It's autumn, and before six o'clock, the sky is still gray. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info by Tangxun Lake in Jiangcheng City, Jiangbei Province, in a deathly silence, where Mu Qizhong has been in prison for four years, and this is the third time in his life that he has been imprisoned.

This is the Year of the Monkey, and he is 63 years old. Recently, he has often fallen into a trance, tossing and turning, and waking up without knowing what he dreamed of. The only thing he believed in was that he would be free.

From the age of 35 to 72, he was imprisoned three times in 28 years, and spent more than 10 years in prison.

These 10 years are also what he considers to be "the best prime stage of life". This made him feel "very sad".

This "best era" is also a period of rapid economic development in China, as former World Bank Chief Economist Lin Yifu once summed up as the "Chinese miracle".

Feng Lun and Wang Gongquan, who had followed Mou Qizhong, have set up their own doors and become well-known entrepreneurs.

The achievements of the front subordinates made Lao Mu feel very gratified. For juniors, he is extremely picky. He saw different sparkles, but none were enough for him to "worship with pleasure and convincingness."

His third trip to the Red Water Prison was his third trip behind bars.

Many of the prisoners in Hongshui Prison are formerly of higher administrative ranks. After being imprisoned, Mou Qizhong enjoyed the treatment of living alone in a room for a period of time, and was later transferred to another room.

Sometimes, Mou Qizhong would also chat with one or two fellow inmates who knew him well, and he once told one of his fellow inmates that when he went out, he would run a modern hospital in North Germany, providing the noblest services to the rich and charging the cheapest fees to the poor. Many people in the prison knew about Mou Qizhong's ambition.

In prison, he was not idle for a moment. Together with a fellow inmate, he devised a "business project that could enter the world's top 10," including funding, technology, and management, which he called a "computer genius." He also seriously planned to send Chinese to Africa in large numbers to develop and utilize Africa's resources. He also worked on project feasibility, risk and budget planning for this purpose.

He likens his whimsical business plan to a stream. In front of an elephant, the stream can be crossed with a few steps, but in front of an ant, it becomes an impassable sea. He compares himself to an elephant.

In a daze, it's time to get up in prison. The three inmates in the same room began to get up, dress, and fold quilts. They are "armor people", monitoring each other's words and deeds, especially against Mu Qizhong.

The room of several square meters is furnished with 4 beds, 4 cabinets, squat toilets and showers, and air conditioning. For this reason, Mu has to share about 100 yuan per person with his fellow inmates every month on water and electricity bills.

After washing his clothes with his bare hands, Lao Mu sat at his desk. It is said that it is a desk, it is really simple, there are no furnishings, the size is just like a desk for primary school students, and it is shared by 4 people.

At present, all the information that Lao Mu comes into contact with comes from newspapers and periodicals such as "People's Daily", "Legal Daily", and "Economic Observer", as well as some publicly published legal and policy books, as well as "News Network".

His schedule is extremely regular: he reads and writes for 3 and a half hours every morning, takes a nap for an hour, continues to read and write in the afternoon, watches "News Network" in the evening, and when the prison district allows, he will also watch a set of two episodes of the central 8 o'clock TV series as entertainment.

For a long time, Mou Qizhong paid great attention to the "Internet", and he collected all the clues from these only materials to piece together and imagine what the "Internet" would look like. In the future, after he is released from prison, he wants to use the "Internet" as a medium to invite a group of technical and aspiring colleagues to jointly organize a free network 2.0 university, which will open up a "double creation" professional education engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship education. He plans to personally teach a professional course -- the mode of production of smart economy.

Mou Qi was afraid of the cold, so he added a sweater to the blue and white striped prison uniform. This brown and black crewneck sweater, he has been wearing for four winters. He was extremely sloppy, picked up his sweater and put it on his body, and no one reminded him that he was wearing it backwards and backwards. Mu Qizhong picked up his right hand, habitually brushed it back along the head of the board, and then put on a dark blue cap. Because the prison has to get a haircut every month, Lao Mou is no longer the iconic big back style.

Going to the cafeteria for breakfast, Mu Qizhong walked alone in the queue, not speaking to others.

The people around him got used to his silence. Most of the prisoners in the fifth ward of Hongshui Prison, where Mu is located, are prisoners of duty, and they will be arranged to eat in the first group. Some of the inmates in other wards are still cleaning up public health.

Under the unified command of the cadres of the prison district, Lao Mou and his fellow inmates cooked a meal and sat down one by one. When eating, it is not allowed to talk to each other, and everyone only cares about eating one by one. When the time comes, whether you finish eating or not, you have to leave your seat.

One of the most common questions asked by those who visited the prison was "how did you eat inside?" His answer was also very Mou: when he was imprisoned for the first time, he was required to have 26 catties of grain and 1 catty of meat per month, and he was very hungry. When I was imprisoned for the second time, there were buds and rice sticky, and I could barely eat enough. Now you can eat as much rice as possible, and you can eat cabbage stew every "1" every month. If you have money, you can buy a small stove to eat yourself.

According to a person familiar with the matter: "A small bowl of scrambled eggs with tomatoes will cost you 30 pieces, and a fish will cost you 60 pieces." ”

Lao Mou used to like to eat noodles the most because it was fast.

After breakfast, Lao Mou took advantage of the meal time in other prison areas to go for a walk in the playground. The whole playground is sparse. Someone passed by Mu Qizhong and said hello to him, and Lao Mou smiled.

Mu Qizhong's prison life is extremely regular, insisting on exercising for 50 minutes every day, paying great attention to food hygiene, supplemented by regular work and rest and medicine, measuring blood pressure twice a day, measuring blood sugar twice a week, and going to the prison hospital for a comprehensive physical examination once every three months.

In order to exercise well, Mou Qizhong exercised an amazing amount of exercise every day in prison. He insisted on running dozens of laps around the prison's small basketball court every morning, and after his lunch break, he would climb the stairs back and forth -- up and down a dozen times on six flights of stairs, the height equivalent to climbing the Empire State Building in New York. He used to tie a towel around his wrist and wipe his sweat while exercising. What's even more shocking is that no matter how cold the days are counted or the spring is cold, he insists on taking cold showers and doing self-made gymnastics. As a result, the bloated figure that Mu Qi looked like four years ago, especially his "beer belly", is now invisible. He is more than 1.8 meters tall and now weighs about 170 pounds.

The third Thursday of each month is the day of the visit to the 5th ward. After breakfast and roll call, the prisoners went to work. Prisoners in the Fifth Ward were generally placed in lighter positions such as the Flower Room. The one who was named again was someone who came to visit today. They were overjoyed that the monthly visitation day was tantamount to a holiday, the closest they had contact with the outside world.

The person who came out said, "This is the most comforting day for the soul." ”

Lao Mu is old and has no work assignments, and someone came to visit him today, and he was also waiting in the flower room.