Great Lawyer

Chapter 817 Be Honest ([-])

"In my opinion, there are too many doubts and uncertainties in this case. Since Guan Fan asked me to investigate and defend the case, I cannot ignore these doubts." Du Jiuyan said.

Zheng Wenhai waved his hand, "Princess, I told you about my Zheng family, I won't go to court."

"Have you ever thought that, as Guan Fan, if you wrong him in the end, will Master Liang let it go? He will pay you the remaining 130 million?" Du Jiuyan said.

"Of course I have to pay."

"The cases I have handled are half and half. Don't make a conclusion until the last moment." Du Jiuyan said, "Furthermore, it is Guan Fan who defends himself, not you who invited me and There is no breaking your rules."

"Let me investigate. In the end, you can get the truth and avoid enmity with Master Liang. It's a great thing."

As Du Jiuyan said, he took the files from Liao Cheng one by one, nodded and said, "That's it."

"But..." Zheng Wenhai was about to speak, but Du Jiuyan said again, "Don't you want to see people alive and dead bodies?"

Zheng Wenhai nodded, and suddenly realized that he still agreed with Du Jiuyan. He said: "We can do these things by ourselves. I dare not trouble the princess."

"As I said, it wasn't you who invited me, but Guan Fan who invited me. He is not a fish on the chopping board, and it is impossible for you to take the so-called evidence and dispose of it at will." Du Jiuyan said, "He has the right Prove your innocence."

Zheng Wenhai frowned tightly, a little displeased, but he didn't dare to say it out.

"As I said just now, the law I uphold does not favor anyone. It is most suitable for disputes between your two clans." Du Jiuyan said.

Guan Fan nodded and shouted: "That's right, the princess will be able to find out and prove that you have wronged me."

"He asked you to handle the case. Don't you favor him? Who knows if you will conceal evidence and facts in the end, and deliberately say that Guan Fan is innocent." Zheng Wenhai said.

"You don't have to worry about this, Mr. Zheng. I will not abandon my duty, ethics and integrity for any case. No matter who it is or which case, I will not do this. Please supervise."

Zheng Wenhai felt dizzy when he heard this, and impatiently waved his hands and said, "Princess. Mingren don't say dark words. You must investigate this case, so please investigate it. But I can only give you three days. It must be dealt with according to family rules.”

"Not only do I want to kill Guan Fan, but I also want Liang Kexing to pay me the rest of my military salary!"

"At that time, I will invite the prince and concubine to be a witness. It is not that I, Zheng Wenhai, want to provoke Liang Kexing, but that his hands and feet are not clean."

As he spoke, he glanced at Guan Fan emphatically, and said to King Gui and Du Jiu, "Don't say much, see you in three days."

"Check, what else can we find?" Zheng Wenhai muttered while curling his lips, "We dug the surrounding area for three feet, but we didn't find any people or corpses. Don't tell me you have more people than me, and more people than mine?" Familiar with Annan is not enough."

"Patriarch, you did the right thing. Giving them three days will not discredit King Gui and his wife, but also retain our power. Only three days, they will not be able to find out anything. When the time comes, we will act according to the clan rules. They can't say anything more." Liao Cheng said.

Zheng Wenhai also thought so, waved his hands and said: "You send people to follow them secretly."

"Let us also see that Da Zhou's great litigator, apart from his sharp mouth, has the ability to investigate cases."

At this moment, Liu Zhen laughed loudly, and said, "Did Gui Wang and his wife really go?"

"went!"

"Okay!" Liu Zhen said, "Zheng Wenhai is not as easy to talk to as I am. It would be best if the two sides can fight."

"Investigating the case is something that everyone in Dazhou is holding on to, but now they think of Annan coming to find a place." Liu Zhen couldn't swallow his breath, "I'll wait for them to go back in disgrace."

Du Jiuyan looked at Guan Fan, smiled slightly, and said: "Now I am your lawyer, we are together, I will do my best to protect your interests, and help you find out the truth of the case."

"Thank you, princess, thank you!" Guan Fan said excitedly.

"But before I start to do things, I need you to confess to me. You must confess to me what you have done or not. Otherwise, once I find out that you have lied to me, I will immediately terminate the cooperation, no I will control your life."

Guan Fan said: "What I said is true. I did meet Zheng Wenyin outside Chong'an City that day, and I did see a bead string on the way back to Shenglong."

"If I cheated you, I would be struck by lightning."

Du Jiuyan asked: "Tell me one by one. When you saw Zheng Wenyin outside Chong'an City, what did you say and how long did you say? Have you met before and are you familiar with it?"

"I went back to Chong'an to do business and lived in Chong'an for two days. At noon on the [-]th day, I happened to be out of the city to do business. It was such a coincidence that I went out of the city with Zheng Wenyin. We stopped, and I asked him what he was doing, and he said that he was returning to the city. Long, he asked me what I was doing again, and I said I was doing business."

"Then we made an appointment in Thang Long and looked for a chance to have a drink. But this is a polite word. We have met twice in Thang Long, but we have never had a drink together. Ordinary meetings are nodding acquaintances, not familiar."

"He was alone at the time?" Du Jiuyan asked, "The one on the horse didn't bring a cart?"

Guan Fan replied: "He was alone at the time, riding a group of brown horses, wearing a straw hat with a large brim, and short trousers. After speaking, he beat the horse and left."

"No silver?" Du Jiuyan and King Gui looked at each other, and King Gui said, "On the 110th day, he exchanged 100 million taels of silver in Jiao'an, and on the [-]th, he exchanged [-] million taels of silver in Chong'an. He will bring so much silver with him." It’s too conspicuous on the body, and it’s very likely that it’s hidden somewhere.”

"It makes sense." Du Jiuyan said, "If the news passes, he can remelt the silver and spend it."

Guan Fan was stunned when he heard this, and interjected: "So, Princess, do you suspect that Zheng Wenyin fled with the money?"

"It's weird, I'm not sure yet." Du Jiuyan said, "There is another question, when you picked up the beads, was there no one around?"

Guan Fan said that he picked up the string of beads when he was tying his horse on the second day, when Shenglong had a rest on the 21st day.

"There must be someone there, but they are all pedestrians. But there was no one in the pavilion. I sat for a long time before I came in. I didn't recognize the group of people. At that time, I had almost rested, so I rode away." Guan Fan said.

Du Jiuyan nodded slightly, and said, "The last question, how did you get your 80 taels?"

"This, this is my private matter." Guan Fan said with flickering eyes, "I, I can guarantee that I have nothing to do with Zheng Wenyin. If I lie, I will be struck by lightning."

Du Jiuyan looked at him with raised eyebrows.

"Princess, it really has nothing to do with this case. Since it doesn't, then I don't have to say anything, right?"

Du Jiuyan said: "The most important evidence for you to be suspected by Zheng Wenhai is this sudden deposit of money into the Liu family bank. Do you think it has nothing to do with it?"

"I, I earned money from doing business with a friend. The money is my personal, and I don't want my owner to find out, so, so it exists in the Liu family bank." Guan Fan scolded Liu Zhen again as he spoke, " Liu Zhen, a smiling face, actually told outsiders about his own bank."

"When I go out, I will make a big publicity, so that his own common people dare not go to his bank to save money."

Seeing that he was determined not to speak, Du Jiuyan simply stopped asking, nodded and said, "You can stay here for a few days first, and I will untie the rope for you, and you don't even want to run away, so as not to cause misunderstandings and get caught by Zheng Wenhai." killed."

"If I have any doubts in these two days, I will come to you again."

Guan Fan has no objection, if someone framed him, it would be safer for him to stay here.Anyway, Zheng Wenhai would not dare to do anything to him for a while.

Du Jiuyan and King Gui left Zheng's mansion and went straight to Zheng Wenyin's house.

Zheng Yu was of medium height and slightly fat. He wore crumpled clothes and looked very decadent. He looked at the two and asked, "Both, who are you looking for?"

Du Jiuyan explained his purpose.

"Well, since the Patriarch agrees, I have no objection, why don't you come to the house and sit and talk?"

Du Jiuyan and King Gui went in and sat down on the pergola in the yard.

Zheng Wenyin's house is not very big, with two small yards in the front and back, and two women who cook and wash clothes in the family, it is a little poorer than Zheng Wenhai's title of capable officer in her imagination.

After tea was served, Zheng Yu sat across from him restrainedly, and said shyly, "What do you want to ask?"

"Do you rarely go out, are you married?" Du Jiuyan asked.

Zheng Yu nodded and shook her head again, and said, "I got married when I was 17, but she fell ill and passed away not long after."

As she spoke, she scratched her head and said uncomfortably: "Later, I don't want to get married anymore, and now I don't have a wife."

"Don't worry, you are still young." Du Jiuyan said, "What kind of person is your father? Do you think he disappeared with money or was killed?"

Zheng Yu said: "My father is a very upright man, he couldn't have escaped with the money. Besides, he left with my mother, how could he leave me at home without telling me."

"It's hard to justify this point." Zheng Yu said, "My parents are very good to me, and it is impossible to leave me alone."

Du Jiuyan felt that what he said made sense.

"Can I see your parents' room?"

Zheng Yu nodded.

Du Jiuyan entered the bedroom of Zheng Wenyin and his wife.The bedroom was very clean, with all kinds of jewelry on the dressing table, the clothes of the couple hanging in the closet, and a few pairs of shoes by the door.

"Has your father lived in Jiao'an for a long time?" Du Jiuyan opened the wardrobe, and there were many colors and styles of clothes hanging in it.The winter here is also very warm, so one season of clothes is fine.

She counted sixteen sets of women's clothes and eleven sets of men's clothes.

"He always moves around. When he has nothing important to do, he will stay in Jiao'an for three days, and then he will return to Shenglong for a day, report to the Patriarch about things there, and then go home to visit my mother and me." Zheng Yu said.

"Are your parents on good terms?"

Zheng Wenyin does not seem to have concubines.

"Very good. I heard that my mother was very beautiful when she was young." Zheng Yu said, grinning.

Du Jiuyan nodded, walked a few steps and asked suddenly: "If something happens to him, what will you do alone?"

"They will definitely come back." Zheng Yu said, "For sure."

Du Jiuyan took a look at him and went to the yard with King Gui. There were two women, one was washing clothes by the well, and the other was making lunch in the kitchen.

They said their goodbyes and went straight back to Sanchitang.

"Ninth Brother, Ninth Brother." Dou Rongxing rushed out, pulled Du Jiuyan, and said, "After you left just now, another person came to sue."

Du Jiuyan raised his eyebrows and said, "Today is an auspicious day."

(End of this chapter)