After a while, Mi Lan came up, holding the bowl and mashing it with chopsticks, thoughtfully.

I stretched out my hand and waved it in front of Mi Lan: "Are you out of control? What are you thinking about if you don't eat?"

Mi Lan shook her head. For someone who loves to cook so much, he only took two bites of rice today and put down the bowl.

She shook my arm: "Uncle Wei is very pitiful. Lu Yao, you are very capable. Can you help him?"

Apart from wanting to stay with me at first, this is the first time Mi Lan has begged me.

She doesn't care about what clothes she wears, and she can eat at roadside stalls with gusto. She has never been submissive to me. She has lived here for half a month and has never asked me for a penny.

While she was sleeping at night, I secretly went through her pockets. She didn't touch a penny of the five thousand yuan that Lao Lu gave her, and kept it intact.

Sometimes I can't help but wonder, what does this girl want from me?

Is it because I have a bad temper, or because I don’t like taking a bath?

I smiled bitterly and said: "It's not that I don't want to help. There is no fee for this case. It was assigned to me by the state. It only has a subsidy of a few hundred yuan. And if I tell the truth, there is little hope of winning the case. I just go through the motions..."

Mi Lan didn't understand, but I told the truth and didn't mean to lie to her.

I actually don't value money very much in this case.

Two kilograms of drugs, according to the criminal law, will lead to a sentence of twenty years.

If this case is placed with any lawyer, it will basically end like this.

Mi Lan turned sideways angrily: "Lu Yao, you are so obsessed with money! How dirty!"

"Am I dirty?"

I chuckled: "Mi Lan, if there were two gold bars placed in front of you, would you tell me which one is noble and which one is dirty?"

Mi Lan couldn't resist me, so she angrily held the bowl and sat on the other side of the sofa to eat, ignoring me.

After a while, Wei Lai's father, Wei Zhengjie, came up to return the bowls and chopsticks.

Mi Lan asked him to come in and sit down. Wei Zhengjie looked down at his dusty rubber shoes and then at the shiny floor in the room that Mi Lan had mopped. He shook his head and squatted on the steps of the stairwell, sobbing silently.

Smoking.

After I finished eating, he stood at the door and asked me with fear: "Lawyer Lu, the police comrades called me about my son's situation... How long will he be in jail? Can he be saved?"

Hearing this sentence, I lit a cigarette and was a little impatient: "What have you been doing so long? I usually don't know how to discipline my children, but now my children have misbehaved and gotten into trouble, and I'm worried again?"

Wei Zhengjie looked aggrieved. After thinking about it, he stood up and took off his pants.

Mi Lan was startled and turned her head quickly.

I was also stunned. What did Wei Zhengjie do? Was he trying to be a hooligan?

Wei Zhengjie anxiously took off his outer trousers, revealing the old-fashioned red trousers underneath. The key point was that there was a pocket on the trousers.

I also come from a rural area, and I saw this method of bringing money when I was a child.

In the early years, it was not as safe as it is now, and there was no mobile phone payment. When my father, Lao Lu, went away to work, my mother would sew a pocket on Lao Lu's trousers to hide money.

Saying this won't attract thieves' attention.

I just didn’t expect that people would still use this method of hiding money when going out.

Wei Zhengjie, with his dark and old hands, tremblingly arranged the money and handed it to me, speaking in a strong local accent: "Lawyer Lu, my family only has so much money, and I beg you to save my son!"

Wei Zhengjie made a loud noise and knelt down on the floor, looking at me with tears in his eyes.

I looked at the money in his hand. There were one hundred dollars, fifty dollars, and ten yuan, some in odd amounts and some in whole.

It was like going out temporarily and taking all the money I could scrape with me.

Maybe I have ten thousand yuan, which is not much for me. It is even just to treat Liang Manman to a meal and buy some cosmetics.

But for Wei Zhengjie, this money is his lifeblood...

It's all he can give, and it's also the hope to save his son...

I was silent for a while, then walked over and helped Wei Zhengjie: "Get up and talk first."

Wei Zhengjie said he couldn't afford it, and said choked: "Lawyer Lu, if you don't save my son, I don't know anyone else. He is still young, and his life will be over..."

I got angry and said loudly: "Get up first!"

Seeing that I was angry, Mi Lan pulled me. I let go of her hand and gave Wei Zhengjie a stool.

Seeing that I might be really angry, Wei Zhengjie sat on the stool. He didn't know where he was wrong and wiped his tears.

I handed him a cigarette, calmed down my mood, and explained Wei Lai's actual situation and how he would be judged later, without any concealment or any fancy "negotiation" I learned from the unscrupulous director Lao Liu.

I told Wei Zhengjie all the techniques.

"It will be at least twenty years, so you still have to be mentally prepared."

I looked at the money in my underwear pocket. I didn't mind that the money was dirty.

It’s not that it’s too little, I just feel that if I really accept the money, I will be like Mi Lan said, is he still a person who rides on the horse?

I comforted Wei Zhengjie: "You stay here for the next two days, and I will help you contact your classmate who is a prison guard at the detention center so that you and your son can meet as soon as possible."

Wei Zhengjie nodded and opened his mouth dully, but sighed and said nothing.

He put the money into my hand.

I pretended to smile relaxedly: "This case is the country's legal aid. The country has already given me the money. You don't need to give me any more."

Wei Zhengjie showed a look of fear on his face again: "Lawyer Lu, do you dislike the lack of money? I am a farmer with little education. His mother is sick at home and has been lying in bed for more than ten years. I have settled the house and sat on a hard seat.

Yes, I couldn't control him, and it ended up in this mess... How much do you want, as long as I can save him, I will definitely find a way..."

Wei Zhengjie took the train for more than forty hours just to save some money and gave it to me to help him find a solution. He was not even willing to buy a sleeper ticket.

I didn't expect that Wei Zhengjie's family conditions were so difficult.

"Lu Yao, help Wei Lai."

Mi Lan grabbed the corner of her clothes and sat aside, looking at me with pleading eyes.

Wei Zhengjie's face was ashen, with tears in the corners of his eyes. He rubbed his stiff and tired face with his dark hands.

I looked at the walnuts, picked them up, smashed them open, ate one, and said with a smile: "Master Wei, your walnuts are pretty good. You brought them from so far away, and they are my reward. There are so many, I can eat them for a long time."

, it’s very delicious, Mi Lan, you should try it too..."

Mi Lan hurriedly took it and nodded in agreement: "It's indeed delicious!"

When Wei Zhengjie heard that I didn't want money, he was stunned, and then he knelt down in front of me: "Lawyer Lu, I kowtow to you!"

I quickly supported him and said bitterly: "Master Wei, I am just an ordinary lawyer. The laws and regulations are clearly stipulated. It's not that I won't save your son. I have told you the actual situation. It is true that there is nothing you can do to help..."

When Wei Zhengjie saw that I didn't accept the money, he also said this. He returned to his dull look, as if muttering to himself, or saying to me: "Twenty years, twenty years, that kid

But what to do..."

He, a person who does not understand the law, finally understood that I did not mean to embarrass him, nor did I intend to make dirty money through his son's matter. Everything I told him was true.

When sending Wei Zhengjie to the guest house, Wei Zhengjie had not fully recovered.

I was about to leave after he was settled in a room. Wei Zhengjie lowered his head and silently walked me to the door, and said dryly: "Lawyer Lu, I'll leave it to you..."

I nodded and said that if the detention center informs me, I will take you to see Wei Lai. He misses you too.

After I walked away, I saw Wei Zhengjie turning back in a daze, carrying his plastic urea bag containing clothes.

At this moment, my eyes felt a little sore.

I even think that his back looks similar to that of my father, Lao Lu.
Chapter completed!