Chapter 2 Stupid Lawyer

Zhu Shan was sitting in the lobby of the police station, her mind not dizzy, and she was thinking carefully about how to face Ling Xiao later.

After all, we haven’t seen each other for four years!

After all, he came back secretly!

After a while, Qu Lianjie walked out with his bag slung across his body, lowering his head and fiddling with the mobile phone in his hand.

Zhu Shan stood up respectfully and greeted friendly, "Director Qu."

Qu Lianjie raised his head, his eyes lit up, he took out his voice recorder from his down jacket and walked over, "Xiao Zhu, let me interview you."

Zhu Shan was a little speechless at the name "Xiao Zhu", and she stuck her head out, "Director, can you change the name?"

"Shanshan?"

Zhu Shan frowned, then nodded, "Hello, Director Qu, I am the new person reporting here today. I'm sorry to cause you trouble today."

"No trouble." Qu Lianjie sat down and motioned for Zhu Shan to sit down as well, "Isn't the news coming soon?"

Zhu Shan, "..."

After Qu Lianjie finished speaking, he took out a mask, "Here, you put it on and I'll interview you for a few words."

Zhu Shan didn't put on the mask immediately, and her eyes turned on Qu Lianjie's face in disbelief.

Qu Lianjie continued to fool this newcomer in the workplace, "Shanshan, this is called keeping the money from outsiders. It's ready-made news, you know?"

The corners of Zhu Shan's mouth twitched twice, she grabbed the mask and hung it on her ears, and then accepted Qu Lianjie's interview.

Because Qu Lianjie's questions were humorous, Zhu Shan gradually relaxed.

Until she heard the sound of leather shoes on the floor.

Zhu Shan's back stiffened and she stood up.

Two seconds later, Zhu Shan saw Ling Xiao's tall figure coming into view.

She took off her mask and said, "Director Qu, that's what happened. I don't know anything else."

Looking up again, Zhu Shan saw Ling Xiao waving to her, and she immediately went up.

Zhu Shan took several pieces of paper from the police uncle and signed them one by one.

Ling Xiao, "Officer Song, I'm sorry to trouble you today."

"Why are you meeting me?" Officer Song smiled and patted Ling Xiao on the shoulder, then stared at Zhu Shan who was signing the contract, "Sister-in-law, your husband is Ling Xiao, why didn't you tell me?"

Siblings?

Zhu Shan's signature became more and more unnatural, and she forced herself to say hypocritically, "He has a special job, and I'm afraid that my affairs will cause unnecessary trouble to him."

"You two have a really good relationship as a couple."

What a fart!

After Zhu Shan finished signing, she was looking at Officer Song's stalwart figure when Ling Xiao's playful voice came from behind her.

"Shanshan, you signed without even looking at the content?"

Zhu Shan's heart trembled, she turned around slowly and met Ling Xiao's sharp gaze.

She shrank her neck and then frowned, "Ling Xiao, what do you mean?"

Ling Xiao curled his lips, and silence was better than sound at this time.

Zhu Shan was confused and panicked.

Since she was at the police station, she deliberately lowered her voice, "Ling Xiao, I signed this because I trust you!"

Ling Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly and uttered two words mockingly, "Trust?"

Angry!

He must be angry!

But Zhu Shan suddenly realized that Ling Xiao would not sell herself out.

He was just scaring himself.

She turned her face away, took a step back, and said in a nonchalant tone, "If you have anything to say, we'll talk about it later. I have to go back to work, and aren't you in a hurry?"

After Zhu Shan finished speaking, she walked towards Qu Lianjie.

Suddenly, Ling Xiao grabbed his little arm.

Through the coat, Zhu Shan could clearly feel the strength of Ling Xiao's fingers.

Zhu Shan twitched her hand, but it was no use.

So he said in an unhappy tone, "What are you doing?"

Ling Xiao's voice was strong and domineering, "Follow me."

"I do not go."

Ling Xiao ignored Zhu Shan completely and dragged her towards the door.

Qu Lianjie, who was standing next to him, had been observing them for a long time. He patted his thigh and came forward, "Lawyer Ling, Zhu Shan is my subordinate. It would be inappropriate for you to take her away."

Zhu Shan immediately echoed, "Ling Xiao, I still have to go to work."

Unexpectedly, Qu Lianjie 'sold' her with the next sentence, "If I am lucky enough to have your business card, I can give her a day off..."

Zhu Shan's head seemed to have been struck by lightning, she was in disbelief.

Then she watched Ling Xiao take out a black leather business card holder with one hand and pry open the cover with his fingers, "Please take it yourself."

His tone was so arrogant.

As a result, Qu Lianjie smiled and twirled out a business card, "Thank you Ling Lu."

Then he looked at Zhu Shan without any guilt, "Shanshan, come to the TV station early tomorrow to report."

Zhu Shan, "..."

Looking at Qu Lianjie's round and flexible back, Zhu Shan was truly speechless.

She was "held hostage" by Ling Xiao and walked to the parking lot. She had no choice but to soften her tone to please, "Brother Ling Xiao, don't you still have something to do? Why do you care about me?"

elder brother?

The corners of Ling Xiao's mouth twitched and he asked instead of answering, "How did you know something was wrong with me?"

"I just saw you looking at your watch several times."

"Yeah, good observation skills."

Zhu Shan, "..." I don't want you to praise me.

Ling Xiao stopped teasing her, "I have a court hearing in an hour, it's really urgent."

"Then I..."

"Don't bother me!" Ling Xiao blocked her words, glanced at her, and teased, "I'm wasting my time here just for you."

"..."

"And didn't you say that? If you have anything to say, we'll talk about it later." Ling Xiao snorted lightly and said in a slow tone, "I don't like talking about it later. When the trial is over, we will slowly discuss the word 'trust'. "

Before Zhu Shan could react, she was stuffed into the back seat of a black car.

She really wanted to ask, are you a rogue lawyer?

Before Zhu Shan could sit down, Ling Xiao also got into the car. She quickly climbed in and made room for him.

The car started instantly, and then a yellow document bag was handed over from the passenger seat.

Ling Xiao took the document, his knuckled fingers went around the string of the document bag, and he roughly flipped through the paper, only stopping to look at the areas of interest, "Did the prosecutor submit any new evidence?"

"No."

"Are our witness statements confirmed?"

"yes."

...

Zhu Shan was confused after hearing this. She had no choice but to close her mouth, which was still ready to fight him for three hundred rounds, and pulled up the milky white double-faced woolen coat on her body.

Ling Xiao looked at the documents on his lap, "Turn up the air conditioner."

Then, the warm wind blew slowly, and Zhu Shan felt much warmer.

She turned her head to look at Ling Xiao's serious look, feeling familiar yet unfamiliar.

I remember that on the eve of the college entrance examination, he also frowned slightly, sitting in his room and reading seriously.

Sometimes Zhu Shan would go to deliver milk to him, and then he would look at her angrily and tease, "Drink more and you will grow taller."

At that time, Zhu Shan always wanted to pour milk on his head.

Helpless, I dare not!

Zhu Shan looked at Ling Xiao carefully. Compared with a few years ago when he was still a little green, his facial contours were now clearer, tougher, and more... masculine.

And what he wears, a wide dark straight coat, a well-fitting suit, black leather shoes, a black dark pattern tie, a mechanical watch with a stainless steel strap...

Well, very professional.

Ling Xiao suddenly turned his head and raised his eyebrows, arrogance appearing in his eyebrows, "What are you looking at?"

Zhu Shan braced herself and continued to stare at him, "If you don't look at me, how do you know I'm looking at you?"

Ling Xiao said nothing and tilted his head, with a look that looked down on his defeated general.

Then he closed the document on his lap with a "snap" sound.

Zhu Shan was spinelessly startled by the voice. This was truly a sense of oppression engraved in her DNA!

Ling Xiao slowly came closer, and the smell of woody cologne entered Zhu Shan's nose.

The corners of his mouth curled up, and his eyes were fixed on her.

Zhu Shan wore a medium-length thin milky white coat with a brown knitted vest underneath a shirt.

She has medium-long hair, a small round face, and plump baby fat on her cheeks. The eyes are large, narrow, and small. The eyelids are flat and fanned, and the tail of the eye is slightly raised. The bridge of the nose is three-dimensional. The lips are full and the lips are round.

She has a standard sweet appearance.

The hair on her cheeks was tucked behind her ears, revealing brown sugar cube earrings that made her skin color look like cheese.

In the afternoon, some sunlight filtered through and happened to shine on her face, and was cut dimly by the green trees beside the road.

Zhu Shan felt uncomfortable being stared at by Ling Xiao, and then she looked away and lowered her eyelashes.

Forget it, why fight him?

Can't win again!

Ling Xiao's joking sigh came to his ears, "It seems... he has grown up."

"Yes, I have grown up, and you have grown old." She raised her head, pointed at the corners of Ling Xiao's eyes, and said in an exaggerated tone, "Isn't this the legendary eye pattern?"

Ling Xiao snorted lightly and took back the initiative, "When did you come back?"

"It's none of your business..." Zhu Shan looked into his dark eyes and swallowed the word 'shit'.

She turned away her little face and muttered, "I just came back last week."

"why did not you tell me?"

Zhu Shan was making excuses in her mind when suddenly the mobile phone in her hand moved.

She picked it up and checked it. It was a WeChat message.

So he raised his phone and shook it proudly, "Let's talk later, I want to reply to the message."

Zhu Shan clicked on it.

The aunt's slightly worried voice came from the receiver of the mobile phone, "Shanshan, how are you going back to China? How is your relationship with Ling Xiao? I won't cry and make trouble this time to prevent you from returning to China and ruin your relationship as a couple, right? ? You usually have to..."

Damn it!

Damn it! !

Damn it! ! !

Why are you crying and fussing?

That was just an extremely ridiculous reason she made up for returning to China! ! !

The grass, mud, and horses were dancing in Zhu Shan's head, and her fingers hurriedly slid across the phone screen without turning off the voice.

Immediately, he pressed the power off button.

Zhu Shan swallowed awkwardly, and seemed to feel that the driver in the front row and the little brother sitting in the passenger seat were also laughing.

Ling Xiao leaned back in his chair and said "ah" with a breathy voice.

That "Ah" sounded as if he had understood everything in this world clearly.

Zhu Shan really didn't want to talk, and she didn't intend to talk anymore.

But Ling Xiao didn't let her go.

"Crying and fussing just to come back to see me?" His tone was extremely slow, and every word seemed to linger in Zhu Shan's heart. "You miss me so much that you haven't even called me in four years?"

Zhu Shan gritted her teeth and said angrily, "You haven't contacted me, haven't you?"

"..."

Zhu Shan didn't look at him, "Besides, we both know our relationship well. I told my aunt just because I wanted to return to China. You don't know? Why bother to ridicule me?"

Looking at the tall buildings receding outside the car window, Ling Xiao didn't wait for a response for a while.

Zhu Shan turned around and saw that Ling Xiao had returned his attention to the documents in his lap.

Zhu Shan scolded Ling Yue in her heart. If she hadn't been unable to contact him, she wouldn't be sitting here with Ling Xiao looking at each other in disgust.

What about Ling Yue, that unsatisfactory guy who promised to be each other's little angel?

Why does he get lost every time something urgent happens?

If he hadn't fallen behind, she wouldn't have registered her marriage with Ling Xiao.

After an unknown amount of time, the vehicle slowly stopped in front of Zhuang Shu's court.

Ling Xiao took off his coat and threw it on Zhu Shan, "Hold the clothes for me."

His tone was still so confident and annoying.

Zhu Shan stared, "I'm not your servant."

Ling Xiao ignored her and asked, "Have you had lunch?"

"Eat it at the police station."

"Think about what you're going to eat tonight. It's time to catch up with the wind and wash away the dust."

Is Ling Xiao talking like a human being?

Ling Xiao raised his head, his Adam's apple rolling, and he grabbed his tie with one hand, his movements neat and wanton.

He opened the car door and got out of the car, put one leg on the ground, turned around and looked at Zhu Shan, with a deep meaning on his face, "Let's talk slowly in the evening."

Chatting slowly again...

When Zhu Shan came back to her senses, Ling Xiao had already walked away with his long legs on his arm. He looked a little anxious.

Zhu Shan got out of the car with her clothes in her arms and followed her little brother who just sat in the passenger seat.

"Miss Zhu, my name is Li Shang, I will take you to listen."

"Don't call me Miss Zhu, just call me Shanshan."

Zhu Shan hugged her coat and shivered because of the large temperature difference between the inside and outside of the car. She looked down at the clothes in her hands.

If you don’t wear it, you won’t wear it.

The length of the coat can cover Zhu Shan's knees, and the width of the shoulders makes Zhu Shan look like a child.

Li Shang brought Zhu Shan to the court hearing, made arrangements, and then left.

Zhu Shan had an idea, if she didn't escape now, how long would it take?

She just stood up, looked down and saw the large men's coat on her body, and sat down again.

Forget it, you can escape the first day of the new year, but you can't escape the fifteenth.

Suddenly there was a conversation between two young female voices from behind.

"This is prosecutor Shu Qiwenshu versus lawyer Ling Xiaoling. Based on the first trial, do you think there is a chance for a comeback in this case after Ling Lu is replaced in the second trial?"

"I find it difficult! The physical evidence, documentary evidence, witness statements, etc. provided by Prosecutor Shu during the first trial all pointed to the defendant's rape, and he also confessed in court. Now that the confession is reversed, even Ling Lu will probably have a hard time overturning it!"

"But Ling Lu has never suffered a defeat."

"Yes! After all, he is nicknamed 'Satan Lawyer', so let's see how he comes back!"

! ! !

Zhu Shan turned around, her big eyes flashing in disbelief, "Silly, stupid lawyer?"