no longer ordinary friends

"No, it's because I believe in you."

When Zhou Zhicheng saw Liu Qiang, his mind was still full of what Jiang Xianghuai had just said to her.

He believed her, but he also hurt her.

Liu Qiang knew that these people were lawyers hired by Aunt Zhang, so he didn't bother to show good looks. He squatted at the door of his house, smoking one cigarette after another, and didn't invite anyone in. After a while, the ground was full of potholes. There was a litter of cigarette butts.

After he had smoked enough, he raised his eyes and gave them a sideways look, and said carelessly: "The police say I'm fine, what else do you want?"

Lu He wanted to leave the village quickly, and frowned, "The police only said that you don't have to bear criminal responsibility, but didn't say that you are fine. He asked you to pay back the money."

Liu Qiang spat at Lu He disdainfully: "Who are you? I know the lawyer in front of you. Are you an intern? Don't pretend to be an intern with half a bucket of water. Don't talk to me, you don't deserve it."

Lu He's face was a little ugly: "Please speak carefully."

Liu Qiang smiled sarcastically, and snorted coldly at him: "Oh, I'm so scared, you're still so arrogant in my territory, you stupid intern, if it wasn't for the cameras today, you, a hairy intern, would be dead."

"I'm a lawyer." Lu He suppressed his temper and said calmly, "Practice lawyer, I've already graduated and started working. Mr., the police asked you to pay Aunt Zhang. We came here to help Aunt Zhang ask for money."

Liu Qiang threw the cigarette butt he was biting on the ground, stood up, and crushed it with his feet. He tugged at his worn-out leather coat, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Lu He, obviously with malicious intentions: "Do you want Want money, right? All right, come in with me and get it."

Lu He didn't think so, he didn't think Liu Qiang could do anything to him, he glanced at Zhou Zhicheng, and was about to follow.

Zhou Zhicheng quickly grabbed his wrist, smiled and said to Liu Qiang: "Uncle Qiang, he is indeed a trainee lawyer, he is still young, so don't worry about him."

Lu He frowned, a little unhappy: "Lawyer Zhou..."

Zhou Zhicheng ignored him and continued, "Uncle Qiang, I am Zhou Zhicheng from Kailun Law Firm. I am often on duty at the checkpoint at the entrance of the village to popularize the law. We should have met a few times before. It is true that Aunt Zhang asked me to come here. I mediated with you, but I didn’t come here to yell or quarrel with you, and I didn’t intend to use the words of the police to suppress people. It’s just that Aunt Zhang is an old lady at home, and it’s not easy to raise so many chickens. You stole her all at once. There are so many chickens, she must be angry, but she thinks that they are all from the same village, and she just wants some compensation."

Liu Qiang sneered: "I just want compensation? Do you want money? If you have the ability, call the police to arrest me."

Zhou Zhicheng still smiled: "Uncle Qiang, if it can be solved directly, no one wants to go to court, right?"

"I don't want to, or you have nothing to do? The police say that I haven't committed a crime, and you are going to use your mouth to convince me now? You are lawyers, I can't tell you, but I will definitely not give the money, I will give the money I still steal some chickens, can't I just buy them?"

The last sentence convinced Zhao Yanjia.

Zhou Zhicheng: "Uncle Qiang, I don't know if you have noticed that Aunt Zhang's house is newly built. The 'chicken pen' where she raises chickens is not alone in the yard, nor is it a separate fence, but a room that will be locked at night. The small room above the door, and that room is connected to the side door of Aunt Zhang's main house through the corridor, and that night, Aunt Zhang's side door was left open."

Liu Qiang was confused when he heard that: "Why are you talking about this?"

Jiang Xianghuai understood that Zhou Zhicheng was talking about burglary.

Under normal circumstances, the theft of chicken thieves will not be classified as home theft, because most of the poultry are kept in the open yard, but Aunt Zhang's house is different.

"Uncle Qiang, the police said that you did not commit the crime of theft because the amount you stole did not meet the standard. However, the criminal law stipulates that the crime of theft must be relatively large. It is defined as burglary, and criminal responsibility will be pursued regardless of the amount." Zhou Zhicheng said, sighing softly, "You stole the chicken from Aunt Zhang's house that day, and it was burglary. Aunt Zhang just wants to get the money back. Just treat those chickens as bought by you, and if you enjoy eating them, she will also be happy selling them, if there is no other way, she can only tell the police that you have committed burglary."

Liu Qiang's eyes gradually widened, his face changed like a palette, he clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and stared at Zhou Zhicheng.

After a battle between heaven and man, Liu Qiang chose between losing money with a high probability of going to jail or losing a few hundred yuan.

Zhou Zhicheng got the money for the stolen hen for Aunt Zhang.

On the way back, Ye Bai couldn't help but said to Lu He: "Do you know that you were almost beaten just now?"

Lu He sneered: "You mean if I go into the house with him, he will beat me?"

Ye Bai shook her head, thinking he was too naive, she said: "Uncle Qiang has a criminal record, he used to beat up a lawyer who came to help others to pay debts like this, you know? You think that if you say you are a lawyer, others will be punished." Are you intimidated? What's so great about being a lawyer? What are you so proud of? If it weren't for Lawyer Zhou, you would definitely be beaten up by Uncle Qiang today. I told you before, your arrogant elite posture, In our case, the hammer is useless, and it is still very undercut."

Lu He's only self-knowledge is that he knows that he is a frail scholar, and he will definitely not be able to beat others, but he still said: "I can still call the police, this is a society ruled by law."

"Are you stupid?" Ye Bai was speechless, "Then every time you work in the future, you will be beaten first, and then call the police. How many lives do you have? If you don't change your bad mouth and bad temper, you will be beaten sooner or later." die."

Lu He sarcastically said, "Then you are really barbaric."

Ye Bai got angry when he saw him like that: "It's because you can't learn to communicate with others on an equal footing. Lawyer Zhou said that no one is afraid of lawyers, and lawyers are not an authority. They are just ordinary jobs. You think you are acting in a TV series?" Well, if you call a lawyer, people will give you face? Don't be naive, talented students, litigators are here to coordinate communication, not to be thugs for the parties, ok?"

Zhao Yanjia praised the venue and applauded: "I must take a small notebook and write it down. Lawyer Zhou licks the dog and Lawyer Ye Bai's classic quotations from going to the countryside. It is so wonderful."

The sky was dark, Zhou Zhicheng and the others returned to the county seat.

It can be said that the enthusiasm of the villagers cannot be stopped after returning home with a full load.

The seafood specialties from the island were brought back, and Zhou Guohua had another chance to show off his skills. When he was cooking, Jiang Xianghuai stood by and watched.

Grandpa Zhou proudly passed on his experience: "If a man doesn't know how to cook, no matter how great his skills are, it's useless. Back then, I almost got married because of my good cooking skills."

He shook the spoon and took a moment to glance at Jiang Xianghuai: "The few dishes I taught you ten years ago, did you learn them well after you went back? Stewed shark's fin in thick soup, coral clams in shabu-shabu, big lobster in scallion oil. My specialty is a must for banquets.”

Jiang Xianghuai: "I learned it, but I didn't learn the essence."

"Then you study hard. If you study well, next time Chengcheng gets married and holds a banquet, you will be the second cook." Grandpa Zhou felt his loyalty, and he took such an important position as the second cook.

Jiang Xianghuai was silent, hesitating to speak, Cheng Cheng married, can he only be the second chef of the flowing water banquet?

"Who did she marry?" He didn't know how he asked such a silly question.

"Follow her husband." Zhou Guohua put the stewed meat on a plate, "Who else can I be with?"

Jiang Xianghuai sighed silently. If he could, he would like to be the groom, but he didn't dare to say, according to the local customs in Nanri County, can the groom be the second cook on the wedding day?

In the middle of the night, after Zhou Zhicheng took a shower, he was lying on the bed tiredly. He received a call from Jiang Li. She asked Zhou Zhicheng to check the WeChat messages, and said: "The legal circle is so big, and Jiang Xianghuai is a famous figure in our school, an alumnus Everyone in the circle now knows that he went to the countryside to record a show, and he even went to our hometown."

Zhou Zhicheng clicked on the message, and she blocked most of the groups, such as alumni group, resource sharing group, fellow villager group, legal group, class group, even after so many years, she was far away from Beicheng, but seeing these news, it seemed like Back to the state when I went north alone to study and work.

Everyone in the class group discussed in full swing.

"Senior brother Jiang is really handsome. After the broadcast, he will definitely attract a lot of fans on the Internet."

"Is Chengcheng here? She was an intern under Senior Brother Jiang back then, and now she can record programs with Senior Brother Jiang again. I'm envious."

"I don't know how Chengcheng is working in his hometown? Have you met Senior Brother Jiang? However, Chengcheng had a very good relationship with Senior Brother Jiang when he was in college."

Zhou Zhicheng flipped through the chat records, so far it was a normal discussion, until Xu Mei'an appeared, her WeChat name was: Zhongrui Capital Xu Mei'an, she joined the investment bank after graduation.

She seemed surprised: "Brother Jiang probably wouldn't take the initiative to find Chengcheng, right? Have you all forgotten that when Chengcheng confessed to him, he refused impatiently. No one likes a woman who keeps pestering him, right?"

"And, to be fair, the gap between the two of them is pretty big now, and they have nothing in common."

Xu Mei'an is Zhou Zhicheng's and Jiang Li's college roommates. She also comes from a small place, but she always likes to talk about things like "connections" and "classes". WeChat, whether familiar or unfamiliar, actively manages her so-called network of contacts.

She posted a few exaggerated satirical emoticons in the group: "What can they talk about? Brother Jiang said that his project was hundreds of millions, and Chengcheng said that his lawyer fee was three thousand? Brother Jiang said that the bell was listed, and Chengcheng said that the village Chicken crowing?"

The others also laughed hahaha.