Chapter 41: The Old Director
In the afternoon, the Hulong Mountain was covered with dark clouds, and there was a "gloomy cloud and bleak condensation"; The occasional few families, like children abandoned by the bustling Jiangyun City, are scattered in different corners alone; The rustling of ginkgo biloba leaves adds to the eerie atmosphere, and the withered yellow weeds are as dazzling as a tiger's whiskers. Under the mountain is a twisting and turning karst cave, and the stalactites that are staggered are different in form and lifelike, just like a long scroll of "Hanhai is dry and a hundred zhang of ice"; There were no fingers in the dead hole, only the sound of ticking water still making a little movement regularly.
This movement was accompanied by sobs of despair! She had been frightened or starved more than once, and she didn't know if it was day or night, and she didn't know how many days it had been tied up here! The only thing that sustained her life was a few biscuits that were brought in every night, and the droplets that dripped from the roof of the cave — and if she was lucky, she could occasionally catch a few with her mouth when she was tilted up.
She had given up any struggle, howling, yelling, spitting, crying...... A single qiē is to no avail, all I hear is the echo of myself, and the pity of the sound of water droplets. She couldn't tell if her eyes were covered with black cloth as they had been at first, until the wicked man appeared to her with a flashlight. She could feel her hair and clothes already soaking wet, clinging to her trembling body—the tremor that had evolved from fear to shiver. The rope that bound the hands and feet became tighter and tighter, and the wrists and ankles must have been covered in blood. But this qiē is going to be over, completely over! She longed for death as a way to end this torment that life was worse than death. But when death really approached, she flinched again. She already knew the deeds of the wicked—murder and destruction!
Once again, she found a taste of heartache in her numbness, the pain of pins and needles causing the dry tears to flood again. She hated, hated herself for being covetous, and was vying to see the warehouse; hated the rich and unkind, and did not come to the rescue for a long time; The most hated are those bastards who have lost their conscience, criminals who kill people and set fires......
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The exhaustion of that night was greater than ever, because there was too much cargo, Gui Ying and the others unloaded the goods from the dock, and after "Scar Liu" counted them correctly, she was ready to latch the door and go to sleep. After wiping her face casually by the faucet by the side of the warehouse, she found that the stove that had been placed in the middle had been brought to the wood, and with her almost numb hand, she lifted the coal stove that had long been extinguished under the bed board in the room, and fell asleep on the bed.
Before her dream had risen, the fire had already ignited outside. The choking smell of smoke and the burning fire made the little girl lose her soul, put on a coat and jumped out to the fire and smoke - she had to find someone to put out the fire! The fire that had just started was not big, and a panicked Gui Ying found that the door had been opened and three arsonists were adding fuel to the fire. Gui Ying's manic voice startled the arsonists.
"Catch her, she's got us!" The leader motioned for the other two to arrest them, and poured some oil on the door himself.
"Fushun...... Liu Ganpa's ...... "Gui Ying shouted for help, but the bad guy had already pounced, covered her mouth with his hands, and manipulated a rope to tie Gui Ying's hands and feet. The two looked at the "boss" who rushed out of the inner room with the stove.
"Look at your mother selling batches! Carry it on your shoulders and go! The boss gave a quick order. Gui Ying, who was tired from a day, was tied up like a captured chick, and a rag stuffed into her mouth made all her cries for help swallow into her stomach.
The three vicious gangsters escorted her to a small boat by the river, and after punching and kicking, a black cloth blindfolded her, and the boat was speeding in the river, and she faintly heard the boiling of the dock, and the hysterical call of Fushun, accompanied by her crying, disappeared above the river.
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And now, that deep call echoed in her ears again, for the last time, for the last time! Dear Fushun, all my visions of the future will disappear with the call of this memory; My corpse, along with my unending love for you, will be buried in this bottomless cavern; My remorse, the hypocritical lies of me and Liu Yonghan, will also be swallowed up by this endless black curtain; My family, my mother and my brother have become so amiable now. Those abominable scoundrels, why do you have to wait until night, where is there any day and night in this cave, why don't you kill me now, and throw me into what they call the bottomless abyss!
"Sister Gui Ying...... Sister Gui Ying ...... "As the sound got closer and closer, Gui Ying hit the surrounding qi qi with her head indiscriminately, until the pain of knocking stalagmites and the appearance of several dazzling pillars of light, she realized that this was not a dream!"
"Fushun ......" she responded to the affectionate call with the last of her strength, and then collapsed on the wet ground.
"Sister Gui Ying......" Fu Shun heard the weak response, didn't care about the slippery under his feet, broke free from Officer Xiaowang's hands, snatched the flashlight and rushed to Sister Gui Ying, who he was thinking about day and night!
"Sister Gui Ying...... Uncle Li, come here, Sister Gui Ying has fainted! Fushun's tears poured out, "Sister Guiying, I'm Fushun!" ”
"Fushun...... I...... Dead? Gui Ying couldn't open her eyes because of the pillar of light shining on her face, and she couldn't believe it was real.
"I didn't ...... You're not going to die...... Sister Gui Ying, they are here to save you! Fu Shun put down the flashlight and hugged the soaked sister hard, he felt the trembling, hugged tightly, and the hot tears dripping on Gui Ying's face, conveyed the warmth from the bottom of his heart.
"Quick, get some water and food!" Li Xiang rushed over with several policemen. glared at Officer Xiao Wang fiercely, took off his coat to wrap Gui Ying, took out a handkerchief from his trouser pocket and handed it to Fu Shun, then leaned down and picked up Gui Ying, Fu Shun carefully wiped his sister's cheek with a handkerchief.
The two gangsters who had just been brought in were escorted out again. After about an hour, Fu Shun and the police went out of the cave, went down a long slope, and reached the river.
The dark clouds that had gathered at noon were blown away, and the warm sunset shone on the entire river. The engine of the motor boat sounded and sailed towards the noisy Jiangyun City.
Director Li has been holding Gui Ying, even if he is sitting on the boat. The tired Gui Ying had fallen asleep, she hadn't slept so warmly for a long time, and there was a sweet smile on the corner of her mouth. Fu Shun sat on the bow of the boat, his dazzling eyes made him look blank, looking at the Uncle Li in a police uniform, the silhouette of which was clear and tall in the sunset. Sleep, Sister Gui Ying, sleep peacefully as if you were in your father's arms!
When I returned to Jiangyun, it was already nightfall, and Li still had some affairs to deal with, and all the police officers were in the office, and the criminals were sent to the detention center to await trial. Gui Ying handed it over to Officer Xiao Wang and sent it to the hospital, and Fu Shun took care of it every step of the way.
"Brother Wang, don't be sad, Uncle Li won't blame you?" Fu Shun looked at this amazing "painter" and apologized for his mistake of following the police force.
"Hey, no wonder you have to do a check! Forget it, I can't tell you, but fortunately you don't have anything to do! "Xiao Wang knows that the order given by Li, who was born in the military, is definitely a military order!
"What did Uncle Lee do before? It's so fierce! The "fierce" in Fushun's mouth is to praise Li Xiang's might!
"Soldiers, who have fought in wars, are very powerful, and they were the deputy head of the regiment when they resisted US aggression and aided Korea! I don't know what the reason is, I was rectified within a few years of returning from the war, squatting in the cowshed, eating pig food, wearing pointed hats, and hanging fighting cards! Created half a lifetime of iniquity! Xiao Wang sighed, "Fortunately, I was rehabilitated, and I came to our institute to be a deputy director - the deputy director of the 'deputy county level', hey, I am talented!" Also, Li Suo's son is still on the front line, fighting a self-defense counterattack, and he will be stationed on the frontier when it is over! Li Suo is our great hero Jiangyun......"
Fushun doesn't understand what director and deputy director are, what is the county level and deputy county level, what is the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, self-defense and counterattack, anyway, this Uncle Li is not simple, he is better than the captain of Yangjiawan, and he is better than the seventh uncle who is a big official in the county. "Brother Wang, that ...... My uncle--even Liu Yonghan still has to suffer? ”
"Wait for the trial, the prosecution and the verdict! But this case can be regarded as a case within a case, judging from the people arrested, Liu Yonghan should be innocent, right? ”
"Well, Uncle Li is here, it's definitely fine...... Fu Shun smiled, watching Sister Gui Ying sleep so soundly - the tortured Sister Gui Ying must have not slept for many days.
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Gui Ying's condition is getting better day by day. Even Fushun, a "stuffy gourd" who usually doesn't talk much, began to gush endlessly about "putting on a dragon gate array" in order to make her happy. Gui Ying pestered Fushun to tell him the love stories that "Scar Liu" usually told him, and she longed for that kind of beautiful ending, with the young man in front of her who was growing up day by day - although Fushun's story was not clear in many places.
Liu Yonghan was quickly acquitted and ran to the hospital as soon as possible. He was accompanied by Li Xiang.
"Uncle Lee!" Fu Shun happily greeted him, "Ah, uncle! "The surprises brought to Fushun today are one after another, and Gui Ying also got out of bed happily!
"Uncle, are you okay?" Fu Shun looked at this raunchy old man, and the "commander-in-chief" of the dock before was like two people.
"What's the matter?! As long as Li is, I'm safe! ”
"Haha! In the past, I was defending the country, but now I am a caretaker! Haha, I only knew when I was wearing this dress, no matter how big your grievances were, compared to the burden on my shoulders, what is it! Officer Li's eyes narrowed into a slit, and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes glittered along with the police badge on his shoulders! Scar Liu" smiled knowingly.
"Okay, right? Okay, little girl. Li Xiang looked at Fushun again, "It's not easy for children to come to the city, you have to be careful what you do, you have to go back to your hometown to see if you have the chance, why don't you forget your book!" ”
"Scar Liu" still smiled and nodded, he knew that the two children didn't understand the heavy meaning of these words, but he understood.
"And you! Lao Liu, you have such a large group of people on the dock to do it with you, so you let people sleep at the foot of the bridge? What is the difference between you and capitalist exploitation? Ask yourself, is it a place where people live under the bridge? Do things worthy of your conscience! Liu Yonghan still nodded, he didn't expect this "old-fashioned" to teach himself another lesson! yes, what the hell have you done in the past few years? You can't just pull a bunch of people to suffer next to you because you are depressed!
Li Xiang patted Liu Yonghan on the shoulder, touched Fushun's fluffy "two devil hairstyle", nodded, and turned around! Liu Yonghan sent a section, thinking about making a gesture to the old director, but swallowed the words back to his mouth. He continued to smile and look at the great shadow until it was gone.
As soon as "Scar Liu" came back, Fushun pestered him to talk about what was going on with the "case within a case" caused by the fire! Liu Yonghan moved a stool, handed over a cup, asked Fushun to pour a glass of water in the boiling water room, and then sat in the ward and talked about the story:
"There is a 'traitor' Zhang Haikui on the dock! I didn't expect that I, the brother who worshiped the master, was really fucking black-hearted, and secretly had an adulterous affair with Zhu Lianhua, Lao Tzu also believed in the widow surnamed Zhu, and the two shameless eyes envied the income on my dock! Ask me to sign an agreement with the grain station.
"Hai Kuizi knows that we are with 'Zhao Leper Shell' - it was the last time that the turtle son who robbed you was married, and called him to take revenge. That 'Zhao Leper Shell' also didn't have a braincase, he really listened to Hai Kuizi's words, and called two people to burn the warehouse in the middle of the night, who knew that a bunch of millet shells and gravel would be burned!
"It's just that I suffered the little Guiying woman, and when I got up at night to report the news, I was arrested by them, and then we misunderstood and didn't say it, I suffered so much that I almost lost my life! Oh, and that pile of wood and that stove, it's all Haikuizi's troublemakers! persuaded Lao Tzu not to move wood, and kindly found a coal stove and a few lumps of honeycomb coal, and called me to let Gui Ying cook and eat!
"The fire burned so hard that it couldn't be extinguished, and the turtle son said that he was going to report the fire, and it took three hours to report her mother before coming back! This Hai Kuizi, he really didn't expect that the public grain he wanted to ignite with a fire was actually a pile of millet husks and sand! It's also 'Sister Qiao went to the toilet and met Sister Qiao-stinky (coincidental)'! The man surnamed Ma at the grain station is not a good thing, he embezzled the country's public grain, and he sold it himself and wanted to rely on me! Who knows that halfway through the killing, let the 'monster' appear in its original form!
"Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky! This Zhang Haikui and Zhu Lianhua are enough to drink one pot this time, and Ma Yinglin and the corrupt officials of the Food Bureau are estimated to drink two pots...... Fortunately, Lao Tzu's money was left in one hand......
"Hey, people have a lifetime, and there are traps everywhere! Lao Tzu can be regarded as a blessing in disguise! In any case, 'don't take the evil for less'! ”
Liu Yonghan summed it up with an ancient sentence, which was in stark contrast to the previous gushing "foul words". He was quite proud, always thinking that this was "spring and white snow, elegant and vulgar appreciation".
Fu Shun looked out the window, thinking about the last sentence "Don't take the evil as small", although he still doesn't know the source, but he can understand the meaning of the words!
And her sister Gui Ying is still immersed in the humor of "Sister Qiao went to the toilet and met Sister Qiao-stinky (made) coincidence"! ……