Common cause

Xiang Yuan always thought that he had a bright future.

His mother came from a small southern town, which was famous for being rich in masters during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The men in his mother's family, like him, can play with writing, and their style is also very indifferent-every day, every night, go up and down, the official master During the trial, the master accompanied him, and when the official was too lazy to bother, they had full authority to represent him.Above the court, the kneelers are full of blood and tears, and the superiors are harassed. Only the master watches with cold eyes, circles the pen and ink, and clearly sees the complaints of grievances - so the psychological fence is extremely high, and there is a deep sense of staying out of things. superstitious.Xiang Yuan occasionally went back to his home in the south to visit relatives. Several uncles were smoking in the living room. They were all well-dressed middle-aged men. Some sat on the sofa, and some leaned against the wall by the window to discuss some legal issues. We talked soon, and when the sky darkened, we packed up the paperwork, ended the topic, and started dinner.

His mother gave him the single name "Yuan", which is a combination of "Zhanzhan Fengxiang Xiaoyuan" in Mei's poems, and also expects him to become a person like a plum tree. The plum tree is lonely and noble, just like the embodiment of the family spirit. .

Xiang Yuan thought that he was not far from that goal. He fought alone, watched with cold eyes, and regarded fools as worthless. The same, he was being played with by something, and he was completely dizzy.

Where is the difference?Thinking about it, Xiang Yuan sat with his knees hugged against the wall, separating Xu Guining, who was curled up and sleeping soundly, in the corner, reducing the chance of being picked on.

He thought, probably because he didn't learn enough.

He was also very happy when the connection between the two murder cases was discovered by other people, because in his heart, it was more important to solve the case as soon as possible than to stand out alone; the mother-in-law life in the propaganda office also made him feel boring and warm; the relationship with Wen Jie Wenwu complemented each other It's also amazing... These are things that the uncles would never do.

Those men in the deep text week, they don't care about ordinary people, they just serve as each other's staff, assist each other and give sincerity, because they have strong enough indifference genes to connect with each other.

It is very likely that there is a lack of people who treat him sincerely and are not inferior. He does not expect a team of staff to defend him, because if there are too many people, he will always go wrong like the fat man.Even if there is only one person standing by his side, he can be saved from—from where, Xiang Yuan thought, is it just a detention center, or rather, from a certain kind of doom.The chances of these days made him feel terrible, and it was definitely not something that could be overcome by one's own wisdom alone.

He looked down at Xu Guining who was sleeping soundly, he only thought that the latter was his first love, stripped of this halo, Xu Guining was just a gentle fool, the possibility of asking him to help was slim.

Xu Guining fell asleep deeply, took a breath, kicked one foot out, and Xiang Yuan pinched his ankle and dragged him back. The smaller the area they occupied, the less likely they would be bullied.

They were "successfully seized" that night, and were transferred to the Haimen Detention Center before dawn the next day.

On the escort car, under the protection of a pair of solemn armed police with guns and live ammunition, Xiang Yuan felt the safety he had not seen for a long time, and fell asleep leaning against the wall of the car.

He dreamed about the past—because the past is too long, the memories are already out of shape, that era is only kept in the subconscious, and occasionally dreams are played like a revolving lantern.

In the tomato-colored sunset, the railway track is scorched by the sun.Shen Guoquan walked ahead with a backpack on one shoulder, Kang Ming was eating popsicles and kicking stones, and Shen Guoli was walking on the railroad tracks.Xu Guining and Xiang Yuan walked last, they both went swimming in the reservoir when no one else knew, so they both had an orange-red sunburn band on their cheeks.

They walked on the railway in the face of the setting sun, and it was still very sunny in the evening, but no one stopped looking around.

They're here to make money.

Many people on the train put their wallets in their trouser pockets. When they lift up their trousers after going to the toilet, the wallets tend to fall out and fall onto the rails along the toilet hole.If you are lucky, you can pick up money. This way of making money was discovered by Shen Guoquan. Although he warned that there might be shit on the money, he immediately said that you have to pick up shit. The value of money will not be because of what is on it, or What a disgusting way to belittle.

Shen Guoquan picked up the money and went to buy CDs, Kang Ming picked up the money and went to the game room, Shen Guoli picked up the money and went to change her hairstyle, only Xiang Yuan and Xu Guining, they didn’t know what to do after picking up the money, could they buy a bunch of them? Is it a popsicle?Xiang Yuan thought that maybe he just enjoyed the feeling of wasting, but no one knew what was being wasted.

Shen Guoli was tired from walking, and sat on the railroad track with her skirt folded up.

Xu Guining said: "Those people on the train defecated and urinated along the railway track, all spilled on the track."

Shen Guoli stood up abruptly, rewarded Xu Guining with a flying kick, then patted her butt, cursed and walked away.

Xu Guining hugged Xiang Yuan's arm, rubbing his head like he was wronged.

Xiang Yuan woke up, the escort car turned a corner, Xu Guining turned his head and rubbed against his shoulder.

Xiang Yuan smiled, the taste was quite bitter.

They were locked together. When they walked through the courtyard of the detention center, Xiang Yuan looked up and saw a gray-blue sky. At this time, deep winter was coming, and there was not even a bird in the sky. Xu Guining looked down at the vegetable bed, and there were only a few scattered in it. Cabbage.

Across the courtyard is the cell. The corridor is dark and narrow, leading to the depths like intestines. There are occasional curses from the iron gates on both sides. Xiang Yuan and Xu Guining are walking behind the No. No. finally opened a door and invited them in.

Xu Guining looked up secretly, the cell was similar to the juvenile prison, about three meters wide and six to seven meters long, in the shape of an enlarged coffin.The toilet is a pit, hidden in the corner on the right; the whole shop is built against the wall on the left, which is actually a concrete platform covered with a rag, on which a person is lying on his back, with his legs circled like a prostitute smoking a big cigarette, and another person is in full swing. Offer foot pinching services to this person.

And the other ten or so people, kneeling and sitting in front of the bunk one by one, have a pious posture, as if a field of sunflowers only opens to the sun, and their crooked faces are full of smiles. Seeing a newcomer enter the door, all the heads shake towards the door.

Xiang Yuan's heart trembled, and he felt that the person on the bed looked very familiar, but he saw so many people and things going on recently that he couldn't remember who it was for a while.

The lying man looked at it for a while, then smiled and said, "What's the matter, you're here too?"

With this accent, Xiang Yuan recalled the situation when he entered the identity information of the other party in the file a few days ago, and the person also praised him as "different from other Leizi".Multiple investigations by police stations in various counties mentioned that this criminal was a top-notch robber with a capital accent.

At the same time, Xiang Yuan recognized that the pinching brother was the one who committed the crime of destroying a military marriage. When this person was arrested, he was a bit flattering.

The kneeling man said, "Brother Gui, do you know him?"

Brother Gui sat up from the recumbent position, and by the way gave the one who destroyed the military marriage a sweet foot. The latter turned somersault off the bunk, and after finding his balance, he immediately sat on his calf like a little wife, smiling cheerfully.

Brother Gui said: "I know, I don't care if I know it-don't be so fucking beautiful, all the rules have been eaten up?"

Destruction of the military marriage hurriedly said: "No, no, how dare you, hurry up and practice!"

Before he finished speaking, another kick was kicked for destroying the military marriage. Brother Gui lazily withdrew his legs and said, "Don't worry about practicing, that so-and-so, and Little Glasses, come and kneel."

Xu Guining, who had been in junior management, knew the importance of the first impression, so he hooked Xiang Yuan's arm, nodded and knelt into the crowd.

After being kicked twice for destroying the military marriage, he couldn't help but retaliate, and said triumphantly: "Go on, who just arrived?"

Someone in the crowd said: "It's time for a beard!"

A bearded man stood out, and quickly responded: "Hey, hey, it's my turn. I told a joke, ah, er, this joke happened to me. Everyone knows that I am a writer and I have loved reading books since I was a child." , Mr. Jin Yong’s books have been read at least a hundred—”

Xu Guining bears the brunt of it, laughing tremblingly with his head buried, and Xiang Yuan covers his face with the back of his hand and laughs too. Other than the two of them, only Brother Gui is laughing. Still biting a cigarette firmly.

Xiang Yuan quietly buried his head in the posture of covering his face with his hands. He suddenly felt that Brother Gui is a shady tyrant, and these jesters may have a very difficult life in the future.

Xu Guining thought, Huzi must be a good humorist, his wording seemed to tell a story, but in fact he threw out the burden in the first sentence, catching the audience by surprise——

Others expressed indifference, destroyed the military marriage and even said: "Is this a joke? How funny?"

Hu Zi hurriedly defended: "You guys are illiterate and don't understand, how can you blame the joke for not being funny?"

Someone heard the word "uneducated" and was quite annoyed, and was about to stand up and retaliate, when Brother Gui waved his hand: "Don't panic, there were three people laughing when Huzi was talking, I think the two newcomers are probably still there." Not as good as him, Huzi still has a chance to come back."

Everyone laughed and urged Xiang Yuan and the two to make a joke quickly.

Xu Guining thought of the past, the couple life where he was always insulted when he made witty words with Shen Guoli, and he doubted his sense of humor, as if his spine was instantly pulled off, he was dejected: "I, I won't."

The crowd cheered for a while, a few big hands stroked the back of Xu Guining's head fiercely, and the spearhead turned to Xiang Yuan again.

Xiang Yuan hunched his back slightly, with his hands on his knees, staring at the bare concrete floor, searching for the stocks in his belly, and a bunch of female jokes about husbands and children on the kang in WeChat are of no use at all, these people only understand and are uneducated dirty, raunchy, provocative jokes.

Thinking back and forth in the grooves of his brain, Xiang Yuan looked up, and he remembered a joke.

"I have a buddy who is a soldier, he has three eggs—"

Everyone was kneeling and laughing wildly for a while.

"He was very distressed, and one day he gave him a bunk and secretly said that we have five eggs together."

Brother Gui couldn't help laughing, the cigarette was bitten off, and the burning end fell to the ground, and he quickly picked it up.

"He was very surprised on the upper bunk and said, you only have one?!"

Tens of seconds later, when the prison room burst into laughter, Xiang Yuan realized that the joke was really good.