When I was writing this slogan, I seemed to smell the smell of coffee, and I couldn’t help but think of the bitterness that slowly slipped through my lips and teeth, making my taste buds throb. Coffee, as "the most valuable legal commodity on earth after oil," may have gone from being a refreshing drink to being unknowingly integrated into work life for lawyers. When the warm liquid of coffee flows into your body, you will immediately cheer up and prepare to sprint for the day; when you need to work overtime and stay up late, a full cup of coffee will appear early when you are sleepy to get rid of endless fatigue and sleepiness. The files filed after coffee and the lawyer closed the case turned out to be completely different "strangers". But the author often thinks that the two are very similar, and they are both bitter, sour and sweet "spiritual products".
Most of our impressions of coffee are probably the various drinks in cafes and the instant coffee in supermarket containers. After drinking coffee, it’s hard to think about the condensation behind me. In addition to the change of seasons, there is also the sweat of washing coffee beans, and the hands of picking defective beans under the scorching sun above our heads.
Where do hard and crispy coffee beans come from?
It turns out that it grows from the tree and is the fruit of the tree. In China, it is difficult to see the cultivation of coffee trees. Only Hainan Island and Yunnan have coffee trees planted. The familiar coffee bean is the seed that grows in the fruit. Normally, coffee trees begin to bear fruit about 3 to 5 years after sowing. The coffee berries are densely distributed and grow along the branches. Although growing on the same branch, the maturity of each fruit is different. Some are "immature" turquoise, some are slightly yellowed, some are yellow-red, some are fully ripe cherry red, and some are dry dark brown. Therefore, coffee cherries need to be picked manually. Workers check the ripeness of the fruit every day before picking it in the same spot with hands flying around like rain. It often takes several weeks of picking the same coffee cherries again and again before all the harvest is complete. Later, after professional processing and roasting, finished product production, and creative research and development, we were able to have a "perfect encounter" with every cup of coffee.
Perhaps the archived files are the same. In the eyes of others, they are just simply organizing and binding files, but they do not know that each file has its own "story". Only the lawyers who handle it know the traces of painstaking efforts and thinking in this "story"!
Those rainy nights when you worked overtime to study cases, those train stations at five or six in the morning when you were on business trips, those piles of materials you "gnawed" down for tomorrow's negotiations, those times when you finally left the closed office lights. Whether it’s coffee or files being closed and filed, it’s true that “everything is difficult” and “all cases are tiring”, but as long as you take a sip of coffee and look at the cases that have been successfully closed and filed, those dark clouds will flood the city. All those urgent things will disappear, maybe because of the rich coffee in your mouth, or maybe because of your vision for the future!
After graduating from school, I started working in a law firm. I have always felt that going to Starbucks to drink coffee is expensive and I am reluctant to spend the money. But I can always find other coffees that tickle my taste buds and nerves. That is the Nestlé 3-in-1 instant coffee that everyone on earth knows. There are red packaging that has been festive for many years, limited edition ceramic cups, and small vortexes formed by stirring with stainless steel spoons. It seems that every sip can filter out all the tiredness, leaving only persistence and enthusiasm.
During the bittersweet days of being a paralegal, various brands of instant coffee are indispensable.
After working for two or three years, I slowly started to go to Starbucks or Pacific Coffee for coffee. I was beaten by the cold wind, worked overtime in the afternoon, and planned to buy a cappuccino. On the way, it occurred to me that Starbucks coffee comes in large and small cups. What kind of coffee is the most cost-effective? Suddenly I remembered a book called "Buying a Large Cup of Coffee at Starbucks" written by Japanese economist Yoshio Yoshimoto. In the book, I used "price" to see the other side of life - buying a large cup of coffee at Starbucks is a "win-win" Yes, because for coffee shops, labor and rent are the majority of fixed costs compared to raw materials such as milk and coffee, so coffee shops are willing to exchange small money for a large cup of coffee.
Finally, I turned a corner and went to a Starbucks coffee shop. When I came to the ordering place, I subconsciously said: "Hello, I would like a large cappuccino. It would be great if the milk foam could become the "milk mustache" on my upper lip.
Thank you all!
After several years of independent practice, I began to know that an excellent cup of cappuccino should have three beauties: perfect espresso extraction-skeleton beauty, milk beauty-soul beauty, milk beauty-and Starbucks' "milk mustache" is never perfect. At first, I became dissatisfied with instant coffee, so I started to buy ground coffee powder, brew a pot with a coffee machine, sit at my desk in the office, gently stir the coffee in the cup, and let the rich aroma permeate the entire office.
Maybe the protagonist of this story is you now or in the future, or you are still drinking various brands of instant coffee many years later, but in any case, the fatigue and fatigue in that "legal way" Pain is silently remembered with every cup of bitter coffee. Don't give up, they will always come back in the way you have dreamed of.
Lawyer A asked Lawyer B, do you like tea or coffee? Lawyer B replied: More coffee. Well, okay, then I will teach you the "secrets of the coffee world" that I have learned all my life (not a crooked way). Please turn around:
Jianghu Tip 1: Don’t forget the “troublemaker” caffeine.
I still remember a farce when I was studying: a friend of the top student unconsciously drank a small cup of coffee to refresh himself before the exam. The result? During the exam, I raised my hand twice to request to use the toilet. If your grades are not among the top ten in your grade, the class teacher may suspect that it is cheating. Later this behavior became more and more strange. After reading books and checking the Internet, I found out that the problem was the caffeine in the coffee—a mild diuretic that can make you go to the bathroom more frequently. Therefore, many personal beauticians will recommend celebrities to drink a cup of black coffee in the morning, which can eliminate edema on the face and body. Foreign studies have even shown that consuming coffee containing a moderate amount of caffeine can reduce the risk of kidney stones through the elimination of large amounts of fluid. Well, when a lawyer encounters a caffeinated "troublemaker" on the street corner, he may want to remember to avoid drinking coffee before attending many meetings where it is inconvenient to leave frequently, such as business negotiations.
Secret Tip 2 of Jianghu: Only by meeting in the most beautiful 10 minutes can you live up to yourself.
Relatively speaking, how can we drink a cup of delicious and healthy coffee? The easiest way is to drink the coffee within 10 minutes of brewing. Famous nutrition experts Zhang Ye and Yu commented on the life of coffee this way - shake the coffee in your hand, and coffee stains will form on the wall of the cup within 10 minutes. If left for too long, fungi in the air will attach to the coffee cup in a very short period of time, contaminating the coffee. The fungus attaches itself to the coffee cup within a short period of time, thereby contaminating the coffee. In addition, after the brewed coffee is cooled, as the temperature drops, quinolactone will be hydrolyzed into quinic acid, which will virtually increase the sourness of the coffee and make the taste no longer so strong. For lawyers, time is the greatest enemy and cannot be wasted on bad coffee. Well, please cherish these 10 minutes of coffee!
Jianghu Tip 3: Although coffee is refreshing, don’t drink too much.
In the warm winter, the warm-hearted girl is wearing a thick scarf and holding a cup of steaming coffee... This beautiful and warm scene has been replayed in my mind for many times, but if the heroine drinks What to do if there is too much coffee? The most direct symptom is that it causes the heart to beat violently, and even causes side effects such as trance and unstable center of gravity when walking. Although the caffeine content in daily drinks is not high. Take Starbucks large coffee (16oz) as an example, its caffeine content is about 320mg. For a normal adult, this dose is considered a low dose after being absorbed by drinking. But in a country that emphasizes Chinese culture, the charm of coffee lies in the middle, not the upper limit. Maybe you will ask how many days of coffee a day is the upper limit? Before the author has a deep understanding of coffee, as a superficial eater, he may answer: two cups a day. Only by drinking good coffee can you "study hard and make progress every day."
The other side of coffee and the secret of coffee grounds
The ancient Arabs did not discover the refreshing effect of coffee at first. At first, they simply dried and boiled the coffee beans and drank the juice as a stomach medicine to aid digestion. Today, this effect has evolved into a very popular coffee diet. There are three keys to the method: a cup of coffee without any coffee mate or sugar cubes, and drink it after a meal to exercise appropriately for about 30 minutes. At this time, coffee can accelerate the metabolism in the body, help the digestion of food in the gastrointestinal tract, make you sweat more than usual, burn more fat, and achieve better weight loss results.
But don’t drink 5 or 6 cups, because coffee accelerates metabolism and also accelerates the loss of water in the body, and the skin will be easily dehydrated. After we have experienced the beauty of coffee and enjoyed the beauty of coffee, don’t forget those bitter coffee grounds, like tea leaves. After they are completely dried, put them in the cabinet of your new home, and put them in the refrigerator where you smell the smell of the other party. Put it in your basketball shoes. The smell-absorbing power of coffee grounds will let you know that your whole body is precious, and that there is “me” too!
Lawyer A asked Lawyer B: Have you learned the four moves all your life? Well, the four moves are just right, no more and no less. Don’t make drinking coffee too “restrictive”.