sincerity of lies

Lawyer Lianda Zhanglian was officially promoted to the senior partner of Zhongqi Law Firm today.Zhongqi Law Firm, the first-class law firm in Ning City, lawyer Lian, a well-known law firm in Ning City.

The 42-year-old lawyer Lian has worked in the judicial circle of Ning City for more than ten years. He has fought several famous lawsuits, including the divorce case of a wealthy businessman in Ning City. In the case of a second-generation official who was injured in a disco fight, the second-generation official was sentenced to three years in prison with a two-year reprieve.

The cases he takes over are rarely unsatisfactory to the employer, and similarly, the employer must also satisfy him.

It's a win-win.

Win-win is his philosophy of life.

Now his win-win life has come to fruition. Surrounded by his colleagues, he and his wife walked into the hotel buffet restaurant. This is a five-star hotel in Ning City. To celebrate a solid step in the career of practicing lawyers.

The cafeteria is already filled with fragrance, and the chefs have already prepared the delicious dishes, waiting for the diners to join in, but before the diners join in the dishes, they must first praise the lawyers.

The scene was lively and lively, and several lawyers surrounded by lawyer Lian talked to each other:

"Practicing law is well-deserved now, and you will support us a lot in the future."

"Lian Lu is a lawyer who loves to support juniors so much. When did he not take care of us? Do you need to say more about this?"

"That's right, right, right, in the whole law firm, the only one who is good at practicing law, is capable in business, and enthusiastic about dealing with people, we can learn something from practicing law, that is the virtue accumulated for half a lifetime!"

The man in the center of the crowd smiled and enjoyed the obsequious compliments.

He is in the prime of life, and his face is very elegant, but there are a few deep lines at the end of his eyes, which are left by squinting and smiling from time to time. Just looking at these lines, one can imagine how kind and amiable he is every day Listen carefully to the demands of the agents, and then try our best to solve their problems.

His hair is black and shiny, but there are stars on his temples.This bit of Xingshuang quietly climbed onto his temples at some point, but it did not detract from his charm at all, but instead added a bit of a story that he wanted to tell.Even the wife standing beside him is reserved and beautiful.

This is a mature, wise, and story-telling man.But it wasn't just the up close admiration that surrounded this man.In the far corner, there are more whispering sneers:

"Looking at his complacent look, he feels that he is a godsend for getting dirty money from rich people's lawsuits."

"Shake it, let's see if he can shake it for a few days."

"He dares to make any kind of money, and he doesn't care about money in lawsuits. In the entire judicial circle of Ning City, he is the most worthless thing. I will put it here. One day, sooner or later, he will be beaten with a sap, and he will be beaten. I don't even know who hit him!"

In the middle of the cafeteria, lawyer Lian's wife's cell phone rang suddenly.

The wife took it out and saw the four characters "real estate agent" flashing on the screen of the mobile phone. She took two steps to the side and picked it up. After a while, she seemed to have heard some bad news, and her complexion suddenly changed. The face that was still bright was like a dark cloud covering the sun, and it became gloomy in an instant.

She returned to Lawyer Lian's side and whispered, "Husband, I have something to tell you."

Lawyer Lian looked at the other people beside him, and these people said winkingly:

"I'm hungry after talking for a long time, let's go eat."

"Walk around and see what's delicious."

The husband and wife were able to have a private space, so the wife's gentle voice suddenly became sharp: "Just now the real estate agent called me and said that the school district house we were looking at earlier was bought by someone else!"

"Bought away? So fast? Didn't you say let us keep it..."

"Why do others keep things that are in short supply? The house has been bought away. Now what about Panpan's schooling?"

"I don't have a house, just buy it again. Panpan is only in the third grade of junior high school, so I'm not in such a hurry. Don't talk about it. Let's go home and talk about anything."

"I'm not in a hurry in the third year of junior high school. When will I be in a hurry? I told you to let Panpan go to a private school, and Ningshi can go to it. You disagree, and you insist on going to the public school in the provincial capital. It's not that you can handle things clearly..."

The wife still complained endlessly, but in the end she managed to control her throat, holding a smiling face that looked like it was pasted on paper, and once again accompanied her husband to socialize with others.

Everyone showed enthusiastic expressions, and behind their backs were all hidden and clear smiles watching the excitement.

The happy scene lasted for about ten minutes, but suddenly, there was a loud groan in the restaurant.

That's a practicing lawyer!

Lawyer Lian covered his stomach and let out intermittent painful gasps. He turned sideways, glanced in slow motion, and slowly fell from the chair to the ground:

"Ho-"

So the disturbance takes this place as the center of the circle, and the oscillations generally radiate to the surroundings.The wife yelled first and threw herself on her husband:

"What's the matter with you, husband?"

The panicked footsteps of the crowd sounded.

A group of men in suits and leather shoes scrambled up and rushed up Liandazhang who had fallen to the ground.

"Liu Li? Lian Li, are you okay?"

"Something's wrong, call an ambulance!"

"What ambulance is it called? The hospital is across the street. Hurry up and send Lianlu there—"

They hurriedly carried Lawyer Lian out of the cafeteria. In the blink of an eye, only overturned chairs and messy tabletops were left in the cafeteria. , lying quietly.

Everything happened extremely suddenly, and the interrogation of Xin Yongchu had to be temporarily suspended because of his sudden threat.

Yuan Yue urgently called a group of people to hold a small meeting, but no one spoke at the meeting, the air was so silent that it was like milk, sticky and agglomerated, exuding an intolerable smell.

After a long time, the youngest policeman named Fang Xinjue hesitated to speak: "I think...he is lying?"

He is not alone in his views.

Most of the policemen present, including Yuan Yue, thought about this possibility.

Yuan Yue frowned tightly, and said in a rare and severe tone: "Don't take chances, the police have to take precautions against the impossible."

Ju Zhengguo, a policeman with a national character who worked with Yuan Yue before, said: "The suspect's character is more persistent and extreme, and the method of obtaining silver nitrate is simple, so it is very feasible to use it for poisoning, and the source is also difficult to trace. , I have to guard against it, I have to inquire urgently, and find a way to pry more information about the poisoning from his mouth."

"Urgently retrieve Xin Yongchu's recent actions, call records, consumption records, etc., to observe whether he has contacted suspicious persons or entered and exited public places such as supermarkets, convenience stores, and commissaries. He wants to poison randomly, so that victims will be ignorant. Putting it in the shopping basket is the first choice, and there are also some shops that are used to putting candy at the door for customers to take at any time. This possibility is also very high.” Yuan Yue rubbed his brows and added, “I’ll go to the director’s office Report."

Everyone in the first branch was silent again, their scalps were a little tingly, this originally clear and simple case has now rushed towards a major case and will not turn back.

This is different from the last big case, it has directly threatened public safety, and the social impact is even worse. Presumably after Yuan Yue reported it, the director would scold his father in the office for 15 minutes, and then wait for a few hours, and then A special task force will be set up——

The police station was already full of clues, and when interrogating the room, Xin Yongchu still came in with an honest look, but every sentence he said was more creepy:

"Officer, I know what you're going to ask, where and when will these toffees go. In fact, I don't know very well. Everything is random, but I did let it go."

"If you agree to reopen the case, you can use the new media account of Ningzhou Public Security Online to issue an announcement announcing the progress of Accountant Tang's case, and then attach an introduction for public supervision. I hope I can write this.

"But after the announcement, everything will not be all right. If the police station's re-investigation progress on Accountant Tang's case is not released regularly, more and more people will die outside. Accountant Tang is innocent, and these people are also innocent. I don't think the police will Just because of a few criminals who killed Accountant Tang, they will ignore the safety of so many people."

"If you want to write something, someone has to read it. Tell me, how many accomplices you have outside, are they all related to Accountant Tang!" The crux of the matter.

At this time, Ji Xun had already left the police station.

The September 22 skull crushing case 9 years ago had little to do with him, mainly Yuan Yue. This was an old case that Yuan Yue was quite concerned about, but after all, it was a long time ago and the evidence was limited, so it has not been able to make enough progress.

He came into contact with this case when he was partnering with Yuan Yue. He once wanted to go to Yi'an County to have a look. Concerns have been shelved.

Who would have thought that it would reappear in the eyes of everyone in this way 22 years later?

But now, this is not under Ji Xun's control, and the criminal police in the police station will deal with it sooner or later.He ran to the Raccoon Bar in peace, beat his own drum, was courted by himself, drank his own wine-not yet.

On the bar counter of the bar, Jenny handed him a cocktail decorated with toffee on the rim, and said, "A glass of Daydream, please."

The rotating spotlights in the bar smudge the white toffee into unpredictable colors.

Ji Xun picked up the cup and turned it around, put it down, picked up the toffee, and asked, "Who invited it?"

"So many people invite you to drink every day, just drink it, why should you care who invites you?"

"The brand of this toffee can't be rabbit candy?" Ji Xun asked again.

"You know again——ha, I get it!" Jenny thought he was smart and complacent, "You must have guessed it from the brand of the candy that the bar gave guests on the table, that's right, it's bunny candy, full of milk flavor, It's delicious."

"Don't eat toffee recently, collect the toffee in the bar, let's talk about it later."

Jenny seemed to sense something, looked over with puzzled and curious eyes, and said vaguely: Do you know the inside story?

Ji Xun ignored him and didn't drink, but he took off the toffee from the rim of the glass and threw it into his mouth when he left the bar.

With the first bite, he felt like he was biting a depth charge.

boom--

……

Weird.

The bomb didn't explode.

Only the thick milk flavor spreads in the mouth.

Hmm-ordinary toffee, full of milk flavor, and the ingredients are okay.

He shrugged, finished eating, and on the way back, because he was too bored, he took out his new phone.

Holding the new mobile phone, I think of Huo Ranyin, think of Huo Ranyin, and think of the little "elegant name" he gave Huo Ranyin.

Ji Xun stared at the "Yin-Yang Generous Cheapskate" on the WeChat interface of his mobile phone for a moment, and felt that it was really eye-catching, so he sent a message to poke him: "How is the situation now? It's been three days, and you are still staying up late and working overtime? Yuan Yuan Yue also the same?"

Huo Ranyin didn't reply immediately.

Ji Xun walked about a dozen more steps before he felt his phone vibrate.

Huo Ranyin said: "Well, in the third hospital. There was the first case of silver nitrate poisoning by mistake. The patient had eaten rabbit sugar and toffee before being sent to the hospital."

After this sentence was sent out, another 2 minutes passed.

Huo Ranyin added like superfluous: "Captain Yuan is also here, he basically hasn't rested in the past three days."

Ji Xun looked at the line of words, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that Huo Ranyin had some hints.

He pondered for a while, and suddenly thought of Huo Ranyin's little misunderstanding of his relationship with Yuan Yue.

He replied: "Oh..."

Huo Ranyin said again: "You just came home playing the drums? Bring a snack to the Third Hospital, and by the way, persuade Team Yuan to go back and rest."

Ji Xun: "Is there anything to persuade. If he wants to work, you can let him work. Why, you are worried that he will become your immediate boss after working too hard, so let me go to the hospital to hold him back?"

He felt that there was nothing wrong with his own words, but Huo Ranyin was able to pick out some things that others couldn't see from the cracks in the words.

Huo Ranyin: "Don't get emotional. You have to understand that Team Yuan's work is not easy, and his body can't bear it."

Ji Xun: "..."

He looked at the square characters on the phone screen and was amazed.

What's the matter with Huo Ranyin's tone of persuading his wife to stop losing her temper and take care of her husband? How many unknown steps has Huo Ranyin made in his relationship with Yuan Yue?

Also, what kind of mentality and position did Huo Ranyin use to say such words.

Didn't he feel that he was a little... tea-like?

He probably didn't feel it.Our captain Huo is extremely busy on weekdays, so he probably doesn't know what tea means.

Ji Xun was entertained.He was in a good mood, so he didn't care about going to the hospital. He actually bought some wonton porridge from a supper stand on the roadside, and wandered to the Third Hospital not far ahead.

The incandescent lamps in the hospital are always colder than outside, like countless eyes hidden behind the lamps, quietly staring at everyone passing by.

Patients with silver nitrate poisoning stayed in the inpatient department, and it was already the time to refuse visits. There were no family members coming and going in the corridor of the inpatient department, only the cold air and the occasional painful panting sounded, quiet and desolate.

Ji Xun went upstairs under the leadership of the police downstairs. When he got upstairs, he saw Huo Ranyin first. Huo Ranyin was talking to Yuan Yue. The two were standing at the window, light and shadow were on them at the same time. Interlaced, every line drawn is silent and resolute.

"Hi."

Ji Xun greeted them from afar, and he stepped forward to share the supper with them, the wontons to Yuan Yue, and the porridge to Huo Ranyin.

A trace of surprise flashed across Huo Ranyin's eyes when he took the porridge.

Probably he didn't expect that he would have a share, so he wondered if receiving the supper from him together with Yuan Yue would make the other party have any interesting associations.Ji Xun pondered viciously.

Huo Ranyin was quite tense: "Thank you."

Ji Xun didn't answer, just shook the phone in his hand.

Huo Ranyin said again: "You talk, I'll go for a walk."

He left the space for Ji Xun and Yuan Yue, walked forward by himself, walked for a while, and stopped again when he came to the corner of the corridor. He really didn't listen deliberately, but the air is the way sound travels, and his ears slightly Backwards, I still heard the conversation between Ji Xun and Yuan Yue.

"What's the situation now?"

"A lawyer is poisoned."

"Oh, trouble."

A leisurely voice came from inside, this kind of tone of watching the fire from the other side without finding too many faults but really making people angry, apart from Ji Xun, not many people could speak it just right.

It's really troublesome.

When the people in the police station knew that the person who was poisoned was a lawyer, their heads almost grew bigger.

Lawyers have complex social relationships and have extensive contacts with people. It is very difficult to investigate from his side.

He didn't want to hear these things, he wanted to know what was behind the case, what Ji Xun and Yuan Yue cared about at the same time.He thought that Ji Xun deliberately came here today, probably for this reason.

Maybe the two people inside heard him.

After a while, Ji Xun said again: "What do you think of the 9 skull crushing case?"

Yuan Yue: "It will definitely be restarted. It's not because of Xin Yongchu's threat, but now that the case has new clues, according to the process, it must be restarted."

Ji Xun: "No."

Yuan Yue suddenly said: "Do you still remember what you promised me back then?"

Ji Xun: "I have promised you many things, how can I remember them all."

Again.

Huo Ranyin, who was eavesdropping, sneered slightly.

Who doesn't know you have a good memory?Say I can't remember, it's a lie.He basically guessed what Ji Xun had promised Yuan Yue, and believed that Yuan Yue would not let Ji Xun play sloppy on this matter.

Yuan Yue did not give in as expected.

"You promised me that you would help me solve this case."

"what……"

There is no suspense anymore, Ji Xun will agree.Huo Ranyin thought.After all, it was Yuan Yue, after all, it was his past promise, maybe he not only agreed, but also agreed willingly, naturally.If anyone can make Ji Xun escape from the police station and solve the case, it should be Yuan Yue.

As long as Ji Xun can come out smoothly——

That's a good thing for me.Huo Ranyin was thinking.Maybe they can push them again, after all, Ji Xun's concern for Yuan Yue is obvious to all.Tonight, Ji Xun did not hesitate to send a message to me who usually avoids it, just to point out the real situation of Yuan Yue, which is enough to prove this point.

He thought a little too far, and didn't even hear the hurried footsteps coming from the elevator entrance in the first place.

"Team Huo—"

He woke up and looked over.

Running all the way was Wen Yangyang, a young policewoman covered in cold sweat in the winter, her face alternately frightened and angry.

"Something went wrong. Some media exposed the toffee poisoning case, and it is now the number one hot search!"