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Chapter 224 Differential Treatment, Nobody Sees It

The car was driven to a nearby hospital.

Lin Mofei stepped into the hall, which was filled with the smell of disinfectant, carrying Xiao Ruyi. He immediately felt the child in his arms tremble.

He paused, lowered his head, and asked as gently as possible, "Are you feeling unwell?"

The child didn't say anything, but simply shook his head gently.

Lin Mofei could tell that she didn't want to talk, so he didn't ask any more questions. He continued walking forward while comforting her in a low voice, "It's okay, the checkup won't hurt. Why don't you take a nap and you'll feel better when you wake up?"

It just so happens to be lunch break time, and he remembers that children his age usually take a lunch break.

[The police officer was so kind.]

[A tough guy with a soft heart!]

Was Xiaoruyi afraid of the hospital just now?

[It did seem like a reaction of fear; if it were a normal child, they would probably be crying and screaming to leave, but Xiao Ruyi didn't say anything.]

[They may have suffered from resisting and crying before.]

[Stop talking, or you'll curse that damned culprit who caused all this again!]

The first step in the examination is to draw blood.

Lin Mofei first rubbed the child's hands, which had become a little cold, before handing them to the nurse, while simultaneously covering the child's eyes with his own hand.

[I exclaimed how great the details were!]

I can say with certainty that this young police officer will definitely be a good father in the future.

Blood was drawn from the fingertip for testing, followed by an examination of the lump at the back of the head.

This area cannot afford any mistakes.

The final test results weren't good, but they weren't too bad either.

He was hit on the head by a hard object. There were no wounds on the surface, but there was a small amount of bruising inside.

Fortunately, no further brain damage was caused.

Children recover better, and their heads tend to sweat easily, so the doctor suggested simply spraying some blood-activating and stasis-removing medicine on the injured area and observing it closely.

There were some further checks, involving more private areas, which were handled by Jiang Hanying and Yuan Chaoyu.

Lin Mofei and the crew of the program could only wait outside the inspection room.

With everything expedited, all the test results came out within two hours.

"Ruyi is quite healthy and doesn't seem malnourished. As for the lump on the back of her head, please keep a close eye on it and don't forget to apply the blood-activating and stasis-removing medicine..."

Lin Mofei was just about to breathe a sigh of relief.

The doctor's tone shifted, "But this child also has some psychological issues. I don't know if you've noticed, but she's very obedient. Children this age are usually quite self-centered; they cry and throw tantrums whenever they want, and they don't really consider the feelings of those around them. But Xiao Ruyi's self-awareness is clearly weaker than her obedience, which is obviously detrimental to her healthy development. At an age when she should be able to express her natural instincts, she should be allowed to do so. When she makes mistakes, she needs to be stopped and then guided and corrected, rather than having her self-awareness erased just to make her obedient. Fortunately, it's not too late to correct it now..."

[What that therapist said before! Ahhh, does everyone remember?]

I remember it was said to be domestication!

Why treat her like a small animal and try to tame her when she's clearly just a child?

[Damn it, people like that don't deserve to be parents!]

[Please, officer, don't look for Xiaoruyi's relatives. If you do, you'll have to send her back, and that's a den of wolves!]

[This isn't something they can simply choose not to look for; it's their duty.]

[Then I hope the person who treated Xiaoruyi like this dies soon. Some relatives are better off not having than having!]

It wasn't until Jiang Hanying patted him on the shoulder that Lin Mofei snapped out of his dazed state.

"gone!"

Lin Mofei nodded mechanically, then mechanically picked up the sleepy little child whose head was nodding slightly, stood up, and mechanically said, "Thank you, doctor, thank you for your trouble!"

"You're welcome." The three of them walked out of the hospital in silence.

Lin Mo insisted on driving, so Jiang Hanying once again skillfully picked him up.

After sitting down in the car, I looked down and saw a sleepy little face. "Go to sleep if you're tired!"

Lin Mofei was just about to start the car when he heard Jiang Hanying's words and looked over, "It's no use, I did it before too..."

Lin Mofei was speechless when he saw Xiao Ruyi obediently closing her eyes in the rearview mirror.

After a pause, she muttered somewhat dejectedly, "Why won't she listen when I tell her to go to sleep, but she listens as soon as you say it?"

[Little Ruyi is indeed being treated a bit differently!]

[I've thought of a possibility. Officer Lin used a consultative tone earlier, suggesting she could take a nap—it was entirely up to her—but Jiang Hanying said she should sleep when she was tired, which sounded more like an order. Combined with the doctor's diagnosis, Xiao Ruyi is clearly more accustomed to obedience.]

[You might be surprised to know that this could actually be the reason.]

[But didn't the doctor just say this habit needs to be corrected? Jiang Hanying is knowingly doing it wrong!]

But Xiao Ruyi clearly needs more sleep now, and this obedience was developed over a long period of training, so correcting it can't be done overnight; it has to be done gradually and subtly.

Flexibility is always necessary in everything!

Soon they heard Jiang Hanying's reply to Lin Mofei: "Maybe it's because I'm pretty."

Lin Mofei: "..."

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While Yuan Chaoyu was speechless, she also turned her head to take a serious look at Jiang Hanying's face, wanting to see just how thick-skinned this person really was!

The journey back was very quiet.

Firstly, my little Ruyi was sleeping soundly in the car, and I didn't want to wake her up by talking.

Secondly, I was speechless at Jiang Hanying's answer.

When they got back to the police station, Xiao Ruyi was still asleep, so Jiang Hanying carried her out of the car.

"Let's go to the duty room, there are beds there."

Just as the three of them settled the child on the bed and closed the door, the others who had been sent out to search for clues on the street returned.

Once the two sides met, they simply held a short meeting and shared their respective situations.

Lin Mofei emphasized the psychological aspects of the child, "...Everyone should be more mindful of their speech in the office from now on, and try not to be too loud or too serious. Also, the child's name is Ruyi, and we don't know if it's his formal name or nickname yet, but let's screen based on the name and the age range of three to four years old."

The colleague in charge of household registration nodded quickly.

"What about your side? Have you gotten any leads?"

Several heads slowly shook.

"You didn't get anything out of them?"

"Almost everyone replied that they had no recollection of it, did not see it, or did not pay attention to it."

“There’s a bakery where I checked the security footage and saw Xiao Ruyi standing quietly outside the window for a while, probably because she was hungry. I went inside and asked all the staff, but they all said they hadn’t seen the child in the light yellow dress.”

"You didn't see any of them? Not a single one?" Lin Mofei was almost incredulous. "Can this child turn invisible?"

Seeing everyone's helpless expressions, Chi Song pursed her lips. "She is obedient and quiet by nature. Such a person has a relatively weak presence. If she deliberately hides herself, she can deceive people's subjective consciousness."

[Chi Song's statement sounds so much like me when I'm afraid of being called on by my boss in a meeting!]

[And then there was the time I went back to my hometown for Chinese New Year and was surrounded by relatives. I really wished everyone would stop calling my name and look in my direction!]

But what is Little Ruyi hiding from now?

Could it be her heartless parents?

Wait, if that's the case, then it's possible that Xiao Ruyi wasn't abandoned, but ran away on her own.

[How could a three-year-old possibly do that!]