Chapter Zero: Youth

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This year, the temperature dropped particularly early.

Just after the beginning of winter, in front of the Songting Detention Center in the northern suburbs of Xinhai City, the leaves of the plane trees on both sides of the highway are scattered, and the streets are full of yellow leaves.

Standing on the bus platform, the thin young man, with a slightly pale face and delicate eyebrows, looked up at the hazy sky through the sparse branches, and the leaden clouds were very low, and seemed to be pressing on the top of his head.

As soon as the teenager came out of the detention center, he wore a jacket, a yellow backpack with toiletries, and a change of clothes, but they were all thin summer and autumn clothes.

He didn't want to take another bloated coat from his backpack and put it on his body, shivering against the cold wind, he was completely a stubborn teenager.

Today really doesn't seem to be a good day, and even the people released from the detention center are very few.

Freshly painted bus stop signs stand alone on the side of the road.

An old-fashioned sedan was parked opposite, across the asphalt road from the teenager, as if two beings were completely unrelated.

From the perspective of a teenager, you can't see the logo of an old-fashioned sedan, the lines of the body are tough, and it looks full of a sense of age, but the slender body shows that it has an extraordinary and prominent position in the era when it left the factory.

This old-fashioned sedan was covered with dust at this time, and the side body was even covered with gray marks after the mud had dried, and no one had taken care of it for a long time.

If it weren't for the crack in the window, and the wisps of smoke wafting out from time to time, the sedan would have been like a down-and-out old aristocrat, huddled in isolation on the street and uncared for.

Not a single bus passed by for a long time, not to mention that there was not even a single other car passing by, which was really lonely.

Maybe it was because there was silence for too long, or maybe the person sitting in the old sedan lost patience first, and the passenger door opened a crack, but then a police car came from a distance, and the door was closed by the occupants of the car.

The boy was standing on the curb of the road, and when he saw the police car coming, he thought of the situation where a bunch of policemen broke into the door and pressed him to the concrete floor, and subconsciously took a step back.

The police car did not go directly to the detention center and stopped in front of the teenager.

The window slowly lowered, revealing the face of a thin, resolute middle-aged man in a police uniform, but the boy turned his head to look at the stop sign, more disdainful of the middle-aged policeman than the car across the asphalt road.

"Bus No. 19 collided with a small car when it entered the station in Kanjiawan, and the next bus would take half an hour to come - if you don't want to follow me into the detention center again, just wait here for a few minutes, and I'll ask Xiao Liu to drive you back. You put on this coat first, look at your frozen ......," said the middle-aged policeman, taking a coat from the car and handing it out.

The boy didn't care, let alone come over to pick up his coat, but just put his hand in his pocket and shrank his body slightly, feeling a little better.

"Don't you feel good?" asked the middle-aged policeman.

"Do you feel good about getting you in, locking you up for four months, and then saying that you are innocent?" the young man bit his bloodless lip and asked, "You shouldn't ask me if it's uncomfortable, but if it's unfair!"

"......" After a while, the middle-aged policeman sighed, took back his coat, lit a cigarette, and said, "Your matter is not so complicated, but when it comes to your father's case, the prosecutor still asked for supplementary investigation twice." That's why I'm drawing conclusions until now. I know you're indignant, but you'll learn one day that it's better to have rules than no rules. ”

The young man's expression was hideous for a moment, but then he turned his face to look away.

After all, it was difficult for him to be calm, but the four-month detention center life also taught him not to argue or fight against anything uselessly.

"By the way, when you came out, did you ask to see your father, you should know that your father is also being held in this detention center pending trial, right?" The middle-aged policeman asked again, and after waiting for a while, he saw that the young man looked down at the ground and never looked at it again, he nagged to himself, "Then it seems that we haven't met - your father will be tried in a few days, and it is estimated that the sentence will be heavier." I came over a few days ago and talked to him, and he regretted that he committed a crime impulsively, not only involving you, but even Jiaying and your grandmother couldn't take care of it. He thought that you were resentful and would not go to see him, so let me tell you: It doesn't matter if you delay the college entrance examination once, you should repeat your studies for a year. My family Cheng Xidu is still thinking about you going to apply for the new university next year, so that she can be your senior sister - your father also asked me to give you and Jiaying living expenses every month, which is considered to be borrowed from me, so that you brothers and sisters don't worry about this, and don't go to that woman; you take this bank card first, and I will send money into it regularly every month......"

The middle-aged policeman chattered for a long time, and the young man got bored, glanced at the bank card he stretched out, and turned around and walked to the east.

Since the No. 19 bus stopped near Kanjiawan Station due to a scraping accident, the teenager decided to take three or four more stops and detour to Qinghong Road to take another bus home.

He was somewhat impatient to get as far away from the detention center behind him as possible......

"What kind of characters came out of it today? Now there are more wealthy men in Xinhai, but there are not many people in the whole city who can drive this old-fashioned Maybach more than ten years ago, right?"

The driver, a young policeman, had already noticed the old sedan across the asphalt road, and only then did he have the opportunity to ask with emotion.

The middle-aged policeman seemed to think of something, his brows furrowed even more, and he glanced at the figure of the young man in the rearview mirror.

As if realizing that the people in the police car were paying attention, the Maybach started up, ran away from the teenager, and drove towards the far side of the asphalt road, as if it was parked in front of the detention center, but suddenly something was delayed for a while......

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