Chapter 27 Barrier
But this kid just couldn't be treated well by him, and he was prone to showing off. Qu Zheng put away his rare warmth and choked him with "Do you think everyone is the same as you?"
Lin Yu lowered his brows and smiled faintly. He didn't feel like he was being criticized and felt warm in his heart.
"This case is quite special and is still under investigation. You should rest well. I'll go check on the progress of Ma Qi and the others." Qu Zheng sighed. "Don't worry. You've done a great job."
After saying this, he stood up and left the ward.
Song Xianzhe leaned over to make sure he was far away, then he breathed a sigh of relief.
He had just been lectured harshly. The title of Iron-faced Man was not exaggerated. Song Xianzhe was still frightened.
"Brother Yu, would you like some water?"
Lin Yu didn't want to talk and couldn't move. He raised his eyelids and hummed softly.
Song Xianzhe filled a disposable paper cup with half a cup of warm water for him and tried to put his arm around his shoulders to get him to sit up and drink.
Lin Yu felt that he was being overly attentive and a bit corny, so he turned aside and raised his right hand to take the paper cup.
As a result, all I saw in my sight was a white ball, round and plump like a snowball.
He frowned and looked at his right hand, which was wrapped like a snowball, again and again, with a puzzled look on his face.
Song Xianzhe sighed, "Brother, you're quite cute like this. Don't mind me. This is all for healing. Doctor, your wrist is broken, and you have a slight concussion."
After he finished speaking, he gestured to Lin Yu to drink some water.
Lin Yu could neither raise his neck nor lower it, so he took a few sips like a crow drinking water.
"Rest for a while. This IV is almost finished. I'll call the nurse to change it."
Song Xianzhe adjusted the delivery speed of the drip, put a pillow under Lin Yu, and went out to find a nurse.
After Lin Yu lay down, he caught a glimpse of the bulging snowball out of the corner of his eye and thought to himself, is this what they call sighing and regretting?
Maybe it was the effect of the medicine. After drinking a glass of warm water, the pain was much less, and I closed my eyes and fell asleep calmly.
He had a dream in which he and Chen Wan were watching TV together. It was the Japanese anime "Doraemon".
The blue fat cat Doraemon raised his round ball-like hand, and Lin Yu looked at it and felt that it looked familiar.
It's quite similar to his current Snowball Hoof.
Chen Wan suddenly looked at him and said, "Thank you for extending your hand to me."
When she smiled, the corners of her eyes curved into crescent shapes, and her pupils were clear and bright.
Lin Yu was dazed, and when he tried to see clearly again, Chen Wan's face became more and more blurred, becoming a small ball.
"Uncle police, save me! Save me!"
A pair of dark, empty eyes stared straight at him, and the plea for help was like the sound of wind coming from the abyss.
Lin Yu felt the fear deep in his heart. The tiny cry was like rustling insects crawling on every inch of his skin, eroding his will.
The heavy rain turned the water into a vast ocean. Lin Yu opened his eyes and saw the little girl being gradually submerged. Her figure sank into the dark water and turned into a slender and strange black shadow.
Lin Yu wanted to reach out and grab her, but was pulled into the abyss instead.
The cold rain gradually flooded over his eyelids, and a sour, stinging feeling flooded into his mind.
Lin Yu's instinct made him want to escape, so he stretched out his hand hard to leave the sea.
"Don't move." A flat voice sounded in his ears, and then the burning pain forced him to open his eyes.
Lin Yu slowly opened his eyelids and saw the face of Doctor Qingjun who was changing his dressing in front of the bed.
Seeing that he had woken up, Song Xianzhe quickly comforted him, "It's okay, it won't hurt if you don't look at it."
Only then did Lin Yu see his hand clearly. His wrist bone was swollen like a steamed bun, his fingers hung limply, his knuckles were red, and the tingling and numbness made him feel uncomfortable.
"It will be fine in a few days. The cartilage tissue is a little damaged." The doctor wrapped his face with gauze and reminded him to "try to avoid contact with water."
"Thank you, doctor." Lin Yu thanked him in a hoarse voice.
After saying this, Lin Yu felt the stuffy air in his chest finally eased. He closed his eyes and calmed himself down.
"Brother Yu, you must be hungry. I bought you some pumpkin and millet porridge. Eat some first and then rest. You need to replenish your nutrition."
Song Xianzhe opened the fast food box and scooped a spoonful of sticky millet porridge.
Lin Yu didn't mind this time. He took two sips from his hand, then thought about his work and looked up at him. "Do you know how the trial is going?"
Song Xianzhe paused as he scooped the porridge, as if he was reluctant to speak.
Lin Yu looked at him quietly. After a while, he said, "The three main culprits have admitted their crimes and have also provided other accomplices."
After he finished speaking, he sighed, "One of them is only fourteen years old."
This topic was a bit heavy. Compared with the clear sky outside the window, a shadow was cast over Lin Yu and Song Xianzhe's hearts.
"The three children we encountered were a sixteen-year-old boy, a fifteen-year-old girl, and a ten-year-old girl. They were all minors. The boy was considered the core figure in the trafficking ring. He posted on a forum called "Run to Freedom," luring and abducting children who were trying to run away from home."
The juvenile crime is a phenomenon that cannot be ignored in today's society.
It is said that a child's heart is a mirror of society, and people are always unwilling to believe that this embodiment of pure goodness is actually wrapped in the most genuine evil.
Lin Yu thought of the little girl's empty eyes and felt a little sad.
But I feel even more ridiculous.
He lowered his eyes slightly, his gaze falling on his injured wrist, and said softly, "As adults, as police officers representing justice, it's inevitable that we have a condescending sympathy for those we see as weak and victims, and thus overlook some things."
Song Xianzhe thought about Lin Yu's condescending compassion, was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What is it?"
"Some children aren't bad, they're just too weak. Therefore, those in positions of power don't think they pose a threat, and those subtle malicious intentions are naturally ignored. However, the malice of the weak is like a fine needle, accurately piercing the deepest and softest part of the human heart."
The compassion and sympathy he felt for the little girl eventually backfired on him.
As a policeman, Lin Yu is aware that he shoulders the responsibility of protecting the weak, but this is actually nothing but arrogance.
Not all weak people are good.
Humans are the ones who hurt humans the most.
"Brother Yu, do you hate that kid?" Song Xianzhe suddenly asked him.
Lin Yu looked up at him, his pupils a deep, dark black. "Why do you ask?"
Song Xianzhe scratched his hair. "After this incident, I even doubt human nature. Is human nature inherently good or evil?"
Judging from his expression, he was genuinely confused, thinking deeply about this as a philosophical question.
Lin Yu pondered for a moment, then said, "I asked this question when I first joined the criminal investigation team. My mentor at the time said that human nature is neither good nor evil. It's all a reaction to one's own desires and the external environment."
"You just asked me if I disliked that child. I don't. I just feel that I shouldn't sympathize with her, nor should I classify those three children as weak and pity them from the perspective of someone in a higher position."
Only by being in the same perspective can we deeply understand the suffering of others.
"Human nature doesn't distinguish between good and evil?"
"Well, it's just a difference of perspective. People are inherently selfish. There's no such thing as absolute good or evil. The reason for the difference in what is good and what is evil is actually the nature of desire."
"Because of desire, humans have their own sense of right and wrong. Whatever aligns with their desires is right, and what goes against them is wrong. Children's desires are the most genuine and unadulterated, but once the sense of right and wrong is blurred, they become the most barbaric and primitive malice."
Song Xianzhe continued, "So it is the sense of right and wrong that determines good and evil, and the external environment shapes the sense of right and wrong, right?"
Lin Yu remained noncommittal. "So, regarding the issue of juvenile delinquency, what we need to do is understand the inner thoughts of children, rather than blindly instilling the rules of society into them. After all, what we consider wrong may be what they consider right."
After they finished speaking, they looked at each other and sighed.
"Sometimes I really don't want to be a criminal police officer. I feel like I'm always wandering around in the dark side of society."
Song Xianzhe rested his hands on his knees, held his forehead, and spoke dejectedly.
Hearing this, Lin Yu looked at the sunlight coming through the blinds and said calmly, "My master once told me that the police are a barrier between light and darkness, and a scale between right and wrong, good and evil."
"Scales?"
Lin Yu hummed. "Back then, I only understood the concept of the barrier, protecting good and resisting evil, but I never quite understood the balance. Now I think Master's point was that I should treat everyone fairly, not emphasize good and evil, but distinguish right from wrong and respect everyone's ideas. Humans can only achieve emotional connection through mutual understanding."
After listening to this, Song Xianzhe nodded and looked at him sincerely, "Brother Yu, I think you will definitely become an excellent criminal police officer in the future."
Lin Yu bared his fangs while crying, "I've learned a lesson from my failures."
"By the way, is your master the former director, Senior Zhou? I heard that you were originally a national defense student. Why did you choose to be a criminal police officer in the end?"
Song Xianzhe heard about Lin Yu's deeds when he joined the team. Most of his colleagues in the criminal investigation team graduated from police academies. National defense students are generally assigned to military units or government agencies, which is relatively stable.
When Song Xianzhe heard that he had joined the criminal police team on his own initiative, he was really surprised.
"Well, Zhou Zongqi. I took one of his open classes on criminal investigation when I was in college. He said something that really left a deep impression on me. He said the police are the shield of the good, the spear in the eyes of the evil, and the light in the darkness."
"So cool." Song Xianzhe clapped his hands, then sighed, "We heard about Chief Zhou's glorious deeds when we were in the police academy. It's a pity that he resigned."
After Lin Yu chatted with him for a few more sentences, he received a call from Qiao Yue.
"Junior brother, I heard you were injured?"
Lin Yu glanced at his hand that was wrapped like a snowball and said stubbornly, "It's a small matter."
Qiao Yue snorted, not believing him. "Xiao Song even took a picture of me. He's quite cute, like Doraemon's round hands."
Lin Yu was choked by her casual tone, thinking of the dream he had and Chen Wan.
Because of his mission, he told Chen Wan that he would be very busy and could not contact her often.
It turned out that this girl hadn't sent him a single message in more than a week.
Is this considered trouble from the mouth?
After being discouraged for a while, he came to his senses and despised himself again.
Qiao Yue asked about the case and then mentioned another matter. "The college entrance examination results will be announced in a week. Yuan Ke said there's an ancient temple in Qinghe Town that's very effective. I plan to go there and pray for Wan'er to pass the exam."
When Lin Yu heard this, he was very concerned and asked, "When are you going?"
As soon as he finished asking, Qu Zheng entered the ward and Lin Yu subconsciously hung up the phone.
"Are you on the phone with Xiao Qiao?"
Lin Yu smiled and answered every question like a primary school student.
However, Qu Zheng said, "You have made great contributions this time. The team must reward you. Otherwise, we will give you a week off to rest and recuperate."
All the fatigue and exhaustion from the past few days disappeared in an instant because of this one-week vacation.
Lin Yu chuckled twice, "Then I'll be disrespectful in declining it."
Song Xianzhe stood aside, feeling both envious and aggrieved.
Qu Zheng didn't miss his expression and said casually, "The entire Criminal Investigation Team 1 is on vacation for a week."
The ward suddenly became lively, and the two young people were very happy.
Lin Yu quickly called Qiao Yue back, asked about the time, and asked Yuan Ke to reserve a seat for him, as he also wanted to go to Qinghe Town.
Qiao Yue teased him, "Are you going to ask for a place on the imperial examination, too?"
Lin Yu didn't take her teasing seriously and said bluntly, "I want to eat the food cooked by Chen Wan."
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