Siheyuan, my new life

In a detention room of Jiaodaokou Police Station, Liu Haizhong was sitting dejectedly on a wooden board in the corner. In just a few days, the second uncle who was originally fat and in charge of the No. 95 courtyard had become much thinner and looked depressed, as if his parents had died. To be honest, Liu Haizhong was not so sad and helpless even when his parents died.

This afternoon, public security personnel have issued a court verdict to Liu Haizhong. Because of gathering a crowd to cause trouble, disrupting social stability, endangering social security, and bribing state officials, the main offender Liu Haizhong was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Three days later (that is, this Sunday), he will be paraded through the streets and sent to the northwest for labor reform. At the same time, he must pay compensation for economic losses of 300 yuan.

After hearing the verdict read out by the public security personnel, Liu Haizhong jumped up like a cat with its tail scalded, and shouted loudly: "I don't accept it. I am the second uncle appointed by the street office. I have the right to manage the residents of those courtyards. Even if I kicked down the gate and smashed the car, I am willing to pay compensation, but why did you sentence me to labor reform?"

The public security officer who read out the verdict sneered disdainfully: "Liu Haizhong, it seems that you are still stubborn at this time. The street office appointed you managers as liaisons between the street and the residents. You are used to showing off your power in your own courtyard. You really don’t know your place. You even dared to bring people to smash and destroy the house of the deputy secretary, deputy director and director of the Security Department of the Dongcheng District Branch for no reason. You really don’t know how to write the word death? If Director Lin was not unwilling to let those neighbors who followed you to join in the fun go to jail, do you think you could still save your life? Let me tell you, the instructions of the municipal party committee leaders are to severely punish you, the main offender." After that, he no longer paid attention to the pale Liu Haizhong. He still had to go to the courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang to deliver the verdict to Liu Haizhong's family.

Of course, as the first person to break the door, Niu Erzhu was also sentenced by the court to three years of labor reform. After being paraded through the streets the day after tomorrow, he will be sent directly to the labor reform farm in the eastern suburbs of Beijing to serve his sentence.

Ever since the public security officer who read out the verdict left, Liu Haizhong has been sitting in the corner lifelessly. Several residents of Courtyard No. 95 who were detained in the same detention room gathered together in a nervous mood, talking in low voices.

From the words of the public security officer just now, everyone heard a good news, that is, the leader who lived in the west wing actually put aside the past grudges and pleaded for them, thus allowing them to avoid imprisonment.

After hearing the court's verdict on Liu Haizhong just now, these people felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar. Now they have also learned the true identity of the man living in the west wing from the public security personnel in charge of the interrogation. To be honest, if they had known earlier that the man was the deputy secretary and deputy director of the Dongcheng District Branch and the director of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, they would never have dared to follow Liu Haizhong to cause trouble.

Apart from other things, the director of the security department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill was enough to scare these people. Most of them worked in the steel rolling mill, so how could they not know how powerful the director of the security department was? If they offended such a leader, it would be easy for him to find an excuse to deal with them. Therefore, these people hated Liu Haizhong, the second uncle who led the riot, to the core. If Liu Haizhong had not taken the lead, even if they did not know the true identity of the residents of the West Cross Courtyard, they would not dare to openly go to the door to cause trouble.

In fact, what these people were thinking at that time was to follow Liu Haizhong, the second uncle in charge, to fish in troubled waters. When the time came, Liu Haizhong would eat the meat and they would at least get a taste of the soup. After all, the aroma of the barbecue in the west wing was really mouth-watering.

Now, instead of eating meat, he got into trouble. If Director Lin didn't want to see his neighbors go to jail for joining in the fun, and really strictly implemented the instructions of the municipal party committee leaders, Liu Haizhong would probably have to eat a peanut, and these people would definitely go to jail and undergo labor reform. If he was sentenced to prison, according to the regulations of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, these people would definitely be fired from the factory and their jobs. In that case, how would his family live in the future?

First, the steel mill will take back the house where my family currently lives. This is welfare housing allocated by the factory. Not only does the individual only need to pay a small amount of rent, but as long as there is someone in the family working in the steel mill, they can continue to live there.

Without the job in the steel rolling mill, it would be a daydream to find a formal job even after serving my sentence in prison. No unit is willing to accept a prisoner now.

And even if the street office arranges a new house for you, you still need to pay the street office normal rent, which is several times the current rent.

Without a formal job at the steel rolling mill, I can only do odd jobs and work as a laborer in society. Not only is my income not guaranteed, but I also lose all the previous benefits. You have to know that working at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill provides more benefits than just rent. It also includes employee medical care, work injury allowances, and various things distributed during the New Year and other holidays.

Perhaps people only know how to cherish after they lose something. Now these people have made up their minds to work honestly in the future and never have any crooked thoughts. They must also warn their families and abide by the law. This time, Director Lin interceded for them so that they could escape the disaster. If they get into trouble again in the future, who can intercede for them?

Now detained in the detention room of the police station, these people were interrogated all night long at the beginning, but later they received more legal education from public security personnel.

Today, we learned from the public security officer that Director Lin was so magnanimous that he offered leniency to everyone. Everyone felt very complicated. If we put ourselves in Director Lin's shoes, would we let go of the people who smashed our door for no reason? I'm afraid we'd be lucky not to add insult to injury.

Lin Yu would never have thought that he just didn't want to be involved in too many causes and effects. A casual word from him brought about tremendous changes in those courtyard residents who followed Liu Haizhong to join in the fun. After returning to the steel rolling mill, these people not only worked diligently but also worked hard to study technology. They were promoted in the technical assessment at the end of the year, and in the next few short years, two level seven technicians and three level five technicians emerged.

Director Hu Dahai of the Dongcheng District Branch once called Lin Yu to ask for his opinion on how to deal with Liu Haizhong and others.

To be honest, Lin Yu didn't take these so-called influential figures who were active in the original play seriously. Even if Liu Haizhong, Xu Damao and others in the original play entered the Revolutionary Committee and were doing well, what did that have to do with him? If someone really offended him, it would be a piece of cake for him to deal with him.

Lin Yu let go of those neighbors who followed him to join in the fun because he didn't want their families to be implicated. These people went to jail and lost their jobs, and their families were directly affected. Although these people had impure motives, Lin Yu didn't want to be tainted by too many consequences.