Common cause

Brother Gui stretched out his finger and flicked the butt of the cigarette away, and said with a smile: "Huzi, you look pretty shabby, and you are not as good as an intellectual when you tell jokes, so hurry up and study!" He pronounced "learning" as "xiáo practice".

There was a sound of "Lights off" from outside the cell, and the light bulbs suddenly went out in mid-air. The kneeling people let out a few disappointing "Yeah", and got up all of them, and climbed to the bunk one after another. Xiang Yuan was about to drag Xu Guining to sleep In the dark, the voice of a male duck who destroyed the military marriage came: "Little Glasses and Beard didn't tell any jokes, don't sleep, watch the night tonight!"

It was only then that Xiang Yuan discovered that the capacity of the bunk was not too large, so it was no wonder that the prisoners tried to find ways to screen out the unlucky ones who couldn't sleep in the bunk.

Xu Guining pushed him and signaled him to go up to the bunk to grab a seat, but he and Hu Zi retreated into the dark and camped by the toilet pit.

Xiang Yuan stayed at his desk all year round, had poor night vision, and was deprived of contact lenses, so he had to fumble along the shop floor with his eyes darkened. After intimate contact with countless rough hands and feet, he finally found an empty seat, and he happily climbed up, ready to meet with him. sleep in clothes.

Within two seconds of closing his eyes, Xiang Yuan felt the horror of being watched. He opened his eyes and saw that the saboteur of the military marriage was staring straight at him with his eyes like copper bells, and said softly, "You...you ..."

At the same time, Xiang Yuan smelled a smell of smoke coming from behind, and it was Brother Gui who said, "Sleep or not, mute!"

The sabotage of the military marriage did not make a sound, but he didn't switch to the silent mode. He turned it on like a vibration, trembling with anger.

In the darkness, a sentence came from afar, "Traitor, why are you shaking? Is it winding?"

Everyone laughs.

When the guard passed by, he knocked twice on the door of the prison cell with his baton: "Don't sleep yet, smile, smile, let's have your mother's party!"

It was only then that Xiang Yuan knew that, out of awe, everyone did not get too close to Brother Gui on the bunk, and ruined the military marriage—now he knew that this person was called "traitor", and it was a good name that was close to his image.The traitors even deducted the sleeping area of ​​the masses in order to give up a spare bed for Gui Ge, which undoubtedly showed his political status.However, Xiangyuan occupied this position when he first came, which made the traitor's filial piety go to waste. What is even more puzzling is that the elder brother showed tolerance for the perpetrator. Thinking of this, Xiangyuan was worried, worried that he would become a traitor unintentionally. stumbling block.At this moment, he was lying stiffly between the traitors and your elder brother, and he experienced what it means to survive in the cracks.

Beard placed himself in a lotus seat, looking at the row of people on the bunk that looked like dominoes, he beat Xu Guining with his arm and said, "Hey, how did you get in?"

Xu Guining wrapped up his prison clothes and tentatively said, "I didn't break the law."

Huzi slapped his thigh and said, "Coincidentally! I didn't break the law either—" Then he suddenly lowered his voice, "What's the charge?"

Xu Guining crossed his legs like him, leaned closer and said in a low voice: "The police insisted that I killed my wife, and I have all the physical evidence, which can prove that I was at work and not at the scene, and it turned out—"

Beard and his head came together: "As a result, no one came out to testify, and the surveillance happened to be broken, right?"

Xu Guining remained silent, the two looked at each other for a long time, and they both let out a heavy "ah".

It was getting colder in the middle of the night, and the temperature dropped to freezing point. Xu Guining was sleepy and cold, and he didn't forget to keep his legs crossed to conserve heat. In order to divert his attention, he asked, "What crime are you charged with?"

Beard rubbed his two big round arms, breathing like ice: "I'm a writer--I've said that, what I wrote was plagiarized by a crew, and they used it as a new media script, so I grabbed their assistant director and pestered me to death." Bad beating, even if you don’t give me money or an apology, you can just sign me, hiss——they pretended to invite me to dinner, put some powder in my pocket, and reported to the police that I was hiding drugs, and the police Comrade brought it here for me."

Xu Guining stared in bewilderment: "That's really unlucky."

Huzi regained his energy: "This is not the most irritating thing, what is the most irritating thing, the most irritating thing is that when I was arrested by the police, the policeman had a very clear expression on his face and said, you people who are engaged in literature and art I just love this one, we have caught a lot of them, and now they are all in prison for theatrical performances!"

An angry voice came from the shop: "The most irritating thing is you two dogs | You can't be forced to watch the night and talk about life!"

Hu Zi and Xu Guining didn't have the courage to refute, each lowered their heads, silently lowered their heads for warmth, and embraced back to back.

The rest of the night was silent.

In the early morning of the next day, Xiangyuan woke up from the cold. His limbs were cold. Even if he curled up like a shrimp, he still couldn't relieve the drop in body temperature. His throat was itchy and he wanted to cough. He turned to the left. Xiang Yuan looked left and right, thought twice, and finally climbed down from the bunk with his mouth tightly shut.

When Xiang Yuan got out of bed, in the half-light, he vaguely saw Hu Zi and Xu Guining sitting cross-legged facing each other, as if they were practicing the Jade Heart Sutra.He bent down and touched it, and as soon as he reached Xu Guining's side, the latter woke up.

Xu Guining said: "The prison guard hasn't woken up yet, why are you here?"

Xiang Yuan said, "It's too cold, I want to cough, but I dare not cough on the bed."

Huzi said: "There is water in the toilet, and the temperature is lower. It's a waste to have a bed and not sleep!"

Xiang Yuan and Xu Guining were taken aback, they didn't notice when Hu Zi woke up.Huzi's first action after he joined the topic was to destroy his and Xu Guining's double cultivation posture, opening a gap for Xiang Yuan to join in cross-legged. Now they have become a three-body problem. You know, triangle is the most stable shape in nature.

Huzi asked: "You buddy, what crime did you come in for?"

Xiang Yuan said, "Cover up."

Xu Guining answered: "Cover me, if I can overturn the case, his charges will be cleared."

Hu Zi hammered his calf and said in a low voice: "It's not so easy to reverse the case. Everyone in this room is waiting to be judged. The case of you two will have to wait until the next year." But for the crime of covering up, even if you are really sentenced, basically it won’t take more than a year, and you will definitely serve your sentence in a detention center, so you can rest assured.”

Xu Guining was a little relieved at first, but now he is completely worried. He thought that he should contact his brother-in-law Shen Guoquan as soon as possible and ask him to hire a lawyer.

This morning, three people were called out of the cell, namely Brother Gui, Xiang Yuan and Xu Guining.

Xiang Yuan and Xu Guining were taken away by the guards, each received a rice bowl, and each shaved a bald head—the few bald heads in the cell were new prisoners, and most of them were thin-haired and long-haired. Never shave after that.What's more, the other prisoners shaved their heads, which suddenly increased their social temperament. Xiang Xu's shaved heads looked exactly like a pair of Lin Daiyu who had just become a monk, which was really useless to their situation.

Back in the cell, everyone is already busy, the country does not provide food and lodging for nothing, you have to work hard.

Xiang Yuan Xu Guining found Hu Zi, who had just received three balls of wool and a bundle of needles, and hugged him full.Beard pulled them to sit by the pit of the toilet, and each made a ball of wool and five needles.

Xiang Yuan said, "We don't know how to do that either. Hu Zi, ask me, can you change jobs?"

Hu Zi said: "It's a good idea, everyone has to knit sweaters. Knitting sweaters in winter is considered good, and in summer sifting beans to paste boxes, you won't be exhausted, and you won't follow suit. Don't talk nonsense—"

At this time, the traitor strode over, slapped Xu Guining hard on the head, and cursed: "Little glasses are awesome, you are full and idle? Hurry up and move!"

Xu Guining covered his head and looked out through the gaps between his arms. He saw the traitor leave and felt aggrieved at the same time. Firstly, he woke up early in the morning without eating anything, and secondly, he was not the one talking at all!

Hu Zi sighed: "What did I say, learn it quickly." After finishing speaking, he quickly tied a slipknot on the needle, and said at the same time: "The end of the short thread faces outward, and the end of the long thread faces you. Take another needle, Insert it into the slipknot." He arched his right index finger, and wound the long thread from under the needle to the needle, "then pick out the thread with the needle head, and the stitch will be done. You should practice the needle first."

Xiang Yuan learned quickly, and after four or five attempts, he got an injection, but because of bad eyesight, occasional mistakes in movements are also expected.Xu Guining was sulking for 2 minutes, his hands would fly, and soon he pulled up his collar and came out. The beard was quite surprised, and said, "Xiao Xu, I didn't realize that he has one hand." Xu Guining curled up his little fingers, middle index finger He picked up the needle and smiled while knitting: "You learned it in the classroom, you learned it quickly when you were a child." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a slip of the tongue, looked at Xiang Yuan, Xiang Yuan didn't pay attention, just narrowed his eyes and buried his head Studying weaving.In the deserted yellow light, the gray clothes and trousers he was wearing looked like a monk's robe, and the face that resembled an ancient scholar combined with his bald head reminded people of a young monk.

Xu Guining asked: "How much is your degree?"

Xiang Yuan looked up: "Huh? Three or four hundred."

Xu Guining took off his glasses and handed them to him: "I'm five hundred and six hundred, you just see."

Xiang Yuan refused to answer: "Then what do you do?"

Xu Guining put his glasses on his lap and said: "As long as you know how to knit a sweater, you don't need to look at it, you can just count it, and start with 96 stitches."

Beard smiled with a needle: "You're an old hand."

In the small cell, only traitors claim to be overseers, strolling in the courtyard, complacent, as for the others, they are in groups of three, five, and each doing their own thing. , staring in bewilderment, immersed in knitting red or green wool.A week later, the wool will be transformed into a sweater, packaged and mailed to the nearest factory, labeled, and then flowed into the farmers' market.

While weaving and chatting in a low voice, Xiang Yuan found out that the inmates call a cell a "cell", and some cells are specially used to detain criminals with minor crimes and weak health. Handymen, also known as handymen offenders.

After working hard all morning, it was finally time for meals. The handyman brought in a tub of steamed buns, a basin of vegetables, and a bucket of clear soup. He knocked twice on the iron gate to signal that everyone could come and grab the pig food.

Wearing inappropriate glasses, Xiang Yuan vaguely saw that there were two slices of fat meat the size of fingernails in the pot of vegetables. Other than that, it was mostly green. shallots.

Xu Guining also saw the food, and was about to complain to Huzi, but Huzi had picked up the rice bowl and left their sight at the speed of a cartoon.