Chapter 9: Fighting with the Mouth
After a busy day, business was not good, and I only made a few dozen dollars. Back in Chengjia Village, Yaya found Cheng Liping with a sad face and said, "Brother Ping, why do you think of a way to send my brother some food." It's been two days, and if you don't get caught by the police, you're going to starve to death. ”
Cheng Liping was taken aback and said, "The cellar is so close, can't you deliver food?" ”
Yaya's tears came out, and he said, "I can't send it, there is a remote-controlled drone watching from the roof of our house." ”
Cheng Liping walked out and looked, and sure enough, a silver-gray drone was hanging above the paulownia tree. "It's okay, I'll find a way to bring some food to Hongbin at night." Cheng Liping returned to the house and said to Yaya calmly.
Yaya nodded reassuringly and went home first.
Cheng Liping had dinner, changed into black clothes, took a bunch of fruits from the small cart, leaned over, and walked along the wall to the back of the house. He knows very well that this kind of drone is performing a surveillance mission, and the recognition at night is not high. But just in case, he was well prepared. Bypassed the corner, threw the fruit on the ground, and lay on the ground, moving forward step by step. Moved to the edge of the cellar, Cheng Liping called softly: "Hongbin." ”
There was no response from the cellar. Cheng Liping screamed a few more times before Cheng Hongbin replied weakly: "Brother Ping, I'm dying." ”
Cheng Liping picked a crack, stuffed the fruits into the cellar one by one, and said: "Pad your stomach first, and when the wind passes, go to the south to take refuge." ”
With something to eat, Cheng Hongbin didn't know where the strength came from, and asked while eating: "Is my dad okay, what about my mom, what about Yaya?" ”
Cheng Liping said: "It's okay, you can hide with peace of mind, and you will be free in a few days." ”
Freedom, where does freedom come from? Cheng Hongbin ate and whimpered in a low voice. Even if the rumors pass, he is a faceless person. You can't stay in a hotel, you can't buy a ticket, and as long as you reveal your identity, you will be chased by the police.
Cheng Liping took a breath and said in a firm tone: "Hongbin, believe me, I will help you clear your name." ”
Cheng Hongbin didn't speak, and after a few minutes, he forced himself to say, "I'm fine, Brother Ping, help me take care of my parents." ”
Cheng Liping agreed, returned home according to the original route, and just entered the door, he saw his father squatting at the door smoking. Without waiting for Cheng Liping to speak, his father shook off the ashes of his cigarette and asked, "Hongbin is hiding in the cellar, isn't it?" ”
Cheng Liping nodded and acknowledged.
Dad was silent for a moment and continued to ask, "What about you go and bring him food?" ”
Cheng Liping nodded again, he didn't know how to explain to his father, after all, the crime on Cheng Hongbin's head was to be sentenced to death.
Dad took a few puffs of his cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and said, "I knew the night before yesterday, you went down from the roof, and I heard the movement." Son, Dad won't stop you from doing anything, but you must remember not to do anything illegal. ”
Since Cheng Liping can remember, his father has never been so bitter, Cheng Liping's nose was sour, and he said, "Don't worry, Dad, I know what I'm doing." Hongbin was framed, and I won't smear your face. ”
Dad didn't speak, looked at Cheng Liping for a few minutes, and went back to the room to rest.
Cheng Liping was lying on the bed, his mind full of contradictions. Regardless of whether Cheng Hongbin is guilty or not, helping him hide it is an illegal act in itself. If it happens, it will inevitably implicate yourself and your parents. However, if you don't keep Cheng Hongbin like this and let him be killed by Director Lu, is that right? Cheng Liping thought about it and didn't know how to do both. Thinking back to the experience of the past few years, he was covered in cold sweat, and he didn't want that tragedy to happen again, especially to his family.
In order to avoid such an outcome, the only way is to take the initiative and pull Director Lu's group off the horse. Having strengthened this belief, Cheng Liping stopped thinking about anything else and slept peacefully.
In the next few days, those plainclothes policemen still followed Cheng Liping through the streets and alleys of the west of the city every day. The police fully monitored the phone of Uncle Cheng's house, and when they saw that there were no clues, they also began to relax their vigilance and withdraw the remote-controlled drone. In this way, Cheng Hongbin was finally able to eat a hot meal, and the excitement in his heart was really indescribable.
Old Uncle Cheng and his family deduced Cheng Hongbin's hiding place from Yaya's abnormal performance, but neither of them made a sound, let alone saw Cheng Hongbin. They used this almost cruel way to express their disappointment with Cheng Hongbin. Yaya was sandwiched between her parents and brother, and she didn't know how many tears of grievance had fallen.
This day is Sunday, Cheng Liping held a small cart, stood at the door of a Shaxian snack house, watched the tourist buses drive to Taohuaxian Mountain, and realized that the Qingming Festival was approaching.
Ten kilometers west of the city, Peach Blossom Fairy Mountain is a low hill covered with peach and apricot trees. Every season, the flowers are clustered and sweet, and many years ago, it was rated as a tourist attraction in Li Cheng by the Tourism Bureau. Cheng Liping still remembers that when he was admitted to a key high school, his father took him to Peach Blossom Fairy Mountain to pick peaches, but he didn't expect that in a blink of an eye, ten years had passed.
These tourists who go to Peach Blossom Fairy Mountain, one day in the future, will they be like themselves, full of nostalgia and feelings?
Cheng Liping sighed, put down the small cart against the tree, walked into the Shaxian snack bar, asked for a bottle of Harbin beer, and ordered a bowl of egg noodles. The shopkeeper brought up the beer and handed Cheng Liping a disposable plastic cup. Cheng Liping drank half a bottle of wine happily, only to see that the person sitting opposite was still a new acquaintance.
"Yo, Team Du, what a coincidence." Cheng Liping said teasingly.
met Du Deyong here, he didn't believe that there was really such a coincidence, there was no plainclothes police to follow him today, so he was replaced by the captain and went out in person. Du Deyong glanced at Cheng Liping angrily and said, "Boss Cheng, it's a coincidence, you do business in the west of the city every day and make a fortune, right?" ”
Cheng Liping laughed and said, "Messing around, barely having enough food and clothing, or else, Team Du will help me pay for it." ”
Du Deyong snorted: "I don't have this honor, and we don't have this friendship." ”
Cheng Liping pretended to be sorry and said: "The official is really the most ruthless, but I am also a taxpayer, why is it so difficult for the people's servants to invite taxpayers to eat bowls of noodles?" ”
Du Deyong waved his hand neatly and said, "You pull it down, you are a mobile stall, you have not registered a store, and you have not paid the sanitary property fee, what kind of taxpayer are you?" Set up this stall, how much money do you earn a month, more than 3,005, if it exceeds, it can be regarded as tax evasion, go to the tax bureau to make up for it. Besides, I haven't called the chengguan to collect your stall yet. ”
Cheng Liping was taken aback by Du Deyong, who was like a resentful woman, and paused for a moment before saying with a smile: "Team Du, how can you be like the angry little daughter-in-law, I just want to take advantage of your bowl of noodles, and you still talk at length?" ”
Du Deyong didn't answer and ate by himself. Cheng Liping was embarrassed to squeeze him again, and when his face came, he ate silently. Du Deyong came early, and after eating, he checked out and went out. Cheng Liping was a few minutes late, and when he finished eating and checking out, the shopkeeper smiled: "The person opposite you has already paid for you." ”
Cheng Liping was stunned, and when he walked out of the store, he saw Du Deyong standing in front of his small cart, eating bananas there. Cheng Liping smiled: "Team Du, you really don't suffer, fortunately you are not wearing a uniform, otherwise someone will take pictures and send it out, but something will happen." ”
Du Deyong ate two bananas in a row before he answered: "A bowl of noodles is twelve yuan, and two bananas are only worth a few dollars." Besides, don't call me Team Du, I'm not the captain anymore. ”
Cheng Liping raised his eyebrows and said, "What's the matter, you were taken off your hat?" ”
Du Deyong glanced at Cheng Liping and said, "I said that you have this mouth, why can't you say it better?" That day in the office, you should have tasted the bitterness. ”
Cheng Liping smiled: "Then, how about being promoted?" ”
Du Deyong nodded and said, "It's pretty much the same, I'm a deputy now." With that, he reached for the banana again.
Cheng Liping opened Du Deyong's hand and said, "You're still addicted to eating, it's not good to eat too many bananas, you'll have diarrhea." is all a deputy office, and he still looks like a complaining woman, what is there to be dissatisfied. ”
Du Deyong smiled bitterly: "What's the good thing, I'm in charge of the household registration now." ”
Cheng Liping's heart moved, and said, "It's good, relaxed." ”
Du De never spoke, sighed, waved to Cheng Liping, turned around and walked towards the Jinsha Road Police Station. Cheng Liping hurriedly followed, no longer teasing Du Deyong, but asked in a serious tone: "Bright rise and dark fall, right?" ”
Du Deyong looked at Cheng Liping in surprise and said, "What do you care about, your own business is gone?" ”
Cheng Liping stared at Du Deyong's eyes and said coldly: "You Lu is taking drugs, don't you already know?" ”
Du Deyong subconsciously touched the handcuffs in his waist, and when he touched the air, he remembered that his role had changed. He covered Cheng Liping's mouth in surprise and said in a low voice: "What nonsense are you talking about, where did you hear the gossip?" ”
Cheng Liping shook off Du Deyong's palm with disgust on his face, and sneered: "I knew when I searched Chengjia Village, didn't the police dog keep coming to him, you can't not see it." ”
Du Deyong looked at Cheng Liping directly for a few minutes, and did not answer Cheng Liping's words, but asked unceremoniously: "Cheng Hongbin is still hiding in Chengjia Village, right?" ”
Cheng Liping deliberately made a calm look and said, "I don't know, I haven't had much contact with him in the past few years. ”
Du Deyong smiled disdainfully: "You liar, you are neighbors, how can you not be in touch." If you haven't been contacted, how did you get your first job back on Cheng Hongbin's father's construction site? ”
Cheng Liping said with a smile: "Old Uncle Cheng is also my elder, go to him to help, what's the problem?" ”
Du Deyong looked at him with a mocking look on his face and said, "You take our police too stupid." Parents who don't know the whereabouts of their children can't possibly not inquire. When his son fled to other places, how could he not call back to report his safety. There is no result in the telephone surveillance, which can only mean that Cheng Hongbin is hiding in Chengjia Village, and his family knows about it. ”
Cheng Liping didn't think about this loophole, but he couldn't get a mobile phone number from other places in a short period of time, so he couldn't let Cheng Hongbin make up for this gap. In addition, they have a fluke mentality, thinking that the police in small places cannot be so shrewd, and may not think of this, so they ignore it. Unexpectedly, there was a mistake here, and the police had already grasped the situation.
Cheng Liping said coldly: "In that case, why don't you arrest people?" ”
Du Deyong was silent for a moment, shook his head helplessly, and said, "What are you doing with him, what's the use of wronging a good person?" ”
Cheng Liping understands what Du Deyong means, it seems that he knows that Cheng Hongbin is wronged, so on the way to help Cheng Hongbin clear his name, there is another helper, and he is a powerful assistant with public status. However, things are not as simple as imagined, and letting Du Deyong stand on his side means that he has to break with Director Lu, and at worst, with the entire Licheng police system, it is a big challenge for Du Deyong. Think about it, if he sends his immediate boss to prison, which leader will dare to use him in the future?
Helping Cheng Hongbin means the end of his career. If you don't help Cheng Hongbin, you will be condemned by your conscience for the rest of your life.
Du Deyong was very helpless, and he couldn't tell others about the bitterness in his heart, if Cheng Liping hadn't taken the initiative to pick it out, these words would probably have been held in his stomach. Cheng Liping didn't have an interface, he was measuring whether Du Deyong was credible, after all, his choice was directly related to Cheng Hongbin's net worth. From his standpoint, whether he cooperates with Du Deyong or not, he has to bring down Director Lu, and with Du Deyong's help, it will be easier. But what did Du Deyong get? He received nothing but exclusion.
Perhaps, the only good thing is that he has fulfilled his duty as a policeman and is worthy of his conscience.
But these seemingly great things can never be defeated by the cruel reality.
Du Deyong sighed and said, "Find an opportunity to let Cheng Hongbin leave Licheng." After saying that, Du Deyong left extremely lonely. The sun was shining brightly, the shade of the trees was cool, but his figure walking on the side of the road looked extremely desolate. And this kind of desolation has been repeated more than once in Cheng Liping's career in the past few years.
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