"Do you have a friend named Hu Haoran?" At dinner in the evening, Mr. Lin asked without warning.

"Huh?" Lin Zhiyi and Hu Haoran had a stiff fight not long ago, and they didn't know how to answer their father's question.

"Yes, he's been in the same class since kindergarten. He didn't do well in the high school entrance examination, and he was going to go abroad, but his father still donated money to Zhiyuan Middle School to let him go there to class. "Mrs. Lin doesn't know what happened between them recently.

"Why did you mention him?" Lin Zhiyi took a sip of soup and asked in an indifferent tone.

"His father had a lawsuit, and someone found me. I'm still considering whether or not to take it. ”

"What lawsuit?"

"Contract disputes."

Lin Zhi also knows that his father, who is a lawyer, has a professional ethics to abide by and cannot reveal too much.

"Trouble?" Lin Zhi also couldn't control himself from caring about Hu Haoran.

"What do you think of Hu Haoran's usual behavior?" Mr. Lin asked rhetorically.

Lin Zhiyi was silent, he wasn't sure if he still knew Hu Haoran, and he didn't want to give his father information.

"It's okay." It took me a long time to come up with these three neutral adjectives.

"Don't take it personally, I'm just asking."

"Don't talk about work when you eat, next Friday is Grandpa's 70th birthday, you all have to make time for it." Mrs. Lin saw the subtle emotional changes on Lin Zhiyi's face and skillfully changed the topic.

But his father's words at the dinner table have been lingering in Lin Zhiyi's heart, "Is there really something wrong with the Hu family?" ”

Since then, every day before and after school, he will ask Master Ma to drive slower in the villa area, trying to run into Hu Haoran's BMW again. But the BMW, with three six-plate plates, seemed to have disappeared from the residential area, day and night.

Lin Zhiyi could only block Hu Haoran in the cafeteria, but he treated him like air, no matter how close Lin Zhiyi was, Hu Haoran didn't care. Hu Haoran didn't let other classmates get close to him, so he ate quietly in the corner of the cafeteria alone.

"It's so unlike him!" Lin Zhiyi could only be anxious in the dark. He felt that Hu Haoran's father must have encountered a thorny problem.

When he went home, he instructed Master Ma to go around the villa area, wanting to visit Hu's house directly.

But as soon as the car drove not far from the door of Hu's house, it was blocked by a large truck. A team of workers in blue-gray uniforms are moving the homes in the villa to the car little by little, like ants moving.

Hu Haoran's father stood by the truck with a man in a court uniform, holding a list and checking items one by one, and when he saw that the truck was blocking the way, he asked his son to negotiate with the driver to turn around. Hu Haoran took a closer look and saw that it was Lin Zhiyi's car, turned his head and ran into the house. Lin Zhiyi had never seen him so flustered, and hurriedly got out of the car to catch up with him.

Seeing that he was about to catch up with Hu Haoran, the other party turned around and kicked Lin Zhiyi in the chest.

Lin Zhiyi was kicked and sat on the ground panting, the truck blocked the view of others, Hu Haoran grabbed Lin Zhiyi's collar, "Did you come here to see my joke?" ”

"Ahem. No, ......" Lin Zhiyi took several deep breaths before adjusting his breathing, "No." I know you have anger in your heart, you can beat me, but don't bear it alone! ”

Hu Haoran looked at Lin Zhiyi's eyes, trying to tell if he was pretending to be a good person again.

"I mean it."

"Really?" Hu Haoran let go of Lin Zhiyi, and suddenly laughed, tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes, I don't know whether it was joy or sadness, "Now that you say that you are sincere, are you really not joking?" ”

"I'm not kidding?"

"Your Lin family is really hypocritical to the extreme."

"Is it related to my father?"

"It has nothing to do with him, so he doesn't want to have anything to do with our Hu family?"

"He's refusing to be your lawyer?" Lin Zhiyi recalled his father's hesitation at the dinner table that night, and combined with Hu Haoran's current attitude, he put forward a reasonable guess. But this question can no longer put oneself out of it.

"You know all about it and ask!"

"I don't know!"

"Hahaha. See that court dog? It was raised by your mother. ”

Hu Haoran pointed to the uniformed man and said, "Your family is all wolves in sheep's clothing. ”

Hearing Hu Haoran insulting his family, Lin Zhiyi pounced on him and writhed with him.

Hu Haoran and the court staff stepped forward in time to pull them away. Hu Haoran's father directly gave his son a slap, "Have you made enough trouble, go back to the house!" ”

Hu Haoran left Lin Zhiyi with a vicious look, sobbing and entered the house, but soon, this property will also be forced to be auctioned by the court.

"You're Lawyer Lin's son!" Hu Haoran's father was much older than Lin Zhiyi when he last saw him, and the stubble on his face grew wildly because of lack of care.

The chill in his tone penetrated Lin Zhiyi's heart.

"Mr. Hu, don't embarrass the child, let's continue." Fortunately, the court staff present recognized that this was Judge Su Xiaoyuan's son and protected him behind him.

"Okay. Finish early and finish early. ”

Lin Zhiyi locked himself in the room when he went home, his chest was still aching because of Hu Haoran's kick, and he looked through the mirror in the bathroom, and he could faintly see a red footprint on it.

It was probably the staff of that court who spoke on the phone with Mrs. Lin, who arrived home a full two hours earlier than usual today.

"Yiyi, open the door, Mom is back!"

When Mrs. Lin arrived home, she met Master Ma, and he said that the young master and the Hu family had a dispute. When she received a call from her subordinates, she was worried that Lin Zhiyi was being bullied by the Hu family's father and son, and after hearing Master Ma's words, she became even more anxious, she wanted to see her son safe and sound.

"That's right! Open the door. Mrs. Lin's knock on the door became more urgent.

Lin Zhiyi had to get dressed and go to open the door for his mother, "What's the urging?" ”。

Mrs. Lin hugged him, "The Hu family father and son didn't do anything to you." ”

"Nope." Lin Zhiyi avoided his mother's arms and sat on the bed. Hu Haoran's words flipped over and over again in his heart, "The Lin family is hypocritical to the extreme. ”

Mrs. Lin half-knelt beside the bed, "Don't associate with Hu Haoran in the future, you know?" ”

"Why?" Lin Zhiyi looked at his mother, his eyes full of desire to know the truth.

"Mom can't talk to you too much, anyway, his dad is not a serious person. He owed a lot of money for his business, and the court sentenced him to use his own property to pay off the debt. ”

"This is funny, Hu Haoran also said that our Lin family are hypocritical people. Who should I trust? ”

"Of course you have to trust your mother, your mother doesn't want anything for you!" Mother Lin hugged Lin Zhiyi tightly, and he must have felt uncomfortable when he was seriously hurt by such words from his good friend since he was a child.

"If my father was Hu Haoran's father's lawyer, would the court still sentence like this?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Dad has never lost a lawsuit, so Hu Haoran's father will ask someone to find him, but Dad still refused, he knows that Hu Haoran is my best friend!" Lin Zhi also clenched his hands into fists.

"Also, you're young, you don't understand. This kind of case where the client's integrity is questionable is generally not accepted by lawyers. And even if your dad takes it, there is nothing he can do in the face of the conclusive factual evidence. ”

"He was afraid of ruining his reputation as a barrister."

"You can't say that about your father." Mrs. Lin's voice became stern, and she half-knelt in front of Lin Zhiyi, "Zhiyi, you must know that the law is about facts, not about human feelings. If that friend of yours uses this incident to seriously injure you, it can only mean that he is a person who has no big right and wrong in his heart. Even if we take 10,000 steps back and talk about our relationship with his father, it is also a matter between us adults, you have done nothing wrong, if he insists on putting the blame on your head, it proves that he does not treat you as a real friend. ”

"Do you understand what Mom is saying?" Mrs. Lin looked at the thoughtful Lin Zhiyi worriedly, afraid that the thought in his heart just now would grow.

"Hmm."

"Good son." Mrs. Lin held her son tightly in her arms, she knew that he had been greatly wronged, but he was still fighting for the so-called friend. She began to worry that in the face of this complex world, she would not teach Lin Zhiyi too little.