A month after Sun Peng was admitted to the sick prison area, the third prison district decided to send Li Jing, Sun Peng's fellow prisoner, to replace Liu Chuan and accompany Sun Peng.

At that time, Sun Peng had been dissatisfied with the bed and pants for nearly 20 days, and the "symptoms" of paralysis of the lower limbs had also "improved", and he was able to walk by himself against the wall. However, I still can't hold back the urine, and I still sprinkle it all over the bed, every half an hour, and I can't save it at all. Two days after Liu Chuan left, Sun Peng shouted in the prison number, called the police on duty in the prison area of the sick prisoner, and insisted that Li Jing be replaced, on the grounds that Li Jing was not well accompanied. Liu Chuan always stayed in the ward when he accompanied him, no matter how noisy and smelly it was, he read the law correspondence book in the ward, so that Sun Peng could call him at any time if he had something. But Li Jing is gone, Li Jing is always in series, always chatting with other sick prisoners in the tube, always talking about the good things he has done outside, what meals he has eaten, what cars he has ridden, etc., Sun Peng peed on the bed and shouted for a long time before he came in, and his attitude towards Sun Peng was also very bad. Sun Peng asked to send Liu Chuan back again, and he didn't want anyone but Liu Chuan. The police of the sick prison district relayed his request to the third district of the prison district, and the third district of prison of course ignored it. continued to let Li Jing accompany him in the sick prison for a week. During the week, Sun Peng and Li Jing quarreled many times, and even spat at each other. Sun Peng also climbed down from the bed, crawled into the tube and cried and fussed, refused to eat, refused to reply, pulled all the feces and urine in the tube, and made the tube stink. It can be seen that he wants to make a big deal and alarm the prison leaders, even if he can't achieve the goal of medical parole, at least he has to bring Liu Chuan back to accompany him.

According to Sun Peng's behavior of beating and making trouble, he can be sent to confinement, but everyone can see that this kid is desperately determined, and he would rather toss himself to death than carry out the pseudo-disease to the end. For this reason, Prison Director Deng specially instructed the first prison district to capture this fortress as soon as possible, and to absolutely avoid Sun Peng's accident, so it is not appropriate to simply deal with it toughly, and it is not a good way to close the introspection. For six consecutive years, the Prison Bureau has maintained a record of no escape, no violent prison, no safety accidents, and no unnatural deaths. If something happens to any unit and smashes the honorary signboard of the entire prison bureau, it will be tantamount to nailing itself to the pillar of shame.

The No. 1 Prison District held a special meeting overnight to study Sun Peng, a nail household, and designed a variety of plans, both soft and hard, and then tried them one by one, but the results were not very effective. Although Sun Peng's attitude sometimes gets better, when something doesn't go his way, he is still noisy, noisy, and most importantly, he still pees every half an hour. The lower body made the urine irzema, inflammation, sores, and stinging pain when he urinated, but he still urinated. Later, it developed to pee every twenty minutes. As long as there is urine in his stomach, he immediately pees out, and not a drop is kept. Li Jingjing was about to be driven crazy, and after less than two weeks of work, he was about to collapse. The third prison district had to change to another prisoner, and this prisoner quarreled with Sun Peng for three days, so that he found a cadre to kneel and kowtow, and would rather increase the sentence than serve Sun Peng. Sun Peng also hit the wall with his head, and his head broke and bled out, so he had to go. The prisoners in the three-point prison area talked about Sun Sheng's change of color, for fear that the next one would change to him. Liu Chuan became a celebrity in the whole prison area because of this, and everyone came to ask him what strange spell he recited, which made Sun Peng recognize him with all his heart.

On this day, Zhong Tianshui took Pang Jiandong to the prison area of the sick prisoner and came to see Sun Peng. They did not go to the ward, but asked the police to take Sun Peng to the correctional office and let Sun Peng sit at a table. In addition to Zhong Tianshui and Pang Jiandong, there was also a doctor from the prison hospital in the room, and the posture of the conversation looked quite formal.

Zhong Tianshui's first sentence made Sun Peng almost unable to believe his ears, and he said: "Sun Peng, according to the doctor's advice, your sub-prison district has already reported your report on medical parole. After research, the prison district also agreed to report you to the prison. Because to write this report, you still need to fill out some forms, and there are some questions, we have to understand clearly from you, if these situations meet the requirements for parole, we can report it, otherwise the report will not be approved. ”

Sun Peng was so excited that his eyes straightened, and his face wanted to be tense but couldn't help laughing. Zhong Tianshui calmly and unhurriedly asked him many questions, which made Sun Peng more excited the more he listened, and the more he answered, the more energetic he became. For example, if he asks for parole, who will protect him. Sun Peng said: My wife can be guaranteed. Zhong Tianshui asked your wife if she didn't want to divorce you, and she was still willing to keep it? Sun Peng said: My wife said that as long as I can go out, she will not divorce. If she doesn't, so can my parents. Zhong Tianshui asked again: I heard that your parents have a bad relationship with you, are they willing to protect you? Sun Peng said: After all, I am their biological son, I can write to them immediately, as long as I am willing to ask them, they will definitely protect them. Lao Zhong asked again: After you go out, you have to treat the disease and live, how can you ensure your financial resources? Sun Peng said: My daughter-in-law earns money, and my parents also have a little pension, so it's no problem to give me food, and besides, I'm not as gluttonous as Li Jing in our class, so I just have a coarse meal.

Lao Zhong also asked in detail about his wife's situation, his parents' situation, including their physical condition, living conditions, specific economic income, etc., and also asked about his wife's parents, relatives and friends. He asked, Sun Peng replied, Pang Jiandong remembered. also asked Sun Peng to fill out an application form for medical parole, and everything was done as if it were real. In the end, Zhong Tianshui raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and said to Sun Peng seriously:

"Sun Peng, we've been talking for an hour and a half today, what do you think?"

Sun Peng hurriedly said: "I am grateful, thank you to the head of Zhong Prison, and thank you for your concern for me and let me be released on medical parole." After I go out, I will abide by the law, treat my illness well, and strive for ......."

Zhong Tianshui interrupted him: "Actually, you are not sick, you see, it has been an hour and a half, and you have not peed a drop of urine, which means that you are not sick." You can actually hold that little bit of and pee, you can actually hold it completely. ”

Sun Peng was stunned for a moment, and was about to say something, when Zhong Tianshui interrupted him again: "Today, there are three of us present, including a doctor, and we have recorded the true situation of today's test." With this test, with this record, no matter how fierce you will be in the future, no matter how much you urinate, it will be useless, and no doctor, no leader, will dare to agree to your medical parole. With this test record, whoever agrees is bending the law for personal gain, and any of the three of us can sue him, and no one can escape the punishment of law and discipline! Sun Peng, think about it yourself, which police officer can help you at the cost of his own survival? So, the road has already left you to walk to your own death, and you should no longer have any illusions. ”

Sun Peng opened his mouth and stammered, but before Lao Zhong finished speaking, he grinned and cried with a crooked face. When Zhong Tianshui made this conclusion and made a final persuasion, when Zhong Tianshui later announced that the prison district had decided to impose a confinement punishment for his pseudo-illness behavior from now on, Sun Peng did not excrete any more feces and urine except for desperate cries and tears.

Zhong Tianshui pulled Pang Jiandong up, and ran to Sun Peng's house as soon as he was free.

They went to Sun Peng's own house and his parents' house, and told the truth about Sun Peng's pretending to be sick in prison, which can be regarded as moving - Sun Peng risked being disabled or even dying to pretend to be sick, not to go home to support his wife and children, not because he was afraid that his wife would run away with someone and the children would be left alone. said that Sun Peng's wife cried like a tearful person. When Lao Zhong and Xiao Pang went for the second time, they also brought more than 500 yuan donated to Sun Peng by the police officers of a prison district. The meaning is: I hope that his wife will also think about Sun Peng, and also think about the children, endure a few years of hard life, and wait for Sun Peng to be released from prison, how good it will be for the family to be happy and reunited. When Lao Zhong and the others went to find Sun Peng's parents, Sun Peng's father began to scold Sun Peng vigorously: This kid is not my son! Not my son! Later, I listened to Lao Zhong talk for a long time, and I didn't say anything, and I also shed tears with my wife. After all, it's your own flesh and blood, so many days of and urine, your body is rotten, what a sin you have to suffer, isn't it just for the sake of the child - the child is also your descendant, where can you not feel distressed! Lao Zhong said: We are all Chinese, the Chinese's feelings for blood kinship cannot be erased in our hearts, Sun Peng was born and raised by you, and his children are also the species of your Sun family, can you not feel distressed?

Lao Zhong and Xiao Pang also went to the unit of Sun Peng's wife, who worked in a postal company. His wife is very introverted, and after her husband was arrested, she felt that she couldn't hold her head up in the unit, so she rarely communicated with others. The leaders and team members all know that her family is not wealthy, but the extent of the difficulties is not known. Lao Zhong and Xiao Pang went to talk about it, only to know that they had reached the point where they couldn't go on. This company is a state-owned enterprise, and the benefits have been good over the years, plus Lao Zhong Xiaopang said emotionally, and the leaders of Sun Peng's wife's unit immediately decided to give Sun Peng's wife some subsidies on a regular basis in the future. Later, Sun Peng's parents finally agreed, took the child to them to raise, and let the daughter-in-law take her back to live on Saturdays and Sundays. Lao Zhong persuaded Sun Peng's wife to take the initiative to say a few soft words to her in-laws, and resolved the rights and wrongs of the previous grievances, isn't it all for the sake of the children, what can't the family say!

After talking about it in this way, the matter is basically solved. Sun Peng's wife made it clear that she would not divorce Sun Peng. Lao Zhong separately mobilized Sun Peng's wife, parents, and even mobilized the trade union of Sun Peng's wife's unit to write letters to Sun Peng, asking him to reform with peace of mind, strive for a commutation of his sentence, come out early, and reunite with his relatives.

The letters were all sent, and in order to get these letters, Lao Zhong and Pang Jiandong ran to the city four or five times, and their legs were thin. At that time, Sun Peng had been transferred from the confinement squadron to the strict management team and was undergoing intensive training. After reading these letters, when he saw Lao Zhong, he knelt down and kowtowed with tears in his eyes, saying that Lao Zhong was his life-saving benefactor and reborn parents, saying that as long as he still had a breath in his life, he would say anything to repay Lao Zhong. Lao Zhong said that I am so old, and by the time you are about to die in this life, I will have already burned to ashes. If you want to report it, you can report it now, and you know how to report it in your heart.

Liu Chuan also wanted to repay Lao Zhong.

It was the old bell that made him change from dead to unwilling, from tough and irritable to quiet and soft. It's tough and easy to break! From Lao Zhong's eyes and words, he understood that he had failed very badly. There is also a way to be a man, and how elaborate the method is, you need to learn it well.

Liu Chuan decided to start with the specific small things, as soon as he returned from the sick prison area, he took care of almost all the sanitation of the water room and toilet in the third prison area. He made it a habit for him to bend down and pick up anything dirty when he saw it on the ground. As long as you pass by the thermos, you must pick it up and shake it, and find it empty: go and fetch water immediately. Li Jing in their class likes to use hot water to scald his feet, using the most water, but he doesn't fetch water, and he returns to class every day. Liu Chuan has always been very annoying to Li Jing, and if he wanted to go in the past, he would not have served him for a long time, but now Liu Chuan should not serve Li Jing, and he should cultivate himself, and he will play another pot immediately, and he will endure the unhappiness in his heart and not hang it on his face. After a long time, he tried to make himself no longer unhappy in his heart, since you consciously volunteered to do good deeds and turned on the water for everyone to use, how much do you manage people's homes, do you drink or wash their feet?

Doing these good deeds does not earn points, because there is no rule that you can add points to doing a good deed for everyone, but Liu Chuan still insists on it every day. Liu Chuan has other ways to earn points, and he has more and more ways to earn points. Because I heard that the extra points for a single subject in the next university exam next year will be reduced from 300 points to 200 points, Liu Chuan plans to take the three single subjects of law this year anyway, one legal foundation, one university language, and one foreign language, and earn a total of 900 points. Earning these 900 points is not easy for Liu Chuan, at least it is much more difficult than studying in college in society. In college, I normally have teachers to teach and tutor in college, but I study on my own in prison, and I have to figure out where the focus of each course is. The face of the exam is extra-wide, and if you don't pay attention to the corners and corners, you will be planted on top of it during the exam. Liu Chuan pulled up a list of study materials, and when he called his grandmother, he asked his grandmother to ask lawyer Wang or other acquaintances to help him go to the bookstore or library to find it. He knew that his grandmother had been admitted to a nursing home at this time, but he didn't know that she couldn't find anyone to help. Once upon a time, as the queen mother of Wanhe Company, how many people around her came and went. Now that Wanhe Dashu has fallen, the monkeys are scattered, and the old lady is alone in that simple nursing home, with no relatives, no friends, no children and no grandchildren, and no one from Liu Chuan's father's old department, including lawyer Wang, has come to see her.

Except for Lao Zhong and Section Chief Jing who came to see her, the only one who often went to see her was Xiao Ke.

So grandma only asked Xiaoke to help. Liu Chuan's books and tutoring materials were all bought by Xiao Ke in the bookstore during his break, borrowed from the library, and asked for at the teacher's house, no matter how windy or rainy. Pang Jiandong, the captain of the management number who personally gave it to Liu Chuan in the third prison area again and again, had to say that Liu Chuan's grandmother asked someone to find it, but asked her to bring it and hand it over to Liu Chuan. Those inmates who applied for the law major with Liu Chuan did not have as complete counseling materials as Liu Chuan. Pang Jiandong also sighed from the bottom of his heart about this matter: it is not easy for the old lady to find so many books with bad legs and feet, Liu Chuan has to study hard, and if he can't pass the exam, he is really sorry for his grandmother's heart.

Of course, Liu Chuan's academic performance is also related to Pang Jiandong's grades, and the higher the score earned by the prisoners in Pang Jiandong's supervision, the greater his work performance in the sub-prison area.

The materials that Liu Chuan needed in his first academic year were mainly the foundation of law and university language, and as for the foreign language that others thought was the most difficult, it was Liu Chuan's forte. At that time, a foreign language training class was also opened in the first prison district, which was divided into two classes, English and Japanese, and Liu Chuan became the teacher of the English class. Being a teacher is also a plus. In addition to earning points as a student and a teacher, in the autumn of that year, the Prison Bureau issued a notice to hold a sports meeting to welcome the Spring Festival and promote the reform of prisoners in the spring of the following year. Liu Chuan had participated in military training at the OUHK for two months, and had been reviewed by the central leadership as a member of the Beijing Public Security Team, so the first prison district gave Liu Chuan the task of coaching the queue competition. Liu Chuan was tired, but he was very happy, and once he got the top three results in these projects, he would have extra points. If you win the championship, you can get 200 points, which is a lot of points, almost the same as a single subject in the next university. Not only that, the feeling of being valued and noticed has been lost for a long time, and that feeling makes Liu Chuan full and happy.

The members of the Tianjian basketball team are all up-and-coming players who have made their mark in basketball tournaments in various prison districts in the past. Liu Chuan had never participated in a basketball game in the prison area before, but in the team selection of the Tianjian basketball team, Liu Chuan's personal skills and tactical awareness were very eye-catching, and even Pang Jiandong and Xiao Ke, former friends, did not expect Liu Chuan, who had always been silent and cowered behind, to be so dominant on the basketball court.

After the tryouts, the Tianjian basketball team set a goal for themselves. Considering that the two main forces are in the first prison area, Feng Ruilong of the third prison area of the first prison district was determined to be the team leader and coach. Feng Ruilong was the organizational guard of the basketball team of the Beijing Labor Reform Bureau when he was young, and he was also alive and well, but now he is quite old, but he is still old and strong, and when he mobilized at the team meeting, Feng Ruilong was full of confidence in achieving the goal of the game. Of course, I also want to remind everyone to see the difficulty, he said, it would be nice if Sun Peng could also participate. Sun Peng used to play as a striker in the Beijing middle school student team, with good physical strength and good defense, and defense is sometimes more important than offense.

Although Sun Peng had already returned to the third prison area from the training team, he could not obtain a scoring permit until six months after the end of the training camp, and according to the regulations of the bureau, prisoners who did not have a scoring permit were not eligible to participate in the competition on behalf of their prison. According to the "wild card" regulations of the organizing committee of the Games, if Sun Peng wants to participate in the competition without a scoring permit, unless he has made a major meritorious performance. can make meritorious contributions, even if Sun Peng has the determination, the courage and the ability, how can he be so coincidental and can run into that opportunity!

Liu Chuan had watched Sun Peng play before, and knew that he was more competent in the position of power forward, and the gap in the Tianjian basketball team was precisely this position. Liu Chuan pleaded for Sun Peng in front of Feng Ruilong, but the prison bureau had regulations first, and Feng Ruilong could only express helplessness. He said to Liu Chuan, you beg me, it is better to beg Sun Peng, let him grit his teeth and make a meritorious service, and if he has a meritorious performance, I will immediately report to the prison district and apply for him to participate. I'm like you, I say it's sitting three and fighting for one, but in fact, I don't want to win the championship, that's fake.

Liu Chuan asked: What kind of merit did he make, where is the opportunity?

Feng Ruilong can't say where the opportunities are, the opportunities are all found by himself, and if the opportunities are all on the surface, there will be no part for him. Bombing the bunker to block the gun's eye and stop the horse from jumping into the ice hole, where can I find him!

Feng Ruilong's words made Liu Chuan think about how to make Sun Peng meritorious for a while, in addition to working and replying to the number. His good impression of Sun Peng came from the fact that when Sun Peng came back from the training team, he was confined for ten days and three months of intensive training, and he insisted on being entangled in feces and urine for nearly two months. Everyone found that Sun Peng was more wilted and more obedient. Besides, Zhong Dafeng's team and Pang Jiandong have run out of thin legs for his wife's divorce, his parents turned against each other, and no one to support his children, and a total of 17 police officers in the 3rd Prison District donated money for his children except for 4 on vacation, and he is really a bit disobedient.

In particular, the prison took over a number of wrought iron fence production tasks, which were originally undertaken by the first prison district, and there were not enough manpower, so the first prison district drew four and eight shifts from the third prison area to support the wrought iron workshop every day to help work.

When he arrived at the wrought iron workshop, Liu Chuan could see that Sun Peng worked the hardest. Or how else can I say that he is the role of a power forward. The power forward is originally a coolie, and he has to fight to the death with his opponent under the basket and at the top of the circle and around the three-second line. Sun Peng, whether he is playing, beating people or working, is willing to work hard, and even pretending to be sick is more ruthless than others. Among the prisoners in the fourth class, squad leaders Liang Dong and Liu Chuan have the best brains, learn the fastest technology, and use their strength the most skillfully. Those who are not good at technology, work and lazy are Li Jing and Chen Youcheng, who scored the lowest. The rest of the people are in the middle, and the score is neither good nor bad.

Liu Chuan has maintained a state of high scoring and low deduction for a long time. There were a few forks that almost deducted points, but they were all thrilling and dangerous, and the danger was turned into a disaster. The early days of working in the wrought iron workshop were safe, but on the weekend of the third week, because of a little sparrow, Liu Chuan actually caused a ** annoyance, and the plan to win the scoring championship of the month seemed to have to be abandoned.

It was a sparrow that flew into the wrought iron workshop by chance, and it happened to fly into the hut where Liu Chuan and Sun Peng worked, bouncing on the ground as if it couldn't fly, and it was frightened to see Liu Chuan and Sun Peng coming, and its wings fluttered. People have been closed up in the wall for a long time, and they are always extremely curious and pitiful about this kind of living creature, not to mention that this little creature is so close that it cannot but arouse their interest. First Liu Chuan pounced on it, and then Sun Peng also came up to help, and after it was easy to pounce, he found that one of its wings was really broken. Liu Chuan caressed it in his hand, and saw that the sparrow was looking at him, as if he had really communicated. It trembled in his hands, and a pair of round eyes blinked pitifully, blinking Liu Chuan so sadly. Seeing that there was no one left and right, Liu Chuan said to Sun Peng: "It can't fly, let's raise it." Sun Peng said hesitantly: "Let it be raised?" Liu Chuan said: "Let's raise it quietly, just raise it here." Liu Chuan looked around, just saw a pile of sandpaper boxes in the corner of the wall next to him, Liu Chuan put the sparrow into an empty cardboard box, and dug a small hole for ventilation in the front and back of the carton, and then put it under the pile of empty or solid cardboard boxes, camouflaging the wall. Then, he clapped his hands and straightened up, looking at Sun Peng, Sun Peng was watching the wind for him at the door of the hut, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and between their eyes, although they were all up and down, they had obviously reached an offensive and defensive alliance.

Keeping a secret in your heart is a very exciting thing. Every morning, every noon, Liu Chuan has to quietly leave a little steamed bun residue and rice grains, and sometimes a little vegetable leaves, and bring them to the workshop when he goes out of work. There is no body search from the prison number to the workshop, so his "stealing" behavior has not been noticed. Only when he returns to the prison from the workshop will he pass through the security door, and occasionally he will be searched in a random manner, but Liu Chuan has already finished feeding the sparrows, and his sleeves are breezy and he is not afraid of checking. He gave the injured bird a name, the large name "Liu Xiang", Liu is his surname, just like his brother, the single name Xiang, meaning free to fly, although Liu Xiang has broken his wings and is unable to fly.

In the days when he had Liu Xiang, Liu Chuan was very worried about sleeping at night. He couldn't tell whether Liu Xiang was male or female, if it was a man, then it was his own incarnation, and if it was a woman, then it was Ji Wenzhu's incarnation. No matter day or night, Liu Chuan put his love into this little life hidden in the corner of the workshop alone, and even the counseling materials of the legal correspondence course were absent-minded in those days. There was even a moment when he suddenly wondered if he was "a plaything", but more often he believed in himself - that little life attached to him, living in the world because of his care and love, was a meaningful thing for him. He hoped that one day it would be able to raise its wings, return to the blue sky with vigor, and go to visit his grandmother with his yearning, his sustenance, and his greetings, and then, soaring to the sky, flapping its wings and flying towards the place where Ji Wenzhu was.

It's a pity that it backfired, although Liu Chuan tried his best and balanced the water and rice, Liu Xiang's injuries not only did not improve, but his spirit became more and more depressed. Moreover, this secret finally came out four days after the adoption of Liu Xiang.

On the morning of this day, Liu Chuan was working, and a captain of the first prison area and Liu Chuan's squad leader Liang Dong walked into the hut together. Liu Chuan stood aside, knowing that things were gone, his body trembled a little, but there was no fear, he trembled because his heart ached uncontrollably, and he was in unbearable pain for Liu Xiang's conceivable fate.

Liu Xiang was quickly turned out, and the captain of the first prison area opened the box and glanced inside, then slammed it on the workbench, staring at Liu Chuan and Sun Peng seriously, Liu Chuan and Sun Peng all stopped what they were doing and stood in their respective places with their hands down.

The captain asked, "Who hid this?" ”

No one answered.

Sun Peng told Liu Chuan from the beginning that once the captain finds out, as long as you refuse to admit it, no one will have evidence on your head. But Liu Chuan heard the captain of the first prison district and immediately threatened: Do you want to invite the captain of your third prison district to you! Somehow, he stepped forward on impulse.

"Report to the captain, I raised it."

He didn't use the word "hidden", he used the word "raising". He stood up and bravely surrendered for the sake of his Liu Xiang, a little life that he already considered a brother in spirit, and he was willing to take all the responsibility for it.

The captain didn't say much, pointed to the box, and said to Liu Chuan: "Take this and follow me." ”

Liu Chuan walked out of the hut with the box in both hands, walked through the entire workshop, followed the captain in full view of everyone, and walked towards the office at the door of the workshop. He saw Liu Xiang through the half-open gap in the box, and saw that it was half-lying in the box, its feathers occasionally bursting up, and its neck was grunting. Liu Chuan didn't think about what kind of punishment he was about to face along the way, he just said goodbye to Liu Xiang silently in his heart.

Entering the workshop office, the captain first pointed to the table, motioned to Liu Chuan to put the box on the table, and then pointed to the root of the wall, Liu Chuan walked to the root of the wall, held his head in his hands, squatted down facing the wall, and listened to the captain call the third prison area to which he belonged. Ten minutes later, Pang Jiandong came. After coming, let Liu Chuan turn around and ask him about the situation - how he raised it, how long he raised it, who else knows, etc. Liu Chuan answered truthfully one by one, the only thing that did not tell the truth was that he did not confess to Sun Peng, and he accepted this matter alone. Although he stooped and squatted on the ground, his expression of answering the interrogation was not the slightest panic, and there was even a sense of tragedy lurking in the calm.

As he was talking, Zhong Tianshui, the head of the prison district, walked in, and Pang Jiandong and the captain of the first prison district got up from their chairs and reported to him the origin of the cardboard box on the table. Zhong Tianshui picked up the box and looked inside, and to Liu Chuan's surprise, he reached in, took Liu Xiang out of the box, and held it in front of him to take a closer look. After looking at it, he asked Liu Chuan: "Is it easy to raise?" Liu Chuan was stunned: "Huh? And he said, "It is easy to raise." In fact, it is not easy to raise, but Liu Chuan said without hesitation: "Easy to raise." ”

Zhong Tianshui put Liu Xiang into the box again, and asked Liu Chuan again: "What do you think, how did you think of raising this thing?" ”

Liu Chuan was still squatting by the wall, but his hands were no longer holding his head, but holding his feet, he turned his face to Zhong Da, and said: "It was injured, it flew to the workshop, it couldn't fly, it was pitiful, so I raised it." Give it some water and some food during the day, just to keep it alive. ”

Zhong Tianshui nodded, looked at Liu Xiang in the box again, and muttered to himself: "Is this still alive?" He looked at Liu Chuan on the wall again, thought about it, and said, "Why don't you ask the captain for instructions on this matter, after all, this is a prison, you are a prisoner after all, you can't be so casual." Although there is no explicit prohibition on raising birds in the code of conduct for the reform of criminals, it is not possible for Zhang San to raise birds today and Li Si to raise crickets tomorrow, isn't that all messy, ah? ”

Liu Chuan lowered his head and said, "Yes." ”

Zhong Tianshui thought about it again, turned his face to the two captains and said, "Anyway, this is also a living creature, since it has been raised, let him raise it." It is a good thing to know how to love life and cherish life, but it is also necessary to have rules. I think let him raise it first, don't keep it in the workshop, you can take it to the prison, and keep it in the prison first. The next is not an example. He turned his face and said to Liu Chuan: "But you didn't report this matter to the captain, it doesn't meet the regulations, and you still have to deduct points." ”

Regarding Zhong Tianshui's opinion, Pang Jiandong and the captain of the first prison district were obviously a little surprised, and Liu Chuan could see it. But young police officers like them only have the qualifications to obey in front of Zhong Tianshui. Pang Jiandong said: "Okay." He turned his face to Liu Chuan and said, "You go to work first, put this box here first, and think about getting it here when you finish work." ”

Liu Chuan didn't expect Zhong Da to be so magnanimous, not only sparing him, but also sparing Liu Xiang's life. A grateful smile bloomed on his face, and that smile came from the bottom of his heart. He squatted on the ground, but raised his face, and said to Zhong Da, and also to Pang Jiandong and the captain of the first prison district, and promised loudly with joy:

"Yes!"

Maybe Liu Chuan was a little carried away with joy, so that this month was a bit of a disaster. Liu Xiang's fate has just turned into a danger, and Liu Chuan has been involved in another case of right and wrong.

Because of the fact that the bird flew to the workshop, the captains of the first prison area later came to inspect the hut where Liu Chuan and they worked, and found that the window was really broken and was not closed tightly, so they instructed Liu Chuan and them to repair it themselves. Liu Chuan and Sun Peng spent several days repairing the small window without delaying the production task. In fact, the sash itself is not difficult to repair, and the reason why it took several days is mainly because they used the waste materials used to make a wrought iron window railing with branches and leaves, and painted white paint to replace the black iron bars on the original small window.

They may have overlooked that the iron bars on the windows, like the high-walled grids, are the symbol of the prison, the boundaries of the inmates' areas of activity, and the inmates themselves must not be tampered with. Therefore, when the correctional cadres came to inspect and accept again, they saw that the iron bars on the windows had been removed and replaced with bells and whistles...... Judging from the faces of the correctional cadres at that time, it is not difficult to see the seriousness of this matter.

The incident was later investigated as a major case of sabotage of the facility. After hearing the news, the head of the sub-prison district and several team leaders of the first sub-prison district quickly rushed to the scene and handcuffed the four criminals, Liu Chuan, Sun Peng, Li Jing, and Chen Youcheng, who participated in the demolition of iron bars, and held them in several rooms for surprise interrogation. Of course, Li Jing and Chen Youcheng cried out in unison, pushing the responsibility cleanly, saying that they were just helping to install, and the specific acts of demolishing iron bars and making wrought iron window lattices were all done by Sun Peng and Liu Chuan, and they thought it was arranged by the discipline cadres, but they didn't expect that Sun Liu Er's crime was deliberately sabotage. This statement is also in line with the facts, Li Jing and Chen Youcheng did just help to help, and they were indeed innocent in this matter.

During the interrogation, Sun Peng confessed that he and Liu Chuan did it together to make the wrought iron window, and at that time he just thought it was more beautiful than the iron bar and could also play the role of an iron bar, so he dismantled the iron bar. Liu Chuan's confession about the process and original intention of dismantling and replacing the iron bars is not much different from Sun Peng's confession, but he also confessed that he was the mastermind and Sun Peng was the coercion of this sabotage.

After the interrogation, the facts were generally clear, and although there was no evidence that Liu Chuan and Sun Peng had the motive to escape and deliberately destroy the iron bars, the act itself should be unique in the history of the Heavenly Prison. In any case, the prisoner dismantles the confinement and sets up such a thing, and in any case, it cannot be simply a matter of facts, let alone a big matter and a small matter.

Liu Chuan and Sun Peng were not allowed to return to their sub-cell area that day, but were taken to the prison of the prison reconnaissance team of the Prison Administration Section. That night, the police officers in charge of investigating the cases in the prison were tried again by the Prison Administration Section. The next morning, the trial report on the case was placed on the desk of Deputy Prison Director Qiang Binglin.

At noon, this matter seemed to be a bit of a big trouble, Qiang Binglin and the prison warden Deng Tieshan, together with Deng Tieshan, suddenly came to the wrought iron workshop in person, came to the hut located in the southeast corner of the iron workshop, and inspected the scene of the destruction of the iron bar. Through the open door, the prisoners working outside saw the two prison wardens, Zhong Tianshui, the head of the first prison district, Ma Deyan, the head of the first prison district, Feng Ruilong, the head of the third prison district, and the policeman who was the first to discover the destruction of the iron bars. Obviously, they were not simply listening to the civilian police report, but they were having a discussion, and no one could hear what was being discussed.

In the afternoon, Liu Chuan and Sun Peng were escorted out of the confinement prison together and taken to the prison department, and everything after that became incredible. Liu Chuan and Sun Peng were not only unusually interrogated in the same court, but they were no longer interrogated by the police officers of the Prison Administration Section, but by the prison director Deng Tieshan and the deputy prison director Qiang Binglin, the two highest authorities in the prison.

In the evening, Liu Chuan and Sun Peng were taken back to the third prison area by the responsible policeman Pang Jiandong, and after returning to their own prison number, they had dinner with everyone else, and they also participated in the roll call normally in the evening. After watching the news broadcast, I also watched the football match between the Chinese team and the Oman team, and then returned to the number, and carried out free activities before going to bed as usual, washing my face and feet, and going to bed on time as usual. No one spoke of it again, as if nothing had happened, and tomorrow morning the sun would rise as usual, illuminating the east.

But that night, Liu Xiang died.

Three months later, the prison cells, workshops, and canteens in Tianhe Prison, all the places where inmates operate, and every window in these places were removed from the black and stereotyped iron bars and replaced with white wrought iron window bars. On these white wrought iron window railings, the "branches and leaves" are meandering and luxuriant, and the "little flowers" blooming one by one are full of vitality, climbing upwards, looking for the breeze and sunlight outside the window. The dull and rigid prison is thus lively and intimate, and it looks more like a student dormitory, a soldier's barracks, and a peaceful community...... Everyone who was detained within the big wall, the black and cold iron bars that had been deeply imprinted on the inner map were replaced by these freely stretched "flowers and plants", the numbness in the heart was aroused by some perceptions, the coldness in the heart was ironed by the full spring, freedom seemed to be no longer far away, every pair of eyes were hinted and induced, and the beautiful life was so touchable and sensible and so close to reality.

Since then, when the prisoners wake up every morning, the first thing that catches their eyes is no longer the black iron bars, but the "flowers and plants" plated with the golden morning sun, and everyone has a happy start to every day, and it is undoubtedly a good deed for a prisoner who is in prison to give them a clear mood.

Liu Chuan later retracted his confession in a comprehensive summary of the incident, and insisted that Sun Peng was the real mastermind of the incident, and according to Liu Chuan's "confession," Sun Peng became the initial proposer of this humane supervision measure that was later extended to the prisons under the Prison Bureau, and was commended by the Prison Bureau.

Liu Chuan's concession actually had ulterior motives, and we all saw his conspiracy succeed in the end. Sun Peng was awarded for his merits and was allowed to participate in the basketball team of Tianhe Prison, serving as a power forward in the first team, stepping up preparations for the coming spring with the whole team, and rejoicing in the upcoming victory.

Sun Peng's joining has indeed strengthened the offensive and defensive strength and rebounding height of the Tianjian basketball team, and the morale of the whole team has been greatly boosted.