When she heard the phone slam shut on the other end, Wang Fang's heart skipped a beat.
Qin Suisui's words made her extremely anxious.
She kept pacing around the living room.
Some time ago, a distant relative found her after much searching, wanting to buy Qin Suisui and her mother's birth charts from her.
Judging from the other party's tone, they wanted to ward off evil spirits and change the fate of her child, hoping that the child could get into a good school next year.
Wang Fang, of course, did not believe the other party's words. She had vaguely heard before that some remote places had some ancient magic.
Those who buy the birth charts are either engaged in ghost marriages or have their fates exchanged.
However, she didn't care at all. The other party gave her five thousand each, and the birth dates of Qin Suisui and her mother brought her an additional ten thousand.
This unexpected windfall made her beam with joy.
Besides, she couldn't be happier for Qin Suisui and her mother to suffer, even if it meant Jiang Hui was dead.
Thinking back to recent years, Lao Qin has mentioned Jiang Hui more and more often in front of him, and his tone is no longer the resentment and disgust of his youth, but more of regret and nostalgia.
Old Qin's feelings and attitude towards her are no longer what they used to be, but she is powerless to change the current situation.
She's almost fifty years old, with no education and no job. She's spent her whole life as a housewife. When she was young, she thought she had found a good man who wouldn't let her work and who controlled all the money in the house.
Only when she reached her age did she realize that everything was fake, and only what she actually possessed truly belonged to her.
But now she feels that the 10,000 yuan she just received is about to no longer belong to her.
"Anything that involves those two women is bad luck! They're such a nuisance!"
Wang Fang walked towards the balcony, cursing. The clothes in the washing machine hadn't been dried yet, and Lao Qin's work clothes were still there.
Looking at today's gloomy weather, if we don't dry the clothes early, Lao Qin won't have any work clothes to change into tomorrow, and he'll start nagging her again.
Qin Zhen was sitting in his office, looking at stock analysis on his computer. He had heard that the stock market was doing well recently, so he invested tens of thousands of yuan. He had nothing else to do every day, so he would glance at the stock fluctuations whenever he had time.
Hearing a text message notification on his phone, he reached for it, picked it up, and casually opened it.
It was a message from Sui Sui. A smile appeared on his lips as he quickly opened the message.
But upon seeing the contents, his expression instantly turned ashen.
He clenched his fist and slammed it heavily on the table.
"Wang Fang, that stupid and vicious woman!"
Fortunately, there was no one else in the office, so no one heard him cursing.
Qin Zhen lost interest in checking stocks and grabbed his keys, striding outside.
Qin Suisui had already considered the outcome of the matter when she sent a message to her father.
There are no explicit legal provisions regarding the buying and selling of birth charts, and aside from verbal and moral condemnation, there are no constraints on people like Wang Fang.
Of course, the police don't have a definitive answer yet, and Ouyang Beiguo has said that he can't say anything to the public for the time being.
She could only let Wang Fang bear the brunt of Qin's father's anger for now, since people of their generation still held a belief in things like fortune telling and astrology.
Both her and her mother's names are on the Qin family genealogy, and now someone has actually bought their birth dates. Not to mention Qin's father, even Qin's grandfather would probably beat Wang Fang half to death with his cane if he found out.
Qin Suisui never bothered with stupid and vicious people like Wang Fang. There was no point in reasoning with them. One thing suppresses another, and before the police officially released the case details, someone would naturally deal with her.
"The Eight Characters!" Qin Suisui frowned, not understanding why the other party wanted her mother's Eight Characters.
She picked up her phone and sent a voice message to her senior, Huo.
"Senior, do you know anyone in the Huating City police force?"
Her phone rang shortly after she sent the voice message.
Qin Suisui picked it up and saw that it was a video request from Senior Brother Huo.
A smile played on her lips, and her mood brightened considerably.
"Senior brother!"
"I'm asking the Huating police, is something wrong?"
Huo Zhongyuan had just stepped out of the elevator when he saw the message Sui Sui had sent him. He opened it and his heart jumped.
Sui Sui rarely asks him for help, so he quickly initiated a video call request.
“Ouyang Beiguo learned some inside information from the police. There is a man in the First Seat who claims to be a master. He once checked my and my mother’s birth dates and times.”
Qin Suisui usually delegates investigations of routine matters to Hong Chang, but her connections with the public security, procuratorate, and judicial authorities are somewhat weak.
"Birth date and time?"
Upon hearing this word, Huo Zhongyuan felt instantly uncomfortable, and his face darkened.
Although he didn't believe in these ancient arts and divination methods, he still felt a sense of disgust towards them.
"Sui Sui, don't worry, I'll have someone investigate right away to find out who this so-called master is and who's behind him."
"Um!"
Huo Zhongyuan's simple words of comfort improved Qin Suisui's mood slightly. It was as if she had someone to support her, and her mind felt more at ease.
Shortly after hanging up the phone, she opened her email and found a new file from Joyce.
She clicked on it and saw Joyce's reply regarding the review of the Four Continents merger.
Joyce's reply essentially meant that he had a good personal relationship with Judge Freeman of one of the states.
Freeman meant that the chances of winning the lawsuit were slim, and his advice was to settle as best as possible because the other party had provided complete and verifiable patent filings.
Qin Suisui read through the entire document without changing her expression. Although she valued the judge's opinion, she didn't take it to heart.
However, the lawsuit mentioned a key word: patent!
She had investigated all the information about the Tonglu Group, and the company's official website had information about patent research and development.
She quickly went online to check the patent application dates related to the Cestar Group and the Tonglu Group.
After finding it, she compared it with the patent dates of the Tonglu Group.
In terms of the retroactive period, the patent validity period of Tonglu Group is longer than that of Xixida Group.
Qin Suisui immediately recalled the relevant legal provisions of Country M in her mind.
She pressed the internal phone button.
"Assistant Yue, please print out the full text of Markman's order for me."
Yue Hongxin was unaware of Markman's orders.
She handed it to Lawyer Qin: "Lawyer Qin, what crucial role does this law play for the Tonglu Group?"
Qin Suisui took the document and looked at it carefully before explaining.
"The Markman Order is a special law of the United States concerning patent rights. Without a jury present, the judge convenes both the plaintiff and the defendant to give a comprehensive interpretation of the scope of use of the patent proposed by the plaintiff. Afterwards, the presiding judge organizes experts to analyze the case and make a final decision."
"Based on the information we have, the patent application by Tonglu Group was filed much earlier than that by Xixida Group."
"Then why would they do that? Aren't they afraid of losing the case?"
Although Yue Hongxin graduated with a law degree, she still lacked basic knowledge of Western law.
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