What's wrong with this lawyer?!

I just feel like without a task, I become extremely anxious.

Forget it, I'll just scroll through some short videos again, maybe I'll stumble upon a suitable task.

Meanwhile, outside, the lawyers were utterly bewildered, until Li Wanting finally said, "Has Tang, you know... has he gotten worse recently?"

A neighboring lawyer shook his head and said, "That shouldn't be the case, Tang mentioned that he takes his medication every day, and his condition has greatly improved."

"But just now... that reaction, it seemed like his condition worsened, I hope he recovers soon."

All the lawyers at Tengda hoped Lawyer Tang would recover soon, yet Old Tang felt everything was getting better for him.

It's just that not having a task really leaves one speechless, he's really eager for a task right now.

Time flew by, and three days later, on another bright morning, Old Tang arrived at the law firm, ready to take on some ordinary cases just to feel good if there were still no tasks.

As usual, there were already quite a few people waiting at the door, many of whom came to Tengda because of his reputation.

However, Old Tang needed to select cases carefully, so these people were first received by Miss Xiao Yan, who would take down the details and then pass them to Old Tang for selection.

Over in the office area, Miss Xiao Yan had already begun her work as usual.

To her surprise, she hadn't sat down long before she came over with some materials.

"Tang, take a look, I think you might be interested in this case," she said.

"Oh?" Old Tang said with a smile, "You can tell even that, huh."

He took the materials and looked them over. You know what, the girl had picked out a pretty interesting case.

"Is the client outside? Let them in, I'd like to have a talk with them!" he said.

Miss Xiao Yan nodded, walked out of the office to call the clients, and checked her clothes in passing. Was her outfit still not appealing to Tang today?

Soon, two people were brought in, one a middle-aged man, and the other, a young girl who looked no older than a high school student.

"Come on, take a seat," Old Tang called out. "Can you talk me through your situation again?"

He wanted to compare their story with the information on the materials to verify the truth of their statements.

After all, making up lies, unless prepared in advance, isn't consistent every time.

The man in front of him spoke with restraint, "Lawyer Tang, my name is Cheng Dashan, this is my daughter Cheng Nanyan, and she was studying at Lizhou Wufang Vocational and Technical School before."

"About a month ago, the school took her to Jiangguang Province, claiming it was some sort of internship..."

As he listened, Old Tang scribbled on a sheet of paper, occasionally interrupting to ask a question.

"So, your daughter studied early childhood education, and then got taken to work on an electronics factory assembly line?" asked Old Tang.

Cheng Nanyan, also slightly nervous, still nodded and said, "Yes, Lawyer Tang, that assembly line produced automotive parts, which has nothing to do with my field of study."

"I've been there once before on the 'work-study' program. I worked for three months, twelve hours a day, and had to take night shifts every few days. It was unbearable..."

"And the day shifts for regular recruits pay twenty per hour, night shifts twenty-five, but they only paid us students fifteen for day shifts and twenty for night shifts, it was obvious exploitation."

"The faculty members stationed at the factory didn't care. When we got bullied by others in the factory and turned to them, they just told us to endure, saying we should experience the hardships of life early on..."

"And now this time, after I told my parents I wanted to come back, they brought me home," she continued.

Old Tang shook his head as he listened. What this "early experience of life's hardships" really meant was just exploiting students as cheap labor.

The margin in the middle didn't even need to be questioned, it surely went to the school.

He looked again at the materials in front of him and asked, "Did you sign any agreements at the time?"

"We signed some kind of internship agreement, they just told us where to sign, then took it away immediately after we did, without letting us see what was in it."

Old Tang nodded upon hearing this, almost understanding, "So now the issue is, the school won't issue your graduation certificate because they say you didn't complete the required internship time, and when you applied for a tuition refund, they refused, right?"

"Yes, that's right, Lawyer Tang."

"Have you reported this to the relevant departments in Lvzhou?" Old Tang asked again.

"I did report it. They said my running back home was indeed against school rules. As for the tuition refund, they suggested we solve it through legal means."

Cheng Dashan spoke up, "Lawyer Tang, we are reasonable people. You understand, sending a child to an internship to do such hard work, we were still paying tuition fees."

"We couldn't learn anything. I suggested that they refund the tuition for the few months of internship because their teachers didn't care at all; they were just sending students off to work."

"But they ignored us entirely. When I went to negotiate with them, their security wouldn't even let me enter the school. We were out of options."

Old Tang nodded in understanding, knowing that these days, anyone with other options wouldn't come to a law firm to find a lawyer.

"So what you want now is either a tuition refund or the graduation certificate, right?"

"Exactly. Otherwise, after three years and so much money spent, it would all be for nothing without a certificate. It's better to have one than not."

Old Tang nodded again, about to say something, when suddenly he paused and a look of surprise crossed his face.

Fortune favors the diligent. After so many days of scouring, a mission had finally emerged!

Mission objective: Use legal measures to teach the unscrupulous school a lesson!

"All right, I'll take your case!"

Tang Fangjing's words left Cheng Dashan and his daughter a bit stunned. They had come to Tengda mainly because of Tang Fangjing's reputation, but they had never dreamed that he would personally handle their case.

Could their luck be this good?

"Don't worry about the fee; I charge according to the lowest standard of Handong Province. Just a moment, I will prepare the contract."

Soon, in another office, Old Wang was looking at the contract in front of him, his face twisting a bit.

"Old Tang, isn't this case a bit..."

"What's wrong with this case? It's a very ordinary case. Don't you think it's too much for them to take money and then sell the students for profit? Hurry up and stamp it, I'm in a rush over here!"

"All right, all right, I'll stamp it. One would think you're the director of the law firm, the way you act. Maybe Tengda should just change its name to Fangjing Law Firm!" Old Wang muttered but stamped it anyway.

Old Tang took the contract back to the office and said, "Take a close look at this and if you don't understand anything, feel free to ask me. Make sure you understand it before signing."

As it turned out, not many people could understand these contracts, and after staring at it for a while, the father and daughter signed it directly.

Cheng Dashan even said, "Lawyer Tang, we definitely trust you; you wouldn't cheat us."

Indeed, Old Tang's reputation was now truly solid, a fact witnessed by both President Lei's decisive cut and President Wang's truckload of goods!