The weather in late summer and early autumn is so changeable that it makes no sense.

Half an hour ago, the sky was still clear, and by the time Ling Li took the subway for half an hour, when she went up to the ground from the station entrance, the sky was already overcast.

The sky had turned gray, with pale gray clouds on the horizon and raindrops.

Ling Li was holding the information in her hand and it was inconvenient to use an umbrella, but fortunately, the law firm was in the building a few hundred meters away, and she trotted all the way, but she didn't get much drenched.

Pak Yang Building, located in the most prosperous area of the city center, has a total of 28 floors, and the law firm of Chengda where she works is located on the 11th floor.

It was nearly five o'clock when I got back to the office.

Xiao Cheng at the front desk smiled sweetly when he saw her enter the door, and reminded her not to catch a cold when he saw that her hair was wet.

Ling Li's heart warmed slightly, and she thanked her.

And the group of paralegals who were discussing around only glanced at her, and they didn't bother to turn their heads, let alone who got up to help her with what she was holding.

Ling Li was also accustomed to it, and went to the inner room without saying a word.

As a small transparent person with an amazing sense of existence in the office.,And I never expect others to be polite to her.。

For lawyers, it's already off-hours. The partners' office doors are closed, and the other lawyers have basically left work.

Back in his own small cubicle, Ling Li put down the bag and materials, picked up the cup and went to the pantry to pour water.

Before she could get inside, she heard someone talking in a whisper.

"She went to the judge again today to submit evidence. I seem to be very busy working overtime all day, but I can't carry it at all, and I get a lot of useless things to annoy the judge, who is really unlucky to meet her. ”

The sweet and crisp female voice spoke quickly, as if it was Lu Xiaoxiao, the beloved apprentice of another partner in the firm, lawyer Ma.

"Xiaoxiao, everyone has the stage of being a newcomer, and they grow up when they lose." This voice seems to be Sister Lin, the accountant in the office.

This is also one of the few colleagues in the institute other than Xiaocheng who are willing to give her a good look.

Regarding the round of the good old sister Lin, Lu Xiaoxiao disdainfully "sighed", and said: "I don't think there is a case that she can't lose, and she hasn't even won the simplest case. ”

Sister Lin seemed to sigh lightly, and said slowly: "Xiao Ling is also pitiful, Director Zhu is too busy to take care of too much, and he throws all the cases that others don't want to take over to her." ”

Lu Xiaoxiao's voice sounded like a smile: "You can't make a big deal, you can make a trash can, and you can make the best use of it." ”

Ling Li turned around and left quietly, her expression not changing for a moment.

Her laughing stock is no longer embarrassing, but she is afraid that the people inside will know that they will be embarrassed when they hear them talking behind their backs.

Returning to her own small space, she took a deep breath to calm down some boring emotions, opened the big cowhide bag on the table, pulled out the information and looked seriously, only the sound of rain and wind gradually became louder in her ears.

When she looked up again, there was no one around.

I don't know when the rain has stopped, the window is silent, and the neon of the city is projected into this silent space through the glass, which is also a little obscure.

Ling Li smoothed the slightly wrinkled margins of the information in her hand, cleaned up the desktop, and prepared to go home.

As she walked through the long corridor, she counted the sound of her footsteps echoing in the empty space, and with each step, her mood dropped a little.

She looked at her palm, which was white in the fluorescent lamplight, and silently clenched her fist again.

I wanted to cheer myself up, but suddenly sadness came from it.

She has nothing in her hands, no friends, no family, no lovers, no teachers, no people to rely on and capital to be proud of.

has always accompanied me, I'm afraid there is only this long shadow at my feet.

The tears that she had endured for a long time finally poured down, and Ling Li squatted in the corridor, crying so much that she couldn't help herself.

A few days later, Ling Li stood in front of a gray wooden door, raised her hand and wanted to knock on it.

But before his hand touched the wooden door and put it down, he leaned his ear closer, listened to the movement inside the door, and his face was full of hesitation.

Is there anyone in this?

On the night she came back from the court, she cried hard to vent her emotions in her heart, and when she got up from sleep, she still felt unwilling to think about it.

When a trash can is a trash can, isn't there such a thing as waste recycling?

Everyone thinks that this intellectual property case has no value, but she is the lawyer who represents this case, and unless the client says to give up, then she has to persevere, even if there is only a glimmer of hope.

Judge Xu has already given her enough hints, since there is little hope of a turnaround, then, maybe you can try another way and invite an expert witness?

Ling Li took great pains to find the contact information of the experts on the list of intellectual property experts through her classmates working in the system, and called one by one, wanting to invite an expert in botany.

At first, when she heard that she wanted to invite expert witnesses, everyone was still a little interested, but when she said that it was a difficult case with a small subject matter but needed to overturn the appraisal conclusion, the experts either wanted to fly abroad to participate in academic exchanges, or they were going to a certain place to guide the work.

After a round of phone calls, she has been rejected to the point of numbness again.

Nan Zhiyi of Funan University is the only one who has not rejected her.

It's not that she was lucky enough to meet a nobleman, but Nan Zhiyi's phone has always been turned off and can't get through at all.

Seeing that the court date was getting closer and closer, Ling Li was unwilling to sit still.

So, she traveled through most of the capital and ran to the School of Life Sciences of Funan University to see if this Nanzhiyi was her last straw.

However, she has been staying here for most of the day, and she has never squatted down.

But the students who came and went all said that Professor Nan was inside, and asked her to continue to wait.

After waiting for three hours to no avail, Ling Li finally couldn't hold back the anxiety of whether he was dead or alive.

She began her fifth battle of the afternoon with the door in front of her.

First, I knocked it lightly three times, but there was no reaction inside; Knocked three more times, but still no one answered; He simply clenched his fist and slammed it the door.

He kept pounding until his fists began to hurt, and Ling Li didn't stop.

Dozens of seconds later, there was really a sound in the door.

Ling Li's eyes lit up, frowned, pricked up her ears and listened carefully to the door, and found that it was indeed not her illusion, there was indeed a sound inside the door.

First there was a crackling sound, then something rustling, and then, as if footsteps were coming towards the door.

Ling Li hurriedly withdrew her ears, brushed her hair, pushed her glasses again, and stood straight at the door with her back straight.

A moment later, the door creaked open.

A bearded uncle's face, with his unkempt hair, poked out from behind the door.

"Who?" The uncle asked, his voice seemed to be a little sluggish, and it seemed to be a little dumb, and it sounded like he had just woken up.

Ling Li frowned, and asked with some uncertainty: "I'm looking for Professor Nan Zhiyi, are you ......?"

"Oh." The uncle replied softly, and took a step forward, revealing most of his body.

Ling Li tried her best to restrain her eyes from glancing impolitely, but she really couldn't help the innate gossip instinct of women, and she still saw his appearance clearly when she came and went.

This uncle doesn't seem to pay much attention to hygiene, a dirty T-shirt, I can't tell whether it is white or beige, half-rolled trousers, a pair of blue plastic slippers on his feet, slightly thin, and a slight bow on his back.

As if he hadn't woken up yet, his eyebrows drooped and his eyes were half-squinted, the tips of his eyes were slightly downward, his thin, flat lips were pursed, and his face was full of displeasure.

Ling Li's back was cold, and she had a bad premonition.

Could it be that this is the change of the south?

But this style of dressing up and painting is like a homeless man, and he still has a very fierce face.

Judging from the information she hurriedly browsed, Nanzhiyi is one of the top technical leaders in Funan Province, a well-known rice expert in China, and a disciple of Guo Lao, the first person in rice.

How could Nan Zhiyi, shrouded in various tall titles and halos, fall and wilt like this?

I was a little stunned for a while and didn't know what to say, but fortunately, the uncle spoke in time: "Nan Zhiyi is not here, you can come back later." ”

When he heard that the person in front of him was not Nan Zhiyi, Ling Li breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a little funny.

She obviously came to find Nan Zhiyi, but the uncle told her that Professor Nan was not there, and she was actually a little lucky.

Suddenly reacted again, Nan Zhiyi was only in his early thirties, and the face in front of him was at least forty years old, and his age was not the same at all, and he was obviously not the person she was looking for.

So she asked again, "Then do you know when Professor Nan will come back?" Where did he go? ”

The uncle looked at her twice, frowned, and said in a very impatient tone: "I don't know, don't ask me these boring questions, you should be Nan Zhiyi to die." ”

Ling Li was so choked by his crackling words that she couldn't speak.

This uncle at the head of the bird's nest doesn't seem to have a good temper, as if he doesn't have a good relationship with Nan Zhiyi.

She quickly glanced at the uncle-like with an unkind face, lowered her eyes, and thought about the open and secret battle between a frustrated middle-aged man in his forties and a talented botanist in his thirties......

It was easy to collect his divergent thoughts, Ling Li pursed her lips and took a small step back, lowered her eyebrows and said, "Then I'll come to him next time and bother you." ”

The uncle hummed the word "um" from his nostrils with his chin high, and his expression faded.

Ling Li cautiously said "goodbye" again, then hugged his information tightly and prepared to leave.

As soon as she turned around, a girl in her twenties with a round face broke into her sight.

The girl was holding a pot of plants of unknown species, running and jumping to meet her, the corners of her lips were crooked, her eyes were dark, and she smiled beautifully.

Ling Li was dazzled by her smile, and saw the girl waving to her again.

Before she could figure out how to respond to the girl's apparent greeting, the girl had already begun to speak.

"Teacher Nan, have you slept enough? If you don't get up again, the plant pathology will be delayed in the evening. ”

Her tone was very cheerful, her face was still facing Ling Li's direction, but it was only when she got closer that Ling Li realized that her gaze seemed to be behind her.

In the next second, a jubilant voice came from behind him: "Your Qiulan, really rescued?" ”

And the round-faced girl nodded vigorously: "It's alive, the prescription you gave Mr. Nan is too effective." Teacher, I'll go back to the dormitory first, and I'll see you in the evening. ”

The girl waved goodbye, and ran away like a rabbit.

Seeing the girl's back getting farther and farther away, Ling Li turned around with wide eyes, just in time to see the uncle leaning against the door, smiling from ear to ear, revealing two rows of white and neat teeth.

Just now, the girl called her uncle "Teacher Nan" and said that she had his "Plant Pathology" class in the evening......

Wait, was she tricked just now?

Ling Li's knife-like eyes threw at the uncle, and the uncle met her gaze as soon as he lowered his head.

He reacted immediately, as if he had forgotten for a while, and was about to shrink into the office and close the door as soon as possible, but was grabbed by Ling Li by the door.

Rao is she is used to being hit, and at this time, she can't help but twitch the corners of her eyes and want to blow up, and her voice can't stop being sharp: "You are Nan Zhiyi?" ”

The uncle retracted half of his face behind the door, his eyes were rolling, and he was busy saying: "That child has a bit of a problem with her brain, she doesn't call people according to her surname or gender, she calls me a male teacher, a male and a female male." ”

Ling Li pretended not to hear his nonsense, vigorously pushed open the wooden door in front of him, and said angrily: "Don't pretend!" I've seen them all. ”

With that, he pointed to the faculty member who had just slipped out of his trouser pocket and onto the ground.

The sign lay quietly on the floor where the color could not be seen clearly, and there were three black oversized characters on it: Nanzhiyi.

Seeing that it was demolished, the uncle held on to the door and sighed, and rolled his eyes again with a look of resentment.

"Okay!" He cleared his throat, and his voice instantly deepened: "Congratulations, you found me." ”