Chapter 698: Chapter 257 Jin City Lawyer: If I don’t get another case soon, I’ll have to change my profession!_3

She hoped the lawyers her friend found would be reliable.

「Jin City.」

Legal Pioneer Law Firm.

Inside the office, Zhang Wei was dealing with the recent affairs of the law firm. At the moment, his law firm had broken into the Zizhou Market and was rapidly expanding. Compared to the increasingly mundane Jin City, the Zizhou Market was like a vast, undeveloped Red Sea. Following the fame from the previous pumpkin case, they had made considerable progress, and Wang Dachui had become the main person in charge of the Zizhou Market.

However, he was staring at the computer when he casually noticed the Jin City Court’s schedule. It was a common civil dispute. An old person was frightened by an unleashed dog during a walk, and the victim proactively demanded compensation of fifty thousand yuan. Cases like this one happened every day. But he noticed that in the court’s public trial information, the lawyers representing this case were Wang Dachui and Qin Mu!

The name Qin Mu once again sharpened his sense of business opportunity! After thinking it over carefully, he took out his phone and called Wang Dachui. He asked about the case.

"Oh, that case. Qin Mu approached me about it, told me just to lend my name, and it would be fine if I didn’t even show up at the trial," responded Wang Dachui casually on the phone.

"Do you know the specific details of this case?" Zhang Wei frowned and inquired further.

Intuition told him every case related to Qin Mu was not simple. There could be a huge opportunity behind it.

"It seems Old Zhang was chased by someone’s dog, ended up killing the dog, and the other party has been causing a scene demanding compensation ever since. Finally, the police took him away. Qin Mu, out of indignation, decided to seek compensation for the fright caused by the incident..." Wang Dachui thought for a moment, then replied.

This case... Qin Mu had briefly mentioned it when he reached out to him. He was roughly aware of the cause and effect.

"Is the defendant... just one person?" Zhang Wei asked with some disappointment.

"Just one person," Wang Dachui replied.

Hearing Wang Dachui’s reply, Zhang Wei’s expression grew somewhat gloomy. A one-person case didn’t have much potential; at most, they could earn that individual’s lawyer’s fee. There were simply too few cases. By contrast, only those cases with a large number of defendants could bring substantial benefits to their law firm. Moreover, Cheng Chuxiao might not even contact them and might have already found other lawyers. All he could do was wait patiently for the next opportunity to arise.

「Jin City.」

A lawyers’ chat group.

"Good Lord, did everyone see? While checking the court’s schedule today, I found a big case in three days!"

"The plaintiff’s representing lawyer is actually Qin Mu! This is a business opportunity!!"

"But it seems there’s only one defendant—more monks than porridge. Qin Mu is being too kind this time."

"I just checked. Not long ago there was a major case in Stealing melon village, and our Jin City’s Legal Pioneer Law Firm has already stolen a march!"

"There are really too few cases in Jin City now. I opened a small law firm after graduation and haven’t received a case for half a year."

"..."

Someone disclosed the schedule of a case. Then, this schedule was frantically shared among all the lawyers. Soon it became widely known in the lawyer community. Many lawyers were secretly paying attention to this civil claim case. This case was actually quite ordinary. For other lawyers, it wasn’t something they would give a second glance. But the name of the plaintiff’s representing lawyer forced them to take it seriously. Especially for those lawyers who had been starving for half a year. With the intensifying competition and the continuous reduction of cases, they had to find ways to seize firsthand sources of cases. Otherwise, they would really have to change professions. The current environment in Jin City was extremely unfriendly to lawyers. Few cases and tough competition were destined to result in polarization.

"Brothers, don’t bother. I’ve contacted the defendant, and she said she’s already hired a lawyer from out of town."

"I was just about to call and try my luck. What’s with her? Does she look down on us locals?"

"The opponent is Qin Mu. Does she think hiring a few lawyers from out of town is going to help her?" 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"Naive. The result will be the same. It’s just a matter of how much she has to compensate. Those lawyers from out of town don’t understand the terror of Qin Mu."

"There are three days left until the court session. I must go to the scene to watch the drama!"

"..."

Quite a few lawyers, following the idea that even a small mosquito is meat, took the initiative to contact Cheng Chuxiao. But they were told that the party had already found a lawyer. They were somewhat disappointed and started looking forward to the court session three days later. In their eyes, going up against Qin Mu, no matter who the lawyer was, it didn’t make much difference. Qin Mu was like a walking encyclopedia of law. Whether in criminal or civil cases, he had never been defeated. As long as the other party had a civil fault, compensation was a given. It was just a matter of how much.

「Jin City.」

Nursing home.

Over the following two days, Qin Mu, as usual, went to work, helping the elders in the home deal with various matters. He found that ever since he took on the role of legal advisor here, there had been more and more things to do. Originally, it was enough to play chess or cards every day. Now, he also had to provide advice to the elders, allowing them to address their issues effectively and promptly and to avoid being deceived or shortchanged. However, since he taught the elders these methods, the elders in the home had indeed come to understand many deceptive schemes in daily life.