straight to heaven

There are not many things that need to be taken away from the shared house, only two suitcases.I didn't call the moving company, I just called Pei Yanlai.

Near noon, I looked at the room that had been emptied, and my first thought was that I am so awesome now that I can easily call Pei Yan to work hard.

Pushing the suitcase out of the room door, the couple next door was woken up by the noise, and the two poked their heads out with sleepy eyes.

"Are you leaving?" The woman lifted her collar and smiled at me.

"Hmm." I nodded.

There is a distance of a wall, and I have been with two neighbors for several years.The shallow fate between people is pitiful. When we parted, I began to forget all kinds of frictions caused by trivial matters.

The man suddenly remembered something and scratched his hair: "Wait a minute, we have something for you." He patted his girlfriend, who also woke up like a dream, went back to the house and took out a brown paper bag.

The two of them are floating in the capital. I only heard that they used to be barbers, but they changed jobs later. I don't know exactly what they are doing now.

The woman handed me the paper bag: "We both work in a nail salon. This is the nail polish I bought internally. The colors are all popular colors. I heard that you have a date a while ago, and many girls like these .”

The man also smiled shyly: "Just accept it, the price is not expensive. Every time there is a problem with the toilet pipe, you will fix it. Zhenzhen and I have always been very embarrassed."

"..."

The target is there, but the orientation is very different.This is a big misunderstanding.

Zero and zero are always intentions.

I took the parting gift, coughed dryly twice to cover up my embarrassment: "...Thank you, him, he should like it."

The young lovers looked at each other and smiled, I...I couldn't help but laugh.

The atmosphere is good, but it won't last forever.The door creaked, and the programmer pushed open the door and walked out of his room.

I rarely see other people on weekends.

This obsessive roommate, who is obviously sub-healthy, either stays at home and orders takeout, or disappears without a trace.This was the first time I saw a ghost in the daytime.

"Yo." He dressed up today, and he didn't know who to see: "Big lawyer, did you really move away?"

Just guessed it would happen.After all, not long ago, I was uttering harsh words in the corridor, saying, I was so exhausted with him that he would go out by himself.But there is no way, Pei Yan begged me all the time, this kind of stuff is nothing but a fart.

I can't be bothered to talk to him.Looking at the time, Pei Yanlai has been waiting downstairs for a long time, I don't want him to waste time because of this person.

Programmers take the initiative to pick things up.

"Don't worry, they're all roommates. I just happen to have a gift for you too."

He took out a toy from his pocket, very delicately shaped.He threw it at me, I turned my head, and the dense plastic product hit the ground, rolled a few times, and I don't know if it has been used.

The young couple couldn't stand it anymore, their faces flushed with embarrassment, and they scolded: "My God, are you a psychopath?!"

The programmer looked like he was being treated as a donkey with good intentions, and said: "My friend, I am also thinking about you. Rich women are generally difficult to deal with. Older people have greater needs. I am afraid you will not be able to bear it."

I can do everything I need to defecate on the ground. I was not surprised that he gave me this parting "gift" today.

It's just this cheap face that really pissed me off.

I put the suitcase against the wall and was about to move my shoulders when someone knocked on the door.

"...I'll open it." The woman stepped on her slippers, and when the door opened, she suddenly became nervous and asked stammeringly, "Excuse me, who are you looking for?"

I turned my head and heard her reaction. I didn't need to look to know who was looking for her, so I turned back.

"Hello," came the gentleman and said gently, "I'm looking for Lin Xiaoshan."

"Ah, ah... He, he's inside." The woman cleared her throat: "You don't need to change your shoes, just come in."

"Okay, excuse me."

Sensing familiar footsteps approaching.

My fierce arrogance collapsed, and I asked him: "Wait in a hurry?"

Pei Yanlai smiled and said nothing.But I know that this person is impatient, and this is probably the reason for going upstairs.

The house is not big, but there are still a few steps from the porch to the living room.Pei Yanlai caught off guard and kicked the toy on the ground, and the toy rolled a few centimeters, leaving wet marks on the ground whether it was oil or something... I don't want to think about it.

But Pei Yanlai is far less generous than me.

It’s rare for him to have no work today, so he didn’t wear formal clothes. The sneakers are still the same style as mine. I just bought them two days ago. Unfortunately, the first time I wore them, I stepped on something dirty with my right foot.

"..." Pei Yanlai raised his right leg and took a step back.He lowered his eyes, restrained his indescribable gloom, and asked calmly, "Why don't you pick up the trash after throwing it away?"

Programmer wondering: "Who are you?"

I handed Pei Yan a piece of toilet paper to shine his shoes, and when I heard him ask, I thought it was ridiculous: "It's none of your business."

The programmer looked Pei Yanlai up and down, maybe his eyes were naturally obscene, I felt uncomfortable, I took a step to the left to block the sight of Pei Yanlai, "What the hell are you looking at?"

The programmer was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to think of, and his expression suddenly became strange: "I thought you were next to a rich woman, so it turned out that you made a lot of money."

My teeth itch with anger.

But Pei Yan came to press the side of my neck to keep me out of the way.I obediently make room.

Pei Yanlai squatted down to polish the shoes, and then wrapped the toys in paper.He approached in two steps, opened the programmer's mouth, and stabbed most of the thing in.Then he pressed his face and pushed him down on the dilapidated sofa.

The place is small, and when it fell down and bumped into other things, the programmer coughed and howled like a pig.

"I told you to pick it up," Pei Yanlai kicked open the door of his room, and said calmly, "Why didn't you listen."

It was the first time to visit the house, and there was too much commotion.

"..."

"..."

The couple looked at me dumbfounded, and I touched the side of my neck. I didn't know how to explain it, so I didn't say anything, and followed Pei Yanlai into the programmer's room.

—if it counts as a room.

It was horribly messy, smelled bad, the screen and the mouse were covered with greasy stains, the floor was full of clumps of waste paper and leftover takeaway food, and mottled women's stockings were thrown on the bed.

The shared room has poor privacy, and he keeps the door closed, which is not surprising, but I never thought that the next door could be compared to a garbage dump.

There was his badge on the computer desk, Pei Yanlai was rather disgusted, and turned it over with the car key.

A thin plastic-covered card was turned over, revealing a two-inch bareheaded photo, job number and name.The person in the photo is thinner than now, probably taken when he first started working, and his name is Wang Haotian.

Pei Yanlai glanced at it, then threw it aside, focusing on the stack of pills at hand.One part is the disassembled jin Ge, and the other part has no label, and the tablet size is similar to motion sickness medicine.A little familiar.

"This is..." I frowned.

Pei Yanlai didn't say anything.

He took a photo with his mobile phone, pressed the back of my head, and said, "Let's go."

Leaving the dump, the programmer just spat out the toy.He was lying on the ground coughing and gasping for breath, sometimes accompanied by retching, his face and neck were flushed red, he didn't know whether he was irritated or choked.

Pei Yanlai squatted down, stuffed a business card with an unfamiliar pattern onto his sweat-stained neckline, and slowly wiped his hands with a disinfectant wipe.

The programmer's eyes were about to burst, but Pei Yanlai met his gaze in a leisurely manner.

When Pei Yanlai didn't smile, he looked like a god without sorrow or joy, but compassion was not an additional characteristic.

As expected, the programmers were quickly defeated.

"..."

He blinked in a panic, and looked away first, not daring to breathe.I can empathize with this taste in my early years.

Pei Yanlai threw the wet wipe on his face, and said softly, "You will use it."

Before he and I carried a suitcase and left the shared room, Pei Yanlai still smiled and bid farewell to the couple, as if nothing had happened.It's just that this time the woman's complexion was stiff, and she could no longer show a shy smile.

I didn't know what to say, I just said goodbye to the two neighbors when I closed the familiar door with "Five blessings coming to the door, good luck in x year".

Most of the luggage was placed in the Mingzhu Accord, and it was already dark.

Pei Yan and I agreed to go downstairs to eat noodles, but I sat on the suitcase that had been emptied, staring at my phone and forgetting the time.

Pei Yanlai suddenly stretched out his legs and kicked, and the suitcase slid forward for less than one meter. I was led to run forward, and after braking the car, I turned around manually on the spot.

But his hand slipped and the phone fell to the ground.

He leaned down and picked up the phone for me: "Let's go."

"it is good."

I nodded and took it, the screen still stopped on the picture of a page in the album.

It was a rape case that happened in Capital University last year. The prosecution accused the defendant of using illegally sold hallucinogens to rape the victim.

Some of these women were introduced by friends, met the defendant at a party, and some were even targeted and regarded as prey just because they were sitting alone at the next table with the defendant in a restaurant.

The scientific name of the drug is very complicated, and I haven't looked it up and found the photos of the evidence.

"There is something wrong with Wang Haotian's medicine." I am sure: "Two days ago, I accidentally saw a photo in his mobile phone."

Pei Yanlai asked, "What photo?"

I recalled: "It passed by in a flash. I didn't think about it at the time, but now that I think about it, it should be a candid shot. The angle of view... seems to be in the women's bathroom."

I couldn't hold back, and cursed in a low voice: "Bastard."

Pei Yanlai hummed, turned on the phone, sent a few messages, and then said to me, "Tomorrow, I will contact Lawyer Tian in Anyi to send the Buddha to the West."

Attorney Tian from Anyi Law Firm?The pre-court work is a mess, the professional quality is notorious, and in a sense he is also a person.

If I remember correctly, the last rapist who was defended by him with aggravated circumstances received a maximum sentence of fixed-term imprisonment.

... indeed sent the Buddha to the West.

When we went downstairs, Pei Yanlai and I contacted the police.

Until sitting in the handmade noodle shop, holding the beef noodles and biting the marinated egg, I was still thinking.

The owner of the noodle shop brought another side dish.

I was in a daze, and picked up a piece of pickled Jerusalem artichoke with my chopsticks.Before it was handed to his mouth, Pei Yanlai snatched it with a horizontal knife.

He threw it into the trash can, and I didn't realize it later. Ginger has been my sworn enemy since I can remember, and I was depressed for three days after eating it.

I am not at ease.

"Tell me... How many such terrible things are still hidden in the shadows that have not been discovered? Why is it always more difficult to do than to be silent, to break the prejudice and hear the voice?" I blew on my hot face and asked.

The noodles are just out of the pan, and the air is hot in front of my eyes.

Pei Yanlai's face is blurred at this moment, but all kinds of pictures from the past are extremely clear.

"A lot. Judiciary is the last barrier of social fairness and justice, but in the final analysis, it is people who operate. Interests are intertwined. It is biologically logical to have difficulty speaking when the five senses are closed."

Two questions, two answers.

His eyes collided with mine through the untouchable mist.

Yes, he was right.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Programmers are still like this, and they are still living in peace.I can't say anything else.

But what can a lawyer do?what to do

In fact, Pei Yan and I often had such rambling topics in high school.Humanities or nature... He and I have very different ways of thinking, but they always resonate in some places.

Maybe he really can read minds.

I didn't ask some questions, but Pei Yanlai answered them for me.

"Do what you want to do."

"..."

I froze for a moment.

The analogy to Tang Seng in Journey to the West is probably more appropriate. I realized that I was surrounded by a huge and indestructible barrier by him with ease.

This is an absolute safe zone, and it is still only open to me after all these years.

The taste of being preferred is too addictive, I have to admit, I already know the taste.

? Aleph Zero

* Jin Ge, you can use Baidu.

The basis for Pei's last sentence is that he clearly knows that Shan is kind and sincere. "What I want to do" does not refer to things such as one-sided pursuit of substantive justice and not safeguarding the interests of the defendant when defending the defendant, and other things that violate professional codes, but refers to whether there is a subjectivity to break the silence in the face of some larger and unspeakable "oppression" Will and objective action.

After writing this, everyone should be able to see that Pei's indifference stems from his full egoism, but he still has his own warmth.