First-Class Lawyer

Chapter 153 Old Fox

Joe stopped going upstairs immediately, and stood on the platform between the first and second floors, looking up at his father.

The father and son have been at odds for many years, and they have almost formed a conditioned reflex.

One habitually kept a coffin face, and the other habitually stiffened his neck.

In an instant, the atmosphere became tense and sharp.

This kind of tit-for-tat atmosphere is commonplace for a group of barristers, all of whom have a calm demeanor, but suffer from two assistants who lead the way.

They stayed in the villa to deal with some trivial matters. They didn't expect to encounter a father-son cockfight, so they immediately tightened their stomachs and patted themselves into pieces of paper and pasted them on the stair railing, trying to reduce their sense of existence.

"Old what?" DeVo Everth pressed his knuckles against the goggles, and looked down at Joe, "Go on, let me listen."

He had long since changed out of the sportswear he showed to the media, and was wearing a tailored shirt and trousers.

Though father and son, Mr. Ives was the polar opposite of Jo.

The young master's face is covered with big-character posters all year round, and all his emotions are displayed on his forehead like a scrolling screen. Whether he is happy or unhappy, likes or dislikes, bored or anxious, there is no need to guess at all, just look at it.

But when Mr. Ives looked at them quietly with his gray-blue eyes, no one knew what he was thinking, what he was going to do, whether he welcomed them or not.

"I've said it before, this idiot is not here to anger you today." Hearing his voice before seeing him.

Eunice turned around from the corridor on the left of the second floor, she was clearly pulling on the plush slippers, but she stepped on her with an air of hatred for the sky.

But when she got close to DeVo Ewes, she quickly withdrew her momentum, flirted with Joe and the others across the stairs, and mouthed: "I gave you the lead."

It was rare to see such an honest Eunice, but it made Joe even more tense.

Take the lead?

what's the result?

Is it good or bad?

But at this time, he can't care too much, everyone is here, so he won't turn around and leave.He accepted Eunice's gaze, and said to Ewes, "If you don't quarrel today, I will ask you something seriously."

Mr. Ives nodded, and it was not clear from his expression that he thought about this sentence.

He straightened his cuffs, didn't answer Joe, but said to one of the assistants: "Put away the things that can move on the balcony first."

The assistant was taken aback: "Huh?"

Ewes said flatly, "It won't all be broken in a while."

assistant:"……"

Joe: "..."

Only then did Ewes look at him, "If I remember correctly, the result of what you said last time was that I lost two crystal pen holders, and the last time it was an ashtray."

Joe: "..."

Just when he thought that the old fox was going to take advantage of the problem, Ewes had already turned sideways.

This is what it means to get them upstairs.

Qiao just opened his mouth and closed it again, and walked upstairs.

Devo Eves skipped over Joe, greeted Laura, patted Gu Yan on the shoulder, looked at Yan Suizhi, and asked, "Who is this young talent?"

Eunice doesn't know Yan Suizhi's identity yet.

Judging from the current situation, it seems that Devo Ewes doesn't know either, but it's really hard to guess what the old fox is thinking, whether it's true or not.

Gu Yan thought about it for a while, and said, "For the time being, you can treat him as my intern, surnamed Ruan."

Devore Ewes nodded with a dazed expression, and extended his hand to Yan Suizhi in a gentlemanly manner: "I heard about it, I heard Eunice mention the court debate on Lyra. very interested."

While the old fox was not paying attention to himself, Joe frowned and asked Eunice in a low voice: "How much did you mention to him? How did he react? Is there any drama?"

Eunice glanced at her father and waved at her silly brother.

"What do you mean by waving?" Joe said, "Nothing? Or is it all right?"

"I don't know." Eunice whispered, "There was no response, so I just nodded and said nothing."

As soon as she finished speaking, she silently shut up.Because Ewes had already turned around and headed towards the terrace, and the others followed behind him one after another.

On the terrace of the villa, there is a set of sofas for guests, and there is a cup of coffee and an afternoon tea on the tea table. I wonder who used it.

It can be seen that Ewes really doesn't care that much about the Manson virus treatment center. At first glance, he looks like a very tolerant elder.

The assistant hurriedly took those things away, and closed the glass door for them very tactfully.

Ewes sat down on the sofa and gestured: "Sit freely."

This was the treatment that Joe had never had when he came here alone. The young master had some hopes because of this. He winked at Eunice, and said as soon as he sat down: "I won't go around in circles, just—"

Devore Ewes raised his hand for a pause, and said, "Give me a reason to take time to listen to you first."

Joe: "..."

The young master stared at Eunice with a look of "you see, this time it's not me who caused trouble, but him".

Eunice held her forehead silently.

Joe took a deep breath, and pointed to the distance, "Half the reporters of the league are waiting outside the door to catch you, and you will send them to the door to surround you? Are you patient enough to answer reporters' questions after all the scenes that need to be done are finished?" "

He pointed to a certain room in the villa, "The optical brain in your office must still be on, right? There are endless video conferences, all kinds of idiots looking like the sky is falling, chasing after you and asking you what to do. Are you interested in going?" deal with them?"

"I can't go out, I don't want to enter the office, the afternoon tea is used up, you are already idle now, why do you need to make time to listen to us?" Young Master Qiao said the last sentence fearlessly, loudly and forcefully.

While covering her face, Eunice reached out her hand to hook the ashtray on the coffee table, and quietly moved in front of her.

DeVo Ewes glanced at her and held down the ashtray as if to pick it up.

At that moment, Master Qiao almost reflexively covered his face with his elbow.

Everyone: "..."

But Ewes just picked up the ashtray and put it back in place.

There was a clatter between the glass and the marble, and Jo was taken aback by the sound, and looked down at Ewes with her elbows down.

"This reason is barely acceptable." Ewes said, glanced at Joe, and said flatly: "Finally, I'm not so short-sighted as to be hopeless."

Joe seemed to be listening to the Arabian Nights, and he thought he would be kicked out of the villa after he finished speaking.

but……

He glanced at Gu Yan and the others, and mouthed against his lips: "Good omen."

Gu Yan didn't say a word about this, just raised his eyebrows, and Yan Suizhi gave him an encouraging smile.As for Laura, Laura was completely on his side and shook his fist directly at him.

Young master Qiao was immediately full of confidence.

"I don't know how much Eunice told you specifically, but I'll just follow my logic." Jo rubbed her palms and started, "We have come into contact with a few old case materials before—"

Even if he had a hundred guts, he wouldn't dare to say that he did the investigation deliberately.

More importantly, today's old fox is rarely humane, and he also has a heart to clear up misunderstandings and doesn't want to ruin the emotion at the beginning.

So after he finished speaking, he emphasized another sentence: "I came into contact with it because of some kind of coincidence."

DeVo Ewes snorted through his nose, and debunked it mercilessly: "I have worked hard to investigate it, continue."

Joe: "..."

"It happened to be investigated." Joe struggled for a while, and then said: "Those cases spanned nearly 30 years and involved various people, businessmen, professors, doctors, etc. Their deaths were all identified as It's normal, but now, decades later, it's full of coincidences and problems when you look at it from front to back. We found a...a person who runs through it, it should be a character like a scavenger, and this person is similar to Man The Mori family is inextricably linked."

DeVo Ewes listened calmly, unable to tell if he was surprised, surprised, or knew all this already.

Joe glanced at him, licked his lips and said: "Those people have more or less appeared at the Manson's party, but they are not only related to the Manson family. We... I thought it was related to our family , has something to do with you too."

DeVo Ewes raised an eyebrow slightly, but that was the most obvious reaction.And his eyes were downcast, still people couldn't tell what emotion his reaction represented.

"I asked a lot of people, and I checked a lot of things along this line. They were all piecemeal, and more and more things were involved. It was also a drug mine, and it was an infection...Recently, the Manson family began to enter the medical field. It's very problematic, and now it even involves Ke Jin. The more things, the more headaches." Joe said, "Honestly, we are now like collecting a big bag of jigsaw pieces, with many parts, but the core is missing, so It doesn't come together completely."

After he finished speaking, he looked up at DeVo Ewes, "But now we have found a key person who should know what we are missing..."

As Joe said, he turned on the smart phone, called up a lot of things from it, unfolded them all, and arranged them one by one in front of DeVo Ewes——

"A letter of thanks from the wine city government."

"Receipt."

"News coverage of infrastructure improvements in Wine City."

"Internal Documentation of Misuse of Grants."

"The staff of the Jiucheng government cleared up the documents."

"Notification letter from the consortium to stop the grant."

"There is also a message sent to us by the old director of the orphanage. He said that the reform and cleanup of Liquor City, including Decama, was the result of a consortium."

"This is the signature of the two joint members of the consortium."

Joe paused for a moment, and pushed the last data result in front of Devo Eves: "This is the handwriting comparison result. The handwriting similarity between you and one of the consortium is close to 100%."

This time DeVo Ewes was finally not unresponsive.

He lowered his eyes, scanned the electronic documents one by one, and finally landed on the document signed by two names, and he remained silent.

Joe made no push, but waited with bated breath.

After a century and so long, DeVo Evers finally looked away and looked at Joe: "So?"

"What..." Joe was stunned. He didn't expect the old fox to react like this, and he was a little caught off guard. "What's the reason? So we want to know the whole story."

Devo Evers looked away from Qiao, swept Ke Jin, Gu Yan, and Laura one by one, and finally landed on Yan Suizhi, then retracted lightly, "Just for this, you pulled a group of Serious children to help you strengthen your courage?"

Joe: "???"

Devore Ewes used his fingers to slide the holographic page in front of him back and forth, as if playing with it: "What good is it for me to tell you the whole story? Or, how can it help this matter? You I know almost everything I found. I have all the information you have. You can’t fill in any new things, but I want to share with you. Tell me, why am I telling you? Give me a reason worth saying."

Yeah, how could a businessman do such an obviously unbalanced business?

If you do it, you won't be an old fox anymore.

Joe's reason told him so . . . but his face was still flushed, from neck to cheek.

angry.

He doesn't even know what he's angry about, but the dull feeling sucks him in anyway.

By the time he recovered from the turbulent depression, he had already stood up, holding on to the glass door of the terrace with one hand, as if he was about to slam it out.

Eunice blinked at him, and smoothed things over: "Go to my side for some afternoon tea first, and I came over without taking a bite. We'll talk about the rest later."

She pushed Jo's shoulders as she spoke, probably afraid they'd choke on the terrace.

Laura and Ke Jin also stood up, and followed to go out the door.

Behind them, DeVo Everth still sat, still seemingly enjoying the breeze from the terrace.

Surprisingly, opposite him, there were also two people who did not get up and sat as securely as a mountain.

Devore Ewes leaned on the sofa, took a good look at each other for a while, and asked unhurriedly: "They are all gone, why don't you go?"

The people who were about to open the door also stopped when they heard this, and turned their heads to look over.

Yan Suizhi smiled at him calmly, despite his identity as an intern, he was not in a hurry to speak.

Moreover, there is a Mr. Gu who can always help him speak out at the right time.

Devo Ewes' eyes fell on Gu Yan.

Gu Yan said calmly: "Because you want my intern to stay, we are naturally disrespectful."

"Oh? When did I say something like that?"

"It's obvious, so there's no need to say it."

DeVo Ewes narrowed his gray-blue eyes meaningfully behind the lens. After a long time, he suddenly laughed and said to them, "Go to my office."