To die

For the next few days, Lin Yan stayed in the hotel.

Lu Hanqian's state is too strange, like a lion that may explode at any time.

Being by his side made Lin Yan feel dangerous and threatened.In the hotel, he can have a quiet environment and think carefully about how to deal with the next thing.

This matter was done by Lu Hanqian too stupidly.

It was clear that the case had nothing to do with him, but he wanted to put Lin Yan in such a rut, he was so full.

Lin Yan had no choice but to find a way to unblock it himself.

He was originally a man of few words and was not good at socializing. He always kept a polite and distant distance from others. He had few friends and seldom had hostility with others.

It is almost impossible to ask someone for help suddenly like this, to fight against the entire Lu family and Zhao Yu.

The mayfly shakes the tree, but that's all.

But Lin Yan had no choice.

He is like a tightrope walker, every year, every day, and every moment, he walks between the shores of the sky.

As long as you take a short nap, you will fall into the abyss.

In the middle of the night, Lin Yan was lying in a dark room, tossing and turning, having messy dreams.

He dreamed of a woman sitting on the balcony, in his line of sight now and then far and near.

The little Lin Yan stood behind her, looking at her probingly, feeling very familiar.

After a while, he called her, and the woman turned around and smiled at him.

... What a beautiful woman that is, charming and charming, with affectionate eyebrows, wearing a long white skirt, as beautiful as a fairy.

Lin Yan stared at the cinnabar mole between her eyebrows, but in the next second, she suddenly fell headfirst.

This face is [-]% similar to him.

In the dimness, he vaguely heard his grandmother's mournful and hoarse voice again, saying over and over again, "Yanyan, it would be nice if someone pulled your mother back then, if you give her a pull, maybe she won't jump off... ......"

Lin Yan closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

——Give her a hand, maybe she won't jump off.

Lin Yan was very persistent in Gu Li's case and refused to withdraw.

He called his colleagues, one after another, but the call log was full of rows and rows of "not connected."

Everyone has more or less got wind that no one is allowed to intervene in Lawyer Lin's case this time.

The ancients said, "Human affection is like paper", but in the face of power and interests, human affection is more than just paper, and it is flattering to say it is a bubble.

Lin Yan ordered a private room at the Meritus Hotel, with seats for 18 people, and only four people attended the banquet.

——Including Lin Yan himself.

There were three remaining, one was an old senior who had always admired Lin Yan's talent and temperament, the other was Li Jian, who had leaked information about him before, and the assistant from their law firm who came to help.

Lin Yan smiled when he saw the full banquet and the empty tables and chairs in the huge private room.

But there was no frustration or loss in that smile, but very calm, calm and calm.

He poured himself a full glass of wine.

"This cup, I respect everyone first, and you are willing to come to my banquet."

Lin Yan drank it calmly, without humility or arrogance, and said with a smile: "I know, by appearing here today, you are betting on your future. If you are not careful, you will ruin your great future."

Everyone looked at each other.

Lin Yan finished his drink and added three more glasses.

Also drink to the bottom.

"Hey, Kobayashi."

In the silence that filled the room, only the old lawyer was the first to speak out: "If you want me to say, your case should be ignored. Don't act as an agent. The defendant...has been well prepared. If you want to This case smashed your 'zero loss' sign, it's not worth it."

"that is!"

Seeing this, Li Jian also persuaded: "It's not a big deal. How much money can it cost to raise a little girl who is so big, and ask Mr. Zhao to pay a little more. Why bother?"

"Lin Lu, I think you still don't understand the minds of these thugs—do you think they will thank you for putting so much effort into it?"

Li Jian went on to say: "Maybe, they just want to take this opportunity to extort more money. If you insist on it like this, they will blame you!"

"........."

Lin Yan didn't speak, and after a long while, he heard him say softly: "But Li Jian, human life is human life, there is no distinction between high and low."

"Xiao Lin, how about this," the old lawyer said, "I don't have a chance now, so you can wait for a while. When the time comes, you will meet a nobleman, and if you have the conditions, find someone to help you, and then you can settle the matter." .”

"Then what, the old saying goes, justice will only be late, but it will never be absent."

"Justice will only be late, not absent?"

Lin Yan repeated this sentence, raised his head to the old lawyer, and asked, "But justice that is delayed, is that still justice—what is the difference from the charity of the hegemony?"

"........."

The old lawyer was stunned by the question.

"Hey, hey." Seeing this, the little assistant quickly interjected: "Lin Lu, I know you are very good. In the office, I admire you the most... But this time, the situation is different. Knowing that With so little hope, why strike a stone with an egg."

why?

In Zhang Dai's words, it is called "doing what you know you can't do";

In the words of Mencius, it is called "Although there are thousands of people, I will go";

Lin Yan smiled and said, "Because as a lawyer, you have to have a bottom line in your heart."

When he said this, Li Jian and the old lawyer's faces were not very good-looking.

"I know you are doing it for my own good."

Lin Yan looked at the air and said in a low voice, "But I'm a lawyer."

"........."

"In this case, I still have a game later, so I will leave first."

Li Jian stood up with a very ugly expression on his face.

He originally thought that Lin Yan had something to do with the Lu family, and he didn't dare to offend without authorization, so he came to the banquet. Seeing Lin Yan's attitude, it's fine if nothing happens, but don't get himself involved again.

The old lawyer looked at Lin Yan, and after a while, he also came over and patted him on the shoulder: "Xiao Lin, think about it again. You are too stubborn... You will suffer sooner or later."

Lin Yan didn't say a word, the little assistant sat beside him for a while, looking at the untouched dishes on the table, and asked timidly, "Lin Lu, what should we do with the dishes?"

Lin Yan moved his eyelids, and said calmly, "It's okay. I'll settle the bill later, and charge the amount to my card."

"Why don't I pack up and go to the office......" The little assistant said a little regretfully, "Maybe everyone is working overtime, so it can be a midnight snack."

Lin Yan shook his head: "I'll buy it again after supper. This dish is already dirty."

"........."

In the next half month, Lin Yan went to participate in various large and small wine bureaus.

I didn't know before that it was so difficult to ask for help.

Many people hate Lin Yan.

Some are jealous of his unparalleled ability to argue and become famous at a young age; some are disgusted with his style of conduct, and don't know who to show for his integrity and arrogance;

It's rare to have a chance now, everyone sneered and insinuated, wishing to make Lin Yan look bad.

Finally, half a month later, Lin Yan was drunk too much, and suddenly fell unconscious in the bathroom.

But no one noticed his discomfort, and some people jokingly said, "Is it because Lawyer Lin can't bear our dirty appearance, so let's go first?"

The table was full of people roaring with laughter.

This is how the world is.

When everyone is going to the quagmire, if you don't agree with others, they will treat you as a different kind, and they can't wait to step on it.

It seems that this is the only way to hide his guilty conscience.

Lin Yan lay alone in the cubicle for half the night, and woke up around dawn.He stood up slowly leaning against the wall, and at that time, all the people in the private room had left.

Lin Yan went back to the hotel to rest for a few days. After feeling better, he went to see Gu Li.

Half a month later, the woman was deteriorating more and more at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If it wasn't for the fact that the case hadn't been opened yet and the result she wanted hadn't been reached, I'm afraid there would be nothing in this world that could keep her.

When Lin Yan entered, Gu Li was looking at her phone with her head down.

A very old smartphone with a small screen and cracks.

But the woman was fascinated by it, and when Lin Yan sat beside her, the woman came back to her senses.

"This is the photo of Nannie performing on stage for the first time."

The woman smiled and pointed to Lin Yan: "At that time, she was just over nine years old. The supermarket in front of the community opened. She went up and danced. They rewarded her with a 300 yuan voucher."

The pixels of the mobile phone are not good, and the photos are re-taken, and they are extremely blurry. Lin Yan stared at them for a long time, and could only see a blue costume.

"...She caught a cold that day and had a low fever. I told her not to go, so as not to catch another blow."

The woman said in a low voice: "But she really wanted the 300 yuan voucher, so she put it on in a skirt... Nanni doesn't have any dolls, everyone else has them. She wants to use the voucher to buy a Barbie. But More than 200 yuan, too expensive, I confiscated the voucher, and she cried a lot..."

"It was really poor at that time," the woman murmured, "how could you be so poor?...... I should have bought it for her. Now that I think about it, 200 yuan is worth it... ....."

One or two strands of hair hung down by Gu Li's ears, and hung yellowly by her ears, making her look extremely haggard.

She should only be in her forties, but she looks much older than her peers.

The failure of the marriage made the woman spend all her efforts and hopes on her only daughter.But then, God took her away.

Lin Yan listened to Gu Li's murmur to herself, thinking ecstatically, this world is so strange.

Some people are so rich that they can spend a lot of money, and some people are so poor that they have to calculate whether to eat breakfast or not.

What is even more incomprehensible is that the richer the person, the more opportunities to climb up and the more opportunities to obtain money.

Those poor people seem to be nailed to death in a painful cycle.

As the old saying goes, poor people must have something to hate.

But the more Lin Yan lived, the more he felt that some people were really just pitiful.

Their fate was determined from birth, and it was God who treated them unfairly.

"This is when my daughter was ten years old, when she was 12 years old, when she was 13 years old..."

Before hospitalization, the woman copied all the old photos at home into her mobile phone, and she was afraid that bringing the originals would damage them.

Looking at them one by one, her expression became very gentle, which is the kind of tenderness that a mother unconsciously brings when talking about her daughter.

It's like the silent moon shadow in that pool of water in the deep mountains.

"......it's 16 years old."

At the end of the page, the woman's hands trembled involuntarily: "The last photo she took before the accident."

In the photo, a young girl is standing under a tree with a ponytail, looking at the camera shyly and smiling.

After all, she was not deeply involved in the world, and the boss told her that she could get a generous salary just by going to the evening banquet for a cutscene.

She just believed it.

——Maybe she didn’t believe it either, but fate had driven her to a dead end. The only mother needed so much money to see a doctor, and she had no choice.

"They won't touch you. The bosses are good people," the agent said.

Gu Li's eyes were red, but she didn't shed tears. She only said with a slightly choked voice, "I'd rather she wasn't so sensible."

"I should teach her to be self-willed, so that she won't..."

The woman whimpered in her throat and couldn't continue.

Lin Yan couldn't help but stood up and patted her on the back lightly.

"Lawyer Lin, let's win the case... let those people, those things that are not as good as beasts, get the punishment they deserve...!"

Gu Li raised her head and looked at Lin Yan sadly, her eyes were like a cluster of flickering flames that would go out at some point, and she was desperately waiting for someone to rescue her.

Lin Yan is her last hope.

...... But the woman didn't know that the lawyer Lin in front of her was three days ago because of this case, she also asked someone to drink with a smile until she fell into a coma.

In the face of monstrous power, sometimes justice will appear so small.

Lin Yan was silent for a while, then looked down at the woman, smiled, and said, "Yes, we can win."

This reassurance was like a reassurance, and Gu Li's face suddenly regained its expression.

She held Lin Yan's hand tightly, as if she was holding on to the only driftwood: "Lawyer Lin, I knew you could do it! They all said that you haven't lost a single case so far, and you can win every case you represent. Got it!"

"—You really are the conscience of the legal profession!"

Lin Yan sat there quietly with a smile, without speaking.

Gu Li looked at him, as if she suddenly remembered something: "Yes, Lawyer Lin, I wanted to tell you last time. Why does your face always look so bad? Are you thinking about something bothering you?"

Lin Yan was taken aback, and subconsciously touched his cheek: "...Huh?"

"Auntie always looks preoccupied every time she sees you."

The woman smiled, and the corners of her eyes were slightly wrinkled, "You are only in your twenties, you should live happily."

"......"

Lin Yan pursed his lips, not knowing how to answer.

——Just to survive, he has exhausted all his strength.

I really don't know how to be happier.

Gu Li looked at him gently: "Lawyer Lin, you are the best person I have ever met...God will take care of you."

Lin Yan said softly, "......Ah, is that so......"

"Your mother must be a beauty."

Gu Li suddenly smiled and said, "My son is like my mother, she is very beautiful."

Lin Yan was slightly taken aback, a little lost in thought.

After a while, he whispered: "...She passed away very early, when I was only four years old."

"Now, there are many things that I can't remember clearly."

"...I'm sorry," the woman said guiltily, "I shouldn't have asked you."

Lin Yan shook his head: "It's okay."

He was sitting beside Gu Li's hospital bed, his face was still a little pale, his eyelashes were drooping, and his eyes lightly fell on the fruit basket on the cabinet.

"When I was young, my grandmother also said that I looked like my mother, especially my eyes, which were exactly the same as hers."

——It's just that Lin Yan inherited his father's temperament, elegant and quiet.

These charming eyes made his appearance very contradictory, clear and sharp.

Whenever Lin Yan looked at something, there was a lingering feeling that he couldn't tell whether it was dull or unfinished.

"She was my dad's music student."

After a while, Lin Yan suddenly said in a soft voice: "At that time, he had only been teaching at the school for a short time. He was the youngest teacher at the Paris National Conservatory of Music. It just so happened that my mother went abroad to study in order to prepare for entering the music scene."

June in France is when the sycamore trees are at their most prosperous.

The elegant and handsome piano teacher met the girl in the long white skirt on the avenue covered with sycamore leaves.

She is an actress, and she was famous in the country for a while, and she was full of amorous feelings every time she looked at her.

So he taught her musical form, polyphony, music theory, and told her about the history of Chinese and Western music... Everything was hazy like an old dream.

If there were no things that happened later, what a beautiful and beautiful beginning this would have been.

"It's no wonder that Lawyer Lin's conversation is extraordinary. It turns out that he is a child from such a good background."

Gu Li was surprised: "The first time I saw you, I felt that you were different from other people. You were the kind of person who felt very educated..."

Lin Yan smiled lightly: "No, my parents passed away very early. I grew up with my grandmother."

Lin Yan never mentioned these old things to anyone in the past 20 years.

The truly unforgettable scar is that even if it has scabbed over, it still hurts to look at it.

He came here alone with everything on his back, wading through mountains and rivers, thousands of rivers and mountains, covered with bruises, and walked too far, too far.

Finally, he felt tired for the first time.

Things that are buried too deep in the heart will rot like a plant, and the broken juice will soak into the heart, and the breath will be suffocating.

After leaving the hospital, Lin Yan didn't go back to the hotel, but took a taxi back.

He finally sorted out the court appearance plan at home, and after making sure that there were no omissions, he calmly cooked bowls of porridge for himself.

In the evening, when Lu Hanqian opened the door and saw Lin Yan came back, he was slightly surprised, but soon he smiled as expected.

While unbuttoning his tie and clothes, he walked over, raised his eyebrows and said, "Why, have you figured it out?"