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"Mom... I want to ask you one thing."

Meng Yuqian hesitated, since she had a quarrel with her parents before leaving home, she hadn't called home.

"Hey……"

Mother Meng sighed.

"What's the matter? Didn't you agree to never communicate with each other? Are you willing to call me this time?"

Meng Yuqian pursed her lips, looked at the endless moonlight outside the window, and suddenly felt that the world was so big that she didn't have any power, and when she encountered difficulties, she would only go to others for help.

"I want you to help me investigate something."

Mother Meng fell silent when she heard it, so the mother and daughter listened quietly to each other's breathing.

"Is it your own business?"

After a long time, Mother Meng's calm voice sounded again.

"No."

When Meng Yuqian heard her mother's inquiry, a bad premonition suddenly surged in her heart.

here we go again……

"Then it has nothing to do with us."

Mother Meng said these words without emotion, and then she was about to hang up the phone.

"Why are you like this again!"

Meng Yuqian walked out of the dormitory and closed the door gently with her hand, but she still couldn't hold back her growl.

"You have been like this since you were a child, even if you saw someone fall down, you would not help him up."

Meng Yuqian pursed her lips tightly, and finally expressed her dissatisfaction with her mother for more than 20 years.

"none of my business."

Yes, this sentence again has nothing to do with her.

Since she was a child, her mother has been educating Meng Yuqian constantly, telling her not to worry about anything that has nothing to do with her at any time.

Even if someone encounters a small difficulty, don't help, even if it is just a little effort.

Meng Yuqian has always been puzzled by her mother's idea, because she felt that her mother was too indifferent and had no human touch at all.

This made the little Meng Yuqian very annoying. Later, when she grew up, her father's business became bigger and bigger, and her mother became more and more busy.

Since then, Meng Yuqian has been unwilling to go home or talk to her parents.

She originally thought about spending most of her life quietly like this, but the turning point happened during the last winter vacation.

Her mother's teammate was injured because of the mission, which was supposed to be a secret of the police department.

But Meng Yuqian was on a whim that day, she went to her mother's work unit, wanting to take a look.

As a result, I accidentally overheard that conversation.

"Yang Junlan, what's the matter with you!"

Yang Junlan is her mother's name.

After hearing this, Meng Yuqian hid decisively in the corner, wanting to listen.

"I'm just here for the mission."

The mother's calm voice came out after the man's roar.

"For the mission? Well, I know you are for the mission, but you saw the teammate who was shot and fell to the ground, why didn't you save him?"

The angry man who heard the voice should be the chief of the police station, and...

When Meng Yuqian heard this, she suddenly understood everything.

"That's none of my business."

Sure enough, her mother was still the same as before, nothing changed at all.

"You, you!"

The bureau chief pointed at the tip of Yang Junlan's nose, trembling and unable to utter a word.

"Director, calm down..."

Yang Junlan's only friend at the police station, Su Yi hurriedly pleaded for Yang Junlan.

"Don't speak for her, I've never, never seen someone as indifferent as her!"

After the director finished speaking, he threw the report on Yang Junlan, turned around and walked out angrily.

However, the moment the director opened the door, he saw Meng Yuqian who was standing at the door and hadn't reacted for a while.

The director's expression became weird for a moment, he pursed his lips, glanced at the girl, and continued walking out.

Meng Yuqian looked at the director's gray hair, wondering what kind of mood she should face her mother now.

"Xiaoqian, are you here?"

At this moment, Su saw Meng Yuqian standing at the door with sharp eyes, and he hurried over and dragged the child in.

"Look, why didn't you tell me in advance when your daughter came, and I didn't buy anything for her."

Su Yi glared at Yang Junlan complainingly, and then walked up to Meng Yuqian.

"Come on, Xiaoqian, what do you want to eat, tell uncle, uncle invites you."

However, Meng Yuqian shook her head.

She looked at Su Yi's increasingly aging face in recent years, and suddenly found that he seemed to be older than her own mother.

"It's okay Uncle, I'm not hungry."

"you……"

Su Yi wanted to continue to say something, but Yang Junlan, who had been silent on the other side, finally spoke.

"Why did you come here?"

Why are you here?Meng Yuqian was aggrieved when she heard her mother's questioning.

"I just wanted to come and see you."

"Is this where you can come? No rules!"

Maybe Yang Junlan is used to being a criminal policeman, or maybe...she was just like that.

So Meng Yuqian has never felt the tenderness of her mother since she was a child.

rule?

These two words kept appearing in Meng Yuqian's ears, no matter when or what happened.

Her mother just wanted everyone to follow the rules, but ignored people's most important feelings.

"I don't know what the rules you are talking about, I just know that I miss you and my mother, so I come to see you."

Meng Yuqian stared closely at the woman's sharp eyes, trying to warm her heart, but...

"Disobedient, you go back quickly, I don't need you to come and see me."

very good……

Meng Yuqian suddenly lowered her head and laughed.

"it is good."

Then, regardless of Su Yi's obstruction, she walked in with unrestrained steps.

"Yang Junlan, are you crazy, why are you talking like that to your child?"

Su Yi's face turned red in anger, and he looked at the woman who didn't react at all because of her daughter's departure.

"She's done something wrong and I'm just educating her."

"Are you an education?"

Su Yi supported his forehead with a headache.

"Although I don't have a child, I know that a child's heart is too fragile, and you will only hurt her in this way."

"Moreover."

As soon as Su said this, he looked at the woman disappointedly.

"What's wrong with a child coming to see his mother?"

However, Su Yi said so much, but Yang Junlan didn't listen to a single word.

"Sorry, in my world, there are only two words, rules."

"Anyone who doesn't play by the rules, is stupid."

Looking at the scenery outside the window, Yang Junlan said these words indifferently.

However, Su Yi stood behind the woman without saying a word.

"When will you let go of that?"

After Yang Junlan heard it, a wry smile suddenly appeared on her face.

"In this life, I will never let go."

"But he seriously affected your life!"

Su Yi said loudly while walking over to support Yang Junlan's shoulders, as if he wanted to fight her to wake her up.

But this time Yang Junlan remained silent.

"You have let me down too much."

Su Yi shook his head, ignored Yang Junlan, and walked out of the office.

It's just that when he disappeared in front of the door, he left a last sentence.

"Think about it carefully, if he sees you like this, can he feel at ease over there?"

I don't know why, that woman who has always been strong, suddenly shed tears.

"Mom, I beg you, okay?"

Meng Yuqian intends to beg her mother, because Xiao Lan and Tao Tao are her good friends who treat her sincerely here, so she is more anxious than anyone else now.

The woman remained silent.

"Mom...it's been so many years, although I don't know why you became what you are now, but..."

"When can you let go, and when can you return to a normal life?"

Meng Yuqian almost cried, she just felt that she was very wronged now, because she knew that her mother became what she is now because of one person.

And that person...

More important than her own daughter.

"Go ahead."

"Eh?"

Meng Yuqian heard her mother's voice, but for some reason, her tone seemed to soften a little.

"Say, say what?"

Meng Yuqian asked stutteringly.

"Tell me what you want me to do for you."

True, true or false?

Meng Yuqian suddenly became excited, she almost screamed happily.

"You, are you telling the truth?"

Meng Yuqian felt that she saw the dawn of hope.

"Stop talking nonsense."

"Okay, okay, actually..."

Seeing this, Meng Yuqian hurriedly told her mother about Xiao Lan.

Yang Junlan thought for a moment after hearing this.

"okay, I get it."

"That……"

Meng Yuqian cautiously tested her mother.

"I will help you investigate this matter, but I can't use the relationship in the bureau. It may take a little longer."

"It's okay, it's okay, that... thank you."

When Yang Junlan heard her daughter's thanks, she suddenly felt mixed feelings.

Am I... a failed mother.

For so many years, she has never cared about her daughter once, and she feels... She and her daughter have become estranged.

"You, how have you been recently?"

Yang Junlan pursed her lips tightly, and said the words that made her feel very awkward.

Because she has never said that she cares about people's interrogation, she usually interrogates suspects in the interrogation room.

"Me, me?"

On the other side, Meng Yuqian also froze suddenly.

Her mother, is she caring about herself?
"I'm... fine, I've been with my friends all the time."

"They are also very good to me."

Meng Yuqian didn't know what to say for a while.

So the mother and daughter were silent again.

"You take care of yourself."

Yang Junlan sighed and continued.

"You too……"

Then the two hung up the phone.

Standing in the empty corridor, Meng Yuqian became more and more curious.

Mother, she...why did she become like this in the first place?