Chapter 342: Chapter 235: Is This Legal!? It’s Absolutely Legal!

"Teacher, I remember that you were involved in the refinement of laws and touched upon the special statute of ’emergency avoidance’?"

On the phone, Xu Liang smiled as he spoke.

Upon hearing this.

Wu Chengjun’s heart tightened as if the other party’s tone had turned into a giant hand gripping his heart.

"Why are you asking this!?"

Wu Chengjun said in a deep voice.

As he spoke, he felt a hint of malice...

"Nothing, it’s just that I thought of this out of boredom and curiosity got the better of me, so I wanted to ask you."

Xu Liang grinned with a cheerful smile.

Emergency avoidance is a very special statute.

Simply put, when your life is threatened, and you commit illegal acts to survive, you can avoid being held accountable afterward!

For instance, if you’re lost in the mountains and about to starve to death.

In such a case, even if you kill a panda, it would comply with the statute and you wouldn’t need to be held accountable!

Of course, the premise is that you can actually defeat the panda...

"What are you curious about?"

Wu Chengjun suddenly felt something amiss, glancing at the group of students passing by him, full of respect in their eyes.

He now faintly sensed something ominous.

That is...

His reputation inexplicably dropping!!!

Indeed.

Previously, people at the school would only see him as a traditionalist, perhaps not with a good reputation, but at least appearing honest and upright.

But, for some reason recently... his reputation plummeted, from high and unsullied to a "litigation maniac" teacher!

Joking aside, doesn’t Wu Chengjun know better whether he is a litigation maniac?

He definitely is not!

But he felt the need to do something to mitigate the reputation, hence his sensitivity to such matters recently, especially when Xu Liang inquired about the statute...

"You kid, don’t tell me you’ve forgotten what emergency avoidance is!" Wu Chengjun said gravely.

Xu Liang said, "I just forgot what kind of original intention you had when you revised emergency avoidance... Can you talk to the students about the academic documents of those years?"

Upon hearing this.

Though Wu Chengjun felt it strange, he didn’t think much of it and simply replied:

"Emergency avoidance, this is..."

Behind this statute hides a mundane academia, with no less than a thousand words.

It’s just that...

Xu Liang only listened for a while, then suddenly said:

"Teacher, I think your understanding of this statute might not be thorough!"

Wu Chengjun: ???

Hmm?

"Wh... what do you mean?" Wu Chengjun was stunned, and even stopped his steps, halting right in the campus.

Isn’t emergency avoidance the statute revised by him and others?!

How can there be someone in the entire Eastern Country who understands emergency avoidance better than him!?

Xu Liang, holding the phone, had a coaxing tone.

"You should focus on comparing the protection in a certain extreme environment with the consequences, then judge whether emergency avoidance..."

Wu Chengjun was even more puzzled, hesitated for a long moment, and said:

"Isn’t this... isn’t this similar to what I said?"

It’s almost the same as what was narrated, if there’s any difference... it can only be more detailed, and just for this one law!

"Haha, after all, I’m your student...." Xu Liang had a naive smile on his face, even though the other party couldn’t see it.

"So... what do you want by asking me this?" Wu Chengjun frowned.

"Teacher, I need your original academic manuscript!"

Xu Liang bluntly stated, paused, and then added.

"Oh, it’d be best if you could add a ’detailed supplement’ based on what I just mentioned."

"Why do you need this?"

"No reason."

"Really no reason!?"

"Really nothing! At most, it’s just to make legal literacy accessible to others..."

Xu Liang’s face showed no sign of guilt.

Wu Chengjun was silent for a long while, eventually sighed and said:

"Alright, I’ll sort it out and send it to you, boy, give me an address."

"Sure."

Xu Liang smiled, then pushed his luck further by asking:

"Right, do you know anyone related to ’public safety hazard crimes’?"

"I do, why?" inquired Wu Chengjun, puzzled.

"Oh, if you do, could you also send me their original draft... Of course, I’m particularly interested in understanding what circumstances constitute a public safety hazard."

Xu Liang explained.

Wu Chengjun was even more clueless.

But it wasn’t something difficult for him, so he simply agreed.

"Alright, I’ll send it to you in a couple of days."

"Thank you, teacher, I won’t disturb you any longer."

After saying that.

Xu Liang directly hung up the phone, revealing a satisfied smile on his face.

Turning around.

He unexpectedly found Su Yu and Yang Ruoxi behind him, looking at him with a strange gaze.

Xu Liang immediately concealed his expression, casually slipping his phone back into his pocket.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something dirty on my face?"

Upon hearing this.

Yang Ruoxi couldn’t help but say, "There is something dirty."

Xu Liang was puzzled, as he was quite attentive to hygiene, how could there be something dirty on his face?

But Yang Ruoxi remained silent, just looked at him with an eye full of apprehension.

After a long while, she finally spoke:

"Honestly, can you really pull this off?"

Truth be told, citing references is not unheard of, and it frequently appears in various courts!

After all, in Eastern Country’s script, the same wording can have multiple interpretations!

Without a fixed reference answer, there’s a great chance of misuse, so the people who refine laws often leave their reasons for refining them, though it’s not like a committee and lacks legal effect, it can still be called auxiliary material!

If it was personally spoken, then its importance would increase!

However...

"Can this answer be further refined and improved!?" Yang Ruoxi was shocked.

"Why not!?"

Xu Liang retorted, full of righteous confidence, feeling entirely justified in his actions.

"My teacher revised the law, so he naturally has some rights to interpret it!"

"Because past interpretations were too coarse and simple, so a more detailed explanation now is reasonable, right?"

"And just so my case refers to his interpretation, which happens to be consistent with the new explanation, that’s quite reasonable, right!?"

Reasonable!?

This matter is all too reasonable!

The only questionable thing is...

"Is this legal?" Su Yu couldn’t hold it in any longer, blushing slightly as she whispered a question.

"What’s illegal about it!?"

Xu Liang widened his eyes, quashing the other person’s objections.

No one understands legality better than he does!

As for having Wu Chengjun look up the explanation for endangering public safety crimes...

That’s not something Xu Liang would use. After all, as the defendant on the defense side, such aggressive legal measures aren’t applicable, so...

"This is prepared for Chai Shiring."

"I’m just too kind-hearted and can’t bear to see others work hard."

"The plaintiff will likely accuse Mr. Wu and Mr. Kong of endangering public safety."

"But they might be too inexperienced, lacking a deep understanding of the law, and thus misquote it, so then..."

Saying this, Xu Liang paused, then began to explain.

"At that time, I can only kindly have the law’s revisers personally say that they misquoted, and that Mr. Wu and Mr. Kong didn’t commit any public safety crimes..."

"Isn’t this reasonable?"

Reasonable?

It’s perfectly reasonable!

Yang Ruoxi and Su Yu opened their mouths wide, tilting their heads slightly, unable to find the slightest rebuttal.

Even Wu Fang and Kong Jian at this moment showed a bit of astonishment.

The two were speechless several times, ultimately pushed back down.

To tell the truth, even though their education wasn’t high and they couldn’t understand advanced rhetoric, but... was what this person just said really legal!?

"This..." Kong Jian hesitated.

As if seeing through his thoughts, Xu Liang quickly explained:

"Mr. Kong, rest assured, I’m someone who follows the law to the letter!"

Xu Liang put on a serious face.

"Every case I’ve handled has been through an extremely rigorous review process, and the fact that I haven’t been arrested yet only proves my lawfulness!"

To tell the truth.

Kong Jian believed it; after all, the other party looked very professional, but...

"But the batch of smuggled drugs, the three of us with Li Ye were..."

Kong Jian hesitated, saying, "Although we only recouped costs, just acting as agents, but..."

They didn’t profit from it, but at least the cost was covered, equating to acting as purchasing agents but without earnings.

But no matter how you look at it, a monetary transaction did occur!

"No!"

"You didn’t!"

Xu Liang frowned, stepping closer to the two.

They didn’t earn any fees, not a penny of profit; rather than selling, it’s more like being purchasing agents!

Xu Liang spoke seriously and earnestly:

"Remember what I said before, you didn’t sell counterfeit medicine!"

"You were merely a group of patients and their families secretly purchasing medicine for survival due to having no access to necessary drugs!"

Wu Fang and Kong Jian exchanged a glance.

"But we bought twenty boxes..." Wu Fang said in difficulty.

"Isn’t that normal?"

Xu Liang looked surprised, then patiently explained the mentality during their smuggling.

"Firstly, due to unstable supply from the pharmaceutical factory, production could halt at any time, so fearing a future lack of medicine, you bought twenty boxes in one go!"

"Secondly, after taking the medication, your condition obviously improved, which couldn’t be hidden, so other patients would naturally come to you."

"At that point, if they ask for medicine and you refuse, what would happen?"

Xu Liang explained their old mindset.

Wu Fang observed his expression, tentatively saying:

"They would...snatch it?"

"Exactly!"

Xu Liang immediately confirmed, delighted:

"Exactly, it’s going to be snatched!"

"And you? You’re just a group of powerless people, able to do nothing against people snatching your medicine!"

"And foreseeing this, afraid of being left without medicine, you decided to purchase twenty boxes in one go for storage!"

"And as for the money... it was secretly given by those patients out of guilty conscience after taking the medicine without paying."

Uh?

Wu Fang and Kong Jian were stunned again and again.

So... was that their mindset during the smuggling!?

So, they thought that way back then!?

So all those twenty boxes were snatched!

How come they never knew...

It’s just...

"Even if snatched, it couldn’t have been many." Kong Jian was still worried.

"The ones not snatched were consumed by you!"

Xu Liang replied.

Kong Jian continued:

"But a bottle has 120 pills, and a box contains 12 bottles, so even if it’s only ten boxes, that’s 14,400 pills..."

Fourteen thousand pills...

From March 30th when they smuggled them in, arrested on April 10th, in twelve days... could they consume fourteen thousand pills!?

Were they eating them as meals!!!

Xu Liang’s expression remained unchanged, without a hint of emotion, simply saying five words in response to the question.

"You have a good appetite."

Kong Jian, Wu Fang: ...

"Of course, you can truthfully claim it was purchasing on behalf of others, just remember, don’t get misled by the plaintiff, knowing that you didn’t profit from it is enough!"

Xu Liang continued reinforcing their memory, accompanied by gestures.

This is not perjury, nor is it collusion.

The reason for saying this is to change the concept from "selling" in Kong Jian and Wu Fang’s minds!

As long as there was no profit made, in the judge’s eyes, it’s as he said earlier!

It’s just that the two confused purchasing for resale and profit-making, while he presented the truth in a way that seemed contradictory.

Think of it as the confusion of those involved versus the clarity of an outsider; the same matter perceived differently from various perspectives.

Of course, if it was after the year 2022 when the law was amended, they would be recognized as selling even without profit.

But now it’s 2005!!!

As long as you firmly stick to the fact of not profiting, it’s impossible to convict for sales with profit!

As expected, the two soon began to doubt their memory.

Could it be...

Were those really their thoughts at that time!?

The two began doubting themselves.

Seeing that the coaching was almost done, Xu Liang breathed a sigh of relief.

He looked at the time, then faced the two in front of him, slowly stood up, and smiled.

"It’s getting late, you two should rest early."

"There are less than 11 days left before the opening trial, and before it starts, I will come to see you again."

"Before then... you must remember everything I’ve told you..."

"Remember well!"