After meeting with Principal Cui in the café for a detailed chat, Chen Haoming hurried back to the law firm and made an appointment to meet with Teacher Hu Meili in the afternoon.

Teacher Hu Meimei, who had just turned 30, looked a little dazed, and her face was haggard, obviously exhausted by the torture of Feng Yuming's suicide case.

"I was in a terrible mood that day, I was angry and not sincere. I loved my students, they were like my children, I didn't think I would hurt him, I was so angry that I hardly knew what I was talking about, I didn't expect him to kill himself. I regret dying, I'd rather die than I'm the one who died! Being alive now is a pain and a kind of torture for me...... "It can be seen that Hu Meili regrets and blames herself very much, and when she recounts the situation in class on the day of the crime, and her conversation with Feng Yuming, she cried several times. She was almost repentant, for the life she had just lost, for the students who had been with her day and night.

Facing Chen Haoming, Hu Meili is not like talking to a lawyer about the case, but more like facing a psychiatrist, telling her the entanglement and pain in her heart.

Hu Meili regretted that she could not see Feng Yuming for the last time, because at Feng Yuming's funeral, Feng Yuming's parents refused to allow her to attend. They turned away teacher Hu Meili, who had come to mourn Feng Yuming.

So, her confession, nowhere to release.

After learning about the situation on the day of the crime, Chen Haoming briefly comforted Teacher Hu Meili and asked her to go back to rest first. Although Chen Haoming was also in a complicated mood, he also hated Hu Meimei's irrationality at that time, which led to the loss of a child's life. But as a lawyer, as a student of Principal Cui, he had to suppress his emotions temporarily, because what awaited him was destined to be a tough battle. He needed enough time to sort through the materials and sort things out......

Busy until the evening, coming out of the law firm, Chen Haoming drove to Zuo Tongtong's favorite Sanbao porridge shop to pack her a white fungus ice porridge.

On the way home, he kept thinking about the words of Principal Cui and Teacher Hu. For them, the reputation of a school and the reputation of its teachers are sometimes even more important than life.

As soon as he walked in the door, Chen Haoming shouted to Zuo Tongtong, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room watching TV: "Tongtong, I bought your favorite white fungus ice porridge." ”

Zuo Tongtong pretended not to hear and continued to nest on the sofa and watch TV.

Chen Haoming walked into the kitchen with a packing box containing white fungus ice porridge and took out a delicate transparent glass bowl and a spoon from the kitchen cabinet. He opened the box, poured the ice porridge into the glass bowl, and put the spoon in it.

Zuo Tongtong couldn't help but speak, but his eyes couldn't help but look in the direction of the kitchen.

Chen Haoming walked out of the kitchen with a glass bowl containing white fungus ice porridge, put it on the coffee table in front of Zuo Tongtong, and urged: "Tongtong, eat quickly, it's very sweet." ”

Zuo Tongtong still didn't want to deal with him, just glanced at the glass bowl very casually, and continued to watch TV.

Chen Haoming sat down next to Zuo Tongtong, he picked up a spoon and put a spoonful of ice porridge, put it under his nose and smelled it, looked at Zuo Tongtong, and said deliberately: "It's so fragrant!" Some of the people are running down the water, right? ”

Zuo Tongtong snatched the spoon and put it in his mouth to eat.

Chen Haoming was amused by Zuo Tongtong, got up and walked into the kitchen, he was going to make himself a cup of coffee. Zuo Tongtong held a glass bowl in one hand and a spoon in the other, followed the kitchen from the living room, leaned his back against the kitchen door, and asked while eating: "Why do you have to bother with this matter?" ”

Chen Haoming replied while being busy: "This is not an idle matter, I am a lawyer, and this is my duty." ”

"Why does it have to be you?" Zuo Tongtong looked at Chen Haoming's back worriedly and continued to ask.

"No why, if anyone can take it, why can't it be me?" Chen Haoming turned his head and couldn't help but look back into her eyes, "Tongtong, Shuguang Primary School is undoubtedly the hard work of Principal Cui for many years. Now, he trusts me, and I should do something for him. ”

Zuo Tongtong looked at Chen Haoming silently, fell into deep thought, and stopped asking.

Chen Haoming said softly: "There is a female writer named 'Green Silk' once said: Even if we are just passing by in a hurry, we must leave many traces on the road of life in order to live this life in vain. ”

After hearing this, Zuo Tongtong smiled. She walked over, gently leaned her head on Chen Haoming's back, and said softly, "I'm just worried about you." ”

Chen Haoming turned around, grabbed Zuo Tongtong's shoulder with one hand, and smiled bitterly: "Don't worry, it's okay." ”