no longer ordinary friends

Seeing Zhou Zhicheng's silence, Jiang Xianghuai walked down the steps himself: "I'm just kidding, quitting smoking and drinking is because of my own health. I'm over thirty, so I can't compare to young people."

Zhou Zhicheng thought, it turns out that the iron man will also feel tired at work.

When she was an intern in his team, she foolishly arranged work according to his capitalist's inhuman working hours. She started working at eight or nine in the morning and left the law firm at twelve o'clock every night. When she was busy, she was still working at four or five in the morning. After sleeping for three or four hours in a hurry, I continued to work on the project site. Every day, my heart beat so fast that it seemed that I would die suddenly in the next second.

Many lawyers can't bear such long-term high-intensity work. Some lawyers transferred to legal posts and went to the company. .

But Jiang Xianghuai is like a robot that will not get tired, always full of energy and never tired. If the law firm still maintains the devil system of ranking the working hours, he will definitely be the first in the list for a long time.

Other lawyers in the team were also puzzled by his hard work. Like him, the heir to a legal family born with a golden spoon in his mouth, his father is a top lawyer in the industry, his mother is the editor-in-chief of a well-known legal journal, and his grandfather is a business law leader in the legal field. , He is the only child in the family, why is he still working so hard, as if he is rushing to overdraw his life and want to complete the goal ahead of schedule.

But now he suddenly stopped and came to Nanri County. I don't know why he came, after the two broke up for many years.

Jiang Xianghuai asked again: "Do you have any plans for the evening?"

Zhou Zhicheng glanced at him indifferently.

He asked, "Shall we have cake together today?"

After she went to North City to go to college, they celebrated their birthdays together every year, eating birthday cakes together, wishing each other happy birthdays together, and taking group photos together, but this habit stopped five years ago.

"No, I'll celebrate my birthday with my family." Zhou Zhicheng said calmly. The relationship between them ended five years ago, and the reunion is only for work now.

Jiang Xianghuai was not surprised, smiled and said in a low voice: "It seems that I have to pass by myself again."

Hearing these words, Zhou Zhicheng couldn't help thinking of his lonely appearance many years ago. At that time, he was riddled with negative emotions. She wanted to help him, but she couldn't do it. He was always like this now, refusing to say anything, only With that calm and breezy appearance, he didn't want people to see the secrets of his heart. If she asked again, he would only give her gifts to perfuse her.

During the silence between the two, He Kailun called and his thunderous voice broke the silence. He asked, "Chengcheng, is Mingdi's lawyer here? Come quickly to your grandma's small shop, your cousin is crying bitterly." Oh, your cousin-in-law seems to have committed some kind of bigamy."

Aunt Cai's small shop is on the first floor of Zhou's self-built house. Zhou Zhicheng came here by electric bike in the morning, but now he can only take the trio of Mindy home by taxi.

This car is not the kind with four wheels.

Five minutes later, the three elite legal professionals in suits and leather shoes of Mindy Law Firm watched in silence. The two red iron electric tricycles that stopped in front of them after shaking again and again—the rural old man Le, had strange expressions, and some dared not I believe this is what Zhou Zhicheng said about "taking a taxi". Just thinking about the picture of them wearing suits and getting into the iron sheet makes me suffocate.

Zhao Yanjia was dumbfounded, opened and closed his mouth, speechless, another trainee lawyer of Mingdy named Lu He, also frowned heavily, but Jiang Xianghuai was the only one who could still laugh.

Zhou Zhicheng explained to them seriously: "We will have to cross a very congested ancient bridge later. Tricycles are more convenient, and taxis have to take a long detour, so I can only wrong you."

The uncle riding a tricycle poked his head out of the metal sheet and greeted enthusiastically: "Lawyer Zhou, here comes a new lawyer, yo, the three young men are very handsome in suits."

"Yes, they are lawyers from Beicheng, here for legal aid."

Zhou Zhicheng opened the door of the tricycle and motioned for the trio to get in the car, exactly one car for every two people.

Zhao Yanjia had never seen this kind of tricycle, let alone sat on it. He shook his head like a fan, and refused repeatedly: "I won't ride, I dare not, I want to take a taxi, if my mother knows that I take this kind of tricycle A safe three-no car will be so distressed that it will shed tears."

The uncle glared at him: "What are you talking about, you bastard? You, Uncle Qiu, have been driving tricycles here for decades. If anything is unsafe, we all have operating licenses."

Zhou Zhicheng hurried to do some errands, ignored him, and climbed into a tricycle first, and Jiang Xianghuai got into the car after her, and the two of them took the same car.

Seeing this, Lu He had no choice but to climb into another tricycle, leaving Zhao Yanjia outside yelling that Master Zhao would never ride this kind of rural dirt bike.

Jiang Xianghuai's voice was threatening: "Zhao Yanjia."

Without waiting for a second, he lost his patience and said to Lu He through the glass window: "If Zhao Yanjia doesn't want to sit, leave him alone, let him walk over, let's go."

Young Master Zhao was able to bend and stretch, and quickly grabbed the car door: "Don't, don't, don't, can't I sit?"

The tricycle set off, and within a few minutes of the journey, Lu He was dizzy and hurt from Zhao Yanjia's quarrel. He asked whether the car would fall apart, and then said it was too dangerous, and it hurt his buttocks. Sigh, this car is going to be on TV, and his brothers who play cars will laugh at him when they see it.

The uncle on the bicycle had a stinky face and sneered: "What kind of car are you playing?"

"Sports car, Lamborghini Huracan..."

Before he finished speaking, the uncle sneered again: "You are so brave, you still play with cars, don't brag, just learn my tricycle well, will you?"

Zhao Yanjia wanted to ask why he was learning a tricycle. Is it a proud skill to be able to ride a tricycle?He didn't come here, and he never saw this kind of tricycle in his life.

The uncle understood, and his tone was clear and compassionate: "Oh, you don't know three rounds."

Zhao Yanjia: "I can drive four wheels! I can also drive a helicopter! I can fly in the sky! I can also drive a speedboat! I can swim in the sea! This young master can do a lot!"

"But you don't know how to do three rounds."

"..." Zhao Yanjia was furious.

The distance between the two cars was not far, and the sound insulation of the iron sheet was poor, and the voices of the uncle and Zhao Yanjia were not low, Zhou Zhicheng could hear them clearly, and couldn't help laughing.

Jiang Xianghuai looked at her and smiled lowly.

Zhou Zhicheng's peripheral vision fell on him. The expensive suit on his body was incompatible with this simple and peeling tricycle, but his calm appearance seemed to be sitting in a luxury commercial vehicle. Up and down violently.

Lawyer Jiang, who had never been in such a car without shock absorbing effect, staggered forward uncontrollably. Finally, there was the slightest crack in his calm mask. A bit uncomfortable.

Zhou Zhicheng, who had been on this street for more than 20 years, was as stable as a mountain, and laughed mercilessly.

"What are you laughing at?" He tilted his head.

"Laughing at you." Zhou Zhicheng smiled, but his tone became much lighter.

She talked about her work: "I don't know why you came here, and I don't care what your purpose is. I just want to tell you that the work of a lawyer in Nanri County is completely different from that of Mindy. It's okay to have a different business direction. This small town is conservative. Closed, full of sophistication that you hate, and no challenging legal cases. They are all trivial and trivial matters of the parents. The legal awareness is backward, the market is relatively disordered, and the work of lawyers is not so professional. You should not come. There's no need to come."

It can be said that two worlds that have no intersection, just like the two of them.

Jiang Xianghuai didn't speak, but looked out through the mottled glass window of the tricycle.

Surrounded by small shops with local characteristics, the narrow streets are lined with seafood food stalls and various folk stalls worshiping gods. Amidst the sound of horns and the shouting of dialects in the southern county, the crowds come and go, motorcycles and tricycles One after another, the accelerator is pounding, and there is a salty and humid sea breeze in the air. There is the sea here, and there are vague shadows of green hills in the distance. More importantly, there are...

He turned his head, stretched out his hand hesitantly, and put it on Zhou Zhicheng's hair, but he didn't dare to rub her hair intimately like before.

She was startled, her body was slightly stiff, she didn't dodge, she just felt strange.

"I don't hate it, I should have come, it's necessary." His voice was low.

Don't hate anything, what is necessary to do?

Her heart was pounding, as if it was going to jump out of her throat, and her emotions were surging.

She turned her head suddenly and looked out of the window on the other side, not even wanting to be seen by him. An inexplicable emotion bumped into her body, making the tip of her nose feel sore for a moment.

How on earth could he say these words and do these things calmly, and still appear in front of her as if nothing had happened?Is it because she thought that she had liked him humblely for many years, so she didn't have the slightest temper and allowed him to arouse her emotions at will?

For the rest of the journey, no one spoke.

Three minutes later, the tricycle stopped at the entrance of Meimei's small store, where many people were crowded, and the entrance was tightly blocked, so that people could not see what was going on inside, and could only hear a burst of noise.

The onlookers were all chattering: "Fade Chen married two wives, poor Lin Tao, who takes care of his in-laws at home every day and does odd jobs. Who knew that Fade Chen married another wife outside. Now the wife outside is pregnant, and they are making trouble at the door!"

"Lin Tao is Lawyer Zhou's cousin, right? Cheng Cheng is so powerful, he will definitely get justice for Lin Tao."

"Come, come, Chengcheng is back."

Zhou Zhicheng greeted grandma and grandpa with a smile, squeezed a way, and led Mingdi and the three into his small shop.

A grandmother noticed the Mingdi trio following behind Zhou Zhicheng: "Why are there so many new lawyers here today?"

The uncle riding a tricycle was holding back his anger, and curled his lips in distaste: "Lawyer Zhou said that barristers from big cities are very proud, and riding my tricycle dislikes east and west."

Grandma was also angry when she heard this: "What's the use of dressing up like a human being? At first glance, it looks like a black-hearted lawyer who is making dirty money and has no conscience."

Another grandmother echoed: "That's right, that's right, my daughter told me that many lawyers are cheating money, and they charge you thousands of dollars for nothing."

Lu He, who was walking at the end, could not help but hear them chewing their tongues, and didn't know whether to laugh at their ignorance or shallowness, or at his downfall.

He wanted to seize this opportunity to retain him, and also wanted to make a breakthrough by participating in the show, so he came to this small and backward county law firm to deal with these vulgar clients.

In the eyes of some lawyers, there is an unwritten invisible chain of contempt in the lawyer circle.

Lawyers from golden circle firms, red circle firms and large overseas firms stand at the top, while those small local lawyers who have sunk into the county legal market are at the bottom. Most of them graduated from ordinary law schools, and some even They have never received systematic legal education and did not come from a major. They passed the legal examination with courage and went to work as litigators in small local firms. The cases they handled were basically trivial cases that big law firms would not accept. , Dealing with low-educated clients that big lawyers will not come into contact with, and most of them earn far less than lawyers in big law firms.

That's why Lu He has a natural sense of superiority. He graduated from a prestigious law school and worked in a top law firm in China. He has surpassed at least 90.00% of law students. He could have stayed in another decent and high-end legal world without sinking. To torture himself, he will act as if he is here to participate in Metamorphosis.

He heard another grandma stepping on her again: "It's better for us, Chengcheng, to be better than these Beicheng lawyers."

He sneered silently. People in the county are indeed ignorant. They don't know what a red circle firm is or a golden circle firm, and they don't know what a legal person is from a famous school. They think that lawyer Zhou is a top barrister like a frog in a well. So powerful, why didn't she stay in the big law firm?Instead, he stayed in the country as a small litigator, doing these trivial and boring cases without any difficulty.

Only deserters and losers would be willing to become lawyers in small eighteenth-tier counties.