Hu Sixiang never expected that he would be directly detained after entering the police station. His wife, Hao Jiening, received a call from the police station informing her that Hu Sixiang had been detained. Hao Jiening was stunned for several seconds before she reacted.

Today, she felt a little uneasy when she saw Hu Sixiang leave, but it wasn't the first or second time he had been summoned. Each time, he was allowed to return after questioning, so Hao Jiening wasn't too worried. Besides, Hu Sixiang had just hired a lawyer yesterday, which made it even safer.

She didn't expect that this time, he would be directly detained.

After hanging up the phone, Hao Jiening remembered to call the lawyer Hu Sixiang had hired yesterday.

Fortunately, Hu Sixiang had given her the lawyer's number yesterday, so she was able to call him immediately and urgently explain the situation.

The lawyer on the other end seemed to be drinking tea, and his tone was unhurried. "It's okay. Let me understand the case situation later, apply for bail pending trial, and then make a defense of innocence or lighter punishment based on the case situation, so that we can get a lenient sentence or probation."

The other party spoke extremely lightly, as if he was just buying cabbage at the market, which made Hao Jiening feel a little suspicious. But Hu Sixiang said that the other party was a professional lawyer, so he must know more than her. Since the other party said so, there should be no problem.

She felt relieved, said a lot of nice things, and begged the lawyer to go to the police station as soon as possible to see what was happening with Hu Sixiang.

After hanging up the phone, Hao Jiening walked around the house restlessly. The child had gone to school. She went into the bedroom and rummaged through the shoe boxes on top of the closet. A few days ago, Nao Nao had inadvertently told her that Dad had secretly hidden a lot of things in the shoe boxes on the closet.

Hao Jiening had long wanted to secretly see what Hu Sixiang was hiding. After all, they hadn't divorced yet because the case hadn't ended. Once it was over, they definitely couldn't continue living together. Divorce was only a matter of time, and she had to find out how much money Hu Sixiang had as soon as possible so that she could have a good idea of how to divide the property when they divorced.

He had been stationed abroad before, and Hao Jiening couldn't check how much his salary was. Now that he had returned from his foreign assignment and brought all his things back, Hu Sixiang was always guarding the house, and she couldn't find an opportunity at all. Now that he was detained, she could check it out.

The closet was full of shoe boxes. In order to hide them secretly, Hu Sixiang had even put a lot of similar shoe boxes on top to confuse people.

Hao Jiening stepped on a stool and moved the dozen or so shoe boxes stacked on top, opening them one by one. Finally, she found something wrapped in a plastic bag in one of them.

This package was a bit heavy. She was excited, wondering if Hu Sixiang had hidden a card or other valuable things.

When she opened it, she found that it was a bundle of paper tied with rubber bands. She opened it suspiciously, and her heart sank when she saw the paper on it. These were actually all IOUs, all borrowed by Hu Sixiang during his business trips. Some were for several thousand, some were for tens of thousands, and some were for hundreds of thousands. The largest one was actually more than seven hundred thousand.

All in all, there were more than two million in total. Hao Jiening was so frightened that she sat on the ground in a daze.

Why did Hu Sixiang borrow so much money? What did he use it for? Had all this money been paid back?

After being married for so many years, Hu Sixiang was mostly stationed abroad. The living expenses he sent her and her children from abroad every month were only three or four thousand yuan. He said that he also had to spend money outside, so Hao Jiening hadn't asked him to give more for so many years. She herself also had a job with a small income but relatively free time, plus the rent from another house she rented out. All of this added up, she and her son lived a fairly comfortable life in this city.

She just didn't expect that Hu Sixiang would borrow so much money outside.

Hao Jiening felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave. She trembled and looked at these IOUs again. She didn't recognize most of the creditors, but she recognized Zhou Jie, the borrower on one of the IOUs. Hu Sixiang's company had a team building event once, and she had taken her child there, and that was when she met Zhou Jie, the company's accountant.

At that time, Zhou Jie also brought his wife, and she had added Zhou Jie's wife's WeChat.

Thinking of this, she picked up her phone, hesitating whether to ask about what Hu Sixiang had borrowed six months ago and whether it had been repaid.

After thinking for a long time, Hao Jiening still didn't ask. She was afraid that if it hadn't been repaid, and the other party knew that Hu Sixiang was going in, they would directly ask her for the debt. She and Hu Sixiang would definitely divorce, and she didn't need to help him shoulder the debt.

No, she had to put the divorce on the agenda immediately. She would go to the lawyer today to ask about the divorce.

Hu Sixiang waited in the police station until three or four in the afternoon before the lawyer he had hired arrived late.

Hu Sixiang was exasperated and wanted to burst into curses, but the lawyer looked matter-of-fact. "I have too many cases, and there always has to be a first come, first served."

"Don't give me that crap. You took my money, so you have to do things for me. Immediately find a way to get me out!"

The lawyer's attitude was still good. "I'll find out about the situation first and see if I can get bail pending trial."

"When can I get bail pending trial?" Hu Sixiang didn't want to stay here for even a minute.

"Under normal circumstances after detention, bail pending trial can be obtained at any time. As long as you meet the conditions for bail pending trial, and you don't go out to endanger society, the probability of obtaining bail pending trial before arrest is very high. But you need to pay."

As soon as Hu Sixiang heard that he could go out, he immediately asked, "How much do I have to pay?"

The lawyer took out two documents from his bag. "One is the security deposit to be paid to the police station, and the other is my service fee. There is no uniform amount of security deposit for bail pending trial in law. It is determined based on the severity of the crime committed by the criminal suspect, the individual's income, and other factors. I will ask your wife clearly later. As long as she deposits the security deposit into the special account of the enforcement agency's designated bank, you can go out. As for my service fee, it will be this much."

The lawyer made a gesture with his fingers.

Hu Sixiang looked at him. "Eight thousand?"

The lawyer said lightly, "Eighty thousand."

Hu Sixiang was furious. "Why don't you just rob me? I already gave you the lawyer's fee at the time. Why are you asking me for a service fee now?"

The lawyer was not in a hurry. "You can go back and take a good look at the contract. It is clearly written on it that the fee you paid before only includes the cost of me coming to help you understand the case and giving you ideas. If you need me to help you with other matters, such as bail pending trial, complaints, and accusations, you have to pay extra, and the charging standard is determined by me."

That day, Hu Sixiang signed a cheap contract and felt happy, thinking that he had gotten a great deal, but he didn't expect that he had stepped into a big pit.

Now that he was under the eaves, he couldn't find another lawyer, so he had to bow his head. He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, tell my wife to transfer the money to you."

The lawyer said lightly, "I already told her, but she said she doesn't have any money."

Hu Sixiang thought to himself, Hao Jiening, you're really watching me die in my time of need.

He suppressed his anger and asked the lawyer to ask Hao Jiening again. "I just received a year-end bonus before I got on the boat, plus the salary I had saved on the card before, it should be enough for eighty thousand. Tell her to take out all the money on my salary card."

The lawyer was unmoved. "You'd better make sure your wife can take out this money. Your wife also asked me to tell you today that she wants to divorce you."