After a while, Wu Ke asked, "Officer You, how is that child now?"
Officer You replied, "The child's jaundice isn't too serious..."
Hearing this, Hu Yong frowned and said, "My child's face was really yellow."
"He may have been sitting in the lower berth, where the lighting wasn't very good. His actual condition is fine. There's a doctor in the next carriage who examined him and said the jaundice wasn't very serious. As long as he rests for a while, he should recover."
Officer You explained the situation, then said worriedly, "However, that woman may have given the child quite a lot of sleeping pills. The child still hasn't woken up, and we don't know what effect they'll have!"
"She's truly detestable!" Wu Ke clenched her fists when she heard this, looking furious. If that woman had been standing in front of her, Wu Ke would have wanted to slap her several times.
Hu Yong also said indignantly, "I heard from my friend that in most infant-trafficking cases, the criminals, in order to avoid being caught and prevent people from discovering them and calling the police when the babies kept crying during transport, would mix sedatives into the infants' food and water or give them sleeping pills. If something went wrong, the children could be left with lasting effects. Some even died because of it..."
"Alas!" Officer You sighed. "Rationally speaking, I know that simply increasing the punishment for human traffickers might very well have the opposite effect. But whenever I see how utterly devoid of humanity they are, I truly wish I could lock them up for life."
Because of this heavy topic, everyone fell silent for a while. Just then, a train attendant came over and happily announced some good news: the child had woken up.
"Let's go