Regardless of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, no matter the sunny weather, cloudy, windy, frosty, rainy and snowy, Yu Mei has become accustomed to getting up early and taking the first bus in the morning. The station is not far from the residence, a five-minute walk, and most of those who need to go to work on time are still in a state of not waking up, and they are repeatedly reminded by the alarm clock they set before they are willing to get up.

Like Yu Mei, those who walked out of the house so early are all people who regard work as a career that they can't do without themselves. In general, there are very few people on the first bus, so you can avoid the negativity that comes with crowding.

Although it is late spring, the mornings in the north are still a little cool. Outside the car window, the faint morning fog began to disperse, the flowers and plants on the landscape belt grew vigorously, the breeze blew in the face, and the fragrance of flowers and plants was refreshing, making people feel refreshed. Yu Mei took out her mobile phone from her handbag, habitually looked at the time, and then put it in her handbag.

After a dozen stops away, Yu Mei got off the train in advance at Zhonglou Station, which was not far from the office building. She likes to walk a little further after getting off the bus, and this street is a walkable landscaped street.

On the empty street, there are pedestrians in front of the breakfast stalls. Yu Mei glanced up at the bell tower not far away, and the hour hand of the huge mechanical clock on the top of the building pointed exactly to seven o'clock, which is the time when most office workers get up. Yu Mei walked to the stall selling steamed rice with slag meat, and the owner of the stall asked with a smile, "Is it still slag steamed rice?" Fatter? Yu Mei smiled and nodded, and the stall owner deliberately added a little more amount of slag meat, and handed it to Yu Mei after packing.

"Director Yu is early." When Yu Mei walked into the appraisal center building, Li Zhiming, a security guard on duty in the hall, got up and greeted her politely.

Yu Mei smiled and asked, "Are you on duty today?" ”

Li Zhiming nodded and said, "It's me on duty, and Director Yu can tell me if I have something." ”

Yu Mei stopped, thought for a while and said, "If a girl named Mu Xueqin comes to me, please ask her to go directly to my office on the tenth floor." ”

"I remember." Li Zhiming agreed, and when he saw Yu Mei carrying a bag in one hand and a large bag of breakfast in the other, he took a few steps forward and reached out to help Yu Mei press the up button of the elevator.

"Thank you." Yu Mei walked into the elevator as she spoke, and at this time, the ringtone of her mobile phone rang a little hurriedly. She first stretched out her finger and pressed the number button on the floor, and then carried the takeaway and handbag with one hand, and then took out her mobile phone from the bag with one hand, looked at the caller ID, and after connecting the phone, a somewhat hoarse voice came: "Hello, are you Director Yu Mei?" I am Wang Chuande of the criminal police team, and I would like to ask if the dozens of materials entrusted for appraisal have all been concluded. ”

A week ago, in order to find the relatives of the abducted and trafficked children in a timely manner, the criminal police team sent dozens of samples of the abducted children and some of the parents who reported the case for help.

Yu Mei is going all out to complete the DNA identification work entrusted by the criminal police team as soon as possible, she knows that there is no trivial matter in crime, and she is also happy to cooperate with their work.

Yu Mei heard Wang Chuande's anxiety, thought about it and hurriedly replied: "Hello Captain Wang, yes, it's me, I'm Yu Mei from the appraisal center." The appraisal and analysis report will definitely be available this morning, and you can send someone to pick it up at any time. Yes, yes, I'm at the appraisal center all day today, and I can meet and talk about it if I have any questions. Okay, I'll wait for you. Good bye. ”

It's not time to go to work yet, and it's quiet in the office building. Yu Mei walked into her office and habitually opened the curtain on one side. Downstairs is a street park, a large dense forest in the limited space to show infinite vitality, surrounded by tall buildings, this lush forest like a giant's lungs, constantly breathing the surrounding space mixed with a variety of smells of dirty exhaust gas, through the layers of dense green leaf photosynthesis, constantly release oxygen with the fragrance of green leaves, absorb the old and spit new, so that the surrounding space is permeated with a fresh breath.

Yu Mei opened the window, and the morning breeze carried the fragrance of leaves, making her stand in front of the window and breathe deeply and greedily.

There was a familiar sound of footsteps in the corridor, and Yu Mei turned around and watched her assistant Ai Xiang walk in with dozens of appraisal reports. Ai Xiang is a graduate student brought out by Yu Mei, after graduation, he originally stayed in the Northern Medical College to work, Yu Mei resigned from the medical school and founded the "Reading Micro Appraisal Center", Ai Xiang immediately resigned and became a member of the appraisal center.

In the early days of the establishment, many people came to the appraisal center for consultation, but very few actually applied for appraisal. With the development and change of social life, there are more and more reasons to seek help from DNA identification, and the business of the identification center is not surprisingly popular, and there is a lot of work to be done every day, and Yu Mei and several assistants often need to work overtime to deal with it.

Once, after working in the middle of the night, Yu Mei looked at Ai Xiang, who was a little tired, and asked: "I regret doing these hard, tiring and boring jobs here, how good it is to teach in medical school, it is both beautiful and leisurely, and I definitely don't need to be so busy." ”

Ai Xiang cheered up and said seriously: "At the beginning, when I chose to work in the center, I never thought about easy things or not, and I was by no means on a whim, but after careful consideration. I have never said why, and the teacher may not know, but I can tell you now, and you will understand my choice. ”

At that time, there were only two people in Yu Mei's office, she and Ai Xiang, Ai Xiang paused slightly, then raised his head to look at Yu Mei and said, "I am an outcast, I grew up in a welfare home. I have always had a series of questions in my heart, when I was young, my question was why did my parents abandon me? When I was in middle school, I often wondered what blood meant to a person. Because of these questions and thoughts, I did not hesitate to choose medicine when I applied for the college entrance examination, and I wanted to seek answers by studying the structure of the human body, but the biological study of the human body could not find the answers to the sociological questions of human beings. Medicine could not solve the fundamental doubts and problems in my heart, so I had a long period of time, in an extremely painful confusion and confusion, feeling as if I was being torn apart by a ruthless force, watching myself helplessly become more and more depressed day by day, but there was no way to save myself, as if I was in a dark world, unable to find any way out, and not seeing any hope. ”

Yu Mei didn't expect that this student with a special personality would have such an experience, she looked at this young man with some pity with an angular face and a resolute face written all over his face, who could feel the hurt and vicissitudes of a lonely individual in his growth from this calm and cold face, and this kind of injury is almost innate, and may continue to accompany him throughout his life in the future.

Ai Xiang's originally bright eyes seemed to be obscured by a faint shadow: "The education I received made me understand that people cannot be people in a simple biological sense, but people with social attributes. This social attribute of human beings requires that everyone must assume social responsibilities that are appropriate to their age and ability, and if they do not assume or do not fulfill their social responsibilities, they must accept moral condemnation and legal punishment. From this point of view, I have never wondered what kind of desperate situation my biological parents were in, giving up on me and their responsibilities as parents. ”

"During my college years, I began to pay attention to the problem of abandoned babies in society, consciously or unconsciously, and learned that this is not a matter of two people, although this group is not large in absolute numbers, it is still a group that cannot be ignored. This is a group of people who have been abandoned by their families for various reasons, some because of the poverty of the family, some because the birth of children does not conform to the morality and laws of society, some because of the feudal concept of preference for sons, and some because of the physical defects or diseases of newborns. Whatever the reason, it should not be a reason to abandon the baby. I know that the issue of abandoned babies is an extremely complex social issue. Although this is a social phenomenon that exists in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, when I am myself in it, I am an abandoned baby, this feeling of being hurt is undoubtedly a cruel mental torture in the process of a person's growth. Ai Xiang never expressed his true feelings in front of Yu Mei like that.

It wasn't until that day that Yu Mei understood why the student she valued the most was always so silent. After listening to Ai Xiang's words about her life experience and her heart-wrenching emotion, she couldn't find any reason to comfort the young man in front of her, she knew that any language would be pale in the face of tragedy.

"Does this have anything to do with your choice to apply for my graduate school?" Yu Mei looked at Ai Xiang, who was in deep thought and confused, and asked with some puzzlement.

Ai Xiang came back to his senses and said with a wry smile: "It should be said that it has a lot to do with it, since I can't find the answer I want, I can only choose a major to calm myself down." I know that this idea is actually very contradictory, and my heart is that I want to keep myself out of it, no longer dwell on my innate pain, let go of the knot in my heart that may never be untied, and I want to put myself in it, hoping to find some kind of answer from other people's stories. Medicine is the best major in my opinion, and your research direction is the one I am most interested in. Although DNA can't answer my questions, it can answer many of the world's mysteries, and it can immerse me in them. In the process of constantly searching for the bottom of the puzzle and looking for the answer, the buried question in my heart gradually faded and even became blurred, and I slowly felt that it was not so important. Maybe one day, it will disappear from my heart, and I am actually looking forward to this day, when my troubled mind will be truly released. ”

From the day she learned about Ai Xiang's life experience, Yu Mei consciously or unconsciously paid extra attention to herself, a former student, and Ai Xiang also realized more about the changeability of human nature and the helplessness of life from those cases of wanting to find relatives through DNA identification.

After taking the dozens of appraisal reports that Ai Xiang had brought over, looking at the tired look on Ai Xiang's face, Yu Mei said with some apologies: "I've made you stay up late and work overtime again, I've worked hard for you." ”

"I'm used to it, if there is nothing to do, it may be more uneasy and painful for me, dozens of reports from the criminal police team are here, after sorting out, comparing them one by one, there is not a single case that can be determined to be a parent-child relationship. I really feel sorry for them, they have been busy for months, and still can't find the exact clue like looking for a needle in a haystack. ”

"Just now Captain Wang called and said that they will send someone to come over to pick up the report today, you take time to rest for a few hours, and when they come, if there is anything that needs to be explained and explained to them, I will call you again."

Yu Mei put dozens of reports and archives on the desk, and handed the takeaway breakfast on the table to Ai Xiang: "I just bought it, it's still hot, take it to replenish some energy." Ai Xiang smiled easily and said, "I really feel hungry, thank you, teacher." ”

Ai Xiang took the breakfast and walked out of Yu Mei's office, Yu Mei looked at his back and was a little stunned. She didn't come to her senses until she heard his footsteps cross the hallway, disappear into another office not far away, and the building fell silent again.

Yu Meituo introduced a few girls to Ai Xiang, each girl has good conditions, and her character is also very good, it can be said that they are all the types in Xiuwai Huizhong, but he didn't expect to be rejected by him for the same reason.

Ai Xiang said very bluntly: "I am an orphan, I want a house without a house, I want money and no money, what do I give to other girls to make people feel happy?" I believe that love is an equal relationship between the sexes. I'm not a materialist, but matter is the bare minimum foundation. It is absurd to talk only about spiritual pursuits and not about material requirements, and it is certainly hypocritical to talk only about the so-called feelings and not about the money needed for life. If I can't give my other half a good material life, I shouldn't have everything that my other half gives me for nothing. An unfair relationship cannot find a fulcrum, there will be no balanced relationship without a fulcrum, there will be no sense of security without a balanced relationship, and insecure love and marriage are fragile and will be lost at any time due to various sudden reasons. Rather than waiting for a day when it is suddenly lost, it is better not to let it happen. If you don't hope, you won't be disappointed, and if you don't look forward to it, there won't be pain. ”

Yu Mei listened to his explanation, which seemed to be the first to be the truth, and couldn't find any reason to convince him, so she could only look at this young man who had reached the age of standing in a daze, sighed helplessly, waved her hand awkwardly and said, "I don't worry about you anymore." But you have to remember that life is not a paper, you don't need to find evidence and evidence for everything, you can't be too negative about life, I hope you can have more optimistic ideas, don't live like an ascetic. ”

Chapter 35: The Truth of Life