Someone once told Hu Ping'an that if you don't go to Bei Jing, you don't know what a big city is. But when he arrived in Bei Jing, he found that except for the many people, cars, and high-rise buildings, it was almost the same as Dongning.
He suffered a lot when he petitioned from the city to the province. Don't look down upon him. People in the provincial petition bureau almost knew him because he went back two or three times a day. At first, people followed the procedures, but later they simply ignored him. , and even drove him out several times.
On the way to petition, he met many people much older than him. After receiving a cold shoulder from the Provincial Letters and Calls Bureau, **An decided to go to Bei Jing. According to several old petitioners, only going to Bei Jing would be effective, so He bought a hard-seat train ticket and hurriedly boarded Beijing.
But once I got here, I realized what it was like to live in an unfamiliar place. A big city was full of unfamiliar faces, and confusion arose spontaneously. But in order to redress my grandfather's injustice, and also for the people who died in the mines in Longyang County, I He must sue, and he must sue to the end.
In Bei Jing, he almost slept in the underground passage most of the time because he didn't have much money, and he didn't dare to ask his parents for it because he knew very well that his parents would be very worried if they knew that he was here to petition. When he called back the first time, his parents kept telling him not to sue him. There was no chance of success in suing the government.
However, **An remembers what Teacher Cang said. As long as there is light in the heart, the world will not be dark. Even if the road ahead is confused, he will come out. He does not believe that there is no place for redress of grievances in this country. He does not believe that .
But he soon ran into trouble. Although he lived frugally, even if he stayed in a small hotel, it was just to take a shower. He ate steamed buns on the side of the road every day. To drink water, he either went to a gas station to drink tap water, or drank water from the street. He went to the fountain in the park. When he found the Letters and Calls Bureau a week later, he had very little money with him.
After petitioning in the province, he gained experience and could not go to the Petitions Bureau all the time, because if he went too often, people would get annoyed, so he went to the Beijing Petitions Bureau every now and then, and the procedures were basically the same as those of the Provincial Petitions Bureau. Same thing, if you have the materials, please submit them, if you don’t have the materials, just register.
After registration, unlike the Provincial Letters and Calls Bureau, all the petitioners will be gathered at one point and a free lunch of simple pickles and steamed buns will be provided to them at noon, but **An and the others don’t know The thing is, the process at the Letters and Calls Bureau is very simple.
After gathering them, the local government was notified to pick them up. If no one came, the place was cleared and they were asked to go wherever they wanted. No one would care about them.
Perhaps they are in the same boat. After every petition, **An would eat a free lunch at the petition bureau’s gathering point and immediately leave the gathering point because he didn’t want to be taken back by the local government. He had to wait for news in Beijing. , this was what an old petitioner from Heilongjiang told him.
Later, he found a temporary place to stay with the old petitioner surnamed Yang. Everyone called him Lao Yangtou. He came to Beijing to petition because of the demolition of his hometown. Because of the demolition, his son died. The daughter-in-law was pregnant at the time. Due to excessive grief, she had a difficult delivery in the delivery room, and neither the mother nor the baby could be saved.
The local government covers up the facts and disregards human life, which makes Lao Yangtou almost despair. Like An, he is seeking justice, seeking the light of this society and the light of this country.
Lao Yangtou was captured many times, and later he began to fight guerrillas with the local government office in Beijing. Lao Yangtou told **an a lot of things, some things that **an never dared to think about. He said that in bei Although the Jing Bureau of Letters and Calls receives petitions from other places, it does not deal with them directly. It will only call the local government to put pressure on the local government.
But in any case, making the local government feel the pressure is the best effect they want. Perhaps the number of petitions was wrong. Old Yangtou has completely given up hope on this matter. He said that the reason why he stayed in Bei Jing, it just doesn't make their government comfortable, it doesn't make those corrupt officials comfortable, it makes them frightened all the time, and they are always worried about receiving calls from Bei Jing.
Sometimes when the two of them slept in the humanoid corridor underground, An always heard Old Yang talking in his sleep. In his dreams, this old man, who was almost sixty years old, had a happy home.
At that time, Hu Pingan was sad and helpless. He had no hope for this society. He even thought about Teacher Cang's words and kept thinking to himself, is there really any hope for this society?
Old Yangtou had a profound influence on him. Even if he could not redress his grievances, he would never make things easier for the county government and corrupt officials. So during the few months he was in Beijing, he was almost always with Old Yangtou. , they used Mao Zedong's guerrilla tactics to such perfection that they were almost never caught by the local government.
Until suddenly one day, **An got up and went to buy breakfast. When he came back, he saw a group of people wearing "Secret Service" signs surrounding Lao Yangtou. At that time, **An thought that Lao Yangtou had committed a crime and was about to go there. He asked, but when the calm old Yangtou saw him, he suddenly struggled like crazy and kept shouting at him: "My child, run, run, run quickly."
It wasn't until several people in uniforms came towards him with fierce looks that An'an realized what he was doing and ran away. After running for who knows how long, the "special agents" finally disappeared behind him. He stopped and gasped. Everyone looked at him with strange eyes. At that moment, his nose became sore and tears flowed down uncontrollably. No one knew why he was crying, and some even thought he was crazy.
Later, he became so frightened that he no longer dared to sleep in the underground sidewalk. He always hid in a very safe corner. He would wake up at any time during the night, thinking that those people were coming to arrest him. From then on, he The number of visits to the Letters and Calls Bureau has become less frequent. It used to be once every two or three days, but now it is once a week.
He had been wondering what happened to Old Yangtou, why he was taken away, whether he had really committed a crime, and whether he was an accomplice.
All kinds of worries appeared in his mind, and he was so anxious that he felt like a thief when he walked on the street. He found a job at a construction site to maintain his existence in Beijing, until one day, He went to the Bei Jing Petition Bureau and met another person, Lao Wang from Hebei, who also came to petition.
Hearing Hu Ping'an talk about Lao Yangtou's arrest, Lao Wangtou carefully told him that those were not police officers, but security guards from a black security company. They were specially designed to arrest petitioners in Beijing for the local government. Hu, Lao Wang went in once and had a very painful experience.
Lao Wang told him that when he encounters this group of people wearing dark blue uniforms, wearing "Special Service" hats, and having the word "Special Service" printed on their breastplates, he should stay as far away as possible. If he is caught, then Too bad.
"Why don't you report it?" **An was filled with righteous indignation at the time, "Is it so lawless in broad daylight?"
"How to report the police? After being arrested, your ID card and mobile phone will be confiscated immediately, and then you will be detained in a secret location. No one knows about it." Lao Wang said helplessly.
Thinking of Lao Wangtou being arrested that day, **An suddenly cursed himself in his heart for being so stupid, but he still asked: "Then why didn't you report it after you came out?"
"Many people reported to the police, but they were blindfolded when they went in, and they were the same after they came out. They had no idea where they were being held. The police had no evidence, and it was impossible to investigate such a company, even if a few people passed the street signs. When the impression comes back to find these places, they always know it in advance and have already evacuated to their headquarters. They don't admit that such a thing exists at all." Lao Wang shook his head.
"Then nothing will happen to Old Yangtou." Hu Pingan said worriedly.
"Beating and scolding is for sure." Lao Wang blurted out, "Men are better off, but if they are women, it will be really miserable. Alas, but in the end they will be sent to the hands of the local government, or the local government will be notified. Either the Beijing Office or their company will send someone directly back."
**An nodded. He felt a little better knowing that Old Yangtou would be fine. However, when he thought that such a kind old Yangtou had to suffer such a crime at such an old age, **An cursed in his heart. They were beasts, but other than scolding them, he seemed to have no other way to help Old Yangtou.
At that moment, An'an suddenly felt that the so-called justice seemed to only appear on TV, but in reality, it was always just bloody and cruel.
Although since then, *** An has been very cautious, not even telling anyone where he works at the construction site, but one day, after coming out of the petition bureau, he encountered this group of black security guards, just like in the movie, a car The van drove up to him, and several burly men in uniforms grabbed him inside.
In the car, An was struggling and shouting for help, but as soon as he shouted a few words, he was slapped twice by one of the burly men, which stunned him completely, followed by fierce threats. At that moment **An finally understood Lao Wang's helplessness. Everything on his body was taken away, including the 100-yuan Nokia mobile phone.
Then he was hooded and taken to a small hotel. The hotel was completely different from a normal hotel. It looked like a basement and was completely sealed off.
During the two days in the small hotel, they used violence against Xi An at every turn. Whenever he was dissatisfied at all, they slapped him several times. Finally, they handed him a pamphlet and asked him to memorize all the contents. If you memorize it, kill him.
**An saw that the contents in the booklet were all brainwashing stuff. The purpose was to prevent him from coming to petition in the future. It was almost the same as MLM, but the difference was that MLM brainwashed people in a seductive way. Violence is used here to make people surrender psychologically.
**An suddenly smiled. This was the only time he smiled after coming to Bei Jing for so many days. He tore the pamphlet into pieces crazily and roared at several security personnel: "Beat me to death, beat me to death, and you can't even think about it. Let me memorize one word."