Chapter 12 twelve

For the past two days, Fang Yulin has been in a state of turmoil.After breakfast, he collected the bowls and chopsticks and prepared to wash them under the faucet in the yard.Because the younger sister is not at home, he has to do the rough work of washing dishes and shabu-shabu.The little girl didn't know how to do it. For the past two days, she put on her red scarf every morning and went out. She said she was going to the hospital to take care of her mother, but she didn't know what she was talking about outside.Seeing that Fang Yulin's hand was wrapped in bandages, his father said, "Your hand is broken, leave it alone and let me wash it." Yesterday afternoon, he had another incident with the squadron leader in the traffic police squadron. Watch out for bloody hands.A little injury, of course, can't let my father wash the dishes.Fang Yulin took a short wooden stick at random, tied a dishcloth to one end of the stick, and washed the dishes repeatedly without getting any water on his injured hand.

The father handed his son a hand towel, took the washed bowls and put them in the cupboard, then wiped his hands again, looking at his son, hesitating to speak.Although Fang Yulin was anxious to go out and make a few important calls, he held back and asked while taking out a cigarette for his father, "Yuzhu said, do you want to talk to me?" "Yuzhu said, do you have something to tell me?" Father asked back. "..." Fang Yulin didn't answer for a while.The two smoked in silence for a while. After a while, my father said: "Your mother, the doctor told me that two courses of treatment are needed, and at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan will be thrown in to stabilize her condition. At present, there is a family The deposits are gone. I still have a big medicine jar here... I heard from Yuzhu that you have an old classmate from No. 25 Middle School. You have been paid in the past two years. I want to recruit you to be his security guard. If I give you four or five thousand, can it still solve the problem of Yuzhu's work?"

Fang Yulin nodded silently, but said nothing.He has been worrying about this for the past two days.Yesterday in the small room of the Traffic Police Squadron, he stared at the "Excellent Criminal Investigator Comrade Fang Yulin" certificate hanging on the wall in a daze. His old classmate from No. 25 called to ask him about his final decision: "Hey, what's the matter, haven't you figured it out yet? Didn't you just ask you to take off your police uniform? My security guards here also issue uniforms..." Fang Yulin sighed softly and replied, "Fuck, what are you doing?" Bird uniform!" The old classmate laughed when he heard it: "Wearing my bird uniform, I get four or five thousand a month. Wearing your uniform, how much? Brother, in this age, in this age, why don't you hurry up and take advantage of your youth and strength?" You can run and earn a little money, what else do you mean? Wearing your uniform is an air, a big cap buttoned, and the defendant eats the plaintiff after eating. Even if you eat all year round, what can you do? Somersault, let you have bad luck in life! I said you are really brainless, the most important thing now is money! Fuck! Who the hell gave me 50,000 a month, and I will do it for him to wear trousers! What? Uniforms! Brother, open your eyes wide and look, how many of those masters who are driving around, sitting behind the boss's desk, yelling, and cuddling with big honey and little honey are really capable? Which one of them is better than you in terms of IQ? Why do you have to let them go through this happy life? What did the person in your unit call you just now? Lao Fang. You have become Lao Fang, and you are still not aware of it? You have to become Mr. Fang before you start thinking about it... Why are you hesitating? You don't think about yourself, you have to think about your parents and younger sister, don't hesitate anymore. Hey... Hey... why don't you say anything ?” At this time, something happened outside, and the siren in the yard suddenly screamed.The squadron leader rushed out of the office and kept yelling: "Urgent assembly! Quickly, call the police at the railway east freight yard!" Other police officers rushed out of their offices and jumped into the police car.The siren on the police car immediately went off.Fang Yulin was still standing in that hut.The squadron leader just couldn't understand him, so he raised his voice and yelled, "Fang Yulin!" Unexpectedly, Fang Yulin was still standing there.The squadron leader got angry, rushed to him, and shouted: "Fang Yulin, gather urgently!" Then Fang Yulin turned around slowly, widened his eyes, clenched his fists, and slammed hard to hang on the wall. The frame of the mirror was smashed.The broken glass pierced the back of the hand, and the blood on the back of the hand stained the broken glass...

"What do you think? Should you take off the police uniform or not?" asked the father. "I know, for the sake of this family, I should take off my police uniform..." "Who told you that you should quit the police for the sake of this family? I said it? Yuzhu said it? Or your mother said it?" Fang Yulin smiled wryly: "Do you still need to say this? I'm not dead. Everything is obvious!But... I really can't take off this police uniform right now. You know, I've always wanted to do criminal investigation, and I always thought I'd be the best detective I could be.Because of this, the head teacher of No. 25 Middle School was so angry that he refused to talk to me until today, saying that he hurt me for 3 years.On the day I received the police uniform, I stood in the yard of our house all night.That night, I really felt my existence, my strength, and my authenticity.None of the criminal investigators in the province became the deputy captain of the Municipal Bureau of Serious Crime Brigade less than four years after graduating from university, but I did.Of course, there is no one like me who was dismissed after less than a year as the deputy captain.But I was dismissed not because I was not good at business, but because I was too ignorant politically.In the past few months, I found myself feeling like I went to college again and read another degree.It allowed me to learn a lot of things that the school could never give me, and it made me feel that from now on, I am truly strong, truly authentic, and truly have some value.Letting me take off my police uniform at this time would really kill me for the rest of my life.For the sake of this family, I can take off my police uniform, and I should say so.But...but..." At this point, Fang Yulin blushed in pain and couldn't speak any more. He looked at his father earnestly and contradictoryly. The cigarette in his father's hand had spontaneously ignited for a long time. The ash came, but he didn't notice it, he still held it between his fingers blankly, listening to his son's emotional self-report without moving.

silence. My father trembled instinctively, and the soot finally fell onto his trouser legs. After a while, Fang Yulin continued: "I am the boss, and I know what kind of responsibility I have for this family... I have thought about it, even if I don't take off my police uniform, I must also take this responsibility. Amateur In time, I can still find something to do and earn some money..." "Have you ever seen a policeman who has spare time? Especially you criminal policemen, it's not enough to spend 24 hours a day, are you still spare time?" "Even if I vomit blood, I will definitely earn money and come back to treat you and mom..."

His father gave him a hard look: "Are you messing around with me? You're messing around in this police uniform, why don't you take it off now!" Fang Yulin hurriedly said, "I don't know how to mess around..." My father said: "If you want to wear a police uniform, don't have the desire to make a lot of money. If you want to make a lot of money, take it off as soon as possible!" Fang Yulin didn't understand what his father's intention was, and stared straight at him, waiting for him to continue. "There is something you don't know yet. Yesterday your mother called Yuzhu and me to the hospital. She said, you haven't had a good life at home since you were a child. You have been very obedient since you were a child. You never asked your family about yourself. She endured everything by herself. She always felt very sorry for you. She knew that you liked being a policeman, especially criminal investigation. She was a mother and would never let you be difficult. She told us to look further. She believed , you can make a big name, compared to that? American... oh, Detective Hunter is still Detective Hunter. She wants the whole family to grit their teeth and support you at this juncture. She said, if you treat her illness And if she took off her police uniform and changed her career, she would be discharged from the hospital immediately, and she would die..."

Fang Yulin choked on smoke. My father's eyes were also faintly red: "I was born as a soldier with low education. I have been in the army for eight or nine years, but I haven't officially proposed to serve in the army. I don't have as many thoughts as your mother. Let me just say a word, you have to remember to me, the road is dead, you want to be a policeman, and don't imitate those people in the society now.Thousands of thousands! " Fang Yulin was so moved that his father and mother could treat him like this, he could only express his opinion with a choked voice: "Don't worry..."

But my father said, "I can't let go of this! Come with me." Fang Yulin was taken aback: "What are you doing?" Father said: "Follow me to see your little sister." Fang Yulin said: "Didn't she go to the hospital to see my mother early in the morning?" Father said: "You come with me!" Holding his cane, his father tremblingly led Fang Yulin to a farmers' market against the bitter cold wind.There were a lot of people there.In the snow on both sides of the market crossing, there were two rows of people standing in a figure-eight shape, each holding a white card with big black characters written on it.Because of the distance, I couldn't see what was written on the card.But at this time, Fang Yulin had already seen the little girl wearing the old red scarf, also holding a card, standing in this strange line.

"What is she doing here?" Fang Yulin frowned and asked.Fang's father didn't speak, and just walked forward.Fang Yulin looked at his father suspiciously, unable to figure out what kind of "medicine" was stuffed in his father's "gourd".When I got closer, I could see clearly that the two rows of people were very young, about 20 years old, wearing school badges on their chests, and they were obviously college students.The white cards held in everyone's hands were written with the words "tutor" in big characters, only the little girl didn't wear the school badge.The card read "Household Services."

"What is she doing?" Fang Yulin asked in a daze. Fang's father replied: "She said she would lighten your financial burden." Fang Yulin's heart felt sour, and he was about to open his mouth to scream.Fang hurried forward to cover his mouth again, and said in a low voice, "Don't disturb others, it's not easy." In an instant, hot tears welled up in Fang Yulin's eyes, and big ones rolled down.Early the next morning, he rode on his broken bicycle and rushed towards the city bureau.