Who Made Him a Lawyer?

Chapter 475: Chapter 351: Legal ’Drugs’!?

"You must be Old Lv’s defense lawyer, I’ve been waiting for you for ages!"

In the deep mountain forest, a middle-aged man with a bloated body full of fat walked up to Xu Liang. Excitedly, he shook Xu Liang’s hand, his face full of coarse flesh.

Behind him were groups of houses sparsely scattered.

Most of the houses were made of mud bricks, all mud houses, walking into them, it felt like going back to the countryside of the 1960s and 70s.

These houses were spaced very far apart from each other, visiting neighbors might require walking dozens or even hundreds of meters, it seemed completely isolated from the world.

"Are you the village chief of Sanma Village, Village Chief Zhang?"

Xu Liang asked calmly.

Village Chief Zhang said excitedly, "That’s me, that’s me!"

As he spoke, the coarse flesh on his face surged like waves.

"Village Chief Zhang, I’m here in Sanma Village mainly to understand Lv Xiong’s situation, the police should have informed you about what Lv Xiong actually did..."

Xu Liang spoke as he walked into the village.

As he spoke, his eyes scanned around.

Sanma Village was very spacious due to the large distances between neighbors, making it appear vast and sparsely populated.

But even if it’s sparsely populated... there shouldn’t be absolutely no one...

That’s right.

Sanma Village has no people!

Xu Liang’s brows furrowed, the surrounding houses clearly didn’t have many residents, spider webs were everywhere, only occasionally could one see some elderly people with a vacant look.

"I know."

Village Chief Zhang sighed as he spoke, showing a look of lamentation.

"Alas, I never thought Old Lv would just go up the mountain for a hunt... how did it lead to shooting someone!?"

As he spoke, he slapped his thigh, full of emotion, looking very troubled.

Then Village Chief Zhang looked up at Xu Liang and asked, "Lawyer Xu, do you think this case can help Old Lv..."

"There’s no rush, I need to understand the situation first before I can make a judgment."

Xu Liang said calmly, then showed a look as if he just discovered something, looking around in shock:

"Village Chief Zhang, where are all the people of Sanma Village!?"

"Are there so few villagers?"

Hearing this, Village Chief Zhang paused for a moment, laughed awkwardly, and said bitterly:

"Sanma Village used to be quite large, with more than a hundred families, and a population of around six hundred."

"But... you see the environment."

Village Chief Zhang pointed to the environment around Sanma Village.

"This place is so poor not even birds defecate here, the older generations are accustomed to it, but the young people can’t handle it and left long ago."

"They went off to work or got married elsewhere. In a nutshell, the number of people in Sanma Village keeps decreasing."

"Moreover..."

Sighing, Village Chief Zhang continued:

"There are wolves in this place!"

Wolves are particularly numerous in Hanhai City, especially in these barren mountains, in the last century you could even see wolves frequently in ordinary village doorsteps.

Let alone a village like Sanma Village established within those barren mountains.

"Villagers going out to farm occasionally get bitten to death by wolves, not even a corpse can be found."

"While young people leave, the villagers get ’eaten’ by wolves, resulting in fewer and fewer people left in Sanma Village..."

Xu Liang’s face showed an understanding expression. He walked on the rocky and earthen path, then suddenly asked.

"Has Village Chief Zhang ever thought of getting wealthy?"

"Now the country is advocating poverty alleviation and wealth accumulation, with officials going to the countryside to aid poverty, also nationwide infrastructure development."

"Does Village Chief Zhang ever think about building roads?"

The moment these words fell.

Village Chief Zhang’s eyes flashed a hint of unease and nervousness, but he covered it well, only for a moment, Yang Ruoxi and Su Yu did not notice.

But this didn’t escape Xu Liang!

Xu Liang narrowed his eyes, but didn’t speak up, quietly listening to the other’s explanation.

"Poverty alleviation... alas, Lawyer Xu, you wouldn’t know, troublesome people come from impoverished places."

"The officials sent for poverty alleviation were all driven away by the people of Sanma Village, the folks here are lazy and greedy, can’t be helped at all."

Village Chief Zhang seemed to be complaining, saying:

"Years ago, Yang City was to build a road leading to Hanhai City, it could conveniently include Sanma Village, just thinking of changing the plan, letting Sanma Village have a road into the city, but upon hearing it would go past their own doorstep..."

"The villagers, one by one, planted vegetables on the mud roads outside their houses, looking to extort money from the government!"

"They aren’t fools, when hearing this request, they directly bypassed the route and left!"

Hearing this, Yang Ruoxi didn’t know what to say either.

"No wonder that road didn’t reach Sanma Village..." she murmured.

The road was indeed built.

Xu Liang drove on this road to arrive at Sanma Village, only it didn’t go directly to Sanma Village, there was a detour, initially confusing the three.

Now it’s been explained.

"We should go to Lv Xiong’s house first!"

Village Chief Zhang hastily steered the topic back on track, leading Xu Liang towards the depth of the village.

Only...

"No rush."

Xu Liang suddenly stopped, he turned and looked at the buildings on both sides of the road, hidden by trees.

The leaves obscured them, making them vague and blurry.

This was a cement house, with glass windows, sitting in this barren mountain wilderness, looking like it’s standing out.

Seeing this, Village Chief Zhang stopped, his heart skipped a beat, but he still feigned calm.

"That’s the village veterinarian’s clinic, originally Sanma Village raised livestock."

"Nothing to look at, Lawyer Xu, we should get to Lv Xiong’s house quickly..."

But Xu Liang smiled, turning towards the veterinary clinic.

"No rush, no rush, I’ll take a look at the veterinary clinic first."

Village Chief Zhang wanted to stop him, but he didn’t expect Xu Liang would move so quickly, just in the blink of an eye, he had already stepped inside the veterinary clinic.