At the same time, Liang Huo also arrived at the police station. After getting off the car, the police officer who had been waiting for a long time trotted over.
After reaching Liang Huo's side, he lowered his voice.
"Captain, there's news from Xiaoliangbu Village. The villagers admitted that they abducted the village's daughter-in-law."
Liang Huo raised his eyebrows but seemed a little surprised: "Admit everything?"
"Well, but..." The police officer looked a little confused. "They only admitted to kidnapping women as wives, not trafficking them. They all complained that the local area was poor and no one would be willing to marry them if they didn't kidnap them, so they had evil thoughts."
Liang Huo instantly understood what the police officer meant. Those people only admitted half of it. Kidnapping and selling are different. First of all, the nature of the crime is not bad enough, so the sentence is much lighter.
Moreover, they did not find any evidence that the villagers of Xiaojiang Village were engaging in human trafficking.
Many of the wives in Xiaoliang Village were abducted and not sold.
But at that time, Brother Long ran away and the leaders of the people in Xiaoliang Village were not caught, so the people who had been sold could not be found at all.
Liang Huo's face looked pale. He pinched his brows as if thinking, and then asked again, "What did Xu Mang say? Did he admit to taking money or was there anyone instigating him?"
Xu Mang was the kidnapper who abducted Lu Yingqian. After being arrested, he refused to say a word. The others were relieved, and Liang Huo was also curious about how Xu Mang would speak.
"Xu Mang said he didn't know about the Lu family or the Song family. He said he wanted to take Lu Yingqian home as his daughter because she was pretty. He said... he hasn't treated Lu Yingqian badly over the years."
Liang Huo sneered: "You have two daughters at home, and you still want to kidnap a girl to be your own daughter?"
Everyone knows that this is a lie, but without evidence, no one can prove its truth.
"What's the verdict there?"
"About five years..." The police officer hesitated. Five years was too short for human trafficking.
But without other evidence, it is impossible to impose a heavier sentence.
"It's... Captain. It seems someone is helping the people of Xiaoliang Village. There's already a lawyer defending them. I heard that the lawyer is well-known in the industry."
Logically speaking, Xiaoliang Village is poor and backward, with few people going to school. How could they possibly have hired a lawyer to defend their case? Even a well-known lawyer in the industry?
"After the lawyer came over, he relented. I guess he made some promise."
A five-year sentence is really not long. If you behave well and do something behind the scenes, you may be released from prison in less than two years.
"Have you found out who hired the lawyer for them?" Liang Huo's eyes darkened completely.
The police officer shook his head: "The lawyer said he provided free legal aid."
"Captain, after all, this happened in S City, so it's not appropriate for us to interfere too much." The police officer's expression was a little complicated.
He also sympathized with the women who were trafficked to Xiaoliang Village, but they belonged to H City.
That unexpected cross-provincial arrest was already a slap in the face to the S City police. If they continued to intervene, it would probably cause internal conflicts between the police on both sides.
Liang Huo knew the police officer was telling the truth. He was silent for a moment and made an excuse: "I'll observe privately to see how it will be handled in the end."
Xiaoliang Village is such a big criminal den. Even if someone from City S has given a heads-up, we can’t just let it go. We should at least give an explanation, right?
"Send me a copy of that lawyer's information."
"Okay, Captain."
Liang Huo strode into the office, and the lawyer's information was quickly sent over. He was indeed a well-known lawyer in the country.
Liang Huo's eyes fell on a certain line of words on the lawyer's information.
"After graduation, I worked as a legal consultant for Longyang Group. After three years, I resigned and started my own studio."
Liang Huo's eyes dimmed slightly, and without hesitation he dialed Lu Jinghuai's cell phone number.
The call was quickly answered.
"Let's chat."
Just two simple words, but the tone was not right. Lu Jinghuai paused, seemed to explain something to Lin Yan, and then returned to the study.
Lu Jinghuai closed the study door, and the surroundings became quiet. Liang Huo also spoke on the phone.
"I'll send you some information, take a look." Liang Huo spoke directly without any nonsense.
Lu Jinghuai said "hmm", turned on the computer and received the information, feeling a little surprised.
There is nothing special about Zhou Shuheng's personal information as a lawyer.
But Liang Huo spoke again on the phone: "News just came from City S that a lawyer there has taken over the case in Xiaoliang Village."
Lu Jinghuai's eyes darkened. After he rescued Lu Yingqian, Lu's lawyer went directly to City S.
The action was not concealed, and people in the circle should more or less know that Xiaoliang Village had offended the Lu family.
Those lawyers who are not stupid will not get involved in muddy water, but this so-called Zhou Shuheng took the Xiaoliang Village case directly and voluntarily.
Without any profit motivation, would volunteering to help human traffickers escape punishment offend the Lu family?
Lu Jinghuai sneered, but looked at the information more seriously. His eyes finally fell on Zhou Shuheng's work experience.
A meal.
"Have you discovered?" Liang Huo asked, "This company looks familiar. Is it related to the Song family?"
"Is he from Shanghai?" Lu Jinghuai's eyes darkened. He glanced at the company address and said directly, "The boss of the Song family is in Shanghai."
The eldest son of the Song family?
Liang Huo probably knew that the Song family had two sons, but the eldest son was adopted out, so the Song family's companies were inherited by the current second son of the Song family, Song Jingya's father.
"It seems that the two families are still in contact privately." Liang Huo tapped the table lightly and changed the subject.
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