From then on, Han Ding's biggest fear every day was getting off work. A person who has no expectations for getting off work, why do you go after work?

He broke up with Luo Jingjing, but he couldn't help but tell Lao Lin. After saying that, he regretted it, what was the use of saying this, did he want to get a little sympathy? Do you want to hear a few words of emotion? After people's sympathy is over, the emotion is over, or you face everything yourself. Every day when I go home, I face the room with the dark light and no sound, the familiar aroma on the pillow disappearing little by little, and the big smiling face of Luo Jingjing in the living room, the brightness of the smile makes him can't bear to stare at it.

Luo Jingjing took all her photos, but the one on the wall in the living room was probably too big to take away, so she kept it. This smiling face occupied the entire room, and no matter where Han Ding sits, he couldn't escape her playful gaze.

Mom and Dad came here to see him once, and Mom cooked him a delicious meal here, and they advised him to go to Wukesong for a while and come back when his mood was stable. He didn't agree. He decided to be a lonely person and stay alone when he was sad.

Still, he was afraid to come home from work. He was really scared to go home alone.

However, after work every day, he still hurried to Chongwenmen's house without exception. He knew he should despair, but he always had illusions in his heart. He always imagined that Luo Jingjing would call back, and even suddenly go home to see him after night fell one day.

He told himself every minute that it was all over, but every minute he was waiting for something. What are you waiting for? Is it to wait for Luo Jingjing to come back and send him a wedding candy or a wedding card? Or wait for her to come back with Long Xiaoyu and tell him: Baochun Company has been reborn, Baochun oral liquid has been brilliant again, and Luo Baochun's twenty-year career is the same as Long Xiaoyu, who is immortal, and he is fabulously dead and alive, and he is reborn after the catastrophe? Han Ding thought, this is really inaccurate, maybe Long Xiaoyu is destined to be able to survive again and again, and that dragon luck can't stop it. What's more, the name of this company is also well-named: Baochun! Keep it to have a second spring, a third spring, and stay young forever!

Han Ding waited in this state for a whole week, a full ten days, or more, who knows. The days went by and became more and more confused. But apart from the parents, they didn't wait for any surprise knocks on the door and phone rings. After he and Luo Jingjing met, they have been indulging in the romantic world of the two and alienated their former classmates and friends. Now, Luo Jingjing is gone, his loneliness is very complete, every day when he goes home, in addition to reading books and watching TV absentmindedly, he can only sit under the shadow of the lamp by the sofa, look at Luo Jingjing's bright smiling face on the wall, sit in a daze.

So, one night, when everything was quiet, he suddenly heard a few ghostly knocks on the door, and he really thought it was a hallucination. He sat still on the couch, pricking up his ears to listen to his heart. But the knock on the door did come from outside the house, and when he was sure of the direction of the sound, he didn't expect that he would shoot himself in front of the door like an arrow, and the moment he opened the door, he almost blurted out Luo Jingjing.

Outside the door, there was no light, but I could see that there was a woman standing there, and I could see that it was not Luo Jingjing.

Han Ding stared at him for a long time before he had to believe that he had seen everything clearly from the first glance. He asked dejectedly, "Who are you looking for?" ”

It was an old-looking middle-aged woman with a muffled southern accent, her trembling body looked extraordinarily short, and she said, "I'm looking for Han Ding." ”

"Looking for Han Ding? I am. ”

"Are you? You're the ...... Lawyer Han? Or his little ones? ”

The woman looked him up and down, confused. Maybe the lawyer she imagined shouldn't be so young. Han Ding nodded: "Yes, I am Lawyer Han." What's your last name? ”

"My surname is Zhang, and I came from Shaoxing. You are Lawyer Han, I worked so hard for you......"

Shaoxing! What a familiar place name! As soon as Han Ding heard these two words, he somehow let go of his body, and he said, "Is there something wrong with me?" Please come in and talk about it. ”

The short woman entered the door, and Han Ding led her to the living room. He asked her to sit down at the round table in the living room, and he sat down a chair from her, and then asked:

"You're from Shaoxing? What are you looking for me? ”

Before the woman could answer, she took out a wad of renminbi from a small travel pocket she carried with her and placed it on the round table. It was a renminbi that had just been taken out of the bank and had not yet been opened. Han Ding was startled, he blinked his surprised eyes as the woman took out 50,000 yuan from her travel pocket in the blink of an eye. He was stunned and asked, "What's the matter, what are you doing here?" Before she could finish speaking, the woman had already left her chair, knelt down on her knees in a serious manner, and then began to cry and kowtow.

Han Ding was frightened and jumped up suddenly: "Hey, what are you doing here!" What's going on? ”

The woman kowtowed twice like garlic, and said in a sad tone: "Lawyer Han, I came to you to rescue my little brother, my little brother has committed a lawsuit, I beg you to save him!" ”

Han Ding understood.

This woman is from Shaoxing, she must have heard the legend of Long Xiaoyu's resurrection, so she traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to find him. It seems that Lao Lin is right, this case really made him famous.

Han Ding calmed down and said to the woman with a pleasant face: "You get up, get up, don't you just ask me to help you fight the lawsuit, you get up and say." ”

The woman got up, tears still on her face. Han Ding asked her to sit back in her chair. Then he asked from the beginning without hurrying:

"How did you know about me, who told you to come to Beijing to fight a lawsuit against me?"

The woman wiped the tears on her face with her rough palms: "I am a countryman, I don't understand the law, and I hear our part say that Lawyer Han is a famous god, and the dead can also be said to be alive." The court sentenced him to beheading, and Lawyer Han could stop the half-fallen knife with a single word. ”

Han Ding listened, and for a long time he didn't know how to explain or answer, whether to be polite or to solemnly refute the rumors to set the record straight. He couldn't say anything about it, and simply asked as if he had really taken the order: "What case did your brother commit?" ”

The woman said, "First he resold things, and then he killed people." ”

"Who did he kill?"

"He killed a woman. That woman, I know, is a goblin, and she's so powerful at a young age. My little brother made a lot of money and let this woman spend it, and he was bad for this woman, and our family knows it! ”

Han Ding nodded, and he even echoed a sentence: "Ah, there have been statistics on homicides, and there are no more than two motives for the crime, one is for love, and the other is for money, most of them are like this." ”

The woman nodded vigorously in agreement, and even claimed that it was, as if she had met a soulmate. Her expression made Han Ding feel a little ridiculous, and he unknowingly exchanged the topic of criminology with a legally illiterate person from the countryside. He took his mouth, changed his words, and said, "Well, you come to our law firm tomorrow to find me, and I'll ask you in detail tomorrow." You get the money back first...... You're welcome, you're welcome, we have rules on how to charge, and we'll talk about it tomorrow after we finish talking. ”

Han Ding wrote the address of the office to the woman, and also wrote the route of the bus in a thoughtful manner. No matter how much the woman insisted on leaving him a little money, he still put the five bundles of tickets back into the travel pocket with his own hands, and then changed the topic in time: "Where is your brother locked up now, did he commit the crime in Shaoxing?" ”

"No," the woman carried the travel bag and walked towards the door under the guidance of Han Ding, "He has always been fine at home in Shaoxing, and he committed the case in Hangzhou." Now I've been caught in Pingling again......"

"What?" The woman's accent made Han Ding dare not confirm the name of the place he heard, "Where did you say?" Pingling? ”

"Yes, Pingling."

Han Ding suddenly stopped and asked in a daze, "What's your brother's name?" ”

The woman also stopped: "Our surname is Zhang, and his name is Zhang Xiong." That woman's surname is Zhu, and she likes to engage with men over there. The boy you saved was also by her, and the Public Security Bureau was suspicious. Now that boy is fine, and he suspects my little brother, and my little brother was also ...... by her."

It was only by this sentence that Han Ding really understood. He almost opened the door and told the little country woman to get out at once! He has long been annoyed, Zhu Siping has long been annoyed, and he has been annoyed by this endless homicide case.

But as soon as he went to work the next day, he still told Lao Lin about this thing that he didn't want to talk about anymore. Lao Lin went to talk to Lao Qi again. After the short Shaoxing woman came to the door, it was Lao Lin who came forward to receive her. Of course, he pulled the very reluctant Han Ding to the side. Han Ding is a "god mouth", and people are coming at him! Many senior lawyers in the firm couldn't help but laugh when they heard this, and teased Han Ding: "Yo, our Xiao Han is the signboard of Zhongya Law Firm, we have to rely on him to eat." "That's right, Central Asia is a private firm, "the people take food as the sky", survival is the first, I haven't heard of the reason why you don't accept lawsuits to make money. Lao Lin knows the ins and outs of Zhu Siping's murder case best, and he knows that Zhang Xiong will not be able to turn over like Long Xiaoyu, but he is willing to pay lawyer fees, agency fees, travel expenses, and communication expenses according to the highest fees...... There is no reason not to do such a good business. Lawyers are charged on a matter of time or matter, not on winning or losing.

But Han Ding will definitely not accept this case. His reasons are very sufficient: first, Zhang Xiong's murder was originally caused by him, and then let him defend Zhang Xiong, even if Zhang Xiong's sister is willing, Zhang Xiong may not be willing; second, Siping's case has been protracted for a long time, he is already physically and mentally exhausted, and he has no passion, and the effect will definitely not be good if he goes further; Third, he had lost so much for the case that he couldn't bear it emotionally. Although this article is not suitable for outsiders, Lao Lin knows it. Therefore, Lao Lin volunteered and took the initiative to take the arrow from Lao Qi. Lao Lin said that the case was simple, and the focus of his defense was nothing more than emphasizing that Zhang Xiong had a low level of education, was legally illiterate, and was drunk at the time, and asked the court to give him a lenient sentence. Fortunately, low education, legal illiteracy, and drunkenness are not legal conditions for leniency, so his family members cannot complain about the lawyer's head when he is sentenced to death. In short, the number of ways and the results of the defense of this case are already clear, anyone can go, I am familiar with the situation, and at most I will go to Pingling twice.

Lao Lin left, and really went to Pingling. Han Ding's mood calmed down again. As soon as Lao Lin left, he was the only one left in the office, very quiet, and he could read the news on the Internet in his spare time, play games, and even go to a certain **** to take a stroll. Life is boring again, and every day when I come home from work, I still read books and watch TV absentmindedly, and I look straight at Luo Jingjing's bright eyes and smiling eyes. Then sit on the couch in a daze, numbly, habitually waiting for the phone or the door to ring hallucinatingly.

Another week, maybe ten days, half a month or more, who knows. During this time, Lao Lin came back once, stayed for a few days and left. Han Ding also didn't know if he had gone to Pingling again or if he had gone elsewhere for other cases. He didn't ask, he was afraid that Lao Lin would mention the matter of Pingling to him, so he avoided it. He was accustomed to and happy with the ease of Lao Lin not being by his side. In those days, his parents began to mobilize him to take the TOEFL or graduate school entrance examination again. Dad said: "It's better to go to graduate school, boys have ambitions, ambitions in studies, ambitions in careers, lingering in children's affairs, and eventually misleading others and themselves." My mother said, "Let's go abroad, you will forget everything when you go abroad, and you will enter a new life when you go abroad." Han Ding knows that parents are certainly concerned about their son's future, but in fact, the graduate school entrance examination and going abroad are their own ideals, and the ideals that they failed to achieve when they were young are naturally pinned on their offspring. The continuation of blood and bones, the inheritance of the cause, and the succession of ideals are actually from the same psychology.

Just as he was rethinking the future, correcting the coordinates of his life, and starting to weigh the pros and cons again for graduate school or going abroad, he received a phone call on a sunny afternoon. The call came to his phone, and when it rang, he was napping in the sleepiness after a full meal, but he picked up the phone and just "hey" it, and then he fell asleep.

He said, "Hey, you're ...... Are you Luo Jingjing? ”

Yes, it was Luo Jingjing, the incomparably clear voice on the phone made Han Ding close his eyes as if he had a clear smile. With the same clear mood, he asked softly: "How are you, are you doing now?" ”

Luo Jingjing said: "Okay, I'm fine." ”

Han Ding didn't know what to say or ask, and the other side of the phone fell silent. Han Ding was afraid of disconnection, so he hurriedly continued: "You, why did you remember to call me?" ”

Luo Jingjing took his words: "Ah, no, I'm missing you a little." ”

Han Ding wanted to cry. Fortunately, Luo Jingjing is invisible. He never wanted Luo Jingjing to see his appearance of being a child and a hero. He said in the posture of a man, in a tone of indifference, "Oh, yes? ”

Luo Jingjing said, "Are you still willing to meet me?" I wanted to call you several times, I wanted to see you, but you said you wouldn't let me look for you. ”

Han Ding said: "Yes, I said, if you have money and make a fortune, don't come to me again." Have you made a fortune? ”

Luo Jingjing said: "No, but you can still get by." ”

Han Ding said: "I may have to go abroad to study, if you want, let's meet again." Anyway, we used to be best friends. ”

Han Ding and Luo Jingjing really met, and the time was an hour after he received Luo Jingjing's call, and the location was a quiet sunshine tea house on the edge of Xidan Cultural Square. Han Ding asked for a large cup of coffee for each of them, which was very popular among young people, and after asking for it, he remembered that Luo Jingjing was not used to drinking coffee before.

This is the first time we have met since separation, and the feeling of each other is that the other party has not changed. In fact, they have all changed, they have become cramped and distracted, and they are silent for each other. Han Ding still repeated the greeting on the phone: "How are you?" Luo Jingjing also replied repeatedly: "Okay, it's good." She also expressed her sincere concern for Han Ding: "Are you really going abroad?" Didn't you want to go abroad, why did it change again? Han Ding turned his head to look into the distance, and in the distance was a brand new square and fresh green space. He replied, "Yes, life is like that, there are endless changes. ”

Luo Jingjing also followed him to look into the distance, her eyes met Han Ding in the open space of the green space and the fountain in the distance, they were paying attention to the same direction, but her voice rhyme was very isolated to Han Ding's ears.

She said, "When I came out, Xiao Yu asked me to say hello. He wants me to tell you that whether you accept it or not, he will definitely repay you in the future. Since he was a child, his father taught him this: the grace of a drop of water is reciprocated by a spring; The grace of the spring is repaid for a lifetime; The grace of a lifetime will be repaid with death, and the next life will be repaid ......" Luo Jingjing's gaze remained in the distance, and she said: "Me is the same, and I will repay you too." ”

Han Ding smiled faintly: "Retribution with death?" Is Long Xiaoyu willing to die for me? He shook his head. But Luo Jingjing replied with great certainty: "If you need to, he will, he is such a man." ”

Han Ding shook his head again, shaking his head more decisively, he shook his head and said: "Long Xiaoyu has his philosophy of life, I also have my attitude towards life, I do things for others, and I don't need anything in return." I do the same with you, only ask about the hard work, not the harvest. If you are still willing to meet with me, and you can say anything in return, it is already a harvest for me. Han Ding paused and asked, "You came to see me today, does Long Xiaoyu agree?" ”

Luo Jingjing's gaze was still in the distance, she didn't move like a statue on the side, she said: "Of course, he originally wanted to come, but he was going to Zhengzhou this afternoon." There was a pharmaceutical factory in Zhengzhou that wanted to buy the formula and brand of Baochun oral liquid, and he went to talk about it. When he returned, we were going to visit his hometown of Shaoxing, and he said he wanted to see Siping's parents. Especially Siping's mother, who treated him like a son in the past, said that in the future, if Baochun Company recovers and really makes money, he must give Siping's mother a pension. ”

Han Ding retracted his gaze, and he began to pay attention to Luo Jingjing, that face was still beautiful, and it was as radiant as Han Ding's impression when he first saw him at the Pingling Century Hotel in the sunlight. He said: "Do you really want to restore Baochun Company, and really want to reopen the pharmaceutical factory?" ”

Luo Jingjing also retracted her gaze, her gaze was full of happiness, just as sweet as when Han Ding took her from Sanyuan Bridge to his home. She said: "Xiao Yu has contacted several units, they are all interested, and one of them has paid a deposit. Xiao Yu said that he had to choose again, and then compare the conditions......"

Han Ding thought that he should be happy for Luo Jingjing. It seems that she will not have to worry about food and clothing in the future, and she can happily go shopping to buy Clinique and buy Chanel. But for some reason, he couldn't be happy. He said just out of politeness, appropriately, playfully, "Congratulations." When he had said that, his mind was corrupted to the extreme. He looked at Luo Jingjing's grateful smile, and followed maliciously: "This time, Long Xiaoyu can never starve, and he can enter the life of high society forever!" ”

The meeting was short, and the two had nothing to say before the cup of coffee was finished. Luo Jingjing didn't mind Han Ding's ridicule, maybe she didn't understand it at all. She left a new mobile phone number for Han Ding, and her original mobile phone had been stopped due to arrears. Probably someone really paid a deposit for Baochun oral liquid, Han Ding thought, they really have money. In addition to Luo Jingjing's new mobile phone, she called a taxi to leave after she walked out of the café and broke up with Han Ding on the side of the road.

Han Ding didn't take a taxi, he walked to the subway station alone. In the subway station, he hesitated, looked at his watch, and decided not to go to work, he took a bus from west to east, and went directly back to Chongwenmen.

When I got home, it wasn't dark yet, and the setting sun painted the walls of the living room dazzlingly. Han Ding moved a chair, climbed up, and took off Luo Jingjing's smiling face in the sunset. Then, with pliers, he took the frame apart, took out the photograph, stared at it for a moment, slowly rolled it up, rolled it into a shaft and put it in a large drawer at the bottom of the closet, and then closed the drawer tightly.

At this dazzling twilight of the sunset, facing the walls that suddenly became empty, Han Ding decided to listen to his mother, go abroad, go to a strange world, and start his life again.

Dad originally advocated that he go to graduate school, but when he heard his decision to study abroad, he also expressed his support. Not only did he support, but he also took the initiative to help him contact a law school in the UK. The entrance exam for this college was conducted online, and after Han Ding registered, he quickly got the review range of the exam from the Internet and knew the specific date of the exam. Time is running out, and he has less than two weeks to revise.

Although the exam is in Beijing and online, the procedures and scoring criteria will be very strict. This college has hired a special invigilator in Beijing, and only in the presence of the invigilator can you get enough marks on the computer to be eligible for admission.

Han Ding asked for leave from the office, moved to his parents' house, and began a surprise attack. Except for eating the nutritious food and necessary sleep that his mother brought into the bedroom, he hardly took his eyes off those boring English books every day. This kind of madness was only experienced once a few years ago when he was admitted to college, when he was also in this hut, his parents were also willing to do their best in logistics, the curtains of the hut were always closed, and his biological clock was also like this. One day, when his office finally called him, he couldn't figure out whether it was day or night.

The phone call was from Lao Lin, the voice was very small and intermittent, and it sounded like he was still out of town. He asked Han Ding, haven't you been to work for the past two days? Didn't you go back to your own house, why didn't you turn on your phone? Han Ding's eyes were dizzy, and he replied in a daze: "Ah, I'm on leave, I'm reading at home." Lao Lin didn't ask him what leave he was asking for or what books he was reading, so he changed the topic and said hurriedly: "Can you come to Pingling, Siping's case is a bit new." ”

Han Ding was stunned for a moment, and then said coldly: "I'm not going, I don't want to hear about this case anymore." ”

Lao Lin said: "You'd better come over, I found a proof that Siping didn't die at the hands of Zhang Xiong in the end, I'll tell you when you come." ”

Han Ding was stunned again, he couldn't tell if his nerves had become numb: love whoever is who. He said: "Didn't Zhang Xiong admit it himself, he stabbed Siping with a knife." ”

Lao Lin said: "Yes, he stabbed Siping, but he didn't stab the vital parts, the three knives were not deep, and they were not fatal." So the next step is to defend him as a crime of injury, not homicide. ”

Harm? Han Ding seemed to wake up: "How did Siping die?" ”

Lao Lin said: "It was the skull that was shattered by a blunt object, and her head injury was fatal. I have sufficient evidence to prove that Zhang Xiong did not hit Siping on the head from beginning to end that day. ”

Han Ding asked again: "Who hit that?" ”

Lao Lin paused for two seconds and said, "Then there can only be one person." ”

Han Ding asked, "Who?" ”

Lao Lin said: "Long Xiaoyu." ”