Chapter 27 Section 1
Just like Cong Ming didn't know the secrets in Chen Mo's heart, Chen Mo didn't know the secrets in Cong Ming's heart either.Cong Ming came to Chen Mo's house the next evening with many doubts about Chen Mo in his heart.
Chen Mo's home is in Building 10, Huagang District. This district is located in the west of the ancient city. It was assigned by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles after Chen Mo's father was demobilized. Chen Mo lived in the same house for more than 4 months, and he would not arouse Chen Mo's suspicion when he came back to school to see Chen Mo.
The building is a kind of red brick building with bare surfaces. After being eroded by wind and rain, the brick walls have become dirty and old, but attention has been paid to greening around the community. There are statues in the lawn, and some flowers and trees that he can't name are blooming brilliantly. , When he was looking at the building downstairs, he heard, "Hi, Brother Cong!" Cong Ming looked up and saw that it was Chen Mo who greeted him.
Chen Mo rode a 26 Flying Pigeon bicycle, and with a dexterous swing, the bicycle rushed in front of Cong Ming.Cong Ming said with a guilty smile, "I was about to go upstairs to your house to see you, what a coincidence!"
Cong Ming knew that when he was in the anti-riot team, Chen Mo had always been a loner and did not participate in any social activities. Except for friends' weddings and group activities that he had to go to, he would always either go home or "hang in the air" in the dormitory Or practice the balance of arm strength, and sometimes use Cong Ming's Chinese character frame structure to practice pen writing.Chen Mo wrote beautifully with a pen.When Cong Ming was transferred from the anti-riot team to the cadre school, he gave the frame structure to Chen Mo. It was the first time Cong Ming saw Chen Mo after he was admitted to Beijing from the cadre school.
The anti-riot team was disbanded the year Cong Ming was admitted to school, and the whole team was assigned to the criminal investigation department. When he visited the gang of young brothers in the anti-riot team in the summer of 1987, he did not see Chen Mo. He even asked Where is Xia Xiaoqi and Chen Mo? Xia Xiaoqi told him that Chen Mo went to Shang'an County for the broken corpse case, and he squatted there in April.
Chen Mo looks a lot thinner than before. Qin Yizhen and Xia Xiaoqi have all grown up after they got married. Is Chen Mo's thinness abnormal? Can the criminals sleep peacefully? Cong Ming suddenly I wonder if I am too neurotic, a bit like a "suspect stealing an axe", suspicious of others in my heart, so the more I look at them, the more they look like, or maybe it is not Chen Mo at all, but a trouble I asked for!
To conceal himself, Cong Ming patted Chen Mo's bicycle and said, "It's time to switch to a new car and start driving. How can you drive?"
"I'm getting ready to get a car! Don't think you can't beat you in gun shooting, but you can't beat me in driving skills! If you don't agree with me, let's compete someday, let's go upstairs!"
Why did Chen Mo say that shooting is not as good as me? I couldn't shoot the shot he shot Lin Tiange. He told himself in his heart not to think about the case anymore, and to examine Chen Mo with an objective heart. Chen Mo's gaze was calm, and Chen Mo's smile was also calm. Cong Ming felt that he had no reason to look at others with a skeptical filter first.
He followed Chen Mo up the stairs.
Chen Mo's house is in the east-facing unit on the fourth floor. Chen Mo opened the door with a key, and his mother came out from the kitchen. Cong Ming hurriedly said hello, "Hello, Auntie!"
When Chen Mo's mother saw Cong Ming, she was very surprised and said, "Hey, Cong Ming is a rare visitor. I heard from Chen Mo that you have gone to Beijing to study. Are you about to graduate?"
"I've already graduated, so I'll have time to come and see you if I don't graduate!"
"How did you arrange the work? Will you return to the cadre school?"
"Our cadre school has merged with the police school, let me go back to the police school to teach!"
"Well, it's better to teach, An Ding, Chen Mo and the others are so busy with cases every day!" Chen Mo's mother is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine in the city's No. 1 Hospital.
Chen Mo's father also came out from the study and said, "Oh, Cong Ming is here, sit down quickly, sit here." Chen Mo's father has silver hair and is very elegant.
"Hello Uncle, I haven't seen you for a few years, you look well maintained, busy with work!" Cong Ming said respectfully.
"Retired and old, I have to make room for you young people!"
When Cong Ming heard that Chen Mo's father said he was retiring, a new inspiration came to his mind.
"Come, come, let's talk while eating!" Chen Mo and his mother greeted Cong Ming to eat.
Cong Ming didn't refuse either.Because he came here at this time obviously to steal other people's money! Chen Mo's parents are that kind of knowledgeable. Although his father is retired, he still carries the demeanor he has cultivated in the officialdom for many years.
Chen Mo also has an elder brother who has been doing business outside for many years and rarely returns home.Cong Ming thought, Chen Mo has such a good family, such good parents, and good tutoring, so it shouldn't be... He began to doubt his deduction again.
After dinner, Cong Ming followed Chen Mo to chat in Chen Mo's hut. Chen Mo's room was very clean, but it looked like a single man's residence, with a single bed, a bookcase, and a writing desk.Cong Ming stood still from the bookcase to see what books Chen Mo had. As he browsed, his eyes stopped on the black lettering on the spine of a book: "Human Anatomy".He casually took it out and flipped through it, and saw a picture of acupuncture points in the human body... Cong Ming remembered the shot that was shot on Lin Tiange's spine. Chen Mo was studying the acupuncture points of the human body! He must be preparing for the crime Yes, Cong Ming was excited by this new discovery. He was afraid that Chen Mo would be suspicious, so he quickly put the book in and took out a copy of "Detective Sherlock Holmes".
Chen Mo came in with two cups of tea and said, "I don't have any good books here. All the good books are in my dad's big bookcase! Come and have some tea!"
Cong Ming said: "How's your personal affairs going? Don't keep procrastinating, you're wasting your wonderful youth. If not, I'll find one for you!"
Chen Mo smiled and said, "I know that Big Brother always misses me, but I'm talking about one!"
"When did you get married? We've been waiting for years for your wedding!" Cong Ming was eager to understand Chen Mo's personal affairs.
"Oh, I haven't written my horoscope yet. I've met several times. When it's settled, I'll tell you for sure! But now I really can't afford to get married, unlike a few years ago, I always doubt this policy now. ...
"You are not a problem, your family's financial conditions are so good!" Cong Ming wanted to get into the theme without showing any signs of expression.
"No, that's the past, and I barely made up. Brother Cong, I'm always thinking, what kind of people do you think this policy is for now, don't you see, what kind of people are rich now? Good people, People with legitimate jobs, people who are honest and law-abiding, people like you and me who stick to their jobs are getting poorer and poorer. Damn, after working for many years, they can’t even afford a color TV...
Now it is different from the past. In the past, the police still had the reputation of having a good job. Girls are willing to find the police. Nowadays, people all accept money. As long as they have money, it’s okay to spend time in prison. So, what good is a good job and a good character? If you don’t know how to make money, you’re a waste. We’ve been left behind by this era, and we’ll be thrown farther and farther in the future. Tell me, we’re exhausted every day. But what you get, this society is unfair, and it will never be fair, you say we are chilling the police!"
Cong Ming felt that this was the most he had heard from Chen Mo since he knew Chen Mo, and what Chen Mo said was from his heart.Maybe he is an outsider in Chen Mo's eyes, and it's more relaxed to talk to an outsider. If he and Chen Mo were still together, Chen Mo would never complain to him.He followed Chen Mo's words and said: "There will definitely be all kinds of chaos during the social transformation period, but to be honest, I don't like the current social atmosphere. It takes such a period to go from disorder to order, so don't be too pessimistic. When Cong Ming said this, he wanted to connect the topic with the case, so before Chen Mo answered, he said again: "Wang Chang'an said that before. Sigh! I didn't expect Wang Chang'an to be so dead! Compared with Chang'an, we I am lucky to be alive! Hey, how is the trial of Yang Luhu?"
"Yang Luhu has nothing to do with this case, but he was indeed the one who killed Shang Yuanxiang. He confessed that after his brother was shot, he was looking for opportunities. Later, he deliberately swallowed iron nails in the detention center instead of performing surgery in the hospital. The two people who saw him that night were careless, thinking that he couldn't move anyway, so they went to the nurse's office to play cards, and he just slipped out to commit the crime while no one was watching him...
By the time he was suspected, he had already been discharged from the hospital and returned to the detention center. Anyway, the director of the detention center concealed the fact that he was imprisoned in the hospital and left the prison cell because he was afraid of being held accountable for the accident..." Chen Mo participated in the interrogation of Yang Luhu, so he knew the inside story.
"If he didn't shoot that day, who would have known that he was Yang Luhu? If he didn't tell if he knew, he couldn't find the gun or evidence, so he still couldn't be convicted!" Cong Ming wanted to lure him with such a practical and sincere analysis. Leading Chen Mo towards the topic he expected to be shortlisted.
"Hey, he wants to live in seclusion like this, but he always thinks that one day the police in the ancient city will come to find him. If they find him, it means that the police in the ancient city have found him, so he can only be vigilant all the time. , as long as people from the ancient city come to investigate, he will have to run away...
Wang Changan was too careless that day, usually the local police followed him when he went out to investigate and make unannounced visits. The two of them went out without authorization that day, and Yang Luhu heard it when he was in the house. He didn’t know that Wang Chang’an had already reached the back door and blocked him from letting him go, so he shot in a panic..."
Chen Mo introduced Yang Luhu's case in detail. Cong Ming felt that Chen Mo was quite smart. Yang Luhu had nothing to do with this case. It didn't matter if he said more or less. It would be foolish to pursue the case blindly, so he left in due course.
He rode his bicycle and walked through the night of the ancient city. Walking alone in the night and thinking about his thoughts, he was much more free than in a house.
Now he has to analyze Chen Mo in a historical background.
First of all, four years ago, in 1984, Chen Mo's father was at the county regiment level, and his salary was higher than that of ordinary people. As a child of a cadre, Chen Mo had a strong sense of superiority.He is proud of his father.
Cong Ming remembered that when Chen Mo came to the anti-riot team, the vats he used were fine porcelain vats with excellent craftsmanship developed by the Ceramic Research Institute. Whoever said Chen Mo, your vats are so beautiful, and when they are really high-end, he will immediately show pride and complacency Said: "It was given to my father." Chen Mo smoked all good brands. Cong Ming remembered that when Chen Mo lived with him, he always smoked Liangyou. Given the situation at that time, his elder brother had already joined the work. His mother works in the traditional Chinese medicine department of the hospital, and their family's economic conditions are considered to be at the upper-middle level. However, since 1984, it has been popular to set up companies to do business in the country. There are often rumors in the society that a certain child in the central government is reselling arms, smuggling cars, and dumping steel. , there was a period of time when everyone met and didn’t talk about anything else, they all asked if you had a way to get corrugated steel, or do you know where to get steel, he has a few tons in his hand, if he builds a bridge in the middle, he can earn A substantial brokerage fee.There are also reselling color TV refrigerators.Those who have been in prison have all thrown themselves into the business world. At that time in China, it seemed that many "white wolves" could be caught with bare hands. The number of people who became rich overnight gradually increased. At that time, there was chaos, and there were many loopholes that could be exploited. The law is not very sound, and a large number of people have all issued.And at this time, Chen Mo's father retired.Chen Mo only relied on that little salary, which was not much at the time. His sense of superiority was gone, the social environment had changed, and his economy began to decline.
This is to measure Chen Mo from an economic point of view, so what about politics?
Cong Ming always thought that Chen Mo was a politically ambitious person.When he was in the anti-riot team, in addition to being a shooting coach, he also served as the back office of the anti-riot team. Later, when he was transferred to the cadre school, he recommended to the leader that Xia Xiaoqi should be the back office. The key was handed over to Xia Xiaoqi, but Chen Mo secretly organized Bai Brigade and Da Lao Guo to invite them to drink. Later, Bai Brigade took the key from Xia Xiaoqi and handed it to Chen Mo.Why does Chen Mo value the position of internal support? Because it is natural for internal support to be promoted to a deputy department, and it is a year of the monkey to be an ordinary team member. Therefore, what Chen Mo values is to be able to "progress" quickly, because Chen Mo's character has always been competitive, and he likes everything in his bones. He wants to be stronger than others, so he loves to offend others.What happened later was that Qin Yizhen and Xia Xiaoqi, who were assigned to the anti-riot team with him and then to the Criminal Investigation Department, both joined the party and were promoted as deputy section chiefs, while Chen Mo did not join the party and was not promoted.In terms of Chen Mo's personality, he is competitive and likes to stand out, and likes to be top-notch in everything, but he falls behind others.Based on Cong Ming's understanding of Chen Mo, Chen Mo has always been very good at work, and he was the first one among their classmates to make meritorious service.
When they were still in the anti-riot team, they drove after a gunman who murdered a robber. The criminal was running on the road on a motorcycle, and they chased them in a jeep. Fell out from the motorcycle... For this matter, the city bureau gave Chen Mo a great credit. It was the government's credit. The promotion may be due to many things in his personality, such as withdrawn, stingy, love to admit death, stubbornness, seriousness, etc. These defects in character have affected his progress! From this point of view, Chen Mo is definitely politically unsatisfactory .
Look at Chen Mo's emotional world again.
Those who are the same age as Chen Mo, those who got married in the past few years, those who have sex with each other, and some people who are planning to get married, only Chen Mo is left.According to Xia Xiaoqi and the others, Chen Mo is actually quite high-minded, and he wants to find a girl who is better than what they are looking for.This girl needs to be beautiful, but she can't be beautiful, she can't be smart if she's beautiful, and she needs to have a good family background and social status, so Chen Mo can't meet such a perfect person.Cong Ming introduced a lot to Chen Mo, but due to Chen Mo's own limited conditions, for example, his stature is not dominant, his appearance is average, and his family conditions are not as good as before. He also looked down on others.So from the perspective of love, Chen Mo is frustrated in love.
Fell in family fortune, frustrated in politics, frustrated in love, all these will make Chen Mo feel extremely unbalanced.How can Chen Mo tolerate other people's good and his own bad? He will say: You are not as capable as I am, so why are you better than me?
A person who is out of balance always tries to regain his balance in a special way.
Chen Mo is a person who likes extremes. He has failed on this road. He may seek the opposite road to realize his own value. That is to say, he thinks that he is not on the road of being a policeman If you don’t like it, then the opposite of the police profession is to be a criminal. With Chen Mo’s intelligence, Chen Mo’s skills, Chen Mo’s heart, and Chen Mo’s deep understanding of the police profession, Chen Mo dares to do several major cases in the ancient city. Chen Mo can do it! A policeman, an excellent criminal policeman, if he degenerates into crime, is far more hateful, terrifying, and shameful than ten or a hundred criminals.Because he is a double-faced person, he knows the enemy and knows the enemy, he is still in the task force, he commits the case and then watches a group of people busy solving the case, and he is also busy solving the case he committed.Who would have thought, who would have thought, who would have dared to think that a pink person, under the cover of that layer of pink, would transform into a black person from body to soul...
Police crime, in China, is still a blind spot. It is understandable not to dare to think about it. It is like having a tumor on your body, and you cannot make up your mind to have an operation until it becomes cancerous. It is also like having a malignant sore on yourself. How dare you dig your own sores? Isn’t that the same as digging your own heart?
"What should I do? What should I do?"
Cong Ming parked the car on the road with one foot on the other, he looked around, he just stopped in the middle of a crossroad, he, his thoughts are all stopped at the crossroad, he can't just stop Stopping like this, he has to make a choice: Should he talk to the organization? Who to talk to? How to talk?
The night is blurred, and his thoughts are even more blurred than the night...