Section XII
Dinner is more important in the minds of Chinese, dinner not only represents the end of the day, it is also an important means for relatives to get together, friends invite, business negotiations, love and blind date, Chinese food culture gives dinner too much connotation and function, and the meaning of dinner in the detention center is very simple, it represents that the detention time limit of the detainees has passed for another day!
After dinner, the 9 men in the No. 8 detention room took a bath, chatted and chatted, preparing for the arrival of the night, He Sicheng slept late on weekdays, either watching movies and TV with his wife, or singing and mahjong with friends, or entertaining for the company, in short, the nightlife is relatively rich, and basically he will lie down at 12 o'clock. But now there is no way, and falling asleep early is probably the best way to pass the time. It was raining lightly outside the window, dripping and dripping, making people feel sad, and when there should be no poetry and painting at the time, He Sicheng remembered Li Qingzhao's "Slow Voice", "The yellow flowers are piled up all over the ground, haggard and damaged, who can pick them now? Guarding the window alone, how can it be dark! The sycamore is even more drizzle, and it will be drizzling at dusk, bit by bit." This time, what a sad word!"Yes, what a "sad" word this time!
He Sicheng finally spent a day in the detention center in its entirety, deeply understanding the meaning of the word "living like a year", he looked forward to the arrival of the night, but was afraid of the arrival of the night. The dark night will end He Sicheng's day's detention life, but insomnia has become the standard for He Sicheng's night! Only people who have lost sleep can experience the pain of insomnia, He Sicheng knows that tonight is destined to be another night of insomnia, and he is really afraid that regret, shame, worry, and fear will take turns to tear his inner feelings unscrupulously! But the sun will not rise because you are sad, and the moon will not not set because you are happy.
The detention chamber was silent, some were already snoring from sleep, others were suffering from withdrawal with their eyes open. The lights in the detention chamber are exceptionally bright at night, making it even more difficult to sleep. He Sicheng forced himself to lie down after taking a bath, blindfolded his eyes with his coat, he wanted to fall asleep quickly and pass the sad night, and he wanted to dream of his wife Zhao Jiayi and daughter Coco. But it backfired, the deeper the night, the more active his thoughts became, He Sicheng didn't know how many turnovers, he never found a comfortable posture for himself, he simply straightened up and sat blankly, irritated and helpless, the eight big words "refuse drugs, cherish life" on the opposite wall stimulated his nerves again! Because of the pressure of life and work, He Sicheng sometimes has insomnia at home, and when he is insomnia, he can watch TV, look at his mobile phone, read novels, and practice calligraphy, and he can also take a "melatonin" when he is insomnia Piece, there is always a way to pass the time. Here, you have nothing to do but sit and wait for time to crawl past you like a snail, the bright lights in the detention room hide the passage of time, making it impossible to even know what time it is, and the word "hopeless" is perfect for insomnia and not knowing the time in the middle of the night!
It should be very late at night, the iron door outside the detention room rang again, the little assistant police officer came over with two people in blue vests, He Sicheng looked from the window, only to see two young men, one tall and one short, followed the police to the warehouse dejectedly, one of the tall men had bandages on his head, and his body was covered with bloodstains, no need to ask if it must have been a fight, there are stories happening every day in the small detention center, so that you can see all the ways of life, but when you become the protagonist of the story, it is a tragic accident!
He Sicheng lay down and sat up, sat up and lay down, tossed all night, until the distant sound of chickens crowed in the distance and fell asleep.
Soon, the sound of getting up from the armed police force next door came from the sound of getting up, and the people in the detention room woke up one after another, Zhou Jianxin straightened up and stretched, and sang happily: "Get up early in the morning and open the window."
The sun is beautiful
Watch the butterflies smell the flowers
The scenery is beautiful
……”
Ma Cheng and Wang Song also sang along, it seemed that everyone was in a good mood, Zhou Jianxin said to everyone: "Brothers, a new day has begun again, and we are one step closer to freedom!" He Sicheng thought to himself: A new day has begun, no matter how difficult it is, the detention will end, but can you still get your life back to the past?
After a night of calm thinking, He Sicheng's heart has calmed down, he has to accept the fact that he was detained, there is no regret medicine in the world, the rest of his life is still very long, and he still has a lot of responsibilities on his body, and he can't be decadent. Because of my irresponsibility for life, things happened, and now I must face and reflect responsibly, strive to minimize the consequences of things, adjust my mentality and body, and wait until the end of the detention to face the most difficult affairs in the best state.
After He Sicheng finished washing, he started to do "crouches" on his bed until he was so tired that he collapsed on the bed board. I felt a lot better after sweating, and I also felt hungry. After a while, the sound of beating rice came from the aisle, and it was the same "golden fried rice", the same recipe, the same taste! He Sicheng added some mustard and ate it in a big gulp.
After breakfast, there was still sporadic rain outside the window, which made everyone very worried, because the rain would cancel the time of the wind, and everyone was praying that the rain would stop quickly, after all, the wind was the happiest time of the day, and He Sicheng also wanted to exchange information with Mr. Xu.
While anxiously waiting for the release time, chatting began again, which had become the only form of entertainment in the detention cell. Everyone exchanged their respective "Administrative Punishment Decision Letters" to discuss the contents, and some people's "Decision Letters" were already crumpled and tattered, and He Sicheng kept them very well, because he decided to keep this extremely important document in his life until he was old, and always reminded himself to be full of awe of life and the system. In fact, people's fate is recorded and decided by paper materials written in black and white many times, such as the "University Admission Notice" of the year, such as the "Marriage Certificate" that he and his wife Zhao Jia received 16 years ago, and the "Administrative Punishment Decision" that is as heavy as a thousand gold in his hands today!
He Sicheng looked at the contents of everyone's "Decision Letter" and basically the same, which was nothing more than that a certain person had taken a certain drug in such and such a place on such and such a day, and finally came to a conclusion: It was determined that such and such a person had taken drugs! The only difference was that some of the "Decision Documents" concluded that they were addicted to drugs, and some of the "Decision Documents" concluded that they were not addicted to drugs. It wasn't until later that He Sicheng learned that the two conclusions would bring two kinds of punishment results!
He Sicheng took the opportunity of reading the "Decision Letter" to check the age of his roommate, and he found that there was only one person from S Province named Xiao Guang in the same detention room who was older than him, 49 years old, and was arrested for smoking*. Another young man who doesn't like to talk is named Li Shufa, who was just 19 years old, and was arrested for smoking heroin, it seems that making mistakes has nothing to do with age, He Sicheng just thinks it's a pity that Li Shufa just became an adult!