainment industries in the city, and he was Jin Zhou's eldest brother.

Back then, Jin Zhou lived in a muddle, and it was Liu Yongchang who fully supported him in studying the Fa. After Jin Zhou completed his studies, he naturally became Liu Yongchang's "legal adviser" and rectified all of Liu Yongchang's black industries.

Therefore, Jin Zhou must be present for debts, which are prone to bloodshed, otherwise comrades like Huzi who are not highly enlightened will easily cause trouble to the upper body.

"Take out your phone." Jin Zhou lightly issued an order, and before the boss took the initiative to hand it over, Hu Zi stepped forward and snatched his phone.

"Hey, I don't have any money in my mobile phone!" The boss wanted to grab the mobile phone back, but was kicked by the tiger, so he simply knelt on the ground, looked up at Jin Zhou and said, "Brother, can you just give it three days? I will definitely pay back the money within three days!"

"Password." Jin Zhou looked at the phone screen indifferently.

"No, I really have no money. It's useless if you ask for my mobile phone password?" The boss looked like a pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and insisted that he had no money. Black and evil, what are you doing?"

Jin Zhou laughed, squatted down in front of the boss, patted his cheek, and said, "You tell me about the rule of law?"

Having been with Liu Yongchang for so long, no matter how much Jin Zhou looked like a legal elite in court, he couldn't erase the ruffian in his bones.

"If someone else came to collect the debt, you'd lose your finger now, you know?" Jin Zhou slapped the boss's face lightly, like a slap, but he didn't use such force.

The boss shrank his shoulders cowardly, probably because he saw that Jin Zhou was not a good person, and said in a low voice, "It's only three days, brother, please do me a favor."

Jin Zhou ignored the boss's request, unlocked the phone with facial recognition, called up the app's transfer function, and asked while operating, "Why do you have no money? You don't know what to do?"

"My business loses money every day..."

"So gambling is your business?" Jin Zhou interrupted the boss's excuse, "I can call the police for you, and you can see who will trouble you later."

Coming out of the hair salon, Huzi followed Jin Zhou, and asked in an unnatural voice, "Brother Jin, I read in the book that forcing people to transfer money is also robbery. Do we count it as robbery?"

"You still read?" Jin Zhou looked at Hu Zi in surprise.He suddenly remembered the news he had read a while ago. A fugitive was reading "Lecture Notes on Criminal Law" when he was caught, and he couldn't help feeling funny when he saw this tiger with big flower tattoos on his arms.

"Hush." ​​Huzi glanced at the other brothers behind him, "Just take a look, they don't know."

The little gangster also knows to study secretly. It seems that Jin Zhou, the leader, is doing well.

"It doesn't count." Jin Zhou said, "The robbery is for the purpose of illegal possession. What did we possess? Brother Liu's money?"

"That's it." Huzi nodded thoughtfully, and Jin Zhou didn't know if he understood, so he patted the back of his head, "Use your brain more."

Huzi scratched the place where he was slapped, and said again: "By the way, Brother Jin, the arrears of the Baozipu family are also overdue, why don't we remind them together today?"

"No." Jin Zhou took out the car keys and walked towards his own car, "That family is really in trouble, I'll tell Brother Liu and let me give it a while."

Jin Zhou doesn't go to court every day and ask for debts. Most of the time, he still stays in his car repair shop.

The car repair shop is located on the first floor of the store facing the street, next door is a consignment shop, and upstairs is a small law firm.Jin Zhou's lawyer's license is attached to the law firm upstairs. He does not work or check attendance. He occasionally helps his neighbors write complaints and fight lawsuits. His main job is usually the manager of a car repair shop.

Most people who just met Jin Zhou thought that he was an uneducated bastard just like Liu Yongchang's younger brother.But in fact, Jin Zhou has never failed in court all these years as a part-time lawyer.

It is said that hooligans are not scary, but that hooligans are educated, and Jin Zhou is the latter.

Back at the car repair shop, before his butt was warm, a police car drove up to the door of the shop.

When Jin Zhou saw the rare visitor, he took the initiative to greet him: "Officer Ren, are you busy today?"

A policewoman in plain clothes and with short hair got out of the car. She was about 35 years old and was Jin Zhou's old acquaintance Ren Wenli.

When Ren Wenli was still working as a policeman at the police station, Jin Zhou often dealt with her, but since Ren Wenli was transferred to the Criminal Investigation Detachment, the two of them have seen less, so Ren Wenli suddenly came to the store and asked Jin Zhou was a little surprised.

"I have something to do with you. There will be a case in two days that may require your cooperation in the investigation." Ren Wenli has always been in a hurry to do things, and she didn't bother to say a word of unnecessary greetings, so she went straight to the point.

Jin Zhou is surrounded by trouble-loving brothers, who have long been used to cases, so he asked calmly, "What case?"

"You know there was a rape case a while ago, right?" Ren Wenli said, "It's the one that's going to trial today."

"I know." Not only did Jin Zhou know, but he was next door during the trial.Recalling the commotion in the court earlier, it seemed that something really happened, but somehow it was related to him.

"The suspect, in order to make meritorious service and reduce his sentence, reported something before the sentence." Ren Wenli's expression suddenly became subtle, as if she was organizing her words, and she seemed a little hesitant. "The suspect once sat in the Southern Prison. Prison, he said there was a man named Wang Darong in the prison—”

"Wang Darong?" Suddenly hearing the name in Jiu's memory, Jin Zhou couldn't help frowning slightly, interrupting Ren Wenli.

"Yes," Ren Wenli paused, as if she wanted to take care of Jin Zhou's feelings, and said carefully, "It's the person who killed your parents back then."

Jin Zhou's expression was stagnant, but he quickly returned to normal, and asked, "And then?"

Nine years have passed since that accident, and Jin Zhou has long let go of it in his heart. Even if he thinks about it now and then, it is difficult to make his heart stir again.

But what Ren Wenli said next was like a heavy stone smashed into the lake, completely disturbing Jin Zhou's peace.

"Wang Darong inadvertently disclosed in the prison that the suspect reported that he was ordered to kill the judge and his wife back then."

The last four words came to Jin Zhou's ears like a bolt from the blue, causing Jin Zhou's brain to go blank for a while.

If Ren Wenli hadn't mentioned it suddenly, Jin Zhou would have almost forgotten that he was born in a scholarly family.His father was a judge, and if nothing else, he would follow the same path.

But the reason why he lives a completely different life now is all because of that "accidental car accident" back then.

The picture in memory has become blurred, Jin Zhou tried hard to recall, but couldn't remember any details.

But at this moment, Jin Zhou cares more about another thing than recalling the scene of the year——

Yang Shiyu is the presiding judge of the rape case. I don't know how he reacted when he heard this?