Compared with the other seven prisoners in the cell who were arrested and detained by the military police of the French Concession, Lai Dingbang, who was suspected of being a communist, was very lonely; for two nights and one day, no one came to talk to him, and no military police came to interrogate him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

During the long two nights and one day, Lai Dingbang really realized what fear and anxiety were, and understood the sentence of Zheng Yi, the division commander, during the training in the Jinggangshan base area, that "mental torture is often far better than physical torture", under the huge psychological pressure, Lai Dingbang could not sleep at night, his face was scorched, his mouth was full of bubbles, his body was obviously thin, the beard on his face grew like weeds, and the whole person looked very depressed.

Although after Lai Dingbang was imprisoned, he kept silently reciting the stress reduction methods taught by his teacher Zheng Yi during the training in the Jinggangshan base area, trying to cheer up himself through self-motivation and eliminate the mental pressure that was constantly accumulating in his heart as soon as possible, but the short training and lack of experience did not give Lai Dingbang much comfort, and he was able to pretend to be calm for two nights and one day, which was already a good performance.

Another long dark night has passed!

The autumn morning sun illuminated the dark cell through the high ventilation windows, and the Annan jailer, dressed in a crumpled yellow uniform, reappeared outside the cell.

Two buckets of white porridge with a sour smell were rudely placed in the aisle between the two cells, and the short jailer, with a rubber baton on his waist, squatted lazily in front of the iron fence and laid out eight dirty enamel bowls, while another dark-skinned jailer picked up a large black wooden scoop, scooped out most of the gruel from the barrel, and poured it into the enamel bowl in front of the iron fence in turn, cursing loudly in the local dialect of Annam.

As in the previous two days, the seven people in the same cell took turns to eat, leaving the dirtiest and most broken enamel bowl for Lai Dingbang.

Lai Dingbang, who was covered in sourness, silently looked at the two groups of people who were drinking porridge together, swallowed his dry throat hard, slowly stood up, walked forward, squatted silently against the iron fence, and looked at the half bowl of gruel with a few yellow vegetable leaves floating outside.

He didn't move until the other seven drank the gruel and sent the enamel bowl out of the iron fence.

The middle-aged man who finally sent the bowl out of the cell glanced at Lai Dingbang and sighed faintly: "I haven't eaten since I saw you come in, and you've only drunk water twice, so it's not good, you won't last a few days." ”

Lai Dingbang simply sat down, looked at the middle-aged man who was talking to him for the first time, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I have a bad stomach, I'm afraid I will vomit on the spot if I drink it, or even fall ill." ”

The middle-aged man was slightly taken aback, looked at Lai Dingbang, who was haggard, with great interest, and asked puzzledly: "Seeing that you are so literate, you are not very old, and the clothes on your body are also quite exquisite, you should be a person with status, how did you get arrested?" ”

"Who knows? After dinner that day, two Chinese detectives led more than a dozen military policemen suddenly rushed into my house, saying that I was a communist, and then arrested me. ”

"In the past, I heard that foreigners talk about the law the most, and they also talk about human rights and freedom, but now I know that it is not like that, which is really ridiculous!"

"Originally, I thought that foreigners were really more civilized than Chinese, and when I arrived at the Shanghai Sea Rent Definition, I could learn advanced knowledge and enjoy the civilization that foreigners brought to our China, so I sold my hometown house and took my wife to the French Rent Definition Residence, and now it seems that I really did something wrong, it is better to stay in my hometown and be a teacher."

Lai Dingbang's face was full of pain, and he complained endlessly, no different from the common pedantic scholars nowadays.

The middle-aged man looked at Lai Dingbang, who felt sorry for himself, with a smile, and asked in a low voice after a while: "You won't buy a house in the French Concession, will you?" ”

"Where do I have the money to buy a house, rent."

Lai Dingbang leaned weakly against the iron fence, then suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Sir, you can't also be a Communist Party suspect, right?" ”

The middle-aged man smiled: "Do you look like me?" ”

Lai Dingbang shook his head slightly: "It's not like, it's not like it at all!" The gentleman is physically strong and kind, and looks like a shopkeeper. ”

The middle-aged man was taken aback and nodded in approval: "You have a good eye!" I'm really the shopkeeper, the shop is open in the alley south of Nanjing Middle Road, I don't know if it's the enemy's false accusation or the opponent's trick, I was suddenly arrested, half a day earlier than you. ”

Lai Dingbang sighed helplessly: "It is estimated that all the colleagues in this prison were arrested like this, I don't know when they will be able to give us an explanation!" ”

"Before, the French said that their justice is very fair, and the case will be interrogated and concluded within 48 hours after the suspect is caught, but it has been more than 60 hours since I was arrested, and I haven't seen anyone come to ask them, it seems that this Frenchman is not honest!"

The middle-aged man laughed when he heard this: "What did you say? The French are just? Honest? If we were honest, we wouldn't have usurped our land, and if we were fair, we wouldn't have enslaved our people, haha! Do you know how many French colonies there are in the world? Although it can't compare to the empire on which the sun never sets, it's not much worse! ”

"I think you should give up the worship of foreigners as soon as possible, if you want to live well, you can only rely on yourself...... Well, let's not talk about it, someone came, like an arraignment officer. ”

There was a loud sound of footsteps on the cement slab, and two plainclothes detectives surrounded a tall and thin French police officer to stop in front of the iron fence, and the short and sturdy detective on the left took half a step forward, glanced at the prisoners who had shrunk into the inner side of the cell, and shouted:

"Who is Lai Dingbang? Come out! ”

Lai Dingbang's body trembled, as if he was taken aback, he hesitated to stand up, walked to the front of the iron gate, shook the iron fence and said loudly:

"I am Lai Dingbang, I am not guilty, I want to appeal, I want justice!"

The short and stout Hua Tan couldn't help crying and laughing when he heard this, and the other Hua Tan shook his head, opened the prison door, and squinted at the weak and pedantic Lai Dingbang:

"Come out, there is a noble person to vouch for you, live a good life after you go back, and don't have fun with those lawless Communist Party again!"

Lai Dingbang was stunned, his chapped lips moved, and just as he wanted to say something, he was dragged out by the short and strong Hua Tan behind him:

"Hurry up! Don't lock the door. ”

There was a "clang", and the iron door was locked.

The two Chinese detectives were like chickens, and they took out the vain Lai Dingbang, and scolded and scolded as they walked and said how could such a stupid scholar be a communist, and another Chinese detective laughed and said that those secret agents of the Songhu Garrison Command were driven crazy by the Nanjing government, so they would indiscriminately see who was a communist, which immediately caused the French police officer to laugh unbridledly.