Early the next morning, Ruan Yu was woken up by the doorbell. She struggled under the quilt for a while before grabbing her hair and getting up, then put on a coat over her pajamas, walked out yawning, and was stunned to wake up when she looked at the door mirror.
It turned out to be the police officer Fang from last time, Fang Zhen.
She quickly opened the door.
The unsmiling policeman had a solemn face, he clearly remembered her, and insisted on doing something routine: "Excuse me, is this Ruan Yu, Ms. Ruan?"
She nodded to cooperate: "It's me, what's the matter with Officer Fang?"
Fang Zhen picked up the document and pen to record, and said, "To find out the situation, did Ms. Ruan ever get harassed by a drunk between 2:00 and 3:00 this morning?"
Drunk? Harassment
Ruan Yu shook his head: "No."
"Didn't you hear any abnormal noise?"
"No." She was checking Weibo at that time.
"Thank you for your cooperation." Fang Zhen nodded to leave, and added another sentence before leaving. "Be sure to lock the doors and windows at night recently, and pay attention to anti-theft."
"Is there any case in our film?"
"According to a number of residents, many residents in this area were harassed by the same drunk man in the early hours of this morning, and these residents all have a common feature."
Ruan Yu blinked: "What characteristics?"
Fang Zhen pointed at the top of her head with a pen: "The house numbers are all 302."
What kind of perverted behavior is this? Or is there something special magical about this number
After he finished speaking, he left, leaving Ruan Yu secretly terrified. This time, it wasn't her imagination, but the criminals who really appeared beside her.
It's okay if Officer Fang doesn't say anything, but how can she sleep well at night as a woman living alone
After all, I heard that all the 302 residents in this area have been harassed, and she is the only one left.
Ruan Yu took out his mobile phone and asked Shen Mingying if she was home alone tonight, but got a reply of "My boyfriend is here, what's the matter".
She was ashamed to be a light bulb, and lied that she was "nothing". At night, she still felt uneasy even after locking the doors and windows.
At a quarter past midnight, there was a loud thunder in the sky, and it began to rain heavily outside the window.
Ruan Yu couldn't sleep anymore, so he swiped Weibo again helplessly, and updated a blog post by the way: "Lying in the night and listening to the wind and rain, drunk people don't come to sneak attack. [bless]"
After sending, she watched a few funny videos to divert her attention, and was about to lock the screen when she suddenly received a new email.
From Xu Huaisong.
She clicked on the email and found a document in the attachment, which contained several latest comments on the anti-color palette.
Those who are still working hard at this point are the city's elite.
Out of her affirmation of the elite and the sympathy for the same sleepless people, she slightly eased her resistance to Xu Huaisong, opened the WeChat dialog box, and thanked: "Lawyer Xu, I received the email. Still working on my case, thank you.”
Xu Huaisong came back quickly: "By the way."
Ruan Yu carefully figured out the meaning of these two words.
Oh, if it's San Francisco, it's only half past nine in the morning. He's either jet-lagged or works across oceans.
So, this point is not a bother to him.
So she said, "Then if you have time, let's talk about the case?"
Xu Huaisong: "Video and voice are not convenient."
This is exactly what Ruan Yu wanted.
She turned her head and turned on the bedside lamp. As soon as the bedroom was lit up, she received his voice invitation.
While connecting, she lifted the thin quilt and got out of bed, put on her slippers: "Wait a minute, I'll get some information."
Xu Huaisong let out a "hmm".
When Ruan Yu opened the door, a flash of lightning just happened to light up outside the window, faintly seeing the dark corner of the living room, as if filming a horror movie.
She shivered, and quickly turned on the ceiling light. At the same time, she tried to ease the discomfort in her heart by speaking: "Lawyer Xu."
"how?"
"Is it raining where you are?"
"Just stopped."
"That's a dark cloud floating over here..."
The other end fell into silence, probably not knowing what to say.
But it happened that the file couldn't be found for a while, and I don't know where it was stuffed.
She had no choice but to start another conversation, and suddenly became a chatterbox: "Lawyer Xu, you taught me how to deal with criminals last time. It seems to be quite professional. Can I ask you another question?"
"Um."
"If there are drunk people harassing you in the middle of the night, will you still use similar countermeasures?"
"..."
Xu Huaisong didn't say a word. It happened that there was a strong wind outside, shaking the windows and doors.
Ruan Yu heard the voice disappear and asked, "Are you listening, Lawyer Xu?"
Xu Huaisong coughed lightly: "The signal is not good, please say it again."
She finally found the correct file, turned off the ceiling light and rushed back to the bedroom, and answered him after getting into bed: "Oh, it's all right." She sat cross-legged and opened the page corresponding to the content of the email, "Let's start. "
The rain outside the window quickly subsided, and it didn't take long for it to completely return to calm, only the water droplets on the window edge were still dripping tirelessly.
Such a picture of the first stop of the heavy rain, the memory of the three years in high school is too numerous to count.
The railings of the bleachers in the playground, the window sills of the corridors of the teaching buildings, and the flag-raising posts on the flag-raising platform all once had such water droplets hanging on.
Ruan Yu doesn't like rain, but he likes to watch the rain just stop.
She remembered that there was such a sentence in her diary - the clean and dazzling youthfulness on your body cleared up all the rainy seasons of my girlhood.
Back then, Xu Huaisong walked past the first stop of the heavy rain that she loved the most in her eyes over and over again.
"What are you doing?" His voice suddenly sounded, maybe he had said a lot of words, but found that she wasn't listening.
She came back to her senses and gave a low "ah": "I'm watching... the rain has stopped."
"Um."
Ruan Yu didn't wear earphones, but used speakers.
The sound in the bedroom became very clear in the quiet night.
Xu Huaisong said, "The third paragraph."
She continued: "Is this paragraph a background explanation?"
"Um."
"I don't think there is any need to explain this setting. Which high school doesn't have a strict dean? Could it be that you..."
"Me what?"
"I mean... didn't you have one at your old school?"
"Can not remember."
"oh… "
The water beads tick and hit the canopy from time to time, creating a hypnotic effect.
Ruan Yu can't remember when she started to get sleepy and her eyelids were fighting. She only knows that when she was woken up by the birdsong in the morning, she saw the line above the "hang up" sign on the screen of the phone next to the pillow, "05:52: 00", he couldn't help but let out an "ah" in surprise.
Then, there was a rustling sound from the other end of the phone, the rubbing of the quilt and clothes, Xu Huaisong's slightly hoarse voice sounded, "What are you doing?"
"..."
Ruan Yu was so frightened that he felt as if he had woken up beside him.
She quickly picked up the phone and explained: "I seem to have fallen asleep by accident last night..." After speaking, she felt strange, "Why didn't you hang up the voice?"
Xu Huaisong sighed: "Then I should have fallen asleep at that time too."
"..."
No one can talk about a case so carelessly. What about the city's elite
She said "Oh", feeling uncomfortable because of the weird atmosphere, and was about to "hang up first", when she suddenly heard a sudden and piercing "beep-beep-" from Xu Huaisong's end.
She was taken aback: "What's the sound?"
"ambulance."
"Why is there an ambulance?"
Xu Huaisong seemed to turn over: "I'm in the hospital."
It was almost noon after Xu Huaisong finished his infusion. When Liu Mao and Chen Hui came to the hospital ward, he had just been pulled out by the nurse.
Chen Hui handed him the porridge box in his hand, and moved the laptop computer on the hospital bed away for him. When his eyes glanced at the screen that was not turned off, he was slightly taken aback: "Hey, the ambulance music audition? Brother Song, check this What are you doing?"
Xu Huaisong opened the porridge box and said lightly, "It's nothing, I just want to listen to music all of a sudden."
Liu Mao glanced at his gloomy face and shook his head: "Listen to ambulance music for excitement? This man, don't look for excitement if you don't have money. You said you have such a stomach in the United States?"
Xu Huaisong didn't take it seriously: "It's just an occupational disease."
Liu Mao chuckled: "I'm also a lawyer, why am I not sick? Xiao Chen, are you not sick?" After sarcasm, he added, "Knowing that my stomach is sick, I still eat a dozen pieces of rice cakes and drink a row of vodka. I want It's a girl, such a man who doesn't care about his life, don't kill him."
Chen Hui didn't know what Liu Mao meant, so he widened his eyes and said, "Brother Mao, so you have this orientation?"
"Go away!" Liu Mao glanced at him, pushed him away, and then asked Xu Huaisong, "Did the police come yesterday?"
Xu Huaisong swallowed a mouthful of porridge, nodded: "I have a criminal record too."
"I won't dare to let you go out to drink and go crazy again." Liu Mao laughed so hard that his stomach ached, "In the middle of the night, you really knocked on the door of more than a dozen households 302?"
That's not the point. The point is, he knocked on the door of more than a dozen households 302, but perfectly avoided the one with the correct answer.
This wine is too drunk.
Liu Mao said slowly, "It's a pity."
As soon as the words finished, a female nurse knocked on the door and said, "Mr. Xu, a lady surnamed Ruan is here to visit you."
A trace of surprise flashed in Liu Mao's eyes.
Xu Huaisong nodded to the nurse, and after she turned to leave, she answered his words: "It's not a pity."
Liu Mao suddenly understood what he meant.
What kind of person is Xu Huaisong in court? It is a person who is careful at every step, calculating every detail, and believes that if he can't hit the nail on the head, he will be utterly defeated.
He can accept failure, but does not allow any mistakes, so he refuses all untimely advances.
For him, love is like a court. All the patient and meticulous foreshadowing and rendering are for the final final decision.
And it's not yet time for the hammer to drop, so I'm glad I didn't knock on that door.
Xu Huaisong put the lid on the porridge box, handed it to Liu Mao, and asked him to help throw it into the trash can.
In the corridor, Ruan Yu walked slowly in this direction, holding the thermal box in one hand and holding the documents in the other.