First-Class Lawyer

For Chen Zhang, the last 25 minutes of the meeting were as long as half a lifetime, and as short as a moment.

During the playback of the recording, he didn't even blink his eyes a few times, as if he froze the whole time, maintaining that posture all the time.The bloodshot eyeballs were once covered with a layer of shimmering water, and because of the effort to open them wide, they slowly faded back after a while.

I went back and forth like this several times, but not a single drop escaped my eyelids.

At the end of the recording, there are nurses' sporadic dissatisfaction and complaints about him, as well as his mother's repeated explanations: "It's not that he doesn't come, he's just too busy, and he will come when he's done..."

That explanation probably hurt Chen Zhang's heart more than anything else. Yan Suizhi saw his eyelids tremble slightly, and the water in his eyes flickered——

"Hey—it's time!" The guard opened the door and came in on time, reminding the two of them that they would see each other until this point.

While the guard was talking, Yan Suizhi didn't stare at him, Chen Zhang quickly wiped his face with his sleeve, and when he raised his head again, he was silent again with his teeth clenched.

The guard looked puzzled and curious, but Chen Zhang didn't give any response, just lowered his head, stood up obediently and stiffly, and was ready to follow him out of the meeting room at any time.

What Yan Suizhi said, he really didn't ask him any questions, just put away the recording pen with a calm expression, and threw a familiar sentence to Chen Zhang: "I'm still here at the meeting time tomorrow."

This time Chen Zhang was silent for a long time, and finally responded in a low voice, "Yes."

Then he turned his head and left with the guard.

Chen Zhang's rare response was a good sign, but perhaps because of the content of the recording just now, when Yan Suizhi came out of the detention center, his expression was still very calm.

He is smiling most of the time, even when he is running on people and being mean.But once he stopped laughing, a cold sense of alienation would emanate from his whole body.It always made people worry if he was unhappy, but they didn't dare to ask rashly, only dared to watch from a distance.

He walked to the intersection with such a cold expression, without even looking around, he lowered his gaze and called up the screen of his smartphone to book a car.

Just as the car-hailing reservation was about to be sent, the smartphone suddenly vibrated.

A new message came in at this point.

Yan Suizhi temporarily put down the taxi booking form, clicked in and took a look.

Caller: Peppermint Extract

-look up.

Yan Suizhi: "???"

He raised his head subconsciously——

In the open-air cafe on the opposite side, a barrister who was said to be "on a business trip" was sitting in a rattan armchair, looking at this side with the same indifferent expression as always, and took a sip of coffee in a leisurely manner.

Yan Suizhi was slightly taken aback, but then smiled.

But as soon as he moved his eyes, he found that Mr. Gu was not sitting there alone, but sitting at the same table with him, there were two other people, or two... acquaintances.

The two so-called reporters from Cellular, Hussey and Bunche.

The impression that the young reporter named Hersey left on Yan Suizhi was okay, as if he had done something embarrassing and guilty, he only glanced at him, then lowered his head and silently covered his forehead.As for the man named Ben Qi, he smiled awkwardly at him.

It just so happened that he was sitting next to Gu Yan, that bastard mung bean-like face was put together with Gu Yan's cold face, the contrast effect was a tragedy in the world.

Professor Yanda said mercilessly in his heart: How much I hate myself for choosing such a seat...

"Fitz told me last night that you are going on a business trip." Yan Suizhi crossed the road and walked to the side of the coffee shop, lowered his eyes to look at Gu Yan calmly, "Are you in the coffee shop?"

"It's true that I'm on a business trip. There's a case I took over in the second district that's being finalized, and I need to go through the process and sign a few papers." Gu Yan raised his eyes, "But Fitz tells me about it every day, come from the scene Said, I think it is necessary to fulfill my disciplinary obligations as a teacher first."

The translation of this sentence is: Although I don't want to care about you at all, but because of the scene, I have to condescend to accompany you to perform.

Yan Suizhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "What did Miss Fitz sue behind my back? Let's hear it."

"Not submitting work logs, not filling out reimbursement forms, not following the rules."

Yan Suizhi: "..."

He can bet that the last one must have been added by someone without permission, and the tone is different.

Hersey, whose head was lowered, couldn't help raising his head when he heard this conversation, watching the two people go back and forth silently, with a slight envy in his eyes.

He felt that this kind of possibility was his ideal state of getting along with seniors and newcomers... Well, it seemed a little different, but at least it was much better than the state between him and Ben Qi.

Maybe it was because his eyes had too much presence, Yan Suizhi glimpsed them from the corner of his eye, and saw clearly the bit of envy in his eyes.

Yan Suizhi: "..."

He felt that the young man might have misunderstood a little.

but……

"You two, this is..." Yan Suizhi turned to Hexi and Benqi, his eyes swept over the professional camera that Benqi was holding tightly in his hands, and then fell on the simplified version of the camera that Hexi was awkwardly playing with ,"Um?"

um what um...

Ben Qi wiped his face like a toothache, and hummed, "I'm sorry, we wanted to take some photos of you as a souvenir."

Yan Suizhi glanced at Hexi's expression, and said clearly: "Don't bring the word 'we', I don't think there is any need to be modest at this time."

Ben Qi's teeth hurt even more, he covered his face and stared silently at Yan Suizhi for a long time, and said submissively, "I wanted to take a photo, but I didn't consider your wishes and certain rules of reality..."

Yan Suizhi smiled.

I am afraid that this friend who called himself a reporter failed to make a deal, and was dumped after chasing the car, so he became angry and wanted to find some trouble, but in the end, Gu Yan ransacked his house halfway and talked about legal issues.

Isn't there always a saying in the league that if you mess with anyone, don't mess with those famous lawyers, because it's really annoying, they have ten thousand reasonable and legal ways to make you fall so that you don't even have any pants left.

Ben Qi probably accepted the quality education from Gu Yan, and immediately admitted his counsel obediently and calmed down.

After apologizing, he felt that his attitude seemed okay, so he turned around and asked Gu Yan tentatively: "Those photo backups..."

Gu Yan said lightly: "I'm not interested in the content of your hundreds of thousands of photos, but I need to keep a record."

In case a judge is interested someday...

Ben Qi completed the second half of the sentence for him, then frightened himself to death, silently shut up, and no longer mentioned the backup.

Caesar didn't let his anger out at all, and he left someone a clue, and he couldn't have had a worse day.So after Gu Yan and Yan Suizhi expressed that they did not intend to keep them any longer, Ben Qi dragged Hexi and ran away without looking back.

"How about the client who made you vomit nervously?" Gu Yan asked.

"...Speak well." Yan Suizhi said unhappily, "I still haven't spoken today, but it won't be so tomorrow."

He speaks lightly, and always makes the listener feel extremely relieved.

"So I'm going back to the hotel now, and I'll take another look at the confession." Yan Suizhi asked him, "What do you say?"

"Go to the second district."

"Are you really on a business trip?"

Gu Yan: "..."

Seeing his expressionless face, Professor Yanda teased the students with great joy, bent his eyes and said: "Okay, no kidding. How long have you been to the second district, and come to the third district?"

Gu Yan looked at him for a while, then lowered his eyes and turned the coffee cup in his hand, took a sip, and said, "Let's watch again."

"As a nominal teacher, don't you watch the intern trial?" Yan Suizhi felt that Gu's performance was not as good as his.

He asked casually, and already lowered his head and booked a car with his smartphone.

Soon, the appointed car automatically stopped on the side of the road, and the two got into the car one after the other. Soon, the agreed-upon model caused the problems of "spending money like running water" and "terrible asset balance". So much so that Yan Suizhi forgot that Gu Yan hadn't answered "whether or not to watch the trial".

Yan Suizhi asked the smart car to take Gu Yan to the pier first.

The third district and the second district are not connected continents, and driving is not as fast as water, and the sea shuttle specially designed to carry passengers can reach the shore in five hours.

When he was about to get off the car, Gu Yan remembered what made Yan Suizhi turn on the peer-to-peer link of his smartphone.

"What are these two folders you sent over?" Yan Suizhi wondered, "Why are they so big?"

"The photos in the cameras of the two reporters are backed up." Gu Yan said, "After all, they are targeting you, and it is more appropriate for you to handle it. If you have no ideas for the time being, just put it away."

Yan Suizhi readily accepted.While waiting for the documents to arrive, he couldn't help but think of the relationship between Hersey and Ben Qi, and casually mentioned: "The pair of masters and apprentices...let's count them as masters and apprentices, the differences in ideas are too great." Many, it looks funny, I guess it won't last long."

Maybe a few years later it will be the result of old age and death.

After saying this, Gu Yan didn't respond.

After a while, the smartphones on both sides dinged, and the file transfer was completed.

When Gu Yan put away the screen, he suddenly said: "I once felt that there was a big deviation from your philosophy."

Yan Suizhi froze for a moment, then let out a soft "ah" as if thinking of something again, after a few seconds.He smiled again and asked, "What about now? Is it still short?"

Gu Yan sat quietly in the seat beside him for a while, then grabbed the door handle and got out of the car.He leaned on the roof of the car with his wrist, bent slightly to look inside the car, and said calmly: "Let's talk about it next time. I didn't take the suitcase. Book another room for me and go there tomorrow night."