The last 25 minutes of the meeting were as long as half a lifetime for Chen Zhang, and as short as only a moment.
During the recording and playback, he didn't even blink his eyes a few times. The bloodshot eyes were once covered with a layer of light water, and because of the effort to open them, they slowly disappeared after a while.
It went back and forth several times, but not a single drop came out of his eyelids.
The end of the recording is the nurse's sporadic dissatisfaction and complaints against him, as well as his mother's repeated explanation: "It's either that he doesn't come, he's just too busy, and he's coming when he's done..."
That explanation may be more heartbreaking to Chen Zhang than anything else. Yan Suizhi saw his eyelids tremble slightly, and the water in his eyes flickered—
"Hey—it's about time!" The guard opened the door on time and came in, reminding the two of them that they would see each other until this point.
While Yan Suizhi didn't stare at him, Chen Zhang quickly wiped his face with his sleeve, and when he looked up again, his teeth were clenched in silence again.
The guard's eyes were filled with doubts and strangeness, but Chen Zhang didn't give any response, just lowered his head, stood up obediently and stiffly, ready to follow him out of the meeting room at any time.
Yan Suizhi didn't ask him any questions, he just put away the recorder with a light expression, and left a familiar sentence to Chen Zhang: "I'm still here for the meeting time tomorrow."
This time, Chen Zhang was silent for a long time, and finally replied in a low voice, "En."
Then he turned around and followed the supervisor and left.
Chen Zhang's rare cooperative response was a good sign, but perhaps because of the content of the recording just now, Yan Suizhi's expression was still light when he came out of the detention center.
He was smiling most of the time, even when he ran and was mean. But once he stopped laughing, there was a cold sense of alienation all over his body. It always made people worry about whether he was unhappy, but he didn't dare to ask questions, he only dared to watch from a distance.
He walked to the intersection with such a cold expression on his face, without even looking around, he lowered his eyes and called up the screen of his smart phone to book a car.
Just as the car-hailing reservation was about to be sent, the smartphone suddenly vibrated.
A new piece of information came in at this point.
Yan Suizhi put down the taxi list for the time being and clicked in to take a look.
Caller: Mindful Mint Essence
- look up.
Yan Suizhi: "???"
He raised his head subconsciously—
In the open-air cafe opposite, a barrister who is said to be "on a business trip" is sitting in a rattan armchair, looking here with a cold expression as usual, and took a sip of coffee without hesitation.
Yan Suizhi was stunned for a moment, then smiled.
However, as soon as his eyes moved, he realized that Lawyer Gu was not sitting there alone, but sitting at the same table with him, there were two other people who were... acquaintances.
The two so-called reporters from the cellular network, Hersey and Bunch.
The impression that the young reporter named Hexi left on Yan Suizhi was not bad. At this time, as if he had done something shameful and unfortunate, he just glanced at him, then lowered his head and silently covered his forehead. As for the one named Ben Qi, he smiled awkwardly at him.
It just so happened that he was sitting next to Gu Yan, and the bastard's mung bean-like face was placed together with Gu Yan's cold face, and the contrast effect was a tragedy in the world.
Professor Yan Da said ruthlessly in his heart: I hate myself so much to choose such a seat...
"Fiz told me last night that you are going on a business trip." Yan Suizhi walked across the road to the cafe, lowered his eyes and looked at Gu Yan calmly, "Are you out at the coffee shop?"
"I'm really on a business trip. There's a case in the second district that's coming to an end. I'm going to go through the process and sign a few words." Gu Yan raised his eyes, "But Fitz sued me every day and came up from the scene. Said, I think it is necessary to first fulfill my disciplinary obligations as a teacher."
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 act with you.
Yan Suizhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Miss Fitz sued me behind my back? Let's hear it."
"Not submitting work logs, not filling out reimbursement forms, and not following the rules."
Yan Suizhi: "..."
He can bet that the last one must have been added by someone without authorization, with a different tone.
Hexi, who had lowered his head originally, heard this conversation and couldn't help but raised his head and silently watched the two go back and forth with a hint of envy in his eyes.
He felt that this might be his ideal state of getting along with seniors and newcomers... er, it seems to be a little different, but at least it's much better than the state between him and Benqi.
Maybe it was because his gaze was too strong, and Yan Suizhi caught it out of the corner of his eye, and saw the 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 Bunqi, his eyes swept away from the professional camera that Bunqi was holding tightly, and then landed on the simple camera that Hesey was awkwardly fiddling with. ,"Um?"
uh what uh...
Ben Qi wiped his face like a toothache and hummed, "I'm sorry, we originally wanted to take a few photos for you as a souvenir."
Yan Suizhi glanced at Hexi's expression and said clearly: "Don't use the word 'men', I think there is no need to be humble at this time."
Ben Qi's teeth hurt even more. He covered his face and stared at Yan Suizhi silently for a long time. He gave in and said, "I wanted to take pictures, but I didn't consider your wishes and some realistic rules..."
Yan Suizhi smiled.
I am afraid that this friend who claimed to be a reporter failed to make a deal and was dumped after chasing a car, so he was so embarrassed that he wanted to find some trouble, but Gu Yan half-way ransacked his house and talked about legal issues.
Isn't there a saying in the league that if you provoke anyone, don't provoke those famous lawyers, because you're really annoyed. They have 10,000 reasonable and legal ways to get you to plant your pants.
Ben Qi probably accepted the quality education from Gu Yan, and immediately accepted the counseling obediently and calmed down.
After he apologized, he felt that his attitude seemed to be okay, so he turned his head and asked Gu Yan tentatively: "Those photos are backed up..."
Gu Yan said lightly: "I'm not interested in the contents of your hundreds of thousands of photos, but I need to keep a bottom line."
In case the judge is interested someday...
Ben Qi completed the second half of the sentence for him, then scared himself to death, silently shut up, and stopped mentioning the backup.
Caesar's anger didn't come to fruition at all, and he left a trick for others. The day couldn't be worse. So after Gu Yan and Yan Suizhi said they didn't plan to keep them anymore, 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 angrily, "I still haven't opened my mouth today, but it won't be certain tomorrow."
He speaks lightly, always making those who listen to it feel extremely at ease.
"So I'm going back to the hotel, and take another look at the statement." Yan Suizhi asked him, "What do you say?"
"Go a trip to the second district."
"Is it really a business trip?"
Gu Yan: "..."
Seeing his expressionless face, Professor Yan Da teased the students, and bent his eyes: "Okay, no joke. How long will you go to the second district, will you come to the three districts?"
Gu Yan looked at him for a while, and lowered his gaze and turned to the coffee cup in his hand. He took a bite, and said, "Look again."
"As a nominal teacher, don't you look at the interns' trial?" Yan Sui felt that Gu Gu was not as decent as him.
He asked smoothly, and he had lowered his head to get up with a smartphone.
Soon, the appointment car stopped automatically on the side of the road. The two got on the car one after the other. So that Yan Suizhi had forgotten that Gu Yan hadn't answered "can't see the trial."
Yan Suizhi asked the smart car to send Gu Yan to the dock first.
The third and second districts are not connected mainlands. Driving is not as fast as the waterway. The sea shuttle of passengers can reach the shore for five hours.
When he got out of the car, Gu Yan remembered what to make Yan Suizhi's dot link of the smart machine.
"What are the two stalls you passed over?" Yan Suizhi wondered, "Why is it so big?"
"The photos in the two reporters' cameras are backup." Gu Yan said, "After all, they are targeting you, and the right to handle it is more appropriate. If there is no idea for the time being, let's put it first."
Yan Suizhi readily accepted. In the process of waiting for the file, he couldn't help thinking of the state of getting along with Hesse and Benqi, and said casually: "That pair of masters and apprentices ... Many, look at it, it is estimated that it is not long. "
Maybe a few years later is the result of old death.
After that, Gu Yan had no response.
After a while, the smart machines of the two sides sounded "Ding", and the gear was transmitted.
When Gu Yan put away the screen, he suddenly said: "I used to feel that there was a lot of deviation with your philosophy."
Yan Sui stunned for a moment, and remembered what he was "ah", and after a few seconds. He asked with a smile, "What about now? Is it still worse?"
Gu Yan sat quietly in the seat beside him for a while, and then held the car with the car. His wrist held the roof, bent down and looked at the car slightly, and said faintly: "Let's talk about it next time, I didn't take the suitcase, help me book another room, and pass tomorrow night."