"Is it Wenzhong? Have you come to see me? Oh...I..."
Zhou Wenzhong took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, watching Yan Bugui sit in front of him and cry.
"Why didn't your third aunt... ugh... come to see me? Wenzhong, I finally met my relatives. You don't even know what the third uncle suffered after he came in. Wow... where is your third aunt?"
While Yan Bugui was speaking, he stood up with his fingernails on the wall. Looking at his trembling legs, Zhou Wenzhong temporarily suppressed the urge to step forward and slap him twice.
"Hey, Mr. Yan, why are you like this? Why are your little glasses missing a leg? And how do you get this pissy smell on your body?"
Zhou Wenzhong stood up and prepared to hold Yan Bugui's arm.
"Don't move! Your arm hurts so much. It's better for you, Wenzhong, to come in and see me. You're much better than those little bastards in our house."
"Haha~ What you said, why did I come in to see you? I came in to accompany you!"
"Did you commit a crime too?"
"Third uncle, you don't even know how unlucky I am. I was walking fine on the overpass, but someone came over and said I was committing fraud."
"Then...that's how you admit it?"
Zhou Wenzhong stamped out the cigarette butt and patted the ashes on his lap.
"Then what can I do? They don't believe what I say, and I can't refute what they say. So I'm just here to keep you company."
"well…"
"Third uncle, what did you do to your head? It's bloody and prickly. It's scary."
Yan Bugui waved his hands and shook his head: "Don't ask, don't ask."
"You have really suffered a lot."
"Who says it's not the case? They didn't hit you, right?"
"No. Why are they beating me? Now that it's come to this, I just plead guilty. This way I can suffer less."
Yan Bugui nodded and expressed his agreement with this point of view.
"You're still doing the right thing. You haven't told me what's going on at home yet!"
"I don't know. I can't make up lies and lie to you, right?"
Yan Bugui slumped back to the side again, hunched over and lowered his head.
"Don't be discouraged, third uncle. I guess they just want to drag you. As long as you confess your crime, they will definitely allow my third aunt to come in and take a look at you. If it doesn't work, just admit it. Why bother yourself? You
Is that right?"
"Stop talking and let my brain rest. Alas..."
"That's just a suggestion."
Yan Bugui stopped answering and kept his head down without saying a word, but more and more tears were accumulated on the ground.
Zhou Wenzhong also found a corner and sat down, with his legs crossed and his shoes on on the bench. He hugged his knees and started eating with a steamed bun in his hand.
Outside, Liu Haizhong stood in front of the door of the Hongxing Police Station with something in hand, and took two deep breaths under the earnest gazes of Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang. When things got to a point, he had no choice but to put things on the shelf. After his mind was running rapidly, a name emerged.
"stop!"
An old man came out of the hut on the right side of the police station door.
"What are you doing!"
Liu Haizhong quickly stepped forward and said, "Hello, old comrade, I'm here to see someone."
"Who is it? Tell me and I will listen."
"Master Sun on the stove at our police station."
"No one is here, you can go back."
After saying this, he turned around and left. Liu Haizhong quickly caught up with him.
"Then... Then go to Deputy Director Zhang of your Hongxing Police Station. Just tell him that I am Liu Haizhong, the liaison officer of Siheyuan. He will remember it in his heart."
"What do you want to do with him?"
"Ask him about something small."
The old man tilted his body and took a closer look at Liu Haizhong's dress.
"You were holding a drink in your left hand and a cigarette in your right hand. You just rushed in and said you were looking for Director Zhang to do something. If I let you in like this, I probably wouldn't have to come to work tomorrow. Go back."
"Don't bother me! Just wait for a while and leave it at that."
Liu Haizhong looked around, took out a box of sunflower cigarettes from his pocket and stuffed it into the old man's jacket pocket.
"How about you give us some guidance."
"Haha~ don't do this with me, take your cigarette back! Who do you think I am!"
The old man threw the cigarette on Liu Haizhong, walked back to the duty room and closed the window again. After thinking about it, he felt something was wrong, so he opened the window and shouted something.
"If you guys dare to rush in, I will make it impossible for you to get out!"
"boom!"
The window was closed again. Before the Yan Jiecheng brothers could react, Liu Haizhong spoke first: "Isn't it just for looking at the gate? You two go back to the courtyard and wait for me. I will go to Lao Sun's house myself."
"Eh."
"Second uncle, how about I go with you?"
"You? Old Sun has never seen anyone. If you don't want your father to come home early, just follow me."
The two brothers just stood there and watched Liu Haizhong take everything away.
"Tell mom first when you get home."
"Um."
Liu Haizhong walked to the alley and stopped. After waiting for a while, he heard no footsteps. He opened a large front door and put two bags in his pocket. He continued walking like this for half an hour, but he couldn't bear the cold.
Only then returned to the courtyard.
As soon as I entered the front yard, I was stopped by the third aunt who had been waiting for a long time.
"Our family..."
"Okay, I was about to go to your house to inform you. I already went to his house to talk, and he sent me back without asking for wine or cigarettes. Here are the wine and cigarettes you bought."
The third aunt touched the place where the cigarette was unpacked and asked, "What's going on with this cigarette?"
"It's not my fault. After I come to your door, don't you have to take a breather before talking to me? Why don't I help you by doing favors and then lose money?"
"What did they say? When can I go in and take a look at our Lao Yan?"
"Sigh... I haven't promised anything. Let's take a look at it tomorrow."
Liu Haizhong touched the two large bags in his pocket, passed the three aunts, and prepared to go home and sleep.
"His second uncle, why don't you take all these things and try delivering them tomorrow."
"I don't dare to take your things. If things don't work out, I have to go back."
Liu Haizhong ducked down to avoid the third aunt, and quickly walked home.
"Mom, what do you think my dad should do? If it doesn't work, just keep these things and return them if you can at the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow. If you can't return them, send them to the farm tool factory. My dad can't return them.
Come on, my affairs are not settled, right? If we can't keep both ends, won't this house at home collapse?"
The third aunt said nothing and returned home holding these things.
It’s 6:30 in the morning on New Year’s Eve.
"Boom boom boom boom..."
Zhou Wenzhong was woken up from his sleep. He quickly got up from the bench and stood at attention. Before he could recover from his thoughts, he saw another police comrade with an unfamiliar face. He was holding two sets of handcuffs.
The sound hit the iron fence. Yan Bugui also stood in the house with his head lowered.
Zhou Wenzhong put his hands through the fence and was handcuffed.
"Are you blind?"
Yan Bugui raised his head and looked, imitating Zhou Wenzhong's example, he also put his hands through the iron fence and handcuffed them.
The police comrade walked into the house and kicked the toilet and asked, "Whose is it?"
"Report, it was Yan Bugui who did it last night. I have tried to persuade him, but he insisted that he couldn't hold it in."
"Yes. As long as you have the master, it seems that I came too late this morning."
"Zhou Wenzhong."
"arrive."
"You can release the water later. Your case should be settled today."
"clear."
Zhou Wenzhong waved the handcuffs, and the police comrades opened them and took Zhou Wenzhong outside the detention room and put the handcuffs on again.
"There is a hut in the courtyard and the water pipe is outside. Can you get it?"
"The report is within reach."
"Go ahead."
"yes."
Zhou Wenzhong looked back at Yan Bugui, grinned and walked out of the aisle into the courtyard.
A newspaper appeared in my hand. I lowered my head, rubbed the newspaper, and walked towards the toilet. Before I could reach the door, I heard Yan Bugui's pitiful shouting from the corridor.
"Ha ha……"
Zhou Wenzhong thought in his mind that this should be the third time Lao Yan was beaten.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, Liu Haizhong stood empty-handed in front of the police station.
"Looking for your Deputy Director Zhang."
"No one is here."
"I just watched Deputy Director Zhang arrive on a bicycle."
"Oh, if you didn't tell me earlier if you saw it, go in."
Liu Haizhong swallowed the curse words he was about to say, glared at the old man and walked inside.
"Dong dong dong..."
"Enter."
Liu Haizhong walked into the director's office rubbing his hands and saying hello with a flattering smile.
"Deputy Director Zhang is busy."
"Who are you?"
"I'm Liu Haizhong, the liaison officer of the courtyard. You really came to our courtyard that time in 1957. You said you wanted to do fire prevention and so on."
"Ah! Ah, that's what happened. Did you come to see me for something? Sit down, sit down."
Liu Haizhong sat on the chair and said: "Isn't this a matter for Yan Bugui in our courtyard? I would like to ask you if you can make the big matter a trivial one?"
"Don't even think about things that violate the principles. If you have nothing else to do, just go back."
"No, Yan Bugui's family is not in good condition, and the whole family depends on him for food. Can you give him a chance? Don't worry, I will personally watch him in the courtyard to ensure that he will not make any mistakes again."
"Are you looking at him?"
"Well, to tell you the truth, I saw a lot of people in the machine tool workshop of the steel rolling mill. If you just ask someone in the steel rolling mill, you will know. Of course it's no big deal for a mere Yanbugui."
"I believe you can take care of him, and I also believe the law can teach him well. Do you have anything else to do? I'm busy."
Liu Haizhong's eyes were spinning wildly. As long as he could solve Yan Bugui's matter, he would be able to overwhelm Yi Zhonghai in the yard. From now on, everyone in the yard would have to circle around him.
"Deputy Director Zhang, do you think you can make Yan Bugui pay a fine? Let's not make this matter a big deal. It will be bad for our entire street if word spreads."
Deputy Director Zhang walked out of the office and shouted: "Here comes someone!"