It was almost eleven o'clock when he returned to the apartment. Ruan Yu went to bed after taking a shower. Xu Huaisong continued his American routine in the living room and worked with his laptop.

In the middle of the night, she got up once, opened the door and saw that he was still sitting in front of the computer and typing on the keyboard, and looked extremely serious.

Xu Huaisong looked up and saw her coming out, his tense face eased in an instant, and asked, "What's wrong, can't you sleep?"

She shook her head and signaled that she didn't, and helped him turn on the ceiling light in the living room: "Are there still many cases in the United States that have not been finished?"

He said "hmm" and explained: "But now I'm looking at Zhou Jun's case."

"You are not a criminal specialist," Ruan Yu walked to him and sat down, "You can leave these to Sister Zhang."

Xu Huaisong fell silent.

Ruan Yu rubbed his sleepy eyes and held his cheeks in discomfort. After a while, he turned his head to look at her: "This case is a bit similar to the one my father handled ten years ago."

Her sleepy runs away and says, "What do you mean?"

Xu Huaisong pursed his lips and looked at the screen and said, "There are no witnesses, there is also a lack of decisive evidence, and the clues on the scene point to the only suspect, the suspect refuses to plead guilty, and there is a set of rhetoric that seems quite dramatic to ordinary people."

"What happened to the suspect ten years ago?"

"I was acquitted because of insufficient evidence and should still live in Su City."

"Where is the real murderer?"

Xu Huaisong lowered his head and smiled: "Who knows? Maybe it's the suspect, maybe there's someone else."

"There has been no results for ten years, and the victim's family..."

Ruan Yu didn't continue to say it.

Xu Huaisong silently and said, "The victim's family determined that the suspect was the real murderer, and my father was the accomplice to help him escape from his crime, which made our family trouble for two years. If my father had not moved to the United States later, it might not have stopped until now."

Ruan Yu, a writer who wrote books, was exhausted and didn't know what to say to comfort him, so he had to reach out and touch the back of his hand.

Xu Huaisong turned his head and smiled: "It's nothing. The victim's family's reaction is too normal. Because my father's defense does have a great impact on the direction of the case.

Besides, for ordinary Chinese people ten years ago, the presumption of innocence is a very vague concept. You tell them that sentence is not a single carrot and a pit. You cannot find the suspect guilty simply because the suspect is the only one, and they may not understand it."

"Even now, when talking empty talk, perhaps many people will recognize the suspicion of no crime, recognize the human rights of the suspect, and recognize procedural justice, but when the bloody tragedy is really in front of you, the emotional tendencies of most bystanders will still overcome objective judgments, let alone the victim's family."

"What about your dad?"

"I have been thinking about this question before. I wondered if he knew whether the suspect was guilty or not. But later I found out that there might be no answer to this question."

"Because lawyers are not God, their cognition may not be the truth. Most of the time, their 'knowing' is also 'not knowing'. Without God's power, but not allowed to have human feelings, this is the situation of many criminal lawyers."

Speaking of this, Xu Huaisong turned his attention to the computer screen: "I want to try to walk the path my dad has walked, and then tell my mom the answer, although... it's ten years late."

Ruan Yu smiled and rubbed his sleepy eyes, leaned over and held his arm: "Then I will accompany you."

Xu Huaisong lowered his head and smiled: "Go to sleep first."

She yawned and shook her head, saying, "I'm fine at home tomorrow. Don't you get jet lag? If you turn around, we will synchronize our work and rest."

Xu Huaisong replied after silently: "In a few days."

Ruan Yu said "Oh", hugged the pillow and squinted his eyes to his arm. When he opened his eyes, it was bright and the sun was noon, and she was on the bed.

I think I know that I must have been brought in by Xu Huaisong last night.

She jumped out of bed and opened the door, and saw that he was still typing on the keyboard like the same position last night.

"Xu Huaisong, you're so desperate!" She walked over and circled his computer, "Are you still not sleeping?"

He looked up and said, "I've slept for a while last night."

"real?"

"Really, in your bed, you hold me and don't let go."

Ruan Yu turned his head and returned to the bedroom, sniffed his head while lying.

Xu Huaisong followed in and said with a smile: "Okay, I'm lying to you, I'll sleep now."

She turned around and gritted her teeth and glared at him, and said with a suffocation: "Then just eat breakfast before going to bed."

Ruan Yu turned to the kitchen to make breakfast, and Xu Huaisong followed him again and said, "I'll make a call."

Do you need to report this? She took the pots and pans and said, "You beat it." After that, she thought of something, "Wait, who are you fighting for?"

"Lu Shenglan, let her help me pass on some information."

No wonder I have to report it.

Ruan Yu waved his hand and said, "Let's fight."

Xu Huaisong called in front of her: "Hello, I'll look for Lu Lu."

Ruan Yu suddenly turned around: "What did you say?"

Xu Huai Song was so wise that he was stunned: "What?

Lu Shenglan answered the phone call, and Ruan Yu signaled him to speak first, and then asked after he hung up, "What did you call her just now? Lu Lu?"

“…”

Xu Huaisong choked and smiled: "It's Lu Lu."

Ruan Yu smiled "hehe" and handed him the hot milk and sandwich: "I just think this name sounds very nice, so I'll point it out..."

He said "yes", and turned to the living room with a smile.

When Xu Huaisong went to bed, Ruan Yu started working in the living room, writing down several scripts he had seen and revised them to Huanshi. In the evening, she received a reply and invited her to attend the second script meeting tomorrow, which was the whole day.

She replied and accepted it. Seeing that Xu Huaisong had slept for eight hours, she went to the room to call him, but she happened to hear his cell phone ringing by the bedside.

He was woken up and began to fumble into the bedside table.

Ruan Yu helped him pick it up: "No note, it's the number of Su City."

Before he could fully wake up, he reacted for a while before saying, "Help me take it."

Ruan Yu answered the phone and heard Xu Huaishi's voice coming from the opposite side: "Brother!"

"Huai Shi? What's wrong with your brother sleeping?"

Xu Huaishi said softly in surprise: "Is it Sister Ruan?"

Ruan Yu began to laugh: "Who else would answer your brother's phone call?"

"No, no! Sister, can you call my brother for me? I'm in the police station."

"Police Department?"

Xu Huaisong woke up and sat up, took the phone call from Ruan Yu: "Are you causing trouble with others?"

"Brother, it's not me that caused trouble, it's my classmates who fought and rushed into the police station."

"Then what are you doing?"

"Oh, he was because I fought with someone!"

Xu Huaisong immediately thought of something: "Because of you?"

"I don't know either. The boys in the same class didn't know what I was saying behind my back, so my classmate beat them all up. Oh, I was beaten to death on the side of the road, almost scaring me to death. The policeman also brought me, the witness, but I shouldn't have anything to do."

"Does there any teacher and parents come to deal with your classmate?"

"We're all on the way, so I'll tell you in advance. The teacher will definitely contact my parents again later. Can you help me with this time?"

"What are you doing?"

"Brother, you don't know. This time the classmate who was fighting was the one who was caught in the piano room with me last time. The teacher was going to wrongly accuse me of a long time ago! Last time I explained for a long time, my mother was still skeptical. If I came back..."

Xu Huaisong sighed: "Then you report my number later."

"Okay brother! And, our final exam is over, and the parent-teacher meeting will be held the day after tomorrow. Do you think this parent-teacher meeting will still be exposed if our mother comes to hold it?"

"Xu Huaishi," Xu Huaisong said with grim teeth, "Don't be too ruthless. I'll go back and forth for four hours to hold a parent-teacher meeting for you?"

Xu Huaishi began to shout at his phone: "Sister, are you next to me? Have you seen my brother's smart and scheming face? You can just fall in love with him, and never marry him!"

Xu Huaisong: “…”

His phone volume was on, and Ruan Yu had already heard the sound of the silence, and he refused to laugh and said, "You can go there."

As he said that, he compared his mouth to him: Lee Shican.

Obviously, Ruan Yu also thought that the reason why Xu Huaishi's classmate "has angered" might be related to Li Shican's news.

If rumors arise in the school, Xu Huaisong should indeed go and find out the situation.

Xu Huaisong said "Yes" and said to Xu Huaishi: "Tell me the specific time." Hang up the phone and sighed, "I'll be in Su City the day after tomorrow. What do you want to do tomorrow?"

Ruan Yu blinked twice. Hearing this, he seemed to have officially launched a date invitation to her?

She sniffed and said, "I'm going to Huanshi for a meeting tomorrow."

Xu Huaisong silently, and after a while, he said, "Then you go to Su City with me the day after tomorrow."

Ruan Yu didn't know why he suddenly got stuck in someone else. He thought that it was okay anyway, so he went to Sushi No. 1 Middle School with him.

In the afternoon, the parents' meeting was about to occupy the classroom, and most of the students in the third year of high school were resting in the dormitory.
To be continued...