"Anything else?" Yi Pin frowned.
The girl shook her head.
"If you think of anything else, contact me," Yi Pin sighed.
When you're extremely eager to accomplish something, you always feel that the pace is too slow. You wish you could achieve it overnight and know everything from the start, but that's often impossible. The more impatient you are, the more it seems like God is playing tricks on you.
There was no clue at all.
Yi Pin stood on the roadside, at a loss.
"Those two might not be at home now. They should be at work. How about we go up and take a look?" Yi Pin said hesitantly.
"This kind of thing can happen once, but it can't keep happening over and over again," Shen Yu said coldly.
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Yi Pin felt irritated.
They were always in a dilemma, neither able to move forward nor backward.
"What else can we do? Of course, we have to... wait. You know, without enough evidence, this won't go through the judicial process. Even if we do find something, it will be in vain. So don't be impatient."
"Moreover, they seem to be on guard now. They've even taken the kid to school. Maybe they're afraid of being punished under the Compulsory Education Law for Minors!" Shen Yu said with a hint of coldness on his face.
Yi Pin stood there, stunned. She had always thought that he was self - centered and didn't care about anything.
He had said so much, and it all made sense. Even though she had kept saying that they shouldn't treat Zi Qi like that, she had never investigated or found any relevant evidence. On the contrary, Shen Yu, who had always been silent, knew whether the kid went to school and about his daily life. She felt ashamed just thinking about it.
"School? Since the kid has gone to school, we can ask the teacher for help!" Yi Pin said excitedly, but immediately regretted it after speaking.
If the kid could testify, there wouldn't be so many problems. But now the kid lacked a sense of security and didn't know who could help. Moreover, those two had taken the kid back that day, and she hadn't stopped them.
She felt so angry with herself.
If she hadn't been so reckless before, maybe the kid wouldn't have lost trust in them. Maybe the kid would have told them something, and they could have found a way to help. But now, even the most basic trust was gone.
Shen Yu didn't say a word. He just curled his lips in a helpless smile.
"Don't worry. There must be a way," Shen Yu said coldly.
"I'm not you. How can I be so calm and not worry?" Yi Pin frowned, feeling irritated.
"You're not me. How do you know I'm not worried?" Shen Yu curled his lips with a smile, but there was a hint of coldness in his eyes.
"Now, Zi Qi won't trust us anymore. Instead, he may be on guard against us because of us, he suffered a greater blow!" Shen Yu said coldly, his face expressionless.
Just then, an old woman walked by.
"Hello, ma'am. We'd like you to assist us in an investigation," Yi Pin quickly stepped forward and said with a faint smile.
"I'm busy," the old woman said impatiently and continued walking out.
The black garbage bag in her hand indicated that she was probably going to throw out the trash.
"It won't take you long. Just a few minutes," Yi Pin continued, not giving up.
"I don't even have a few minutes. Find someone else!" The old woman looked at her coldly, as if she was a cancer that would be incurable if touched.
In the following process, several people coming and going showed no intention of cooperating with the investigation.
Everyone was afraid of getting involved in the matter and didn't want to cause trouble for themselves.
So they just watched the world indifferently.
They lived their own lives and didn't want to get involved in other people's business.
"This is the slum!" Shen Yu suddenly said, lighting a cigarette. "They live in this world in a muddle. Life is already a hard thing for them. Living in the dirt, they think the whole world should be like this, without light, without a future, without hope."
But this is so - called life. If there are rich people, there must be poor people. The richer the rich are, the poorer the poor will be.
The poor are always thinking that if they have money, maybe everything will be better.
But the rich are not necessarily happy either. They still have a lot of troubles.
So people are never satisfied.
Just as Lu Xun said, people's sorrows cannot be understood by each other.
"But... shouldn't they be the ones who can empathize and feel others' pain?" Yi Pin frowned.
"Because they've been in pain for so long that they think the whole world should be like this. They already have a lot of troubles of their own. How can they care about others' business!"
After this moment of contemplation and the conversation, neither of them said a word. They didn't seem to want to break the awkward silence, and the atmosphere was a bit cold.
Just when they were making no progress and could only watch helplessly, an old man walked over.
"Are you policemen?" the old man said coldly. Although he looked old with gray hair and beard, he was full of energy.
"No, we're lawyers!" Shen Yu said with a polite smile.
"What do lawyers do?"
Hearing this, Yi Pin was shocked. This old man didn't even know what lawyers did.
She didn't know how to start explaining.
"Lawyers help people fight lawsuits. For example, if you have any grievances and don't know where to vent them, and you want justice and those bad guys to be punished, you can find a lawyer," Yi Pin patiently explained.
"Aren't they like saviors then?" the old man continued.
"This is completely different from a savior..." Yi Pin said helplessly with a faint smile on her face.
But she didn't find the old man funny at all. Instead, she felt a bit sad.
"Alright, then who are you here to fight a lawsuit for?"
The old man frowned, and the wrinkles on his face were very obvious, showing that he had experienced a lot in life.
Yi Pin pointed at the door of that house with her chin.
"You're really a bit late. That poor kid... He used to come to my place for a meal from time to time, but he hasn't been here since!"
The old man sighed softly.
Yi Pin suddenly looked at the old man excitedly, as if she had grasped a life - saving straw.
"Sir, could you please cooperate with our investigation?" Yi Pin said excitedly.
"What's an investigation?"
The old man looked at the two of them blankly.
"Just tell me everything you know," Yi Pin said nervously.