“...... But the man told us that the church is a very sacred place. You can tolerate all the mistakes here, accept all the sins, and influence them with your own deeds, with your own zeal, for the heavens to see, for those people's hearts to be purified. ”

"We're all just kids, so we don't understand at all. But there are some adults in the village, and they have already joined the church. So they understand what this church really means. Every once in a while, they would meet in the church and perform rituals that we couldn't understand. ”

"Even though I was a few years old at the time, all I knew was play. But at that time, the seed had already been planted in my young heart. It's a seed of faith, and when you really see those people, kneeling on the ground, and looking pious, maybe something you didn't believe in, you will suddenly believe it. ”

At this point, I stopped.

"Gone?"

Ouyang Qian asked. She seemed to notice that my mood had suddenly dropped, so she approached me, hugged me tightly, then touched my head, and asked gently:

"What's the matter, dear, did something happen later to make you sad?"

I was stunned for a moment, then came back to my senses and smiled sheepishly at her.

"It's not sad. It's a shock. It's the kind of shock that you don't realize at all that things can still develop like this. ”

Ouyang Qian looked at me with some distress, she kissed me lightly on the cheek, and then said to me, "What happened?" ”

"One day. I still remember that night it was raining heavily. But the believers in our village still came to the church as always to do their own rituals. We children didn't get home in time because we were playing too late outside, and it was raining so hard that we had to go to church to take shelter from the rain.

"They were kind enough to let us in, the playful kids, and kindly wiped our wet hair and bodies, and let us sit by the fire to warm our hands. Just as we were curiously sitting by the fire, watching them kneel on the ground and praying, a man suddenly burst in through the door.

"The man had an axe in his hand. His expression was very vicious, but in his eyes, it seemed that he could only see the priest standing in front of the crowd. At that time, I could clearly smell the huge smell of alcohol coming from the door. We all know that the man with the axe was drunk.

"'Devil', he took the axe, pointed at the priest and said, 'You damned devil, today I will get rid of you on behalf of the people!' With that, he rushed towards the priest. But the priest had no expression on his face, but stood there, quietly watching the man rushing up with an axe.

"Everyone was terrified, especially us little ones, but all the little ones except me were hiding to the side, afraid to look at the picture in front of them. The priest suddenly looked at the man with the axe and said: 'May Heaven guide your soul.' ’

'Fuck your soul. That's what the man with the axe said.

With that, he slashed at the priest's neck with an axe, probably because of the force, and the priest's neck was slashed crooked. His head tilted to the side, and red blood splattered from the slit in his neck, like well water spurting out of a pump. ”

Ouyang Qian was frightened by the picture I described, and she put her hand to her mouth, expressing her disbelief that this priest had let the man kill her like this.

The priest did not change his expression until he died. And so he died. The blood gradually finished flowing, and his body was no longer breathing. Everyone ran out screaming, no one ran to stop the man, and no one ran to subdue the man. ”

I could see Ouyang Qian's hands trembling. I don't know if she believed the story I was telling.

"And then?" She asked eagerly.

"Later, the priest was buried in the back of the church. We erected a little tombstone for him. He died in a foreign land like this, hacked to death by a drunken drunk, with an ax, for no reason, without results. In the end, the drunk was only sent to prison, and he was still considered manslaughter. ”

"This is the first time I've ever seen a killing in my life. I could feel all the blood running through my body. Not because I was excited to see the dead, but because of the last words that the priest said to the man with the axe. ”

"May Heaven guide your soul."

I uttered those words word by word, as if the priest were standing before me right now, facing death without the slightest fear.

"Later, my parents moved us out of that remote village and we came to live in a big city. I've never seen anyone like that again, and now people don't have their own beliefs. ”

With that, I lay down softly, and then sighed deeply.

Ouyang Qian gently stroked my cheek, as if comforting me wordlessly.

"You...... Was it because I saw that priest that I was inspired to become a policeman? ”

I looked at the ceiling and didn't answer what she said.

"We were able to investigate crimes. In our lives, especially as a criminal investigation policeman, we can investigate those who committed crimes, and we can find the murderer according to the clues. But we can never prevent crime. This is the hardest question and one that some people do all their lives. ”

"Crime prevention ......" Ouyang Qian muttered to herself after hearing this term.

"That's right, if we can prevent crime, then we can keep more people like the priest alive, more people like the drunk man with the axe from going astray. The vast majority of homicides are caused by impulsiveness. Just like suicide, if someone stops it, there is a good chance that it will be strangled in the cradle. ”

Ouyang Qian nodded, agreeing with my statement as if she didn't understand.

"I don't know what crime prevention you mean by that, but I think you're doing well!"

After saying that, she suddenly lay on top of me and kissed my lips with a look of expression.

"Why do you look so happy?"

She smiled mischievously, "Because I know you better." ”