Chapter 37:

Except for the little episode of renting with Qian Heng, Cheng Yao's work has progressed very smoothly recently. Bao Rui found the registration record of the Chen Qingmei Pregnancy Examination Hospital, and Dong Shan had filled in the information and signed it.
It’s easy to have a signature. It’s enough to apply for a handwriting test. In addition, Bao Rui also extracted the inseparable monitoring of Dong Shan and Chen Qingmei, as well as other details of supporting evidence. As long as they cooperate with the DNA paternity test, it is one. The complete chain of evidence.
And I don't know if it was God's help. Chen Qingmei's cord blood DNA test did not cause any fetal risk. She almost completed the paternity test quite smoothly.
"The report shows that the child in Chen Qingmei's belly is in the same patrilineal line as Elder Dong."
Although it was a great thing for her case, Cheng Yao was a little complicated in her heart.
People always say that if you don't believe it, look up, who will the sky bypass. But many times, Cheng Yao found that these words were just self-comforting, and more often, those who have been well-rounded by good times are not good people.
Just like Chen Qingmei, she is an absolute exquisite egoist, selfish, shrewd, and knows the rules of the patriarchal society. She sculpts herself into a shape suitable for patriarchal aesthetics, delicate and tender, as if she can't live without a man, gentle Appropriate and obedient. However, her heart is clearer than anyone else. With such a low profile, she is not really thoughtless. She is willing to be a man's subsidiary and obeys men in everything. On the contrary, she knows what she wants and knows better than anyone else. To achieve this goal.
She might not only not love Dong Shan, but also the child in her belly.
She has never been a sacrifice and dependency in a patriarchal society, but a vested interest in feminism.
What impressed Cheng Yao even more was that after the paternity test, Chen Qingmei did not go back alone.
It was raining that day. While Cheng Yao was waiting for the rental, she saw a man of the same age as Chen Qingmei approaching her with an umbrella.
"Why so carelessly, next time you stand inside, it will be raining. You are still pregnant with a child. What if you catch a cold?"
The man looked ordinary, but the focused look between his eyebrows and eyes to Chen Qingmei made him brighten up.
When a person has love in his eyes, it is always dazzling.
He only had an umbrella in his hand, but he carefully guarded Chen Qingmei with one hand, and almost all of the umbrella was tilted onto Chen Qingmei's head. The left half of his body was exposed to the rain without any cover.
Chen Qingmei looked at each other weakly and snuggled into the other's arms: "Xie Ming, if only I met you sooner."
The man called Xie Ming blushed shyly:
It’s not too late to meet now. You have been too bitter before, and you met Dong Shan who was kind to you. You mistaken gratitude for love. I think that Dong Shan’s singleness lied to you. He hasn’t divorced his wife yet, so he has fallen to this point now...I will protect you in the future."
Chen Qingmei's eyes were moist: "But... but now others are scolding me, it's a mistress, a vixen who seduce Dong Shan, a shameless woman."
"Others don't understand the truth of the matter at all. I don't care what others say about you." Xie Ming smiled softly. "Don't care about bad remarks. The public always generalizes, and public opinion is very misleading. I believe you is enough. How can you be such a courageous person to do such a thing."
...
The two said something before they left together holding hands. And as the two cuddled under an umbrella and left, Cheng Yao could no longer hear what they were still talking about.
How long has Dong Shan just died, she has found a fresh next "host".
Although this man does not seem to be rich, he has the child in his belly as a bargaining chip. Chen Qingmei can allocate wealth that can never be used up in a lifetime. She doesn't need to care about money anymore, although she can find an honest person who will make her go. Be true to her, love her, protect her, tolerate her and believe in her. Like any girl her age, come into a normal love.
It's so realistic, yet unassailable.
Maybe in this world, people who are cheeky and have no lower limit live better? Murder and set fire to the gold belt, repair the bridge and repair the road without corpses?

As if to verify Cheng Yao’s thoughts, the first instance of Dong Shan’s inheritance dispute was held. There was no suspense. Under Qian Heng’s agency, in front of the chain of evidence, Jiang Wenxiu and Dong Min had nothing to say. The 210 million in Dongshan's legacy will belong to the child in Chen Qingmei's belly.
Where protection of the fetus’ interests such as inheritance of inheritance and acceptance of gifts is involved, the fetus shall be deemed to have the capacity for civil rights. Therefore, this part of the inheritance share will be retained. Once the child is born, the inheritance procedures will be officially handled. If the child is born dead, the reserved share will be taken back and continue to be re-processed in accordance with the legal inheritance.
At the end of the trial, Jiang Wenxiu's face was pale, but he was still capable and generous, but Dong Min couldn't help but break down, crying and questioning Mr. Dong.
The facts are clearly in front of us, and it is precisely because Elder Dong agreed to the paternity test that Chen Qingmei turned defeat into victory.
Before that, Jiang Wenxiu and Dong Min, presumably trusting Elder Dong wholeheartedly, didn't even think that he would become Chen Qingmei's breakthrough.
Jiang Wenxiu and Dong Min did not guard against Elder Dong, thinking that he and them were standing in a trench, but they did not expect that they were shot back by the "comrade-in-arms" in the trench.
This feeling of trusting a person wholeheartedly but being completely betrayed, probably, apart from the person involved, no one else can say the same.
"Grandpa, how did my mother and I treat you all these years? Is your heart growing? You keep saying that your mother is the only daughter-in-law you recognize, but behind you secretly stood by Xiaosan's side!" Dong Min realized that his feelings had been deceived by his grandfather, and his eyes were disappointed and unbelievable except for tears.
"When your legs and feet were inconvenient after a stroke, at first you had a bad temper and didn't let the nurses get close at all. Think about who is the one who cleans you every day, drinks tea, and delivers meals? Mom would rather give up the mergers and acquisitions of several companies. A good opportunity, I have always been by your side, waiting on the front and back of the horse, and occasionally tolerating your bad temper. Has my mother ever complained?"
"You keep saying that I am your only granddaughter, but how realistic is it? Grandpa, this is the last time I call you grandpa. From then on, I don’t have a grandpa, Dong Min." Although Dong Min is proud, but there are critical moments. The demeanor of her mother Jiang Wenxiu, she refused with a strong tone, "I will change my mother's surname. From now on, there will be no such person as Dong Min, only Jiang Min." She laughed self-deprecatingly, "Anyway, you don't care about Dong. Is there a girl like me in the family? After all, your Dong family already has a queen."
"And you, you lawyers who speak for this kind of junior, do you have no conscience?" Dong Min looked at Qian Heng Baorui and Cheng Yao, "I curse that you will all be cheated and derailed in the future, and you will never be happy forever! You have no morals for money! The law?! The law is a joke! There is no fairness and justice at all. The law is just a fig leaf for you abusers! The "Marriage Law" does not protect marriage at all, it protects the children of the juniors! "
"Minmin, stop talking."
Dong Min was in a fierce mood, but Jiang Wenxiu's expression was not good, but her expression was still calm. She nodded slightly to apologize to Qian Heng, and then pulled Dong Min away.
She knew very well that lawyers were nothing but a profession, and who they represented did not express the lawyer's own personal position, so there was a clear distinction. Until the end, there was no anger against Qian Heng and Cheng Yao.
"It was my carelessness, misapprehension of human nature, wrong judgment of family affection. But if I was a little more alert and blocked you, so that you didn't have the opportunity to contact my father-in-law, or play emotional cards with my father-in-law, this might not be the result."
"But no matter what, people should bear the consequences for their actions. This matter is my negligence, and I am willing to gamble to lose." Jiang Wenxiu finished speaking, lowering his eyes, "Minmin, this lesson is also your life. A lesson in this. Mom can't protect you too much all the time, you should grow up too."
Even at this moment, she is still decent and generous, which makes Cheng Yao even more admirable, sympathetic, and indescribably ashamed.
The judgment of the first instance proved the existence of the parent-child relationship in court. As long as the child Chen Qingmei is born alive, he can get a rich inheritance no matter what. Even if Jiang Wenxiu and Dong Min appeal, they can only survive the inheritance. It's a fuss.
Although this case is only the first instance, the overall situation has been decided.
But acting for someone like Chen Qingmei, even if she wins, she doesn't seem to be happy at all, and there is no sense of accomplishment.
Is this the job of a lawyer? What is the meaning of this job? Where is the value of a lawyer?
On the way back to the law firm, Cheng Yao was a little unhappy. Qian Heng seemed to have been used to this kind of scene a long time ago, and he was quite calm, but he glanced at Cheng Yao thoughtfully, Bao Rui was the most excited.
"In our case, we used the paternity test and the chain of evidence to prove the parent-child relationship when the biological father's body was completely destroyed. I feel that it can be a classic case of the family case last year... In addition, the attorney fee this time is quite generous. I'm going to change a car. What kind of car do you think is good? I want to buy an Audi, but people say that Audi owners are the easiest to derail. I think the winnings are not good. Why not buy a Volvo?"
...

Cheng Yao's sorrowful mood lasted until the end of get off work.
In the past two days, Qin Qin came back from a trip, and Megatron gave it back to her. Now when he returns home, there is no dog to be slapped. Cheng Yao only feels even more lost when he thinks of this...
On the contrary, Qian Heng coldly turned down Chen Qingmei's thankful meal. Then an internal phone called Cheng Yao into the office.
Cheng Yao was trembling, fearing that Qian Heng would be taught by Qian Heng if he did not do anything in place.
As a result, as soon as he sat down, Qian Heng opened the drawer and threw a large piece of chocolate over. He turned his gaze sideways and his tone was a little unnatural: "Hurry up."
Cheng Yao:? ? ?
What happened to Qian Heng? Why did you give yourself chocolate suddenly?
"It's about to expire. It's a waste not to eat."
"..."
However, Cheng Yao quickly discovered the problem. She turned to the outer packaging of the chocolate: "No, it's one year before the expiry date."
Qian Heng's expression was a bit embarrassing and angry: "Don't question the boss easily. Has anyone ever told you? Whatever the boss says."
"Hey..." Cheng Yao said cautiously, "Because the boss, you said before, as a lawyer, you can't say what others say. Language is not evidence. You must verify it yourself before you can believe..."
"Give you chocolate, have you been online?"
"..."
Qian Heng cleared his throat: "I think you will be frustrated when you come back from the courthouse, eat some chocolate, and adjust your mood. Otherwise, this negative emotion will be contagious, and you will get all your colleagues in the large office area. Everyone is downcast, Jun Heng still doesn't open?"
Cheng Yao was holding the chocolate, and she was very moved. Although Qian Heng's mouth was poisonous, she actually observed the fluctuations in her emotions very carefully, which was really unexpected. Although there was only a small piece of chocolate in her hand, Cheng Yao felt that it was a friendship that was more important than Mount Tai.
"You take this well."
As a result, when Cheng Yao was moved, Qian Heng handed over a small piece of paper.
Cheng Yao was very puzzled: "This is?"
"Chocolate invoice."
Cheng Yao:? ? ?
"I will deduct it directly from your salary."
Cheng Yao: WTF? ? ?
Qian Heng said frankly, "I condescended and bought you chocolates myself. I suggest you keep this receipt for a souvenir."
Qian Heng, are you the devil? ! ! I'm so lost, even if I have to pay for the chocolate money? ! !
Although Cheng Yao's heart was full of roars, she still cleverly said, "Thank you boss! Then I'm out!"
"Eat it here." Qian Heng insisted. He crossed his hands in front of him and stared at Cheng Yao, "I have something to say."
Cheng Yao:? ? ?
"This case, you have a great opinion on me."
"No...no..."
"Really do not have?"
Cheng Yao shook her head repeatedly: "Really not."
"Then I will let you know. Since Bao Rui is the one who went to court in this case, your contribution is relatively small, so your share is not counted."
Cheng Yao exploded: "If I had known that there was no share, I would not participate in this case at all! Acting as a junior third party did not promote fairness and justice of any law at all! If I have the right to choose, I will starve to death as long as there is no source of the case. Now, I won’t take this kind of case! To live, you have to be principled! There must be a bottom line!"
Qian Heng raised his eyebrows: "Look, you really have an opinion."
"..."
"The division will be given to you." Qian Heng pursed his lips. "Now let's talk about your opinion of me."
"..."
Qian Heng apparently dug the hole, and just waited for Cheng Yao to jump in without hesitation. Now he looked at Cheng Yao for a while, apparently preparing to fill the soil and bury it alive...
This is the end of the matter, and there is no point in covering it up. Cheng Yao simply let go: "Agent Chen Qingmei is fighting for justice and shouting for the disadvantaged?! Is it promoting truth, goodness and beauty? Is it in line with the core values ​​of socialism? !"
"Cheng Yao, this is your biggest mistake."
"Lawyers are a job, shouldn't you ideally feel that you want to fight for justice? As long as you accept the agent of the client, you should fight for the client instead of hypocritically thinking about justice and injustice." Cheng Yao lowered Head, "I know that when a lawyer is acting, he does not have a preset position. The profession of a lawyer is not so ideal and glamorous. As long as you accept the agent, you must be serious and responsible for doing it to the end, but you clearly have the right to choose the client. Because her client is about to starve to death, why did you want to pick up Chen Qingmei? She has nothing to do with being a junior, not to mention that she doesn’t love Dong Shan, and the extramarital affairs with Dong Shan is entirely because she wants to make money. ..."
Cheng Yao has too many doubts in her heart. She doesn't understand why Qian Heng wants to accept this kind of client: "What's more, if you accept Chen Qingmei's case, it will also have a great negative impact on your reputation. Why did you do this? So many people say it is a malignant tumor in the industry, you are obviously not!"
Qian Heng was stunned. This was the first time someone said this to himself.
Cheng Yao's eyes were too bright, and Qian Heng subconsciously avoided his gaze: "You are fighting for justice."
Cheng Yao thought she had heard it wrong: "What?"
Qian Heng's voice was deep and sexy, and he repeated it again and again: "In every case you do, as long as you extract evidence within the legal scope to defend your clients, you are fighting for justice."
"The justice you understand is too narrow. Your eyes are only on individual justice. But for the progress of the law and the process of the legal system, procedural justice is more important than substantive justice. Because substantive justice, sometimes you have no way of knowing. What is true, what is false, what is right, what is wrong, lawyers are not judges, and lawyers are not at the scene of every dispute. Lawyers are not responsible for judging right or wrong, and in view of the imperfect development of the law, there are In many cases, no matter how the algorithm official can distinguish right from wrong, absolute justice will never be possible."
Cheng Yao tightened her lips and stared at him.
Qian Heng only glanced at Cheng Yao: "Just like the Dongshan inheritance case, the result of today’s first-instance judgment is obviously not just for Jiang Wenxiu and Dong Min, but for the child in Chen Qingmei’s stomach. It is just right. Although his mother is a junior, which is synonymous with immorality, he cannot choose his own birth. Although the third party is not eligible for inheritance, as an illegitimate child, he also has the right to inheritance. He is innocent. As a person, he should not be deprived of his legal rights because of his birth."
Cheng Yao was silent. She was too jealous and hateful, but calmed down. Qian Heng was right. There are various disputes in this world, and each of them has complicated and changeable facts. There is no absolute justice that can be achieved.
"What is procedural justice? It is justice that is more visible than substantive justice. It is the justice of the adjudication process and the justice of the legal process."
When it comes to procedural justice, Cheng Yao is not without doubt: "However, if the procedural justice is overemphasized, the United States will have a trial like Simpson's Wife Killing. Because of the procedural justice, so many bad people have escaped the sanctions of the law."
"Although the emphasis on procedural justice sometimes allows some guilty people to escape sanctions, more often it protects more innocent people from being mistakenly found guilty. Because of procedural justice, there will be no more Nie Shubin cases." Qian Heng's eyes are deep and his tone is calm, "And every case you are doing is guarding procedural justice and justice in the legal sense, making the legal system of this country a little better. Every law-abiding lawyer can only do a little bit, but it becomes a force that is the normal operation of this society and the law."
Is your work so great?
Cheng Yao didn't say anything, but Qian Heng seemed to see what she was thinking at a glance: "A lawyer's job is to support the family, it is for money, it is for a better life. To put it bluntly, it is really not that noble."
"But if you work with a clear conscience in this post, uphold the dignity of the law, and adhere to the belief in procedural justice, then in the future, there will be less innocent people who will suffer wrong legal accountability and be mistaken as public eyes. "Bad guys", there will be one less "Nie Shubin" who is unable to argue and loses his life in the future. Cheng Yao, protecting others is also protecting himself, because each of us lives in the current legal system."
Cheng Yao lowered her head, the emotion she had been excited just now gradually calmed down.
Qian Heng took a sip of tea: "You are still too young."
Cheng Yao suddenly found that she couldn't refute at all. There are huge shocks and complex emotions in her heart. Perhaps every job is small and ordinary, but it is precisely because so many ordinary people stick to their ordinary posts that society can operate and progress.
"I know why the outside world scolds me for cancer, because since I am not short of money, I can choose those "good guys" with money as clients, but I still defend the "bad guys"." Qian Heng paused, "but this is not the case. Is the meaning of a lawyer?"
"Even if you become a bad person, you must investigate whether there are comprehensible and sympathetic factors in his doing bad things. For example, he has been suppressed by domestic violence for a long time and killed his husband's wife. Even the bad guys who are bad, murderers who have no excuses or reasons for sympathy at all, also have the right to receive legal punishments. The law will sanction these bad guys, but in the process of refereeing, Nor can he be tortured to extract a confession, nor can he be tortured when he is punished, and he must be punished, and he must also know clearly why he was punished so that he may learn a lesson and reform."
Qian Heng took a deep look at Cheng Yao: "The legal protection has always been everyone's basic rights and dignity, even the bad guys."
When Qian Heng said these words, his eyes were clear. It is rare that those cold eyes were filled with temperature. The deepest part of the pupils seemed to be a small swaying fire, with his extremely lethal face. Cheng Yao only felt that it was difficult to look directly at it for a while.
The handsome man gets serious and is really charming.
"Cheng Yao, lawyers protect good people and bad people, because the greatest meaning of the law is fairness."
An unfamiliar emotion was surging in Cheng Yao's heart. It was hot, hot, and eager to try, as if she was holding a newborn baby bird in her arms, tempting and brewing for the first time to fly.
As if someone used both hands to firmly push away the dense fog that had been lingering on her chest, and forcefully swept away her confusion and hesitation, she could finally see the sun again.
Yes, this is the meaning of being a lawyer, the interests of the client and the procedural justice, which are the foundation of social justice, and the significance far exceeds narrow case justice.
"If society can function normally with good morality, the law will not appear. But morality is too subjective. In the eyes of some people, your morality may be immoral, so there will never be social governance. There is a unified standard. Everyone is clamoring that their own morality is the norm. What about the result?"
Qian Heng blinked: "As a result, this society will only become worse and messed up because of these morals. People don't know what can be done and what is in line with'morality', and those who claim to stand in morality People in the highlands, using their own morals as a benchmark, can suppress and punish dissidents in various ways."
"Today, I killed a person, but because the other person was a heinous child sexual assault. From a moral standpoint, I was completely right. Then my killing should be legal. But have you ever thought about it, if everyone All of them are directly sentenced to others with morality. Those who are labeled as bad guys do not have a legal process to verify whether he is a bad person? As long as we sentence him to death, he should die? No right? But is he really a bad guy?"
He looked at Cheng Yao: "Do you want to live in such a society?"
"You are a lawyer. What you uphold is not the fairness and justice of a narrow case, but the dignity of the law and the justice of the procedure."
"Since the lawyers representing'bad guys' and'immoral people' have no problem with professional ethics at all, why should we reject cases with a large amount of money? We represent these people, and we do not have moral flaws." Qian Heng looked at Cheng Yao, "In other words, our work not only protects the dignity of the law, but also uses our professional skills to win a better life for ourselves. The money that can be earned legally, why not earn it? Do you think it’s too much money?"
Cheng Yao lightly raised her head and glanced at Qian Heng. The other party was still the cold look of a stranger not entering. The speech just now seemed like a unilateral remark, but Cheng Yao felt that--
It's great to be a lawyer.
It's great to be Qian Heng's assistant lawyer.
"Boss, one day, when I become a well-known lawyer, I will pay you today's consultation fee according to the number of hours!"
Qian Heng raised his eyes: "Don't think too much, eat the chocolate first."
Cheng Yao realized that she didn't even think of eating chocolate just now. The piece of chocolate she was holding in her hand was softened by the heat in her palm at the moment. She opened the package and took a bite with emotion.
Bah, baah!
When the taste melted in his mouth, Cheng Yao almost spit it out.
Her voice changed: "Coriander flavored?? Chocolate flavored coriander??"
What devilish taste is this so special? ? ? ?
"Imported from Japan, Morinaga "BAKE" coriander-flavored chocolate, I heard that it will be released in limited quantities. "Qian Heng finally has some expressions on his face, showing a little concern, "I have always been curious about this taste, and I don't want to be the first to try it, so how about it? Does it taste dark? How curious is it? Will I die if I eat it? "
"..."
At this time, Cheng Yao really wanted to find a "poisonous feces" emoticon and put it on Qian Heng's face.
Go to you! You give me this poisonous thing? !
Qian Heng obviously didn't feel Cheng Yao's killing intent. He stroked his chin thoughtfully: "In fact, there is another snack I am also curious about. Just the old godmother ice cream. I will buy it for you next time. ."
"..."
Cheng Yao thought angrily, when I became a well-known lawyer, I think I should send you to prison for reeducation through labor! This is really poisonous!
Qian Heng, will you die if I am so touched? !