The return trip happened to be the peak congestion period in the third district. Yan Suizhi didn't bother to wriggle slowly behind a lot of cars, so he simply changed the longest route around the district. He doesn't really care whether it takes a long time or a short time, as long as he doesn't brake every 5 meters or 10 meters.
There is nothing in his stomach at the moment, and he will not feel comfortable if he brakes too much.
Because the route around the district is too remote, it is indeed smoother than those in the district. But he was not the only one who would rather take a long way to avoid the congestion, so he also encountered a long pause in the middle.
While waiting, Yan Suizhi glanced across the road.
Cherry Manor
His sight finally stopped on the big sign at the fork in front of him. The huge arrow points to a tree-lined boulevard, 700 meters away from the display.
He is not unfamiliar with this place, and many people are familiar with this name - this is a famous winery in the third district of Lyra Star, but there is a large cherry orchard behind the winery, sandwiched with various vine flowers and evergreen trees. , is very beautifully built. This very romantic garden was passed on by word of mouth among the winery's guests, and eventually became a great place for those who held a garden reception or similar pastime.
The manager of this winery is very romantic. In order to please those guests, he made a customized wine for each VIP guest as a unique gift according to different tastes. One bottle a year, marked with a name and a unique mark , distributed in various corners of the cherry orchard, perhaps behind some flowering branches, perhaps in a clump of green leaves.
Guests have a year to slowly find surprises.
Those wine bottles are covered with a special and delicate soft film, which is conducive to the preservation of those wines. If you find it early, you are lucky, and if you find it late, the wine is more mellow.
This kind of thing is a happy thing, and naturally won the hearts of the people, so the reputation of Cherry Manor is getting more and more famous.
However, what attracted Yan Suizhi's attention at this time was not its reputation, but because of the series of follow-up photos that Benqi showed him before, several of them came from here. There are Qiao and Zhao Zemu alone, and Qiao alone.
Yan Suizhi thought for a while, then simply switched the driving mode to manual, turned the steering wheel, turned off the road from the fork, and went straight into the boulevard.
In fact, he has not been to Cherry Manor a few times. After all, his busy life in the past has determined that he does not have so much leisure and leisure to cross-planet to hold garden receptions, but his name is on the VIP guest list of Cherry Manor, because he goes from here every year. Order some wine as a small gift, or give students a taste of a different flavor at a birthday party.
And the custom wine that belongs to him is also sent directly to Decama every year at his request.
Yan Suizhi came out of the parking lot and stopped suddenly when he walked to the door of Cherry Manor.
He almost forgot that now he can only enter the front hall of the cherry manor, but not the cherry orchard at the back. After all, he is no longer "Yan Suizhi", but "Ruan Ye".
When he was hesitating, two people happened to come out of the front hall of the manor.
It was none other than the hapless Bench and Hersey.
Ben Qi was walking in front, gesturing and talking nonstop as he walked, but out of the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of Yan Suizhi, and there was a sudden stop under his feet.
Yan Suizhi smiled: "What a coincidence."
Ben Qi grimaced and hugged his camera tightly, "Why is it you again!"
Because of what happened before, Ben Qi wanted to run away when he saw Yan Suizhi or Gu Yan, and could not wait 800 meters before talking.
"Don't panic." Yan Suizhi reassured, "I won't grab your camera this time."
This sentence is worth pondering, it means "although I don't grab the camera, but I want to do something else".
Ben Qi himself deals with various word and language games every day. Of course, he caught the key when he heard it, and his face became even more sad, "What are you going to do, you say it first."
Yan Suizhi glanced at the winery and asked him, "I heard you say Zhao Zemu just now, is he in the winery now?"
Ben Qi nodded: "Yeah, why else would I bring Hersey here? Drink?"
He stared at Yan Suizhi suspiciously, "What? You... do you want to go in?"
This insight will make Yan Suizhi very satisfied, and it will save him from speaking.
"Smart man." Professor Yan Da boasted without hesitation, "Excuse me to take me to the cherry orchard?"
Ben Qi especially wanted to say, "Don't bother, don't want to dream." But when he remembered the quality education before, he swallowed the words again, and hummed reluctantly like a toothache: "Forget it, you , hey... you come with me."
Several photos of Bunqi before were obviously taken in the cherry orchard, indicating that he is obviously qualified to enter the orchard.
When Ben Qi took Hexi and Yan Suizhi back to the hall, the waiter in charge of reception was stunned, "Have you got anything here?"
"Oh no, I happened to meet a friend, and I took him to the cherry orchard for a drink." When Bunqi said "meet a friend", his tone was like "I bumped into a ghost", which attracted the waiter to see Yan Suizhi Several eyes.
"Uh, okay, no problem." The waiter showed his good attitude, and immediately put on a very enthusiastic smile when he understood it, and made a gesture toward the path leading to the cherry orchard, "Please come with me, So what wine do you want, sir?"
I want poisoned wine, dare you
Ben Qi murmured in his heart for a long time, and chose a relatively cost-effective one: "Garden Sweet Bar."
"Okay." The waiter didn't ask much.
Yan Suizhi was naturally brought into the cherry orchard.
The park is very large, and the road space is divided by different trees and flower vines. Every short walk along the pebble road will lead to an open area, with exquisite round tables and rattan chairs, where guests can enjoy wine, or I want a pot of cherry tea, scented tea, and some desserts.
He simply came in, and Ben Qi didn't continue to be hypocritical. He simply sent the Buddha to the west and led Yan Suizhi to the depths of the park with a late mother's face.
"Sit here first."
They picked a table and chairs surrounded by strawberries and star-moon grass, and the waiter quickly brought sweet wine, ice cubes, cream, a plate of exquisite wine snacks, and three thin-legged glasses, each of which It's adorned with a maroon cherry inside.
The young man skillfully matched the three of them with wine, and smiled at them: "Hurry up, if there is anything you need to ring the bell on the table."
Yan Suizhi ate some snacks and cushioned it, then picked up the cup and took a sip.
He is very clear about everything, it's one thing to be followed for trouble, and it's another thing to be brought in by Ben Qi, so he swallowed the sweet wine and said to Ben Qi, "Thank you, come back. I'll give you a bottle of silver-bottomed Carmon."
Silver Bottom Carmon is the famous first-class wine of Cherry Manor. It belongs to the style with the most widely accepted taste and is suitable for giving as a gift.
But expensive...
Ben Qi rolled his eyes, "You can buy a Ginza card and want me to take you in?"
The implication is don't tease me, I still don't count on it.
Yan Suizhi raised his eyebrows without explaining.
"Zhao Zemu has gone to the prayer house." Ben Qi raised his chin towards a lonely path in the distance, "He has to stay there for a long time every time, if you have enough time, just wait, we're leaving anyway. "
He seems to have other things to do, or there are other people to follow, and he has no plans to stay here. He suffocated the whole glass of sweet wine in one gulp, and he urged Hersey to finish the drink and leave quickly.
So five minutes later, only one of Yan Sui was left in the deep part of the cherry orchard, drinking sweet wine unhurriedly. on the trail.
At the end of the trail is a warm-colored house known as the Prayer House.
Cherry Manor has a one-stop service here, and a prayer room is specially set up for some gentlemen and ladies who take advantage of alcohol to relieve their sorrows. There is a prayer officer who is responsible for listening to complaints and drunkenness, a bit similar to the clergy in ancient times. You can safely say anything in front of him, and according to the regulations, he has the right and obligation to keep what you say confidential.
Ben Qi is indeed a person who has been filming with him for a long time, and he knows Zhao Zemu's habits very well.
Yan Suizhi sat here for an hour, and it was already dark before Zhao Zemu came out of the prayer room. I haven't seen him for a while, he looks a lot of vicissitudes, and a layer of green stubble appears on his chin, which is far from the meticulous appearance before.
He met an acquaintance on the road, and he cheered up and exchanged a few words with him.
"Why did you come here all of a sudden? I thought you wouldn't go out recently." the man said.
Zhao Zemu nodded and said tiredly, "I suddenly wanted to come and have a look recently."
The man suddenly realized, "Oh, I remembered, you and Manson and Joe, you used to come here for a drink? I remember who mentioned it?"
Zhao Zemu: "Well, it was a long time ago. When I was in my teens, I used my family name to drink it secretly."
The man laughed, "It seems that they have done this kind of thing before, looking for the wine with the parents' name to change the label in the garden. At that time, I thought it was very interesting to play a prank."
"Yes."
The man thought about it and sighed, "I heard that Manson isn't feeling well yet?"
Although the Manson family blocked some news, people in the same circle heard some wind.
Zhao Zemu: "Well... I've been thinking about the stupid things Manson did when he was in his teens, so I came here for a walk."
"Hey..." The man patted Zhao Zemu on the shoulder, "I don't know what will happen to him."
Zhao Zemu was silent for a long time, and then he said, "I will be discharged from the hospital. Okay, don't talk, I'll go first."
"Okay, next time I have time to drink!"
"Um."
When Zhao Zemu passed by here, Yan Suizhi turned his face inward by drinking.
According to the regulations here, as the defense lawyer of the suspect Chen Zhang, he cannot meet the witnesses of the victim side at will. If he wants to see him, he needs to report and go through the process first, so as not to threaten the witnesses to change their testimony.
Yan Suizhi came to the Cherry Manor on a whim, of course he did not go through the process. He just came to observe Zhao Zemu's state, and did not intend to have a direct conversation with him.
Zhao Zemu really didn't see him and left in a hurry.
The person left behind was still in the garden, and naturally chatted with another traveler about Zhao Zemu.
"How good is his relationship with Manson? Why didn't I see that?"
"That's because you didn't know them before. They had a good relationship when they were young. He, Joe, and Manson became estranged later. After all, they were not the same people."
"Indeed, he looks calmer?"
"It's in the bones! Manson deserves to be the stupidest among the three."
…
Yan Suizhi listened to them indiscriminately running around people, drank the last bit of wine, and carefully wiped the fingers that had taken the dessert with a clean tissue before leaving.
The next day, there was no good omen since the early morning. It was dark and the wind was blowing everywhere.
Yan Suizhi arrived at the detention center on time for the meeting.
"Wait a minute, I'll go and bring Chen Zhang over." The tiger face guard watched him come every day, making Chen Zhang look dazed every day, but he didn't talk about the case seriously, and it was unfortunate. Even his tone softened a bit.
Yan Suizhi sat down at his old seat in the meeting room and nodded, "Excuse me."
It turned out to be another ten minutes.
Even the guards guarding the door couldn't bear to look at it, one of them glanced into the meeting room, and whispered to the other: "Don't go around and go back to the starting point, why do I think Chen Zhang wants to do it again? refused to meet."
"That's too hard to do."
"This intern is also unlucky. As soon as he comes up, he encounters such a party."
"I'm so lucky."
The two thought their voices were very small, but in fact, Yan Suizhi could hear most of the small conversations, and they were a little dumbfounded.
But he was not in a hurry, and still leaned back in the chair relaxedly.
Ten minutes later, the guard at the door slammed his heels against the wall and stood up straight.
"I've seen a ghost, it's actually here!"
"It's only half past the meeting time..."
There were slow footsteps in the corridor, heavy and procrastinating, accompanied by the light clanging of metal handcuffs.
Yan Suizhi clasped his hands loosely on the table. He knew that Chen Zhang had already figured it out. Maybe there were countless reasons for him to reject and resist telling the truth before, and maybe there were countless obstacles preventing him from speaking, but now, he must have figured it out.
Today's Chen Zhang looks twice as haggard than yesterday, and now he is a large group of blue and black, the beard above and below his lips has been connected into pieces, his hair is sticking out, and even the muscles that have been trained by diving all year round seem to have collapsed. covered by clothing.
But his eyes were bright and his eyes were heavy.
He sat down in the seat and said slowly: "Yesterday's recording has been played back many times in my mind, many times, so I couldn't sleep all night. I heard my father and my mother keep asking in my ears. I, hard or not, don't want them anymore..."
He was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly, "I said, how can it be... I just... "
"I'm just scared to see them..."
"You know? My family has a genetic disease. When I reach the age of 60, I will probably be paralyzed. I'm not far from there, at most four or five years. In fact, this disease is not incurable, including my mother's. Heart and lung, if you really want to treat it, find the best hospital for autologous cultivation, choose the healthiest backup period, and replace the damaged organs with the raised organs. I have consulted... that is... just that I don't always earn that much money. "
Chen Zhangdao: "If it is a more useful person and earns a little more, they may not have to lie in the hospital like that now. So I don't want to see them. I want to go farther and find a small hospital that they don't know about and wait for the disease."
"In the past two years, every few days, I've been dreaming like a madman, why won't the pie fall out of the sky, or there will be a tornado, and a little money will be blown in front of me... Every day I think about it every day, and I dream about it. Thinking."
…
He seemed to regard Yan Suizhi as the kind of prayer officer in the Cherry Manor, pouring out all the complaints and dreams over the years, the more he talked, the more he couldn't stop.
But Yan Suizhi didn't rush, didn't show any impatience, and didn't show any pity or sympathy, just like listening to a common sentence, which made Chen Zhang very relaxed and felt that it didn't matter what he said.
After a long time, Chen Zhang finally finished digging the dusty silt and let out a long breath.
It was only then that he raised his eyes and looked at Yan Suizhi without hesitation, "I thought about it for a night and thought... They should still want to see me more than a handful of money falling from the sky?"
Yan Suizhi said, "Of course."
He thought for a while and said, "And those high-priced surgeries you mentioned, there are some places that can be greatly reduced, at least I know one or two."
Chen Zhang's eyes widened instantly, "Really?"
"Of course, there will be some conditions, but they are not harsh." Yan Suizhi said, "It's just that the environment may not be as good as Tianqin Star, in the wine city."
Chen Zhang stared into his eyes for a long time, as if to confirm the credibility of his words. After a long while, he closed his eyes as if determined, opened them again, and said, "About...about that case...about Mr. Manson...I'm wrong."
Yan Suizhi looked at him.
After he said this, he took a deep breath and let it out slowly, "But not murder."
Yan Suizhi nodded, "Then, do you want me to plead guilty or not, tell me."
Chen Zhang squeezed his fingers and said, "Not guilty."
"Okay."
"I didn't do those things, but..." Chen Zhang said, "but I recorded a confession, my fingerprints were left on the syringe, the bottom of the medicine bottle, and—"
Yan Suizhi interrupted him calmly, "That's not what you need to consider, just promise to tell the truth and leave the rest to me."
Suddenly, a thunderstorm sounded outside, and it passed through the door and wall. Chen Zhang's fingers trembled, and then he slowly clenched it. He suddenly woke up and said, "Okay, I promise."
After a cloudy day, it finally started to rain heavily, and the cold and huge raindrops hit the eaves and walls, and it became wet in an instant.
The water gurgled along the street, and soon there was no place to go.
Yan Suizhi walked out along the corridor of the detention center, the windows were covered with rain, and lightning flashed from time to time to illuminate half of the sky.
He silently opened the asset card and glanced at it, thinking that he was about to finish it, but Gu Yan's crow's mouth was really right, and the balance was so terrible that it hurt to buy an umbrella.
No matter how long the corridor was in the detention center, there was an end. Seeing the rain pouring down the sky outside, he had to stop at a distance of one meter from the gate.
Just when he was about to break the jar, leaning against the wall and smiling while waiting for the rain to stop, he saw a figure coming out of the car across the street. Come this way.
When he walked to the steps of the gate of the detention center, he tilted the edge of his umbrella slightly and looked up at Yan Suizhi.
Yan Suiyi was stunned and stood up straight.
In the rainstorm, the face of the other party was blurred, but he could still recognize it at a glance, it was Gu Yan.
Yan Suizhi called up the holographic screen and sent a message briskly with his finger:
- Didn't you say it's only at night
Gu Yan didn't look at the smartphone at all, and came up the steps with an umbrella. He stopped in front of the door and said indifferently, "Send a message less than five meters away?"
Yan Suizhi: "Who sent me a message yesterday and asked me to look up? I can't remember."
Gu Yan: "..."
Professor Yan Da was rescued, and immediately followed Gu Yan down the stairs and walked side by side to the courtyard gate.
"Is the room booked?" Gu Yan asked.
Yan Suizhi said, "No order."
Gu Yan: "?"
Yan Suizhi said calmly: "The balance is only enough to add an extra bed in my room, and I can't even buy an umbrella after I add it."
"… "
Attorney Gu had a blank look on his face, and he couldn't tell whether he was shocked by the "extra bed" or the "can't afford an umbrella".
But it seems that he kind of wants to leave the person under the umbrella in the rainstorm.
Yan Suizhi admired his face silently, and finally couldn't help laughing, "It's okay to tease you, it's ready. But you have to explain to me, am I a beast of a flood, add a bed and your face is so stretched out. ?"
Gu Yan didn't look sideways, kept silent, walked to the street, opened the car door, and shoved someone inside.
He sat down in the driver's seat, put the umbrella up and put it in the umbrella compartment, just as he was about to start the car, a slender, white hand suddenly stretched out beside him.
"Give the money, the room deposit. Thanks to your crow's mouth, your teacher really can't afford an umbrella." Yan Suizhi said.
Gu Yan: "..."
Why don't you pawn yourself a vote