In the morning, on the first floor of the Southern Cross Law Office, Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan, who had entered the door one after the other, met Miss Fitz in front of the stairs. She was holding two stacked cardboard boxes in her hands, which were higher than her Overhead, shaky.
She was pedaling on stiletto heels and cautiously walking up the stairs, when suddenly a hand stretched out from the side and took the box.
Fitz's hand was light, and people hadn't seen it yet, so he first praised: "My god, someone finally came to help, thank you! I guess who is such a beautiful hand..."
As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard someone behind him turn his head and sneezed.
"Gu? Ruan?" Miss Fitz turned her head when she heard the sound, and saw Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan standing behind each wearing a mask, while Yan Suizhi tilted her head and sneezed a second time.
Last night, Professor Yan Da, who swore that his physique was very good, was slapped in the face when he woke up today, as if he had a sign of a cold, and it was not necessary to say the reason.
Miss Fitz had a surprised look on her face. Which pot can't be opened and lifted, "Why do you catch a cold even so well?"
Yan Suizhi spoke in a slightly nasal tone, sounding lazy, "I don't know, maybe it was because the cat was bitten last night."
Miss Fitz: "Really? Then you have to get an injection quickly."
Attorney Gu slumped silently beside him.
Yan Suizhi glanced at it and said to Fitz without a smile: "Fake, just kidding, just accidentally caught a cold."
Peppermint cool air punch, the effect is immediate.
Attorney Gu couldn't listen to this kind of nonsense. He lifted the cardboard box in his hand and asked Fitz, "Whose is it? Help you take it upstairs."
"The special courier I received ten years ago was sent to Dean." Fitz said, "It may be something used in some cases."
"Dean?" Yan Suizhi questioned.
During this period of time, he did not spend much time in the Southern Cross Law Firm building. There were several lawyers who only met once, and the names and people were not the same.
"The round-faced lawyer in Office 3." Fitz explained, "Miss Phyllida's teacher."
Yan Suizhi nodded, "He is rarely in the office."
When Fitz said this, Yan Suizhi remembered. Phyllida complained a few times now and then that the Dean lawyer was different from the other teachers.
When other lawyers appear in court or go on business trips, they will bring their interns with them from time to time, especially when they are at the middle and late stages of the internship, and they basically take them wherever they go. But Dean rarely took her out, and the things she was given to her could be done in the office.
This internship period has not been long so far. Yan Suizhi has gone on business several times, and even fought cases independently. Although Locke and the others did not travel far, the nearby detention center court also followed at least once. She is the only one who has only applied to the court once because of missing documents when sorting out the files.
The contrast is too obvious, such young fresh graduates are prone to overthinking and even worrying about gains and losses.
"Dean is very hardworking." Fitz said, "Gu knows him, he prefers controversial cases, and hopes to give himself more leverage and gain popularity, so that it is relatively easier to obtain the qualification of a first-level lawyer. This is not a problem. , just picked up one this morning."
"What case?"
"Do you know about the Shake Weng case?" Fitz said, "The one that many people were discussing two months ago, but in recent days everyone's focus has been on gene modification and infection, which temporarily overshadowed it, but it is still a A very hot case."
Two months ago, Yan Suizhi hadn't woken up yet, so naturally he didn't know much about this case. However, listening to Fitz's tone, the popularity of this case seems to be very high, and it is strange to have not heard of it. So he didn't ask any further, just nodded to Fitz, pretending to be the real thing.
Fitz pointed to a certain office above his head: "Actually, the lawyer he was originally looking for was Hobbes. The old guy had been hesitant before and didn't say yes. Later, the first-level lawyer passed the first trial and was listed on the public list, and he was even more reluctant. I'll pick it up. He went to the hospital this morning and said he had symptoms of an initial infection, and just pushed the case to Dean."
"Hobbs was infected?" Gu Yan frowned.
Fitz said: "Yes, I got a call in the morning. He said he had a rash, but he hasn't confirmed what it is. Although I don't like him very much, I hope he is negative."
…
After all, they have their own business, and the three of them didn't talk much.
Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan helped Fitz bring the carton upstairs. But before he could stand firm, the senior affairs officer waved to Gu Yan from the bottom of the building: "Gu? Please come down, there is a document that needs to be signed by the lawyers collectively. You were not there yesterday."
The carton was sent to Office No. 3 by Yan Suizhi.
Unsurprisingly, lawyer Dean went out to work as soon as he took over the case and was not in the office. The intern Miss Phyllida was collected on his behalf. Surprisingly, Locke was also in his office.
"My teacher went to the hospital and asked me to follow Lawyer Dean for the next few days." Locke faced Yan Suizhi with a bitter face, "When Lawyer Dean went out this morning, he gave us some case information—"
He pulled his hands together, "That's—that's a lot! I've never been exposed to so much information. And to be honest, I don't really want to touch this case."
Locke frowned and wanted to complain a few more words, but when he saw the barrister coming out of the office next door, he had to swallow the words back embarrassingly, "Uh... Let's talk later, I'll go back to work first."
Yan Suizhi waved at him, stood by the handrail of the stairs and glanced down, waited for a while, and then opened the door of the office without seeing Gu Yan coming up.
He put his coat and scarf on the hanger, and just as he was about to sit down in the office chair, Gu Yan entered the door.
Generally speaking, Lawyer Gu has a very keen insight, can always notice details that others don't pay attention to, and is very good at grasping the key points.
So, just as Yan Suizhi was about to say something to him, he saw him inadvertently glanced at the corner of the desk, and then stopped.
Following his gaze, Yan Suizhi saw the pot of evergreen bamboo.
Before Gu Yan's business trip, the pot of evergreen bamboo was still full of vitality. But now, it's only a day and a night, and it's slanted and crooked, its roots can't support the branches and leaves, and it bends down and hangs its head, as if it was about to die.
Gu Yan: "..."
Yan Suizhi's heart is not good.
He coughed against the corner of his lips, his eyes swept across his desktop, grabbed a glass that could only be used, and planned to use the excuse to go to the "pantry" and abscond in fear.
Gu Yan propped up the desk with both hands, carefully watched the tragic state of Chang Qingzhu, and finally was so hot that he retracted his eyes, raised his eyelids and said: "There are many potted plants raised here in the Southern Cross, and it is the first one to die so quickly. back."
In other words - you are truly talented.
With one hand in his pocket and a glass in the other, Yan Sui walked out the door calmly, pretending not to hear.
"… "
As soon as he reached the door, there was a sudden scream from outside.
Listening to the direction of the sound, it should be Office 3. Yan Suizhi didn't pretend to be innocent anymore, looked at Gu Yan and said, "I'll take a look."
As a result, Gu Yan didn't say a word, he went straight around the desk, followed with big strides, stretched out his hand and tugged at Yan Suizhi's wrist, and said solemnly, "I'll go over."
The one who screamed was the intern Phyllida.
But it wasn't just her, although Locke, who was in the same room with her, didn't scream, his face was as white as paper.
On the desk in front of them, the cardboard box someone expedited to Lawyer Dean was open, and the spikes, blades, and several sheets of absorbent paper were vaguely visible inside. On the paper were various slanderous words that had been smeared out by someone unknown. The most important thing is that the color of the strokes on the paper turned brown and red, like dried blood.
"What's this... a threat?" Phyllida's voice was tense. The first time the little girl saw this kind of thing, she was unprepared, and she looked like she was about to cry for a while.
"Not really." Yan Suizhi said.
Threats are always to make demands, these two cartons are not, more like pure venting of dissatisfaction and intimidation.
For this kind of thing, it is not the first time that other people in the law firm have seen it.
Fitz and the others quickly gathered together, and they understood the contents of the box. The senior affairs officer was very familiar with handling this kind of thing. A few jokes made Phyllida and Locke look good, and someone quickly came up to clean up the carton.
Phyllida and Locke slowly calmed down, and finally realized that it was nothing but Dean's case.
"What kind of case is Shaking Weng?" Yan Suizhi muttered in his heart, finally becoming a little curious.
He lowered his eyes and searched on the smartphone. As soon as the keyword is lost, various case reports will come out. Yan Suizhi directly picked the top report and glanced at it, and only then did he know what kind of case it was...
Two months ago, an old man disappeared for no reason in a residential area on Redstone. Two days later, he was found in an underground warehouse. The old man was full of signs of abuse. Surprisingly, the main trace was him. He made it by himself, and when he was found, he was already in a stupid state, crouching in an iron cage while crying and shaking his head rhythmically.
So it was given such a nickname.
When this case first happened, it didn't cause much discussion. After all, the alliance is so big, there are so many planets, and there are countless things and information every day. This kind of case that happened in a corner can easily be drowned in the ocean.
But soon, the police discovered that the victim was far more than an old man. They found a total of seven remote abandoned warehouses on different planets, and there were nearly 300 old people in the same condition.
Almost all of these old people have identified the suspects, which is a good thing, but one thing... The old people have problems with their spirits.
Before the official court session, there were already disputes over the case all over the league. The appearance of the three hundred old people is really moving, and the attitude shown by the suspect is disgusting, so it is self-evident which direction the debate tends to go. Large-scale disputes often end up finding a bearing point, and this bearing point of course falls on the attorney.
Yan Suizhi looked calm after reading several reports.
But one story at the end mentioned some old cases that had sparked controversy. His eyes stayed on the interface of this article for the longest time, so that Gu Yan next to him glanced at his bare holographic screen, and happened to see a familiar case name in those old cases.
It was a case that Yan Suizhi fought when he was less than 30 years old. Gu Yan was very familiar with it, because he had spent a long time doing an analysis report on this case, and after the report was completed, he thoroughly analyzed it. Abandoned…
When they saw this case, the two had already returned to the office, and the door was automatically locked behind with a click. Gu Yan's eyes moved from the holographic screen to Yan Suizhi's face. From his point of view, he could only see Yan Suizhi's drooping eyelashes, but he couldn't see the emotion in the other's eyes.
Yan Suizhi's face was coldly reflected by the light of the holographic screen. He seemed to be in a trance. He didn't know what he would be thinking and what would he be thinking of when he saw a case that made him rebuke both infamy and fame after many years. Feeling.
After a while, Gu Yan saw his eyelashes move.
Yan Suizhi suddenly raised his eyes from the holographic screen and smiled when he met Gu Yan's gaze, "What are you doing peeking at my screen?"
It's quite justifiable to put a hat on someone else's potted plant.
"..." Attorney Gu moved his lips, but didn't answer.
Yan Suizhi raised the corner of his mouth, lowered his eyes and glanced at the report, then swiped his finger to put away the holographic screen, and suddenly asked Gu Yan: "I suddenly remembered, you seem to have said that you once thought that you were not in line with my philosophy? "