After saying goodbye to Zhao Dezhu and the others, he couldn’t wait to call Zhang Wei.

On the phone, he could clearly hear Zhang Wei’s slightly trembling voice. "Hold steady! You must secure this order! I’ll bring people to Zizhou right away and strive to handle this case well!"

Zhang Wei’s emotions were more intense than ever. That very day, he began to pull together a team, preparing to take on the big case in Stealing Melon Village.

「Meanwhile.」

Zizhou.

In a high-end residential complex, Qing Lan returned home with her best friend, Hu Wenning, after resolving the matter.

"It’s really comfortable to stay at your place," Hu Wenning remarked, lying on the soft sofa. She had returned to the countryside to start a business, only for it to unexpectedly fail halfway through when she encountered a group of rascally elders. Thankfully, with Qing Lan bustling around to help, they finally taught the other party a lesson.

The pumpkin field was now covered with surveillance everywhere. She no longer worried about them continuing the destruction; in fact, she almost hoped they would come and cause more damage. In just five days, the court would hold a hearing for this case. As long as they caused damage, her pumpkins would ensure the other party had to compensate in full.

Unfortunately, it seemed the other party had already been frightened off and didn’t dare cause trouble again.

"Qing Lan, how exactly did you come to know such a powerful friend?" Hu Wenning asked, turning her head from the sofa to look at Qing Lan, who had changed into a nightgown. This time, everything had gone so smoothly thanks to the behind-the-scenes expert strategizing the entire process. If it had been up to her, she could only have thought of methods like getting guard dogs or installing electric fences.

"Hehe, that’s a long story," Qing Lan said with a slight smile. She then recommended Qin Mu’s account on Little Station to Hu Wenning and also suggested the Study Law Alliance Forum.

"Let me tell you, we live in a society governed by law now, and learning more about it can truly help," she said to Hu Wenning very seriously. "I learned it all from following an ’up’ online. There are so many laws and potential charges that you might accidentally violate..."

She remembered the parrot case especially well: because of keeping a parrot, someone had come this close... to being sentenced to twelve years of fixed-term imprisonment! Each of Qin Mu’s videos contained legal knowledge points and advice on how to deal with moral blackmail. The purpose of learning law wasn’t anything else but to protect one’s own legal rights and avoid being unfairly wronged. For instance, the video about lending money detailed a series of steps to follow and also covered potential crimes the other party might have committed, such as the crime of illegally absorbing public deposits.

"Six million followers?" Hu Wenning said, skeptical, as she opened the account named "Qin Mu." The number of followers on the account took her by surprise, and the video titles themselves also made a strong impression on her. The content was even more explosive. After randomly watching a few, she was captivated by the cases presented. There were cases of delivery guys spitting in food, unscrupulous intermediaries with fraudulent contracts, banks misappropriating account balances, and unruly kids scratching cars. All in all, many of the issues were common occurrences, frequently encountered in daily life.

"This ’up’s’ videos are so practical; I’ve encountered several of the issues in these videos before!" Two hours later, Hu Wenning was excited, her face alight with the thrill of discovering a treasure trove. As an entrepreneur, she couldn’t afford a legal consultant, so learning more law herself was very practical. For example, the laws related to the elderly relevant to her current situation, including regulations concerning special prison wards for the elderly and disabled, and so on.

"There are just five days until the court session. Now I won’t be bored staying at your home." Holding her phone, she delved into the videos with utmost seriousness. The Zizhou Court would officially begin the session in five days, and she had been staying at Qing Lan’s home during this time. It was the perfect opportunity to finish watching all of Qin Mu’s videos and study them in-depth. Qing Lan was right. Studying law might not always seem immediately advantageous, but when encountering certain issues, it could provide a broader and more effective line of thought.

「Jin City.」

In the nursing home, Qin Mu also learned from Qing Lan about the trial scheduled in five days. The fact that the case was approved for trial was enough to prove that the actions of the Zhaojia Village elders constituted a crime.

This system task should be completed this time, Qin Mu murmured to himself, somewhat expectant. The difficulty of this task was actually not low. Fortunately, he had found a roundabout way to punish these rascally elders. The completion rate of the system task usually depended on the severity of the punishment—the harsher the punishment, the higher the completion rate.

Next, all he needed to do was patiently wait for the trial in five days.

"Eh? Old Zhang, why aren’t you all going to attend the court session today?" Qin Mu suddenly noticed in the afternoon that Zhang Qingyuan, Li Weiguo, and the others were all staying quietly in the nursing home instead of going to court. Since their ’love for excitement’ gene had awakened, Old Zhang and the others made a daily trip to the court to watch a trial. After returning each day, they would excitedly narrate their observations to the other elderly residents. For them, their usual idle gossip had transformed from discussing the trivial affairs of distant relatives to the various criminal and civil disputes within Jin City, elevating their conversations several notches.

"We wanted to go, but there were no cases in court today," Zhang Qingyuan shrugged, sounding quite helpless.

Actually, it wasn’t just today. After some inquiries, they found that the court’s schedule wasn’t as packed anymore. They heard that the number of disputed cases had significantly decreased; never mind criminal cases, even civil disputes had halved.