Chapter 4 Knowing the law and breaking the law

Zhu Shan’s dog legs.

Maybe it’s called knowing current affairs.

She is now afraid that something unpleasant will happen if she talks about it at night!

Ling Xiao snapped his fingers calmly, "Let's go."

Zhu Shan followed up in small steps, "Where is Li Shang?"

"Back to the law firm."

"What are we going to do?"

"have dinner."

"So early?"

Ling Xiao stopped and looked back at her with a casual expression, "It's late, I have something to do tonight!"

Something's wrong?

Zhu Shan's eyes lit up and she was extra considerate, "If you have something to do, just go and do it. I can do it myself."

Ling Xiao leaned forward slightly, raised the corners of his mouth, and spoke in an extremely slow tone, "I blame me for not making it clear. What happened tonight has something to do with you."

His arrogance made Zhu Shan want to punch him.

But she didn't dare.

Zhu Shan lowered her eyes, frowning and biting her lips subconsciously, which was an action she often did when thinking.

She was thinking about finding a reason to get away.

The next second, a slight pain on her right cheek interrupted her thoughts.

Ling Xiao gently pinched her plump cheeks and said, "What are you trying to do here with me?"

The meaning of those words reached Zhu Shan's ears and was equivalent to: Be honest!

Zhu Shan angrily compromised, "I know."

Ling Xiao was finally satisfied, turned around and walked forward.

It was early spring in Yuhe, and it was dark around four o'clock in the afternoon, but Zhu Shan's mind was not at peace.

She originally thought she would be very, very angry, or very, very embarrassed when she saw Ling Xiao again.

In fact, no.

Maybe he showed up today to help himself.

Or maybe it's some other reason.

The moment he pinched her face, Zhu Shan felt that she didn't hate him as much as she imagined.

When they arrived at the parking lot, Zhu Shan saw the beautiful Prosecutor Shu from the court hearing from a distance.

She changed into a hip-covering knitted dress, with a long coat on top, and a belt around her waist to outline her pretty waist.

She stood in front of a white car, as if waiting for someone.

Zhu Shan was sure that the direction of his gaze was waiting for Ling Xiao.

Before Zhu Shan could figure out the situation, Ling Xiao grabbed her arm and moved forward.

He opened the passenger door of the white car, pushed Zhu Shan in, and then closed it.

The movement was so fast that Zhu Shan had no time to resist.

Before the car door closed, Zhu Shan only faintly heard, "Ling Xiao, have you visited the victim?"

Observing through the car window, Zhu Shan felt that the two of them were not chatting well.

She also tried rolling down the window to gossip, but unfortunately she couldn't open it.

After a while, Shu Qiwen left.

The two clearly broke up on bad terms.

After Ling Xiao got in the car, as if nothing happened, he turned the steering wheel and asked Zhu Shan, "What do you want to eat?"

"Whatever!" Zhu Shan rolled her eyes, "Are you familiar with Prosecutor Shu?"

"College classmate!"

"Oh~ we used to have a deep friendship, but now we are facing the court! It's a standard feature in idol dramas."

In response to Zhu Shan's joke, the corners of Ling Xiao's mouth rose and he did not refute in time.

The exit to the court's parking lot was as curved as a snake, and it took a while to exit.

In this way, Ling Xiao seemed to take time out and glanced at Zhu Shan.

Zhu Shan saw it from the corner of her eye and immediately became alert, "What are you doing?"

"I said that during the marriage, neither of us should cause any trouble to the other."

Zhu Shan's heart skipped a beat, thinking of what happened in the morning.

Is this the beginning of settling accounts?

She licked her lips and explained, "I was wronged for what happened today! It was an accident! I didn't mean to cause trouble for you."

Ling Xiao glanced at Zhu Shan, "Article 258 of the Criminal Law, the crime of bigamy. Anyone who has a spouse and commits bigamy, or who marries another person knowing that he or she has a spouse, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention."

"?"

"Getting along with others in the name of a husband and wife relationship counts."

"?"

"The thought of developing a relationship with others is not far from the facts of a crime."

Zhu Shan didn't know why, "So?"

"So don't worry." Ling Xiao said calmly, "I won't break the law."

Zhu Shan thought for several seconds before reacting, "I didn't say that you and Prosecutor Shu would affect me, and I won't sue you for bigamy. Anyway, next year..."

Suddenly a phone ringing interrupted Zhu Shan.

Ling Xiao put on his Bluetooth headset and connected.

He sounded confident, "Mr. Ren, don't worry, today's court hearing will go smoothly. Mr. Ling will be released in court at the third trial."

Mr. Ren?

Mr. Ling?

Today’s defendant is also named Ren Lai.

What this means is that the rape charge will not succeed.

Zhu Shan suddenly remembered what Prosecutor Shu said.

——Ling Xiao, have you visited the victim?

Zhu Shan still remembered that Prosecutor Shu once said during the trial that the victim was in poor condition and was still hospitalized.

After Ling Xiao hung up the phone, Zhu Shan said, "Ling Xiao, have you visited the victim?"

Ling Xiao obviously didn't expect Zhu Shan to ask this. He stepped on the brakes at the red light, took off the Bluetooth headset with an expressionless face, and threw it away, "Is it important?"

Is it important?

Zhu Shan frowned, "Of course it's important!"

"So what if you've seen it? So what if you haven't?"

Before Zhu Shan had any words to respond, Ling Xiao had already spoken, "Do you want me to sympathize with her?"

This doesn't seem to be wrong.

But it's a bit cold-blooded.

"The judiciary relies on evidence." Ling Xiao looked at Zhu Shan's face and said calmly, "I am a lawyer, and my duty is to stand firmly on the client's side and defend him."

The red light turns to green and the vehicle sets off again.

Zhu Shan thought for a while, then turned to look at Ling Xiao.

I couldn't tell what was wrong, but Zhu Shan just felt awkward.

The car stopped at the shopping mall, and Zhu Shan followed Ling Xiao to a hot pot restaurant.

The hot pot restaurant is decorated in Chinese style and is quite eye-catching in the shopping mall.

Seeing the sign of the hot pot restaurant, Zhu Shan was uncontrollably excited and grabbed Ling Xiao's arm, "Has 'Zhengyuan Hot Pot' been moved here? I planned to eat it the next day after returning to China. When I went to the original address of the store, it was demolished. .”

Ling Xiao's eyes slid over Zhu Shan's little hand, and he gave a faint "hmm".

After sitting down, Zhu Shan ordered the extra spicy pot base despite the waiter's obstruction.

She checked the dishes and said proudly, "Medium spicy? I don't know what 'medium spicy' means."

Zhu Shan paused and looked up at Ling Xiao, "Can I have a beer?"

Without waiting for Ling Xiao to speak, Zhu Shan emphasized, "I am twenty-two years old."

Her expression was serious and her eyes were sincere, which made Ling Xiao laugh.

Immediately, he raised his chin and said in a harsh tone, "Are you so afraid of me?"

"Have you forgotten that all the times Ling Yue and I were punished when we were young, it was all because of you!"

Ling Xiao nodded carelessly, as if he was recalling something.

Then, he murmured, "Copy homework? Skip classes by jumping over the wall? Join an Internet cafe as a minor? Cram school..."

Zhu Shan clenched her teeth and quickly waved her hands to stop her, "Stop talking."

It was a suppressed time that I don’t want to look back on.

"Drink."

Zhu Shan reacted to the word "Ling Xiao Youyou", then picked up the pencil with a smile and marked "boil beer" on the menu.

Boiling beer means boiling beer with red dates, wolfberry, white fungus, fermented glutinous rice, etc., the astringency of the alcohol is dissipated, and rock sugar is added, just like a drink.

Zhu Shan quickly finished the pot of boiling beer because the bottom of the pot was too spicy.

The previous disdain for “medium spicy” seemed particularly comical now.

She forgot that she hadn't been back for several years and she wasn't that good at eating spicy food anymore.

Seeing her like this, Ling Xiao got up and went to the counter to get the old yogurt.

Zhu Shan was so hot that her whole body became hot. She took off Ling Xiao's coat, fixed her eyes on the lawyer badge for two seconds, and then looked up to search for Ling Xiao's figure.

In the bustling hot pot restaurant, the heat was lingering. He stood in front of the freezer, bending down to carefully select a drink.

Ling Xiao took the yogurt, came back and sat down, and raised his eyes to meet Zhu Shan's gaze.

Zhu Shan's eyes were heavy and she held her cheek with one hand, her face slightly deformed, "Ling Xiao, you are really awesome today. If you were my father's lawyer back then, wouldn't the matter have been solved long ago?"

Ling Xiao grabbed the yogurt, put the straw to her lips, interrupted her, and said proudly, "Yes."

Zhu Shan was stunned for two seconds, took the yogurt and took a sip before saying, "You are so confident."

"if not?"

Zhu Shan rolled her eyes again at his arrogance.

Ling Xiao took a sip of tea and said in a calm tone, "I'll go to your place to move my luggage later, and then go home."

? ? ?

A sudden topic.

Zhu Shan's big eyes flickered twice, her little face gradually twisted, and she spit out a straw, "Have you bought a house? It won't be your house, right?"

Ling Xiao leaned back in his chair and said with a compassionate look on his face, "Half of your property will be yours after marriage."

How dare Zhu Shan dream about his assets.

She put the yogurt down heavily and said, neither salty nor cool, "We will get divorced next year."

Ling Xiao pursed her thin lips and nodded, "Yeah."

"How could I possibly live at your place!"

Ling Xiao did not refute, but opened the corner of his mouth and said slowly, "Then you go back and come back next year."

Of course Zhu Shan knew that going back meant going back to SJP, but she had a hard time returning to China.

And it was not easy to get into the TV station.

Zhu Shan said in a displeased tone, "What will happen to you if I come back?"

"You seem to be taller but not wiser. Take today's matter as an example, can I rest assured?" Ling Xiao's eyes turned to her, his eyes full of teasing, "You don't seem to be taller either."

"A girl is 1.65 meters tall but not short."

"Then I still have to praise you for being awesome?"

Zhu Shan, "..."

Ling Xiao touched his chin and looked carefully, "Really 1.65 meters? Did you lie?"

"!!!" Zhu Shan pursed her lips, feeling a little guilty, and unconsciously raised her voice, "There will definitely be something when you put on shoes!"

Ling Xiao snorted lightly.

As soon as Zhu Shan opened her mouth, she realized that the topic had gone astray.

She changed the subject and said forcefully, "I won't go back!"

The two looked at each other. Zhu Shan blinked within two seconds and her tone was two points lower, "I don't want to go back, I just want to stay in Yuhe."

Ling Xiao didn't speak immediately.

His well-proportioned fingers tapped on the table.

After a few seconds, he paused his hand and spoke forcefully, "Zhu Shanshan, you have two choices. First, return to SJP immediately and come back next year; second, practice under my nose and do your internship honestly, don't think about anything."

Zhu Shan had some timidity engraved in her DNA because he called her by his last name, and felt a long-lost soreness in her nose because of his words. She looked at Ling Xiao for several seconds before lowering her head.

She has known Ling Xiao since she was born.

The Zhu family and the Ling family are neighbors. Ling's father and mother Ling are geology experts and often travel for several months or even a year.

So Ling Xiao and Ling Yue have been eating at Zhu Shan's house.

Zhu Shan and Ling Yue were born in the same year and had the same odor, so they had a good relationship.

Ling Xiao is four years older than the two of them.

Ling Xiao has good grades and is well-rounded. Coupled with his age advantage, he has suppressed Zhu Shan and Ling Yue since he was a child.

So Zhu Shan and him can be considered enemies since childhood.

Although the relationship has never been close, I think I didn't dislike him enough to force me to leave the country.

But that's the truth.

Whether it was six years ago or now, he forced himself to go abroad.

Zhu Shan remembered six years ago.

She was sixteen years old and a freshman in high school, while Ling Xiao was already a sophomore.

She had been living in the Ling family for two years after losing her parents. Suddenly one day, her aunt, whom she had never met before, came to her and said she wanted to adopt her and take her back to SJP.

Naturally she doesn't want to go to SJP.

She put her hope in Ling's father and Ling's mother, hoping that they could adopt her.

In fact, during the two years in the Ling family, except that Zhu Shan did not go through the legal adoption procedures, there was no difference between Zhu Shan's adoption and adoption in their home.

She already considered them family members.

I thought it would be a matter of course and no difficulty at all.

She never expected that it would be Ling Xiao who cut off her only life-saving straw in the end.

After Ling Xiao learned that Ling's father and Ling's mother were willing to adopt Zhu Shan, he took a late flight from the city where the university was located to return to Yuhe overnight and strongly stated that he did not agree with the adoption of Zhu Shan.

Zhu Shan clearly remembers that night, it rained heavily.

Ling's mother slapped Ling Xiao hard. That was the first time Zhu Shan saw Ling Xiao being beaten.

Ling Xiao was slapped to the ground, and the lightning and thunder outside the window made his face cold.

He lowered his eyes, and there was still rainwater on his hair, dripping down his chin, "If you don't agree, you don't agree."

Ling Xiao's words were met with a beating from Ling Ma, but he was still stubborn and refused to let go.

Zhu Shan didn't even cry. The April day felt cold. She stood aside and watched Ling Xiao being beaten, and watched Ling's father and Ling Yue trying to persuade the mother and son.

After a while, Zhu Shan came back to her senses and went up to hold Ling's mother, "Auntie, stop fighting. I'll go with my aunt."

With tears on her face, Ling's mother hugged Zhu Shan, "Shanshan, I will sever ties with him. Don't worry, I will go to the relevant department to go through the adoption procedures for you tomorrow."

"Mom." Ling Xiao raised his head and said in a deep tone, "She has relatives, and you have two sons. Do you think it's easy for you to go through the adoption procedures?"

Ling's mother was so angry that her hands were shaking, and she went up and slapped Ling Xiao on the shoulder and back, "You have studied law, you are amazing!"

Zhu Shan went up and pulled Ling Ma away.

She was an outsider to begin with and had lived in the Ling family for free for two years. What qualifications did she have to have her biological son driven away and adopted by her?