Huo Ran sent Lu Yan and Jian Yanxian back first, when Su Yu was in the car, she was easy to get sleepy, she sat in the co-pilot, but after a while, she closed her eyes, her eyelashes fluttered slightly, the neon lights on both sides of the road flashed from her face, she occasionally wrinkled her nose, and the tip of her nose was cute.

Huo Ran didn't talk much along the way, but while waiting for the traffic light, he turned his head, and his smiling eyes fell on Su Yu's body, one bony hand was still on the steering wheel, and the other hand turned up the heat.

Lu Yan and Jian Yanxian have been working with Huo Ran for a long time.

Lu Yan leaned on the back of the chair and took off his hat, he was white-skinned and delicate, he lowered his voice and said very softly: "When I saw Lawyer Su, I was willing to believe that Brother Ran really always had someone in his heart." ”

Huo Ran didn't have any expression on his face, he glanced at Lu Yan from the rearview mirror.

Jian Yanxian retracted his gaze looking out of the window and said, "I've believed it since that time, okay?" ”

"Which time?"

Jian Yanxian: "After Lawyer Huo won the first case in his life independently for the first time, wasn't there a celebration banquet that night?" Lawyer Huo was drunk, didn't he refuse to leave, and had to call? ”

Huo Ran hooked his thin lips and smiled.

After Lu Yan and Jian Yanxian got out of the car, Huo Ran and Su Yu were left in the car, and his chest was a little blocked, which was inexplicable and depressed.

Jian Yanxian said that he was drunk, but in fact, he remembered that he was not drunk at all, but maybe alcohol had the upper hand, he wanted to miss Su Yu very much, and when he thought of the pain in his chest, the pain made him think that he was about to lose his breath.

He felt vulnerable, and he wanted to share with her a crucial turning point in his life.

At that time, the celebration banquet had already dispersed, and the other lawyers of the law firm supported him, his steps were vain, but his mind was sober.

Therefore, he was rarely willful and stopped.

A lawyer asked him, "What's wrong?" ”

Then, he heard his own voice: "No, I'm going to call my girlfriend." ”

He also clearly remembered that the other lawyers looked at him with some surprise, and someone laughed: "Lawyer Huo, you are a golden bachelor, where did you get your girlfriend?" ”

He was very serious and pursed his lips very seriously: "I have a girlfriend, I have always had it, from my sophomore year to the present." ”

But he couldn't find his mobile phone, and later, a lawyer borrowed his mobile phone, he didn't have to deliberately remember it, he could completely type Su Yu's mobile phone number.

Su Yu did not change the number.

After a few "beeps", Su Yu's soft voice sounded on the other end, with her subtle breathing, accompanied by the sound of electricity on the phone, she said, "Hey, hello? ”

He tried to answer her, but his thin lips opened a few times, but he still didn't say anything.

When I heard her "hey" again, I hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, he said "um", answering what she had just said.

The lawyer who borrowed the phone to him asked curiously, "Lawyer Huo, why didn't you talk when you called?" You tell your girlfriend that you're drunk, ask her to come out and pick you up, and the buddies can go back to rest early. The lawyer said, took back his mobile phone, and called Su Yu again.

This time, in addition to Su Yu's tentative voice, there was also a man's warm and doting voice on the phone: "Ayu, who is calling so late?" ”

Su Yu's voice was soft: "I don't know, maybe it's a mistake, no one spoke." ”

At that moment, his heart was tightly curled up into a ball, and it was so painful that he could not breathe, and his heart sank little by little.

He smiled and raised his head, the bright light reflected in his dark and deep eyes, his eyes were slightly hot, his vision was a little blurry, he couldn't see the expressions of the people around him, and he didn't care.

All he knew was that the moment he lowered his head, something warm fell in his eyes.

Some people are worried: "Lawyer Huo? ”

His Adam's apple moved slightly: "I'm fine, I'm fine." The words were already vague, but he repeated it anyway, "I really ...... Very good. ”

Without me, she is doing well.

Well, without her, I should be doing well, right?

Still, I wanted to tell her.

I miss her so much, I miss her very much.

*

Huo Ran parked the car in front of Su's house, Su Yu seemed to have a sense, her eyelashes fluttered a few times, and she opened her eyes, a little lazy and sleepy, she stared at the front of the car in confusion for a while, and then came back to her senses.

She turned her head.

Huo Ran suddenly leaned over, his bony hand pinched her chin, lifted her face slightly, and let her meet his lips.

He kissed a little harder, and he didn't know what emotion he carried, and he tossed her lips.

Su Yu was stunned, his black eyes flashed, and then he hugged Huo Ran, slowly trying to respond to him, the two of them breathed warmly and intertwined, and the tip of their nose touched the tip of their nose.

A kiss ends.

Su Yu looked into his eyes and asked, "What's wrong?" What happened? ”

"It's fine."

He gently brushed away her broken hair, and his thin lips touched her forehead: "I just want to kiss you." ”

Su Yu had slept in the car for a long time, his cheeks were slightly red from the heating, and there was a little mist in his black eyes, which made people's hearts soften.

Huo Ran seems to be swearing, but when it comes to meeting Su Yu, he always lacks a sense of security.

He pursed his lips, breathed for a moment, and asked a question he thought he would never be able to ask.

He asked, "Do you like me?" Ayu? ”

Su Yu was stunned, her dark eyes enlarged slightly, she didn't react for a while, why did Huo Ran suddenly ask this question.

Huo Ran also felt a little funny, after he asked, he hooked his lips and smiled, he touched Su Yu's cheek with his fingers, and smiled: "Forget it, I'll ask casually......"

Su Yu was stunned again, but in a few seconds, she came back to her senses, she held Huo Ran's hand that was about to be withdrawn, looked into his eyes, and said softly: "I like you." She paused, "For seven years, it has been." ”

Huo Ran looked back at her, his throat moving slightly, something about to overflow from his throat.

Su Yu leaned over slightly, pursed his lips, and wanted to kiss him.

It's just—

When she was about to approach Huo Ran, she was suddenly dragged back to the passenger seat by a force, which was a seat belt tied to her body.

Su Yu: "......"

Huo Ran: "......" He chuckled, his voice was clean, and he covered it tightly.

In the night, the lights of the Su house were bright, as if to welcome the return of the master, and the corner of the courtyard gate hung a faint street lamp, illuminating the car, and pulling out a long light shadow on the ground.

Gradually, the shadows of the lights blurred, blurred, and there were colored spots of light dangling around.

He smiled and kissed her.

*

The general environment in China is not friendly to women, and patriarchy and gender discrimination can be seen almost everywhere, whether it is when urging marriage and blind date, trying to insult and objectify women, or when looking for a job, refusing to include unmarried and childless women.

In the office of the law firm.

Su Yu listened to the complaints of the intern door while watering the flowers on the windowsill, and she stared absentmindedly at the water droplets that slowly fell on the flowers, her chest sinking slightly.

Huo Ran raised his eyes and reminded her, "There is too much water." ”

Su Yu came back to her senses, she put down the kettle, wiped her hands, and walked back to her desk, when she first came, the desk was still empty, and now it is full of her life - hot water kettle, water glasses, pen holders, post-it notes, notebooks, dolls, pillows and photo frames.

She sat down and said to Huo Ran, "Let's meet Mrs. Xu." ”

*

Xu Cheng's wife didn't want to see Su Yu and them, Su Yu gave her many text messages without interruption, and she was relieved, but the time was very tight, it was that night, and she refused to see Huo Ran, and only agreed to see Su Yu.

The place of meeting was in the café next to Mrs. Xu Cheng's place of work.

Su Yu arrived at the café early, she sat by the window, and Huo Ran was waiting for her in the restaurant opposite.

Not long after, Mrs. Xu also came in.

She was wearing a black coat, her face was expressionless, she was holding a large bag in her right hand, which was full of work documents, she looked a little haggard, pursed her lips, and sat opposite Su Yu, she put down the bag and asked without emotion: "What do you want to ask?" I still have things to do, my eldest daughter is still waiting for me. ”

Su Yu smiled, wanting to ease the atmosphere: "Mrs. Xu, do you want something to drink?" ”

"No, I don't." Mrs. Xu's tone was cold and hard, and there was impatience between her eyebrows, "You are now exonerating my daughter as a murderer, and I don't want to see you at all." ”

Su Yu was silent for a moment: "Mrs. Xu, maybe your mother-in-law didn't instruct the nanny to ......"

Before she finished speaking, Mrs. Xu laughed, and she looked at Su Yu with a little sarcasm, "You lawyers really don't have a backache when you stand and talk, because the dead are not your relatives, right?" So, you can pretend to poke other people's scars again and again for the sake of so-called fairness and justice? ”

Su Yu was silent and did not answer immediately.

Mrs. Xu took a deep breath, she raised her eyes, as if she was pressing down the tears that were about to overflow her eyes, her back straightened, and then, swallowing her throat, looked at Su Yu again.

"Lawyer Su, you are a woman, I thought you would understand the pain of women being oppressed." She sarcastically asked, "Have you seen my mother-in-law?" So how do you feel? Think she's pitiful, feel like she's been wronged? ”

She looked into Su Yu's eyes and said word by word: "Poor me, and my daughters." ”

She pursed her lips: "Although my parents are a bit patriarchal, they will never be like my mother-in-law. My parents' patriarchy is manifested in the fact that they want me to be virtuous and take care of my husband's family, and they are afraid that I will divorce because a divorced daughter will disgrace the whole family, and that's the way the society is going, isn't it? Once a woman is divorced, she will be said to be a bargain, and everyone will blame the failure of the marriage on the woman, and even the men around you seem to look down on you a little. ”

She smiled softly: "When I gave birth to my eldest daughter, I was forced by my mother-in-law to want a divorce, but no one in my mother's family supported me, and all the relatives who knew my thoughts took turns to persuade me, saying the advantages of marriage and the disadvantages of divorce...... Now I understand that because they themselves are unhappy in their marriage, they will be satisfied when they see others end up like her. They will also use high-sounding reasons to say that they don't want to divorce for the sake of their children. ”

Su Yu listened quietly, her eyes were always gentle as if they could drip water, she listened very carefully, frowned, she only felt that these people couldn't be ridiculous anymore, she spoke: "What did the child do wrong?" To endure not loving each other and blaming his parents for everything? ”

Mrs. Xu was stunned when she heard this.

She still pursed the corners of her lips, but this time, the curvature of her shoulders was obviously relaxed, and she asked Su Yu: "Have you seen the news of the baby girl being abandoned before?" Girls are sold, strangled? ”

Su Yu nodded: "Hmm." ”

"Ever since I gave birth to my daughter, I've known that it's no longer just on the news, it's something that really happens to me. My mother-in-law immediately turned around and left the hospital after knowing that my first child was a daughter, and she did not show up during my hospitalization, and once, I heard her tell my husband that she wanted to give my daughter to someone else and have another son. After being opposed by my husband, she had a very bad attitude towards me during the whole confinement period, putting on a stinky face, saying that my daughter was a loser, saying that I was a hen that didn't lay eggs, saying that I had hurt their old Xu family and cut off the incense, and she even encouraged my husband to go out and find a woman to give birth. In their eyes, a woman is a tool, can be equated with material, an accessory to a man, is it ridiculous? ”

Su Yu pursed her red lips, her fingers clenched together unconsciously, and her heart was heavy.

She lowered her eyelids and sighed softly, "yes, ridiculous. What's even more ridiculous is that many men and even women will be ashamed to say that women in modern society don't have to wrap their feet anymore, they can study, they can work, and they have so many rights, what else do they want? For these people, rights are just handouts, and women are still not free from their subordinate status. ”

Mrs. Xu took a deep breath, the sourness in her nose was also taken back, she continued: "After opening the second child, it was the second nightmare in my life, my mother-in-law ignored that I was in the critical period of promotion, and made a big fuss, she had to let me conceive another child, I had to give birth to a male child, she wanted me to test the sex of the fetus, wanted me to have a fetus, let me try all kinds of home remedies, completely ignoring my body, after all, I was just a fertility tool in her eyes. Sometimes, the reason why I stick to this marriage is Xu Cheng, who is very good to me, except that sometimes he compromises with his mother. ”

Mrs. Xu paused: "But my mother-in-law's terrible, you can't imagine it." Mrs. Xu's eyes were red, and she clenched her teeth to prevent her tears from falling, "I don't want to say more now, but when you see the dossier, you will understand." In short, I want to tell you, Lawyer Su, if you help my mother-in-law, it is equivalent to oppressing women, and people like her should pay for everything she does, and if you are a lawyer, a qualified lawyer, a lawyer with a conscience, you should know not to defend her! ”

She squeezed out the words almost word for word, with a deep hatred, and with that, she stood up, picked up her bag, and was about to leave.

Su Yu's chest was pressed heavily like a thousand pounds of boulder, almost taking away all her breath.

However, she still said lightly: "Mrs. Xu, I understand your anger, but morality is morality, law is law, no matter how many bad things Aunt Afu has done morally, no matter how feudal her thinking is, it does not mean that it was really she who instructed the nanny to kill her own granddaughter." ”

When Mrs. Xu heard this, she paused slightly, and then, without looking back, left the café.

Su Yu lowered her eyes and stood for a while, and after exhaling deeply, she also walked out of the café, and outside the door, Huo Ran was standing upright.

He has handsome eyebrows and an indifferent gaze.

Su Yu walked in front of him, she looked up at him, and said softly: "There is really a lot of oppression of women in this society, and most people think that women have already been freed. ”

She lowered her voice a little, and said softly: "But they don't know that freedom means that women have the right to choose what to do, and they also have the right to refuse, but now only women are allowed to choose one of them." ”

Huo Ran pursed his lips and hugged her.

"It's going to be fine."

Su Yu said: "Aunt Afu is very sexdiscriminate, and she once wanted to give her eldest granddaughter to others, if she unites a nanny, in fact, ...... Isn't that surprising? ”

If it was in the past, Huo Ran would have calmed Su Yu down, but now, Su Yu was clearly in a bad mood, he was a boyfriend, not a boss, he touched her back, and said in a deep voice: "Well, however, we have to look at the file first." ”