When Song Jiaren got off work in the evening and walked out of the law firm, a low-key black car had parked outside the door. Song Jiaren turned her head and glanced at the license plate. It was a government license plate. Then she looked at the driver standing beside the car.
Father Xia's official driver.
"Alas..." Song Jiaren sighed in her heart, knowing that after what happened in the afternoon, she would have to go through this.
"Lawyer Song, our mayor has invited you." The driver had met Song Jiaren two or three times and was quite polite to her. He opened the back seat door for her and invited her to get in the car.
Song Jiaren had no choice but to get into the car with a sigh.
On the way to Xia's house, Song Jiaren had many opportunities to ask for help. Xia Jingze, Xia Ning, An Zhisu, anyone she called could help her stop this Hongmen Banquet. However, she did not tell others that some difficulties were necessary.
She worked with her friends and lovers to overcome it, but she could only deal with this kind of thing by herself. After all, she was the one who would marry Xia Jingze in the future, not anyone else.
Half an hour later, the driver parked the car steadily in the courtyard of Xia's villa. He got out of the car and opened the door for her. Song Jiaren got out of the car, took a deep breath, and walked towards the villa.
"Lawyer Song." When the servants in the villa saw her coming, they bent slightly to greet her.
Song Jiaren smiled at the servant and asked in a low voice: "Where are Uncle Xia and Aunt Xia?"
"The mayor and his wife are both in the study. They have ordered us to wait for Lawyer Song to come and ask you to go to the study." The servant conveyed.
Song Jiaren thanked her: "Then please lead the way."
Song Jiaren has never been to Xia's house, so how can she know which room is the study room.
The servant led Song Jiaren up to the second floor, walked to the study and knocked on the door: "Mayor, Madam, Lawyer Song is here."
"Come in." A steady voice sounded from inside the door.
The servant opened the door for Song Jiaren, and Song Jiaren walked in. The servant gently closed the door outside.
Song Jiaren entered the study and stood at the door without moving. Xia's father and Xia's mother were sitting on the small sofa.
Song Jiaren then walked over and sat down on the single sofa opposite them.
The three of them sat opposite each other in relative silence. Song Jia and Xia Mu had fought many times, and they had learned the tactic of being immovable even if the enemy was immovable. She would not speak if Xia Mu and her father did not speak first.
"It's this again, aren't you usually very articulate?" Xia's mother was dissatisfied with Song Jiaren. She was dissatisfied no matter how she looked at her. She was dissatisfied with her eloquence, and she was dissatisfied with her gentleness and quietness.
Song Jiaren said nothing, with a polite yet awkward smile on her face.
Xia's mother was like a punch on cotton, and she became even more angry: "Don't you know your identity? The case of killing a police officer is so sensitive, why did you take it?"
"I know very well." Song Jiaren answered the call this time, straightened her back and replied: "I am a lawyer, and my duty is to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of my clients and clear my clients' charges and grievances. I'm sorry because
My work has hurt Uncle Xia, but I don't think I did anything wrong."
Xia's mother was choked. It was like this every time. Song Jiaren either didn't speak, or when she spoke, she was speechless. It was precisely because of this that she was becoming more and more lazy to find fault with her.
"As expected of a lawyer, his high-sounding words are good." Xia's father, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke. He has been in a high position for a long time, and even if his tone of voice is very gentle, it will give people a sense of oppression.
Song Jiaren resisted this invisible sense of oppression and objected: "Uncle Xia, what I told is the truth, not a high-sounding lie. My client is currently only a criminal suspect. There are still many doubts in the case. The murderer may be someone else.
.What’s wrong with me accepting such a commission?”
"From your professional perspective, this is not wrong. But the outside world knows that you are Jingze's girlfriend and the Xia family's future daughter-in-law. Based on this misunderstood external relationship, shouldn't you
Will Ze and the Xia family consider it?" Xia's father is not as easy to get angry as Xia's mother. He speaks with great skill and precise words.
Song Jiaren was a little speechless. She had never dealt with officials before, so she didn't know much about Xia's father's tactics. She didn't dare to refute rashly, so she cautiously kept her mouth shut.
Xia's father continued to say calmly: "Do you know why we have always opposed Jingze and you being in love?"
Song Jiaren thought, isn't it because she doesn't belong to the right family? Her ears grew calluses when she heard this reason.
"It's just an excuse because you don't belong to the right family." Xia's father seemed to know what Song Jiaren was slandering. After asking and answering himself, he added: "Actually, I don't like your profession. Lawyers are different from prosecutors in that they undertake business
It’s too complicated, wandering between black and white, and stepping on the bottom line of the law for the sake of the parties involved. You can’t refute this, right?”
Song Jiaren continued to remain silent, but she really couldn't refute what Xia's father said.
Social lawyers and corporate lawyers are different from public lawyers. The first two serve society and companies. They need lawyers to help them find loopholes in laws and regulations. They also need lawyers to help them skirt the edges and occasionally cross the line without causing any major problems.
When the consequences arise, lawyers will help them deal with the aftermath.
Song Jiaren has been a lawyer in the past few years, and has done too many side projects. She has also defended death row prisoners, worked for some companies to get through legal loopholes for money, and even mediated cases for some engineering companies that caused human lives.
, allowing the victim’s family to reduce the big deal to a trivial matter.
No lawyer dares to say that he is absolutely white, not even Song Jiaren, because lawyers themselves exist between black and white.
"If you are a prosecutor like Xia Ning, no matter how ordinary your family background is, as long as Jingze likes it, his mother and I will not object. Or if you are just a girl with an ordinary profession, we will not object either.
But you are not, you are a lawyer. The people you come into contact with and the cases are relatively complicated, and the Xia family cannot bear the most is rumors. I am also sorry about this. As an official, I dare not accept someone who is unclear about right and wrong.
The daughter-in-law of a lawyer who has always been on the edge of the law." There was no blame or force, Father Xia just put the reality in front of Song Jiaren calmly.
Song Jiaren remained silent. She knew that what Xia's father said was right and she couldn't refute it, but she was a lawyer and what she was best at was finding loopholes. Loopholes in the law and loopholes in other people's words. As long as she wanted to, she would be able to find them.
She didn't want to argue with Xia's father, but for her and Xia Jingze's sake, she had to refute Xia's father's words that seemed very reasonable but couldn't bear to scrutinize them.
"Uncle Xia." Finally, Song Jiaren spoke: "I admit that I walk between black and white, and I also admit that I occasionally skirt around the law. But I don't think this is wrong. Everyone, everyone
Every industry has its own rules of survival, and this is the meaning of lawyers’ existence.
Just like you officials, haven't you ever sought personal gain for yourself and your loved ones without violating discipline? Maybe you will be angry if I say this, but I still say it, because these are all connected. You seek personal gain for yourself, not
It means you are not a good official. Just because I exploit legal loopholes for my clients does not mean I am evil."