Chapter 19 Section 19

After sending us to the hospital, Lawyer Liu left.I asked Xiao Zhe to wait outside, and went upstairs alone and opened the door of the ward.Attorney Fang was hanging the water. He signaled me to close the door. His face was sallow, and it seemed that the situation was not good. "They didn't make it difficult for you, did they? This misunderstanding is a bit big." He patted a chair that had been prepared a long time ago beside him, motioning for me to sit down. I shook my head as I sat down: "Just to briefly talk about the situation." We were silent for a few seconds, and he finally asked me bluntly: "Ma Zhuo, you were in my office this afternoon, did you see something?"

I nodded, but said immediately: "But don't worry, I didn't say anything." He pondered for a while, and said: "I knew you would do this, stop this matter, don't mention it to anyone, and I don't want to pursue it anymore, I believe she is also confused for a while." "Lawyer Fang—" I don't think the matter can be left as it is, after all, human life is at stake! He interrupted me: "My life is too big. Be careful in the future. As for this child, I will discuss it with her mother and give her a good arrangement so that she won't do wrong things again."

"Lawyer Fang, don't you think about it again?" I said. "That's it, Ma Zhuo, thank you." Attorney Fang stretched out his left hand without the infusion tube to me, and I stretched out my right hand to hold it. This gesture is completely opposite to the handshake gesture of ordinary people, so it looks strange. "You are a good material to be a lawyer. If you are willing, you can officially come to work in my law firm after the Spring Festival." "This……" "I've been a lawyer for nearly 20 years, so I can't make a mistake." Lawyer Fang said, "You don't have to answer me in such a hurry. You can go home and think about it. I'm tired and I need to rest."

After speaking, he lay down, closed his eyes, and ignored me. I gently closed the door for him and walked out.Until I walked out of the gate of the hospital, I still felt as if I was in a dream.I saw Xiao Zhe shivering under the street lamp.When he saw me coming out, he stomped his feet on the ground and motioned me to look in his direction. In fact, I had seen him a long time ago. This action was really unnecessary. "Taxi?" He said, standing on the side of the road and raising his arms. I grabbed him: "It's very close, why not walk with me for a while." He held out his arms in a "please" sign.The deep winter in Beijing is full of chills, and there are many hot question marks in my mind.Xiao Zhe said suddenly: "You must feel that my behavior in the Public Security Bureau lacks common sense today."

"Almost." I said absent-mindedly, "Do you want me to praise you for being brave?" "Actually, I'm really heroic," he analyzed boldly, "I hope to create a butterfly effect, considering that my behavior will cause two consequences: 1. They let you go, which is just right. 2. I I was really caught, so that I can conduct an experiment by the way to investigate whether there is really a phenomenon of extorting confessions in the Public Security Bureau. You know, the current public opinion is not on the side of the Public Security Bureau." "The facts show that your experiment really lacked logic," I said, "just as you didn't consider that I was only cooperating with the review, not being arrested."

"The experiment failed," he shrugged, "but it's not nothing, at least, I confirmed one thing." What's up? But as if he had decided something suddenly, he pushed his eyes and said to me: "Ma Zhuo, look at the sky." I looked up, thinking there was a meteor shower, but when I looked carefully, there were only a few huge and bright stars scattered in the clear night sky, which didn't seem to fall, and shivered white light radiating from a distance. "A star studied by my mentor only appeared once in 1976, but he never gave up." I frowned slightly and looked at him.

He was looking up at the night sky with his head up, and continued: "Look, the light of these stars is projected from hundreds or even thousands of years ago. Can you imagine? They are so selfless, more powerful than all others. Human beings must be selfless, they illuminate the night, illuminate everyone, until the human race has been destroyed and reborn several times, they are still there.” "So what are you confirming?" I said. "Astrophysics is the loneliest science, because there is only one famous astrophysicist in the world, and his name is Einstein. But in my opinion, astrophysics is also the most romantic subject on earth. Watching a star, do you think it’s romantic or not?”

I raised my head again and looked at the stars in the sky. The radiance seemed to be endowed with pure magic power by Xiao Zhe's words, and my heart was filled with strength. "What I confirm is that I will be the person who looks up at the stars, starting tonight. Because this is the mission I was born with." Frankly speaking, I was moved by Xiao Zhe at this time, and even a little bit shocked. I never thought that he, who has always been bookish, would have such boldness and persistence. He has a whole universe hidden in his chest.Compared with it, my ideal is so shabby. Being a lawyer is just to settle down, support my family, and in the end, for my fragile sense of security.

Who said no? So, should I refuse Lawyer Fang's invitation? Especially, if he invites me and just hopes that I can keep a secret for him, I can't accept this kind of transactional arrangement, can I? The hospital is not far from Anan's home, and we arrived home in less than 15 minutes on foot.I looked up and saw that the lights in the room were still on, presumably Anan must still be waiting for me. Xiao Zhe's hat was tilted to one side, most of his head was exposed, and his nose was red from the cold. I fitted the hat for him, untied my scarf from around my neck, wrapped it around him, and said to him, "Thank you today." is you."

When I was about to say that the way back was slower, he didn't show any intention of going home, and stomped his feet excitedly: "Ma Zhuo, thank you for being so considerate to me. Come on, let's go up, otherwise Anan Uncle is going to be offended, thinking that the two of us are up to something." "Aren't you going back?" "Didn't Uncle Anan tell you?" He fussed and said, "Our school dormitory has been unsustainable for the past few days, and the heating has been turned off. Uncle Anan specially approved me to sleep on your sofa, and I brought all my luggage."

no?I was still thinking about this sad fact, but he had already spoken again, "I took over the important work assigned to me by the professor, and I don't have time to go home for the New Year this year. Do you mind if I eat dumplings with your family for the New Year?" "I mind." A cold voice sounded in the night, but the person who spoke was not me.I turned around in surprise, but felt that my whole body had bumped into someone abruptly. Before I could see his face clearly, he had already tightly hugged me into his arms, and said to the astonished Xiao Zhe, "This classmate, I have endured you for a long time, before I do anything, you better Disappear automatically." When I realized that he was "airborne" again, my first reaction was to break free from his arms. I didn't use much force to get away from him easily. Unlike before, he didn't force at all. I could even feel him taking a small step back behind me.Perhaps seeing my will, Xiao Zhe stepped forward and stretched out his hand to drag me to his side, but before his hand touched my arm, the person standing behind me suddenly stretched out With one foot, he put one foot on Xiao Zhe's chest, and decisively kicked him to the ground. I screamed and turned around and scolded him, "You're crazy!" He answered me calmly: "If it is, you forced it." Only then did I see him clearly. On such a cold day, he was only wearing a thin leather jacket. Compared with the last time we met, his hair was cut short again. The chill was even better. I didn't dare to look at him, turned around, and saw Xiao Zhe's eyes full of resentment.He just sat on the ground like that, and didn't seem to plan to get up. My cashmere scarf had already been wrung out of shape by his hands.I wanted to go over and pull him up, but he stood up before me, with an extra brick in his hand. When I realized what he was going to do, he had already raised the brick to charge forward, and I could only recall the basic Taekwondo moves, a pick and roll, he was unprepared, let go of his hand, turned his head and fell to the ground , making a deep "boom". Reluctantly, he walked away, trying to pick up bricks, but accidentally fell down again. He was dressed thickly, so he probably didn't fall down, but the kick on his chest would have been enough for him to drink a pot even if he didn't get hurt, but he didn't hesitate at all, and got up again, three times five divisions two He took off his coat, revealing only a thin down vest, and with a low growl, he was already ready for a contest. "People don't offend me, I don't offend others, if people offend me, take—life——" I was really afraid that he would go crazy, so I quickly grabbed him and said, "You go upstairs first, okay?" "Ma Zhuo, don't be a peacemaker in this situation now, the underdogs will win, and I'm already planning to go all out!" In this kind of freezing late night, he was already so cold that his teeth were chattering and he couldn't speak clearly.I picked up his coat from the ground, hugged his head, and pushed him hard into the stairwell.But what I didn't expect was that when I managed to stabilize Xiao Zhe and looked behind me, he had already disappeared without a trace. "He's scared!" Xiao Zhe was so excited that he took off the big coat that blinded him, and said proudly, "Let's go, let's go home!" I subconsciously pushed him again, and he stepped back in despair, with doubts and anxiety in his eyes that made me unwilling to look at him. "You go back." I said.