The Prosecutor Is Accustomed To Waiting For A Rabbit To Hit A Stump - Chapter 3

Chapter 3

“Be careful!”

As Gu Ye stepped through the door, accompanied by her mother’s exclamation, one of her father’s shoes came flying towards her face. She quickly turned sideways.

But she didn’t completely dodge it.

The shoe struck her side. It didn’t hurt, but it left a noticeable shoe print on her uniform.

Gu Mama rushed over, helping Gu Ye brush off her clothes, and asked gently, “A’Ye, are you alright?”

“I’m fine, Mom. What is it this time?” Gu Ye glanced at her father, who was sitting in the living room, his face ashen.

Gu Mama looked helpless, whispering the latest news to her daughter, “Do you remember your second cousin’s daughter, the one you used to play with when you were little? Five years younger than you.”

“Got engaged again?”

“No, this time she gave birth to a child.” Gu Mama sighed. “Your second uncle just called your dad and needled him about it. He’s furious right now, so let’s tread lightly.”

Gu Ye gave a wry smile. “It’s not a matter of us treading lightly, Mom. If Dad doesn’t change his mindset, our lives will be difficult.”

“Difficult what!” Gu Papa stormed out of the room, shouting. “You little brat! Why did you stand up that boy again yesterday! Do you know that your dad had to swallow his pride and specifically ask a comrade for help to find such a quality blind date? You just stood him up without a word, showing no manners at all!”

“It’s not that I have no manners, Dad. I never agreed to go on a blind date.”

“I am your father! I agreed for you!”

Gu Ye smiled sarcastically. “Well, in that case, Dad, you go meet him, you go marry him.”

“What nonsense are you talking!” Gu Mama yelled, trying to stop Gu Papa before he completely blew up.

Despite the scolding, she used her body to shield her husband’s furious glare and signaled to Gu Ye.

The silent message was: He’s mad. Are you brainless too?

“Mom…” Gu Ye looked at her mother. “Dad’s mindset is problematic. I can’t compromise anymore.”

“You compromise? My mindset is problematic? I think you won’t be happy until you’ve driven your father to death! I’m telling you, you little brat, you’ll be thirty right after this year! Once a woman is over thirty, half the men who’d look for you disappear!”

“Wow, thirty is that powerful? After thirty, I’m just an expired product that needs to be sold at a discount, is that it?” Gu Ye laughed instead of getting angry. No matter how many times this happened, she couldn’t accept some of her father’s views. Just thinking about it felt absurd.

“Yes! Not only discounted, but even if I pay someone to take you, they’ll still be picky!” Gu Papa, a military man, held very traditional views. He had been strong-willed all his life and never backed down. Facing his equally stubborn daughter, it was a clash of needle-point to wheat-stalk. In his anger, he would say anything, no matter how nasty.

If it were a woman with a softer character, she might feel wronged hearing her father put her down like that. But Gu Ye had handled too many cases, sending all kinds of people to the judgment seat. It was like a scoop of molten iron pouring over her heart, making her truly tough as steel.

She knew her father was speaking carelessly in his anger, as usual, without considering if his words would hurt. She didn’t want to argue with him but reiterated her stance, “In any case, even if I turn thirty tomorrow, I have no plans to go on a blind date or get married anytime soon. Dad, if you’re bored, you can open a matchmaking agency. I think many people need your enthusiasm more than I do.”

Gu Papa almost choked on his breath. He stepped forward and grabbed Gu Ye’s arm. “What do you mean, ‘no plans’! Are you a pervert? I’ve never seen you date since you were little. And you still have ‘no plans’? Are you going to be alone forever? With your case files?”

Gu Papa’s words became even nastier. Gu Mama couldn’t stand it either and retorted, “What’s wrong with our daughter being serious about her work? What nonsense are you saying! If she’s a pervert, then you’re the pervert’s dad. Is that something to be proud of?”

Gu Papa’s angry, bell-like eyes glared only at Gu Ye, not sparing a glance for Gu Mama, only saying, “Don’t interrupt. You support my idea of blind dates too.”

“Mom?” Gu Ye looked at her mother.

Gu Mama suddenly felt like a piece of sandwich cookie, stuck between two sides. She sighed at Gu Ye, “A’Ye, although some of your father’s words are harsh, there is some truth to them. You’ve always been excellent since you were little, but you haven’t seemed to develop in the romance department. You’ve always been cold as ice to those who pursue you, treating them like class enemies. You’re not young anymore, and you really should get married.”

Gu Ye’s mother’s thoughts went through two phases. When Gu Ye was studying, she was worried because her daughter was popular.

Worried about what?

Worried that early romance would affect her grades. Fortunately, her daughter was cold as frost to all those male students, which calmed Gu Mama’s heart.

But as Gu Ye grew older, she remained cold as frost to the opposite sex, scaring away several quality men.

Especially in recent years, those quality men who once pursued Gu Ye now had children, and Gu Mama’s heart felt involuntarily uneasy. Why hasn’t she blossomed yet? When will she blossom?

The worry of parents is truly pitiful. Gu Mama felt like she had swallowed a bowl of bitter regret medicine. She thought, if A’Ye had dated earlier, she might have been a grandmother by now.

Gu Ye looked at her parents and let out a long sigh. “I…”

“What?” Gu Mama looked at her expectantly.

Gu Ye hesitated for a moment. Forget it. Saying it would only cause a bigger conflict. She shook her head. “Nothing.”

As soon as her attitude softened, the light in Gu Papa’s eyes grew brighter. Thinking he had achieved a phased victory, he immediately pressed his advantage.

“Good. Then you listen to me. I met that boy yesterday. He’s very good. I also know his father—loyal to the Party, kind to people, and the family atmosphere is good. You try dating him with marriage in mind.”

Hearing Gu Papa’s words, Gu Ye could no longer tolerate it. As a prosecutor, she was extremely sensitive to rights and obligations. She simply couldn’t accept her father’s behavior. In a fit of anger, she confessed: “Dad, stop going to all this trouble. I’ll be honest with you: I don’t like men.

After her words, there was a brief silence.”

Gu Mama was stunned for a long time before asking haltingly, “A’Ye, what do you mean by that?”

“I’m not interested in men,” Gu Ye emphasized. “So I won’t get married. Even if I want a child in the future, I will go abroad to select sperm from a sperm bank and become a single mother, but at least for now, I have no plans to have children.”

She was a person so calm that she was bordering on cold, and her current life plan was too clear. Her words were like nails powerfully driven into a wall, not allowing for contradiction.

But the people in front of her were not parties in a case or defendants, but her military father and military wife mother.

“I’ll kill you!”

“Ah!”

Following a sudden crashing sound and Gu Mama’s scream.

The famous Prosecutor, the First Flower on the Lofty Mountain, was hit on the arm by the desk lamp her father grabbed on a whim.

When the emergency doctor treated her, he was curious about what caused the wound.

Gu Ye did not give the answer to satisfy the doctor’s curiosity.

However, during the disinfection stage before bandaging, she couldn’t help but gasp at the pain from the wound.

Just then, three people arrived at the emergency room. Two, a man and a woman, were wearing police uniforms. The remaining person was an elderly man with gray hair, looking over 70, with slumped shoulders and a gloomy demeanor.

“Is the doctor here? Please arrange for a checkup.”

The doctor, who was disinfecting Gu Ye, replied, “Wait a moment, I’m busy here. You can wait outside for a bit.”

Gu Ye sat in the examination room and could see the three people through the half-open door.

Her eyes were sharp. She immediately knew that the two in uniform were not police officers but court bailiffs. She just didn’t know which court they were from. She wondered what they were doing with an elderly man late at night.

Then she heard the doctor say, “You’re bandaged up here. I’ll go handle things outside first. Wait for me here; I still need to write you a prescription.”

After the doctor left, the three people talked briefly.

Gu Ye then heard the female bailiff say loudly, “Doctor, please order a thorough checkup. If there’s no problem, I’m sending him to the detention center today!” She sounded extremely bossy. After speaking, she glanced smugly at the elderly man. “I’m telling you, I’m not to be messed with! Don’t pretend to be sick! If I don’t send you to the detention center tonight, I won’t be named Lin. I’ll take your last name! The ‘Lai’ from Lao Lai (deadbeat debtor)! You better think clearly!”

This Bailiff Lin looked fair and delicate, with large, round, rabbit-like eyes. She looked like a very cute girl, but her words made Gu Ye cringe.

She couldn’t help but frown. If she remembered correctly, in judicial practice, taking everything into account, judicial detention is generally not applicable to people over 70 years old.

This Bailiff Lin was being quite the authoritarian!

Bailiff Lin, who brought the deadbeat to the hospital, was indeed Lin Fan. She was boldly intimidating the old man. While yelling this, she winked at Ying Chaoyang beside her.

—Don’t just stand there! We’re putting on an act! Keep up!

Ying Chaoyang had just joined the court this year and couldn’t keep up with Lin Fan’s thinking, looking dazed and unsure what to do.

Lin Fan sighed. If Chen Qian were here, she wouldn’t even need a visual cue. But with her old partner absent, Lin Fan had to play the scene out herself.

She could only imitate a villain from a TV drama and continued, “I was nice to you, but you wouldn’t listen. You clearly have money but refuse to pay, so I’ll just have to send you to the detention center to chat with the prison guards. Doctor, prepare the order. Remember, our unit has a green channel with you, so it’s very fast. Hurry up; I’m waiting to get off work here.”

The old man’s face stretched long, still maintaining a determined look. However, when he saw Lin Fan taking the order from the doctor and actually preparing to take him for a physical examination, his demeanor changed, and he suddenly became flustered.

“Officer Lin, let’s talk again!”

Got him! Lin Fan’s eyes lit up, but she still pretended to be defiant. “Heh, no need to talk. Either you transfer the money to us directly. Everything else, you can talk to the prison guards about.”

“Officer Lin, Officer Lin, let’s talk properly. I’m old; the detention center is really hard to endure. Fine, fine, I’ll pay!” The elderly judgment debtor finally relented.

Lin Fan’s heart was fluttering with flags and pounding with drums. She cleared her throat. “Then… let’s talk. We’ll talk back in the car.”

Gu Ye didn’t know what happened after that. She only heard this Bailiff Lin acting like she was “the greatest in the world” even towards the doctor, which made her unable to hold back. She stood up to go over.

But before she could turn around, she ran into another doctor coming in. “Wait, wait, let me write you a prescription first.”

Gu Ye waited for the doctor to finish writing the prescription. When she went out, she found that the three people had already disappeared.

She frowned and looked around but couldn’t find them. She asked the doctor, who said they left without getting the checkup done, which made the prosecutor, who championed justice, even more suspicious.

—Surely, this Bailiff Lin didn’t skip the procedure just to get off work early, did she?

Gu Ye’s brow furrowed tightly. If that was the case, the Enforcement Team of this court needed to be disciplined!

Although she was in the Public Prosecution Department and judicial personnel’s violations were not under her jurisdiction, she still felt annoyed. She had a heap of family troubles, and now seeing such a colleague from an adjacent branch while seeing a doctor felt like having a pile of excrement thrown onto the profession she was proud of, defiling her seriousness about this work.

This Bailiff Lin, although she was quite to Gu Ye’s liking in appearance, certainly did not leave a good impression.

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