Chapter 880

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Erhai finished the work at hand and hurried over to Zhang Zhongtian's house.

There he met Zhang Zhongtian.

Zhang Zhongtian had lost a lot of weight compared to before, nearly skin and bones.

It was unclear whether it was due to the lung cancer, or the blow from his son's matter.

Or perhaps, both.

"The course of events is like this......"

Zhang Zhongtian told Wang Erhai the whole course of events in detail.

How his son rode a motorcycle, how he ran a red light, how he hit and killed someone, how unyielding the victim's family's attitude was, simply refusing to settle, and so on.

"The problem now is, the other party refuses to settle, and even clamors for my son to pay with his life, there's simply no way to communicate."

Zhang Zhongtian sighed:

"Compensation I'm definitely willing to pay, even if I have to smash the pot and sell the iron I'm willing to pay, my only demand is don't let my son go to prison, he's already ruined, if he goes to prison, Jia Jun will be ruined along with him."

Wang Erhai nodded:

"Uncle Grandpa Zhang, I can understand your feelings."

Then asked:

"By the way, where did your son's motorcycle come from?"

Zhang Zhongtian said:

"Borrowed from a friend of his, after the incident, his friend hid away, hasn't come to see him even once to this day."

Wang Erhai said:

"Probably just some fair-weather friends, didn't want to take responsibility when trouble happened, so naturally they hid."

At this moment Zhang Zhongtian gripped Wang Erhai's hand:

"Erhai, if you have connections in the County Town, you must help me, I remember when your younger brother tested into Top Scorer, the County's Big Leader even came to your house, do you still have contact with those Big Leaders now?"

Wang Erhai laughed dryly:

"I don't keep in touch with them much, those I do keep in touch with are all business people."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhongtian's face immediately showed disappointment:

"So it is...... but can't blame you either, you and those Big Leaders, really aren't in the same circle......"

At this point Wang Erhai said:

"Uncle Grandpa Zhang, we actually don't need to always think about finding connections and going through the back door, there are many methods to handle matters."

Zhang Zhongtian however chuckled:

"In our remote backward place, without finding connections, how can anything get done?"

Wang Erhai said:

"The problem is we can't find connections right now either, so we have to think of another way, in my opinion, we still have to trust the law, additionally, I feel your attitude toward the victim's family has been too good, to the point that they push their luck."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Zhongtian asked.

Wang Erhai said:

"This is the same as doing business, sometimes if your attitude is too good, the other party will definitely hope to squeeze more benefits from you, so they'll keep testing you, making many excessive demands. Bottom line, they say they won't settle, insist on sending your son to prison, to a large extent, it's because they look down on the compensation amount you offered as too little, wanting you to take the initiative to raise the amount."

Hearing Wang Erhai put it this way, Zhang Zhongtian also felt it made some sense.

This actually isn't a very profound or hard-to-see-through problem, Zhang Zhongtian was just inside the situation, a single leaf blocking the view, so he couldn't see the situation clearly.

"Then what do you say we should do?"

Zhang Zhongtian looked at Wang Erhai and asked.

Wang Erhai said:

"With the current situation, we need a two-pronged approach, one is to grab hold of that person who lent the motorcycle to your son, make him share part of the compensation, two is you stop going to communicate with the victim's family directly, you must find a lawyer as soon as possible, let the lawyer handle the victim's family for you, as for compensation, the attitude must be firmer, clearly set the upper limit of the amount, surface attitude, if the other party disagrees, then let your son go to prison."

Zhang Zhongtian frowned:

"I don't want my son to go to prison."

Wang Erhai hurriedly explained:

"I didn't say to let your son go to prison, just don't show that you really don't want your son to go to prison, the more you show this attitude, the more likely the other party will use this weak spot to manipulate you, understand what I mean?"

Zhang Zhongtian slowly nodded.

Wang Erhai added:

"Even if we take ten thousand steps back and say your son really gets sentenced, with his current condition, the prison probably won't even take him, at most it'll be execution outside prison, as for influencing your grandson and such, that's who knows how many years later, we should still take care of the present matters first, besides, when your grandson grows up he might not even go take the civil service exam, as long as he doesn't take the civil service exam, his dad's matter basically won't have any impact on his life."

Wang Erhai spoke earnestly and at length, only then did Zhang Zhongtian gradually sort out the priorities.

Indeed, before he had shown too much desire to save his son, to the point that the other party pushed their luck.

Not denying his son was at fault first, he also never said he was unwilling to compensate.

But the other party's attitude, it's very obvious they didn't come to solve the problem.

At this time he must be firmer, otherwise he'll really let the other party think he's a soft persimmon easy to manipulate.

"But, what kind of lawyer would be more reliable?"

Zhang Zhongtian didn't know much about the lawyer profession.

So he was very afraid of finding an unreliable lawyer, ending up spending the lawyer fees but failing to help solve the problem.

Wang Erhai said:

"How about I have my big brother help look? My big brother is in Guangzhou; he should be able to find a professional, high-quality lawyer."

Wang Erhai immediately called his big brother Wang Dashan and explained the situation here.

After learning the situation, Wang Dashan said:

"I don't have any connections in the legal field either, but Xiao Juan's side should. She previously hired a lawyer to help her younger brother with a lawsuit. That lawyer is in Guangzhou, quite famous, but the fees are quite high."

Wang Erhai said:

"Then you ask Eldest Sister-in-law first, have Eldest Sister-in-law help make the introduction. We'll talk with him a few sentences first; the matter of price can be discussed slowly later."

So Wang Dashan told Du Xiaojuan about this matter.

Du Xiaojuan introduced the Lawyer Zhang Shaoping she had previously hired to Zhang Zhongtian.

Zhang Shaoping and Zhang Zhongtian had a phone call. After Zhang Shaoping understood the situation, he said:

"Your case, to tell the truth, if you want to avoid compensation, it's absolutely impossible. For the sake of Miss Du's face, I can take your case. As for the fee, I'll give you a discount: 100,000 yuan. What do you think?"

Hearing the figure of 100,000, Zhang Zhongtian couldn't help but feel it was expensive in his inner heart, but he didn't say it out immediately. After all, right now he is the one asking a favor.

He asked:

"If I give you money, what can you do for my son?"

Zhang Shaoping said:

"First, reduce responsibility: I can help your son turn full responsibility into main responsibility. Second, reduce cost: I can help you negotiate to minimize the compensation amount as much as possible. Third, avoid prison sentence: I can make it so your son doesn't go to jail."

Zhang Zhongtian thought for a moment, then finally gritted his teeth and said:

"Alright, then I'll trust you this once. You must absolutely not screw me over. I have lung cancer late stage."

Zhang Shaoping was stunned for a moment. He knew what Zhang Zhongtian's words meant.

If he, Zhang Shaoping, screwed over Zhang Zhongtian, Zhang Zhongtian taking a knife and stabbing him to death was entirely possible.

After all, a lung cancer late stage patient, even if they kill someone, the law can't really do much to them.

After Zhang Shaoping was stunned, he said with a laugh:

"Rest assured, I am a lawyer with professional ethics. I would never screw over a client."