Chapter 283 "The Melting Pot" (3)

Liang Chenglei swiped his card to pay, and Zhao Wanxuan held his arm. They left the restaurant together and gradually disappeared from the stage.

It is worth mentioning that this "Luhuayuan" restaurant does not leave any blank spaces in the menu, bill or receipt. When switching camera positions on-site, every close-up is very shot, with every detail showing, and there is no need to worry about any flaws.

"This is all Brother Qiao's hair..." Yang Dong sighed.

Props master Qiao Yuansu sighed bitterly.

"I'll settle the score with him later."

This Qin Jue is also very suitable to be a leader. He talks in one way and is very inflammatory. Unconsciously, he has changed from "making do" to "going all out".

How happy it was to fish in troubled waters in the past.

Now it’s gone forever...

The lights on the stage gradually dimmed as Zhao Wanxuan and Liang Chenglei left, and the big screen lit up again.

The overhead shot of the bedroom moves smoothly downwards, and then switches to a close-up of the bed.

Liang Chenglei hugged Zhao Wanxuan, closed his eyes, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and said softly in a confessional manner:

"That was almost ten years ago..."

Zhao Wanxuan was hugged by him, with only the upper half of her face exposed above her shoulders.

When she heard this, her slightly gloomy eyes immediately became sober.

Liang Chenglei slowly talked about his psychological shadow, that is, that case.

"Actually, this case is not far from the previous one. They are both related to the Xinhua Orphanage for the Deaf and Mute." Liang Chenglei hugged his wife tighter, as if there was still fear left.

Zhao Wanxuan patted his broad back gently.

"Ten years ago, the supervision of welfare institutions such as orphanages was not strict, so there were some caregivers with bad character." Liang Chenglei narrated in a low voice, "The disabled children there were bullied very seriously. There was even a fourteen-year-old girl who was forced to death by multiple people. The deaf-mute boy who committed the murder with a knife became insane precisely because he witnessed the tragedy."

"At that time, the deaf-mute boy contacted a lawyer, but there was a communication problem and he mistakenly took the dean to court."

Liang Chenglei sighed, "We got the wrong person, so we naturally lost the case. The dean said he would fire the bad caregivers and hire a psychologist to treat the children's psychological trauma. It's just..."

"only?"

"You also know that the income source of welfare institutions basically comes from donations. Xinhua is not enough to complete these tasks in a short time." Liang Chenglei closed his eyes and his voice was as low as a whisper, "That mentally disturbed deaf-mute boy, Maybe I thought the status quo had not changed, so I went crazy.”

"...So that's it."

Zhao Wanxuan patted her husband's shoulder and back, comforting him gently.

Within two days, he massacred his companions who lived together in the orphanage, as well as the nurse and the director. If only the latter was killed, it could be explained that the young man had a grudge, but other deaf and mute children were also killed, which does not conform to the basic behavioral logic.

It seems that it was indeed a mental problem that caused the disaster.

"I had just taken office at that time and was not yet skilled in doing things." Liang Chenglei sighed, "I failed to follow up in time after the first case was closed. If it could be handled as soon as possible, maybe it wouldn't..."

"There are always omissions in everything." Zhao Wanxuan comforted softly, "We who study law can only try our best to find the most suitable solution and achieve the greatest justice and fairness. This is what you gave me at the beginning, isn't it? "

Liang Chenglei let out a deep breath, lowered his head and rubbed his lover's neck.

"Go to sleep."

Zhao Wanxuan's voice was soft.

The screen dimmed and then brightened, and the time changed to the next day.

Liang Chenglei was away, and Zhao Wanxuan stayed at home and was busy with work all morning.

She stretched hard and wanted to go back to the bedroom to take a nap. When passing by the cabinet, she remembered the report she had read.

Out of curiosity and occupational disease, Zhao Wanxuan took out the documents from the mezzanine again.

As she looked at it, her expression suddenly felt strange.

"Why is it different?"

Zhao Wanxuan whispered, frowning tightly.

This report has some discrepancies with Liang Chenglei's remarks. At first glance, it does not affect anything, but after careful consideration, it is fatal.

"Something's wrong..."

Zhao Wanxuan took out her mobile phone and took a photo of the entire verdict report, then carefully put it back in place.

She gave up the idea of ​​taking a nap, stepped on her slippers and returned to the study, and looked through the full bookcases line by line.

Liang Chenglei writes year-end summaries regularly, and the banners from different years can also provide clues.

"Ten years ago..."

Zhao Wanxuan's eyes moved very quickly, she quickly found the materials she wanted and pulled out a few folders.

As Liang Chenglei said, he had just taken office at that time and only served in a small town.

"...On X month x, Lawyer Zhan asked me to meet at the 'Luhuayuan' restaurant..."

Hey, this day?

Zhao Wanxuan immediately walked to the living room with the document and found a slightly old but exquisitely styled banner on the wall.

At the same time, Zhang Mu, the director of Xinhua Welfare Home, gave him a banner?

Zhao Wanxuan's intuition was a little strange.

She launched an investigation into this old case without telling Liang Chenglei.

With the help of some friends, Zhao Wanxuan learned that the defendant's defense lawyer in the first bullying and sexual assault case that year was none other than Zhan Changqing.

This name is not unfamiliar to her. Zhan Changqing is a well-known gold medal lawyer, and he still has a high reputation and trust in the industry today.

How could the judge have dinner with one of the defense lawyers shortly before the trial?

Zhao Wanxuan's pupils shrank slightly.

She subconsciously thought of several possibilities, but out of professionalism and trust in her husband, she did not jump to conclusions easily.

It happened that Zhao Wanxuan's office had a business trip planned recently, so she took advantage of this opportunity to visit the Xinhua Deaf Children's Welfare Home.

"Oh? It's a flashback plus an interlude."

Yue Yang became somewhat interested.

Obviously, the chaotic interview video at the beginning is a real record of Zhao Wanxuan collecting information.

The plot is just the beginning, and viewers with more movie-watching experience can already roughly guess what is going on.

The deaf-mute young man "Qin" who committed the crime was most likely unjust. His tragic situation was probably inseparable from the then judge Liang Chenglei, the dean Zhang Mu, and the lawyer named Zhan Changqing.

However, there are still many mysteries in this story.

For example, why did "Qin" kill other deaf-mute children and even cruelly dig out their hearts?

His behavior of collecting these hearts, putting them in plastic lunch boxes, and burying them in the backyard was even more bizarre and could not be explained by common sense.

"Is it because the dean is taking the blame?"

Zhu Zishu pondered.

"It's not like that." Yue Yang shook his head beside him, "The dean was also killed in the second case, so the timeline doesn't match up."

"Yo, it's coming."

While the two were speculating, the scene in the video of Zhao Wanxuan running around disappeared, and the lights on the stage turned on again.

"What? This is..."

Zeng Xinhuiqin, who closed her eyes and "skipped" the mistake on the spot, just watched the movie again, was stunned for half a second and smiled.