Chapter 69 I Believe in You
"So, are you from the same school?" Wang Qing continued to ask.
Chi Jinjin also replied, "No."
"No wonder. I was wondering how even Fuhua students could become unemployed these days. It turns out they are not from the same school." Wang Qing smiled and continued writing her case.
Chi Jinjin was suspicious as to why Wang Qing wanted to ask about Nan Xuqiu. Her tone didn't sound like she was trying to make fun of her, but rather that she seemed to be simply interested in Nan Xuqiu.
In the afternoon, Xiao Zheng and her mother came to the institute again.
Xiao Zheng didn't act like before, but sat beside him without saying a word.
He listened to the conversation between Wang Qing and Xiao Zheng's mother, but his eyes were full of indifference and even a bit of sarcasm.
Wang Qing placed a stack of documents in front of Xiao Zheng and said, "Here are the questions I'm going to ask you in court. You'll answer them accordingly. You still have a week, so you should be able to memorize them."
Xiao Zheng looked at him without saying anything.
Wang Qing took a sip of coffee and said, "Don't worry. I was just trying to scare you last time. As long as you cooperate with us, you won't be sentenced to ten years. I will try to get you a shorter sentence."
"Did you hear that? Listen carefully to what Lawyer Wang says. It's only a few years, and it will be over in a flash." Xiao Zheng's mother also persuaded Xiao Zheng.
Xiao Zheng sneered and said, "Only a few years? What about my reputation? After I get out, will I still be the same person I am now? Won't I be seen as a murderer or a prisoner in a forced labor camp?"
"Who told you to do such a heinous thing? You brought it upon yourself!" Little Zheng's mother scolded her. "I found Lawyer Wang, such a good lawyer, to represent you in court. I've done the best I can for you. If you weren't my biological child, I would have left you to fend for yourself and sentenced you to death!"
"Then let's sentence him to death..."
Xiao Zheng looked at her mother, her eyes full of disappointment.
After get off work, Nan Xuqiu rode his bicycle to pick up Chi Jinjin again.
But Chi Jinjin hadn't come downstairs yet, so he waited outside.
Wang Qing walked out the door and saw Nan Xuqiu leaning against the wall, looking down at his phone.
She walked up to him.
Nan Xuqiu looked up at her.
Wang Qing asked, "You are Chi Jinjin's boyfriend, right?"
"Yes." Nan Xuqiu replied.
Wang Qing smiled slightly and said, "Thank you for saving me last time. You are really brave. You dared to fight the bad guys in such a dangerous situation. I admire you very much."
"You're welcome. However, I won't rush over in every situation. It depends on who is there." Nan Xuqiu said.
At this time, Chi Jinjin walked out of the gate. Nan Xuqiu's face immediately brightened up. He ran past Wang Qing and went to Chi Jinjin.
Wang Qing turned around and saw Nan Xuqiu holding Chi Jinjin's hand and leaving together.
Wang Qing was unhappy to be ignored like this.
Later, her boyfriend's car drove over and Wang Qing's face was full of smiles again.
After getting on the bus, Wang Qing suddenly found a girl's hairpin under the seat. She picked it up quietly, looked at the people around her, and said nothing, but the hairpin in her hand had been broken by her.
The scene of Nan Xuqiu and Chi Jinjin together was in my mind.
Chi Jinjin and Nan Xuqiu were eating outside, and after dinner they took a walk in the nearby park.
"Nan Xuqiu, you don't have to pick me up from get off work every day. You're already tired enough from attending classes." Chi Jinjin walked beside him and said to him.
"Silly Jinjin." Nan Xuqiu looked at her, sighed, and said, "Why can't you understand? I picked you up not to pick you up, but because I wanted to see you. I miss you so much."
"Hmm..." Chi Jinjin lowered her head embarrassedly.
"What about you?" Nan Xuqiu asked back.
"What?" Chi Jinjin turned her head and looked at him, puzzled.
Nan Xuqiu stopped, bent down, moved closer to her, and asked with a smile, "Do you miss me?"
"I..." Chi Jinjin wanted to go back, but suddenly, she saw Xiao Zheng passing by in the distance.
"Is it her?"
Nan Xuqiu was puzzled and followed her gaze.
"Who is that, your friend?"
Nan Xuqiu asked.
Chi Jin replied, "No, she is my teacher's client."
Chi Jinjin told Nan Xuqiu the general outline of the matter.
Nan Xuqiu looked at Xiao Zheng in the distance again. She was sitting on a bench under a tree, with her head down and not saying a word.
Slowly she raised her head again, her face was haggard and her eyes were dim.
She stood up and walked away slowly, dragging her feet like an old man.
"Something seems to be wrong with her." Nan Xuqiu said.
"I'll go take a look." Chi Jinjin followed, and Nan Xuqiu also followed.
But when they followed him to a construction site, they accidentally lost the person.
Fortunately, Nan Xuqiu found a clue and took Chi Jinjin to an unfinished building that had not yet been repaired.
I saw Xiao Zheng on the roof.
She was standing at the edge of the building, staring blankly downstairs.
"Xiao Zheng!"
Chi Jinjin called her immediately.
Xiao Zheng heard her voice and looked back at her.
Chi Jinjin rushed forward to pull her, but she climbed over the guardrail and stood directly at the edge.
"Don't come over here!!"
Xiao Zheng shouted hysterically, with half of his foot hanging in the air.
Chi Jinjin suddenly stopped.
"Okay, I won't come..."
She said it carefully, afraid to scare her.
Chi Jinjin said, "Xiao Zheng, what are you doing? If there's anything, can't we just come over and talk it over? If there's any difficulty, let's work it out together."
"Solve it?" Xiao Zheng asked. "How? Throw me in jail? Why? On what basis? I didn't do it, so why should I go to jail?"
She collapsed and screamed, "Why, you all don't believe me? You keep asking me to tell the truth, but everything I say is the truth, why don't you believe me?!"
"Xiao Zheng, don't get excited. If you have anything to say, let's come over and talk." Chi Jinjin tried to persuade her.
Xiao Zheng shook her head and laughed, but tears rolled down her eyes.
She choked with sobs and murmured, "Why don't you believe me? Why don't you believe me? Will you believe me if I die?"
She stepped back a little.
Chi Jinjin's heart suddenly sank. She held her breath, trying to remain calm, and said, "Do you think that if you die, people will believe you? There's a saying in this world called committing suicide out of fear of punishment, and there's a saying that there's no evidence after death. If you die, you can only let those people say whatever they want. Are you willing to accept that?"
There was a hint of other emotions in Xiao Zheng's desperate eyes.
"But what's the point of me being alive? No one believes me. They all think I'm a bad person and want me to go to jail, but I don't want to go to jail, not even for a single day." Xiao Zheng burst into tears, his voice trembling.
Chi Jinjin immediately said, "I believe you!"
Xiao Zheng immediately looked at her.
"I believe you, Xiao Zheng. If you are willing to believe me too, I can help you." Chi Jinjin said, his eyes full of worry for her.
Xiao Zheng seemed to feel the kindness from Chi Jinjin.
But he asked unsurely, "Do you... really believe me?"
Chi Jinjin nodded sincerely.
"Xiao Zheng, come here and let's talk it out, okay?" Chi Jinjin asked cautiously.
Xiao Zheng was silent for a moment. The evening breeze blew her bright red hair. At this moment, she was like a withering rose on a branch, as if she was about to fall at the next moment.
Chi Jinjin's heart was hanging on a string, and she didn't even dare to breathe heavily, for fear of disturbing the person in front of her.
"Xiao Zheng, if you want others to believe you, then you can also believe me, okay?" Chi Jinjin asked softly.
Finally, Xiao Zheng nodded.
"Then can you come over here?" Chi Jinjin coaxed.
Xiao Zheng took a step forward, wanting to walk towards Chi Jinjin.
But the next moment, she accidentally slipped and fell down.
Chi Jinjin was suddenly horrified.
Fortunately, Nan Xuqiu rushed forward and grabbed Xiao Zheng's wrist at the moment she fell.
"Xiao Zheng, give me your hand!"
Chi Jinjin also hurried forward to help.
Xiao Zheng looked at Chi Jinjin, who was anxious, and slowly extended his hand towards her.
Chi Jinjin grabbed her hand and held it tightly as if she had found a treasure.
She and Nan Xuqiu pulled Xiao Zheng up together.
Xiao Zheng returned to the safe ground and collapsed to the ground instantly.
Chi Jinjin breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Zheng threw himself into her arms and burst into tears.
After all, he is just a child. How can he not be afraid of death?
Chi Jinjin stroked her back and comforted her with soft words.
"Sister, do you really believe me? Didn't you lie to me?" Xiao Zheng asked again and again.
Chi Jinjin nodded firmly, wiped the tears from her face, and said, "I believe you."
Xiao Zheng gradually stopped crying.
But her stomach growled.
"Are you hungry?" Chi Jinjin asked.
Xiao Zheng nodded and said, "I haven't eaten for two days..."
"Let's go, I'll take you to eat something delicious." Nan Xuqiu said.
So Chi Jinjin and Nan Xuqiu took Xiao Zheng to KFC.
Nan Xuqiu ordered a lot of food for Xiao Zheng, and Xiao Zheng ate it voraciously.
"Haven't you eaten for two days?" asked Chi Jinjin, who was sitting next to her.
Xiao Zheng munched on a chicken roll while replying, "It was my family. They locked me in the room and refused to give me food in order to force me to accept their arrangement."
"They locked you up, so how did you get out?" Chi Jinjin asked.
Xiao Zheng said, "I smashed my window and jumped out."
Chi Jinjin looked down at her legs. She was only wearing shorts, and her legs were covered with scars and scrapes.
So Chi Jinjin took off his coat and covered her legs with it.
Xiao Zheng was startled. She sniffed, tears welling up in her eyes again. She said, "Sister, brother, you treat me better than my family does..."
"Eat slowly." Chi Jinjin was afraid that she would choke, so she pushed the drink to her hand.
She stood up and said, "I'm going out to buy some things."
Chi Jinjin left KFC.
Soon, Nan Xuqiu followed.
"Why are you here?" Chi Jinjin asked.
Nan Xuqiu said, "Don't worry, I've made it clear to her. She will be waiting there for us to come back."
As he spoke, he took off his coat and put it on Chi Jinjin.
"I'm not cold...you can wear it yourself." Chi Jinjin wanted to take it off and give it back to him.
But he caught her hand.
He stroked her hands and said, "Your nails are purple, and you still say you're not cold. Your hands are like ice."
Nan Xuqiu held her hands in his palms and then pulled them to his mouth and blew on them.
"But if I wear it, what will you do?" Chi Jinjin said.
Nan Xuqiu hugged her and said with a smile, "I always wear short sleeves when I run in the morning. This little bit of cold is nothing. I can't let my lawyer Chi get cold. And with you in my arms like this, I won't feel cold anymore."
"Let's go to the pharmacy to buy medicine." Nan Xuqiu said.
Chi Jinjin was surprised, "How did you know I was going to buy medicine?"
"The heartache you showed towards Xiao Zheng in your eyes just now was almost overflowing, and it was hard for me not to know it." Nan Xuqiu replied and poked her head.
After buying the medicine, Nan Xuqiu and Chi Jinjin returned to Xiao Zheng.
"Where is your home? I'll take you home later." Chi Jinjin asked.
Xiao Zheng said, "I'm not going home, brothers and sisters, you guys go home."
"If you don't go home, where do you live? Do you have any other place to live?" Chi Jinjin asked puzzledly.
Xiao Zheng shook his head.
"You have no place to live, and you're not going home, so where else are you going to go? Are you going to sleep on the street?"
"That's better than going home."
Xiao Zheng said stubbornly.
Chi Jinjin looked at Xiao Zheng in front of her, who was determined. She knew that Xiao Zheng was a stubborn person and would not change his mind easily.
But you can't let a little girl sleep on the street. Not only will it be cold at night, it would also be too dangerous.
"Okay, if you don't want to go home, then come home with me and live in my house, okay?" Chi Jinjin asked.
Xiao Zheng nodded.
Chi Jinjin felt relieved.
Later, Chi Jinjin took Xiao Zheng back home.
Chi Jinjin asked Xiao Zheng for her family's phone number.
She thought that she should at least tell Xiao Zheng's family so that they wouldn't look for her everywhere.
"Hello? Is this Xiao Zheng's mother? I'm Chi Jinjin, Lawyer Wang's student. Xiao Zheng is with me now. She can stay here tonight. I'll send her back tomorrow." Chi Jinjin said to Xiao Zheng's mother on the phone.
Xiao Zheng's mother said, "Whatever, no matter where she is, she's just a disobedient child."
Xiao Zheng's mother's voice on the phone was very cold.
Lian Chi Jinjin felt uncomfortable after listening to it. She walked to the balcony and deliberately avoided Xiao Zheng, fearing that she would be sad and depressed after hearing it.
Xiao Zheng, who had been looking up at Chi Jinjin, lowered his head and gave a wry smile after hearing what his mother said.
After hanging up the phone, Chi Jinjin returned to Xiao Zheng.
She sat down next to her and asked carefully, "Xiao Zheng, can you tell me what happened that day in detail? That way I can help you better."
Xiao Zheng was silent for a moment, then spoke, "That morning, everyone was doing morning exercises outside. I was too lazy to run, so I sneaked back to the classroom. It was a little after five in the morning, and the lights were off, so it was very dim. I was sitting in my seat trying to smoke a cigarette when I suddenly heard a heavy sound near the window. I went to check and realized it was Tao Xi who had fallen. At that moment, several other girls in our class walked into the classroom. When they saw me, they shouted that I had pushed her down."
"So, you didn't say a word to Tao Xi during the whole process?" Chi Jinjin asked.
Xiao Zheng nodded and said, "I didn't even know she was by the window until she fell."
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