"Is that girl outside looking for you?"
Su Ran looked outside the store. A woman in a white dress looked into the store for a long time, seeming to be hesitating whether to come in. However, for some unknown reason, the woman gave up the idea of coming in and sat down. He sat on a chair at the door of the store.
"Probably." Qin Shoumo didn't even turn around.
Su Ran raised her eyebrows and said, "What, did you do something to hurt another girl? They came directly to us. You have committed a heinous crime."
Qin Shoumo raised his hands, "Conscience of heaven and earth, am I the kind of person who would hurt women?"
Su Ran looked at Qin Shoumo sideways and said nothing.
"...You can't confuse these things. The most we do with those girls is to pursue happiness and excitement together. We do things that you like and I don't, but I have never cheated or deceived others." Qin Shoumo said. As he spoke, he looked at Xu Zhian, then pointed at Xu Zhian and said, "Look, she looks like classmate Xiao Xu. She looks like she is inexperienced and has no experience of the dangers of society. I can't see such a little girl." I don’t know how to look at her, and I feel like it’s a crime to say more to her!”
"Then you are indeed committing a crime. An An is still underage. If you talk to her, I will call the police and arrest you immediately."
"...I mean I wouldn't do such a heartless thing."
"Then why do people come to see you? According to my experience in watching TV series, in this case, generally speaking, either an abortion is required or a breakup fee is required. Have you compensated them adequately?"
Qin Shoumo was stunned for a long time and said in confusion: "Then you can't come to me for a lawsuit?"
Su Ran suddenly realized, "Oh yes, I forgot that you are still a half-baked lawyer."
"I am the number one lawyer in the country!" Qin Shoumo gritted his teeth.
"Put it down. How did you win those cases? How can I know if others don't know? You are all seeking personal gain for yourself. Where is your conscience?" Su Ran strongly condemned.
Qin Shoumo took a deep breath and said, "I don't care about children."
Su Ran rolled her eyes, looked at the woman sitting at the door, and tilted her head, "Why does this person look so familiar? I feel like I have seen him somewhere before."
"She is not from Jiangbei, where else can I see her." Qin Shoumo said indifferently.
"No, I seem to...remember it."
Su Ran picked up the tablet in front of her and started searching for something. She quickly put the tablet flat on the table and pointed at the young and beautiful woman on it, "Found it, Xu Xi, the illegitimate daughter of the Asian shipping king Xu Yuanyang."
Qin Shoumo glanced at the news on his tablet. The topic of the news was the exposure of information about the Ship King's illegitimate daughter, and the mother and daughter's plan to trap the Ship King. The news media used very malicious and unpleasant words to speculate on this. Regarding the mother and daughter, they condemned how they used family affection to encircle the shipping king and wanted to use their daughters to get part of the shipping king's hundreds of billions of assets.
The second half of this article is so outrageous that it is speculated that Xu Xi's mother already knew that Ship King's ship would pass near their home, and planned with her family how to cause an accident to the fleet, and then take Ship King back to her home. , tried every means to make the ship king fall in love with her, gave her a child so that she could divide the family property and so on.
The writing style and story of this article were so rough that Qin Shoumo felt that it would not be published in the online literary world. However, there were still a bunch of people echoing the reporter's speculation, thinking that this was the truth of the matter.
"What's going on with the brains of these people? It's like they were eaten by themselves." Qin Shoumo looked at the comment section of the article and was shocked.
"If you think about it, you will know that the article and the comment section must have been arranged by the wife of the shipping king. The purpose was to make the reputation of the mother and daughter as bad as possible. This was quite sensational back then. There were indeed many people who scolded them, but I was surprised that the two of them were able to endure it, as if they were not affected at all. Their psychological quality is really amazing."
"Why are you still gossiping about this kind of thing? I remember that you have never been very interested in such bloody plots."
"It's not gossip. I majored in finance, and Asia Shipping Group is the largest shipping group in Asia. I definitely want to understand its business operation model.
Since to understand the company, it is necessary to understand the company's top leader. Mr. Xu's life experience has been thoroughly investigated. If you search casually, all kinds of news will come out. This illegitimate daughter It’s definitely indispensable.
But speaking of it, she came all the way from Qingdao to file a lawsuit with you. What's the big deal? "
Qin Shoumo nodded and recounted what he had communicated with Xu Xi two nights ago.
"So, she has been following you these two days just to ask you to help her prove that the will is fake?" Su Ran asked.
"probably."
Su Ran looked at Miss Xu, "Tsk tsk, but don't tell me, this girl's mother must be very beautiful. The three children of the wife of the Ship King's wife all look crooked, so it's no wonder that the Ship King I will be partial to this daughter."
"Hey, the eldest lady has come all this way to ask you for help. She has followed you for several days and is just standing guard at the door. You don't even say you are going to help me?"
Qin Shoumo shook his head, "There are too many cases like this. If they are all like her, and they follow me for a few days and I agree, then I will be busy to death."
"What a hard-hearted man." Su Ran raised an eyebrow, "But speaking of it, the disappearance of the Ship King has been hidden for so long. If this is released, it will definitely be breaking news."
"I don't care whether it explodes or not, just don't let me get involved." Qin Shoumo said and walked upstairs.
After taking just two steps, Qin Shoumo turned back and walked in front of Su Ran with a mean expression.
"What are you going to say?" Looking at Qin Shoumo's expression, Su Ran suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart.
Qin Shoumo narrowed his eyes and smiled: "The new transfer student in your class is very courageous."
"Hey, how did you know that?" After Qin Shoumo's reminder, Su Ran thought of the new classmate who seemed to be neurotic and not normal.
"I didn't know it at first, but I was frightened by this guy's bold statement. It can be said that he is the first person who dares to say that in so many years." Qin Shoumo couldn't help laughing and said: "How about it, is there any Do you feel the charm of young boys?"
"Is there something wrong with your brain?" Su Ran's face was expressionless.
"Maybe you will have some stories in the future." Qin Shoumo blinked, and before Su Ran could stretch out her hand to hit him, he twisted his waist and ran upstairs.
The sun in Jiangning was already very strong at the end of June, especially in the afternoon, and soon the streets outside were filled with hot sunshine.
Seeing Xu Xi sitting at the door holding a flyer to block the sun, Su Ran patted Xu Zhian on the shoulder.
"An'an, go call Miss Xu in and sit down for a while. She is a wealthy lady after all. She will faint in a while."
Xu Zhi'an nodded, trotted to the door, and called the young woman sitting on the chair in front of the store, "Miss Xu, our landlady will ask you to come in and sit for a while."
Xu Xi was stunned for a moment, "Would it be inconvenient?"
"What's the inconvenience? Our store is open for business. You are just an ordinary customer, just come in and have a cup of coffee." Xu Zhian said with a smile.
After Xu Xi hesitated for a moment, he nodded, "Okay, thank you."
"You're welcome, Miss Xu, please come in."
Xu Zhi'an turned around and opened the store door, leading Xu Xi in.
"Hello, Miss Xu, what would you like to drink?"
Seeing Xu Xi walking in, Su Ran said hello from a distance.
"Ah, I can do it." Xu Xi said.
"Then let's go for the raw coconut latte. It's the most popular one. You won't be disappointed no matter what." Su Ran nodded, "It's too hot outside, so you can sit anywhere in the store."
"Okay, thanks for the treat."
Xu Xi hesitated for a moment, then asked softly: "Hello, I would like to ask, are you familiar with Lawyer Qin?"
"Not familiar, not familiar at all." Su Ran said seriously: "Every time he comes to the store, I want to kick him out. If he hadn't been staying here shamelessly, I would have kicked him out long ago."
Xu Xi was stunned, as if he didn't expect Su Ran to answer like this, and for a moment he didn't know how to reply.
"The one in our family is familiar with him." Su Ran pointed upstairs, "They are old friends who have known each other for many years. Qin wants to come and stick to him every day."
Who is this person that Lawyer Qin can stick to every day? More energy than Lawyer Qin?
Although he has doubts, Xu Xi also knows that it is best not to ask some things that should not be asked. The top priority now is to get Lawyer Qin to let go.
"How many days has Miss Xu been in Jiangning?" Su Ran asked casually.
Xu Xi thought for a while, "Today should be the fourth day here."
"On the fourth day." Su Ran said thoughtfully, "From my personal perspective, I suggest you go back to Qingdao first."
"Huh? Why?" Xu Xi was stunned.
"The man named Qin has no conscience, and he doesn't care about right or wrong when taking a case, it all depends on his mood.
Generally speaking, if it has been more than three days and he still looks like he is too lazy to talk to you, it means that there is basically no drama and it has not hit his point of interest. "
After listening to Su Ran's words, Xu Xi's face showed a trace of panic and loss, and he looked a little at a loss.
Su Ran sighed, put down the tablet in his hand, walked to a table in the hall and sat down.
"Miss Xu, come and sit down. It's not convenient to go out in the sun now. Let's chat by the way."
Xu Xi nodded and walked to sit opposite Su Ran.
"About you, Qin just told me. To be honest, I think you might as well go back and do something first if you stay here and wait for Qin to go back with you." Su Ran said softly.
Xu Xi sighed softly, "I really had no other choice, so I came to see Lawyer Qin. Although my mother is a calm and calm person, she has never seen much of the world and has a weak personality. .
But I am different. I must get back the things that belong to me and my mother.
But now Lawyer Qin is unwilling to help me, and I don’t know what else to do. "
"There is no way to continue procrastinating in Jiangning. Qin will not go back with you. At least you have to go back now and find a way to continue procrastinating. Otherwise, when the will comes into effect, you will waste all your time in Jiangning and will not be able to use it for more. If there is favorable evidence to prove that this will is fake, then things will become more troublesome."
Xu Xi shook her head, "Mrs. Xu is a powerful character. She spent a lot of money to hire a very famous lawyer in the capital to draft this will. I have searched all the lawyers in Shandong, but no one can get it from that lawyer." My subordinates took advantage of everything."
"Maybe there's a way."
"Huh? What can I do?"
"Mr. Xu disappeared while going to sea. Although no trace of him has been found, it does not prove that Mr. Qin is no longer in this world.
First use the reason of being unable to prove death to delay for a period of time, so that the will cannot take effect in a short period of time, and then find a way to find the whereabouts of Mr. Xu.
You should know where Mr. Xu went to sea, right? "
Xu Xi was silent for a while and nodded, "The first step should be easy. A lawyer also mentioned it to me before. There should be no problem if we delay it for a while.
But finding his father's whereabouts may be difficult. "
"Have you tried to find it?" Su Ran asked.
"Of course, the group sent several fleets to that place to find Dad's whereabouts, and the police also tried their best to search for the fleets.
However, whether it was the police or the group, the conclusion they gave was that the fleet seemed to have disappeared out of thin air after arriving at its destination, leaving no trace in the world.
Of course, we have not given up on continuing to search for the whereabouts of the fleet, and we are still sending people to continue searching at that location. "
"Where did the fleet disappear?"
After Xu Xi hesitated for a moment, he said softly: "It's in the southernmost South China Sea."
"South China Sea?" Su Ran frowned, "Miss Xu, have you been there personally?"
Xu Xi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "Although I am the daughter of a shipping king, I have never been exposed to the group's transportation business. I don't know anything about maritime matters. Even if I go there, it will be of no use."
“My suggestion is, no matter how many people your group and the police send, or how much power you use, some things are better to be seen and believed. If you go there yourself, you may gain something unexpected and discover what you want.
If you don’t understand transportation and can’t take a boat, you can also go by plane. In any case, we’ll talk about other things when we get there first. Seeing the situation there with your own eyes can give you peace of mind. "Su Ran advised seriously.
Su Ran's words made Xu Xi fall into silence, and he didn't know how to answer Su Ran for a moment.
If Su Ran hadn't mentioned it today, she had never thought about finding her father's whereabouts before. She had always felt in her heart that since the professional search and rescue team couldn't find him, it would be useless to go there on her own.
But Su Ran's words just now suddenly made her heart move. Maybe she would really gain something by going there. After all, it was the place where she grew up, and no one would be more familiar with it than herself.
After sitting there and thinking for a while, Xu Xi took a deep breath, as if he had made some important decision.
"Thank you. Your words really gave me the idea to take the initiative to find my father. You are right. Since I can't hire Lawyer Qin here, wasting time here is equivalent to chronic death, regardless of whether there is As a result, I have to do something."
Xu Xi stood up and prepared to walk outside.
Xu Xi turned around and looked at Su Ran as soon as she took two steps, "By the way, I haven't asked your name yet. I just know that you are the proprietress of this store."
"My name is Su Ran." Su Ran narrowed his eyes and smiled.
Xu Xi nodded and said carefully: "If possible, please help me mention it to Lawyer Qin. If you are in a good mood, can you consider giving me a hand?"
"Okay, I'm most willing to help others." Su Ran agreed.
Xu Xi nodded gently to Su Ran and expressed his gratitude, then turned and left Su Zhai.
