The moon shines in the sky.

The Ayang City Detention Center, located on the outskirts of the city, is tightly wrapped in a high-walled power grid, and the prisoners inside can't see anything except the pitch-black canopy, but in Yin Xiaopeng's office, through the window, they can still dimly see the lights of thousands of homes in the city, as well as the fireworks that continue to bloom in the sky.

"Come on, drink some!" Yin Xiaopeng fiddled with the cold dishes and soy sauce and smoked food he bought on the desk, and took out a few cans of beer and a bag of fried Lantern Festival: "The last time we drank together, it was my birthday, but I didn't expect to meet again, you actually came to my unit as a guest." ”

"I'm just a prisoner, you don't have to be so polite. "Before Yin Xiaopeng finished speaking, I sat on the edge of the table and opened a bottle of beer.

"What you said is a bit of a loss of conscience, if I don't treat you as a brother, maybe I won't go home on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and come here to spend the holiday with you! By the way, do you want to use my mobile phone to make a few calls or something while the wine party has not started?"

"Forget it, don't fight. "I thought about it and rejected Yin Xiaopeng, because I got the phone, and there was no one to call, at home, I really didn't want to communicate with my uncle, as for the company, everyone because of me, I didn't have a good year, and now it's finally the Lantern Festival, if I call them, they still have to worry, and their mood has to be affected.

"Okay, since it's okay, then let's drink!" Yin Xiaopeng also sat opposite me as he spoke, rubbed the disposable chopsticks in his hand, and stretched out his hand to hand them to me: "My son lied, the day I saw you in Yao Ping Detention Center, I was anxious, if it wasn't for the pressure of the leaders in the bureau, I would have smashed their unit!"

"Hehe, thank you!" Seeing Yin Xiaopeng's excited appearance, I bumped the can with him: "By the way, this is the New Year's Day, if you don't go home, your family is not in a hurry?"

"Don't mention it, I don't want to go back. Yin Xiaopeng took a sip of wine and responded with a lack of interest.

"What, what's wrong with the family?"

"It's not that it's unpleasant, it's that it's fucking too smooth!" Yin Xiaopeng lit a cigarette with his hand:" You also know that the conditions in our family are not good, in the past, during the New Year's holidays, those relatives avoided our family, for fear that our family would ask them to borrow money, but now it's good, seeing that I am mixed, if there is nothing to do, run to our house, either the children of this family let me help arrange a work as an auxiliary policeman, or whose relatives went in because of something, let me help take care of it, and my father is thin-skinned, as long as I am at home, he is embarrassed to refuse, and forced me to agree, once and again, I simply don't go back. ”

I grinned: "Hehe, you are mixing well now, and it can be regarded as a glorious lintel, which is a good thing, how can you still learn to hide and be clean." ”

"We are all old classmates, and we all know each other's details, to tell you the truth, my relatives, although not as fucked up as yours, but also stronger than your family, you say, since I was difficult, they didn't help me, so now that I'm better, why should I help them? Yes, I helped them, and they will let them think of my good, saying that I have a chance, but this is a fart! In fact, when I was at home, my father always persuaded me, saying that everyone is in the same lineage, and persuaded me to be generous, but I don't care what he thinks, I can't do it anyway, I've already thought about it, and when I make enough money, I will buy a house in the city, take my parents over to live, and completely cut off the relationship with those white-eyed wolves. ”

Yin Xiaopeng's words, if they sound to others, may feel particularly narrow-minded, but from my family environment, I can understand his thoughts very well, because once a person meets two bad relatives, it will be more disgusting than making bad friends, friends can cut off contact, but relatives cannot, because there is a blood relationship between you, just like my uncle, sometimes I feel disgusting from the bottom of my heart when I think of the same blood flowing with him, seeing that Yin Xiaopeng is reluctant to mention the stubble at home, I changed my words:" Hey, by the way, when I was chatting with the prisoners today, I heard them all call you King Yin Yan, but I didn't see that you have become quite ruthless now!"

"Ruthless, I'm ruthless! You didn't know me on the first day, what am I like, don't you know?" Yin Xiaopeng grinned and pointed to the uniform on the hanger: "My ruthlessness comes from the confidence that the clothes give me, and it is also the arrogance of a law enforcer, if I am like you, in the absence of security, carrying a knife to play with people, I can't do it!"

I smiled when I heard this: "In that case, why are you still going to clean up those prisoners, not afraid of their retaliation?"

"If I was afraid of retaliation, I wouldn't have taken the police academy in the first place. Yin Xiaopeng continued to smile: " To tell the truth, when I was first transferred to the detention center, in the face of those fierce and vicious prisoners, in fact, I was also afraid, they stared, my legs and stomach trembled, but then Yu told me that when we stood together, it was not me who should be afraid, but them, because I am righteous, from that day on, I tried to clean up those prisoners, slowly, and I got used to it, you didn't do this business, you don't know, the prisoners in the detention center are mixed, all kinds of people have everything, the structure is like a pyramid, those honest prisoners will be bullied by other prisoners, and those who are stabbed will be cleaned up by us, you knowI'm a very soft-hearted person, I never fiddle with poor criminals, but there are some strong criminals, robbers, or people who rely on themselves to mix well outside, and come in and shout five or six, I have never been soft, let alone used to it, no way, this is also the nature of our work, in the face of those lawless bastards outside, if we don't show toughness, we can't suppress them. ”

"I've heard that in addition to those vicious prisoners, you also have a soft spot for rich and powerful prisoners, and especially like to clean them up.

"Fuck, I've already mixed into the system, how can I still hate the rich, I'll clean them up, the reason is even simpler. Yin Xiaopeng grinned, rubbed his fingers, and gestured to count the money: "Because these fat sheep can bring me benefits." ”

"You mean......" Yin Xiaopeng had already said it so clearly, and I was instantly transparent, but there was still a trace of confusion: "Since you are already in charge of the special senior prison, even if you don't clean up those prisoners, then their families should not forget to give you an offering, why do you bother to do this?"

"I just can't get used to seeing them behind bars, but they're just looking high-spirited. Yin Xiaopeng opened a can of beer and handed it to me: "Others sent me money, I went to get it lowly, and they blocked my door, begging me to raise my noble hand and stuff it into my hand like a third grandson, you say, can this feel the same?"

I was noncommittal: "But you offend people even more like this." ”

"You are wrong, I did this, not only did I not offend people, but the families of those prisoners will also be grateful to Dade for thanking me, thank me for raising my noble hand and letting them go, Xiaofei, I have stayed in this kind of place for a long time, I can be regarded as truly and deeply understanding the inferior nature of people, some people, it is not that the more polite you are, the more they will respect you, but the more ruthless you are, the more they will respect you. ”

"Your so-called respect should be fearful, right?"

"Perhaps, but what difference does it make. Yin Xiaopeng shrugged his shoulders and bumped his glass with me: "Didn't I tell you, I want to save some more money, buy a house in the city, and take my parents over, so I am very short of money now, as for whether others respect me or are afraid of me, it doesn't matter to me, because my goal has been achieved." ”

"I still think that your approach is a bit too tough, although your ruthlessness is used on prisoners, but over time, the colleagues around you will definitely have the idea of staying away from you, so if you go on, you are not afraid of having an impact on your career in the future?"

"Xiaofei, have you ever lost your phone?" Yin Xiaopeng said with a smile after listening to my question.

"What?" I was stunned by Yin Xiaopeng's sudden reversal.

"I've lost more than one. Yin Xiaopeng looked at me with a flat face: "Can you still remember, when you once lost your mobile phone, the feeling of helplessness in your heart? There are photos that we are reluctant to delete, text messages that we are reluctant to delete, and contacts in the address book, once when I lost my mobile phone, I was afraid that these people would not be able to contact me, and they would be anxious, but gradually, I have become numb, because my mobile phone is thrown here, except for work matters, no one will ever call me." Yin Xiaopeng paused: "For a while, I thought that I had been fucking forgotten by the world, and it wasn't until I transferred to work in the detention center that this situation changed. Classmates, all started to call me, set almost, because they can use me, recently, I also live to understand, to be honest, except for money, I don't care what others think of me, because I have an epiphany, people are this thing, when you have use value, you are worth a lot of money, when you lose use value, you are worthless, I am disgusting this kind of thing, but I can't screw it, because this is reality. ”

"Only by going higher can you get more benefits, right?" I am a bastard, and I am also used to fraud and exploitation, so I didn't feel disgusted by Yin Xiaopeng's rhetoric, but I suddenly felt that although Yin Xiaopeng and we are both at the same age, our mentality and ideas have changed a lot, and regardless of whether Yin Xiaopeng's choice is right or wrong, he at least has his own goals, and I am like a walking corpse, as if I have gradually been smoothed out by life.

"Don't worry, there are some things, I know in my heart, the benefits I got have not been swallowed by me alone, the people around me, and Yu Suo, have already been fed by me, otherwise why do you think Yu Suo would trust me so much, and let me take care of the special senior supervisor!" Yin Xiaopeng finished speaking, and waved his hand: "Forget it, you don't understand these things I told you, after all, you follow a good big brother, as long as you follow him slowly, and when you wait for the house, car, and money, you will have everything, but I'm different, I still have to stay up...... Okay, don't talk about these messy things, I'm here today just to accompany you for the Lantern Festival, come, have a drink!"

"Yes, let's have a drink!" I looked at the fireworks that kept blooming outside the window, although I was heroic, but there were too many people in my heart.