no longer ordinary friends

Before dinner, Zhao Yanjia, Lu He and the others also finished their consultation. Knowing that tonight there will be king crab, river crab, eastern star spot, lobster and other seafood feasts, He Yanming even called his father He Kailun over. He Kailun even brought a bottle to give away By the way, he complained: "He Yanming, why don't you come empty-handed? You eat and drink for free at Zhou's house all day long."

He Yanming has a thick skin: "Grandma Cai treats me as her own grandson!"

Speaking of this, He Kailun hated him for not living up to expectations: "You look crooked, no wonder Chengcheng looks down on you."

"If you fall in love with me, what's the matter with He Jinyu?" He Yanming took a bite of the crab meat bun, and suddenly remembered, "Our Jinyu is gone, Grandpa Zhou wants to find a son-in-law!"

He Kailun followed his son's gaze and silently looked at Jiang Xianghuai. He couldn't believe it. How could he, an arrogant barrister with a rich background and a lot of problems, marry him?Logically speaking, Zhou Zhicheng would be a high-flyer when he married him, and he still felt that if Chengcheng was with him, he would definitely go to work in Beicheng.

As for He Jinyu, he must not be married, what a shame.

No one had time to think about it, the cameraman shouted outside: "It turns out that there are all lawyers here today, let's record some material, Grandpa Zhou, Grandma Cai, you all come together."

The two old people hurried upstairs to change into branded clothes they bought for their birthday. Zhao Yanjia sprayed Grandpa with hairspray and styled it. Ye Bai also put lipstick and hair oil on Grandma Cai. It would be fine to record in the yard, but after listening to the suggestion, I moved to the entrance of the canteen.

Grandpa Zhou, Grandma Cai and He Kailun were surrounded by several people, while Ye Bai and Zhao Yanjia shouted eggplant to the camera together.

The photographer smiled: "This is a video."

Ye Bai and Zhao Yanjia immediately changed their slogans: "Hi everyone, we are Kailun Law Firm, the largest lawyer in the universe!"

Lu He twitched the corner of his mouth speechlessly, he didn't want to record it, he would only be a lawyer of Mindy Law Firm.

The corners of the mouths of Grandpa Zhou and Grandma Cai were almost stiff with laughter, and they shouted "Okay". The moment everyone relaxed, the picture was frozen in front of the crowded Meimei canteen with a sense of age. Everyone's expressions It's all vague, but anyone can feel the joy in it.

It was nearly ten o'clock before Zhou Bingcheng returned to Zhou's house.

Zhou Guohua stood at the door, still wearing an apron and sleeves, and said viciously, "Kneel down for me."

Zhou Zhicheng and the others are all ready to eat supper. Each of them will have a bowl of sauerkraut and pork belly noodle soup, and a basket of today’s siu mai. This sauerkraut is a gift from He Jinyu’s uncle. Fragrant, Zhou's siu mai also put chopped scallop vermicelli, the skin is thin and the stuffing is big, very tender.

The mosquito coils lit under the table were replaced with another one. The mosquitoes did not get entangled under the table. Instead, they all went to the light bulbs hanging under the tree.

The fragrance of pork belly soup permeated the tip of the nose, and the hot air rushed in. Zhao Yanjia was sweating from eating. He moved out two fans from the house, and the long wires came out from the house, one facing his direction, the other Facing Zhou Zhicheng's direction, she was delighted.

Zhou Bingcheng didn't say anything. He put down his luggage, washed his hands, and knelt down on the futon consciously. He stared at the candle-shaped red light next to the incense table, pursed his lips and remained silent.

Because a girl from another family was involved, Zhou Guohua, a traditional and conservative old man, was too embarrassed to ask about these things.

He remembered Jiang Li's, when he was a child, he played house with Chengcheng every day, and the two loved to run and make noise in the living room on the second floor, draping the quilt over their bodies, and dragging it to the ground, for a moment as a heroine, for a moment as a queen, he would sleep in the afternoon I couldn't sleep well, so I got up angrily and drove the two of them downstairs to play in the yard.

He obviously put on the most vicious look, but that little girl Jiang Li dared to ask him: "Grandpa Zhou, can you play with us?"

Later, Chengcheng told him that he was no more fierce than Jiang's father and Jiang's mother. Li Li had to wash the dishes, mop the floor, and wash his brother's diapers every day before going out to play.

Cai Mei walked up to the land master and asked him, "Zhou Bingcheng, what's the matter with you and Jiang Li? We are all neighbors, what are you doing?"

Zhou Bingcheng said: "I want to marry her, very seriously."

Cai Mei liked Jiang Li very much. Seeing that he was so honest, she didn't know what to say, so she said, "Then you discuss it with your parents. Let's find a time to propose marriage?" She thought again, "Jiang Li agreed. ?"

Zhou Bingcheng shook his head.

Zhou Guohua couldn't suppress the anger in his heart: "No one agrees, why are you dreaming here? Do you think it's still ours now? Find a matchmaker and get married blindly? There are few girls now, and they are all expensive."

Cai Mei tugged at Zhou Guohua: "What are you excited about? Do you want your body?"

Then he asked Zhou Bingcheng, "Is Jiang Li still in Beicheng?"

"We're back together."

"Where is she now?"

"Go to the hotel."

Cai Mei glanced at Zhou Zhicheng, and said: "Chengcheng, go find Jiang Li, you have been playing games since you were young, go ask her what she thinks, it's so late, she probably hasn't eaten yet, but she Mom makes such a fuss in the afternoon, it's not good for her to come to our house, and there will be too much gossip later."

Cai Mei made a final decision: "Okay, Zhou Bingcheng, let's go eat."

Zhou Guohua was still angry, he didn't want to see Zhou Bingcheng, so he walked to the store with his hands behind his back.

Zhou Bingcheng hadn't eaten for almost a whole day, and his stomach was empty, but he couldn't eat pork belly noodles because he had something on his mind.

Sitting next to him, Jiang Xianghuai asked, "Didn't you just say we broke up last time, and you got back together?"

Zhou Bingcheng: "Drinking crazy that day, I regretted it when I woke up." He was more determined than before, "I don't want to regret it."

Jiang Xianghuai thought so too.

Zhou Zhicheng was going to the hotel to find Jiang Li, and he followed suit. He and Jiang Li lived in the same hotel, within walking distance from Zhou's house.

He followed behind, almost stepping on her shadow, he said abruptly: "Chengcheng, whether it was five years ago or now, I like you very much."

Zhou Zhicheng's footsteps did not stop, and his tone was light: "Is it the kind of liking that will impatiently reject me? Or the kind of sudden cold and violent liking?"

"It happened for a reason..."

"It doesn't matter anymore, Jiang Xianghuai, it's five years late for this reason." Zhou Zhicheng turned her head, she was very calm, "Emotions need equality and honesty. We have known each other for so many years before we got together. I have never treated you like that." Half a secret, my family, my studies, my feelings, even the unspeakable secret love, I will share it with you without reservation, but what about you? Treat me like a child and never tell me about your family, Your troubles, your thoughts, your future plans, I have to guess everything, you know that I am worried about gain and loss, but you pretend not to see it."

Jiang Xianghuai's Adam's apple rolled, but he couldn't explain it to himself. She pierced through his disguise.

"What is your like? Is it like cats and dogs?" Zhou Zhicheng looked indifferent, "I don't deny your like, but your like is too cheap, even with my like is cheap stand up."

Her chest rose and fell slightly, and sarcasm appeared in her eyebrows and eyes: "But when I obviously liked you, I was unreserved and honest. I endured your ups and downs and all your concealment. I don't regret that relationship. , but that's all, if you don't continue to pester me, you will still be my Brother Xiang Huai, and I will never forget your kindness and help to me before."

The light in her eyes was cold, and she was full of determination to reject him thousands of miles away.

"What do you mean you want to reconcile with me now? Is it too lonely in Nanri County? You take the short few months here as a relaxation of mind and body? Then go back and continue to be your Jiang Da partner People? Young Master Jiang?"

He pursed his lips, lowered his eyes, and covered up the ups and downs of emotion in his eyes: "I'm not alone in Nanri County, I've always been lonely, and I want to be with you for a long time."

After he finished speaking, he knew that he had said the wrong thing.

Sure enough, the fire in Zhou Zhicheng's black eyes jumped: "Bastard, do you just look for entertainment when you are lonely? For a long time? Do you want me to follow you to the North City?"

She told him word by word: "No, I like Nanri County. My home is here and my job is here. I don't regret going to Beicheng to study. Even without you, I still like Fada, but I will not give up my family and my current job for any man."

She used to naively thought that she was in love with people, and that it would be all right to bring grandpa and grandma to live in Beicheng. Later, she realized that she was in love with a hometown, a humid and suitable climate, a small town full of acquaintances, old-fashioned. The magnolia tree in the yard, the sea and the sky in a line, and the canteen that left countless imprints of her growth, and the sinking but interesting legal world she wants to serve, there is no arrogance and aloofness, and there are only rice, oil, salt and Trivial and ordinary, she doesn't need to achieve much in the law, and she doesn't need to make a lot of money. Being able to help every small but real person is the meaning of a lawyer she is looking for.

What's more, how could she let her grandpa and grandma, who had stayed in Nanri all her life, go north to a foreign land in their later years.

"I want to stay here, and I will stay here, Chengcheng." Jiang Xianghuai said, looking into her eyes, "I know that I have done a lot of things wrong. When I am with you, relying on your liking , I didn’t say I like you, and I didn’t formally confirm the relationship. This is a first-class crime. The second-class crime is that I shouldn’t hide the family situation from you, and I shouldn’t worry that you will be disappointed. And the shadow brought by this family, the third-class crime is that after I came to Nanri County, I could apologize and explain to you early, but it has been delayed until now. I admit that I am hypocritical. I came to Nanri to find you , but dare not be frank, is a coward."

Zhou Zhicheng didn't speak, just looked at him in the night.

There was heat surging in her chest, and her heart was beating violently. From the moment he said to stay, she felt that it was an auditory hallucination. He became a partner and won the title of top ten capital market lawyers at the beginning of the year. The future is so good, how could it be possible to stay in this backward small county that has nothing to do with him.

"How do you want to stay? Do you work in Kailun? Non-litigation transfer? Give up the capital market? How many years have you worked hard in the capital market? Ten years? Are you willing to give up and come to a field that you are completely unfamiliar with? Start from scratch?" She didn't believe it at all.

Jiang Xianghuai frowned.

Zhou Zhicheng knew that she didn't want to talk anymore.

Jiang Xianghuai's voice came from behind: "I will not be like an intern. I am a partner and a signatory lawyer. I work in the mainland office of the firm. I have a lawyer's license. I got it many years ago. Litigation can go straight to court."

She was confused, because someone like Jiang Li, who passed the legal examination but works as a capital market lawyer for a foreign capital firm, does not have a domestic lawyer's license. , if she wants to transfer to a lawsuit, she has to start with a trainee lawyer certificate.

Zhou Zhicheng pursed his lips and said coldly: "Then you want to be the director of the law firm? My master will not agree, and you don't need to manage this small law firm."

"I have money." Jiang Xianghuai said calmly and frankly.

Full of the arrogance of the rich.

Zhou Zhicheng seems to have the hatred of working under him and scolding him as a capitalist with other "legal migrant workers" back then.