The winter night comes early, and in the howling cold wind, people who have been busy all day rush home as soon as they get off work.

After packing up his things and locking the old man in the utility room, Wang Deshui also rushed back to his home.

"Old man, you're finally back!" As soon as he entered the door, a man with gray hair and wrinkled face greeted him. This is Wang Deshui's mother-in-law, Sun Cuihua, although the name is very vulgar, but in Wang Deshui's township, she can be regarded as a beauty. Wang Deshui really spent a lot of money to marry her home. In the life of the old couple, although there are many stumbling things, the relationship between husband and wife is still quite deep.

Sun Cuihua gave birth to two sons and a daughter, and now the three children have been separated independently, and they have also given birth to three grandchildren, two granddaughters and three granddaughters. Now the old couple is living a good life. But recently, the eldest son's family is not very peaceful, and the daughter-in-law Fu often quarrels with the boss in order to make ends meet.

It made the two of them very upset.

Wang Deshui frowned, he has been a husband and wife for many years, but he understands it very well, when the average wife talks to herself in such a tone, eighty percent of them are troubled by something at home! "The old guys are making trouble again?"

"No! There's no way to live this day! Sun Cuihua said with a bitter face, "It's not the boss, it's the second!" ”

"What's wrong with the second child?" Wang Deshui, who took off his coat, said in surprise: "Isn't her family tinghaode?" "The second child is again!" Sun Cuihua sighed and said, "Her mother-in-law wants her to give birth to the child!" But as you know, this national policy does not allow it! When she gave birth to the third child, the township fined her family a lot of money, and now she has a fourth child, how much does this fine have to pay? Wang Deshui's hand to hang the clothes on the hanger immediately trembled, and the clothes did not hang on the hanger, and fell to the ground. Sun Cuihua picked up the clothes from the ground, patted them, and hung them on the hanger.

Wang Deshui sighed, sat down on the kang, took out a dry tobacco pouch, stuffed it with shredded tobacco, and smoked it with a click. Speaking of which, these three children, the second child has given him the most headache and married for so many years, why is his stomach so unhappy, giving birth to a female baby, another child is still a female baby, gritting his teeth and giving birth to a third child, the family's net income for almost two years has paid a fine, how can I get pregnant again this day!

Not to mention that she is not young anymore, and there is a risk in giving birth to a child This is what Wang Deshui heard on the radio, it is this fine, where to raise it. The child can't be born black, right? The original fine of the junior was a scrape together between the two families and a dozen people, and it took a lot of effort to settle the household, I don't know how many people were entrusted, and I begged my grandfather to sue him, so he was considered to be registered at the age of three.

"This year's home is too unpresentable! I have to reincarnate my second child! For this reason, her mother-in-law has already moved to live at home. Sun Cuihua sat on the other side with needlework and said, "Old man, are you hungry?" Alas, after the second child came to me in the afternoon and told me about it, I didn't have the heart to do anything. In the evening, let's just eat noodles, shall we? ”

"You can eat anything!" Wang Deshui waved his hand impatiently. Now he really wasn't in the mood to eat.

Sun Cuihua put the line work on the kang and just got off the kang, Wang Deshui said again: "The old lady has long hair and short knowledge, what I said just now, don't talk about it to the outside world, even with the boss!" The situation of the Nian family ,........., alas! Wang Deshui sighed and did not say any more. The second in-law's surname is Nian Nian, and the old family has a total of five daughters and one son, and it was not until the early years of Sifeng that they had this little son! When her own girl got married, she naturally took on the responsibility of inheriting the family from generation to generation! The elderly are reluctant to break their roots, which is completely understandable, but when will it be a head? If this fourth child is still a girl, how can it be? Don't let you live? The water spilled by the girl who got married is already someone else's person, and she is a father and mother, and this kind of thing is not easy to manage!

But...... Born, what can I do with this fine?

Wang Deshui is almost worried, this younger generation has grown up now, and raising a child now is not as good as they were back then, like herding sheep, and not only in terms of food and clothing, but also all kinds of messy expenses are also headaches! Whether it is the daughters of the Nian family, or the eldest and third of their own, they don't have enough money now. Don't say whether they are willing to help the second child and their family again, even if they want to help, they are also powerless!

Wang Deshui himself is living a tight life now, if he hadn't been doing chores in the county psychiatric hospital, he would have been able to get some money back every month, who would have spent it just by relying on the little output in the field?

I used to be able to smoke cigarettes, but now I have to smoke dry tobacco bags again? The old couple is also old now, and all kinds of problems have come, so there will be more places to spend money in the future.

Sun Cuihua quickly brought two bowls of hot tomato and egg noodles to the table, looking at her old man's sad appearance, Sun Cuihua also understood in her heart that it was difficult to make money now!

"Alright, alright, old man, don't think so much! Didn't people say, what is the end of the ship to be straight, it's useless for you to be anxious now, maybe it will be solved by then! Let's eat! ”

Wang Deshui extinguished the dry tobacco pouch, knocked it on the side of the kang, put it aside, and picked up the bowl. It's just that he has something on his mind, and this meal is tasteless.

"Old man, what's new going on with you there?" Sun Cuihua has nothing to say, distracting Wang Deshui. However, on weekdays, when Wang Deshui comes back, he will also mention some of the things that happened in the county's mental illness. Listening to the ridiculous things made by those mentally ill people is also one of Sun Cuihua's great pleasures.

"There's nothing new, it's just that a lot of people have been locked up again!" Wang Deshui said sullenly.

"A lot of people are locked up again? Are they all mentally ill? Sun Cuihua said in surprise: "Why are there so many mentally ill people recently, and they have to be closed for dozens of people in the past two months, right?" Does your psychiatric hospital have that much land? ”

"Of course, there is not so much land, and some mentally ill patients with mild symptoms have asked their families to take them home!" Wang Deshui said sullenly. At this time, how could he still have the heart to talk to Sun Cuihua about this!

"Old man, isn't it for that? Sun Cuihua grabbed Wang Deshui's arm and asked, "It's all related to the Miao family?" ”

Wang Deshui was startled, hurriedly put down the chopsticks in his hand, covered his wife's mouth and said, "1 You can't just say this thing quietly!" ”

Sun Cuihua turned her head, snatched Wang Deshui's hand, and said dissatisfiedly: "Look at you like that, this is our house, not your mental hospital, who else can listen to the root of the wall?" The Miao family is wronged, who in this county doesn't know? ”

Wang Deshui retracted his hand a little embarrassed, as Sun Cuihua said, he was indeed overreacting. This is his own home, if you want to listen to the conversation between the husband and wife, you have to climb over the wall to get in, there are two dogs in this courtyard, and it is just dark, even the thief is not so bold.

"What do you old lady know! Alas, if you go to the county psychiatric hospital, you will understand that those people are now worse than dead! Even the prisoners in the prison are doing better than they are!

Forget it, what are you doing talking to an old lady like this? It will only give you nightmares at night! Wang Deshui's face was a little unbearable, and he still said stiffly.

"Hey, old man, tell me! I promise not to say it to the outside! Sun Cuihua leaned closer and asked in a low voice.

"If you want to hear it, then I'll talk to you about it!" Wang Deshui said: "First of all, many of these people are locked up in a single room, and there is nothing in the room except a bed, a broken table, and a commode! There is no radio, no loudspeaker, not even a wind and a meal out, just trying to find someone to say a word! "That's not going to suffocate people!" Sun Cuihua said in disbelief, "I heard that in prison, only prisoners are held in solitary confinement if they make mistakes. ”

"Yes, it's been a long time for a day or two, and a lot of people have become ...... It's hard to describe, anyway, it's a little abnormal to look at! Wang Deshui nodded and said, "That's why I said that they are better off alive than dead inside!" ”

"What else?" Sun Cuihua asked.

"And? And then there's their food. Don't you see that those people eat so much that they don't even want to eat pigs! Every day, it is mildew rice mixed with sand, or I don't know where to buy flour, I don't smell any flavor of noodles, and then throw a few pieces of pickles and a pot of water that smells for I don't know how many days, this is their food for a day! Wang Deshui also had palpitations on his face when he said it.

"Isn't that a scourge?" Sun Cuihua couldn't help but say indignantly. She is an old lady in the countryside who knows that moldy rice and old water, people must have physical problems after eating and drinking, can those people in the mental hospital not know?

"It's a scourge! It's better for you to live than to die, and if you go out, even if you still have the guts to sue, you will be asked to lie at home for half a year! Wang Deshui lowered his voice and said in his wife's ear, "And not only that, there are now many more guards in the mental hospital, these people are ruthless, many people have been knocked out by them on the spot, and some have even been incontinent!" ”

"These people are too vicious, aren't they afraid of the king's law?" Sun Cuihua gasped and said. This sounds, how is it like what those lawless red soldiers did during the Great Destiny period.

"Wang Fa? In our county, they are the kings! Wang Deshui sighed and said, "Old woman, I'll tell you this, but don't spread it out!" Even if you don't think about our old arms and legs, you have to think about our grandchildren and granddaughters. It's not a place where people can stay! And these people are so bold that even those who ran to the provincial capital, they can bring them back! ”

Sun Cuihua's face also showed a look of fear, yes, even if you don't think about your husband and wife, you have to think about your children and grandchildren, if it is because of yourself, they all fall into such a miserable day, and you can't close your eyes even if you die!

"As soon as I said this, I remembered that at noon on the umbrella day, I was there to feed a person, and there were only two of us in the house, and the man actually whispered to me that as long as I passed a word for him, he would give me 100,000 yuan!" Wang Deshui remembered what Fang Ya said to himself at noon.

"100,000 yuan? It shouldn't be 100,000 VND, right? Sun Cuihua pouted, a few years ago, when Huaxia and Vietnam were at war, she also knew from other people's mouths that the currency of the Vietnamese is called Vietnamese dong, which is cheap, and a hundred yuan can be exchanged for thousands of yuan.

Sun Cuihua hesitated for a moment and said, "If you send a message, you will give 100,000 yuan, who will believe it!" This man is mentally ill, right? ”

"Hehe, that's hard to say! I heard those people inside say that this person was brought back from the provincial capital Fengyuan, and it seems that he is not our local. The man seemed to have been sent to a psychiatric hospital in a daze, and now he didn't even know where it was. A few days ago, because of the fierce trouble, I was beaten several times, and now I am tied to the bed, except for going to the toilet, don't think about it! Wang Deshui said in a low voice, "But looking at his appearance, I don't think he is like an ordinary person!" ”

Although Wang Deshui felt that Fang Ya was not like an ordinary person, he did not think that what Fang Ya said was true. Spread a message is 100,000 yuan, what is 100,000 yuan? Wang Deshui can get more than 1,000 yuan from the psychiatric hospital a year, which is a reasonable income at his age in the county. 100,000 yuan, almost the income of 100 years of his work!

Even if it is a wealthy household in the county, who can earn 10,000 yuan a year, it is still a small number of people. Just pass on a word, just give so much money, isn't this a lie?

How did Fang Ya know that Wang Deshui had turned his nose into a liar for this reason, and he was afraid that he would have the heart to cry to death! Not to mention 100,000 yuan, even if he gave all the dividends he received in a year, as long as he can get out of this place, he is willing! It was because he was afraid of scaring Wang Deshui, so he said 100,000 yuan!

"Isn't that iniquity? What's in the way of outsiders? Sun Cuihua sighed helplessly and said, "Let them tie them up like this, the family still doesn't know how to be in a hurry?" ”

"Yes, what a sin!" Wang Deshui also sighed and said. Although he sympathized with Fang Ya in his heart, it would not work for him to lose his current job for Fang Ya. After all, without this job in a mental hospital, the Wang family would be in trouble.

Moreover, he can't afford to offend those people in the county!。