no longer ordinary friends

Because Zhou Zhicheng injured her foot, her scheduled visit to the juvenile prison was postponed until next week. She spent the past two days writing materials and consulting at the law firm.

A few days ago, He Kailun brought his wife back to her natal home for a wedding reception. He brought wedding candies and fruits grown by relatives in the countryside to the law firm. He was not very ambitious at all, and he had already arranged for early retirement before he was old. Only occasionally pretending to be a big boss came out to pick up one or two cases.

Ye Bai boiled water and prepared to make tea, He Kailun took out a small bag of tea for her, and said mysteriously: "The expensive tea given by relatives is just a few bags, you brew it and ask Mingdi's barrister to drink it. "

He glanced at the office again and asked, "Is Chengcheng working there?"

"Yes."

He didn't ask any more questions. He peeled off a red heart grapefruit, and couldn't help showing off to the Mindy trio: "Have you ever seen this kind of gourd-shaped grapefruit? It's sour and sweet, an ancient tribute."

Zhao Yanjia felt that these words were familiar: "Grandpa Zhou also said that there is a dish that is a tribute."

"We have a lot of tributes here. Look at this longan. The core is small, and the flesh is crystal clear, crisp and sweet. You should eat more. It's a pity that there are no lychee and emblical now, otherwise it would be sweeter and more delicious."

He Kailun also split the wedding candy and distributed it to everyone. He also brought a local special meat pie, which was returned by the bride's family when he gave the gift money. The inside was basically composed of greasy fat meat and sugar. Zhao Yanjia took a bite and almost Just spit it out.

He Kailun complained about him: "It's just that your generation lives so well. If my family got this cake when I was young, a small piece would last half a month."

Zhao Yanjia didn't dare to touch the meat pie again, so he just ate longan to eat his fill, comfortably half-slumped on the chair, looking out the window at the blue sky that was not like the real world, the clouds were like cotton, and the magnolia growing to the balcony on the second floor was nearby The branches, the blue sea water in the distance and the sky meet in the same color, and the aroma of braised noodles and soy noodles came from the old street downstairs.

He sighed: "It's so comfortable to be a little waste in the eyes of the world. No wonder Lawyer Zhou wants to come back to work."

Ye Bai shot him a sideways look, and refused to let him drink tea: "Can you talk? You say Lawyer Zhou is trash? Do you know how many things she has done?"

Zhao Yanjia didn't mean this, he was anxious: "I just feel sorry for her, I think she is suitable for a farther place."

"I used to think the same way." He Kailun said, "My law firm is only that big. It used to be smaller. There is no future. She is a person who went to a good school and works here after returning. She is not laughed at. In the past, like her brother, she went to Beicheng to study at university with high scores, who wouldn't envy her to spread her wings and fly high."

He doesn't mind mentioning his past: "As the saying goes, you will win if you work hard, and I have worked hard. I worked in many construction sites and factories when I was young, and I didn't read much. I caught up with the good times. If you pass the judicial examination, you will become a lawyer. Now you have to study law at university before you can take the law examination? We didn’t want it at the time.”

He looked around the office of his law firm, deeply moved: "I used to have a small storefront with a handwritten sign on the door, and I worked with another lawyer, soliciting customers and holding court sessions by myself. The most work I did was It costs tens of dollars to write the petition and divorce agreement on behalf of you." He knew it very well, and snorted twice, "That kind of law firm is smaller, and you high-achieving students must look down on it even more."

Lu He's face was very calm, as if he wasn't listening to their chat at all.

Zhao Yanjia scratched his head: "I didn't look down on it, I just haven't seen it before."

"Yeah, what you haven't seen is the most common law firm in China. In many townships and counties, at the grassroots level of the law, it is such small law firms and small lawyers who are working hard to realize the dream of rule of law in China." He Kailun smiled. "People like us here don't understand legal terminology. As legal workers, communicating with them requires patient listening, enthusiastic explanation, and the value of helping others more than profound legal knowledge. I have both, so I will not feel sorry for her later, she found her meaning and happiness as a legal person in Nanri County, being trusted, needed, brave and fearless, who said it was not a good choice? "

Lu He pursed the corners of his lips, did not speak, and looked thoughtful.

Zhao Yanjia picked up a small electric fan in his hand to blow the sweat off his bangs, and said, "That's true."

"There is another reason. Lawyer Zhou has a good relationship with her grandpa and grandma. Whoever said that a big city must be good, even if there is a month in the other country, it is not as good as the light in the hometown." Ye Bai added.

He Kailun didn't smoke, but just had an old cigarette in his mouth. His voice was vague: "As the old saying goes, contentment is always happy. There is no point in earning too much money. Life is more important." When he said this, he paused , smiled again, "Of course, if I made millions, I didn't say anything."

Ye Bai thought about recording the video of the video account today, and was about to adjust the tripod and lens. Hearing this, he immediately said: "Director He, then give me a salary."

"Go to your lawyer Zhou." He Kailun didn't care about this matter, "Didn't He Yanming call you to work all the time last week, and there are still people who are exploited like this. I'll ask him to give you a red envelope."

Ye Bai was happy: "Thank you Director He, Director He is not bald today."

He Kailun laughed angrily, and made a gesture to hit her.

She hurriedly begged for mercy: "Don't, don't, we're going to record a video, and our Kailun Law Firm Emotional Online video account is going to be updated."

"He Yanming is not in the law firm, who will take pictures?"

"Jiang Par!"

While Ye Bai and the others were making early preparations, Jiang Xianghuai went to get a cup of coffee. He didn't sleep well last night, and there was a light shadow under his eyes. His sleep quality has always been poor, either he couldn't sleep, or he had many dreams.

He walked to the balcony to breathe, and He Kailun came out with a cup of tea in his hand, and smiled: "I thought even a barrister would be shameless, but you actually agreed to record this kind of video."

Jiang Xianghuai smiled: "Director He, as you said, being a lawyer does not distinguish between high and low, and earning a lot of money does not mean that you are superior to others, nor does it mean that your business is high-end. It is all about doing your best for the cause of the rule of law."

He Kailun nodded in satisfaction, belatedly: "Wait, when did I say that?"

Of course Jiang Xianghuai made it up.

He has no sense of mission in the profession of lawyer, but it is just a job that can make money. He has done non-lawsuits, and he has nothing to do with fairness and justice. He only deals with money and various capitalists every day. deal with.The non-litigation service is a legal person, but the legal person is also composed of fresh people one after another. In capital market transactions, the winners are only refined egoists. Some projects are ridiculous and have obvious risks, but customers require The lawyer chose words and sentences for him, weakened the risk in the legal opinion, and deceived one investor after another into investing money as if it were a bubble. I don’t know how many products are quickly realized through exquisite and false packaging in this way.

Of course, there are also many non-litigation lawyers who stick to professional ethics and act as gatekeepers of the capital market.

It's just that he doesn't like the job.

After fulfilling his brother's dream of being a partner, the breath that had been supporting him disappeared all of a sudden.

He really wanted to lie on the bed like before, with his head resting on Chengcheng's lap and his face against her belly, waiting for her to gently touch his face and let him close his eyes to sleep, in her arms, He doesn't need to be Lawyer Jiang, or the youngest son of the Jiang family, just someone she loves.

His bloody wound, which was repeatedly torn open and scabbed by his parents, was being healed by her.

At that time, he asked her: "Chengcheng, do you think death is terrible?" He was hesitating whether to tell her the pain caused by his brother's death.

She thought about it seriously for a while, but didn't hold back any profound words, and said honestly: "I don't know, it should be scary, but my impression of death is only the death of my grandmother when I was in elementary school."

"Are you crying?"

She nodded: "Crying."

"Are you sad?"

"Of course."

She was a little embarrassed again: "However, I accidentally laughed at the funeral. My grandma passed away in her sleep. There are many funeral customs in our place, and it takes several days to cry. My grandma and aunt The two have been arguing all their lives, even at the funeral, they have to fight over who is the most filial. Therefore, one of them hired a ritual performer, the other hired a suona drum team, and asked someone to cry for them. After three days of ritual rituals, there is no People can cry tears. The master asked me and my brother to go up and hug the grandma and cry for everyone to see. However, I saw grandma and aunt pretending to cry on the ground. The mourning team next to me The stranger yelled grandma's name again, and I couldn't help laughing out loud, but my brother laughed louder than me, and we both got scolded."

With this smile, the merits of more than ten years are gone.

He was also amused, buried his head in her arms, and listened to her voice through the abdominal cavity, which was another kind of tenderness: "Actually, death is not terrible, right? My grandmother told me before that when I die, I will go to the underworld to build a house in advance. She reminded me to burn a lot of paper money and paper clothes for her, and visit her every year and festival, and she will bless me below."

She said with a smile in her voice, "She died just before we officially abolished burials. She used to be afraid. She said that she was not afraid of death, but she was afraid that she would be forcibly cremated when she died. Just like oyster omelette, she didn't want to be fried. cake."

"I don't know if she was happy in the end, but she was buried with my grandfather."

When she was talking, she looked down at him, her eyes were bright, and his little miniature was reflected in her eyes, and it was only him, he really loved her so much.

On the balcony, He Kailun drank his tea in one gulp: "I heard that you and my nephew are rivals in love, I don't think you are suitable for Chengcheng, old people say, don't marry your colleagues, and, you are in There is a career in Beicheng, and Chengcheng’s career in Nanri County is also stable, who should give up?" He suddenly glared, "You are not the kind of man who wants a girl to give up everything for you, or become a housewife, right? "

Jiang Xianghuai didn't answer his question. Instead, he looked at the new city in the distance and asked, "Director He, have several new communities been developed over there? How much are the housing prices?"

"Five or six thousand, the price has been inflated by others. In our place, self-built houses are still comfortable. Do you see a whole row of self-built villas over there? They are all built by overseas Chinese bosses." He Kailun talked eloquently , the tone suddenly paused, and turned to look at him, "You want to buy a house with us?"

Jiang Xianghuai smiled but said nothing, but his expression said everything.

Ye Bai inside was calling him: "Lawyer Jiang, come on, the male lead, action, the filming starts!"