First-Class Lawyer

The return journey coincided with the peak congestion period in the third district, so Yan Suizhi was too lazy to crawl slowly behind a lot of cars, so he simply changed the longest route around the district.He doesn't care much about how long or short it takes in the end, as long as he doesn't brake every five or ten meters.

There is nothing to support his stomach right now, so he won't feel comfortable if he stops too much.

Because the route around the area is too remote, it is indeed smoother than those in the area.But he was not the only one who would rather take a long detour to avoid congestion, so there was a long pause in the middle.

While waiting, Yan Suizhi glanced across the roadside.

Cherry Manor?

His sight finally landed on the big sign at the fork in front of him.The huge arrow points to a tree-lined road, and the distance shows that there are still 700 meters away.

He is not unfamiliar with this place, and many people are familiar with this name - this is a famous winery in the third district of Lyra Star, but there is a large cherry orchard behind the winery, sandwiched with various vine flowers and evergreens The tree is very beautifully built.This very sentimental garden spread word of mouth among the guests of the winery, and eventually became a good place for those people to hold garden receptions or similar pastimes.

The manager of this winery is very good at flirting. In order to please those guests, he brewed customized wine for each VIP guest as a unique gift according to different tastes. One bottle a year, marked with a name and a unique mark , placed in every corner of the cherry orchard, maybe behind some flower branches, maybe in a clump of green leaves.

Guests have a year to slowly find surprises.

Those wine bottles are wrapped with a special and delicate soft film, which is conducive to the preservation of those wines.If the guest finds it early, it means good luck, and if the guest finds it later, the wine will be more mellow.

This kind of happy thing, naturally won the hearts of the people, so the reputation of Cherry Manor became more and more famous.

But what caught Yan Suizhi's attention at this time was not its reputation, but because several of the series of follow-up photos that Ben Qi showed him before were from here.There are Qiao and Zhao Zemu, and there are Qiao alone.

Yan Suizhi thought for a while, then simply switched the driving mode to manual, turned the steering wheel, turned off the main road from the fork, and went straight into the boulevard.

In fact, he has not been to Cherry Manor a few times. After all, his busy life in the past determined that he did not have so much leisure time to hold garden receptions across planets. However, his name is on the VIP guest list of Cherry Manor, because he comes from here every year. Order some wine as a small gift, or give students a taste of different flavors at a birthday reception.

And the custom-made wine that belongs to him is also sent directly to Decama every year at his request.

Yan Suizhi came out from the parking lot, and stopped suddenly when he reached the entrance of Cherry Manor.

He almost forgot that now he can only enter the front hall of the Cherry Manor, but not the cherry orchard at the back. After all, his identity is no longer "Yan Suizhi", but "Ruan Ye".

When he was hesitating, two people happened to come out of the front hall of the manor.

None other than the hapless Bunch and Hussey.

Ben Qi was walking in front, gesticulating and chattering nonstop while walking, but from the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Yan Suizhi, and there was a sudden stop under his feet.

Yan Suizhi smiled: "What a coincidence."

Ben Qi hugged his camera tightly with a mournful face, "Why is it you again!"

Because of the previous incident, now when Ben Qi saw Yan Suizhi or Gu Yan, he wanted to run away, wishing to stay 800 meters away before speaking.

"Don't panic." Yan Suizhi reassured, "I won't steal your camera this time."

This is worth pondering, which means "Although I don't want to grab the camera, I want to do something else."

Ben Qi himself dealt with various word and language games every day. Of course, he caught the point as soon as he heard it, and his face became even more depressed. "What do you want to do, you say first."

Yan Suizhi glanced at the winery and asked him, "I heard you talking about Zhao Zemu just now, is he in the winery now?"

Ben Qi nodded: "Yes, otherwise, why would I bring Hersey here? Drinking?"

He stared at Yan Suizhi suspiciously, "What? You... you want to go in?"

This comprehension will make Yan Suizhi very satisfied, and save him from opening his mouth.

"Smart man." Professor Yanda boasted without hesitation, "Can you please take me to the cherry orchard?"

Ben Qi especially wanted to say: "Don't bother you and don't want to dream." But thinking of the quality education before, he swallowed the words again, humming reluctantly like a toothache: "Forget it, you , hey...you come with me."

A few photos of Ben Qi were obviously taken in the cherry orchard, indicating that he obviously has the qualifications to enter the orchard.

When Ben Qi brought Hersey and Yan Suizhi back to the lobby, the waiter in charge of reception was stunned for a moment, "Did you leave anything here?"

"Oh no, I happened to meet a friend, and I took him to the cherry orchard for a drink." When Ben Qi said "meet a friend", his tone was like "meet a ghost", which attracted the waiter to look at Yan Suizhi. Several glances.

"Uh, okay, no problem." The waiter showed his good attitude, and immediately put on a very enthusiastic smile after hearing it, and gestured towards the path leading to the cherry orchard, "Please follow me, So what would you like, sir?"

I want poisoned wine, do you dare to serve it?

Ben Qi muttered in his heart for a long time, and chose a relatively cost-effective one: "Garden Sweet Bar."

"Okay." The waiter didn't ask much.

Yan Suizhi was brought into the cherry orchard as a matter of course.

The park is very large, and the road space is separated by different trees and flower vines. Every time you walk along the pebble road, there will be an open area with exquisite round tables and rattan chairs. Guests can taste wine here, or I want a pot of cherry tea and herbal tea, which are special here, and enjoy some desserts.

Simply came in, and Ben Qi didn't continue to be pretentious, he simply sent the Buddha to the west, and led Yan Suizhi to the depths of the park with a late mother's face.

"Sit here first."

They picked a table and chairs surrounded by strawberries and crescent moon grass, and the waiter quickly brought out liqueur, ice cubes, cream, a plate of delicate snacks to go with the wine, and three thin glasses, one for each Inside are decorated with a pulp red cherry.

The young man skillfully matched wine for the three of them, and smiled at them: "Take it easy, if you need anything, you need to ring the bell on the table."

Yan Suizhi ate some snacks to make a cushion, then picked up the cup and took a sip.

He is very clear about everything. It is one thing to be followed to find trouble, but it is another thing to be brought in with Ben Qi's help, so he swallowed the sweet wine and said to Ben Qi: "Thank you, turn around I'll give you a bottle of silver-bottomed Camon."

Silver-bottomed Camon is a famous first-class wine in Cherry Manor. It belongs to the style with the most acceptable taste and is suitable as a gift.

but expensive...

Ben Qi rolled his eyes, "You can buy Ginza Kamon and you want me to take you in?"

The implication is don't tease me, I still don't count on it.

Yan Suizhi raised his eyebrows, but did not explain.

"Zhao Zemu went to the prayer room." Ben Qi raised his chin towards a separate path in the distance, "He has to stay there for a long time every time, if you have enough time, you can wait, anyway, we are leaving. "

He seemed to be busy with other things, or there were other people who wanted to follow the filming, so he didn't plan to stay here any longer.After swallowing the whole glass of rum in one gulp, he urged Hersey to drink it up and leave quickly.

So 5 minutes later, Yan Sui was the only one left in the depths of the cherry orchard. He was drinking rum in a leisurely manner. His eyes scanned the surrounding flowers and plants, and finally fell on the road on the trail.

At the end of the path is a warm-toned house known as the Prayer House.

Cherry Manor has a full service here, and specially set up a prayer room for some gentlemen and ladies who drink away their sorrows. There is a prayer officer in charge of listening to complaints and drunken words, which is a bit similar to the priests in ancient times.You can safely say anything in front of him, and according to regulations, he has the right and obligation to keep what you say confidential.

Ben Qi is indeed a person who has been following the film for a long time, and he knows Zhao Zemu's habits very well.

Yan Suizhi sat here for an hour, and it was already dark before Zhao Zemu came out of the prayer room.I haven't seen him for a while, but he looks like he has had a lot of vicissitudes, with a layer of green stubble appearing on his chin, which is far from the meticulously groomed appearance before.

He ran into an acquaintance on the road, and forced himself to exchange a few words with him.

"Why did you come here suddenly? I thought you wouldn't be going out anytime soon." The man said.

Zhao Zemu nodded, and said a little tiredly: "I suddenly want to see it recently."

The man suddenly realized, "Oh, I remembered, you, Manson and Joe, you always come here to drink bars before? I remember who mentioned it?"

Zhao Zemu: "Well, a long time ago, when I was a teenager, I used my family's name to secretly drink."

The man laughed, "It seems that I have done this kind of thing before, looking for wine with my parents' names in the garden to change the label, I thought it was fun to play a prank at that time."

"Yes."

The man thought about it and sighed again, "I heard that Manson is still in good health?"

Although the Manson family blocked part of the news, the people in the same circle heard some rumors.

Zhao Zemu: "Well... Recently, I always think of the stupid things Manson did when he was a teenager, so I come here for a walk."

"Hey..." The man patted Zhao Zemu's shoulder, "I don't know what will happen to him."

Zhao Zemu was silent for a long time, and then said, "I will always be discharged from the hospital. That's all right, let's not talk, I'll go first."

"Okay, next time I have time to drink!"

"Ah."

When Zhao Zemu passed by, Yan Suizhi turned his face inward while drinking.

According to the regulations here, as the defense lawyer of the suspect Chen Zhang, he cannot meet the witnesses of the victim at will. If he wants to meet, he needs to report and go through the process first, so as not to threaten the witness to change the testimony.

Yan Sui came to Cherry Manor on a whim, and of course he didn't go through the process.He just came to observe Zhao Zemu's state, and didn't intend to have a direct conversation with him.

Sure enough, Zhao Zemu didn't see him and left in a hurry.

The person left behind was still in the garden, chatting with another fellow traveler about Zhao Zemu naturally.

"Is his relationship with Manson so good? Why didn't I see it?"

"That's because you didn't know them before. When they were young, they had a good relationship. He, Joe, and Manson became estranged when they grew up. After all, they were not friends."

"Indeed, he looks calmer?"

"He's so smart in his bones! Manson deserves to be called the stupidest of the three."

……

After Yan Suizhi heard that they had run out of people indiscriminately, he drank the last bit of wine, wiped his finger with the snack carefully with a clean tissue, and then left.

The next day, there was no good sign since early morning, the sky was dark, and the wind was blowing everywhere.

Yan Suizhi arrived at the detention center on time at the meeting time.

"Wait a minute, I'll bring Chen Zhang over here." The tiger-faced guard saw that he came every day and made Chen Zhang look dazed every day, but he didn't talk about the case seriously, which was quite unlucky.Even his tone softened a bit.

Yan Suizhi sat down in his usual place in the meeting room, nodded, "Excuse me."

As a result, the wait was another 10 minutes.

Even the guards guarding the door couldn't bear to look at it, one of them glanced into the interview room, and whispered to the other: "Don't just go around and go back to the starting point, why do I think Chen Zhang wants to come back again?" Refuse to meet again."

"That's too difficult."

"This intern is also unlucky. He met such a client as soon as he came up."

"I'm so unlucky."

The two thought their voices were very low, but in fact, Yan Suizhi could hear most of the small conversations, so they couldn't laugh or cry.

But he was not in a hurry, and he still sat relaxed in the chair.

Another 10 minutes later, the guard at the door slammed his heels against the wall and stood up straight.

"Damn it, it's here!"

"It's half past the meeting time..."

There was the sound of slow footsteps in the corridor, heavy and dragging, accompanied by the soft sound of metal bumping on the handcuffs.

Yan Suizhi clasped his hands loosely and put them on the table. He knew that Chen Zhang had figured it out.Maybe there were countless reasons for him to reject and resist telling the truth before, and maybe there were countless obstacles that prevented him from speaking, but now, he must have figured it out.

Today's Chen Zhang looks twice as haggard as yesterday, his eyes are black and blue, the beard on the upper and lower lips has been connected into pieces, his hair is sticky, and even the muscles trained by diving all year round seem to have collapsed. covered by clothing.

But his eyes are bright and his gaze is deep.

He sat down in his seat and said slowly: "Yesterday's recording was played back in my mind many times, many times, so I couldn't fall asleep all night. I heard my dad and my mom kept asking I, suffering or not, do I want them..."

He fell silent for a while, then smiled wryly, "I said, how can I... I just..."

"I'm just scared to see them..."

"You know? My family has a genetic disease. When I reach the age of 60, there is a high probability that I will be paralyzed. I am not far away from that, and it will be four or five years at most. In fact, this disease is not incurable, including my mother's. Heart and lung, if you really want to treat it, find the best hospital for autologous transplantation, choose the healthiest backup time, and replace the damaged organs with the grown organs. I have consulted...that is...that I can't earn that much money."

Chen Zhangdao: "If it is a more useful person who earns more, they may not have to lie in the hospital like that now. So I don't want to see them, I am ashamed to see them... The closer the time to the onset of illness, the more I don't want to see them , I want to go a little farther and find a small hospital that they don't know about and wait for the disease to occur."

"In the past two years, every few days, I have been fantasizing like a bewildered man, why doesn't the sky drop pie, or where a tornado comes, and some money is blown in front of me...I think about it every day, dream every day I'm thinking about it."

……

He seemed to regard Yan Suizhi as the kind of prayer officer in Cherry Manor, and poured out all the complaints and dreams of these years, and the more he talked, the more he couldn't stop.

But Yan Suizhi didn't urge, didn't show any impatience, and didn't show any pity or sympathy, just like listening to an ordinary conversation, which made Chen Zhang very relaxed and felt that it didn't matter what he said.

After a long time, Chen Zhang finally finished digging the dusty mud and let out a long breath.

Only then did he raise his eyes and look at Yan Suizhi without hesitation, "I've been thinking about it all night, and I think... They should want to see me more than a handful of money falling from the sky, right?"

Yan Suizhi said, "Of course."

He thought for a while and then said, "And for those high-cost surgeries you mentioned, there are some places where they can be greatly reduced. At least I know of one or two."

Chen Zhang's eyes widened instantly, "Really?"

"Of course, there will be some conditions, but they are not harsh." Yan Suizhi said, "It's just that the environment may not be as good as Tianqin Star, in Wine City."

Chen Zhang stared into his eyes for a long time, as if to confirm the credibility of his words.After a while, he closed his eyes as if making up his mind, opened them again, and said, "About...about that case...about Mr. Manson...I was wrong."

Yan Suizhi looked at him.

After he finished speaking, he took a deep breath and let it out slowly, "But it's not murder."

Yan Suizhi nodded, "Then, tell me if you want me to plead guilty or not guilty."

Chen Zhang pinched his fingers and said, "Not guilty."

"it is good."

"I didn't do those things, but..." Chen Zhangdao, "but I made a confession, my fingerprints remained on the syringe, the bottom of the medicine bottle, and—"

Yan Suizhi interrupted him calmly, "Those are not for you to consider, just promise to tell the truth, and leave the rest to me."

Suddenly there was a thunder sound outside, which passed through the door wall faintly. Chen Zhang's fingers trembled, and he slowly clenched them tightly. He suddenly said as if waking up from a dream: "Okay, I promise."

After a whole day of cloudiness, a torrential rain finally fell, and the cold and huge raindrops hit the eaves and walls, instantly getting wet.

The water on the street was gurgling straight, and soon there was no place to step down.

Yan Suizhi walked out along the corridor of the detention center, the window glass was covered with rain, and from time to time, lightning flashed to illuminate half of the sky.

He silently opened the asset card and glanced at it, thinking that he was going to finish it, but Gu Yan's crow's mouth really hit the mark, the balance was so terrible that it was painful to buy an umbrella.

No matter how long the corridor in the detention center is, there is an end. Seeing the rain outside, he had to stop one meter away from the gate.

Just when he was about to smash the cans and lean against the wall to laugh and wait for the rain to stop, he saw a figure coming out of the car across the street. come this way.

When he reached the steps of the gate of the detention center, he tilted the edge of his umbrella slightly and looked up at Yan Suizhi.

Yan Sui was taken aback, and stood up straight.

The other party's face was blurred in the heavy rain, but he could still recognize it at a glance, it was Gu Yan.

Yan Suizhi called out the holographic screen, and sent a message with brisk fingers:

- Didn't you say it's only at night?

Gu Yan didn't look at the smartphone at all, and walked up the steps holding an umbrella.He stopped in front of the door, and said casually, "Send messages within five meters?"

Yan Suizhi: "Who sent me a message yesterday to make me look up? I can't remember."

Gu Yan: "..."

Professor Yanda was rescued, and immediately followed Gu Yan down the stairs, walking side by side to the gate of the courtyard.

"The room is booked?" Gu Yan asked.

Yan Suizhi said, "No order."

Gu Yan: "?"

Yan Suizhi said calmly: "The balance is only enough to add an extra bed in my room, and now I can't even afford an umbrella."

"..."

Lawyer Gu's face was blank, and he couldn't tell whether he was shocked by the "extra bed" or by "can't even afford an umbrella".

But it seems that he kind of wants to leave the people under the umbrella in the rainstorm.

Yan Suizhi silently admired his expression, and finally couldn't help laughing, "Okay, just to tease you, it's booked. But you have to explain to me, am I a scourge, add a bed and your face will look like this ?”

Without squinting, Gu Yan kept silent, went to the side of the street and opened the car door, and pushed someone in.

He sat down in the driver's seat by himself, put away the umbrella and put it in the umbrella holder. Just as he was about to start the car, a long and thin white hand suddenly stretched out beside him.

"Give me the money, the room deposit. Thanks to your crow's mouth, your teacher really can't afford an umbrella." Yan Suizhi said.

Gu Yan: "..."

Why don't you pawn yourself for a ticket?