Because of an injured hand, Joshua Dalle's life has become very inconvenient. If he was alone, he would be able to cope with it, but there is a sister Roxie Dalle who has not yet recovered.

This is a bit stretched.

In order to prevent the tragedy of the brother and sister starving to death in the old house, they stayed in the hotel where Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan were staying for the past two days.

While on bail, Joshua Dale will be subject to many restrictions, such as not being able to leave the urban area where he lives at will, and not being able to meet victims or witnesses to prevent collusion in confessions.

Even relatives of the victim, old Mrs. Kitty Bell, such as the boy who poured boiling water on her that day, cannot go to see her without permission.

But contact between him and his lawyers is unrestricted.

Boom boom boom——

The door to Yan Suizhi's room rang.

With such a rude and noisy knock on the door, I knew it was Joshua Dale.

Yan Suizhi was sitting on the sofa chair by the window, relaxing his injured leg, supporting his chin, and looking through the case materials with a calm face.

Hearing the sound, he said without raising his head: "Come in."

This state was almost exactly the same as when he was in the dean's office.

Gu Yan, who was sitting opposite him, was replying to an email. When he heard these words, he paused with his fingers and raised his eyelids.

Yan Suizhi turned another page and noticed Gu Yan's eyes, "What?"

After saying this, he finally came to his senses, laughed dryly, picked up the remote control on the table, pressed the door button, and added an explanation: "I thought I was still in Decama, and I forgot that the hotel rooms here are not voice-activated."

Gu Yan withdrew his gaze coldly and continued to reply to the email in his hand.

Professor Yan Da felt happy in his heart. Fortunately, his explanation was quite natural.

"Why did you call me here?" Joshua Daler started to complain as soon as he entered the door. He scratched his hair and said irritably: "Again, you want to ask about what happened that night?"

He didn't have a high-end gadget like a smartphone. Fortunately, the hotel room had internal communication, so Yan Suizhi only had to move his fingers to interrogate this kid.

"What do you think? Otherwise, what else could I ask you?" Yan Suizhi put down the holographic page in his hand.

"Just like this, you have asked this question 800 times in the past two days." Joshua Daler was very reluctant, and even walked a little heavier.

"Come on, stop struggling to your death, it's useless." Yan Suizhi raised the corner of his mouth and patted the third chair, signaling him to sit down obediently.

Asking Joshua about the incident and his movements at that time was what Gu Yan had been doing for the past two days.

According to the regulations of the Alliance Lawyers Industry, a third party must be present when a court lawyer meets with a client. There is no restriction on the identity of the third party. It can be an assistant, an intern, or a solicitor. The original intention is to guard against some lawyers

In order to win the case, some less than legal means are used.

Of course, it's actually useless.

Because Yan Suizhi's leg was injured, it was difficult to move around, and Gu Yan didn't want to be blinded by his limping around at such a slow speed, so the place to ask Joshua was decided to be in Yan Suizhi's room.

Gu Yan replied to three work emails crisply, raised his eyes and stared at Joshua and said: "Even if I have asked you 800 times, I still need you to promise me that everything you said is the truth."

Joshua snorted, rolled his eyes and raised his hands: "Of course it's the truth. Why did I lie to you? I didn't steal anyone's things. If I said it wasn't me, it wasn't me."

Yan Suizhi thought for a while and added: "I think it is necessary to remind you that according to industry regulations, lawyers have a duty of confidentiality. We have the right and obligation to keep what you said confidential."

To what extent should confidentiality be maintained? For example, if a client is accused of intentional homicide, but the police have been unable to find the murder weapon. Even if the client confesses to the lawyer how the murder weapon was disposed of, the lawyer cannot tell the police.

This thing sounds very strange, and in the eyes of ordinary people, it is even worse.

Some people carry out this express duty without difficulty, while others always struggle and feel uneasy.

Yan Suizhi once joked with people that this is a devil's law, which is black, dark, contrary to the simplest morality, and disgusting. But the reality is that only under the framework of this law, the devils will say

the truth.

Yan Suizhi gave Joshua Dale a reassurance for the 800th time and said slowly: "So -"

"So I hope I don't have any scruples. Whatever I say, even if it involves some very bastard content, it will be kept confidential." Joshua finished for him in an endorsement-like tone without any fluctuation, and muttered: "I know.

, my ears can hear the calluses answering."

Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan were each calmer than the other, and it was common for him to have such an impatient attitude.

"So what did you do from the afternoon to the evening of the 21st?" Yan Suizhi asked, comparing the existing information on the case.

"I had a conflict with someone while working that day, and my cheekbone was injured. I received an additional compensation of 100 xi, and I was able to finish work early and leave the construction site, and got a half-day holiday..."

His face was swollen, he was holding the money again, and his mood was subtle. It was hard to tell whether he was more depressed and irritable, or whether he was more surprised by the extra money.

Or maybe the contradiction itself is sad.

He touched his cheekbones and licked the taste of blood. He went home and took a short nap. Then he went out with money and went to the small jewelry wholesale shop in the alley to buy a pair of pearl earrings for 68 xi.

Then he went up to Kitty Bell's wall with his pair of cheap but pretty pearl earrings.

"Why did you spend 68 cents to buy that pair of earrings?" Gu Yan asked.

Although this question has been answered many times, Joshua still remains silent for a few seconds before answering each time.

"...because I dreamed about my grandmother when I was sleeping in the afternoon." Joshua said.

"Why do you dream about grandma?"

"...who knows."

Maybe the slapped cheekbone suddenly hurt more than every wound in the past, or maybe the 100 xi compensation suddenly made him feel aggrieved and boring...

During his short sleep, Joshua dreamed of his grandmother, who had been dead for several years.

He dreamed that he was standing in a small kitchen, cooking leaf porridge for his sister. It was raining heavily outside, and the water droplets on the eaves became curtains.

Grandma stood under the eaves outside the kitchen window to take shelter from the rain, looking at him kindly.

He opened the window and said to his grandmother: "It's raining heavily outside and the eaves can't stop it. Why are you standing here? Come inside quickly."

Grandma touched the wet corner of her clothes, glanced into the room again, smiled gently and said, "I'm not going in, I just want to see you."

Joshua was a little anxious, "Come in, come in quickly, the rain is going to hit you."

Grandma still smiled and did not enter the door.

In the dream, he didn't know why he was so anxious to let his grandmother into the house, and he didn't know why he was so sad.

He woke up in that intense sadness, lay on the bed for a long time with red eyes, and then suddenly wanted to buy a pair of pearl earrings.

Because several years ago, before my grandmother passed away, she said that she had always wanted a pair.

"Why did you climb the wall of Kitty Bell's house?" Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan still asked in turn.

"Because when she was sitting in an armchair, knitting a scarf by the light, she looked very much like her grandmother..." Joshua said, "The reading glasses are very similar, the movements are very similar, and the whole profile is very similar."

Sometimes he suddenly missed his grandmother, so he would squat on the wall and watch her for a while without saying a word under the cover of the night and the moisture on the windows.

That day, he impulsively bought pearl earrings, and when he walked home, he realized that he had no grandmother to give him these earrings.

So he took advantage of the night to climb up the wall of Kitty Bell's house again. This time he didn't just watch, but quietly jumped into the yard. He hung the small black velvet bag with the pearl earrings by the door.

Who knows, but there happened to be a robbery at Kitty Bell's house that night, and the velvet bag containing the earrings was blown to the ground by the wind.

With no other conclusive clues about his identity, the velvet bag happened to become an important evidence of the crime. The alley was messy and old, and there were no usable cameras, but the police tracked down the store selling pearl earrings and called up the store's surveillance. Joshua bought it.

The earring process is clearly monitored.

Later, the traces of mud on the soles of Joshua's shoes confirmed that he had entered Kitty Bell's house...

All in all, the evidence points to Joshua.

"Let me confirm again, when did you leave the yard?" Gu Yan said.

Joshua: “It’s less than 7:30.”

The robbery occurred between about 7:50 and 8:10. It would be nice if this time difference could be proven.

This is also their best breakthrough, as long as they can prove that Joshua left the yard early.

Unfortunately, there were no cameras installed in the alley, and no one was passing by at the time. Likewise, no one could give Joshua an alibi for that time.

"It would be nice if there was a camera." Yan Suizhi clicked his fingertips with a slight regret, "It's a pity..."
Chapter completed!