Section I

"It's seven steps from the door to the window, and seven steps from the window to the door. He Sicheng didn't know why this sentence in the Czech writer Vucik's "Report from the Gallows" popped up in his numb mind? He smiled bitterly and pinched his left arm with his right hand, and the real pain seemed to tell him in cold words: Don't doubt it, you are in the detention center!

This was the early morning of the second day when He Sicheng entered the detention center in District G of L City, June 26. He was in a trance as if he were still in a dream, and he never believed that he was in prison. He opened his sour eyes, red and bloodshot from the night's sleep. He habitually fumbled for his glasses to no avail, and suddenly remembered that his myopic glasses had been taken away by the police when he entered the detention center yesterday. When he was imprisoned, he had to hand over all his personal belongings, and at that time he begged the police: "Comrade policeman, can you let me bring my glasses in, I have been wearing glasses for 30 years, and I can't see anything clearly without them." The police officer in charge of handling the formalities is about forty years old, and he glanced at He Sicheng, probably due to his long-term career, and his eyes were not only indifferent or indifferent, and even indifferent to the point of not despising it! The police officer said professionally: "The system does not allow it! Just see the road, what else do you want to do?" Although this police officer is not burly, his appearance is not mighty, and he feels a little ill-fitting in a police uniform, but He Sicheng knows that he represents justice! He Sicheng didn't dare to speak anymore, nor did he dare to feel aggrieved, but he felt that he had already made a mistake and could only be so humble in the face of the system and justice! Because he had no glasses, He Sicheng could see everything vaguely, which made him very uncomfortable and made his painful heart even more painful!

He Sicheng sat up from the hardwood bed, and after tossing and turning on the hardwood bed all night, He Sicheng felt that the bones in his whole body were painful. He looked at his roommates on the Chase bunk, no, it should be more appropriate to call them cellmates! Most of them were still sleeping soundly, all kinds of snoring came and went, He Sicheng couldn't help but envy their sleep in his heart, he wanted to sleep for the next ten days! Of course, there are also a few people who may have been sleepless all night because of withdrawal reactions, sometimes rolling up in a ball of pain, whispering helplessly*, and sometimes looking out of the window when the morning is about to dawn. He Sicheng slowly looked around the entire cell, most of the things were blurry, except for the blood-red, big eight words on the opposite wall: "Cherish life, refuse drugs!". The whole room is about 30 square meters, and the narrow iron door separates the freedom from the room. The iron gates are flanked by two barbed and barbed wire windows, which let in light from the outside, informing the detainees that it is day or night. Two bunks lined up according to the window, with chipboard on the iron frame, are seven or eight meters long, and the bunks for five people are designed, and when the detention room is full, there should be ten detainees. In the middle of the bunk is a passage of about 50 centimeters, which is a rare activity space in the detention room. One meter away from the end of the shop, there is a washbasin on one side, and two washbasins are installed. On one side is a half-walled, half-glass bathroom, where the detainees' diet and daily life are all in this 30 square meters. There are cameras installed on each wall on each side of the detention cell, like two cold eyes monitoring every detainee's every move around the clock and without dead ends!

He Sicheng couldn't sleep, got up gently, put on his clothes and put on a yellow uniform, washed his face with "Shufujia" soap, and didn't have the opportunity to buy a toothbrush on the first day, so he simply rinsed his mouth with water to complete the morning cleaning. He paced the passage fifty centimeters away, "One, two, three...... Eleven. There were eleven steps from the door to the window, and he laughed at himself in his heart: "It's a little better than Vuček's situation!," but when he thought that Vučik was a national hero and that he was a personally shameless detainee, his mood was extremely sad. The wind of early summer blew in through the window and swept over He Sicheng's face, and He Sicheng thought to himself: Maybe only the wind does not discriminate at this time, it blows over the mountains, blows over the trees, blows over the police officers, and blows over me! The cool wind makes He Sicheng sober up, and the matter has come to this point, and he has to face it, no matter how difficult it is, life has to go on. It's time to think about it: What happened to the past? What will happen to the future? He Sicheng's thoughts drifted away through the iron window......

L City is located in the southwest border of the motherland, is a prefecture-level city with a population of less than 2 million, where there are many ethnic minorities, simple folk customs, beautiful scenery, and favorable climate. Due to geographical location and historical reasons, the local economy is slightly underdeveloped, but life is also quiet and comfortable, just like a small jasper "beautiful but not charming, clear but not cold!". L city has many unique tourism resources, coupled with the local unique ethnic customs and culture, in recent years, the tourism industry has developed rapidly, has become a well-known tourist attraction in the country. The development of tourism has led to the development of other industries, and has also brought a large number of foreign populations and foreign cultures, making the children in the mountains of L City more and more trendy, and you can find anything you see in other big cities.

He Sicheng was born in 1975 in an ordinary working family in L City, and the two sisters and brothers in the family grew up under the care and care of their families since they were children. He Sicheng's parents are retired civil servants, the old Communist Party, their generation has experienced too many hardships, and has experienced too many sports, they have been cautious all their lives, follow the rules, and continue to convey the most simple positive energy and life experience of that era to their children, since he was a child, he Sicheng has been admonishing him to study hard, work hard, live well, and strive to live a good life for ordinary people. He Sicheng has been talented and smart since he was a child, and his academic performance has always been very good, and he has never let his parents worry about his studies. In the end, he was admitted to a key university of finance and economics with excellent college entrance examination results, and in that era when undergraduates were still rare, He Sicheng fought hard for his family. But since he was a child, He Sicheng has not been a person who has been in peace, and since high school, smoking, skipping class, and early love, which are regarded as deviant things, he doesn't seem to have pulled them down. So much so that when the neighbors learned the news that he had been admitted to university, the job bowl he was carrying almost fell out of his hands, and his world view was instantly confused! Although he was naughty, in fact, He Sicheng was naturally timid and had a strong sense of self-protection, and he was afraid of the punishment of the system, and even more afraid of the scolding and tears of his parents, so from studying to working, he basically belonged to the kind of person who constantly made small mistakes and did not make big mistakes. He Sicheng's life is very smooth, he was admitted to university, entered a state-owned enterprise, was promoted and raised, got married and had children, there were almost no twists and turns, it may be that this smoothness made He Sicheng lose his sense of worry about life and lose his awe of the system, which laid a heavy foreshadowing for his future disasters.

As an adult, He Sicheng is 175 tall, weighs more than 70 kilograms, and usually loves sports, so he has a very well-proportioned figure, fair skin, and wears a pair of rimless glasses, which looks quiet and elegant. Maybe it's because he reads a lot of books, He Sicheng is very eloquent, funny and humorous, plus his personality is not strong, and he can be more tolerant of friends, He Sicheng has always had more friends and a harmonious relationship.

After graduating from university in 1998, due to various reasons, He Sicheng chose to return to his hometown L City to work, and worked in a large financial state-owned enterprise for 16 years. A good salary and rising positions once made He Sicheng quiet and calm in the company for a while. But He Sicheng's restless factors eventually made him lose patience with the step-by-step and conformist rules of state-owned enterprises, and in 2014, with the consent and understanding of his family, he resolutely resigned from the job that many people envied, and established a company with a few friends, serving as the general manager of the company.

He Sicheng and his wife Zhao Jiayi met in 1999, and Zhao Jiayi was 5 years old when He Sicheng was younger. After two years of free love, which was divided and reunited, noisy, and affectionate, the two formed a family in 2002. After marriage, the two have a daughter, now 13 years old, because the family education has been very good, their daughter is sunny, beautiful, sensible, and her academic performance has always been very good, and the daughter has always been the hope and pride of the whole family. Zhao Jiayi works in a bank and is the president of a sub-branch, although he is nearly forty years old, he is in good shape. Zhao Jiayi was born in a happy and harmonious traditional family, with a good economic environment and the love of his family, which made Zhao Jiayi a little small. After becoming a mother, she became more and more mature, appearing rational, simple, and virtuous. Usually Zhao Jiayi's life is very simple, going to work and going home to watch TV is the main theme of her life, and the only entertainment may be to go out to watch a movie with He Sicheng occasionally. Zhao Jiayi knew that He Sicheng was more naughty, but he still had principles, she believed that her husband would not cheat and mess around, so sometimes He Sicheng went out and returned late, Zhao Jiayi turned a blind eye, just reminded He Sicheng to pay attention to his body when he was middle-aged. In the eyes of outsiders, He Sicheng's family is extremely happy and harmonious. In fact, the two still have disputes and quarrels from time to time, but more than ten years of marriage have taught both parties to tolerate, and no matter how much they quarrel, it is "a quarrel at the head of the bed and a fight at the end of the bed". In general, the husband and wife are very attached to each other, and He Sicheng and Zhao Jiayi both believe that they will accompany each other until the end of their lives.

The two and their parents get along well, the old people on both sides are kind and kind, knowing that the middle-aged people are under great pressure at work, they have given the two families meticulous care and care in life and work, and the achievements of the children in work have also given the old man great comfort.