At three o'clock in the morning, policewoman Jiang Lan picked up a cardboard box at the door of the police station. Inside was a four-month-old baby boy. He was so thin that only his bones were left and his umbilical cord was inflamed. He only had half a can of milk powder and a note asking good-hearted people to save him.
She checked surveillance cameras and visited courier stations, and it took her three months to find the child's father, courier Yang Chang. He did not run away, but squatted on the ground and cried, "I don't have money for my son's heart surgery. My wife ran away, and I don't know what to do."
Legally, he is an abandoned criminal, but humanly, he is a father who has been forced into a corner. Jiang Lan did not arrest him, but helped him apply for assistance, solicit donations, and finally swiped his credit card to collect 80,000 yuan for the surgery.
The operation was successful. Yang Chang moved his children next door to the police station and delivered soy milk, tea and eggs to Jiang Lan every morning. He said: "There is no interest written on the IOU. I will give you breakfast for the rest of my life to calculate the interest."
Three years later, the first word the child learned was not "dad" but "mom". He was right, because he has two family members - one wearing a police uniform and one wearing a courier uniform.
Purpose: The law has its limits, and people's hearts have their warmth; an abandoned life allows two desperate people to learn love and responsibility.