Looking at her back as she gradually faded away, Zhang Ziwen's heart felt as if she was being pricked by thousands of broken glass, and the muscles on her face were trembling constantly due to heartache.

It turned out that it was so painful to hurt the person she loved deeply. Jiang Rouli left the park and stopped a taxi and went home directly, which made Zhang Ziwen, who had been following her, breathed a sigh of relief. The day after returning home, Zhang Ziwen came to the West District Police Station where she had fought for the internship.

Although only half a year later, things changed here. Not long after Sun Fuyu's death, Lao Liu took the initiative to report and transferred to another unit. Director Zhang was also demoted and transferred for the sacrifice of the police.

"Zhang Ziwen, there will be an action tonight and you will get the unit at half past six." Before getting off work, Wu Jianyue saw that Zhang Ziwen was listless and reminded Zhang Ziwen. He and Yang Hanlin are the new masters of Zhang Ziwen's internship this time.

Zhang Ziwen agreed and walked out of the office with a sad expression. Since last night's breakup, Zhang Ziwen has picked up the phone countless times to dial Jiang Rouli, but he always gave up the number halfway.

Even if it is connected, what can she say? What she needs is not Zhang Ziwen's confession, but Zhang Ziwen's promise to love her only. Zhang Ziwen knew that as long as she agreed to break up with Liu Nan, she would definitely get her forgiveness, but this is exactly what Zhang Ziwen couldn't do. Liu Nan's love for Zhang Ziwen is no less than Jiang Rouli, and the palms and backs of his hands are flesh, which makes Zhang Ziwen unable to make any choices at all.

Liu Nan called Zhang Ziwen several times during the day. After she learned about Zhang Ziwen and Jiang Roulli's situation, she did not show excitement like a superficial woman, but instead tried every means to make Zhang Ziwen happy with her unique "gentleness".

But Zhang Ziwen was in a bad mood. Her only remaining conscience made Zhang Ziwen unable to hurt a girl and talk about love with another girl. Even her proposal to have dinner together was politely rejected.

"Mom! I'll work overtime at the police station tonight, so I'll cook dinner now!" Zhang Ziwen opened the door and shouted as if nothing had happened. As a son, it's the minimum filial piety to not let his parents worry. Zhang Ziwen could not bring sadness to the house, and his tired mother also made things difficult for him.

"Ziwen, how are you and Jiang Rouli?" The shrewd mother did not forget about this and followed Zhang Ziwen into the kitchen and asked.

"I want to tell her slowly." Zhang Ziwen hesitated for a moment and continued to lie, "Mom! I will handle this matter well, you don't have to worry."

"Oh! Why are you kid so confused about your relationship?" The mother sighed, shook her head and walked out of the kitchen.

At 6:30, Zhang Ziwen came to the police station on time. Before the action, the new Director Wang called the police together for a meeting. Several comrades who were not familiar to the meeting were also attended.

After everyone was all here, Director Wang cleared his throat and picked up a document in front of him and said. After reading the document, he introduced the comrades sitting in front of him. Only then did Zhang Ziwen understand the purpose and importance of this action.

It turns out that due to famine and economic reasons, people have been illegally crossing the border to our country to survive. Most of these illegal border crossing are young women.

Under the manipulation of snake head, they were sold to rural farmers who could not get married as wives for several thousand yuan. With the gradual increase in illegal crossings in recent years, this problem has become serious to the extent that it affects the normal diplomatic relations between the two countries. The Northern C government has negotiated with my country on this matter many times, demanding that the Chinese government repatriate illegal crossings.

Tonight is the second national unified inspection operation, with the purpose of arresting illegal crossing people and centralized repatriation. Those comrades were police officers sent by the municipal bureau to increase their police force, and the operation time was set at 7 pm.

"A large number of these North C women who illegally crossed the border have already married and had children here. Deporting them back means destroying a family. To be honest, it is to cause the family to be separated." Director Wang introduced the matters related to the operation and saw that there was still some time before 7 o'clock. He began to mobilize the police's ideological mobilization.

He took a sip of water and continued, "It is inhumane to do this, but you must know that this kind of thing is not sympathetic. This is a major task between countries. We do this job. No one has any complaints. You can do whatever you want. Every group must complete the task."

"I will add one more thing. If you encounter a man from the North C who illegally crosses the border, you must be sent back. Be careful when arresting him," the instructor added after finishing his speech, "Nor C is a country where all the people are soldiers. All men have received military training. If you want to send him back, he may have to fight with you. So everyone must be careful when performing missions."

At about seven o'clock, all the police officers in the institute were divided into eight groups, each group of one car set off. Zhang Ziwen, two masters and a comrade selected by the municipal bureau.

"Old Yang, how many targets are there in our group?" The comrade from the municipal bureau was very familiar with them. He asked with a smile as soon as he got on the bus.

"There are four families, Lao Bai, why don't I choose a smoother one this time to keep it for you?" Yang Hanlin teased while starting the car.

"Get out of your grandma, are you so hungry that you didn't eat grass at night?" Lao Bai cursed with a smile.

Eating grass? Zhang Ziwen was stunned when he heard this, and then he realized that Yang Hanlin's surname Yang and Yang's character "Yang" were homophones, so Lao Bai scolded him like this.

Yang Hanlin probably was used to hearing other people's jokes, and was not angry. He said to Wu Jianyue: "Jianyue, how can we catch them? Should we catch them first or closer first?"

Wu Jianyue pondered for a moment and said, "Let's catch one from afar first, grab one and send one back, and let Xiao Zhang watch it first, so that it's easy to worry." He took out a cigarette, sent one to each of the people in the car, and lit it and cursed, "Damn, this Northern C country is really a mess. It's not good enough, and people who run out are not allowed to make a living. It seems that they can support them when they are sent back. We are also uneasy."

"Brother Wu, aren't those women who illegally crossed the border North C who were sold to us by snake heads? Why did you make the snake heads you said seem to have done a good thing?" Zhang Ziwen asked in confusion.

"You don't know this. Those women in the North C have to survive and only came to us. The so-called snake head actually helps them contact their husband's family like an agency. This matter is willing to solve the problem of men who cannot marry a wife and also solve the problem of survival of women in the North C have to come here. How great is it!"

Lao Bai seemed to know this very well. He savored the cigarette and started chatting, "Although we are not rich, it is much better than the life that can starve people to death in their country."

"Old Bai, didn't you let you go when you first sent him? Tell me what the border there is like?" Yang Hanlin suddenly remembered.

"What's that like? The barren mountains and barren hills have no idea, but the people we sent back are very miserable. As soon as they crossed the port, they were beaten by the soldiers there. They were all beaten with wooden sticks!" Lao Bai felt a little sorry for the scene at that time, "This is nothing. After the soldiers beat the man, they used thick iron wire to pass through the collarbone and lined up. The women used iron wire to lead them away like a cow. The armed police at the border inspection station said that basically all those who were pulled back would have to be shot."

"You Jing is talking nonsense, can you be that miserable?" Yang Hanlin said a little disbelief and curled his lips.

"Who is lying is my grandson? Why am I making up lies about this? If you don't believe me, please ask Lao Yan of the patrol team. He went over to see it at that time." Lao Bai was a little anxious, and he was slandering and looking for someone to testify. The car calmed down for a while. This was different from catching a thief. Now everyone knows that this is pushing a living good person into the fire pit, and no one feels uncomfortable.

After the car bumped for half an hour, it arrived at the village farthest under the jurisdiction of the West District Police Station. The car drove directly to the door of a dilapidated thatched house. All four of us got out of the car. When we entered the thatched house, we saw that there were several people squeezing the earthen kang and eating. A stunningly thin little girl of fifteen or sixteen years old curled up in the corner of the house.

"Kang Zhuzi's family?" Yang Hanlin asked in the house.

"Ah! Yes! What's wrong with you?" An old woman in her sixties on the kang replied strangely. She suddenly broke into the police to investigate at night. It would be no relief for anyone to leave this matter.

Wu Jianyue showed his work permit and asked: "Where is the wife from the West District Police Station that you bought a few days ago?"

"That's it." The old woman pointed at the little girl in the corner and said in panic: "What are you going to do?"

"She is?" Lao Bai looked at the little girl and looked at the few people on the kang. Except for the old woman and the little girl, there was no other woman in the room. It seemed that it should be.

"What are you doing?" Wu Jianyue sneered, "Your family dares to buy even if you dare. Do you want to go to jail? Do you know if she is a foreigner?"

"Ah! We don't know whether buying a wife is illegal. Don't catch us!" the old woman said tremblingly.

At this time, after careful observation, Zhang Ziwen found that among the other three men on the kang, one was an old man in his sixties, trembling and speechless. The two men in their thirties were polio and the other was an idiot. It was really a miserable family. You don’t have to think about it and know that the family lives with government relief.

"We may not arrest you, but we have to take this Northern C nationality away." Wu Jianyue said the purpose of the previous words was to scare the family and reduce the resistance when taking people back.

"She, we bought her for two thousand yuan," the old woman heard that we didn't catch anyone, and then cried: "These days I bought it, I saw that she was thin and kept holding her as my daughter, but she didn't even get married with my son. If you take her away, what should I do if I spend money? That's what I have earned for thirty years!"

Yang Hanlin and others couldn't bear it, but there was no way, the little girl had to take it away.

"Xiao Zhang, bring that little girl into the car." Wu Jianyue could not stay any longer and ordered Zhang Ziwen.

Zhang Ziwen stepped forward and wanted to pull the little girl. Who would have thought that she suddenly raised her right hand and stabbed her chest.

She was going to commit suicide! Under the dim light, Zhang Ziwen saw that she was holding a handful of small scissors.

Due to distance, it was too late to stop her at this time. Zhang Ziwen stepped forward and blocked the landing point of the scissors with his palm. A piercing pain came from the palm. She slapped her all her strength, and Zhang Ziwen's palm was almost pierced by her.

Zhang Ziwen grabbed her scissors and shouted at her: "Don't you want to live?"

The girl was also stunned by the blood on Zhang Ziwen's hands. Her big eyes were filled with tears and rolled down. Lao Bai and his men rushed forward and asked with concern: "How is it? Is it okay?"

Zhang Ziwen shook his head with pain, took out the napkin in his pocket and simply blocked the wound.

"Then you are fucking?" Wu Jianyue raised his hand and wanted to slap the little girl, but his hand was raised in the air. Seeing her pitiful look, she put her hands down again.

"When this daughter came, she took this pair of scissors, and no one allowed her to move forward." The old woman saw Zhang Ziwen bleeding, and said as she found a strip of cloth and handed it to Zhang Ziwen to bandage the wound.

The cloth strip was not clean, and Zhang Ziwen was a little afraid that it would infect the wound, but the old woman's hand that stopped in the air forced Zhang Ziwen to take the cloth strip. In order not to hurt her feelings, Zhang Ziwen wrapped the cloth strip on the wound with a willingness to do so.

"Let's go!" Wu Jianyue pulled the little girl out and walked out. Zhang Ziwen deliberately left behind and took out a thousand dollars from his pocket and put it on the kang.

"This!" The old woman looked at Zhang Ziwen in surprise. Zhang Ziwen said nothing. She waved her hand at her and ran out of the thatched house.

On the way back, we knocked on the door of an individual clinic and went in and took a simple treatment of the wound. Fortunately, although the wound was very deep, the wound was not big. It was okay without stitching. When we arrived at the unit, Wu Jianyue asked Zhang Ziwen to stay and guard the little girl, and they went out to arrest people.

Zhang Ziwen looked at the little girl carefully.

She should be around sixteen or seventeen years old, dry and thin, and can be described as skinny and bone-like. Her hair is dry and rough, her face is sallow without a trace of blood. Her big eyes are shining with a look of horror, and she curled up on the chair and felt pitiful.

Zhang Ziwen couldn't help but remember Lao Bai's words. Could it be that such a poor girl also suffers from an inhuman fate? From the scissors and the fearful eyes, you can imagine what kind of hardships she has experienced? Why did this injustice come to this flower girl who should have been full of laughter?

This matter is too big and too deep, and Zhang Ziwen is unwilling to think about it, and he dare not continue. What can Zhang Ziwen do if he is a small person?

Suddenly, an idea appeared in Zhang Ziwen's mind. Others Zhang Ziwen couldn't control it, but Zhang Ziwen could let it go secretly! This idea became clearer and clearer in Zhang Ziwen's mind. After thinking about it, Zhang Ziwen just said that Zhang Ziwen didn't watch it while going to the toilet. At worst, he could give him a punishment and recite it to school, but this could save a life! Thinking of this, Zhang Ziwen became excited.

"You!" Zhang Ziwen pointed at her and pointed to the window again, "Let's go! Go! go!"

The girl pointed to the window in disbelief. Zhang Ziwen nodded, took out all the more than 200 yuan from her body, stuffed it into her hand, and kept pushing her towards the window.

She completely believed that Zhang Ziwen wanted to let her go, so she turned around and bowed deeply to Zhang Ziwen. After Zhang Ziwen repeatedly signaled her, she jumped out of the window and left.

Seeing her thin figure disappearing into the night, Zhang Ziwen felt relieved, but then he became worried about her fate. Such a little girl is unfamiliar with the place and cannot speak. How can she live? Alas! But what can Zhang Ziwen do? Zhang Ziwen sighed and closed the window.

"Brother Wu! That little girl ran away while I was using the bathroom." After Wu Jianyue and others came back, Zhang Ziwen lowered his head and explained.

To Zhang Ziwen's surprise, Wu Jianyue and others were not angry. Yang Hanlin patted Zhang Ziwen's shoulder and comforted him: "It's okay, just run away! It's common for police to check for people running away, and it's better for this little girl to run away."

"Yes," Wu Jianyue interrupted, "When reporting later, just say that there is no one in this family. No one can guarantee that they will catch people. Aren't our three families only two?"

Zhang Ziwen nodded gratefully, "Thank you, brothers."

"Fuck! What are you saying?" Wu Jianyue pretended to be angry and said, "Every time you make mistakes, just take more responsibility, thank you!" Zhang Ziwen smiled and stopped talking.

It was already twelve o'clock in the middle of the night when the operation was completely over. All the people caught were sent to the detention center for custody overnight. No one in the office knew about the runaway. A big thing that Zhang Ziwen thought was passed without even hearing a sound.

Now Zhang Ziwen is penniless and can only go home with two legs.

"Crack, Crack" In the quiet night, not only Zhang Ziwen's footsteps came vaguely, but there seemed to be someone who always followed Zhang Ziwen faintly.

"Who!" Zhang Ziwen suddenly turned around and shouted.

A thin figure walked out of the corner of the wall.

"It's you! Why are you following me?" Unexpectedly, it was the little girl from Bei C who had been following Zhang Ziwen.

"I, I have no place to go." She replied timidly.

The dark eyes were filled with helplessness and a hint of expectation, and the thin body with only a shabby single dress was shivering under the cold night wind.

Zhang Ziwen sighed, walked up to her and draped her coat on her. He asked curiously: "How can you speak Chinese?" Her Chinese accent is very similar to Li Hunan's pronunciation, but the word order is correct.

"My mother is a Han nationality." Perhaps this simple care warmed her miserable heart, or perhaps she remembered her own mother, the little girl's eyes were filled with tears,

"I have no place to go." She repeated again, and after saying that, she bit her lower lip tightly, trying not to let the tears fall, and looked at Zhang Ziwen with a fog and hope.

"Why go to my house first?" Zhang Ziwen sighed, knowing that she had experienced the hardships in life too early, and keenly saw her kind side and regarded Zhang Ziwen as an object to rely on.

"Thank you!" A hint of joy flashed in her eyes. She bowed deeply and followed Zhang Ziwen obediently.

"Mom, why haven't you been sleeping so late?" He gently pushed open the door and unexpectedly found that his mother was sitting on the sofa holding a book.

"Are you waiting for you? I can't sleep if you don't come back, are you hungry?" The mother smiled and put down the book, stood up to serve Zhang Ziwen's night meal.

"What is this?" The mother was stunned when she saw Zhang Ziwen following the little girl who was approaching.

"Hello! Trouble you." The little girl bowed deeply to her mother and said apologetically.

"You sit there and rest for a while!" Zhang Ziwen pointed to the sofa and said, pulling his mother into the kitchen.

"What are you doing with your mother? It's so rude to leave her in the house!" The mother was a little dissatisfied with Zhang Ziwen's behavior.
To be continued...