Before Li Xian was stunned for a while, the police outside had already taken action.

The snow in the yard creaked with dozens of feet, followed by a burst of shouting, mixed with the cries of women and children.

It wasn't until the noise outside dissipated slightly and there was a knock at the door that Li Xian let Zhou Yong and Xu Maohe, who were blocking the door, dodge away and walked out with a large family.

When he saw the scene in the courtyard, he was not good.

In the courtyard, more than a dozen policemen with strange faces were muttering around the three people.

And these three people are not compatible with the fugitives who released photos on TV before.

Who is this?

A middle-aged woman with two and a half children.

On a dark day, the woman's appearance was obscured by her long scattered hair, and it was difficult to see clearly. Look at the face plate is very thin, the upper body is a pink bar, the pulp has been washed white thick cotton jacket, the lower body khaki pants are afraid to wear a cotton pants with at least three catties of cotton, plus a pair of bread-like black cotton shoes make the whole person two sizes bigger.

Bloated can.

At this time, she was pressed by two policemen, trembling and looking behind her.

Over there, there were two children about eight or nine years old.

Like the woman, the two children also froze to death, wearing cotton clothes and pants that are thick even at the current temperature.

And it's not very new.

The woman was bareheaded, and in the cold night, the sweat on the top of her head accompanied her heavy breathing, steaming out patches of white mist. At her feet, a dogskin hat that she wore only when she went up the mountain in the countryside in winter was stained with residual snow - it seemed that it had struggled off when the police had just entered the yard.

Just as Li Xian was looking at the women, the women who had taken a few breaths also spoke.

"Comrade, we are not bad people......"

Seeing such a scene, Li Xian patted his cheek.

Mom.

In vain, he was possessed by the spirit just now, fighting wits and courage in the house,

Now it seems...... It's a big oolong!

An old policeman standing at the door with Li Xian obviously realized this, grinned, and waved a few of his subordinates to let the woman go.

"Comrade, this is not a fugitive. ”

Li Xian rolled his eyelids, and said in his heart that things have developed here, and I still need you to remind him?!

Obviously not!

But what could he say?

During the Chinese New Year, three figures appeared under the window of his house, and some time ago it was said on TV that there were fugitives in the city......

All these things come together, blame yourself for being nervous?

The policeman smiled bitterly and strode up to the woman, "Who are you?

The woman seemed to be frightened by this battle, and she craned her neck, not daring to look at the policeman.

It wasn't until the old policeman asked again that he stumbled and replied: "Two... Child... Want to ......"

Her voice was too low and too muffled for the police officers who were close at hand to hear her.

Not to mention Li Xian's family, which is farther away.

"What? You make a loud noise! I can tell you, you came to someone's yard without other people's permission, and if you say it is too big, it is called trespassing on other people's houses! Do you know?!"

As the old policeman shouted, the woman shuddered, and the whole person collapsed to the ground.

"I say!

This time, the woman's movement was bigger: "It's the New Year, and the two children want to watch the party......"

What?

Hearing this reason, everyone present showed puzzled expressions.

In '96, although the TV was still a big item, it could already be called popular.

At present, large color TVs are still rare, like the forty-six-inch Panasonic in Li Xian's house, which costs more than 20,000 yuan and is not affordable for ordinary people. But in the 94.95 two years, domestic TV brands have engaged in a price war in the national market. Not to mention who loses and who wins, the common people can be regarded as benefiting.

Generally, it is a color TV of about one inch, but it is less than 1,000 yuan. If you want to say that the old-fashioned black and white color TV is cheaper, Panda, Changhong, and the Great Wall, a new machine of domestic brands, are only three or four hundred yuan. If you buy second-hand Japanese products in the second-hand goods market, it will be cheaper, so that the quality of the house is good, that is, one or two hundred yuan.

At this price, the days of the seventies and eighties when a family had a TV and the whole neighborhood came to rub it out are gone.

"Don't have a TV at home?"

The old policeman touched the stubble on his face and asked,

"Yes, yes. The woman replied in resignation, but her head was lowered.

"There is a TV at home, and you jumped over the fence to run to other people's homes to rub the TV during the Chinese New Year?"

The woman was silent for more than a minute when confronted by him.

Eventually, he raised his head. Wiping away the two lines of tears from the corners of her eyes, the woman held back two words - "No electricity." ”

In the silence of a group of people, the woman smiled bitterly and said, "I picked up the New Year's goods a year ago, and the money at home was spent. Originally, I was thinking that there would be dumplings and meat for the New Year, even if it was a good year. A few sticks of wax can make do without electricity...... But the child is small and ignorant, so he is clamoring to watch the party. For the New Year, I'm embarrassed to go to the neighbor's house, this ...... I bought a big color TV when I moved here before, I thought, I thought, I took the child over to see it for a while, and when it was time to eat dumplings, I went back, I didn't think about it, I didn't think it alarmed you. Comrade, I'm really not a bad person!"

As the women cleared their minds, the atmosphere in the courtyard became a little weird.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, the woman was anxious, "Really! I'm really not lying, my name is Han Xiaojuan, and my man's name is Song Dagang." Both of us used to be employees of the Jiangbei sawmill, and we were only laid off in the second half of last year.

“......”

The old policeman carefully looked at the woman and looked up at Li Xian, "Comrade, look at this ......"

"I know her!"

Without waiting for Li Xian to reply, Shen Jingbing behind him recognized the woman in the courtyard: "Isn't this the two children who bullied Lingling at that time, and this woman still came to our house to discuss at that time... Li Xian, why are you pinching me?"

"Girl, don't squeak. ”

Behind her, Zou Ni waved her hand and stepped forward.

When he arrived in the courtyard, he helped the woman sitting on the ground up, beat the snow off her body, and pulled the two children who were hiding behind her mother.

Zou Ni smiled and said, "Daughters, they are all neighbors. The children want to watch the party, and they come into the house to see how good it is. It's a cold day, the adults are not afraid of freezing their bodies, and the children have a cold and fever in the first month, what's the matter?"

As the saying goes, if you don't see a doctor during the New Year, you don't take medicine during the New Year.

Superstition is superstition, but in fact, it is auspicious. Afraid of being sick all year long, no one wants to guard the medicine jar at the beginning of the year.

Seeing that the woman was a little weak-hearted, Zou Ni dragged her.

"Our family has been celebrating the New Year for a long time, and they don't use their mouths, so we are worried that there are not enough people to make dumplings! Help my aunt make dumplings. ”

With a pull, Zou Ni pulled the mother and son into the house.

Outside the courtyard, looking at a group of silent policemen, Li Xian said hard work, and then asked Su Ya to go into the house and take two large bags of peanuts, melon seeds and sugar cubes, and stuffed them into the hands of the old policemen.

After saying a New Year's greeting and sending everyone away politely, Li Xian stood at the door in a single coat, looking at the stars in the sky in the cold night and was silent for a long time.

Yes, it's 96 years.

The wave of layoffs has begun.