What's wrong with this lawyer?!-Chapter 1051 - 341 Old Tang Claps: Brilliant!

Although Tian Junfa felt particularly confident, he didn’t relax his vigilance at all. Every now and then, he glanced at Tang Fangjing sitting opposite him.

The other party sat there lazily, and even though summer was approaching, he seemed more like a cat huddled up for winter, his eyes half-closed.

How strange. This was completely different from the rumored aggressive debating style of Tang Fangjing!

In preparation for this lawsuit, Tian Junfa was exceptionally thorough. He had even gone through great effort to find and rewatch several of Tang Fangjing’s past courtroom live streams.

Because of this, he knew exactly what kind of debater Lawyer Tang was—pinpointing one weakness and relentlessly attacking it. The more you explain, the more flaws you might expose.

Simply put, Tang Fangjing’s approach was to draw you into his rhythm.

As such, Tian Junfa had already made up his mind today—absolutely not to fall into Tang Fangjing’s rhythm. Yet, when he saw him today, he felt that Tang’s reputation was overstated. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

The other’s performance was utterly average, at a standard lawyer’s level of debate—normal arguments, none of the flair he’d seen in the courtroom live streams.

What was going on? Could it be that the other side didn’t take him seriously and hadn’t prepared thoroughly?

But after thinking carefully, he felt that was unlikely—after all, this was Tang Fangjing.

No matter how hard he tried to understand, he couldn’t figure it out. Oh well, what’s the point of overthinking? Winning the lawsuit was all that mattered, right? That’s what being a lawyer is about—winning.

Indeed, Tang Fangjing wasn’t displaying his usual skill. As always, he believed lawsuits were merely a means to an end—a tool for achieving one’s goals.

Besides, he was here to watch the real drama today; he wasn’t the protagonist.

He didn’t even need a solid excuse—he just needed to sit back and watch.

Given the situation now, even Qin Mingsheng could see his side had the upper hand. Truly, professional matters should be left to professionals—look at this lawyer, absolutely the right choice.

Just as the thrill was setting in, an employee from the other unit spoke up.

"At our unit, from past to present, any expense categorized under unit entertainment would always have a unit stamp on the payment receipt. Yet these blank slips lack the unit stamp, so this indicates these expenses were not unit entertainment expenses..."

To support their argument, the unit employee even presented examples of past signed receipts with official stamps.

At this, Tang Fangjing opened his eyes and straightened his posture. Finally, the show was truly beginning—he had been waiting for so long that he was nearly falling asleep. Now, the two sides were really starting to clash!

The earlier remarks from the unit employee had been mostly unremarkable, and he thought it would remain like that. But he hadn’t expected this move!

Receipts with official stamps like these were something Tang Fangjing couldn’t possibly have. Yet these were critical pieces of evidence—finally, something interesting.

Clearly, this was a surprise attack with evidence. Judging by Tian Junfa’s bewildered expression, it was obvious Qin Mingsheng had never informed him about this matter.

In truth, these signed receipts initially only bore a leader’s signature. After all, it wasn’t practical for leaders to carry an official stamp everywhere—having to stamp a receipt after a meal would be embarrassing.

The purpose of signed receipts was to showcase the leader’s authority.

Think about it—others finish their meal and have to settle the bill at the front desk, but a leader finishes and simply saunters out by signing a receipt. How satisfying is that?

Adding a stamp later would just be redundant.

Typically, stamps were added later during periodic reconciliations by the unit’s finance team, since these receipts would ultimately be included in the accounting records.

It’s just that some units didn’t have enough funds and couldn’t settle the accounts, yet signing receipts would still be necessary the following year. So, they would add a stamp as an acknowledgment—essentially saying: "We owe you but recognize the debt."

In such cases, presenting a stamped receipt to the unit would leave any leader with no choice but to acknowledge the expense.

But for blank receipts signed but not stamped, like those from Qin Mingsheng, they were subject to dispute. Previously, these were unofficially accepted, and no incidents had arisen.

Until now, Tang Fangjing had mercilessly torn apart the facade, resulting in the current predicament.

Qin Mingsheng grew furious. Completely disregarding the fact that this was a courtroom, he stood up and roared: "What do you mean by this? What is this supposed to mean? Who told you to do this?"

"My signature can’t represent the unit? The stamp comes later anyway..."

He was genuinely enraged, as this was a direct betrayal by his former unit.

But he had absolutely no explanation for why those receipts lacked stamps, because back then, Lu Jianshe was easygoing and the matter was glossed over.

He figured once he’d been transferred, these issues would fall to future leaders to deal with—it would have nothing to do with him.

Qin Mingsheng only shouted a couple of lines before the Judgment Chief slammed his gavel fiercely: "Order in the court! Defendant, sit down! You may not speak without my permission!"

With that, the Judgment Chief glanced at Tang Fangjing and turned back to Qin Mingsheng. "Let me issue a warning: if you display such behavior again, you will be expelled from the courtroom. Understood?"

The resounding gavel startled Qin Mingsheng, and the further reprimands from the Judgment Chief made him feel like his dignity had been completely shattered.

Things might have been different in the provincial capital, but back in Ningtang County, the situation was utterly humiliating. Qin Mingsheng wanted to shout more, but Tian Junfa quickly persuaded him to stop.

"Please, just say less, sir. I’m here, so you don’t have to argue with the other side..."

While being forcefully dragged into his seat, Qin Mingsheng still gritted his teeth and muttered: "Just a judge? He dares to scold me? Back in the day..."

Tian Junfa spoke earnestly: "Today is a special case. Didn’t you see Tang Fangjing sitting there? Even if the judge wanted to favor you, they couldn’t. If you continue like this, the trial might end with you being detained. Please stop talking."