God of danger

Although his heart is attached, Zhang Conglin is not yet at such a high level that he can continue to work for Li Yun at the year-end event without leaving his home for everyone.

On the 29th, a colleague drove over from the city to meet him. The two interviewed the two children he had asked before, and finally asked four of them to put their fingerprints on the official confession documents.

It was already late when work was over, and the two of them finished the report on the pager, drank some wine at the roadside roast meat stall, lamented the child's cunning and the possibility of Li Yun being wronged, and agreed to continue after the Spring Festival holiday. After pursuing the case, they each went home.

My colleague has a family, so does he, and it's a mess, Zhang Conglin has to go home to take care of it, and in his opinion, Li Yun is not a good bird, so there is nothing wrong with letting him stay in the juvenile prison for a few days. .

The New Year's Eve is the opening day of the Huanhe Juvenile Management Office.

Li Yun was sitting in the classroom watching the Spring Festival Gala with the others. He sat upright and didn't even move a finger.

In the past years, he played outside, playing games, bragging, hiding and smoking. He didn't watch such boring programs.

But this year is different. More than three months of parenting life has allowed him to see the real boring and monotonous. Labor, endorsement, singing, eating, sleeping and even peeing are all printed out of a mold. Not allowed, the discipline cadres will not beat them, but there are ways to make them behave.

And, how insignificant is he? He used to walk sideways in the school, but he came here to be a man with his tail between his legs. The so-called mountain is still as high as the mountain. This is a place where the wicked have their own grind.

It is actually not easy for people to notice their own changes, but Li Yun felt that he had changed.

When he first came in, he was so wronged that he couldn't find words to describe it, and he was full of haters, including Mr. Wu's wife, the police judge, Wang Cong and Cao Bing, and even Guan Min and his classmates who spoke harshly to him. , thinking about waiting for him to go out...

He bumped into a wall, bit his wrist, once stole a few handbag handles, tied a knot and was about to strangle himself to death, but the guards were too sharp-eyed, and he couldn't hurt himself every time. , will be captured by them and imprisoned.

The mediator in the office would come to talk to him afterward, urging him to think more about his parents in the future, but Li Yun only had himself in his heart, and he thought day and night how it could be so unfair.

Sometimes when he sleeps until midnight, he will feel that he can't breathe, but when he wakes up, he still doesn't know what to do or what to do.Sometimes he would cry secretly, all at night, stuffed in the quilt, trying not to make a sound, this may be his little dignity left, to prevent others from seeing his weakness.

However, what the young management gave Li Yun was not just the injustice in his heart.

There are all people like him, even more arrogant than him. In the past, Li Yun felt that nerds like Li Xiaobo were the most eye-catching, and he disdained to be with them. out.

Now his brother has betrayed him, and the person he can't stand the most is the most bragging robber in the dormitory.

This person used his burglary as a bragging point all day long, emphasizing how calm and fearless he was, his head was only a scar the size of a bowl, and he was still Hu Hansan when he entered here.

The people in the dormitory are also idiots. Hearing this kind of fearlessness that seems to be fabricated at first sight, he can actually hear his eyes light up, so envious that he looks up at the dormitory manager, and bows his head to call him big brother.

Li Yun was very annoyed by these people, thinking they were really stupid, but in order not to be squeezed out and beaten, he had to put on the same face as them, with a flattering smile on his face and an irritable heart.

He wanted to die every day, and felt that he was about to die, but he would still open his eyes on time the next morning, get up quickly and go to work.

It’s just that occasionally in the gap between pasting Kongming lanterns or threading handles on handbags, Li Yun would suddenly remember that he used to brag every day, rob children’s money, hate class, try to climb up to the gangsters outside the school, and his roommate bragged. Most of his capital is his daily life.

Because the life in the institute is really too pale, and the next ten years will also be blank. Li Yun has nothing to do in his heart, so empty that he can only keep reminiscing.

Then he slowly saw the disgusting aspects of himself in these people like him.

In the past, Guan Min hated him, and Li Yun thought she was pretending to be blind, but now he sees his despicableness in the "mirrors", and he doesn't want to believe it.

He kept silent day after day, neither could he go back to the past, nor did he want to work hand in hand with the robbers, and he refused to accept that he was to blame for what he is today.

But whether it is true or not, escaping may be Li Yun's answer.

Two months later, he no longer thinks about his grievances and hated people so frequently. They are replaced by how many tasks are left today, why there is still no meat in the dishes, and how many days are left to visit the prison.

Li Yun even began to think about how he should be lazy so that the guards would not notice it, and he would unconsciously pay attention to whose names flashed on the screen in the yard that reduced the sentence.

Sometimes he also wants to show the reduced period well, but sometimes he feels that there is not much difference between eight years and ten years, so think about it and forget it.

He got used to the days of doing handwork and memorizing the law. At first he didn't study at night, and he would apply to sit in the classroom for a while, to escape temporarily from the ignorant crowd.

Then Li Yun discovered that even here, there is no shortage of top students in the classroom, it's just that their minds are not right.

Among these smart people, it seemed easier to write formulas than to wipe his ass with paper. He crushed Guan Min and beat Li Xiaobo, and he didn't even need to write a draft for the questions.

At first, Li Yun propped his chin up because he was bored and peeked at this person doing the problem, but the other party got the wrong signal because of this, thinking that he is also a kind of high IQ who is good at these, and came to invite him to PK to solve the equation together.

Xueba's thinking made it difficult for him to understand. Li Yun only knew how to fight in PK. He said no, and refused without shame. The other party made a joke, apologized to him, and then introduced himself.

This was Li Yun's acquaintance in the juvenile management, the first person he was willing to talk to, although he was a poor liar who cheated his classmates of money, the amount was a bit large, and he came in half a year earlier than him.

Later, he continued to go to the classroom, and everyone in the room was studying. In this atmosphere, he would also look for a few natural science magazines to read. After getting used to the life in the institute, the end of the year was coming soon.

Just now, when the host was smiling and wishing everyone a happy family reunion, Li Yun was stunned for a moment, his father's face flashed in his mind. He vaguely remembered that when he came to visit the prison in the middle of this month, his hair seemed to have turned gray .

At the last moment of the year, while inside the iron fence of the juvenile prison, he suddenly realized the goodness of his not-so-good family.

He wants to go home.

--

On the first day of the first lunar month, people came to pay New Year's greetings before 9 o'clock.

Guan Jie was holding a plastic tray, and squatted in the utility room to grab things, such as peanuts, melon seeds, sugar and rock candied oranges, and put them on the table in the main room for others to pick up.

According to the practice of previous years, he will be very busy this morning. He has to serve stools and water for relatives, pile up all the firecrackers and paper money they brought, borrow mahjong, cover disposable tablecloths for eating tables, serve tableware, and serve dishes. , if a relative brings a child with a kid, he has to go to play the role of the principal of the kindergarten.

He can only watch when the guests are eating, because there are too many people and there is no place for him.But Guan Jie is very balanced, because Lu Rongxing doesn't have a sister and has more things to do than him.

The morning of the first day of junior high school was somewhat difficult, but considering the lucky money received yesterday, Guan Jie ran quite willingly.

At 10 o'clock, his father's cousins ​​slowly arrived. Guan Jie and these uncles and brothers couldn't see each other twice a year.

When the relatives heard that he made a mistake, they basically wouldn't poke him, so they just smiled and said that he was good and grown up.

Guan Jie was very active in front of acquaintances, but he was a bit restrained when there were too many strangers, and he wished that all these people would play cards quickly and not talk to him, nor ask him about his grades in school.

After a while, the sky does what people want, he slipped into the next door when he had time, and went to discuss with Lu Rongxing about paying New Year's greetings to Jin Teng.

Lu Rongxing's father is the master chef in charge of cooking, Wang Yang is in front of the guests, and a temporary hearth is built with red bricks in the yard, and Lu Rongxing is sitting on the fire to add firewood, with a towel wrapped around his head to block the ashes , like an old hat.

Guan Jie laughed as soon as he saw this shape, but he didn't deliberately mention it, he just went to ask about the business.

Lu Rongxing poked the dry wood in the stove cavity with tongs, his eyes were squinted by the flying ash, and he said, "I asked my mother, and she said that as long as the road is not too far away, New Year's greetings are usually in the morning." , I can leave anytime, it’s up to you.”

Guan Jie thought that Guan Min was still at home, so he made a guarantee and said yes, and then went home to report to Li Aili.

He said this yesterday, and Li Aili wished that he would have a good relationship with all the teachers, so he agreed to him: "Go, hey, don't be empty-handed, bring something, and don't cause trouble for the teacher, do you hear me?" ?”

Guan Jie turned around like a tiger and was about to leave: "Got it."

Guan Min laughed at him strangely from behind: "Hey, when did you get on so well with the teacher? Didn't you always take a detour before?"

Guan Jie ignored her, and thought about it as he walked, feeling that Jin Teng didn't look like a teacher, anyway, he wasn't afraid.

On the way there, Lu Rongxing still drove him by car, leaving a car at home, and everyone can borrow it if they run out of soy sauce and vinegar.

After more than 20 minutes, the two turned into the row where Jin Teng lived, and there were guests playing cards or chatting at the door of several houses they passed by. Only Jin Teng's door was not even a car.

The two of them are not so emotional yet, so they feel sorry for Jin Teng, but they are both relieved because they don't have to face people they don't know.

Lu Rongxing parked the car in front of the teacher's small vegetable patch. Guan Jie was one step ahead of him, and ran into the house with the two New Year's goods in the car. The fragrance is several times stronger at the bottom.

He called "Teacher Jin" and followed the scent into the kitchen.

Jin Teng was eating in the back, when he heard shouts to greet him, he smiled when he saw the things on both sides of his waist, thinking that this kid was really caring, and he was about to say hello after thinking about it. It became lively.

"Happy New Year, Teacher Jin," Lu Rongxing stepped across the threshold and bowed to him solemnly, "Be healthy and everything goes well."

At his grandfather's side, everyone said "Gong Xi Fa Cai", and adults would give red envelopes after saying that, but they didn't come to ask for red envelopes, so he changed his rhetoric.

Jin Teng was a little caught off guard by the solemnity, and he was stunned for a few seconds before laughing, wiped his hands on the down jacket, walked over to pick up the things in Guan Jie's hand, and said emotionally: "Thank you, thank you, I didn't know you would come , I didn’t prepare at all, it’s over, it’s over, my impression is gone.”

Guan Jie didn't give it to him, and put four tubes of shortbread and two bottles of canned food on his table. He didn't know what he was laughing at, and kept laughing. In fact, he should say a word of blessing, but he was a little embarrassed .

Jin Teng touched his face and it felt quite warm, so he knew that he was not riding a bicycle, and then he went over and pinched Xia Lu Rongxing's finger, and found that it was not cold, so he let go and said, "You two are at home. Are there no guests today? You still have time to visit me, have you eaten yet?"

Guan Jie was so impressed by the smell in his kitchen that he forgot how reserved a student should be, and honestly shook his head.

Compared with people who are too polite, Jin Teng prefers his straightforwardness. Of course, this kind of liking is only for people who have a good relationship with him. Seeing this, he immediately smiled and said: "Although I have already served dinner, I still want to ask you, Rubbing hot pot, two children?"

The two looked at each other, Guan Jie saw that Lu Rongxing didn't shake his head, so he nodded himself.

Jin Teng usually eats alone, and he uses a small wooden folding table, the height of which is only suitable for a small horse tie. He went to the yard and found two more, and set them up to bring them bowls and chopsticks, all of which were for eating at home The porcelain bowls and bamboo chopsticks are not disposable tableware for banquets.

By the way, I also opened a bottle of fruit grains.

After Guan Jie sat down, he kept looking at the table. They often eat hot pot when the weather is cold, but the color of the soup is not so scary, and the dishes are all stewed in one pot, unlike Jin Teng's place, where there are only hot peppers rolling in the pot , regardless of meat or vegetarian dishes, all raw piles on the plate on the table.

Forgive him for being a local boy, and he has never eaten such a hot pot. He is wondering if he will die from the heat, or have diarrhea.

Lu Rongxing has a little more knowledge than him, he has seen Sichuan style hot pot, but he has a delicate throat and is not very good at spicy food.

Jin Teng saw that both of them were a little in awe, and couldn't help laughing: "What kind of expression are you two? Are you afraid of spicy? This is not spicy."

Guan Jie glanced at him, then at the inside of the pot, and was so intimidated by the red color that the teacher couldn't believe it.

Lu Rongxing picked up a piece of raw beef mixed with chili noodles and sesame seeds, and held it in his hand, hesitating whether to try it in the pot.

Jin Teng saw that they hadn't started yet, so he had no choice but to throw a chopstick of beef and fish into the pot, gave up verbal persuasion, and let them taste it when it was ready to cook.

While the meat was cooking, he poured drinks for the two of them, held up the cups and said, "Thank you for coming to see me, I am very happy, come, let's have a drink, let's not talk about it, just... the best wishes from all over the world are here In this sentence."

Guan Jie probably wouldn't be able to speak out if he really wanted to talk about routines, so he "ding" the glass with him relaxed and happy.

Lu Rongxing also bumped into him and took a sip. After finishing the drink, he heard Guan Jie beside him let out a sigh of relief. Looking sideways, he found that the drink essence was really stuffy.

If Jin Teng eats hot pot alone, he doesn't need food at all, because his stomach is not strong enough when he is old, and his digestion is slow if he doesn't eat much, so he can just eat vegetables.

But there are two more children who are still growing, and there is no shortage of staple food, so he got up and used the rice cooker to heat up some leftovers.

The hot pot here is open, Guan Jie tasted a small bite of the beef, and found that it was not as spicy as the spicy hot pot on the street, immediately rolled up his sleeves and freshly cooked meatballs and cabbage in the pot, while pulling Lu Rongxing into the water .

After eating this meal for more than two hours, at first Jin Teng asked them what they were doing during the winter vacation, and then from books to comics, it was fate that Teacher Jin had not only read Youyou, but also remembered Cangma’s Qiangwei move, and Guan Jie Like finding a confidant, I kept asking the teacher if you remember this or that, some of which Jin Teng remembered, some not.

How long the topic of comics has been talked about, no one has any statistics, and then inexplicably jumped from Lu Bingxun to what Guan Jie saw and heard at the pig slaughtering scene.

Early in the morning, Zhang Yiye couldn't hold back his selfishness, so he called him specifically, saying that his father told him during the Spring Festival Gala yesterday, what happened to Li Yun's case.

According to the inside story revealed by Zhang Yiye, combined with what Li Yun shouted on the bridge railing in Xia Tian, ​​Lu Rongxing swallowed the hiccups in his throat and asked, "Teacher, if Li Yun is really wronged, then he will be punished." Isn't it very pitiful to be locked up for so long?"

Jin Teng put down the half-bitten cucumber stick in his hand, shook his head and smiled at him: "To be honest, if you ask different people this question, you will get different answers. For example, if you ask Xiaojie, he will definitely say , yes, he is so pitiful."

Guan Jie was called by name suddenly, he glanced at the teacher, felt that what he said was right, and nodded to Lu Rongxing.

Jin Teng continued: "If you ask the classmates in Li Yun's class who were bullied by him, they may say that although he was not the murderer, they have nothing to do with him."

"If you ask the uncles and aunts who talk about this on the road, some of them will say that they are pitiful, and some will say that they deserve it. If they didn't get along with their classmates before, they wouldn't be seen as bad if they didn't hang out on the road."

"But if you ask me, I think he is pitiful in terms of being convicted, but it is wrong to beat the teacher and bully his classmates before. The problem is that beating the teacher and his conviction are connected. He Deserving and pitiful, as for the more serious emotions, it depends on my impression of him. Before the murder, I didn’t know him. I heard the news about him on the road. It’s hard to say whether it’s true or not. , and there will be many people who judge him, so I will not stand in line.”

"The most important thing is that it doesn't matter to Li Yun what other people think now. If he is really wronged, he will only be ecstatic, because someone can clear his innocence, and he doesn't have to be imprisoned for a longer period of time. Time, this is definitely a great thing that has a great impact on his life."

Lu Rongxing felt that everything he said was reasonable, but he didn't hear the answer. At this time, he still didn't understand. Not judging a stranger casually is the highest level of respect and tolerance in the adult world.

--

From the second day of the Lunar New Year, Guan Jie and Lu Rongxing started visiting relatives, saying Gong Xi Fa Cai everywhere, eating and traveling for 7 days.

On the eighth day of the lunar new year, the first thing Zhang Conglin did when he returned to work was to bring the beggar into the interrogation room.

His colleague on the opposite side was outside the one-way glass, and all he saw was the indifference on the beggar's face. He said: "If you have the ability, use the evidence to speak. If you don't have evidence, don't just wrong the good people."

He also claimed to be a good person, saying that he picked up the money in the trash, and he didn't know any junior high school teachers at all, and his tone was unusually strict.

Of course, he has to be nervous, because he was still a minor when he killed his father and stepmother, and now he has absconded for many years and passed the age of criminal responsibility. Once he is tied to the murder case, he will die.

For this reason, Zhang Conglin had to go to the juvenile prison to let Li Yun carefully recall everything that day.

When he learned that the child was lying and that he might be innocent, Li Yun begged Zhang Conglin to help him.He recalled it carefully, but he was flustered when the incident happened, and he couldn't recall anything. He only said that he remembered meeting two adults on the main road, one driving a tractor and the other carrying a hoe.

But these two are of no use at all.

Zhang Conglin went back to his office to apply for a meeting, and wanted to set up a special case team, but the detachment said nothing, what a fart, let him find witnesses or physical evidence first.

This search lasted for several months without any clues, and the team felt hopeless every day, but Li Yun in the juvenile prison guarded the hopeful news and carefully stopped violating the rules.

Primary and secondary schools started one after another, and Guan Jie felt the pressure of further studies dully. He took a preliminary exam half a month after entering school, with a score of 90 in mathematics and just over 70 in Chinese.

Lu Rongxing was called into the office by the head teacher because the broadcasting room in junior high school was facing a replacement. The reason was that the teacher in the broadcasting room knew Wang Yang, and Wang Yang was the host of various conferences in the town. If there is a son, let Meng Ping ask him if he is willing to read the manuscript.

Lu Rongxing originally didn't like to participate in activities, but what powers with the same base and zero exponents made him feel dizzy. He may have lost his head, so he didn't immediately refuse, but said that he should go back and think about it.

When spring began in April, the side of the road was gradually dotted with scattered small flowers. Guan Jie, a sixth grader, lost the qualification to fly a kite, so he could only stay in the classroom and watch the lower graders go out for a spring outing.

He basically didn't listen to the lectures in class that day, every book had kites drawn on them, and the patterns on the kites were all skulls, implicitly expressing some kind of opinion.

At the end of April, the criminal police team finally found the evidence they wanted. It was a blood-stained shirt, which was picked up by a stray dog ​​on the main road, and happened to meet a traffic policeman who was dealing with a traffic accident on the road.

One of the two traffic policemen was a civilian police officer. Seeing that the stain on the shirt looked like old blood, and it was very large, he picked it up and looked at it. Since he was not sure whether it was a human or an animal, he took it to a friend's place. The second office took a test, and who knew that after the DNA test, a match was found in the file, which was the beggar who was being remanded everywhere.

The clothes also contained the DNA of the deceased in the murder case.

After receiving the news, the police officers rushed to the town and excitedly took the bloody clothes back to the town to find the location, but because the first discoverer was a dog, they did not find the place where the bloody clothes were thrown away, but found it on the slope of the cemetery. A pile of discarded old clothes.

People nearby will throw unwanted clothes in one place, just like taking out the garbage.

The police then found the original owner of the shirt among the residents not far from the cemetery. He was terrified and said that it was an old clothes that his wife packed up last spring and had been thrown away long ago.

Zhang Conglin and his colleagues speculated that the clothes may have been used by the beggar to wipe blood after the murder. Given the large number of knife wounds on the deceased, the beggar may have been injured while struggling, and judging from the amount of bleeding, it should not be too much. Shallow, may leave scars.

At the same time in this village, Zhang Conglin and his party also got two other valuable news.

First, the beggar would often wander around the pile of old clothes and the road where Mr. Wu was killed. In spring and autumn, sometimes he simply slept in the grass, and people passing by would be scared to death when they saw it.

Second, he murdered and fled five years ago, and the beggar in people's memory has been wandering around the town for more than eight years, so this murderer, he is not a beggar at all, he just borrowed his identity as a beggar and swaggered on the road walking.

So, what about the original beggar?

Soon the police found this unknown person who drowned in April last year and floated down the Yuelai River from among the unclaimed corpses in the morgue.

After a long time, whether he died accidentally or another murder is unknown, but 4 days later, the criminal police found eyewitnesses in the town, who confirmed that on the evening of the day Mr. Wu was killed, he had seen the fake beggar and walked into it. cross that road.

At the beginning of May, during several days of interrogation, the spirit of the fake beggar was exhausted. He said that he slipped his mouth. He said he hates those adults who are self-righteous and open their mouths and shut their mouths for your own good. that damn old...

Zhang Conglin's colleague cheered up, and finished the extremely abrupt sentence for him: "There is also that damn teacher. Be honest, he has no grievances with you, why did you kill him?"

A distant, distorted and hateful expression hung on the face of the fake beggar, and he smiled contemptuously and said, "Those three cowards were so excited that they said that every time they think of being beaten, humiliated, and despised by him, they wish they could Kill him, one of them brought such a long knife, hahahaha but when the teacher called his name, they..."

Zhang Conglin saw him put on a dazed and surprised expression. He spread his hands and said helplessly, "...I don't understand. Why did you run away? If you hate him so much, kill him." , it's not impossible. But it doesn't matter, I can help them solve..."

Before he could say the word "off", the new criminal policeman knocked out one of his teeth with a punch. This heinous criminal dared to speak like a savior.

On this day, Li Yun was personally interviewed by the director. When he heard the other party say that the real criminal had been caught and that the documents would come out after waiting patiently for two days, he finally couldn't help kneeling on the ground and crying loudly.

Human nature is inherently good and inherently evil. Facing the same environment and situation, some people will never cross the bottom line called "human nature".

Half a month later, Guan Jie ushered in his primary school graduation ceremony.

On the day he went back to school to move the table, Lu Rongxing was still in class, but he still remembered him in his heart. When he came back from school at noon, the first thing he did was not to play the pipa, but to ask him how he did in the exam.

Guan Jie himself was so satisfied that he flew up, and said proudly: "Math 91, Chinese 83."

The sum was higher than his total score last year. Lu Rongxing thought he had worked hard at the last moment, and praised him, "You did well in the exam."

Unexpectedly, Guan Jie said modestly: "It's so-so, No. 13 in the class."

Today's test questions are very easy. They all did well in the school, and their language average can reach 90.

Lu Rongxing: "..."