don't be alone anymore

*When turning back to a normal person*

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Young parents who run a non-staple food store, there are no employees in the store.

The purchase, tally, delivery, and cash register are all done by the young couple themselves.

Walked out of cities that might not even be called third- and fourth-tier cities around Beicheng City, and finally graduated from a technical school.

After saving some hard-earned money in the past few years, the couple discussed and bought a non-staple food restaurant in a community of more than 1000 households.

On weekdays, men buy goods and women look after the store.

As for the two children, they can only be left to the children's grandma to look after them outside the store.

The oldest child is a daughter who just turned 3 years old.

The youngest child is a son, less than one and a half years old.

The characteristics of intergenerational relatives are also reflected in this small family.

The child's grandma hurts her grandson very much.

Young couples can't even speak harshly about their children in front of the elderly, not at all.

Whenever a young couple treats their children a bit harshly, the grandma will take the grandchildren aside and protect the grandson and granddaughter like an old hen guarding its chicks.

"Hey, I'm old, who will I kiss my grandson if I don't? You two are promising, and you have the ability to go out and train outsiders! You are not allowed to train my grandson!"

The young mother had no choice but to guard her non-staple food store, sitting behind the cash register at the door of the store, watching the child watched by the old man in the gap.

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On this day, the little grandson insisted on going to the children's play sand area near the non-staple food store to play.

Before going out, the little granddaughter asked grandma to steal a fruit jelly from the shelf in a milky voice.

If the old man mentions the things that the children are not allowed to eat immediately, he will have to deal with the daughter-in-law.

Seeing the little grandson stumbled out of the door, the grandma had no choice but to lead the granddaughter to follow, saving the trouble of explaining to the daughter-in-law.

There is also a slide next to the children's sand pile area.

Someone has to watch on the other side of the slide, and someone has to watch on the other side of the sand pile.

The jelly with its mouth open was placed on the wooden pile chair beside the sand pile.

The grandma watched her granddaughter play on the slide for a while, and when she turned around again, the little grandson, who was less than one and a half years old, had turned blue and kept waving his arms.

Glancing at the empty jelly shell on the stake chair, Grandma's legs went limp.

On the side, the mother who also took the child out to play also noticed the abnormality and yelled.

"It's broken! Such a small child must have choked on the jelly!"

The kind neighbors in the community urgently called 120.

Later, someone called 110 again.

In less than 2 minutes, the little boy less than 1 and a half years old developed symptoms of suffocation.

Shortness of breath, bruises all over the face...

The young mother was so anxious to hear the news that she rushed to the sand pile recreation area, her eyes were red from crying.

A group of adults, facing a child suffering from suffocation, can do nothing but be helpless.

A small piece of jelly stumped all the adults present.

The little boy's complexion became more and more ugly, his lips had become dark purple, and his eyes were straight.

The young mother stepped forward and slapped her son on the back fiercely, but still couldn't get the jelly out.

Later, 120 ambulances and 110 police cars arrived at the scene one after another.

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After Jian Muzi's examination, the little boy had stopped breathing and died.

Before Wen Yang got out of the car, he heard heartbroken cries.

The cry of the child's grandmother and the cry of the child's mother were mixed in her ears for a while.

She leaned against the police car door, not even daring to step forward.

He just leaned against the side of the car silently, without saying a word for a long time.

The child's mother, the child's grandmother, both hugged the little boy who had been declared dead.

Grandma firmly grasped Jian Muzi's wrist,

"Doctor, save him! Save him!"

The old man just kept repeating this passage, and finally couldn't stand the stimulation and passed out.

When the 120 ambulance came... because it wanted to save the little boy.

But in the end, only grandma who passed out due to high blood pressure was taken to the hospital.

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When passing the police car, Jian Muzi noticed Wen Yang with empty eyes.

She paused, walked to Wen Yang's side, and patted him.

"Wen Yang, are you okay?"

Wen Yang's pale face at the moment is hard to ignore.

But after she was cared by Jian Muzi, she smiled and went back to the police car.

She didn't know what else to do.

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People who fulfill their priesthood also have the powerlessness of being a human being.

Because we are human, we have no special rights.

No special rights to modify death.

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As soon as I went to work on Monday, the first trip out of the car was to face the death of a child.

Wen Yang inevitably felt a little uncomfortable.

What made it even more difficult for her was the fact that she had been struggling with the whole weekend, because of the alarm in front of her, she felt even more discouraged.

Today, although Wen Yang and Li Yanqing's day shift was arranged, because Wen Yang himself was required to attend an important occasion in the afternoon, the patrol team was only on duty for half a day today.

The important occasion in the afternoon was the commendation meeting held by the police station.

Previously, the bureau had applied for Wen Yang's personal meritorious service and personal second-class merit, and the documents and medals were officially issued from above.

Because he had been in the Economic Investigation Detachment before, Wen Yang had also been exposed to several major economic crime cases, such as the time he met Jian Muzi when he was on a business trip to the UK.

The successful completion of that mission enabled the Economic Investigation Detachment to solve a large transnational case.

At that time, the investigation and handling team of the Economic Investigation Detachment won the collective first-class merit.

Therefore, before today, Wen Yang had already received two first-class collective meritorious service.

But this time, it was her personal merit.

And because it was a personal meritorious service, she also ushered in the part of wearing the medal at the commendation meeting under the spotlight of everyone.

Director Zheng attended today's commendation meeting.

For the commendation this afternoon, Director Zheng also specially asked colleagues from the Propaganda Department to write a manuscript of several thousand words, and gave a special praise at the meeting.

The people who sat in the first row to be praised and commended, sat there with no smile on their faces.

The emotions and shocks in the hearts of the other colleagues, and perhaps the envy and admiration, were all lost by the parties concerned.

A long time ago, Wen Yang had indeed longed for this matter.

But when she actually came to the stage to award the honor, she couldn't get rid of the sadness in her heart.

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One day in the future, if someone asks Wen Yang...

When did you feel like a normal person?

She will probably answer you like this:

The first time I won a personal medal, when I won the second-class personal merit.

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After the commendation meeting, Zhang Luzhi, who rushed back to his work unit to attend Wen Yang's commendation meeting, dragged Wen Yang to the emergency center.

When Zhang Luzhi pointed to the second-class merit medal on Wen Yang's police uniform to show off to his brothers, Wen Yang glanced at Jian Muzi indiscriminately.

The police who perform their priesthood also have the powerlessness and cowardice of ordinary people.

Wen Yang, who fell in love with someone, only felt that he was an ordinary person.

It turned out that she was just an ordinary person.

It's not because I fell in love with Jian Muzi that I became an ordinary person.

It's not because Jian Muzi is ordinary, but I like Jian Muzi to become ordinary.

Wen Yang just felt that what she could give Jian Muzi... was ordinary.

Ordinary, maybe not even ordinary.

She left the emergency center with a smile, her heart devastated.

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The medal for personal second-class merit was then placed in the wardrobe of the police station by Wen Yang.

I put it in the corner, and I don't plan to see the sun again.

After leaving the unit, Wen Yang called Jiang Chen.

"...Ah Chen, come out and have a chat?"

The loyal friend rushed to the place agreed with Wen Yang immediately.

Jiang Chen came alone, not with his partner.

Wen Yang smiled through the glass,

"Why didn't you bring Jane to hear it?"

Jiang Chen smiled, but didn't answer Wen Yang directly.

Since the two of them became friends... Although this was not the first time Jiang Chen received a call from Wen Yang, it was the first time Jiang Chen heard Wen Yang in such a depressed mood on the phone.

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The two friends met and made an appointment at the old place, Qian Lai Ye Hot Pot Restaurant.

When Jiang Chen arrived, the extra spicy hot pot, which was rarely ordered by customers, had already been served.

The mandarin duck pot is half full of red oil, chili, and peppercorns, and half is the white soup at the bottom of the pot with three fresh mushrooms.

As soon as Jiang Chen entered the private room, he was choked by the bottom of the hot pot and coughed again and again.

The person leaning against the back of the chair glanced at Jiang Chen, and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, Ah Chen... today I..."

Jiang Chen waved his hand,

"It's okay! It's just... this taste..."

Jiang Chen stopped the waiter who served the food.

After inquiring, I learned that my friend, who seldom eats spicy food and can’t eat too much spicy food, went out of his way today and ordered the extra spicy pot bottom in the store.

And this month, Qian Laiye Hot Pot Restaurant's extra hot pot bottom will be tasted/lucky twice by customers.

The second time was Wen Yang.

Jiang Chen remembered what Chen Can, the proprietress of the hot pot restaurant, used to say...the extra spicy number is really abnormally spicy.

She frowned and stared at Wen Yang, with worry in her eyes.

"Don't look at me like that, Ah Chen... just... have a hot pot meal with me..."

Wen Yang picked up the chopsticks and adjusted the direction of the Yuanyang pot.

Align the bottom half of the extra spicy pot with the direction where you are, and point the bottom half of the pot with the three fresh mushrooms toward Jiang Chen.

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The two ate hot pot for more than two hours.

In the private room, it was quite quiet.

Apart from the gurgling sound of the mandarin duck pot, there was almost no human voice in the private room.

Jiang Chen couldn't remember exactly how many cups of iced sour plum soup Wen Yang drank, nor how many red oil dishes from the spicy pot Wen Yang ate.

In the end, only Wen Yang, whose tears were narrowed because of the hotness, was imprinted in her memory.

The voices in the private room were Wen Yang's silent panting... and the choking and snorting caused by the cramped tears.

Jiang Chen put down his chopsticks several times, but raised them several times because of Wen Yangqiang's smile.

At the end of the hot pot, those who only ate the bottom of the three delicacies also followed Wen Yang's eyes.

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After a polite knock on the door, Jiang Chen, whose eyes were slightly red, saw Jane Ting appearing at the door of the private room.

"I told Jane to listen."

Wen Yang explained aloud,

"It's getting late, you should go home and rest."

Wen Yang put down his chopsticks, and wiped his swollen lips again.

With red eyes, she gave a bright smile to Jiang Chen who didn't know why.

"Let's go, Ah Chen, just in time for your car to go home."

She nodded to Jane again,

"Thanks, Jane, listen."

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