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With a broken cry.

Finally, two sentences an hour later.

"Brother, I'm sorry to disturb your sleep. I asked my classmates. You are a great author and have a special contract. A great author like you will definitely be fine. Hahaha, don't worry."

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"Brother, I don't want to live anymore."

The air broke with a scream, like a fragile water ball dropped from the sky.

NO.14 The Last Case (2) [6.2k]

Jiang Mu strode through the hospital, his steps like thunder walking in the clouds.

It is not a high-end hospital. There is a strong smell of disinfectant in the corridor. The bathroom is neither clean nor tidy. It is an old building with dusty walls. There are densely packed small black characters engraved outside the ward, all of which are the word "safe".

For Jiang Mu, it was not difficult to find the author on the Internet. The innocent and foolish college students were never too wary of personal information. Adding on the revelations during daily chats, the whole process from precise positioning to reaching the destination took no more than two days.

It was also easy to inquire about the ward. Jiang Mu had often dealt with hospitals before and knew that emergency patients would be pushed through the hall on carts by doctors, who would shout "make way" as they pushed the carts. It was easy to leave an impression.

As long as you pretend to be impatient and ask the staff where the person who jumped from the building two days ago is now, make your question a little more irrelevant, ask a few more times, and find a few more people, it shouldn't be too difficult.

Jiang Mu locked the ward. Outside the door, there were two elderly people with gloomy faces.

"Uncle and aunt, how is he?" Jiang Mu walked over quickly. "Falling from such a high place, where is the most serious injury?"

"You are……"

"I'm his friend." Jiang Mu said, "We have known each other for a long time. I know him. He definitely doesn't have the medical expenses. How much is the cost? I'll pay for it."

My aunt showed obvious surprise.

My uncle hesitated: "This is a lot of money, you..."

"I'm his friend." Jiang Mu repeated.

He didn’t say any of that “I’m rich” crap.

One sentence is enough.

The middle-aged man's face twitched.

He held his face in silence.

Jiang Mu walked into the ward and stood silently beside the young man lying there.

Infusion set, bandage, red, white.

The cold dripping sound was like a rusty nail hammering into my temple bit by bit.

"You are……?"

The young man made a hoarse sound.

"When you have a billion, you should enjoy yourself to the fullest." Jiang Mu said, "Billion is the billion of a family fortune."

"……elder brother."

The young man laughed unpleasantly.

"I'll pay for the medical expenses. You know I'm a great man, and a great man should act like a great man. I'll fly first class, stay in five-star hotels, and eat Michelin. I'll pay for the medical expenses. If I even blink, I'll be unworthy of my wealth."

Jiang Mu smiled easily:

“Rest well, don’t think too much, and live well, because people don’t live for themselves.”

"I've rested long enough. I've slept until now."

The young man tried to smile.

a long time.

"How could they do this?"

The young man said.

"Don't think too much." Jiang Mu said immediately.

"…How could they do this?"

the young man repeated.

He stared at the ceiling.

The empty eyes were like a needle piercing into the soul, draining away all energy bit by bit.

"Brother, why do you think this is happening...Aren't they afraid that someone will complain?"

"Brother, I was really happy before. My family was poor. Prices and wages were low in the Northeast. I remember when I was a kid, my dad drank because of work. He drank all the time. My mom used to dislike his drinking because my dad had liver problems and his face turned pale when he drank... After drinking for a month, he was only paid 3,000 yuan.

My mom sells pig's trotters. I'm telling you, the pig's trotters my mom makes are really delicious. I've been eating them since I was a child and I don't feel sick of them at all. You must try them if you have a chance...

But making this is very tiring. She has to simmer it every other day, and get up at three or four in the morning before daybreak, busying herself with this and that, and then push a cart to sell it on the street.

Brother, you may not know that the summer here is okay, but the winter is really cold, with an average temperature of minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius. If you pour a pot of water, it will freeze into ice before it hits the ground. I used to play like this when I was a child... My mother had to go out to sell pig trotters at this time, and my father had to supervise my mother to wear more clothes every time.

So I was really happy when I signed the contract. I'm not as good as you, but the prices here are low... Even if there are 100 people watching and I eat full meals, it's still a good income here. If more people watch it, it will be amazing. When relatives come to visit during the Chinese New Year, I will be very proud. "

The young man spoke intermittently.

It's hard to say.

Maybe it's because I've been holding it in for too long and there's no one to talk to.

Jiang Mu didn't say anything.

He is still smiling, always smiling.

Smiling is the cheapest and most effective social etiquette, the most beautiful mask and the strongest shield.

The reason why Lawyer Gu was so upset was because he had once lost his temper in court because of Jiang Mu's smile, which seemed to have everything under control.

The smile disappeared.

Jiang Mu listened expressionlessly, listening to the other party's weak and helpless voice.

The rambling monologue is like the snow falling all over the sky in the cold winter.

It was bitingly cold.

"…But, there's nothing I can do."

The young man said softly.

"I actually know that although the contract is unreasonable, it has nothing to do with me and does not affect me."

"But there's nothing I can do... Just because it has nothing to do with me now, does it mean it will have nothing to do with me in the future? Even if I become a loser for the rest of my life, what if one day, they get so deep that they even take care of a loser like me?"

So that's it, Jiang Mu thought.

His collapse was not a sudden gain or loss of interest.

But a continuous and increasing sense of despair and powerlessness.

You know that certain things are bound to happen, and you know that those things are bound to be unacceptable to you, but you can't do anything about it.

It's like a nightmare, long and impossible to wake up from.

"The ancients always had three dreams. First, they hoped that the emperor would be wise, the world would be peaceful, and the world would become better. If the emperor was incompetent, they hoped that Hai Rui, Di Renjie, or Bao Zheng, who upheld justice, would appear and save the country from collapse."

Jiang Mu said, "If it still doesn't work, then I hope there will be a knight who will draw his sword and help the weak. If things don't work, then kill the rules."

"That's right." The young man laughed unpleasantly, "Brother, you know a lot. No wonder you write better than me."

"…It would be nice if there really were knights."

The young man said softly.

He suddenly started coughing violently.

It felt like I was coughing out my lungs, and the cough was filled with blood.

The door was immediately pushed open and the old man ran in in a panic. He helped him to clear the phlegm, wiped off the blood, and asked him if it hurt anywhere and whether he wanted to call a doctor.

Jiang Mu just watched this scene quietly, like an indifferent audience sitting in front of the screen in a cinema.

No sadness, no joy.

He was already accustomed to this scene: crying children, silent fathers, humble mothers, quiet wives, and smoking husbands.

Even in a peaceful year, there are always injustices.

So they will think about salvation, and stubbornly believe that they can handle everything, and always stand proudly and stubbornly between heaven and earth.

Just do it again.

"There will be."

Jiang Mu smiled calmly.

There are idiots everywhere who see injustice.

He walked out of the room with such calm steps, but it was as if he was rushing to a battlefield, swinging his sword towards the sky.

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"So why did you come to see me?"

Lawyer Gu's expression looked as if Jiang Mu was owing him money at a rate of one hundred thousand per minute.

It is a high-end restaurant with soothing music, medium-rare steaks, silver knives and forks, and extremely expensive red wine.

"Greetings." Jiang Mu said calmly, "I haven't seen you for so long, I want to talk to an old friend."

"...Need I remind you that we just met three days ago?"

"It feels like a long time since we last met!"

Jiang Mu's expression was like that of Uzumaki Naruto when he saw Sasuke returning to the village.

Lawyer Gu was silent for about two seconds, then turned to look at the female assistant who was silently cutting the steak.

"See, Xiaozhen, if you want to be a good lawyer, the most important thing is to speak out of your mouth like this person, and make an expression as if what comes out of my mouth is words, not shit."

The female assistant put down her knife and fork silently.

And looked at Lawyer Gu with a condemning look for making such a bad analogy.

Jiang Mu: "I wanted to ask before, who is this?"

Lawyer Gu said, "Dai Zhen, a member of my firm, apart from being incompetent, self-righteous, having an indecent sleeping posture, having a large appetite, being as fragile as a junior high school girl, being naive, unable to see the situation clearly, and having no feminine charm, can be considered a completely useless good person."

"...I just don't want to be called self-righteous by you, the most self-righteous person." The female assistant muttered.

Lawyer Gu pretended not to hear: "Like you, Jiang Mu, he is a righteous idiot, but he is the kind of idiot without any talent. From this perspective, it is still a good thing. At least he can help people with some small cases of pet ownership so that they don't have to go to jail."

Jiang Mu raised his eyebrows.

He always felt that there was something wrong with these two people.

But now is not the time to worry about that.

"Have you heard about the predatory contract incident that has been making a lot of noise these days?" Jiang Mu asked.

Lawyer Gu said, "Don't think I'm an idiot like you who focuses on squeezing out terms from big companies. I usually spend my leisure time buying luxury goods, playing the violin, and traveling. I only waste other people's time, but never waste myself."

"Come and see?"

Jiang Mu handed over a printout.

"You asked me to come here just to see this?" Lawyer Gu complained.

The female assistant subconsciously wanted to speak up and give some advice.