A person's heart and ability are inseparable from his growth trajectory.

In October 1990, at a shooting range outside Qinzhou, a young woman was about to be executed for violently smuggling and killing a criminal policeman. Facing the executed armed police soldier with regretful eyes, she was calm, her expression was cold, her eyes were indifferent, and she could not see the slightest remorse.

Just before the execution, she suddenly threw up.

This sour water saved her life.

A young lawyer from the prosecutor's office rushed forward despite the risk and stopped the execution in time, and after a doctor's examination, she was found to be pregnant. In accordance with the law, the death penalty is exempt.

Seven months later, the woman gave birth to a premature baby in prison, weighing only three and a half pounds, born with weak breathing, silent crying and laughter, and seemingly likely to die at any moment. There was only a pair of eyes, shining, staring at his mother's not full chest like a hungry wolf, and his throat made a hoarse babbling sound, as if he was crying, but there was not a single tear. This woman named Yu Shaofen gave the child a name - Gu Tianyou. The woman's surname is Yu, why the child's surname is Gu, she didn't tell anyone.

Prisons are places for the transformation of people, and the conditions for the melting pot of the proletariat are limited. Without family visits, even during confinement, women can only eat cabbage, but milk and water are as good as cows that eat grass and milk.

Named God bless, God blessed, this thin little life stubbornly survived.

The characters in prison, three religions and nine streams, on the same day, a god stick character heard about this incident and predicted: This son cries hoarsely, without tears, his life is like a weed, and he will hinder his relatives.

Sure enough, as soon as Gu Tianyou was born, the woman suffered from severe postpartum depression, and she only survived with a stream of faith. When Xiao Tianyou was three years old, the woman finally died. Eyes closed and all secrets were taken away. A three-year-old boy was left behind, and no one cared about it like a weed.

Whether it is the armed police in charge of guarding or the prison guards in charge of daily management, they don't know what to do with this child. He Weiran, the political commissar of the prison, was a veteran of the battlefield in southern Xinjiang and had a very high prestige, and he said to the other prison guards at the meeting, "This child is related to the prison, and he has no parents and relatives. ”

In a word, Gu Tianyou was left behind.

For a three-year-old boy to survive in this complex environment full of all kinds of crime and evil, it is not enough to say anything.

This prison was built in the late Qing Dynasty as a result of the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Over the past 100 years, countless unbreakable rules have been accumulated.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and of course there are rivers and lakes in prisons, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are rules and big men who master the rules.

Qinzhou Prison is a big prison, divided into two areas for men and women, and the men's area is divided into four courtyards, east, west, north and south, each of which has a big man, each of whom is a figure who stands out after precipitation in the long prison years. He Weiran left this child with a word, but if the prisoners didn't want this child to live here, Gu Tianyou didn't want to live well even if God blessed him.

For this matter, He Weiran specially found Master Long.

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Master Long is not the boss of any of the four courtyards in the men's prison area.

He is a big man in the entire prison ecosystem, even including He Weiran and all the prison guards.

He has lived in the only special cell in the prison for an unknown number of years, and no one knows how old he is.

The oldest of the prison guards is 52-year-old Lao Guan, who came here at the age of 20 when he joined the work, and at that time Long Ye had already lived in a special cell specially used to imprison certain high-level prisoners, which was not suitable for ordinary prisoners. In other words, this old man has been locked up here for at least thirty-two years.

The Chinese nation has the custom of respecting the old and loving the young, but it is not enough to form such preferential treatment in the prison environment, which lacks restraint and is more competitive and natural selection than the outside world.

There are two reasons why Long Ye can become the most special person in this place.

First of all, everyone believes that Long Ye has power beyond the imagination of ordinary people outside this high wall.

Thirty-two years have passed, and Lao Guan has not figured out what kind of character Long Ye was back then, and he has too many glorious pasts. But this did not affect his judgment of Long Ye in the slightest. Because in the past 32 years, every New Year's Day, there will be a few old generals who carry more than two gold stars on their shoulders and gray sideburns come here in front of each other, and walk into the cell respectfully, some salute solemnly, some old tears are horizontal, and even more, an old general with three stars on his shoulders always salutes when they meet.

What kind of friendship can have a shelf life of thirty or forty years?

How can a person who has lived to this point not be admired by all living beings in prison?

Prison is a complex environment, so not everyone may recognize the authority of Long Ye, such as some outlaws who have no hope of getting out. This kind of person is a rebellious person, because there is no hope of going out, there is a lot less fear, and the trouble is often reckless. In order to stabilize the overall situation, such prisoners are usually coaxed, and even some small privileges are given to them. This kind of prisoner doesn't care how powerful Long Ye is outside, they only convince people who are harder than their fists.

At the top of the food chain for criminals are those who commit violent crimes, dare to hurt others and have outstanding abilities in this area.

Long Ye's fist is hard enough.

The old man doesn't look old, but he is old and strong, and his strong muscles are not inferior to that of a teenager.

Regarding Long Ye's combat effectiveness, there has been a rumor circulating in the prison.

There was once an outlaw who was not stingy, and he tried to overthrow the dragon master with brute force. It is said that when this person first came in, he was unwilling to accept the water and soil, and the seven prisoners in the same cell were stunned and did not hold him down, but were beaten by him with a blue nose and swollen face. For that incident, the prison guard Lao Guan beat him with a V-belt, and finally threw him into the trumpet and locked him up for a week.

For the vast majority of prisoners, trumpets are a nightmare. That hellish place can't stretch out their legs when they lie down, they can't stand up straight, and they can't bear it for a day. And the man carried it dead for seven days and did not give in. The prison guards let him out for fear that something would happen.

After this guy was released, he was not convinced, and he was alive again after three full meals, and he was still unruly like a live donkey. The guards cleaned up the guy a few more times, but each time the result was the same. In the end, I really couldn't do anything about him, so I had to change my strategy and adopt Huairou's method, so that this guy became the boss among the prisoners in the East Courtyard.

This guy didn't settle down for a few days, and soon wanted to challenge the authority of the dragon master. The prison guards heard the wind and were going to stop it. But Master Long said, I haven't had a chance to move my muscles and bones for many years, give him a chance. So at noon one day, when everyone was eating in the canteen, the armed police guarding suddenly had diarrhea, and the management cadres rarely did not eat in the canteen, and the person came to Long Ye's table.

Long Ye was holding the bowl with one hand at that time, and said to the man: "Little cub, see this bowl of rice in my hand, you do it now, I will start eating it now, after this bowl of rice is eaten, if you can still stand, I will allow you to shake this realm in the future, and as long as my bowl of rice falls out of a grain of rice, even if I beat you down, I will lose!"

The man doesn't like nonsense, and raising his hand is a punch. It is said that Long Ye didn't even dodge, lowered his head and hit the guy's fist with his head, knocking the guy to the ground in an instant. Long Ye walked over with the bowl and stepped on the guy's chest, the guy struggled desperately, but until Long Ye's bowl of rice was finished, he didn't struggle.

This rumor has been around for a long time, and I don't know how many years have passed since that incident, and the more it passes through God, it is becoming more and more blurred, so that when it reaches Tianyou's ears, people no longer know that person is Gao Wankun, the big man who is currently in the East Courtyard.

He Weiran led Gu Tianyou to find Long Ye and said, "This child's mother is dead, it is not appropriate to put it in the women's prison area, he is not a prisoner, and he is so 616161616161 young."

He didn't finish his words, but Long Ye already understood what he meant.

The old man waved his hand to interrupt his words, touched the top of Xiao Tianyou's head, sighed, and said: "This ghost place is not a place where children should stay, but you are right, no one cares about the children on the street outside, it is better to let him stay here, although this kid looks dry, but he has a tenacity on his body, and he is a hard-life master like Lao Tzu. ”

In another sentence, Gu Tianyou has a way to live.

Life is like a tree, whether it grows on the edge of a jungle with fertile and sunny land, or rooted in a steep cliff, as long as you have a strong will, you have the opportunity to grow into a large tree with lush foliage. In contrast, the prison is, of course, the steep cliff where the little trees that can take root and sprout are blessed by heaven. However, such favor is not always a good thing, and the prison is like a cliff, and if you take one wrong step, you will fall.

Gu Tianyou's childhood ended from the moment Yu Shaofen died.

As the old saying goes, three years old looks old, but in fact, it means that the nature of children at this age has been revealed. What is Gu Tianyou's nature, Long Ye's sentence sums it up most appropriately: quiet as a virgin, moving like a rabbit.

Three-year-old Tianyou was left in prison, and society was like a hideous monster covered in dirt that could not tolerate innocence, but it became a paradise for Tianyou to grow up.

Prison is a place with strict rules. Here, from the political commissar He Weiran, the prison warden Liu Blackface, the armed police squadron leader Wan Baoquan, to the newly imprisoned prisoners, all live in a conventional and conformist lifestyle. But under the protection of Long Ye, Gu Tianyou has not many rules to abide by, except for Long Ye's rules.

Long Ye is an old soldier, and his prison rules are military regulations, which are strictly implemented and meticulous, even if the object is only a few years old.

Don't cry your nose, get up on time, go to bed on time, keep tidy, and almost everything you say and do is required according to the best military standards. If you don't do it, you will be punished. Of course, Gu Tianyou couldn't do it, so naturally he couldn't escape punishment. He had tried to fight, but Long Ye's belt was not vegetarian. After a long time, Tianyou gradually summed up the law, as long as he did a good job according to the requirements of Long Ye, Long Ye's reward was as clear as his punishment.

When Tianyou behaves well, he will also reward and praise him, but his reward is never a candy toy, he usually touches Tianyou's head happily, and then points to the wine cup on the table and says in a rough voice, Drink, this is a reward for you! After Tianyou pinched his nose and endured the spicy drink, he would wave his hand and say, go out and play for a while, remember to come back on time, and don't learn to smoke from others.

After all, the conditions in the prison are limited, and it is impossible for Long Ye to completely copy the army's set to train Tianyou. And the old man didn't intend to spend all his time on disciplining Tianyou. Therefore, after Tianyou passed the initial and most difficult months of adaptation, he quickly summed up the rules of getting along with Long Ye.

During the day, after Gu Tianyou completed the tasks assigned by Long Ye, the rest of the time, he would hobbled around the courtyards of various prison districts, listening to those prisoners from all over the mountains and seas boasting about their so-called heroic deeds and anecdotes about the rivers and lakes. At night, he returned to Long Ye's special cell on time, strictly followed the old man's requirements, washed, trained in quality, and fell asleep. Meticulous and orderly.

There are only a few requirements for the old man, and for Tianyou, the most difficult thing to adapt to is eating. Whenever it is time to eat, Tianyou always tries every way to escape. Although it is occasionally possible to go to the prisoners' canteen, or to blend in with the guards of the armed police squadron. But more often than not, he was forced by the old man to eat those half-cooked medicinal foods that were said to nourish the muscles and bones.

Long Ye said, your kid's bones are not bad, but unfortunately he was born in the wrong place, the first year of birth is a critical stage for people to grow their bodies, and the acquired malnutrition delays you, so you are so thin, so you must be made up. The old man said yes, prescribed the medicine and took care of it, and with He Weiran's cooperation, one after another fishy and unpleasant medicinal diets became a compulsory course for Tianyou. That's five years.

Gu Tianyou was eight years old, and if he was outside, he would have already carried a schoolbag.

Now Tianyou, under the training of Long Ye, is already a little boy who walks like the wind, sits like a clock, stands like a pine, and still looks thin, but is by no means weak. The eyes are alert, the nose is straight and the mouth is square, the lips are red and the teeth are white, and the spirit is lovely. Of course, it is a good thing for children to grow up like this, but in this place, it has become a big burden in the process of growing up with God.

Qinzhou Prison is one of the top 10 prisons in the country, with thousands of criminals detained in high walls, most of them felons. There is a saying that the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, and there are thousands of criminals of all kinds and strange in this ghost place. It is inevitable that there will be one or two sick people who are bold and bold and hit Tianyou with their ideas. With dirty thoughts, hide in the shadows, waiting for the opportunity.

The children are getting bigger and bigger, and the dragon is getting older and older. Looking at Xiao Tianyou, who is growing up and becoming more and more curious about the outside world, Long Ye began to think about finding a teacher for Tianyou.

The prison population structure is complex, and in some cases, it may be described as a large number of talents. If Long Ye wants to find a teacher for Tianyou, he naturally wants to find the top figures.