The girl at the front desk widened her eyes when she said "five figures", and swallowed nervously when she heard "six figures".
"Is it possible?" Xu Qiao came to this kind of place alone for the first time, but she felt a little guilty in her heart, so she had to say in a strong voice that "money can make ghosts grind", "No, I'll change to another house."
"Excuse me, miss, today is Sunday, and it's close to the end of get off work time..." Seeing that she was about to turn around and leave, the girl at the front desk hurriedly stopped her, "Wait a minute, I'm just explaining to you, there may not be a lawyer who can Receive you immediately, but I will arrange for you as soon as possible."
Xu Qiao leaned against the edge of the cabinet at the front desk, watched her pick up the handset of the landline, and urged, "You need the most professional lawyer."
The little girl nodded, probably intimidated by Xu Qiao's moneyless aura, her voice was trembling when she was talking on the phone: "Ah? Do you not accept this kind of general..." She paused here, not daring to say that the six-figure consultation is "ordinary", "Oh, it would be great if he is free, then I will invite someone to the reception room."
The little girl hung up the phone and said with a smile: "Miss, the partner of our Hangzhou headquarters happened to be in the firm today. This lawyer's professional ability is very well-known in the industry. I think he can meet your needs."
Xu Qiao made an "OK" gesture, walked into the reception room with her, and sat down on the guest seat on the sofa.
Five minutes later, the glass door of the reception room was knocked lightly twice, followed by a young male voice: "Hello."
Xu Qiao turned her head and glanced at the person through her sunglasses.
Suits and leather shoes, elite temperament, if you judge people by their appearance, their professional ability should be really strong.
But these gold-rimmed glasses...
She knew she shouldn't judge a person by her glasses. But today's image of Cheng Lang's gentle scum who "wait by the trees and smiles at the corner of his mouth" really cast a shadow on her, so much so that she had some prejudices against gold-rimmed glasses that were equivalent to cunning and cunning.
While she was in a trance, the other party had already sat down on the sofa and handed her a business card: "My surname is Xu, what should I call you?"
"My surname is Yu." Xu Qiao took the business card and glanced at the three words "Xu Huaisong" on it—it's also fate!
"Miss Yu, I have already got a general understanding of your situation from the front desk. If it is convenient, I think we can directly start the contract?"
Xu Qiao handed over the contract.
Xu Huaisong roughly flipped through a few pages: "I need about thirty minutes."
Xu Qiao nodded: "You can watch it for a while, you don't need to save me money."
There was silence in the reception room, save for the occasional rustling of papers.
Bored, Xu Qiao picked up her mobile phone and swiped through WeChat Moments for a while. She didn't know what she saw, and she seemed to lose interest suddenly, so she leaned on the sofa and closed her eyes to rest.
As soon as her eyes were closed, she dozed off unconsciously, and her consciousness gradually became confused, until she was awakened by the sound of "Miss Yu".
Xu Qiao opened her eyes and glanced at the clock on the opposite wall.
No more, no less, exactly 30 minutes, so awesome
"Miss Yu," Xu Huaisong pushed back the contract to her, "I've read the contract, what question do you want to ask?"
"Is there any inequality in this contract..."
A mobile phone vibration interrupted her.
Xu Huaisong raised his hand to signal to wait, looked at the caller ID, got up and said, "Sorry, I need to answer the call."
Xu Qiao showed vigilance.
Cheng Lang's supernatural means made her feel guarded against the call at this juncture.
She called Xu Huaisong to stop: "You pick it up here."
Xu Huaisong glanced at her, as if he wanted to say something, but he probably heard about the client's style from the front desk, and he didn't plan to negotiate with her more than anything, so he answered the phone: "What's wrong?"
Xu Qiao pricked up his ears.
The voice on the other end of the phone couldn't be heard clearly, but the lawyer's tone was so gentle that she felt that she might be wrong.
"I'm still at the branch in Beicheng."
"In time, we won't miss the flight."
He laughed as if no one else was around: "Who gave you the courage to watch horror movies when I'm not around?"
"Don't worry, you will definitely be there before you go to bed. You turn on the lights at home and wait for me."
Xu Qiao: "..."
What kind of crime did she do that she could be stuffed with dog food in a law firm
And she asked for this dog food herself, so she rushed to eat it!
"I'll just eat the plane meal, and I don't need to make supper. Well, hang up first." Xu Huaisong ended the call.
Xu Qiao's eyes behind the sunglasses already had twinkling tears.
What's the matter, if you also wear gold-rimmed glasses, people can pamper their wives with tenderness like water, but Cheng Lang wants to take the route of taking and taking care of his little lover
"Sorry," Xu Huaisong put away his smile, sat back in his seat, and gestured, "You can continue."
Xu Qiao sniffed: "Oh."
"I just talked about unequal clauses. This contract does have a certain bias in terms of rights and interests..."
"I'll just say it!"
"In my opinion, it is more inclined to protect labor rights."
"ah?"
Xu Qiao was taken aback, seeing his serious expression, not joking, and confirmed: "Are you saying you favor me?"
"Yes, on the basis of a general labor contract, this contract almost omits most of the laborer's obligations, and adds no less than ten pages of clauses on laborer's rights. In layman's terms - this Once the contract takes effect, the only one who suffers is the employer.”
"So the reason why this contract is so thick is to give me more benefits?"
"You can say that."
"There are really no deceitful terms? For example," Xu Qiao cleared her throat and shrank back in embarrassment. "For example, what requires me to pay my body..."
"..."
Xu Huaisong said after a few seconds of silence: "No. Even if there is such a clause, it does not have legal effect."
"Okay, then I blamed him wrongly." Xu Qiao rubbed his nose.
"Miss Yu, do you have any questions?"
"No more, the consulting fee..."
Xu Huaisong glanced at the clock on the wall: "Let's count it as 30 minutes. The assistant in the office will contact you. I still have to catch a plane, so excuse me."
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Because the other party billed on time, and there was no lion to open his mouth, Xu Qiao wanted to advance the payment first, and then reimburse Cheng Lang later, but walked out of the reception room, just in time for Gao Rui to arrive in a hurry.
Gao Rui came up to meet him: "Miss Yu, is your consultation over? If it's over, I'll settle the fee here. You can go downstairs first, Xiao Cheng is always waiting for you in the car."
Xu Qiao helped the frame of the sunglasses: "It's pretty fast."
"Ah, don't get me wrong, Xiao Cheng didn't intend to spy on you," Gao Rui hurriedly explained, "I just saw that you were so angry when you left, and I didn't trust you, so I asked the driver to confirm your whereabouts."
Xu Qiao let out a deep breath and left the law firm. When she went downstairs, she didn't see Cheng Lang's Zeppelin car.
The driver opened the door of the Cayenne, and when she saw the man waiting in the back seat, she paused and seemed to be taken aback.
"Didn't you want to keep a low profile? Then take this car with you." Cheng Lang seemed to have spent these two hours calming down and returning to a nonchalant appearance. He patted the seat beside him, looked at her and said, "It's cold outside. , come up first."
Xu Qiao shivered, put on her coat and got into the car, and took off her sunglasses and mask.
The driver turned around and asked where Cheng Lang was going.
Cheng Lang glanced at Xu Qiao: "The result of the consultation has been obtained, are you willing to eat now?"
"Oh." Xu Qiao gave an onomatopoeia as if he didn't respond, and after thinking about it, he said in a low voice, "Don't go to places with many people."
"Then go home?"
Xu Qiao looked at him in a daze.
"It's not my house, it's the staff apartment arranged for you. You can think about whether to sign the contract or not, and settle down there first." Cheng Lang explained with a sigh.
Xu Qiao said "oh", turned her head and lowered her eyes.
It was only then that Cheng Lang realized that she hadn't misunderstood that he wanted to take her back to her home, but was simply surprised that she could still hear the word "go home".
Even though Cheng Lang was very good at words, he had no choice but to change the subject at this time.
He said: "What do you want to eat? Let people cook it first, and you can directly serve the meal when you arrive."
"Whatever." Xu Qiao played with her fingers with her head down, looking nonchalant.
But the more indifferent she was, the more it seemed that Cheng Lang's words just now accidentally poked her heart.
After a while, Xu Qiao raised her head and asked, "Is what the circle of friends said true?"
"What circle of friends?"
"Just..." Xu Qiao regretted it as soon as she opened her mouth, maybe she felt that she was not honorable, so she awkwardly talked about individual news, "There may be heavy snowfall in the Beicheng mountain area these days."
"If it's the news from the Meteorological Observatory, then it must be true." Cheng Lang answered seriously. After speaking, he blinked thoughtfully, opened WeChat, and dug out Moments.
It's a pity that I read it back and forth, and it was all commercial content.
His and Xu Qiao's circle of friends may not be in the same world.
He sent a message to Jiang Fang: "Is there any news about the Xu family in Moments today?"
Jiang Fang came back quite quickly: "What do you mean if there is any news about the Xu family? It's all about the Xu family, okay? I've been swiped here. The one on your WeChat is the financial circle, not the circle of friends, right? "
Cheng Lang: "Don't be tricky."
Jiang Fang: "The bungalow in Xu's Xijiang Mansion is about to be auctioned off. There are also a bunch of luxury goods that are said to be priceless. Many of the good ones have been secretly entrusted to snatch them."
Cheng Lang glanced at Xu Qiao beside him, bowed his head and typed: "What day?"
Jiang Fang: "It seems like next Wednesday or next Thursday, hey, go find out by yourself, I won't tell you, I'm sending a younger sister home."
Cheng Lang didn't reply anymore, put down his phone, and turned to look at Xu Qiao again—the little girl was still playing with her hands, concentrating on picking the fresh calluses on her fingers from painting.
Cheng Lang became irritable for no reason, and realized a bad feeling.
He found that it was more uncomfortable to see Xu Qiao's lifeless head pretending to be cool than to be scolded bloody by her energetically.
The car drove all the way back to the suburbs, passed the Pioneer Park, and then drove into an unremarkable high-rise community nearby.
Xu Qiao finally raised her eyes at this time.
"This is the closest residential area to the Pioneering Park. Other employees of the studio are also here, but they are shared. You have a separate suite with a simple decoration of about 100 square meters. The time is relatively short, and it is too late to redecorate. You will make it first. , if you really feel dissatisfied..."
When Cheng Lang said this seriously, he suddenly stopped.
The little girl was heartbroken, yet stubborn and refused to speak, probably just in need of someone giving her a head to vent her anger.
Left and right, he is inexperienced in comforting people, and he is quite comfortable in provoking people, and it seems that he will not lose a piece of meat if he is scolded a few times.
He accepted Xu Qiao's questioning look: "If you are really dissatisfied, you can also move to Lishan Mansion in Xinglin Bay. I live alone."
"?" Xu Qiao looked like a human being when he heard what he said before, but she was taken aback suddenly when she heard what he said before, "Am I sick?"
The car stopped under the apartment building.
Cheng Lang turned his head away and smiled: "Are you sick or not?"
Xu Qiao had an expression of "I knew you were this kind of dog" and said, "Never come if you are sick or not!" She pointed to the apartment building, "Give me the key, I will go up by myself, you are not allowed to follow."
Cheng Lang spread his hands: "If I don't go upstairs, I will take you to the elevator. There is an aunt upstairs who is cooking, you just ring the doorbell, and the key is also with her. There is only one copy. I don't have a spare here." He then told the driver, "Send her suitcase up, Room 1602."
The driver got out of the car, opened the door for the two of them, and went to the trunk to carry their luggage.
Xu Qiao glared at Cheng Lang, wrapped her coat tightly, buried her head and walked up the steps in front of the apartment building, intending to shake him off, but just as she was about to step into the hall, she was suddenly hit by a strong force behind her. Twitch, before he could scream, a cold stone pillar was stuck to his back.
And in front of her was Cheng Lang, who was half a head taller than her.
"..." What are you doing Zhudong? Is this going to force her!
Xu Qiao was about to struggle with his hands and feet, but before he could utter the swear words, he was stopped by a "shh".
Cheng Lang put his knees against her legs, and his arms were weak to cover her face. He lowered his head and whispered in her ear: "There are people you don't want to meet, hide away."
Xu Qiao was taken aback, and then remembered that she vaguely saw someone walking out of the elevator and coming towards her.
She nervously said "Oh" twice, shrank her body in a panic, and hid herself in Cheng Lang's arms desperately.
Unexpectedly, Cheng Lang just planned to lean over to cover her.
The two sides moved at the same time, and the two bodies that were close at hand instantly joined together.
Cheng Lang lowered his eyes for a moment.
Xu Qiao raised her head for a moment.
The four eyes met, and in the howl of the cold wind, the two hearts exploded at the same time.