Gu Yan was not happy.
Not the unhappiness of anger, but a more complex and indescribable emotion…
Yan Suizhi looked at the silent communicator, and could almost imagine how Gu Yan would frown lightly, then quickly let go, returning to his usual extremely calm appearance, and then fell silent...
He knows all this.
Even though the distance between the communicator and the shuttle was getting farther and farther, he could still feel Gu Yan's emotions.
But how to coax this time
Professor Yan Da was a little worried. He leaned against the soft leather back of the office chair, rested his chin for a while, then sighed, and went out to the tea room to pour himself a glass of water.
He stopped when he passed Gu Yan's desk with warm water.
The large and heavy desk was kept extremely tidy, just like Gu Yan's usual feeling, there was a pot of evergreen bamboo in the corner of the desk. When the barrister's office was just set up, Fitz forcibly stuffed it into each office to decorate the interior.
As a result, over the years, other people's potted plants have died several times, but his pot has been alive and well. In a casual chat before, Fitz said that Gu Yan's pot of evergreen bamboo is generally not allowed to be touched. After all, the entire law firm is a plant killer, and it is not easy for it to survive.
But Yan Suizhi poured water several times, but Gu Yan just lifted his eyelids and said nothing.
Professor Yan Da has a problem. When thinking about a problem, he will make small movements in his hand. In the past, there was a floor-standing potted plant next to the chair in the dean's office, and the thin and cool leaves felt very good. He often held his chin while thinking about things, while his fingers unconsciously touched the leaf.
The cleaning aunt in charge of cleaning the office is a careful person. After discovering his habit, she turns the flower pot around a corner every time after cleaning, so as not to stare at a leaf and touch it and feel bald.
At this moment, he was leaning against the edge of Gu Yan's desk, staring at the empty chair for a while. When he returned to his senses, he realized that half of the warm water in his hand had been reduced, and the other half had been poured into the evergreen bamboo flowerpot unconsciously by him.
The soil in the flowerpot has been thoroughly watered, and there is a small puddle formed in a shallow puddle, which bubbling over a small blister, and then slowly smeared down, and it is impossible to retrieve it.
"… "
Yan Suizhi was silent for a moment, then bent down to lift the stretched branches and leaves of the evergreen bamboo and glanced at it, and found that the roots of the green bamboo really had some signs of rottenness. About to be drowned by him.
"… "
Professor Yan Da was stiff for a moment, then immediately retracted his hand as if he had done something bad, turned his head and returned to his seat.
Gu Yan was going to run away with his anger, and Gu Yan's bamboo would also be killed by him.
Yan Suizhi was even more worried, feeling that she might be doomed to have a hard time with the peppermint essence.
…
When he left the law firm in the afternoon, Fitz, who took the initiative to give Yan Suizhi a ride, looked him up and down and asked, "Ruan? What happened to you?"
Yan Suizhi was stunned for a moment, "Nothing, what's wrong?"
"It doesn't look like you're in a good mood," Fitz said. "Gu gave you a mission before leaving for business? Is there something wrong? I heard that Locke found you a new apartment?"
"Well." Yan Suizhi nodded, "So you know?"
Fitz said proudly: "Of course, I don't know anything. Are you going to move tonight?"
Yan Suizhi thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Let's tidy up tonight, and move it tomorrow."
"Wait until Gu is back?" Fitz asked.
Yan Sui paused, nodded again and said, "Yes, wait for him to come back."
"Okay, then, I wanted to say that if you plan to move tonight, I can do me a favor and drive you and your suitcase." Miss Fitz looked regretful and did not make any decoration, "Hey, The chance to help the little handsome guy move and grab a meal by the way is gone."
"I heard that your new landlord is also very handsome, and there is no chance to take a look." Fitz said.
Regret is so real.
Yan Suizhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I do have his communication number. I can send it to you if you need it."
"Forget it." Fitz said again, "It's not bad to move tomorrow, Gu can help you clean up and send you there."
Yan Suizhi gave a dry laugh and said in his heart, don't mention help. It seems like your lawyer Gu doesn't want to talk to me anymore.
"Um... did I say something wrong?" Fitz glanced at him again, "Why do you seem to be in a bad mood again?"
Yan Suizhi touched his face and smiled half-truth: "Is it so obvious? I'm a little regretful that I won't be able to live in such an expensive villa as Lawyer Gu in the future."
Miss Fitz snorted.
The car was still in the state of intelligent driving, and it didn't take much time to turn into the courtyard gate of the garden villa area in the city. The law firm was not busy on this day, and no one was working overtime, so when they arrived at the villa area, the sky was just a little dark, and the afterglow of the setting sun spread a golden afterglow on the top of the flowers and plants and the undissolved snow.
The brightly red car parked in front of Gu Yan's villa. Yan Suizhi opened the door and got out of the car. He stood beside the flowerbed and waved at Fizz, "It's rare that it's so early, so go back quickly."
"If I can come back at this time every day, I can live to be five hundred years old, and this view will make people feel comfortable-" Miss Fitz said halfway, the smile solidified on her lips, and then lowered her voice and continued: "—Fuck! What the hell!"
Yan Suizhi: "???"
Fitz looked over his shoulder to a certain direction behind him, with a really ghostly expression.
"What's up?"
"Hobbes—" Fitz said in a low voice.
On the fork in the road leading to another villa not far away, a thin man with silver-gray hair was standing there, wearing a long black coat, wrapped in an iron-gray scarf, and his face was serious.
His eyes were the same color as his hair, and when he looked at him, he looked like a falcon waiting for an opportunity. Of course, it could also be the visual effect of his hooked nose.
It was none other than the old-fashioned Hobbes they had been worried about running into.
Although Hobbs is not young, his eyesight and hearing are very good, especially when he is catching people's pigtails.
Miss Fitz bit her lip with her back to him, and winked at Yan Suiyi, "What should I do? If you just get in the car and say you're going to my house."
Yan Suizhi raised his eyebrows and said softly to her, "Isn't it too deliberate to get out of the car and then get in the car?" He said, patted the window, and said, "It's okay, you go back first."
This kind of action is made by him, and it always has a strong soothing effect, probably because he always seems to be smiling and unhurried. Fitz nodded subconsciously, about to press the start button, and reacted again: I actually left a little intern to deal with Hobbs alone? Why am I so obedient
So Miss Fitz withdrew the activating finger again, glanced at Yan Suizhi, and then at Hobbs, countless excuses flashed through her mind—
I thought this little intern was so handsome that I couldn't resist inviting him to dinner? No, as true as it sounds, it's not good for interns.
Lawyer Gu was on a business trip, so he asked an intern to help him look after his home for a day? No, more bullshit.
…
She was worried that her brain was not enough to speak nonsense. Over there Hobbs opened his mouth and seemed to want to say something.
However, before he could speak, Yan Suizhi had already turned his head to look at him very naturally, then stunned more naturally, and said with a smile, "Mr. Hobbs, it seems that I came at the right time."
Hobbs closed his mouth again and looked at him dumbfoundedly: "???"
Fitz was even more confused: "???"
"What are you doing?" Fitz asked quietly, and Yan Suizhi's downed fingers gently shook her, indicating that she was okay, don't care.
After comparing the gestures, Yan Suizhi strode forward to Hobbes.
"What's the right time to pinch?" Hobbs asked him, frowning.
Yan Suizhi said: "I asked Miss Fitz about your place of residence, and I specially took her ride to find you. I thought I would have to wait for a while, but I didn't expect it to be just right..."
His expression is very calm, his smile is decent and polite, he looks like a senior colleague, and a bit like a collaborator at a reception... In short, he is not like any other intern in the law firm.
Hobbs's teacher appearance to Locke and the others was a bit lacking in front of Yan Suizhi.
It doesn't make sense...
Hobbs said in his heart, I was doing something wrong to an intern, so he corrected his face, pressed his voice in a tone of "I don't know you very well", and said, "Why are you looking for me?"
"Oh—" Yan Suizhi gently dragged the end and said with a smile, "Actually it's nothing, I just think that you always seem to have a lot of opinions on me. Today at the law firm, I passed by the door of your office three times. I was stunned. I should have read it right?"
Hobbes: "..."
"It's not good for both parties if it goes on like this, it will affect your mood and work efficiency too much, so I want to talk to you. But it's not appropriate to spend time talking about such purely personal topics in a law firm, so I can only wait for you to get off work. , if you don't mind, I'll go sit with you for a while?"
Yan Suizhi was in a bad mood today, but now he is poking at each other's ribs.
At first glance, this sentence seems to be nothing, but in fact, it directly opens up two points, one is "private topic", and the other is "going to the house to talk".
"Personal topic" is to make it clear that this is not a business, it is purely a private and biased emotion, and if you turn it over again, it means that Hobbes is really embarrassed to get along with the intern.
As for "talking in the house", that is what Hobbes is most afraid of right now.
Gu Yan is in the publicity period of the list of first-level lawyers, and Hobbs is also there. The most appropriate way to do this during this time is not to be caught even by the slightest problem, even if it is a very normal thing, once there is a hole that can be spread , it will be very troublesome.
Especially for someone as old-fashioned as Hobbes, what would it be like to let an intern into the house at night!
So Hobbs frowned and leaned back, looked at Yan Suizhi with a look that was evasive like a scorpion, then waved his hand and said, "No, I have no problem with you, I just think you were in the law firm before. Some of his behaviors are not in line with what an intern should look like. Lawyer Gu is a young man, and he has always been reluctant to bring an intern before. You are the first, and you were put into his hands. I'm inexperienced. And I'm just an experienced old lawyer who came here to give you some warnings, without any personal emotions."
Yan Suizhi nodded, "Really? That's good. I think I've thought too much. After all, you are an experienced and experienced old lawyer, so you can't be so careful."
Hobbes: "..."
These words are very poignant, and they are "old" and "careful".
The young man acted as if he didn't want to hang out at Southern Cross.
The tendons at the corners of Hobbs' mouth twitched twice, but still with a straight face, he took this sentence abruptly and said, "Of course not, I just think that young people need to sharpen their temperament and gain more experience. Okay, Everything has been said here, go back and think about it for yourself."
After he finished speaking, Hobbs turned his head and walked away with his light brain and handbag in his hand. It may be the first time he has such a vigorous pace after getting older.
He walked quickly, disappeared behind the detour in an instant, crossed two villas, turned inside, and disappeared from view.
Yan Suizhi returned to the car with a calm face. Miss Fitz was amazed and stared at him for a while, then asked cautiously, "Have you found your next home?"
Yan Suizhi: "???"
"Why do you say that?"
Miss Fitz: "Oh, nothing, I thought you didn't want to hang out with Southern Cross."
Yan Suizhi smiled and rolled her eyes, thinking that I wasn't originally from the Southern Cross Law Firm. If it wasn't for some mint spirit who didn't care about anyone, I would pat my butt and leave after reading the file.
Although Miss Fitz was worried by what he said just now, she finally let out a long breath and said, "But it sounds cool, you are fine, I'll go home first."
"Can you see Lawyer Gu from Hobbs' villa?" Yan Suizhi asked again.
"You can't see it unless he's squatting in the yard and staring at it at night." Fitz said, "Don't worry, it won't happen. He's just a little shrewd, and he likes to make trouble a little bit, but he hasn't reached this level yet. "
Yan Suizhi nodded and entered Gu Yan's house with confidence.
After entering the door, he turned on the light in the living room downstairs, called up the holographic screen of the smartphone, and took a look. The heart said that it is also careful, how different, Hobbs is so disgusting, Gu Yan is quite likable.
He didn't hesitate any longer, and sent a message to Gu Yan, "I met Hobbs when I came back just now, and Miss Fitz looks like she's seen a ghost."
There are obviously certain words in this sentence that have successfully poked at certain points of Lawyer Gu. After a while, the message that had been silent for a day finally moved: "Don't worry about him."
Professor Yan Da finally found the entry point and said, "I still have to take care of it, at least until you pass the publicity period."
This time Gu Yan's reply came quickly, "You moved because of Hobbes?"
Is it
Yan Suizhi's fingers stopped for a while and replied, "Forget it, didn't you say at first that you were only staying here for two days, you are still not happy."
This time Gu Yan was silent again.
Yan Suizhi: "???"
He read this message over and over several times, but he couldn't figure out what he said was wrong or which leaf he had pinched.
Go to hell.
Yan Suizhi took off the smartphone in annoyance, threw it on the coffee table, and borrowed Gu Yan's kitchen to simply get some food.
Although he is often rude and sometimes shameless when he speaks on weekdays, he has always been very careful about some things and is extremely polite. He always pays attention to etiquette in other people's residences, and no matter how close he is, he will never come and go like his own.
Gu Yan is an exception here.
Another exception...
He has lived for so many years, with few exceptions, but now it seems that most of them fall on Gu Yan.
This time, Gu Yan's information was too late. Yan Suizhi looked at the time of Helan in the interstellar time zone. The area where Gu Yan was on a business trip was just in the afternoon, and he didn't know if he was busy or what.
It is said that he was here to do a friend a favor this time, and he was not dealing with criminal matters, but civil and commercial matters. The lawyers of the alliance are not strictly classified. They are criminal lawyers and occasionally handle some civil cases. As for lawyers who mainly file civil and commercial lawsuits, they will occasionally be dragged into one or two criminal cases, but they are not handled very much. After all, ordinary people will definitely choose a more suitable lawyer first. In this case, acquaintances and friends are often a favor.
Gu Yan's friend is a minority shareholder of a private hospital on Helan Star. Recently, the major shareholder of the hospital has been restless and eager to shrink the rights of minority shareholders. He went back here to help with a negotiation.
When you get to the negotiating table, you don't have to chat with people halfway through.
With this thought in mind, Yan Suizhi took a shower and went to the attic. He sat on the soft sofa chair by the wall and read a book for a while, and then somehow felt very sleepy...
When the smartphone on his little finger vibrated, he opened his eyes and reacted for a while, only to realize that he had fallen asleep reading a book.
He leaned back in his chair lazily, called up the information interface and took a look:
Because the last time I was going to change it to a serious note name, Gu Yan turned off the screen, so the other party's note name was still very serious "Generous Mint Essence"
With this name on his face, Gu Yan replied with two simple words.
- no.
what not
Yan Suizhi felt that he might have fallen asleep and couldn't understand the meaning of the message.
He flipped up and remembered what had happened in front of him.
- Didn't I say at first that I would only stay here for two days, but you are still not happy.
- no.
Not unhappy.
What is talking nonsense with your eyes open? That's it.
But Professor Yan Da looked at the information, and the corner of his mouth twitched.