"You've forgotten it's your birthday. "Professor Ruan was carrying a cake and hiding under the eaves of the guard at the school gate to hide from the rain, and when he saw me get out of the car, he waved until I walked up to him with a bored look, and he asked embarrassedly.www.biquge.info

"That's right." I forgot, it's my birthday. "Still, from my brother...... I haven't had a birthday since that incident. ”

"How's that going to work?" Professor Nguyen said, pulling me to hide under the eaves.

It didn't rain much, but it lasted for nearly half a day. I don't know when he started waiting at the school gate, but the shoulders of his jacket were already wet, so he could tell from the appearance that he had been waiting for at least two hours.

"When I was young, my parents used to say that a child can't have a birthday, and he must be blessed for his birthday, otherwise the child will be unhappy when he grows up." It turns out that even a senior law professor like Professor Nguyen would believe this kind of coaxing children.

I didn't have time to laugh at him, but I remembered a lot of things, "My brother used to say something like this, he said that since it is his birthday, he must celebrate his birthday, otherwise he will not be happy when he grows up." ”

The last time he gave me my birthday was a year before the accident. At that time, he was only a sophomore, and we lived with our adoptive parents, who were both school teachers, and although the family environment was not bad, my brother and I were reluctant to ask them for pocket money anymore. My brother has been tutoring elementary school students on weekends since his sophomore year of high school, he is very hard, but he is working very hard to make money, and he will give me whatever other children of the same age have. Every Chinese New Year's holiday, he would prepare gifts for me early in the morning, and on his birthday that year, he also came back late and brought a beautiful cake.

"Your brother is really good to you, and if he knows and you remember what he did for you, you must be very satisfied." Professor Ruan sensed the change in my mood from my slightly choked tone, and said with a sigh of relief, "But I think he must be very sad if he knows that he made you cry, especially on a day like today." ”

I was slightly stunned, understood what he meant, and smiled.

"That's fine, let's go, I'll play your brother once today, and I'll spend your birthday with you." Professor Nguyen pulled me towards the cafeteria. "It's past eight o'clock now, and I don't know if there's anything else to eat in the cafeteria, I thought you would come back at six o'clock."

"Because, it's delayed because there's something to do temporarily." I casually coped.

I thought he was going to ask me something, but this time, Professor Nguyen didn't seem to care about the progress of the case at all.

Walking into the cafeteria, there are indeed a lot fewer people. He put down the cake, leaned over to talk to the cafeteria master, and returned to his seat with a smile on his face, as if he didn't care at all about the case I was helping with.

After he sat down, I was still wondering why he didn't ask me today, and I thought that after he saw us leave with Zhao Kai today, he would want to know if we got any new clues from Zhao Kai.

He was looked at by my scrutinizing gaze many times, and inevitably felt a little uncomfortable, but he said first, "What's wrong?" Why are you looking at me like this today, is it because you are so moved? ”

I couldn't help but laugh, "I'm just thinking, why didn't you ask anything in the first place?" ”

"Ask what?" He turned around and brought two cups, poured water again, and asked casually.

I just shook my head, "Don't you wonder why I'm late?" Or, I thought you'd ask if we got any new clues after we brought Zhao Kai back. ”

"Because it's a case you're dealing with." Professor Ruan replied as a matter of course, as if he had never felt anything wrong, "You are my student, so in the process of learning and adapting, you have encountered trouble, and I am happy to help you solve the problem." But I don't think you're a student who doesn't have your own subjectivity at all, and you don't need a teacher to teach you how to do this thing and how to do that. What you need is someone who can lead you when you're confused, you're going to be a great lawyer in the future, you're going to be a great lawyer when you're going to take on more cases, and I just don't want to get involved in you too much. And when you first entered the school, although your tone was still a little discouraged, your expression was a little more relaxed than the day before, so I think you should have got a new clue, or confirmed your reasoning, and your reasoning just echoed what you verified, you are just contradictory, trying to overturn your reasoning, or trying to prove that your reasoning is flawless. So, you don't need to ask anyone else, you'll figure it out for yourself. ”

"Hmm." I nodded, "Professor Ruan, you are really terrifying, your analysis actually makes me feel that I can't hide my thoughts in front of you." Thankfully, you're just my mentor and not ......"

"What's not?" Professor Nguyen asked in a raised voice, apparently interested in what I hadn't finished.

"Not an opponent." I smiled and said, with an opponent like Professor Ruan who knows everything I say and do, I'm afraid it will take a strong psychological tolerance to survive, but even my words didn't seem to surprise him too much, he smiled lightly and took a sip of water. I watched his movements and couldn't help but want to ask him, "Professor Ruan, are you so attentive to each of your students?" Or is it especially just for me? ”

"If I'm not mistaken, what you mean by this may be to test me, is it interesting to you?" Professor Ruan's eyebrows deepened slightly, and he hesitated for a moment in feigned contemplation, as if he was very cautious.

"Isn't it? If you don't do this to everyone, you're just doing it to yourself. But why are you so attentive to yourself? So I roughly analyzed it, the first possibility is that you had a good relationship with my brother in the two years of college, so when you know that I am my brother's sister, you take care of me for him because of the relationship between you and him. But if this is the case, you will inevitably do a little too much. And the second is that you sympathize with me, because after you know that my brother had an accident, even my adoptive parents had an accident, and I was suspected and blamed for some things, so my relationship with everyone is not very good, and you think I am pitiful. But this is not likely, at least I don't think you will do this to me out of sympathy and pity, because your words and actions don't seem to feel that I am pitiful and need to be sympathized. That's the third one, you like me and want to chase me. "I don't know why I can be so ...... with him Talk about these things openly, under normal circumstances, this kind of thing should not be said very ambiguously and romanticly? But I sat across from him and talked to him about it as if I were in a state of confusion, and I analyzed the case with him and sought his answer.

Professor Ruan smiled slightly and patiently listened to my analysis one by one. The way he rolled his gaze showed that he was seriously thinking about every explanation I had said, "But, perhaps, the fourth. ”

"The fourth?" I haven't really thought of a fourth yet.

"Huo Xi, as you have analyzed, I do like you very much. It's just that this kind of liking, a little bit of a man's kind of woman, is not necessarily love. You analyzed it right, it was your brother in the first place, I didn't expect you to look so similar to your brother, so when I saw you, I missed a little when he was still there, at first, I just wanted to help a deceased friend and take care of his sister. And then there is the second kind you said, starting from wanting to help Huo Zhun take care of you, so to understand you, after knowing what happened to you, it makes me feel a little sorry for you A girl has to bear these inexplicably, but as I gradually understand you, I find that you are very strong, far stronger than I imagined, you don't need sympathy, because setbacks will never break you, but will become the process of your evolution into a more perfect person, you just need encouragement, Live more happily than those who use their lives to gain sympathy. And then there'...... I probably think of you as my own sister......" Professor Ruan's words sounded like he was emotional, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he didn't finish speaking.

I vaguely sensed his sentimentality, so I asked very carefully, "Did Professor Ruan once have a sister?" ”

He looked up at me before nodding, "Yes." "There was a slight change in his pupils, and he was trying to control his emotions, and I wondered if I would be like this when I talked about my brother. He adjusted himself, but his eyes were still a little red, "I didn't tell you about it, I used to have a sister." ”

He also used to have a sister meaning ......

"I accidentally lost her." Professor Ruan's tone was regrettable and heartbroken, full of self-blame and helplessness, "I am very protective of her, afraid that she will be hurt a little, because I used to grow up with her, but she is getting better and better." So no matter how carefully I hid her, I couldn't stop the wolf from trying to bully her. And I wasn't very old at the time, and I really wanted to...... I really want to protect her a little more, I don't have many days with her, I hope that the happy and quiet time can be more and longer...... But I accidentally lost her. ”

"If it's just lost, it's actually okay, as long as you know that each other is still alive in this world, and one day you will meet again, this is the will of heaven, and it is a mysterious force that cannot be defeated by man." It turns out that Professor Ruan has been kind to me in the past three years, not only because he is a good friend of my brother, but also because he treats me as his lost sister.