Are You Crazy? He’s only an Intern Lawyer?
Chapter 339 - 337: Sea of Documents? Discovered a Suspicious Point

Chapter 339: Chapter 337: Sea of Documents? Discovered a Suspicious Point

Saturday, an overtime day.

Jincheng Law Firm, Criminal Department office.

The likelihood of newcomers coming to work overtime was almost none.

Even among the veteran employees, not many worked overtime on Saturdays.

As expected, within the entire 25th-floor office area, there was only Zhang Wei.

Ding!

The elevator door opened, and then a female clerk hurried in.

Jincheng Law Firm was substantial in size, so even on weekends, there were clerical assistants on duty.

"Lawyer Zhang, someone has delivered documents," said it was from Xianfeng Medical Technology, but..."

"But what?"

Zhang Wei walked out of his office, looking puzzled.

"But, there are quite a few documents..."

"Many?"

Zhang Wei was stunned for a moment, then went downstairs with the female clerk.

What he saw was that the square in front of the Jincheng Building was occupied by three whole transport trucks.

Inside the trucks were all large cardboard boxes, each one meter in length and width, all filled with documents—bound, unbound, organized in folders, and even sealed in envelope bags, varied in type.

"With three trucks full of documents, are they trying to bury me in a sea of paperwork?"

Zhang Wei instantly understood the scene before him.

Although he had requested many documents from Chen Xianfeng, it wasn’t this many.

And by the look of it, he had apparently emptied out the entire archive room of Xianfeng Medical Technology.

Of course, these large corporations have their ways of dealing with document inspections.

Most of these documents were likely meaningless, with very few containing any leads.

No one would be foolish enough to expose their company’s core confidential documents.

But among these documents, there could very well be what he needed, it was just going to take time to sift through and review them.

However, that wouldn’t trouble Zhang Wei; after all, what he had in abundance was time!

"Come on, gentlemen, please help me move these documents upstairs, to the 25th floor, into the Criminal Department’s office!"

It took an hour for the delivery staff to bring the files up.

When Zhang Wei returned to the Criminal Department office, more than half of the entire office was filled with boxes of documents.

Seeing all these boxes, Zhang Wei muttered to himself, "What a haul."

"Looks like another sleepless weekend ahead!"

As he spoke, Zhang Wei, very fashionably, took out his mobile phone, opened his social media, and began recording.

After capturing all the boxes of documents, he added a caption.

The video was uploaded, and he clicked to post.

[This weekend, it’s another two all-nighters! Photo attached: Three full trucks of document boxes.]

Social media update.

Not long after, many new messages popped up in response to the update.

Zhang Wei browsed the documents for a while before opening his phone.

[Xiao Baihe: Damn, they really dared to give you so many documents!]

[Mo Yuzhu: Damn!]

[Xia Qianyue: Damn!]

[Li Yueqin: Damn!]

[Lin Yumeng: >_<]

[Zhao Xiaoxiao: Damn! Will the little fool from the Lin Family please keep in formation!]

[Lin Yumeng: --! @Zhao Xiaoxiao]

[Jessica: How amazing!]

[Tie Ruyun: Damn!]

[Zhao Qingyan: ???]

[Luo Xiaobu: Damn, it would take me a year to get through these documents!]

Seeing these comments on his social media, Zhang Wei smiled slightly.

But he was somewhat surprised that his second daughter and his apprentice also had friends.

However, thinking about the girls’ family backgrounds, he understood.

The Lin Family and the Zhao Family obviously knew each other.

A smile appeared on Zhang Wei’s face, and he replied to each friend’s message, then started digging into the files again.

Time flew by like this.

Zhang Wei spent the entire Saturday, including the night and Sunday morning, within Jincheng Law Firm.

For this, he sent many apologetic messages to his second daughter.

Of course, when the younger daughter saw so many documents, she was very generous in choosing to forgive him~

Sunday noon.

It was the grumbling of his stomach that rescued Zhang Wei from the sea of documents.

To focus on reading the documents, Zhang Wei reluctantly ordered some takeout, and then continued to be busy.

Once the takeout arrived, he quickly wolfed it down and buried his head back in the documents.

By two in the afternoon, he finally made some headway.

"Found it!"

Accompanied by a shout, Zhang Wei jumped up.

He looked at the stack of documents in his hand, his expression incredibly excited.

"This must be the record of that day’s meeting. Let’s see, it has 136 pages in total, how come only 25 are left, where are the remaining 111 pages?"

This document was a record of a high-level meeting.

But because it lacked so much content, the recollections of the speeches and discussions were all disjointed.

Generally speaking, large companies have dedicated document backups for meetings, and if the records are important, clerks would check the completeness of the records before archiving them.

So why was this backup missing so much?

Out of more than 130 pages of content, 111 pages were missing, but why?

And it was a high-level meeting, no less, with the timing coinciding precisely with Dr. Qian Zhisui’s major breakthrough in the laboratory.

Zhang Wei was certain that this document must be discussing the results of Qian Zhisui’s research.

And the missing part was what Chen Xianfeng didn’t want Zhang Wei to see.

"If I confront Chen Xianfeng with this incomplete meeting record, would he admit it?"

Zhang Wei murmured to himself, then shook his head.

Of course, he wouldn’t admit it!

By then, he would have thought of any excuse for them.

Such as poor custody, or the documents being lost.

That the archive was infested with mice those days, and the documents got damaged.

Or maybe the recording clerk was careless and "accidentally" lost over a hundred pages of the documents...

Wait!

The recording clerk!

The meeting’s recording clerk!

A light bulb went off in Zhang Wei’s mind as he suddenly thought of something.

That’s right!

Although it’s the era of multimedia office work, whether in court or the workplace, there are positions like clerks, secretaries, and stenographers.

They are responsible for keeping records, naturally including the minutes of the meeting!

In other words, even if Chen Xianfeng and the others have forgotten the content of the meeting, the recording clerk might still know.

And on the first page of the meeting records, the attendees were listed, and the recording clerk was also marked in the notes section.

Zhang Wei narrowed his eyes and saw the name.

But soon after, he suppressed his excitement.

"No, I can’t be too happy yet. That clerk is an employee of theirs, and even if she’s summoned, she might not tell the truth. Moreover..."

In Zhang Wei’s mind, he considered dozens of ways to keep someone from talking.

The worst, of course, would be... to silence someone permanently.

Although he didn’t want to assume the worst of people, if Zhang Wei found a breakthrough that could destroy Chen Xianfeng’s everything,

What would Chen Xianfeng do to preserve himself?

For a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate, a personal fortune of billions, to protect his status and wealth, what kind of heinous things would he do?

Did Chen Xianfeng climb to this position simply by his own hard work? Not likely.

Give me a break, okay!

How many of those who have climbed to such a position have a clean background?

"It looks like I’ll have to look elsewhere... wait, didn’t the younger daughter find something? Now is the era of the internet, the age of digital media. Even if the paper documents are deleted, could there be files left in their database..."

Zhang Wei suddenly had an idea, immediately took out his phone, and sent a message to Zhao Xiaoxiao.

[Zhang Wei: Second girl, did you find the materials on Xianfeng Medical Technology that I asked you to look for?]

[Zhao Xiaoxiao: Don’t you know who I am? I am the Tianwang Hacker/Tactical Fadeaway]

[Zhang Wei: So you found them?/Confused]

[Zhao Xiaoxiao: Obviously/Hmph]

[Zhang Wei: Then can you check if there is a record like this one, attach image.jpg]

[Zhao Xiaoxiao: Oh, let me see~]

[Zhao Xiaoxiao: Got it, but they deleted the file from the backup library, do you need me to recover the data?]

[Zhang Wei: That would be great; please do recover it/Happy]

[Zhao Xiaoxiao: I can recover it, but remember, the data I got was dragged out through illegal hacking. I believe these files can’t be used as evidence in court, right?/Confused]

[Zhang Wei: Heh, you’re not thinking broadly enough/Sneaky]

[Zhao Xiaoxiao: ??? /scratching head]

[Zhang Wei: It’s quite simple. If I take the files you restored as evidence, and if Chairman Chen wants to contest this by saying the way we obtained the files was illegal, he would first have to admit that those documents were indeed from his company’s internal database. Once he admits that the documents exist, then the files he gave me on Friday weren’t all the documents, and he would be indirectly admitting to obstructing justice by not providing all the files, which is illegal!]

[Zhang Wei: So, I’m just waiting for him to refute my point /sly]

[Zhao Xiaoxiao: You are so bad /sly]

[Zhang Wei: It takes one to know one~ /reaching an understanding]

[Zhao Xiaoxiao: Yuck, I would never stoop to your level! /hmph]

Seeing Zhao Xiaoxiao’s last message, Zhang Wei smirked slightly, suddenly feeling a surge of motivation.

"Right, better have a double insurance!"

He thought of something else and immediately contacted another person.

[Zhang Wei: Old Xiao, wanna hang out this weekend?]

[Xiao Baihe: Ha, this weekend, are you asking me out?]

[Xiao Baihe: You want me to accompany you looking through those piles of documents, get lost /angry]

[Zhang Wei: Old Xiao, why would you think so poorly of me? I just want to stroll around Dongfang Capital with you, and maybe have dinner together, no other intentions /sincere]

[Xiao Baihe: Get lost, nobody believes you!]

[Zhang Wei: Old Xiao, really, I’ve finished going through those documents, I just want to treat you to a meal]

[Xiao Baihe: Don’t even, you’re definitely up to something dirty /distrustful]

[Zhang Wei: How about this, then? Let’s bring Silly along; you’ll feel at ease with her there, right?]

[Xiao Baihe: Have her join us?]

[Xiao Baihe: Well, that I might consider...]

[Zhang Wei: Great, then it’s settled. You agreed. Let’s meet here in 1 hour [location]

[Zhang Wei: Don’t be late~]

Zhang Wei closed the chat window before Xiao Baihe could argue.

He then called Xia Qianyue directly, asking her to come out this weekend.

Xia Qianyue of course had time; recently she didn’t have to report to the Major Crimes Unit on weekends, and she even went for special training at Zhang Xinwu’s place that morning.

Delighted at the thought of Zhang Wei asking her out to eat, she felt quite cheerful inside.

...

hour later.

Central Ring, near a certain apartment complex.

When Xiao Baihe arrived, she found Zhang Wei and Xia Qianyue already waiting for her downstairs.

She was dressed in a versatile casual dress with a sun hat, appearing just like the girl next door, youthful and beautiful.

Of course, her aura was so forbidding to strangers that most would probably not dare to approach her.

Xiao Baihe, seeing Zhang Wei joking and laughing with Xia Qianyue, frowned deeply, her face cold.

"So why are we meeting here?"

"Because we are waiting for someone!" Zhang Wei chuckled, amused.

"Waiting for someone? Who did you invite, that blonde chick?"

Hearing Zhang Wei had invited someone, Xiao Baihe immediately thought of Jessica.

Then she glanced at Xia Qianyue’s flat chest and then down at her own slightly more prominent curves.

Comparing herself to that blonde woman with her ample assets.

No comparison, no comparison...

Nice one, Zhang Wei. I thought you wanted to meet with me, and Silly was just an addition, but I didn’t expect you to be so bold!

Today, I, Xiao Baihe, must...

"Here she comes!"

Just as Xiao Baihe’s thoughts raced, Zhang Wei suddenly pointed in a certain direction.

Xiao Baihe looked where he was pointing and saw a woman dressed in home attire walking over.

"Who is this?" Xiao Baihe asked instinctively.

"She’s the person I wanted to meet!"

Zhang Wei grinned and immediately approached her.

"Ms. Huang, hello there!"

The woman, caught off guard by Zhang Wei’s greeting, was taken aback.

And Zhang Wei just smiled amiably, conversing with the woman for a while.

minutes later.

In an apartment at a certain level, in the woman’s home.

Zhang Wei, Xia Qianyue, and Xiao Baihe looked at the woman with distinct expressions.

"Ms. Huang, you are the Executive Secretary at Pioneer Medical Technology, and I believe you were the one taking minutes at the meeting a month ago, right?"

"It was me..."

The woman looked down, speaking somewhat shyly.

"Ms. Huang, don’t be scared. I just want to ask you, during that time, including Chairman Chen and other group executives, what was their reaction to Dr. Qian Zhisui’s breakthrough in Parkinson’s disease research?"

"This... I can’t say..."

The woman hesitated, as the company had imposed a gag order.

Anyone who dared to speak would be fired, and blacklisted from the industry.

She still had a mortgage on her apartment to pay, a burden she shared with her husband; already under great pressure, losing her job would mean losing her home as well.

"Ms. Huang, if you don’t tell us today, then when I summon you next Monday, you’ll have to speak. And if you lie in court, or choose to conceal the truth when you know it, that constitutes perjury, which could land you in jail!"

"It... it can’t be that serious..." The woman was immediately stunned.

"This is Prosecutor Xiao Baihe from the Procuratorate Headquarters. If what I just said isn’t right, she would have corrected me!" Zhang Wei pointed at Xiao Baihe and laughed, "Heh, heh."

Though Xiao Baihe disapproved of Zhang Wei’s tactics of threatening the woman, she too was curious about what the woman knew, so she did not interrupt him.

No interruption meant tacit agreement.

Seeing Xiao Baihe’s icy expression and Zhang Wei’s somewhat threatening gaze, the woman finally couldn’t withstand the psychological pressure.

"I... I don’t remember much, I just remember that Chairman Chen and the others were initially very happy, he even laughed himself, but his smiling face suddenly turned sour..."

"Why did it turn sour?"

"Because at that moment, the Finance Director suddenly mentioned something about profits, and then everyone fell silent..."

"Profits, you mean the impact on the revenues of Pioneer Medical Technology if the PD project is successful and Parkinson’s disease can be cured all at once, right?"

"Yes."

"You remember basically what they meant, don’t you?"

"Chairman Chen was the first to stop smiling, then everyone stopped, and then after the Finance Director spoke, Chairman Chen asked a question, and the Finance Director made a phone call."

After a moment of recollection, the woman slowly said, "After that, it seemed like finance provided a report. After Chairman Chen saw the report, he looked very upset!"

"After that, Chairman Chen asked everyone else to leave and only kept the Finance Director, the R&D Director, and the CEO. They had a small meeting about how to..."

The woman paused slightly in her speech.

"The content of their discussion, wasn’t it about how to hinder the research progress and sabotage Dr. Qian Zhisui’s research?"

"Yes... They felt that the disease not being cured would be more profitable than a cure, and they even said corporate profits outweigh everything else."

The woman hung her head low and revealed the company’s secret.

"Oh, so that’s how it is!" Zhang Wei feigned enlightenment, though he had anticipated this all along.

"That’s despicable!"

Xiao Baihe snorted coldly, feeling somewhat irritated.

So it was like this!

This case, it turns out, was riddled with squalid affairs.

The people at Pioneer Medical Technology were ten thousand times more sordid than Zhang Wei!

"Ms. Huang, if I ask you to testify in court next week, would you be willing?"

"That, can I refuse..."

"Of course you can, but the question is, can you really refuse?"

Zhang Wei smiled, his smile enigmatic.

The woman lowered her head and dared not speak anymore.

Five minutes later, Zhang Wei and his party bid farewell to the woman.

Downstairs at the apartment building.

Zhang Wei and the two others got ready to leave.

"Let’s go, let’s eat. I’ve reserved a spot at Dongjiang Star; just the three of us. Time to have a feast this weekend!"

"You’re in a good mood, inviting us to Dongjiang Star?"

Xiao Baihe put her hands on her hips, looking incredulous.

"Of course, who else but me is about to win a case?"

Zhang Wei smiled faintly, and Xiao Baihe’s face suddenly became a picture of intrigue.

Yes, what that woman said just now was a huge help to Zhang Wei.

Damn it!

If that woman testifies in court, won’t the case be turned upside down again?

Xiao Baihe felt aggrieved in her heart; Zhang Wei indeed had ulterior motives, bringing her out to eat—for this.

"Let’s get going, let’s get going~"

Zhang Wei said, pushing Xia Qianyue and Xiao Baihe toward the nearest subway station.

But just before he left, he glanced meaningfully at a corner.

In the corner.

A man in black took out his phone and made a call.

"Boss, there might be a change in the situation!"

"The lawyer I was surveilling, he seems to have approached someone from the company today!"

"I understand, I’ll handle it, rest assured!"

"Next Monday, that woman definitely won’t be able to speak!"

After hanging up, a sharp gleam crossed the man in black’s eyes, and he too headed toward the apartment building in front.