Chapter 26 Episode twenty-six

Evening outside the supermarket After the supermarket got off work, Pang Jiandong came over and took Liu Chuan and the prisoners working in the supermarket back to the prison area. In the evening Pang Jiandong took Liu Chuan back to the third prison area, and Pang Jiandong and Liu Chuan chatted while walking. Pang Jiandong: "During the Chinese New Year, how many people go to the supermarket to buy?" Liu Chuan: "Many." Pang Jiandong: "What are you buying?" Liu Chuan: "Eat, for the holidays, many people come to buy snacks." Pang Jiandong: "That's true. Chinese people eat first during festivals." After a pause, he asked Liu Chuan, "What did you buy?"

Liu Chuan: "I didn't buy it." Pang Jiandong: "Don't you have something to eat during the holidays? Haven't you already saved a lot of money in your account?" Liu Chuan: "I won't eat. I want to save money. If I can go home to visit relatives during the Spring Festival next year, I can also give it to my grandma and my daughter outside..." Liu Chuan originally wanted to talk about buying something for grandma and Ji Wenzhu, He stopped halfway through, then he paused and said, "...buy something for my grandma." Pang Jiandong seemed to realize what Liu Chuan swallowed back, so he stopped talking and didn't continue.Unexpectedly, Liu Chuan took the initiative to say: "Captain Pang, the Spring Festival is coming soon, I wonder if I can give my girlfriend a greeting call, I haven't contacted her for a long time. She keeps sending me money, I miss my You should say thank you to her."

Pang Jiandong stood down, was silent for a moment, and asked Liu Chuan, "Your girlfriend?" Liu Chuan: "I, I miss her very much, even if I just say a word to her, I just wish her a happy Spring Festival. That's fine." Pang Jiandong: "Aren't you aware of Tianhe Prison's regulations on making family calls? Family calls can only be made to immediate relatives and family members, not to boyfriends and girlfriends." Liu Chuan: "Yes, I know, but I want to ask, can the restrictions be relaxed during the Spring Festival." Pang Jiandong: "Then can I understand that you made this request to me today, it's a big deal, right?"

Liu Chuan: "...Forget it." Pang Jiandong didn't immediately refuse, but asked again in reverse: "Your girlfriend... isn't she going back to her hometown for the holidays? Do you have her hometown's phone number?" Liu Chuan was happy, and mustered up the courage to push forward: "Captain, didn't you look for her last time? Do you still have contact with her now? Do you know her mobile phone number, I can call her mobile phone." Pang Jiandong remained silent for a long time, and Liu Chuan felt that he was a little unhappy from his silence.Sure enough, Pang Jiandong put on a straight face: "Liu Chuan, what do you think of me as one of you...

If I let you call this mobile phone, I will violate the "nine do nots" rule of the prison guards.What's more, I don't have her mobile phone number, so I can only tell you that you didn't get anything out of your efforts today. " After Pang Jiandong finished speaking, he turned his face away and left. Liu Chuan stood behind him blankly, and it took him a long time to remember to say: "Yes." supermarket during the day The Spring Festival holiday has not yet ended, and Liu Chuan is still working in the supermarket.This day he was extremely uncomfortable, and he kept a straight face all day long.A prisoner who worked with him asked, "Liu Chuan, what's wrong with you, you're listless."

Liu Chuan: "Ah, no." Prisoner: "Lamb pie tonight." Liu Chuan: "I know." When it was closing at night, another team leader from the first prison area came over and was about to take the prisoners who were serving in the supermarket back to the prison area. What, then called Liu Chuan out of the queue. meeting building in the evening Liu Chuan was escorted by the police from the Prison Administration Division and walked into the interview building. It was not his grandma, let alone Ji Wenzhu, who came to meet him in the prison on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, but two criminal policemen from the Qinshui Public Security Bureau.This time it is not the two comrades who came last time, but what they are talking about is still the case mentioned last time.

Qinshui Criminal Police sat opposite Liu Chuan, and first explained the situation: "Fan Bencai, the leader of the Qinshui underworld gang, was arrested according to law last December. Among the underworld gangs, more than 20 people have been arrested or detained now. Now it can basically be determined that the Fanbencai gang was formed eight years ago and has been involved in many cases of extortion, injury, gambling and prostitution, and bribery of government officials in the Qinshui area. The purpose of our visit to Beijing this time is to To further confirm the specific process and plot of some incidents, I hope you can actively cooperate with our public security organs, provide the information truthfully, and don’t worry about it, ah.”

Liu Chuan said calmly, "Yes." Sub-district night When Liu Chuan returned to the sub-district from the meeting building, it was already past the time for dinner. The chores on duty brought Liu Chuan dinner and said, "It's not cold enough, is it enough? Why do we meet at this hour?" Liu Chuan opened the lunch box and saw only two steamed buns and a salted egg. Liu Chuan asked, "Didn't you eat mutton pie today?" Chores: "What time is it, it's long gone." prison number at night Liu Chuan returned to the cell with the lunch box, and before entering the cell, he heard that the cell was very lively. When he entered the cell, he saw that it was the squad leader, Liang Dong, who had returned to the cell early.

After all, Liang Dong was the squad leader, and everyone was fawning over him asking questions. Liu Chuan also greeted him politely. Liang Dong unexpectedly took the initiative to separate from the crowd and came forward. He picked up a cardboard box, which he obviously brought from home.He smiled at Liu Chuan with his eyes, and his tone was full of kindness and sincerity that he had never had before. "Liu Chuan, I brought this specially for you, I hope you like it." Liu Chuan was a little at a loss, with a corresponding smile on his face, but he didn't know whether to take it with his hands.Both of them were embarrassed for a moment. Liang Dong put the box on the table, opened the lid, stretched out his hands, and tremblingly brought out a clay basin from the inside, with a tall and straight green asparagus bamboo in the basin.The asparagus bamboo was obviously carefully selected, with a vigorous posture, straight leaves, and a plump color just right.

Liu Chuan was amazed and didn't know what to say. When he was late, Liang Dong took out a plastic water cup with a lid from the treasure chest-like cardboard box with his hands.In that transparent water glass, an equally transparent glass fish hangs calmly in mid-air. Those old-fashioned eyes look at Liu Chuan affectionately, as if they were predestined in a previous life. At least at that moment, Liu Chuan felt, The glass fish staring at him is his "glass", the "glass" that has been away for many days, and it is back. And the asparagus tree, which grew lushly, has returned.

prison number during the day The glass swam back to the sea-like fish tank by the wall, and into the tuft of floating seaweed.That was its territory, its home, and it went back as if everything was back to normal, as if it had never happened.Only the pot of asparagus bamboo was placed on the row of small tables and in the middle of the row of flower pots. It looked green and a bit eye-catching. Liu Chuan fed the "glass" and watered the asparagus as before. Xiao Ke's house at night When Xiao Ke came home from get off work, seeing her mother was not there, she asked her father, "Dad, my mother hasn't come back yet?" Father: "I'm back, I went to the apartment." Xiao Ke: "What did you do?" Father: "Said to tidy up." Xiao Ke: "Clean up?" Xiao Ke thought about it suspiciously, put down her drinking cup and opened the door to leave. Her father asked behind her, "Where are you going?" Xiaoke's apartment at night When Xiao Ke came to her unit, she saw her mother talking with two strangers who came to see the house, and introduced the advantages of the house—orientation, lighting, gas, water heater, refrigerator, etc. , the mother said to the inspector: "I want 1,500 yuan for this suite, which is not too much, and the decoration is basically new." The inspector said: "You don't even have a phone here, and the transportation is not very convenient. Can you lower it a little more, how about 1,300?" Xiao Ke's mother: "One thousand and three is too low. If you want to rent for a long time, you can install a phone yourself. It is very convenient to install a phone now." Viewer: "How about one thousand fourteen, can we fix the call ourselves?" Xiaoke's mother: "One thousand and four, then you pay every six months, right? That's fine, then this house is..." Xiao Ke walked into the house and interrupted the transaction: "I'm sorry, our house already has an owner, so we won't rent it anymore." Viewer: "Or just follow what you said, 1,500 yuan. Can you pay 1,500 yuan for three months first?" Xiao Ke: "If you only live for half a year, we'll rent it out. If it's longer than that, it won't work. My brother will come back after half a year. I have to keep this house for him." The caretaker complained to Xiaoke's mother: "Hey, what did you ask us to do? Isn't this messing with us?" Xiao Ke's mother whispered to Xiao Ke: "Half a year? Who wants to live here?" Xiao Ke still said to the viewer: "It's only half a year, I'm really sorry if it exceeds half a year." The other house-watcher got impatient and said to his companion, "Go! Stop chattering here!" night on the road On the way home, her mother asked Xiao Ke: "Isn't Liu Chuan coming early? Why should he come out in half a year?" Xiao Ke: "He became a prison reform activist this year, and he can reduce his sentence by eight months. If he makes some meritorious service and then reduces his sentence, he might be released in half a year and eight months." Mother: "For meritorious service, what kind of merit can you do in prison?" Xiao Ke: "I said just in case." Mother: "Then we don't want the fifteen thousand a month." Xiao Ke: "I don't want the house to be so dirty for someone to live in." After she finished speaking, she strode forward. Division during the day At the meeting of inmates, Sun Peng and other six prisoners stood in a row. Amid the applause of the inmates, the second-level lenient badges on Sun Peng’s and others’ chests were all replaced with first-tier lenient badges. . After the upgrade ceremony, Feng Ruilong, head of the sub-district, made a speech: "Congratulations to another group of inmates who have improved their treatment level through their hard reform and training. I sincerely hope that more inmates can increase their points and receive awards for their meritorious deeds. Strive for a reduction in sentence, complete the reform task one day earlier, return to society, and reunite with relatives!" The prisoners applaud again. Water room during the day The prisoners in the third division went to work, while Liu Chuan and Sun Peng stayed to clean the water room.The two chatted as they worked. Liu Chuan: "Has the reunion with your wife been approved?" Sun Peng: "Approved." Liu Chuan: "When is it?" Sun Peng: "Next Monday." Liu Chuan: "How long has it been approved?" Sun Peng: "Three days." Liu Chuan: "Only three days." Sun Peng: "Three days are not short, I am content." Liu Chuan: "Anyway, he's much better than me. I can't even catch these three days." Sun Peng: "Tell me, if you got your girlfriend, ah, done it earlier, and got married earlier, you would have been in the first-level lenient management, and you would have been able to enter the reunion building." Liu Chuan: "Hey, even if I do my girlfriend... even if we have that legal relationship, she is filming outside all over the world all year round, where can I find her now?" Sun Peng: "Oh, women, women, we men, let's be honest, we can't do without women." Liu Chuan: "That's you, I don't care about women." Sun Peng: "You, you are famous anyway. Who doesn't know that you broke in because of women and people. How did you write your confession and repentance? You didn't admit it just after you finished it?" Liu Chuan: "I didn't go back this Spring Festival. You see, I've had a good time. But if I suddenly tell you that your wife can't be reunited with you, I think you will suffer from feces and urine incontinence again." Sun Peng: "Bah, you stinky crow's mouth! Can you say a few words of auspiciousness? In fact, you are better than me. If there is no accident next Spring Festival, you will be allowed to go home to visit relatives and live outside for six or seven days. What is that?" Taste! Besides, your sentence is shorter than mine, and after two years, you will be able to go out completely." Tube during the day Liu Chuan and Sun Peng walked out of the water room with a mop and bucket. A team leader happened to walk into the sub-district with a letter from the prisoner's relatives that he had received that day, and called out, "Sun Peng, I have a letter from you today." Sun Peng ran to get the letter, and Liu Chuan took the mop and bucket to the storage room. When he returned to the cell, he was surprised to see Sun Peng grinning ugly, with two lines of hot tears on his face.Liu Chuan called out in surprise: "Sun Peng!" night outside prison After Feng Ruilong got off work, he got into his Poussin car, and said to Zhong Tianshui, who was leaving get off work with him, "Zhong Da, take my car?" Zhong Tianshui: "OK, let's take a ride." The two left the prison in a car. night on the road Zhong Tianshui asked: "Hey, I heard that Sun Peng's lover can't come?" Feng Ruilong: "Ah, his wife sent him a letter, saying that the leader of their unit gave her a chance to study and let her go to Shenzhen technical school for one year, and after one year, she would be qualified for promotion, so she The child was entrusted to her and Sun Peng's parents, and the child was asked to live in the homes of the two elderly people in turn. She will leave with the team next Monday. Next Monday happens to be the day when Sun Peng and his relatives are reunited. On this day, Sun Peng waits It’s been three years, so it’s going to take a long time, so I have to let him wait another year.” Zhong Tianshui: "Ah." warden's office daytime Zhong Tianshui hurried upstairs, walked through the corridor, and knocked on the warden's office.He saw that besides the warden Deng Tieshan, there were two middle-aged men in plain clothes sitting in the room. Zhong Tianshui: "Jian Deng, are you looking for me?" Deng Tieshan: "Come on, let me introduce you. These two are comrades from the People's Procuratorate of Qinshui City. They have a job that needs our cooperation. Come and listen to the situation." After shaking hands with the two prosecutors, Zhong Tianshui sat down, and the prosecutors got straight to the point: "We are here this time because of the Qinshui Fanben triad case. The Qinshui People's Court will officially hold a trial in two weeks to hear the case publicly. This case has a great impact on Qinshui. The people are very concerned about it. It involves complicated aspects and has attracted the attention of the media, so our province attaches great importance to it. I hope that the Beijing Prison Bureau will cooperate and detain Shan Juan, a prisoner serving a sentence in Beijing Women’s Prison. Fan Xiaokang, a prisoner serving sentence in Beijing No. 2 Prison, and Liu Chuan, a prisoner serving sentence here, went to Qinshui to testify in court. Fan Xiaokang, as a key member of Fan Bencai's underworld organization, will stay in Qinshui and Fan Bencai on the same side case to trial." Deng Tieshan said to the two Qinshui cadres: "Our Tianhe prison's repatriation department is our only repatriation agency in the world, so if these prisoners leave Beijing to go to other provinces, they will all be escorted by our prison." Deng Tieshan turned to Zhong Tianshui again and said, "The Bureau of Prisons has decided to deport these three prisoners to Qinshui, and the time is set for next Monday. On Saturday and Sunday, the time for this operation is tight and there are few prisoners to be escorted. I think we should stop contacting the train to Qinshui and use cars to escort them. It just so happens that almost all of our deportation department will be dispatched tomorrow night to escort the two prisoners. One hundred and sixty-three prisoners were sent to the four southern provinces along the Beijing-Guangzhou line, and it took about six days to return. So this task, I plan to be undertaken by your first prison district. Anyway, you and Feng Ruilong used to be in the deportation department. I am familiar with all kinds of tasks.” Zhong Tianshui: "Then let Feng Ruilong lead the team, and let him bring another person, Pang Jiandong. Feng Ruilong has seven years of experience in deportation work, and Pang Jiandong is Liu Chuan's captain. He is also young and strong. Hey, the deportation team is also Are there any lesbians left behind, isn’t there a female prisoner in this escort?” Deng Tieshan: "All the people in the deportation department had their assignments last Saturday. There were not enough lesbians, and they even borrowed a lesbian from the Youth League Committee. If you really can't do this mission, you should borrow a lesbian from the Life and Sanitation Department. " Zhong Tianshui: "Okay. Among the three prisoners, Liu Chuan was an activist in prison reform last year, and he only has two years left in his sentence. He should be relatively stable and easy to manage. The one who needs attention on the road is actually Fan Xiaokang—an individual." Deng Tieshan: "Three escort officers, two armed police soldiers, plus two drivers, seven police officers should be sufficient to deal with a dangerous person. In addition, this operation is still the old method—the date, personnel, and destination must be kept strictly confidential. , the prisoners under escort will not announce to them until before departure.” Zhong Tianshui: "Okay." Three divisions during the day It was raining heavily, and Feng Ruilong hurried into the gate of the prison area, dripping wet, just as Pang Jiandong ran out in a raincoat, Feng Ruilong stopped him and said, "Hey, I will study the route with the team this afternoon, don't forget .” Pang Jiandong responded, and Feng Ruilong said, "Hey, have you prepared everything you need to bring for this operation?" Pang Jiandong: "Xiao Ke is responsible for preparing everything." Feng Ruilong: "In the evening, the head of the Zhongjian District will listen to the report on the preparation work. You are ready, and you will talk about it today. Including the place where we rest halfway and the prison where the prisoners are temporarily detained, we must report in detail." Pang Jiandong: "Shall I report?" Prisoner canteen during the day On this day, Liu Chuan, Sun Peng and other prisoners from the fourth class were all working in the prisoner cafeteria. They braved the rain and moved the vegetables that were drying outside the cafeteria into the house.Then hide from the rain under the eaves and rest. Seeing Sun Peng staring at the rain screen in a daze, Liu Chuan comforted him from the side: "Don't think so much! This is a good thing for your wife, you have to be happy for her." Sun Peng: "Ah, I know, I'm happy." a postal company during the day Zhong Tianshui braved the rain and came to the company where Sun Peng's wife worked.A company employee took him into the manager's room. In the evening Pang Jiandong walked into the security guard room and saw several policemen surrounding a bed, and a doctor from the prison hospital was infusing Feng Ruilong on the bed. Pang Jiandong: "What's wrong with Team Feng, are you sick?" Feng Ruilong closed his eyes tightly, with a painful expression on his face.A policeman told Pang Jiandong: "I don't know if I didn't eat properly for lunch, or it was raining outside. I just came back and vomited and had diarrhea. Did you have a high fever?" The policeman asked the doctor. Doctor: "It's thirty-nine degrees, probably because of the wind and cold that caused acute gastroenteritis." Pang Jiandong: "Hey, can we leave tomorrow?" a postal company in the evening A cadre of the company sent Zhong Tianshui out of the office and said, "We all understand this matter, we all understand it." Zhong Tianshui: "Then thank you." Company cadre: "Hey, you should be the ones to thank. Actually, you can just make a phone call. It's okay to let her go three or five days late, and it won't delay her study. The husband and wife haven't been together for three years, so we Definitely support it." Zhong Tianshui: "Thank you, thank you." Sub-district night The prisoners were watching the news broadcast in the sub-district. Halfway through, a team leader came over and shouted: "Sun Peng, class four, come out." Sun Peng was so frightened that he stood up and walked out of the queue. The captain ordered: "Go back to the cell and take your own toiletries." The captain's serious attitude scared Sun Peng into thinking that he had committed something to enter the training team, and even his walking posture was a little abnormal.The prisoners watching TV couldn't guess what happened to him and he was going to be taken away alone on this stormy night. prison compound at night The policemen in raincoats escorted Sun Peng out of the building gate of the prison area, and walked towards the prison square. Sun Peng walked with an umbrella, restless. prison gate at night When he was about to reach the reunion building, the police escorted Sun Peng past the gate of the prison.Sun Peng suddenly saw a car driving to the prison gate.Sun Peng saw through the iron gate that Zhong Tianshui got out of the car from the driver's seat, opened the back door of the car under an umbrella, and a woman holding a child got out of the back door.Under the incandescent light of the car headlights, Sun Peng recognized that the woman was actually his wife, and the girl in his arms was his daughter.Sun Peng dropped the umbrella in shock, and mechanically took two steps towards the iron fence. The rain curtain and car lights shrouded the figures of Zhong Tianshui and Sun Peng's wife and daughter in a blur like a dream. Reunion building early morning In the early morning, before dawn, the entire Tianhe Prison lay quietly in the thick morning fog.Sun Peng was still asleep in the reunion building with his wife and children in his arms. Early morning in the third division The prisoners in the third sub-district were also asleep, only Liu Chuan was gently woken up by the police on duty. Liu Chuan got up from the bed in a daze, not knowing why the captain told him to get up early alone.Suspiciously, under the watchful eye of the night shift leader, he washed his face and left the bed alone, and was ordered to tie up his bedding, together with the washing utensils and plastic cups for drinking water, and pack them all into one luggage. A prisoner sat up and looked towards Liu Chuan. The night shift policeman waved his hand and told him to lie down and continue to sleep.Most of the prisoners in the same room were awake, and they all looked at Liu Chuan quietly, seeing that he seemed to be going out on the road, all of them were baffled. Liu Chuan walked out of the prison cell and walked to the dark end of the tunnel. Seeing Pang Jiandong standing silently at the exit of the sub-district, the captain on duty whispered a few words to him.Then, Pang Jiandong escorted Liu Chuan and let him walk out of the tunnel with his luggage in his arms, and then out of the prison area. The two walked towards the deportation department one after the other. prison compound early morning It rained heavily for half the night, and the thick clouds still covered the sky.Liu Chuan's heart was also gloomy, and the luggage he was holding in his hands seemed doubly heavy because of this.Under the escort of Pang Jiandong, he walked staggeringly through the empty central playground of Tianjian. The rain that accumulated last night splashed his shoes. From the analysis of the luggage in his hand and the direction he went straight to the deportation department, He seemed to realize that he was going to be sent off before the sun came up.He tried several times to turn around and ask Pang Jiandong where he was going, but Pang Jiandong's face was serious and selfless.Liu Chuan finally didn't dare to speak, because asking about his whereabouts without authorization was absolutely against the rules of a criminal's status. early morning deportation Pang Jiandong escorted Liu Chuan to the Datong Road of the Deportation Section, where Liu Chuan saw Zhong Tianshui, the superintendent of the first prison district, and Zheng Xiaoke, a policeman from the Sanitation Section.As soon as he saw Zhong Da and Xiao Ke, his heartbeat that was hanging in his throat suddenly fell back to his chest. Their presence immediately calmed him down for no reason. The large tunnel in the deportation section can hold 200 prisoners ready to go at the same time, but at this moment, the lights are dim and empty.After Liu Chuan calmed down, he stretched his eyes. He saw a prisoner squatting on the corners on the east and west sides of the Datong Road, and there was also a packed luggage next to the two prisoners.Liu Chuan was also ordered to squat down against the wall. When he walked towards the wall with his luggage, his eyes subconsciously glanced left and right, and his heart was shocked. He saw clearly that the prisoner on the left was Fan Xiaokang, who was escorted by the second prison.The one on the right turned half of his face slightly, and glanced at him, Liu Chuan already recognized that it was a female prisoner, and that female prisoner was Shan Juan. Liu Chuan squatted down, and the unexpected encounter with Shan Juan and Xiaokang was enough to make him believe that they were about to embark on a common journey, and the final destination of this journey could only be Qinshui, a coal city thousands of miles away. Liu Chuan was squatting by the wall, but out of the corner of his eye, he could see clearly that the captain from the second prison and the female prison hadn't left yet, was talking to Zhong Tianshui in a low voice, and handed over some items.Liu Chuan saw the policeman of the women's prison and Xiao Ke together, called Shan Juan, and escorted her into a room next to her.Afterwards, the male policemen who stayed in Tongdao began to call Liu Chuan and Xiaokang, and conducted a routine search on them before they were released from prison.First, they were ordered to unpack the luggage and shake off all the bedding and sheets. The policemen touched them inch by inch with their hands, and then asked them to tie them up again.After the luggage was searched, it was the turn of the body search. Liu Chuan and Xiaokang stood side by side, two meters apart, and took off their clothes one by one until they were completely naked.Xiaokang has been in prison for the past two years, and his stomach has begun to gain weight, while Liu Chuan's body is still the same, his limbs are still strong, his shoulders are still broad, but his body is still thin.Since he was imprisoned, although he has undergone many body searches, Liu Chuan still shyly covers his genitals with one hand, unlike Xiaokang who is unobtrusive, shameless and shameless.Every piece of their clothes was inspected by the police and thrown to them, and they put them on again one by one.While Liu Chuan was getting dressed, he listened to Pang Jiandong checking the money accounts and temporary storage items with Fan Xiaokang - mobile phones, rings and so on.From this, it is not difficult to see that Fan Xiaokang is probably gone forever.But Liu Chuan took nothing with him except for a bedding and toiletries, which meant that he would be back soon. At this time, Liu Chuan had already guessed the purpose of the trip out of ten, and it must be Lao Fan's case. They were either asked to cooperate with the police investigation, or asked them to testify in court.He couldn't see Shan Juan in the next room, and wondered if she also took all the money and belongings, and whether she would return to Beijing again. After the body search, dinner was served immediately, and Shan Juan was also taken out of the room to the tunnel, where he sat on the ground on the other side of Liu Chuan.A policeman brought steamed buns and pickles, and everyone also gave a bowl of cold boiled water.Liu Chuan's mood was very depressed by this sudden morning and this departure without any warning beforehand.He didn't want steamed buns, nor pickles, but just the bowl of cold boiled water.Pang Jiandong, who was serving meals, asked him: "What's the matter, it's early for lunch." Liu Chuan said, "I'm not hungry." Zhong Tianshui stood aside, asked Pang Jiandong to whisper a few words, and asked Pang Jiandong to take Liu Chuan to an office in the deportation department, and Old Zhong followed him in. There was no one else in the room, only Lao Zhong and Liu Chuan.Lao Zhong handed the steamed buns to Liu Chuan again, and said, "Let's eat some, so as not to be hungry on the way." Liu Chuan took the steamed buns and ate them tastelessly.Old Zhong said: "I'll go with you this time. Let's go to Qinshui. It's Fan Xiaokang's triad case. You need to testify in court. On the way, you help us keep an eye on Fan Xiaokang. This kid probably knows He will not be able to come back once he goes. This time, the Qinshui court may sentence him together. Maybe the sentence of death with a reprieve will be heavier than the current one. Anyway, he knows it well. Cooperate with us to suppress him." Liu Chuan stopped chewing and said dully, "Yes." Lao Zhong said, "You eat yours." He added, "The prison reform activists we reported to you last year have already been approved by the prison. This award can usually reduce your sentence by eight months. We have also reported the sentence reduction to the court. I guess, when you come back from Qinshui, the court's decision should come down. You may be detained in the detention center of the Public Security Bureau when you go to Qinshui this time. We have already introduced you to others, saying that you are a reform activist here. , so you must behave well to others, and don't let them think that you are not worthy of your name." Liu Chuan said, "Yes." Lao Zhong said that while Liu Chuan was eating, he quickly ate the steamed bun.Every time, as long as Lao Zhong said something to him, his heart would be much more comfortable.He especially noticed that Lao Zhong always used "I" or "we" to address himself in front of him, and rarely used "government", which is the most commonly used vocabulary of other disciplines.He understood that this was undoubtedly a kind of special psychological care given to him by Lao Zhong. The last procedure to leave the deportation section is to wear handcuffs.Shan Juan didn't wear them. Liu Chuan and Xiaokang wore handcuffs together. Liu Chuan had Xiaokang's left hand and Xiaokang's right hand. The handcuffs forced the two of them to be very close to each other, but they didn't look at each other.According to the regulations that prisoners with more than 15 years of fixed-term imprisonment must be escorted in shackles, the police also put Xiaokang in shackles.After all the shackles were put on, the three prisoners were brought together in front of Zhong Tianshui. Pang Jiandong ordered them to squat down side by side, surrounded by a dozen policemen from the Heavenly Prison, the Second Prison and the Women's Prison.Zhong Tianshui announced the order to set off on the road in a calm tone full of majesty. "According to the order of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Prisons, you will be escorted to Qinshui today. I declare that from now on, we will enter an extraordinary period..." prison gate daytime At dawn, the electric gate of the prison slowly opened to both sides, and a prison car drove out of the gate slowly. The sky was overcast with clouds, and rain and fog seemed to exist. Daytime inside the prison van Xiao Ke's eyes swept over the prisoners behind the iron sill one by one, and stopped quietly on Liu Chuan for a while. Shan Juan, who was sitting at the rear of the car, raised his head slightly, and cast his eyes on Liu Chuan in the front seat. interprovincial highway daytime At eleven o'clock in the morning, the prison car caught up with the torrential rain last night on a rugged mountain road in Hebei. The prison car did not slow down, and continued to travel through wind and rain, and even ate lunch in the car.The police and armed police sitting in front of the car ate bread, sausage, and hard-boiled eggs. They also distributed bread and eggs to the prisoners sitting in the back of the car. The water they drank was the same as that of the police, all of which were bottled. pure water. Even the post-dinner rest was carried out in the car. While the car was moving, Pang Jiandong and Xiao Ke entered the iron fence partition together. Pang Jiandong carried a small bucket with a lid and brought it to the male prisoner. Liu Chuan was asked to urinate in the bucket, and then he brought the bucket to Xiaokang's crotch.Because of the long time in the car, Pang Jiandong found that Xiaokang's fettered legs were a little swollen, so he asked Zhong Tianshui for permission in a low voice, and took off the shackles for him.After the male prisoner released the mat, he released the female prisoner's mat again. Pang Jiandong held the cloth sheet, and Xiao Ke helped Shan Juan release the mat at the rear of the car.Liu Chuan couldn't see or imagine how the woman put the clothes behind the cloth sheet. After putting the clothes, he sat in his seat and was ordered to bow his head. His eyes could only see his toes and crotch. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and there were almost no passing vehicles on the road. Occasionally, a few dark trucks crawled hard on the side of the road, and were quickly overtaken by this speeding prison car one by one.Except for occasionally looking up at the dark rain and fog outside the window, Liu Chuan kept his head down in a regular manner, listening to the chatter of the policemen outside the iron railing in front of the car. The policemen were talking about Qinshui, and Pang Jiandong asked Zhong Tianshui: "Da Zhong, have you ever been to Qinshui?" Zhong Tianshui said, "No, it's not a tourist city. If there's nothing wrong, anyone will go there." The driver said, "Qinshui is a coal city, and the place is too poor." The driver on shift said: "I know that there is a Longcheng next to Qinshui. There is a small commodity market in Longcheng. The small commodity market specializes in world famous brands. There are all kinds of brands, as cheap as you want." Pang Jiandong asked stupidly: "Is it fake?" Shift driver: "Nonsense." Two armed police soldiers also participated in the chat about Qin Shui and Longcheng, asking Qin Shui what's interesting and how cheap the famous brands in Longcheng Commodity City are.Old Zhong couldn't help but smiled and asked the shift driver: "You talk so lively, have you ever been to Qinshui, have you been to Longcheng?" The driver smiled and shook his head: "Ah, no. I heard that too." Pang Jiandong went on to say: "That place is too remote. Not to mention that no one in our Tianjian has ever been there. I'm afraid there are five or six thousand police officers in the whole prison bureau. If you ask, no one has ever been there." Liu Chuan heard Pang Jiandong's words very clearly, felt a little sad in his heart, and knew that what Pang Jiandong said was right. Although he had been to Qinshui and Longcheng, they were talking about the police officers of the Prison Bureau and had nothing to do with him. Pang Jiandong's words also made Xiaoke cast her eyes on Liu Chuan. She saw Liu Chuan's head lowered, but she obviously knew what he was thinking. Liu Chuan didn't know that Xiao Ke's secret gaze was not sent back to him. During the past seven hours of travel, Xiao Ke had lost count of how many times she had patrolled Liu Chuan's side pretendingly or unintentionally. Liu Chuan also didn't know that Shan Juan, who was three rows behind him, was also looking at him calmly. From Shan Juan's frozen pupils, it was impossible to tell what she was thinking. The prison car traveled westward without hindrance. At about three o'clock in the afternoon, it drove into the area of ​​Yangqu Mountain. On a gentle road on the side of the mountain, the voices of the police officers suddenly stopped, and the speed of the car slowed down significantly.Liu Chuan quietly raised his eyes and saw that many cars had pulled over and broken down on the side of the road outside the window. At a glance, most of them were trucks and coal cars, and there were also a few cars and station wagons crowded in the middle.The rain is still falling, and you can see the front of the road, a few raincoats, a few umbrellas, and the figures are vague, shuttling back and forth... "Look down!" Pang Jiandong shouted into the iron fence, and the three prisoners who stretched their necks to look at him all lowered their heads.The moment Liu Chuan lowered his head, the prison car stopped and the door opened. The shift driver put on his raincoat and got out of the car to explore the road ahead.The two armed police soldiers were on high alert, ready to fight. The index finger of their right hand held the trigger of the miniature submachine gun, the muzzle of the gun was facing upwards, and their eyes were sweeping, observing the movement outside the car.Pang Jiandong faced the iron fence and watched the three prisoners sitting in the iron fence.Lao Zhong and the driver in the driver's seat were talking in low voices, analyzing the situation ahead... Like Shan Juan Xiaokang, Liu Chuan lowered his head, just like blind people with extremely keen hearing, and every sound in front of the car will not escape their ears.Soon they heard the shift driver get back into the car, and even the rainwater splashed on the car floor under his feet could be heard clearly.The driver hurriedly reported to Zhong Da after getting into the car, his voice was so soft that it was almost a whisper. Driver: "Zhong Da, there is a flash flood ahead. I heard that a landslide has cut off the road. There are already many traffic jams ahead. The traffic police haven't arrived yet. It may be useless to come here..." In Liu Chuan's ears and eyes, he heard Lao Zhong discussing briefly with the two drivers in front of the iron gate, and Lao Zhong called the deputy warden Qiang of the prison again. clear. Zhong Tianshui: "...Yes, we discussed it and planned to take another road to cross Yangqu Mountain. The driver of the old road has passed by before. We will try to reach Xiangyuan City before dark as originally planned, otherwise the prisoner will be killed." It’s not okay to bet on the car at night....Okay, I understand, I’ll report after I pass Yangqu Mountain.” After Zhong Tianshui hung up the phone, he said something to the driver, and the prison car immediately turned around. After three minutes of driving in the opposite direction on the uncongested national road, it turned off the main road and drove towards a branch road on the side of the mountain. Yangqu Mountain during the day Although the road they took just now was also a mountain road, it was far less winding than this old road.感觉上上他们像是孤军独旅，朝着大山的深处开去，每个罩着雨雾的心灵，大概都有几分恐瞑，如果说刚才那条新修的公路是在山的平缓地带绕山而筑，那么这条旧路才是真正的翻山越岭。好在进山之后雨突然小了，也许这正是气象学中的一种独特现象，虽然相隔不过数里，但山里的气候和平原相比，境界迥然而异。车子转过一个荒凉的山口，居然雨过天晴。透过黄土与巨石夹峙的隘口，昏暗的车窗竟然不可思议地被一抹夕阳染红。刘川不禁抬起头来，他同时听到车前铁栏外，警察们全部兴奋地欢呼起来：雨后的夕阳如此夺目，刘川焉能想象，在这样的荒山野岭，景色竟然如此神奇。 司机也兴奋地鸣响了喇叭，鸣笛声在寂静的山野中回荡不息。在民警们的笑声中，庞建东大声朗诵了毛泽东的诗句：“苍山如海，残阳如血，喇叭声咽。雄关漫道真如铁，而今迈步从头越……” 钟天水惊奇地问道：“庞建东，你这岁数怎么知道这首诗，毛主席诗词现在的年轻人很少会背了。” 小珂说：“庞建东在三警校表演诗朗诵，就朗诵的这首诗。是这首诗吧建东？” 钟天水：“这是词，不是诗。” 壮丽的景色浸染了每一双疲惫的眼眸，每个人的目光中都洋溢了或多或少的快乐，乐极生悲的事情于是在此发生。囚车在这道步换景移的隘口转过弯来，未及反应就遭遇了车祸。 这场车祸来得猝不及防，隘口的弯道是个视线的死角，无人预料前边的山崖已被暴雨冲坍，车子一拐过山隘立即撞上一棵随着坍崖歪倒的大树，随后便轰的一声侧翻过来，拖着地又撞向另一侧的崖壁。当囚车熄火停住的时候，车头已经彻底瘪了进去，在巨大而又连续的撞击响过之后，整个大山万籁俱寂。 车祸现场白天 最先爬出囚车残骸的，是小珂。 小珂并非受伤最轻的人，但她可能是从这场灾难的惊慌中最先清醒的—个。她从离她最近的一扇破碎的车窗中爬出了身子，并且随后拖出了老钟。小珂虽然浑身疼痛，但没有发现具体伤在何处，她把老钟拖离冒烟的囚车时，感觉自己的四肢都还自如。但老钟却像受了内伤，他想从地上起来，但起了一下又侧身仰下去了，脸上痛得七扭八歪。 事实上老钟确实伤得不轻，他的左臂似乎不能动了，背部看来也伤得很重，在小珂上来扶他时他还是咬牙坐起了身子，并且马上命令小珂：“别管我，赶陕去救别人，去！” 钟天水自己也挣扎着站起来，跟着小珂从车窗处再爬回车子，一个一个地从车里往外拖人。小珂再次爬进车子的时候，目光的第一个落点，便是铁槛内的刘川。她的目光与脸上流血但神志清醒的刘川短促相碰，彼此无言，但她和老钟第一个拖出来的，是已经昏迷不醒的庞建东，随后又拖出了倒班司机和两位年轻的武警，以及他们那两支完好无损的“微冲”。小珂放下昏迷不醒的武警战士后毫不停歇地再次爬进车内，直扑铁栏，她的嘴里甚至情不自禁地叫了一声：“刘川！”她用力拉了一下铁槛的门才发现自己没有钥匙，她用目光鼓励了一下刘川然后爬出车子，她在庞建东身上找到了钥匙后，再次爬回车内。铁门终于打开了，小珂扑向刘川把卡在座椅上的刘川拖了出来，她和刘川爬出车厢时几乎是抱在一起滚出来的。小珂累得躺在地上大口喘气。这时，老钟强忍疼痛再次爬进了车子，刘川也跟着他爬进去了。老钟拖出了小康，刘川则爬到了车子的尾部，变形的车厢和错位的座椅使他难以接近单鹃。单鹃虽然受了惊吓，但还镇定，刘川把一只手伸向单鹃，单鹃也伸出手来，终于拉住了刘川的手臂，她借助刘川的力量一寸一寸地向外挣扎。刘川在拉住单鹃的刹那，单鹃眼中突然闪动着似曾相识的温情，那眼神瞬间重现，稍纵即逝。 小康和单鹃一前一后，分别被钟天水和刘川救出车厢。 驾车的司机卡在驾驶舱里，已经血肉模糊，断了呼吸。 单鹃小康一被拖出车厢就听到了老钟和小珂嘶哑的口令，那口令是让他们蹲向崖壁，双手抱头。刘川是自己过去的，和小康单鹃用一个姿势蹲了下来。钟天水让小珂陕去查看庞建东等人的伤情，自己则一瘸一拐地为犯人们戴上了手铐，然后气喘吁吁地问道：“你们受伤了吗，谁有伤？” 单鹃和刘川身上都有血渍，但由于惊魂未定，只是摇头。无法出声。只有小康喊了一声：“报告，我有伤！” 老钟马上检查，仅仅发现他额头上有个不深的伤口，血已凝住。 老钟问：“就这儿？还有吗？” 小康自己上下看了半天，没看到其他伤口，老钟便让他站起蹲下，看他动作自如，便暂不理睬，因为这时囚车那边突然传来小珂的哭声。 小珂的哭声断断续续，气息惶恐，夹带着一声声颤不成声的呼喊：“建东！建东！建东……老王！老王……” 庞建东在小珂的呼喊声中终于睁开了眼睛，但倒班的司机老王和一位武警无论老钟和小珂怎么呼唤抢救，并无生还迹象。另一位武警和庞建东一样，伤势严重，口中仅有一息尚存。 钟天水让小珂别哭了，让她赶快上车去取急救箱来。并说：“你看看呼救器还有信号没有。” 小珂听令爬进了车子，找急救箱的同时还查看了车上安装的呼救器，可惜那台能将呼救信号直接发回天监值班室的呼救器与车头一起，早已和撞崩的崖壁同归于尽。 在小珂一边监视三个抱头面壁的犯人，一边为庞建东进行于事无补的包扎时，老钟再次爬到车里查看了那台撞毁的呼救器，他打开自己的手机，却发现手机在这座山中没有一点信号显示。他从车厢里惟一找到还能使用的东西，只有几瓶已被喝了一半的纯净水和两件军用雨衣，还有那块用来界隔男监女监的蓝色的布单。 老钟爬出车厢，问小珂：“你的手机呢，有信号吗？” 小珂看了自己的手机，向老钟摇头：“没有信号。” 天就要黑了，刚刚露脸的太阳又被乌云遮蔽。钟天水低声对小珂说：“必须立即放弃车子，我们得立即带着伤员下山，要赶在天黑之前返回大路，只要回到大路，就能找到车找到人了，小庞他们就有救了！” 小珂：“好！” 这次押解一共配备了七名干警，两倍于被押的犯人。现在，干警三死两伤，只有钟天水和小珂两人能动。钟天水实际上也负了重伤，背部一动就疼，左手连动都不能大动。小珂虽无大伤，但她是女的，而且，他们还要设法把重伤的庞建东和另一位武警战士抬下山去。而犯人那边，有两男一女，身体健全，没有大伤。监狱的形式，除了他们手上的手铐，除了钟大固有的威严，其余均已荡然无存。 钟天水和小珂各持了一支压满子弹的“微冲”，才使这场将要继续的押解不致寡不敌众。在车祸发生的半小时后，他们将已经牺牲的替班司机和武警战士的尸体，抬到崖壁一侧，用布单盖住，默哀之后，出发上路。 钟天水命令小珂为刘川和范小康打开了手铐，命令刘川背起庞建东，范小康背起武警，小珂押着仍然戴铐的单鹃。 出发之前，钟天水站到了犯人的前面，沉着声音说道：“押解行动继续前进，现在，我宣布几条纪律： 第一，每个人都要按我刚才规定的序位行走，队形相衔要紧，不得无故拉开距离，不得回头张望，不得左顾右盼，不得交头接耳。 第二，如果有事需要报告，先喊报告，得到允许后才能回头。 第三，当听到停下的命令时，必须立即停下，当听到蹲下的命令时，必须立即蹲下。行走和蹲下时，要尽量保持伤员的平稳。 第四，特殊时期将有特殊措施，特殊政策，有立功表现的，将会得到重大奖励；伺机脱逃或企图暴狱的，将依法严惩，必要时我们将毫不犹豫地使用武器。希望你们认清形势，不要抱有侥幸心理，不要以身试法，以卵击石。 " 宣布完几条纪律，钟天水问：“听清楚没有？” 两男一女，三个犯人一齐答道：“是！” 从声音上听，与平时在监狱里的回答，同样殷勤，同样服从，别无两样，令人放心。 钟天水一向的习惯，说话都是漫吞吞的，有点絮烦，但此时，他虽然有伤在身，但所有的指令和问话，其干净利落，短促迅捷，均是前所未有，连小珂都不由为之一震。 钟天水走近刘川，一句低声问询，语气才又恢复如前：“你没事吧？”他在问刘川的身体，刘川的肩膀和前胸的衣服，都被渗血浸湿。虽然小珂已为他们检查过伤口，但钟大出发前的再次询问，以及那低声传达的体贴，让刘川的回答充满心领神会的感激。 Liu Chuan: "It's okay." 钟天水：“血要是还止不住的话，随时报告。” 刘川：“是！” 钟天水扫视一下众人，命令：“好，出发！”