Watching in the dark night

Chapter 4 Hot Pot
  The ordinary and busy day passed quickly.

Just after getting off work, Yan Shuang clocked in, stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and drove towards the old place at a flying speed.

Parking the car, she quickly rushed into the hot pot restaurant. But he was still a step too slow. Lin Xiao was already looking at the door with his arms folded and an impatient expression on his face.

This guy is always hungry and puts on a bad face every time he waits for her for a long time. His expression softened slightly until he took something into his mouth.

Yan Shuang raised a flattering smile and walked in.

Lin Xiao was sitting in front of the steaming hot pot, not playing with her cell phone, and just darting around with her eyes.

Finally, her eyes settled. Watching the slow woman squeeze through between the two tables and walk up to her.

"It's a little faster today." Lin Xiao looked at the panting woman opposite, picked up the straw, poked the milk tea on the table, and handed it over.

Yan Shuang picked up the milk tea and took a few sips, then complained after a while: "I'm not afraid that you'll be hungry."

Yan Shuang thought that the woman opposite would be moved by her words. Looking up, this heartless man had already begun to put food into the hot pot.

Unable to resist rolling her eyes, she also picked up a few pieces of hairy tripe and threw them into the red soup.

The two began to eat silently. It wasn't that Yan Shuang didn't want to talk, it was just that Lin Xiao had no time to pay attention to her while eating.

Lin Xiao kept bringing hot dishes to her bowl, and she couldn't refuse them.

Every time Yan Shuang protested, Lin Xiao said that she ate too quickly and if she didn't quickly put some aside for her, the food would be gone in a short while.

The red soup in the hot pot was boiling, and the two worked silently for almost an hour. Lin Xiao was finally full.

She took a sip of milk tea to ease the spicy taste in her stomach. Only then did he finally have time to talk to the woman opposite.

"Did anyone die in your company?" This woman didn't care if she didn't speak, but if she spoke a little, she would be a nuclear bomb.

Yan Shuang was still trying to eat the vegetables piled in the bowl. After hearing her words, he suddenly raised his head and looked at her.

"how do you know?"

Lin Xiao blinked at Yan Shuang and said in a low voice, "Is there something that I don't know?"

Yan Shuang was speechless. What time was it? You were still joking.

"Speak well." As soon as this voice came out, the food in her bowl suddenly lost its flavor.

"Okay." Lin Xiao cleared her throat and said seriously: "The parents of the person who died in your company sued their daughter-in-law. The person they hired happened to be Lawyer Zhang from our law firm."

"When they came, I heard that it was about your company, so I took the opportunity to listen."

Yan Shuangcai didn't believe her words. Even if this matter was not from her company, she, Lin Xiao, couldn't take it back.

"Why don't you ask me why they sued their daughter-in-law?" Lin Xiao urged when Yan Shuang didn't respond.

Yan Shuang was helpless, could she say that she had known it for a long time?

"Why?" But she still asked, satisfying her.

"I heard that their daughter-in-law killed her son while he was sleeping at night." Lin Xiao looked around, covered her mouth and whispered.

She also knew to cover her mouth.

"Isn't it not good to tell me directly about the case your law firm has just accepted?" Yan Shuang reminded her to pay attention to professional ethics.

Lin Xiao quickly looked around and said, "Oh, you are not an outsider. And I know that you will not tell anyone. Otherwise, it will appear that our relationship is not that good."

"Yes, yes!" Yan Shuang nodded. Although it's touching, it's not necessary.

"I'm going to continue. Sit over here. I need to keep my voice down." Lin Xiao was no longer satisfied with chatting with her across a table.

Yan Shuang had no choice but to move to the opposite side and listen to her very seriously.

"Later, I heard from Lawyer Zhang that the man in your company was killed by his wife because of domestic violence."

"Is this clear?" Yan Shuang said in surprise.

"Of course not, did not pick up this case. I wanted to say that I went to the scene around the scene in the afternoon. As a result, the neighbor did not know where he was, and pulled him aside quietly." "From now on You all want it." Lin Xiao made a zipper on her mouth.

Yan Shuang understood immediately and nodded repeatedly. He also did the exact same action as her.

After taking a sip of milk tea, Lin Xiao lay in her ear and whispered: "I heard that as long as the man drinks or the children at home are making trouble, the woman will definitely be beaten that night. That voice goes up and down. Counting three floors, every house can hear it clearly."

"How could that happen?" Yan Shuang was in a daze, feeling that the protagonist in the incident she was hearing about at this moment was completely different from the colleague Liu Cheng she usually knew.

In her impression, Liu Cheng was a warm-hearted and sunny man. Why was it like this?

"The person you are talking about is Liu Cheng from our company, right?" Yan Shuang couldn't believe it and asked Lin Xiao for confirmation.

"Of course, are there people in your company that I don't know about?" Lin Xiao asked.

"What are you thinking about, Crow Mouth." Yan Shuang immediately interrupted her unfinished words.

Yan Shuang still remembers that when she first joined the company, the girl from the human resources department was not there. At that time, it was Liu Cheng who enthusiastically told her which floor the finance office was on and how to apply for the job.

How could such a cheerful man, whom he had only known for three months, suddenly turn into a domestic violence man who beats women?
  "You can't tell people by their appearance. You've been too easy to trust others since you were a child." Lin Xiao started talking to her mother-in-law.

"You haven't finished talking about what you just said." Yan Shuang knew that if she didn't change the subject, Lin Xiao didn't know how to start criticizing her from how old she was.

"Oh, right!" Lin Xiao was successfully brought back to the topic. He continued: "After hearing this, Lawyer Zhang didn't want to take the case anymore."

Lin Xiao shrugged, "Unfortunately, he had already agreed to the client before going, so I had to bite the bullet and continue."

"The neighbors also said that they often saw Liu Cheng's wife going out with bruises and bruises on her face. The neighbors wanted to help her contact the Women's Federation, but she refused to admit it and said that she was injured by a fall." Lin Xiao seemed to be getting angrier as she talked.

Yan Shuang was silent. She had only heard of it or seen it on the Internet. I never thought that something like this would happen around me. She found that these women all had one thing in common. In order to protect their marriages, they chose to eat the bitter pill alone and say nothing.

He won't protect his body, nor his mind. Let yourself lose your true self in these violent beatings.

"It was these repeated beatings that finally made his wife unable to bear it any longer, so she found an opportunity to kill him." After saying this, Lin Xiao was already extremely angry.

"If you say she woke up earlier, she wouldn't be so extreme that she would be doomed as well."

"Maybe she is also worried about the children." Yan Shuang thought for a while and replied.

"Wouldn't it be more harmful to the child now?" Lin Xiao disagreed with this insistence.

Yes, Yan Shuang agrees with this sentence. Her sacrifice like this will only move herself, not the other party, and it will not save her child.

"Okay, let's not talk anymore. I have to go back, and I have to catch up on materials at night." Lin Xiao picked up the bag on the sofa and said to Yan Shuang.

"Well, bye!" Yan Shuang walked her to the door. Seeing her car flying away, he shook his head and got into his own car.

I was so tired today. After Yan Shuang came home, she declined the beauty soup her mother cooked and went to bed after taking a shower.

Late night
  Under the green plaid quilt, Yan Shuang, who was already asleep, kept tossing and turning.

After she fell asleep, she kept having strange dreams.

In the dream, Liu Cheng's baby face was smashed until his face was covered in blood. After a while, a strange woman wearing a dark purple dress walked barefoot on the rooftop of the company.

The woman seemed to be walking back and forth aimlessly, walking from left to right, then from right to left.

In addition to the dizzyingly dark purple dress she was wearing, she could also clearly see her unusually thin limbs. Yan Shuang couldn't see clearly the woman's facial features.

She kept her head down, her back hunched, and her black hair hung straight down from both sides of her face.

There was no light around the pitch-black rooftop, and the people who were about to blend into the night were slowly swaying in the air. If it were normal times, Yan Shuang, an extremely timid person, would have run eight miles away.

But today, Yan Shuang knew very well that she was in a dream, so she became much more courageous. There was an inexplicable force driving her, making her try to see clearly what the woman looked like.

Suddenly, the woman stopped walking back and forth, her drooped head shook, and then her neck became stiff and she slowly turned in the direction of Yan Shuang.

Yan Shuang held her breath in her dream, feeling guilty and flustered, fearing that she would be scolded if others discovered her peeking.

But after the woman turned her face, all these emotions left her.

At this moment, she had only one thought in her mind.
  That is.
  (End of this chapter)