The Remaining Life Has Its Limits

Chapter 7

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When Huang Guifen heard the voice, she pulled Ye Sibei down and squatted down in a position where people outside the door could not see her.

They couldn't be seen from outside at this position, but they could see outside through the glass windows on the door.

I saw a young man in a cheap suit talking to two policemen standing at the door.

He had a smile on his face and looked very fawning, while the two policemen frowned and seemed to dislike him.

He handed over a cigarette, and the two policemen quickly waved their hands. His smile was a little faltering, and he took a last look at the person in the ward glass.

His face was revealed in the glass. It was a face of a young man who looked somewhat similar to Ye Sibei and had a scholarly air.

Ye Sibei subconsciously lowered his body even deeper.

It was this posture that made her suddenly realize a kind of behavioral, unconscious inferiority and humiliation.

She was more fragile than she thought and cared more about what people said.

She couldn't even face her younger brother, Ye Nianwen, at this moment.

This made her feel a great sorrow. When the sorrow rose up, she squatted and hugged herself, turned her head, and bit her lower lip, for fear that she would cry out.

Huang Guifen noticed her daughter's mood change and she felt a little sad. She reached out and hugged Ye Sibei in her arms.

She said nothing, just like when they were children, gently stroking her back and resting her face on her head.

The mother and daughter snuggled up to each other, and only when the people walked away did Ye Sibei start to sob softly.

"It will all pass."

Huang Guifen comforted her in a hoarse voice: "It's okay, Mom is here, it will all be fine."

"Just pretend nothing happened and live your life as before."

When Lin Feng came to the door with the water, she heard faint sobbing in the ward. She hesitated for a moment and did not go in.

She waited at the door for a while until things seemed calm inside, then she knocked.

After a while, Ye Sibei opened the door. She looked at Lin Feng and the other two policemen and forced a smile: "Thank you for sending me the clothes. I'll go back first. Can I send the clothes back tomorrow?"

"We have already filed a case," Lin Feng stopped her and made a final effort, "We will help you."

"I'm sorry." Ye Sibei lowered her head. "I just had a quarrel with my husband. You can't help me with this kind of thing."

Ye Sibei looked at the ground and repeated, "I'm sorry."

Lin Feng was stunned. Ye Sibei turned around and walked out with his mother.

Lin Feng watched her leave. She wanted to call her, but the moment she opened her mouth, she looked at Ye Sibei's back and suddenly couldn't make a sound.

There were clearly people supporting her and accompanying her, but she was like a lonely ghost, rootless and floating on the long river of this turbid world, unable to drift.

*** ***

Huang Guifen accompanied Ye Sibei to take a taxi home. After taking a shower, she changed into clothes that wrapped her body tightly, and went to another hospital with Huang Guifen to get HIV blocking drugs.

When she called the police, she asked Lin Feng to buy her contraceptive pills. Now all that was left was to block all the infectious diseases that could be blocked in advance.

This was the only thing she could do for herself under the control of her mind.

It was already afternoon when they finished everything. Huang Guifen took her home. She half-knelt in front of Ye Sibei and looked at her seriously: "Sibei, this matter is over. You must not let anyone find out about this. Do you understand?"

Ye Sibei looked at her quietly for a long time before he slowly nodded.

Huang Guifen forced a smile and said, "Mom will go cook. Today I'll make your favorite braised pork."

Huang Guifen went to the kitchen after she finished speaking. Ye Sibei sat on the sofa to rest. She still felt pain down there, but she didn't dare show it.

Huang Guifen was cutting vegetables when she thought of her work. She stood in the kitchen and asked her, "Did you miss work today? Did you ask for leave from your boss?"

"No."

After she called Huang Guifen in the morning, she turned off her phone.

"Then you should call your boss and apologize, saying you are sick. Don't lose your job. It's so hard to find a job nowadays."

Ye Sibei had an empty mind and listened to Huang Guifen's orders. She opened her bag and fumbled for her cell phone. When she took out the phone, she suddenly realized that something was missing.

The condom is missing.

Did that person use it

Relevant things suddenly flooded into her mind, and her heart beat faster.

The desire to explore that she had originally suppressed suddenly burst out, and her mind was filled with only one thought: who was it

She kept repeating everything that happened last night, imagining the last person she had seen in her mind - was it Fan Jiancheng

But he is such a good person. He always reminds young female employees to protect themselves and helps them drink if they can. He also used to send employees home.

How could it be him

Ye Sibei's mind was in a mess and she couldn't help biting her nails.

Ye Sibei in the living room remained silent, so Huang Guifen urged him again, "Call quickly."

"oh."

Ye Sibei came back to her senses. She controlled her emotions and called Fan Jiancheng.

The call was quickly connected, and Fan Jiancheng's angry voice came from the phone: "Ye Sibei, what's wrong with you? You should have asked for leave if you didn't come to work for a day. You ran away without saying anything. Are you planning to quit?"

"Boss Fan," Ye Sibei listened to Fan Jiancheng's voice and tried to calm himself down. "I, I drank too much last night and I'm in the hospital. I want to take a leave."

Hearing "drunk", Fan Jiancheng paused, then slowed down his tone and said with some worry: "Nothing serious happened, right?"

He said with some apology: "Mr. Zheng is a customer. I couldn't stop him last night. I'm sorry."

"It's nothing serious, I just may have to... stay in the hospital for two days." Ye Sibei lowered his head after listening to Fan Jiancheng's frank response.

"Then you should have a good rest," Fan Jiancheng said without any doubt, "and try to come back to work as soon as possible."

"good."

Ye Sibei responded and hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, she looked at the blackened banana on the coffee table.

In fact, she may never know the answer.

And who is the answer... Is it valuable

she does not know.

She just felt that there was still something inside her, clamoring restlessly, ready to move, trying to struggle.

She sat there in a daze. After a while, Ye Ling came home from the park after playing chess.

Seeing Ye Sibei, Ye Ling was a little surprised: "Hey, why is Sibei here?"

"She and Qin Nan had a quarrel, leave her alone."

Huang Guifen responded immediately. She took the dishes out of the pot and put them on the table.

Ye Sibei stood up and helped serve the dishes as usual. Ye Ling took off his coat and watched the mother and daughter busy at work: "Why are you always arguing with Qin Nan?"

"What couple doesn't quarrel?"

Huang Guifen is cooking: "Let them quarrel, as long as they don't get divorced."

"You can't say that, Sibei. My birthday is coming in a few days. Call him over and I'll help you talk to him."

"Um."

Ye Sibei nodded, not daring to say more about his relationship with Qin Nan.

As the family was talking, they heard Ye Nianwen's voice coming from the door.

"Dad, Mom," when he pushed the door open and saw Ye Sibei, his eyes lit up and he immediately spoke excitedly: "Sister!"

Ye Nianwen always looked very happy and seemed to have no worries every day. If no one had seen him nodding and bowing outside with their own eyes, no one would have thought that he had been wronged outside.

It would have been fine if she didn't know before, but now seeing it, Huang Guifen couldn't help but feel distressed. She pretended to know nothing and went forward to take Ye Nianwen's bag, asking with concern: "Are you hungry today?"

"What era is this? Why are you still hungry? The boss of our firm likes me very much. We have dinner parties every day, and they always have seafood and other things. I am tired of eating these."

"You're exaggerating." Ye Ling was happy to hear his son bragging, but he still wanted to remind him, "You should be humble. You just graduated, so you should learn to be humble..."

"he knows."

Ye Sibei interrupted Ye Ling, and Huang Guifen quickly said, "What are you talking about? Let's eat."

Huang Guifen asked everyone to sit down while she was still busy. Ye Ling felt hot and went to change his clothes first. The only two people who actually sat down were Ye Sibei and Ye Nianwen.

Ye Nianwen asked curiously: "Sister, why are you here today?"

"Did you go to the hospital today?"

Ye Sibei asked directly, and Ye Nianwen's face froze. Before he could tell a lie, Ye Sibei exposed it: "I met you in the hospital today. Why did you give cigarettes to those policemen?"

Ye Nianwen seemed to feel embarrassed. He smiled reluctantly, moved closer to Ye Sibei, and whispered, "I'm trying to get a case source."

As Ye Sibei scooped up the soup, Ye Nianwen explained to him earnestly, "These policemen take cases every day and know many people who need lawyers. If they are willing to introduce these victims to me, wouldn't I have a source of cases?"

"Then why weren't you guarding at the police station?" Ye Sibei put the bowl on the table, his face showing no emotion. Ye Nianwen quickly answered, "I was guarding at the police station. Suddenly I heard that there was a case and the criminal police team was transferred there, so I followed them. Later I lost them, and I thought that if there were victims in a major case, they would definitely go to the hospital. I ran to the People's Hospital and searched for a long time, and saw three policemen guarding the door of a room. That place was not far from the gynecological examination room. I guessed that it was a rape case."

Ye Sibei's hands shook and the soup spilled on them.

Ye Nianwen grabbed the paper from the side and took the bowl over: “Sister, be careful.”

"Have you seen the person involved?"

Ye Sibei wiped his hands with paper, not daring to look up. Ye Nianwen shrugged: "No, otherwise I would have to handle a case tonight and would not be back."

"This kind of case is very time-sensitive," Ye Nianwen scooped soup for Ye Sibei, "If we are late, it will be much more difficult to solve the case."

Ye Sibei lowered his head and blew a mouthful of soup: "Is this kind of case difficult to win?"

"Sister, think about it," Ye Nianwen saw that Ye Sibei asked a professional question, and he finally had a chance to show off. He quickly sat up straight and looked at her, raising two fingers, "What are the two requirements for the establishment of □□?"

Ye Nianwen pressed a finger: "First, we have to prove that there is an objective fact, right? In other words, we have to prove that person A and person B had a certain sexual relationship. We can prove this through some biological evidence, which is relatively easy."

Ye Sibei nodded.

"But the second part is difficult," Ye Nianwen pressed another finger, "How can the woman prove that she didn't do it voluntarily? You said there are scars on the woman's body, maybe it's a special fetish? There is a video, maybe it's a cosplay trap? So a strong chain of evidence is needed to prove this. And in this process, those bastards often throw some disgusting dirty water on the woman in order to prove that the woman was voluntary, such as actively seducing her, and they were originally a couple. These will have a great impact on the woman's reputation, and many times they will collapse before they can even sue."

Ye Sibei listened to Ye Nianwen's words, and those words corresponded to the scenes she had heard on the news in the past, except that the protagonist of those scenes became her.

The spark of hope that remained in her heart quietly extinguished. She lowered her head and listened to Ye Nianwen sighing, "So I say, in this kind of case, whether you sue or not, it is a punishment for the victim. It's better to just pretend it never happened and forget about it."

Ye Sibei didn't say anything. Ye Ling changed his clothes and came out, asking Huang Guifen to sit down.

Dinner began, and the family ate and drank, looking warm and happy.

Everyone carries their own mask, and it seems that there is no more suffering in the world.

At this time, Lin Feng was sitting in a roadside shop eating with her captain Zhang Yong.

It was rush hour after get off work and the shop was crowded, so the two of them could only sit at a small table at the door, each with a bowl of noodles and two pieces of braised tofu.

Lin Feng sat still while Zhang Yong ate very happily. After taking a few bites, he looked at the car dealership opposite.

His car had a tyre cut when he was coming back from the outskirts of town this morning, and now he finally had time to repair it.

The person who repaired his car was a very young man named Qin Nan, the owner of the shop. He had extraordinary skills in repairing cars, his prices were fair, and he was not talkative. Zhang Yong often came here to repair and wash his car, so he was quite familiar with him.

Zhang Yong watched him fix the tire and start washing the car. He was enjoying watching his car, which was so dirty that his color could not be seen, gradually become shiny. He was feeling happy when he heard Lin Feng suddenly say, "I think this case should be filed."

Zhang Yong was startled by her and turned to look at her: "Auntie, could you please not suddenly come back to life?"

"You saw what happened today," Lin Feng frowned, "The person involved is clearly not in a good condition, and the examination report also shows..."

"Show what?"

Zhang Yong interrupted her, and Lin Feng was stunned. Zhang Yong put down his chopsticks and looked at his disciple who was full of justice: "Lin Feng, remember, in our line of work, don't make presumptions of guilt, otherwise it's easy to wrongly accuse people. You think she's not right, then other than what you think, do you have any evidence?"

"Whether to file a criminal case or withdraw a case is decided by us from the moment we respond to the call, but this crime is different," Zhang Yong said, because there were so many people involved. "The will of the party is a very important criterion for determining the case. Now that the party is silent, what basis do you have for determining the case?"

Zhang Yong said, pointing at Lin Feng's eyes: "Your green eyes?"

"But Captain, her situation..."

"There are many possibilities for her situation," Zhang Yong glanced at her coldly, "There are so many cases, but you are focusing on this one. Isn't your workload insufficient?"

As he spoke, Zhang Yong saw that his car was almost washed, so he took two more bites. Seeing that Lin Feng hadn't started yet, he frowned and asked, "Do you want to eat more?"

“No.”

Lin Feng stood up, seemingly angry: "I'm going back."

"Hey, my car is fixed, can I give it to you?"

"Need not."

Lin Feng didn't give Zhang Yong a chance to refuse and went straight to the roadside to take a taxi and leave.

Zhang Yong cursed inwardly as a "little girl", drank a few sips of soup, paid via WeChat, said hello to the boss, and returned to the car.

The car had been thoroughly wiped dry. Qin Nan saw him coming over, glanced at the wheel, and reminded him: "Your wheel has been worn very thin. If it scratches again, just change the tire directly. Do you want me to order one for you in advance?"

"Let's order it. How much is it?"

"I'll give you a discount, 900."

"Okay, open the order."

As he spoke, Zhang Yong leaned against the car and scanned the payment code next to the store. Qin Nan went to the counter to give him a receipt. Zhang Yong listened to the mechanical female voice in the store saying "Payment 900 yuan", leaned against the car with his chest crossed, and glanced at the wheel placed next to him.

He suddenly remembered something and turned to look at Qin Nan: "Old Qin."

"Um?"

"Are you familiar with tires?"