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Chapter 10 Gardenia Blossoms

◎Chapter 10 Gardenia blooms

The murderer lived on a quiet street lined with gardenias, whose white petals made the air nearby fragrant. At that time, he had a house where he and his heart rested for many years.

The entire boyhood passed by in a flash. Then, his parents died, he married a wife and had children, got married and divorced, and lived an ordinary life.

The vines in the courtyard were planted with his wife. After his divorce, he often looked at the vines in a daze. He sat and stood up in the shade of the trees, waiting for his son Sanzui to finish school. Under the corner of the courtyard

, the cabbage in winter is next to each other, and the watermelon in summer is next to each other, time is like flowing water, year after year. No matter it is snowing heavily or raining heavily, he has never thought of remarrying.

He spent most of his life in cars, and he drove all kinds of vehicles: motor tricycles, tractors, long-distance buses, sprinklers, large trucks with trailers, excavators, Santana sedans,

taxi……

He has only had one occupation: driver.

His fellow taxi colleagues call him Master Jian. Master Jian doesn't like to chat and likes to joke, such as patting others on the right shoulder from behind and standing on the left. He also has a hobby, which is to buy lottery tickets, but he has never won a big prize.

The life of a driver is very boring, so many drivers like to talk a lot. Taxi drivers are all educated people and they are well-informed. When they gather together to chat, they often say amazing words that shine with the light of truth, such as the following

This passage:

Driver A: "The universe? Oh, my testicles explode."

Driver B: "That's right."

Driver A: "The explosion of the testicles is the Big Bang. If the camera can live broadcast the entire process of the birth of the universe, magnify the TV picture countless times, and then multiply it countless times, first find the solar system, and then find the earth, and finally you will see yourself

Silly face."

Taxi drivers also like to talk about current affairs. Unlike ordinary citizens, they can often see through the essence of things. For example, a driver and a passenger talked about Taiwan relations like this.

Passenger: "There's going to be a war."

Driver: "If they want to bomb Taiwan, let them bomb it. If they want to kill the Japanese, let them do it. If you don't see it, the emperor will turn into dust, geese and chicken feathers will float on the green water, and a river of ashes will flow eastward."

.Whether you and I live in the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, or the awesome Tang Dynasty, we are nameless people, and nothing can be changed or stopped."

Master Jian likes to drive in the rain. Sometimes, he will park the car on a tree-lined roadside in the heavy rain. He will stay in the car and smoke a cigarette, open the window to a gap, let the smoke float out, and let the rain moisten the air.

The air came in. Mixed with the sound of rain, the music played by the radio in the car became more beautiful. The wipers made the outline of the city sometimes blurred and sometimes clear.

He peed in a mineral water bottle and threw it out of the car. In fact, many taxi drivers did this.

He threw the plastic bag containing the shit out of the car window, and the thin shit of youth floated in the wind.

He likes to play pranks, which shows that he is not old yet.

Rain is always related to romance. Master Jian is not a romantic person, but sometimes he has some very poetic thoughts. For example, he parked his car on the side of the road and wore a raincoat to buy a pack of cigarettes. He stood at the intersection,

Think this way:

If it rains harder, if it continues raining heavily, the place where he lives will become a lake, and the surface of the lake, where his knees are, will be full of lotus flowers. He stood in the water and watched the boats passing around his knees.

Master Jian is also very humorous sometimes. For example, when foreign tourists refuse to take a taxi and choose to wait for the bus, Master Jian will say to them: "The chicken is stewed, but you still don't want to put salt in it?"

The taxi driver is more like a traveler, watching the busy traffic and passing time, sending others home, and then going home himself, repeating it every day, this is his life. He sits still, but shuttles through the hustle and bustle of the city. No matter what

Whether it is a wretched man wearing a vest after playing mahjong, or a charming woman wearing perfume and eating spicy hotpot, no matter who it is or what time it is, if someone waves, he will go over and take his car with him. He can feel that the car is

His body, his skin. He observes every passenger with the corner of his eye. When he meets a talkative person, he will chat a few words; when he meets a silent person, he has nothing to say.

Once, at the intersection of the People's Hospital, Master Jian pulled over a strange customer, a woman wearing a hospital gown, with a pale face and a haggard appearance. The strange thing was that this woman had no hair and was a bald woman.

Him: "Where to go?"

Woman: "Where are there fewer people? Just walk around a few times. I don't know. Are there any mountains nearby?"

Him: "No."

Woman: "Is there a lake?"

Him: "There is a river."

Woman: "Just go to the river. Alas, I'm afraid of water."

The two stopped talking and were silent all the way. The car stopped by the river. The woman wanted to get out of the car. Master Jian reminded her that she had not paid for the car. The woman threw down a medical record and said, "You want even the money of a dead person?"

Master Jian looked at the medical records and did not continue to ask for fares. This woman was a leukemia patient and her hair must have fallen out due to chemotherapy.

Master Jian glanced at the bald woman, she got out of the car, walked towards the river with a smile on her face and tears streaming down her face.

Master Jian thought that the woman was just out to relax. Unexpectedly, a few days later, a female body wearing a hospital gown was fished out of the river, and he realized that the woman had committed suicide!

This incident shocked him greatly. From that day on, he was thinking about a problem and often became distracted while driving.

In fact, this problem is something that each of us may face:

What would you do if you were terminally ill and couldn't afford the high medical bills?

Quietly waiting for death to come?

Perhaps suicide is a kind of relief. Ending one's own life can relieve the financial pressure on the family, and let one's own pain and the sadness of the family end with a leap.

It had been a long time since this incident, and Master Jian still said to himself: "That woman must have a child... She just wants to find a place where no one is and die quietly."

Master Jian remembered that on the day he divorced his wife, his son Sanchui hid the shoes under the quilt. He and his wife searched for them for a long time. It was not until the divorce procedures were completed that he came back from the Civil Affairs Bureau alone and found the shoes hidden under the quilt.

.

At that time, his son Sanzui was only six years old. The son stood at the door and under the grape tree. He did not cry or laugh. He just asked calmly: "Where is mom, are you coming back?"

He didn't speak, he felt sad and tears welled up.

The father and son depended on each other, and he vowed to make his child's life better. When Sanzui grew up, he wore strange clothes and had weird hairstyles. He just felt that he could not keep up with the times, but he could see that his son was not happy.

The rebellion and decadence revealed in a young man's eyes are not disguised.

One detail has to be said. On the day Sanzui and his friends found the body on the water tower, he took the bus home. An old lady with a cane got on the bus. There were many people in the bus and there were no empty seats. Sanzui - this

The non-mainstream teenager with tattoos, earrings and afro hair stood up and said politely: "Old lady, sit here with me."

The people around him smiled knowingly and thought this boy was cute.

From the initial intention of planting trees to the final intention of killing people, what happened in between?

In the winter of 2006, Master Jian suffered from hemorrhoids. At first, they were only the size of peanuts. He tried to recover by taking medicine. He took Huaijiao Pills, Xiaozhiling, warm water sitz baths, and applied ointment. Every evening, when others got off work, he started to go to work.

After taking the medicine, he put the bowl on the icy table in the yard, breathed in the cold air, and drove to work.

The chair he sits on is always half a foot off the ground, balancing it with the car exhaust.

Many drivers suffer from hemorrhoids, so it's really not a big deal. It's just that every time you press the brake or clutch, you will feel pain.

During the Chinese New Year, the hemorrhoids began to worsen, and the peanuts grew into hideous-looking tumors, like a tomato sitting under his buttocks. After the operation, it was the Spring Festival, so he endured the pain and made dumplings, alone.

I was waiting for my son. It was New Year's Eve. My son spent the whole night surfing the Internet in an Internet cafe and brought a girl back the next morning.

He was not angry, he was very happy and felt that his son had grown up.

When Sanchui and Hua Hua started living together, Master Jian implicitly warned his son that pregnancy was a very troublesome matter.

Sanchui said: "Don't worry, it won't happen."

Huali also said in a nonchalant tone: "We are just having fun, we don't want to get married and have children."

In the summer of 2007, he suffered from hemorrhoids again. This time it was very serious, with severe stomach pain, blood in the stool and vomiting blood. The stool he passed out was not round but crescent-shaped, which indicated that there was a tumor in the intestine. He thought it was internal hemorrhoids, but the result was...

An examination at the hospital revealed that the rectal cancer was at an advanced stage and had metastasized to the liver and lungs!

The doctor comforted him and said: "Rectal cancer is not terrible. Just perform an operation, insert a tube in the body, and make an artificial anus."

Master Jian said: "My disease has spread to my liver and lungs. How long can it last?"

The doctor said: "Depending on the effect of chemotherapy, it should be fine in three to five years. If there is no treatment, it will only last three months."

Master Jian said: "How much does it cost?"

The doctor said: "The surgery is not very expensive, but it requires more than a dozen rounds of chemotherapy, and in the later stage..."

Master Jian said: "Add it all together, how much is the total?"

The doctor said a number.

Master Jian couldn't believe his ears. He had suffered from otitis media and his ears often discharged pus. The doctor said it loudly again. When he heard the number, there were clouds outside the window, and a rolling thunder penetrated the pus in his ear.

, he shuddered, and the doctor advised him to have an operation quickly, but he turned around and walked out of the hospital into the rain.

A millionaire may be only one hospital away from bankruptcy, let alone a common man?

What can a small citizen do if he is terminally ill?

What can a busy ant do when faced with its fate?

After so many years of hard work and hard work, Master Jian didn't have much savings. The house at home belonged to his father's unit, and he only had the right to live in it, not the right to sell it.

If you have a terminal illness, you can only wait to die!

During that time, he lost weight rapidly, turning from a middle-aged fat man into a thin man. He was completely different before and after the illness.

Master Jian's neighbor is a rich old man who just celebrated his sixtieth birthday.

The old man had a heart transplanted. The old man regarded the day of the successful transplant as his birthday. The old man never talked about the heart that gave him new life. Later, an insider said that the old man's heart came from a murderer. Some medical science

Experts believe that the brain is not the only organ with memory function, the heart can also store memories. One typical example: After an eight-year-old girl in the United States transplanted the heart of a ten-year-old boy who was murdered, the little girl always had nightmares about someone.

Want to kill her.

Master Jian asked the old man some questions: "What is an artificial anus?"

The old man replied: "Shit bag, hang a shit bag on your body."

Master Jian: "Is the heart you replaced good for use?"

Old man: "To be honest, I want to kill someone!"

Maybe this sentence gave him an idea, and a black bat flew out of his mind. Since he was going to die anyway, he decided to kill someone and leave a sum of money to his son. He parked the taxi in front of the sauna city gate.

The customers who came here to spend money were all wealthy people. Jin Kui brought a bulging bag. After he killed Jin Kui with a nail gun, he found that there was not much money in the bag. It was his first time committing a crime, and he had no experience at all.

Dumping the body was also in a hurry, so he moved the body from the water tower again.

Every taxi driver, especially the night shift driver, has self-defense weapons such as knives, fire axes, and machetes in his car. Many drivers know that Master Jian’s self-defense weapon is a nail gun. Once the police discover the body, they will trace it

The murder weapon was likely to be found by Master Jian. Out of an idea of ​​counter-investigation, he moved the body after committing the crime and buried it in his yard.

What was he thinking when he was walking in the rain, carrying a rotting corpse on his back?

What he was thinking about was his son. He recalled that his son had suffered from epilepsy when he was a child. He took his son to the hospital. When he came back, the little boy was asleep and the street lights were dim and long shadows.

On that rainy night, he carried the body down the water tower, not forgetting to talk to the dead man: "Brother, I can't help it. You have gone over there to enjoy the blessings, and I am still suffering here."

He put the body in the trunk of the taxi, completely unaware of a young man hiding in the bushes in the park, looking at him with his eyes. That was his son Sanchui. When he buried the body in the yard,

The son came in and said with trembling lips: "Dad, I saw it all..."

Master Jian asked his son: "This is all for you. What will you do if I die?"

The son said: "I don't know."

Master Jian: "Can you take care of yourself?"

The son said: "I don't know..."

Master Jian: "Will you think of Dad in the future? Don't think about Dad's bad things, but think about Dad's good things."

The son said: "I..."

Master Jian: "Let dad bear all the sins alone. For you, dad is willing to go to hell, as long as you are good."

The son said: "Dad..."

Master Jian: "Oh, you will be alone from now on, you have to be a good person."

The son lowered his head, tears streaming down his face.

A father's deep love is always difficult to express. He is a murderer and a father.

Although father and son rarely speak or communicate with each other, their father's love is as strong as a mountain and their love is silent. On the night when the body was buried, the father and son were silent. They sat at home, not talking, and the father smoked inferior cigarettes.

, lowering his head, there was one sentence in his son's heart, but he never said it out loud. That sentence was:

"Dad, I'm scared. Dad, I love you."

At dawn, his father thought of a countermeasure. He knew that the body on the water tower had been discovered by Sanzui's friends, and the police would know about it sooner or later, so he chose to call the police. At that time, Huali happened to return to Sanzui's house from the Internet cafe and planned to sleep. , Master Jian pretended that he had just come back from get off work, and together with Hua Hua, he sent Sanchui, who was pretending to be sick, to the hospital, and then called the police.

In many cases, the person who reported the crime is the murderer. In 2004, many fires broke out in Chongqing, and the arsonist Cui Youping still put out the fires at the scene after calling the police; in 2006, a man with his legs cut off was found on the mountain path behind a warehouse on Huancheng Road in Jinzhou.

The man with the leg, named Zeng Jinqing, called the police after self-mutilation in an attempt to defraud insurance money.

Master Jian asked his son to pretend to be crazy in the hospital, and then he used the deceased's mobile phone to send text messages from the ghost asking for his life. This was just to mislead the police, distract the police's attention, and ignore some real clues, so that he could continue to seek money and murder.

time.

Sanchui's illness was not actually an act. How could a child accept that the man carrying a corpse in the park was his father? Moreover, Sanchui knew that there was a corpse buried under the vine in his yard.

There will be a second body buried there.

Master Jian said to his son: "Since I have done it, I will do it to the end. It is the same for big cases and small cases. They are all dead."

During the days when he was waiting for murder and wealth robbery, he often thought, in a few years, will his son inherit his bad habit of smoking and drinking and then quit? After getting married, will he get divorced again and throw away a good family?

, shattered into fragments of memories? He remembered his son’s girlfriend Hua Hua, that young but lively girl. Every morning, she called uncle, and then walked into the room hand in hand with her son to sleep. Sometimes, when her son was not around, she would

Master Jian felt extremely disgusted by calling other boys in a very intimate manner, so he killed Hua Hua.

He wanted to give his son a new life, a life that was completely different and had no connection with the past.

Master Jian used a nail gun to kill the accountant of the Tobacco Bureau in his taxi. Before he died, the accountant begged and revealed the password of his bank card, but he did not forgive the innocent person. The password was correct.

The accountant did not deceive him, which made him feel uneasy and he decided to stop.

That day, he took his son out of the hospital and bought a train ticket. He put all the money in his bag and gave it to his son.

Son: "Where am I going?"

Father: "Anywhere will do. You have grown up."

Son: "Will you come with me?"

Father: "Don't worry about me, I'm about to die... Just go away, go far away."

Son: "Dad, I..."

Father: "Remember, never come back."

Son: "If there is an afterlife, dad, I hope to be your son again!"

My father was restless and felt that he had forgotten something. He thought for a long time and said: I forgot to lock the door and didn't take the key to the house.

Master Jian asked his son to find a barber shop and get his hair cut first. He went home to get the key, and then sent his son to the station. When he returned home, the special case team happened to go to his house to investigate, and he saw four people standing in the courtyard.

, one of them was digging something under the vine with a shovel. He realized that these four people were policemen, so without thinking, he picked up the nail gun and rushed out...

Hualong's palm was injured, but his muscles and bones were not injured and his life was not in danger.

The nail from the nail gun hit Professor Liang's chest. At that time, Su Mei turned pale with fright. This shot was enough to kill him. However, Professor Liang did not die and was not injured at all - there was a Bible in his jacket pocket.

, this Bible saved his life.

Master Jian drove away, not knowing where to go like a lost dog. Bao Zhan took a taxi to pursue him and notified the police to intercept him. Finally, Master Jian’s car flew an arc in the air, honking its horn, and passed from the bridge.

He crashed into the river beach, and before he died, he smelled the fragrance of gardenias, and he remembered the face of the woman who committed suicide, that face with a smile but tears streaming down her face.

The case was solved, and the police did not find Sanmai afterwards.

The non-mainstream boy had a new hairstyle and even put on new clothes that his father bought for him. He took a bag of money and sat in a taxi, intending to go home to see his father who had been waiting for a long time, but instead he saw

When he arrived at the busy police station at the door of his house, he realized that something had happened to his father who had gone home to get the keys.

The child was reluctant to leave, took one last look at his home, and then resolutely said to the driver: "Let's go to the train station."

His tears flowed down... The gardenias on the roadside were white and fragrant, blooming silently.

Perhaps it will take Sanzui a lifetime to feel his father's deep love.

There is one more thing that must be explained clearly. When the special case team left, the director of the Fourth Street hosted a banquet to see him off. After the banquet, the director of the fourth street quietly gave the special case team a letter. According to him, it was a letter of thanks.

, you can find a bank card inside through the envelope. The director of the Fourth Street said that he did not open the sauna city and hoped that the special case team would not mention this matter when they return.

The special case team rejected this letter of thanks. On the plane back, the four members of the special case team had the following conversation:

Su Mei: "Naked bribery!"

Professor Liang: “Most of the pornographic venues in a city are protected by the local public security department.”

Hualong said: "Holmes, guess how much money is on the card?"

Bao Zhan: "I think it must be more than what Master Jian got from killing three lives..."


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