Chapter 12: The Dusty Past
"You envy me?" Bai Xue was a little stunned, "I heard me right, right? What do I have to envy?"
"Your mentality, it's good. Xiao Geyan sighed softly, "You can always be optimistic in the face of adversity." ”
"Hmm, this one...... My parents always said that my heart was bigger than our house. Bai Xue sneered, a little self-deprecating, after speaking, she remembered Xiao Geyan's state in the recent days, and couldn't help but be a little worried, thinking about it anyway, it's all here, it's better to care, "What's wrong with you lately?" I always feel that you seem to have encountered something that doesn't go well, and I always want to ask, but I'm afraid that I will be too presumptuous and make you unhappy. ”
"I'm not so easily upset, you don't need to be so careful in front of me. Xiao Geyan did not directly answer Bai Xue's inquiry, but he also did not show rejection, "How can you see that I am not happy?"
"It's just an indescribable feeling," Bai Xue frowned, "it's the tone of your voice every time I talk to you on the phone...... I don't know how to describe it, anyway, it sounds to me, there is an indescribable faint sadness in it, and it is even more obvious when I see you, all hanging here. ”
She stretched out her hand, gently brushed her fingers across Xiao Geyan's eyebrows, and stopped between the two eyebrows: "Here, there has always been a slight bulge, which is different from when you usually have light clouds and light winds. ”
The temperature of Bai Xue's fingertips passed through the skin on his forehead, like a small spark, so hot between his eyebrows, it turned into a stream of heat and flowed into his body, Xiao Geyan's brows suddenly relaxed, and he lost his mind for a moment, and when he quickly came back to his senses, Bai Xue had withdrawn his hand and stared at himself with concern.
"Is there something wrong with the unit?" she asked, a little worried.
Xiao Geyan shook his head slowly: "No." I want to ask you a question. Do you want to become a police officer just to carry on your father's legacy? What about yourself? What are your ideals? You embarked on this path in order to carry on your father's legacy, and in retrospect, do you feel regretful or powerless?"
"Me...... I can't tell," Bai Xue shook her head, "When my dad had an accident, I wasn't very old, and I didn't think carefully about my future life plan at all, I just thought that I had admired him since I was a child, so even if he was gone, I wanted to be like him." At the beginning, I did have the idea of fulfilling my dad's unfulfilled dream, but how can anyone rely on other people's dreams to support it! I later found out that I actually enjoy the sense of accomplishment that being a criminal police officer can bring, so now I am actually working hard for myself, considering my dad's ...... It's more about not embarrassing him! They all say that tiger fathers have no dogs, and I don't want those old colleagues of my dad to think that my dad is so good and has a daughter!"
"What if you find out that your dream is not to be a policeman when you are a little older? Will you still go to the police academy for the sake of your father's legacy, become a policeman, or follow the path you have chosen?" Xiao Geyan asked again.
"Of course, I chose to go my own way, after all, for my dad, my good life is what he wants to see the most. But even if I didn't become a police officer and chose to do something else, I would still want to try to make a name for others, for the same reason as before, the tiger father has no dog girl, my father's daughter, and I can't do anything too much. Bai Xue held her chest very proudly, and after finishing speaking, she sighed lightly with a little sadness, "Actually, to put it bluntly, what is inheriting the will, it is just a way to express feelings, but there is more than one way to express feelings, and you don't have to sacrifice your ideals and life." ”
After finishing speaking, she was silent for a few seconds: "Actually, you asked me this, and I also kind of understood, is it that your family, your grandfather, doesn't support you as a teacher in school?
I thought that Xiao Geyan might not be willing to answer this question of his own, but he didn't expect him to nod calmly: "Hmm." The two old people in the family did not support it, they wanted me to inherit my father's career, it has been many years, I do not compromise, they do not compromise, the matter of going to the public security bureau to help some time ago was known by the family, which angered them, so I was given an ultimatum. ”
"Ah......?" Bai Xue was a little dumbfounded, she didn't expect that it had reached such a serious level as an ultimatum, and she couldn't help but be a little puzzled, "But what's wrong with studying criminology? If it's just because of the cooperative relationship with the Public Security Bureau, I can understand this, when I first decided to become a criminal policeman, my mother was also half angry, and she didn't pay attention to me for a long time, to put it bluntly, she was afraid that I would have some accidents like my father." It's okay, it's a big deal, I'm going to help you tell the bureau, don't call you in the future, so that you can continue to be your teacher, won't the old people in your family be so opposed?"
"As long as they are dealing with crime, even if they just stare at these two words, they will not approve of it. ”
Xiao Geyan sighed, many things have been piled up in his heart for so many years, he has never had the idea of talking to anyone, but today I don't know what's wrong, seeing Bai Xue adjust her mood from depression so quickly, and listening to her say the choice between her and her father's ideals, Xiao Geyan suddenly wanted to tell her some things about herself, and felt that maybe after telling her, some problems could be solved.
"As I mentioned to you before, my parents were gone a long time ago. He said to Bai Xue.
Bai Xue nodded hurriedly, holding her breath and listening carefully, not even daring to take a breath of air.
"When my parents had an accident, I was very young, only five or six years old, and they didn't leave because of illness or accident," Xiao Geyan paused, "It was a man-made accident, and I was there at the time." ”
Bai Xue felt her heart thump suddenly, and her hand subconsciously clenched her chopsticks.
"I was still young, I didn't know anything, I just knew that I was going out with my parents, and suddenly I was separated, and I was taken to a dilapidated house, and I was tied hand and foot with ropes, and from time to time someone would come up to me and hold the phone, and let me listen, and it was my grandfather on the other side of the phone, and I was very scared, and I would cry and say that I was going home or something, and then those people would take the phone away and go outside the house to talk about the terms. ”
Xiao Geyan said this now, and his face was already calm: "Later, I don't know how long later, a group of policemen came, and I was picked up by a person, wrapped in a blanket, and taken to the car, and sent back to my grandfather. It was a long time before I learned that my parents had been killed at the beginning of the kidnapping, and that I was able to survive because the kidnappers saw that I was young and wanted to sell me for more money. ”