The team's original return time was the day after the trial results were received. Except for Lu Enxi, everyone else had already boarded a flight to Los Angeles.
There was no longer intense preparations for war, nor was she no longer enduring the internal torment of a dilemma. Lu Enxi did not feel relaxed at all. Guilt and anger haunted her all the time. The continuous neurasthenia caused her to sleep all night. Even if she had difficulty falling asleep, she would
Awakened by a nightmare.
In the dream, her uncle stretched out his arms and accused her, "I've wasted my uncle's love for you for so many years. You beat me up, you are an ungrateful thing!"
Or her cousin and cousin took turns bombarding her, tightening her neck and making her apologize to her uncle.
The most uncomfortable thing was that she dreamed that her mother looked at her with tears streaming down her face and kept crying, "Xixi, my mother is so disappointed in you. You even plotted against your own uncle for Si Bainian. You don't deserve to be my daughter."
, I don’t have a daughter like you!!!”
Then my mother started to get sick, banging things hard and scratching her wrists with glass, leaving her flesh and blood.
Lu Enxi suddenly sat up from the bed. It was still dark outside the window. She was exhausted and had no strength to pick up her mobile phone. She just sat there dripping with sweat, curled up and hugged her knees tightly, and sat there until the bright light came from the east.
On the third day after his uncle was imprisoned, Lu Enxi applied for visitation rights.
The towering prison gate gives people an unknown sense of oppression.
In the past, when she went to the prison to meet the client, she would always stride in without having anything to do with her. She didn't realize how spooky it was inside. Now, standing among the high walls and electric grid, she felt cold from the top of her head to the soles of her feet.
Her inner thoughts became more and more determined, she must rescue her uncle!
Separated by a thick layer of bulletproof glass, Lu Enxi held the phone and saw her haggard-looking uncle. She pinched her legs to hold back tears and asked, "Uncle, how are you?"
Duan Xiaoyun has obviously lost weight. In just a few days, there are several wrinkles on his face, and the nasolabial folds are deeply embedded on both sides of his nose. "The environment in British prisons is better than that in China. It is not cold in winter and not hot in summer, so my uncle will not be punished."
Lu Enxi's eyes seemed to have been filled with strong alcohol, sour and bitter, "Cousin and cousin...have they been here?"
Lu Enxi called her cousin Duan Hongyi and Duan Xiaowei, but no one answered. Apparently they didn't want to pay attention to this unscrupulous descendant who had betrayed the family.
Duan Xiaoyun said, "I've been here and I explained to them that this is not your fault. They are not blaming you, but they just haven't figured out how to tell you yet. Give them some time and they will understand you."
Lu Enxi reluctantly nodded, "I have thought of a plan. Uncle, wait a little longer, and when the time is right, I will apply for medical parole for you."
Duan Xiaoyun said, "Just do what you want, uncle can wait."
Lu Enxi held back her tears, sniffed and said, "My cousin opens a restaurant in France?"
Duan Hongyi also owns a Western restaurant in China, but after his father's accident, he was always harassed by creditors and could not open the restaurant. After moving to France, he lacked start-up capital, and it took three years to officially rent a store and start the business.
Lu Enxi knew this intermittently from her father.
Duan Xiaoyun said, "What kind of store should I open? How can it be so easy for Chinese to do business abroad? Forget it, he wants to try, let him try."
Lu Enxi wrote down, "Which hotel are my cousin and cousin in? They refused to see me, so I went to find them. It was my fault. I should come and apologize."
Duan Xiaoyun kept saying no, the family didn't have an overnight feud, and things would get better after a while. If Lu Enxi refused, wouldn't that mean hiding it and letting things ferment indefinitely?
Duan Hongyi and Duan Xiaowei stayed in a cheap hotel chain, which was very close to the University of Manchester. The hotel was in an alley, and the surrounding crowds were mixed, and the security was not very good.
Lu Enxi sat in the lobby and made several more calls, but still no one answered.
The front desk also refused to provide their room numbers on the grounds of protecting guests' privacy.
Lu Enxi had no choice but to wait in the lobby.
From three o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock, they were nowhere to be seen.
It was completely dark and all the lights in the lobby were turned on. Lu Enxi's oriental face was particularly eye-catching.
Several times, European and American guests looked at her unscrupulously, with evil intentions in their eyes.
Public security abroad is generally not good after nightfall. If she cannot see her cousin before eight o'clock, she must quickly return to the hotel where she is staying. A single woman can easily become a target of criminals.
Lu Enxi was on guard, and her hand holding on to the strap of her bag kept tightening.
"Hey! Beauty, want a drink?"
A sturdy European man suddenly whistled at her and staggered towards her.
Oops.
Lu Enxi thought to herself, "It's not good. This person obviously drank too much."
Lu Enxi went to a crowded place, but the man couldn't help but grab her wrist and pull her into his arms, "Hide? If you don't go after I invite you to drink, you are courting death!"
"Hiss!" Lu Enxi complained in English as her arm hurt, "Let me go!"
The man's companions were holding cigarettes in their mouths. There were four of them. They didn't care that this was a hotel lobby. They surrounded her in public, sneering and looking ferocious.
Lu Enxi once again saw what it means to be a local coward. It seems that bullying Asian faces has become a common practice for them, and they assume that they can do it at will.
Lu Enxi's legs were weak from fear, but her face remained calm. She stared at the man coldly, "I am a lawyer and I work for the embassy. If you dare to touch me, I will get the embassy involved immediately."
"Oh! Who are you scaring? Damn Chinaman!"
These people are unreasonable at all and will beat them if they get started rudely.
A heavy fist hit Lu Enxi on the head, making her dizzy and unable to hold her feet. She staggered to one side and barely managed to hold on to a pillar to keep herself from lying on the ground.
The man licked the corner of his mouth and tried to punch again.
"Let her go!"
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After going upstairs and entering the room, Lu Enxi's head was still dizzy. When she saw her cousin, her emotions were rolling and she had mixed feelings.
"Brother Hongyi, Sister Weiwei..."
Duan Xiaowei saw her miserable look and smiled bitterly with a cold face, "Don't call her that, I can't be your sister."
You should have stopped me from rescuing people just now, and let those gangsters drag Lu Enxi out and mess with him!
Lu Enxi's eyes were red. She stood up unsteadily, bent ninety degrees, and lowered her head deeply, "I'm sorry, I know you don't want to see me now, and you don't want to hear my explanation, but I must tell you in person.
I'm sorry."
Duan Hongyi sat on the sofa, crossed his hands, and his face was very similar to his father's. He was young and handsome, but it was dark at the moment. "Enxi, I just want to ask you, are you trying to please Si Bo by sending him to prison?"
Year?"
Duan Xiaowei gritted her teeth and cursed, "Is there any other reason besides this? She was chasing Si Bo Nian like a bullshit ointment back then, haha, she took half of the Lu family's resources as a dowry, and even ran over to kneel down after being dumped by the Si family | lick
, for someone to be so cheap is really shocking!"
Lu Enxi felt guilty and did not argue with her. Instead, she said sternly, "No, I didn't know that my uncle was also the defendant when I took this case. Brother Hongyi, Si Bo Nian and I have severed all ties. How could I hurt my uncle for him?"
Duan Hongyi was dubious about her words. Thinking of her mindless admiration for Si Bo Nian back then, it was really hard to accept.
"Today I went to see your uncle. He didn't let us blame you. But Enxi, we have lost too much for the Lu family. What you did is tantamount to destroying our whole family. Your aunt's blood pressure soared when she heard the news.
Hospital emergency, our trip to the UK has had many twists and turns."
Lu Enxi lowered her head in shame, "I'm sorry, I will find a way to rescue uncle as soon as possible."
Duan Xiaowei gritted her teeth, "It's easy to say! This is England, and my father is French-Chinese. His identity is already very complicated. Also, the financial backer behind you is Si Baonian. If he wants to let my father go, he will be ruthless.
Are you going to die?"
The word "gold master" came out of her mouth, tinged with shame and filth.
Lu Enxi looked at her cousin and said word by word, "Sister Weiwei, I was young and ignorant before, and was carried away by love. This time, I was used as a gunman, but you believe me, I will handle it properly."
, give you a satisfactory explanation."
Duan Xiaowei's disdain was all written on his face, and he didn't even want to look at her. When she married Si Boyian, the Lu family followed the chickens and dogs to heaven. They did make a lot of profits from it, but who knew that in just three years, the Si family would
Being sent to hell, they also suffered a lot of grievances.
Lu Enxi is now a pair of shabby shoes. Si Baonian no longer cares about her. Who will want her?
"As expected of a lawyer, he is very good at speaking. Si Baonian hooked his fingers. Are you stupid for carrying someone's shoes?"
Lu Enxi bit her lip and didn't push back. It would not do any good to anger her cousin now.
Duan Hongyi is relatively rational, "This has already happened. All we can do is get bail and don't let him suffer in prison. He has worried about many things in recent years and has a bad heart."
"Yes, I know."
Duan Xiaowei said coldly and sarcastically, "Are you done? Just go down after saying this to avoid causing further trouble."