By the time Liu Chuan returned to the sub-cell, Liang Dong and the other three nominated prisoners had already returned. Before the meal, Feng Ruilong called Liu Chuan to the office to talk, and Liu Chuan understood that the number of votes for the review must have come out.

Feng Ruilong got straight to the point, and told Liu Chuan the results of the review as soon as he came up. The drama of the result was unexpected, and among the five nominated prisoners, Sun Zhiyong from Class 7 actually came out on top. Although Sun Zhiyong's score last year was only ranked sixth in the whole prison district, his submission "Great Project" won the second prize in the "Love Day" essay contest held by well-known media such as China Youth Daily and Legal Daily, causing a sensation among the prisoners in the whole prison. Any prisoner whose outstanding achievements are recognized by the society will bring strong psychological comfort to all prisoners, or at least make them think that it will be of some benefit to the improvement of the social image of this special group of prisoners. In addition, Sun Zhiyong is usually very popular among prisoners, so he scored the highest score in this review. Qian Ming of the sixth class and Liang Dong of the fourth class had equal scores, tied for second, Liu Chuan was three votes behind them, ranking fourth, and finally at the bottom was Fan Chao of the third class, with an obvious disadvantage, more than 60 votes worse than Liu Chuan.

After talking about the situation, Feng Ruilong handed a blank evaluation form to Liu Chuan and said: We are all in the prison district, and you are not voting alone, although you are also a candidate, but the right to participate in democratic evaluation is the same as everyone else. This is a differential selection, and you can only choose two or only one of the five candidates. You can choose someone else, you can choose yourself, or you can choose no one, and if you don't choose, you will abstain.

Liu Chuan took the selection sheet, which was only half a page in size, thought for three seconds, and voted for Sun Zhiyong first. After thinking about it for a while, he voted for Liang Dong in the second vote, which was also the last vote in the entire third-division prison district.

Feng Ruilong, as well as the other captain in the room, took his selection sheet and looked at it for a while, as if they couldn't understand it. Why don't you vote for yourself? Feng Ruilong asked. Liu Chuan's heart was already cold at that time, and he didn't understand why he was only fourth in the prison area with the first score in the whole prison area. He said listlessly: I am short of three votes, and I voted in vain. Feng Ruilong pondered for a while, and then asked: Didn't you suspect that your class Liangdong sabotaged the board report you made, why did you vote for him again? Liu Chuan was stunned for a moment, and covered up: No, who said that I suspected Liang Dong? Feng Ruilong said: Isn't this what you told Chen Youcheng? Liu Chuan's face turned red with anger, and blurted out: Chen Youcheng told me. Feng Ruilong didn't dwell on who told whom, and asked: Do you believe what he said? Liu Chuan lowered his head, Feng Ruilong asked again, and Liu Chuan said: Letter. Feng Ruilong asked: On what basis do you believe? Liu Chuan said: Doesn't he just want to go home, how stupid he is, in fact, if he doesn't toss so much, the ticket is higher than me. Feng Ruilong asked: Then why did you vote for him? Do you want to fulfill him, or is it because he is in your fourth class? Liu Chuan said: Didn't his mother have cancer, I heard that it was difficult to cure, he was a filial son, if he could go back this year, it might be the last Spring Festival with his mother. I think if a person has filial piety, it won't be considered bad.

Liu Chuan's words silenced Feng Ruilong, and also silenced the other captain in the room, who silently put away this last selection form, and then asked Liu Chuan to return the number. Liu Chuan walked to the door of the captain's office, and Feng Ruilong stopped him again.

Feng Ruilong said: Liu Chuan, you remember, if you encounter anything in the future, as long as there is no sufficient evidence, don't believe any suspicions, understand?

Liu Chuan said: Yes.

In the many conversations between the captains and Liu Chuan later, Liu Chuan slowly knew where he scored and lost points in this review.

The reasons for the score are still those things that are known, and in the discussion of the review, the people who voted for Liu Chuan believed that the prisoner was not afraid of being dirty or tired during his tenure as a hygienist, and was dedicated to his duties; fought bravely in the global games and won honor for Tianhe Prison; The prisoner worked well, and the Nissan record set by folding the paper bag has been unmatched so far; The prisoner also worked as an English teacher and a workshop drill leader, and was able to complete his tasks conscientiously; The prisoner can also actively put forward reasonable suggestions to ** and respond to **'s call for openness in prison affairs; The prisoner used better language for the life of the convict for a day, and the other prisoners asked the barber to get a haircut, and after the cut, he lifted his butt and left, but the prisoner said thank you every time he finished the barber......

The reason for losing points is nothing new, and the prisoner who did not vote for Liu Chuan believes that the prisoner has not written a confession of repentance for more than two years in prison, but suddenly wrote it on the eve of this selection, the purpose is not pure, and there is a suspicion of speculation; On several occasions, the offender was unable to be "fast, quiet, and uniform" when assembling; The death of the fish and flowers raised by the prisoner shows that the prisoner is not serious and responsible, and lacks love......

A week later, on Wednesday evening, after watching television, Feng Ruilong, the head of the sub-cell, walked up to the inmates sitting in a line and announced the list of inmates who had returned home to visit their relatives during the Spring Festival in the No. 3 ward, approved by the prison leadership. These two happy prisoners, one is Sun Zhiyong from Class 7, and the other is Liang Dong from Class 4.

Feng Ruilong, the head of the sub-prison district, and the police officers responsible for the two inmates also talked to them about leaving prison to visit their relatives, and asked them to assume the responsibilities of volunteer propagandists, image displayers, and social investigators during their family visits. First, it is necessary to publicize the "new century, be a newcomer" activity among inmates and the upsurge of competition to "welcome the Olympic Games and promote reform"; Second, it is necessary to consciously show the positive image of the reformed prisoners - they can support the old and the young when they meet them on the road; When you ask for help on the road, you can lend a helping hand; When the road is uneven, you can stand up; Third, it is necessary to conduct an experiential investigation of the new changes and new features of Beijing before the Olympic Games, and bring back their experiences and feelings, so that the inmates in the whole sub-prison area can learn and share. In addition, the most important thing is to abide by the law and return to prison on time.

Although Sun Zhiyong and Liang Dong are both intellectuals, they can't help but be happy at this moment, they have both served many years of prison inside the big wall, this will be the first time they have walked out of this deep prison in so many years, the first time they have seen the scenery outside the wall, and they have seen their relatives and friends. They have repeatedly expressed their determination to live up to the hopes and entrustment of the leaders of the sub-prison districts, and to turn this visit to relatives into a journey of reforming their minds and reshaping their souls, turning opportunities into motivation, and further laying a solid foundation for future transformation.

After talking, Feng Ruilong asked Sun Zhiyong to return to the prison first and let Liang Dong stay.

Feng Ruilong asked Liang Dong: "Liu Chuan from your class failed to leave the prison to visit his relatives this time, do you have any emotions?" ”

Liang Dong thought for a while and said: "There are always emotions, but this time it is not a list set by ** cadres alone, this time it was evaluated by everyone, and everyone did not evaluate him, so he can't be dissatisfied." The flowers have also been raised, and the fish have been raised, and it is time for him to reflect and reflect. ”

Feng Ruilong said: "Hey, the flower is dead and the fish is dead and he didn't approve him to visit his relatives, his votes this time are actually very high, and it is not much different from you and Qian Ming." This time, except for the low point of Fan Chao's votes, there are almost a few of you. Sun Zhiyong has five more votes than you and Qian Ming, you and Qian Ming are tied for second, and Liu Chuan has three votes less than you......"

Liang Dong cautiously wanted to correct Feng Ruilong's order: "Qian Ming and I seem to be one vote behind, but it is really close, and my vote can be regarded as a narrow victory." ”

"Ah, yes," Feng Ruilong seemed to remember, "That's right, you originally voted with Qian Ming, and then Liu Chuan voted for you." ”

Liang Dong didn't understand, and the eyeballs in his glasses suddenly didn't move. Or, he understands it, but he doesn't understand it. Or, he figured it out - he had an extraordinarily brilliant mind - but, very unexpectedly.

This is Liu Chuan's third Spring Festival after being imprisoned. The Spring Festival inside the big walls is a different taste.

What is more advanced than in previous years is that the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on the 30th night added four cold dishes and two bottles of drinks, and the main food is still dumplings. This year's dumplings are filled with three fresh fillings, and the tube is enough. After eating crookedly, I watched the Spring Festival Gala on TV, and after I saw the bell ringing at zero o'clock, I went back to rest. There are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, and this is the only day that can sleep so late. When the clock struck at 0:00, the captain on duty and all the prisoners counted down together with the shouts on TV: "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six......" When Liu Chuan counted aloud, only he could hear it, and his voice was a little choked, because he thought of his grandmother and Ji Wenzhu, and he thought that they must be watching TV tonight. Grandma is in a nursing home, Ji Wenzhu is in her parents' house in Jiangsu, they must all be sitting by the TV, but I don't know if they are the same as him, they are also counting in unison, like him, thinking about them while counting, and blessing them.

"Five! Four! Three! Two! One! ”

The TV bell rang and everyone cheered. Liu Chuan didn't shout along, "Ahhh He thought that if Ji Wenzhu really went back to his hometown in Jiangsu, he would be allowed to go home for the New Year this time, and it would be impossible for him to see her.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone is allowed to sleep until 9 o'clock in the morning. In the afternoon, the organization went to the playground to participate in the theatrical performances of the whole prison, and in the evening, each sub-prison area performed its own program. The theatrical performances of the whole prison are mainly based on the level, and many of the actors are professional outside, and their basic skills are not wasted. The evening party in the sub-prison area is mainly lively, all of them are familiar faces, performing familiar things around them, because of the emphasis on edutainment, many programs are inevitably too preachy. Liu Chuan participated in the chorus of the seventh class "Shouting One, Two One", this song is a queue song sung by every prisoner almost every day, they arranged it into a new form of multi-part duet and multi-rhythm duet, and boldly changed the tone at the end, I didn't expect such a familiar song to be so old-fashioned and renovated, and it actually won a lot of applause. Liu Chuan sang very hard, singing as fully engaged as he used to sing rock in the "Scream" band. They have practiced this show for a long, long time, just like a monk who will really become pious after reciting the scriptures for a long time, those lyrics that were not distracted before were sung later, and every word made him heartfelt and excited.

- Shout one, two, one, don't lower your head, take the first step of a new life, and retake the road of life. Shouting one, two, one, don't hesitate anymore, strive to transform and re-act to the light, winter to spring, we are reborn, and the expectations of relatives are firmly in our hearts. Shout one-two-one, don't hesitate any longer, one-two-three-four!

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Chuan began to work. The Sunshine Supermarket was open on the second day of the new year as usual, allowing each sub-prison area to organize prisoners to buy things, although only eight people could enter at a time, but they were lined up very closely. On this day, Liu Chuan was in charge of bookkeeping as usual, and he was busy from morning to night, and when it closed at four o'clock in the afternoon, Xiaoke came unexpectedly. The police on duty at the supermarket asked her why she didn't spend the holiday at home, and she said that she was afraid that the prisoners would shop a lot these days, so she came to see the goods and check the accounts, and she could help with the cooking in case she made a mistake. The police on duty said that it is no wonder that your life and health department reported that you are advanced this year, and it seems that it really lives up to its name. Xiao Ke smiled, looking inappropriate.

When helping Liu Chuan reconcile the accounts, Xiao Ke saw that there was no one left and right, and suddenly said to Liu Chuan: "I saw your grandmother go today." Many old people in that nursing home let their families take them home for the New Year, and yesterday your grandmother was left alone in that house, and she lived alone in the Chinese New Year's Eve. As soon as I saw the situation, I took her out today and asked her to spend a few days at our house, and my parents could chat with her, push her to the street and walk in the park, and cook her something delicious to eat, so that the old lady would be too bored to stay alone in the nursing home. ”

Liu Chuan nodded as he listened, with tears in his eyes, but a forced smile on his face. He smiled and thanked Xiao Ke, he said: "Thank you Zheng Discipline, I will work hard and repay Zheng Discipline...... " Before he finished speaking, Liu Chuan's smile was still distorted by crying, and he couldn't help but cry in a suppressed voice like a child: "...... I, I kowtow to you for my grandmother, you are so good to my grandmother, I don't know how to repay you in my life......"

Xiao Ke was originally calm and businesslike, originally just wanted to reassure Liu Chuan, but he didn't expect Liu Chuan to suddenly sobbed and cried when he said it. Her eyes also turned red, I don't know if it was because of Liu Chuan's crying crooked face, or because of the title Liu Chuan used when he called her, the sound of "Zheng Discipline" made Xiao Ke's heart feel that she couldn't tell whether it was sadness or compassion.

Xiao Ke didn't cry, looked at the captain and prisoners in the distance, and said in a suppressed voice: "Why are you crying, you don't want your grandma to be with us!" ”

Liu Chuan lowered his head and wiped his tears with his sleeve and said, "Yes." ”

"I want you to cry," said Ke, "stupid!" ”

That night, with the consent of the sub-prison district, Liu Chuan dialed the phone number of Xiao Ke's family with a family phone and talked to his grandmother on the phone. After his grandmother was admitted to the nursing home, it was very inconvenient to talk on the phone, and he and his grandmother only made a family phone call, or when Zhong Da went to the nursing home to see his grandmother, he called with his mobile phone. Xiaoke also went to the nursing home a few times, but she didn't want the prison people to know that she went, so she didn't help her grandmother make the call. In this regard, of course, she is not as convenient as Zhong Da, Zhong Da is the leader of the first prison district, and calling Liu Chuan to talk to his grandmother is the need of the transformation work, and it is also a matter within the scope of his authority, which is reasonable and legal. What is she, she is from the Department of Life and Health, and she can't care about this paragraph. If everyone knew that she went to see Liu Chuan's grandmother when she was old, it would be hard to guarantee that there would be no gossip.

In the third year of junior high school, Xiaoke didn't come. I didn't come to the fourth year of junior high school. For some reason, Liu Chuan sat on the cashier of Sunshine Supermarket, although his hands were very busy, there was always a thin string in his heart, and he kept thinking about her.

On the fifth day of the first month, when it was still closed, Xiao Ke came again, talked about the goods with the prisoner in charge of loading the goods, and came to see Liu Chuan's account again. When I looked at the account, I told Liu Chuan that his grandmother was doing well these days, went to Tiananmen Square to see the lights, and went to the Ditan Temple Fair, she pushed Liu Chuan's grandmother, her mother pushed her father, and the four of them went together. However, it was windy on the day of the temple fair, so it didn't take too long.

Liu Chuan listened, compared with the day of the second year of junior high school, his complexion was much calmer, and he always had a shy smile on his face. That kind of shyness represents the heartfelt gratitude, and in Xiao Ke's opinion, it surpasses all words of gratitude.

After Xiao Ke finished speaking, Liu Chuan suddenly followed: "You haven't come for the past two days, my heart is very empty, and I have been thinking about whether you can still come." ”

When Xiao Ke heard this, she almost expressed a kind of love, and she was so excited that her ears were red and her heart was beating, but fortunately, it was not visible. She asked tentatively, "Don't you think about your grandmother, I'm afraid that we won't eat well at our house?" ”

Liu Chuan was still shy and said, "No." Then he said, "I mean, you are coming, I have something to ask you." ”

Xiao Ke said: "Don't ask you, just say yours, what do you ask me?" ”

Liu Chuan seemed to hesitate for a moment and said, "Can you contact Ji Wenzhu, has her phone changed again?" I want to say Happy Chinese New Year to her. ”

Xiao Ke looked at Liu Chuan and didn't say anything for a long time. Liu Chuan was a little embarrassed by her silence and didn't dare to look into her eyes. As if he had done something wrong, he cautiously continued in a tentative tone with obvious luck: "Can you help me...... Give her a call? She...... She sends me money every month and I want to thank her. I would like to wish her, her family, and a happy Chinese New Year. ”

Xiao Ke spoke slowly, her voice was calm and her tone was gentle, if you only rely on her voice and tone, you can hardly hear that it is a categorical refusal.

"I couldn't find her, her phone had already changed. Even if I can find her, I can't make this call for you, I can't break the prison police's 'nine prohibitions' regulations, and I can't send any message to anyone for you without permission. Yesterday your grandmother asked me to bring you something you love to eat, and that's what I told her. I told her that you already have money in your account now, and your grandmother asked you to see what you like to eat in the supermarket, so you can buy some food. Don't care about how much money you have, you should have a New Year. ”

After a pause, Xiao Ke said again: "If you really want to find Ji Wenzhu and want to talk to her, you can go and ask your responsible captain." Now your captain is Pang Jiandong, he has to agree, and he will ask your superiors for instructions, and this matter must be approved by your prison district. ”

Liu Chuan knew the rules, and was speechless for a while.

Xiao Ke saw that his mood was instantly low, so he added more relaxedly: "What I mean, do you understand?" ”

This question was originally meant to be comforting, so that Liu Chuan listened to it as criticism and education, and he immediately replied in a regular voice: "Yes!" ”

The word "yes" in this sound made Xiao Ke stunned for a moment, and it was boring. The captain on duty came over with several other prisoners working in the supermarket and asked Xiao Ke, "Xiao Ke, have you finished the account?" Xiao Ke said, "That's right." He said to Liu Chuan again: "You go back." Liu Chuan replied more formally: "Yes." ”

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the prisoners are still on vacation, and there are still a number of prisoners who come to buy things. The most popular thing in supermarkets during the Spring Festival is a variety of snacks.

Eating is the first priority of the Chinese festival.

Liu Chuan didn't buy anything. He wants to save money, in case he can go home to visit relatives during the Spring Festival next year, he can take out all the money and bring it with him, and buy something for his grandmother and Ji Wenzhu outside. He spends the holidays alone in prison, and eats some snacks alone, even if it is sweet in his mouth, he has no taste in his heart. It's better not to eat it if it doesn't taste good.

The Spring Festival is about to pass, and he weighed it for a long time and finally proposed to Pang Jiandong that he wanted to call Ji Wenzhu to greet him. According to the regulations, family calls can only be made to immediate family members, not to boyfriends and girlfriends, but will restrictions be relaxed during the Spring Festival? So Liu Chuan thought about it and decided to take advantage of the captain's happiness to tentatively make this request, and also had the psychology of having dates and not dates.

Sure enough, Pang Jiandong did not immediately refuse, but asked him in turn: "Won't she go back to her hometown for the holidays, do you have her home phone?" ”

Liu Chuan was happy in his heart, and plucked up his courage to inch in: "Captain, didn't you look for her last time, if you can still find her, you can help me inquire about her mobile phone, I can call her mobile phone." ”

Pang Jiandong was silent for a long time, and Liu Chuan felt that he was a little unhappy from his silence. Sure enough, Pang Jiandong made a straight face: "Liu Chuan, what do you think of me, as an errand runner between you?" If I do it, I will violate the 'nine prohibitions', you know no! ”

Pang Jiandong turned his face and left, Liu Chuan stood behind him, and it took a long time before he remembered to say, "Yes." ”

On this day, Liu Chuan felt very awkward, he went to work in the supermarket as usual, and his face was flat all day, although he also knew that he ignored it.

On this day, the supermarket closes at four o'clock as usual. But at around half past four, Liu Chuan was not escorted back to the prison area with several other prisoners who served in the supermarket, but was escorted by another policeman to the interview building in front.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, it was not his grandmother, let alone Ji Wenzhu, but two criminal policemen from the Qinshui Public Security Bureau. This time it wasn't the two comrades who came last time, but what they said was the same case they mentioned last time.

From the mouths of the two Qinshui criminal policemen, Liu Chuan knew that Fan Bencai had been arrested in accordance with the law a few months ago, and there were more than 20 masters and accomplices in Fan Bencai's underworld gang who were arrested in the same case. After several months of trial, it was basically determined that the model gang was formed eight years ago, and it was suspected of many cases of kidnapping, extortion, injury, illegal detention, gambling and prostitution, and bribery to ** people in the Qinshui area. The purpose of the Qinshui police coming to Liu Chuan this time was to ask him to further confirm some specific characters and events, and the details of the specific process, and they talked for many hours, so that Liu Chuan did not eat dinner that night.

On the menu for the Chinese New Year, eat mutton pie that night. For Liu Chuan, mutton pies are more worth looking forward to than Sanxian dumplings.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, although everyone was still allowed to move freely in the morning, playing chess and cards, and bragging and chatting, the captain asked the team to discuss the experience of the festival in the past few days. In addition to thanking ** for his concern for the inmates and talking about his feelings about meeting relatives and making family phone calls in the past few days, the important purpose of the discussion is actually to collect his heart and transform the relaxation and happiness of the past few days into the motivation for reform. Before lunch, Sun Zhiyong, who went home to visit relatives, returned to the team ahead of schedule. An hour later, Liang Dong also returned to prison ahead of schedule. After all, Liang Dong is the class leader, and when he returned to the class, everyone came forward to ask questions and greet each other affectionately. Liu Chuan also greeted him politely, and went out to fetch water. When he returned to the prison after the water, Liang Dong unexpectedly took the initiative to meet him, he picked up a cardboard box from the ground next to his bed, the cardboard box was brought by him from home, he smiled at Liu Chuan with his eyes, and his tone was full of kindness and sincerity that he had never had.

"Liu Chuan, this is what I brought to you, I hope you like it."

Liu Chuan was a little at a loss, and a corresponding smile appeared on his face, but he didn't know whether to take his hands or not. Both of them were embarrassed for a moment, Liang Dong put the box on the table, opened the lid, reached into his hands, and trembled from the inside, and took out a clay pot, in which stood an emerald green bamboo. The bamboo tree has obviously been carefully selected, the posture is vigorous, the layers are rich, the dry leaves are beautiful, the branches are grand, and the color is also full and just right, it is definitely the top grade in the bamboo, and it must be rare to see in the general flower shop.

Liu Chuan's eyes were full of amazement, he didn't know what to say, and when he was late, Liang Dong's hands magically took out a plastic water cup with a lid from the treasure chest-like cardboard box. In that transparent water cup, an equally transparent glass fish, calmly suspended in the air, the old eyes, looking at Liu Chuan affectionately, as if there was a fate in the previous life, at least at that moment Liu Chuan felt that the glass fish staring at him was his "glass", the "glass" that had been gone for many days, and came back.

And the bamboo, which grew luxuriantly, came back.

The glass swam back to the sea-like fish tank by the wall, and then to the flowing seaweed. It was its territory, its dwelling, and it went back as if everything had returned to normal, as if nothing had ever happened. Only the pot of bamboo, the new peach for the old charm is placed on that row of small tables, placed in that row of flower pots, it looks green and a little eye-catching.

Liu Chuan, as in the past, fed the "glass" and watered the bamboo. When he watered Wenzhu, he often couldn't help but panic - is his Wenzhu still the same Wenzhu in the past, or the Wenzhu who came to see him, comforted him, and sent him money to spend every month? She is so tall and beautiful, so otherworldly, can she still belong to him and rely on him as she did in the past?

Liu Chuan has already deposited more than 1,200 yuan in his account, and in the past year, he has received a total of 1,500 yuan in mail. Including the 345 yuan he bought for Ji Wenzhu, he spent a total of more than 700 yuan, plus the remuneration he earned for working in the workshop and supermarket, and the remaining 1,000 yuan may not be spent within his sentence. He thought that Ji Wenzhu probably estimated this situation, and after his deposit exceeded 1,000, he didn't send him any more money. The deposit of 1,200 yuan in the third-branch prison district is already a veritable rich man's money.

Within the big walls, I don't know how many prisoners serving prison sentences, whether it is ten years, twenty years, or indefinitely, they will have a woman in their hearts. This woman, maybe it's his lover, maybe it's his mother, maybe it's his daughter...... The warmth in his heart, the conscience that still exists, his yearning for the world, and his ** in his heart are often because of this woman. Just like Liu Chuan because of Ji Wenzhu because of his grandmother, just like Sun Peng because of his wife and because of his daughter. Sun Peng, what a ruthless person and how ruthless he is, but he is really concerned about his wife and children. After the Spring Festival, Sun Peng's treatment level was upgraded from a second-level wide pipe to a first-class wide pipe, and he finally got the qualifications and opportunity to reunite with his wife. Since the sub-prison area set a date for him two weeks in advance, Sun Peng seemed to have lost his soul, and he was only waiting for his wife to come to Queqiao to meet. In those two weeks, Sun Peng was kind and polite to everyone around him. This is the first time that Sun Peng has been allowed to reunite with his relatives since he was imprisoned, and the first time he can spend three days with his wife and children in the reunion building. Three days was not too short, and he was content. That kind of mood Liu Chuan can understand, although Liu Chuan has never had the experience of reuniting with his relatives.

Liu Chuan has long been a first-class wide pipe, and he has long been qualified to enter the reunion building to live for a few days, but who to live with. And grandma? Grandma can't come. And Ji Wenzhu? Ji Wenzhu has no legal relationship with him. Take 10,000 steps back and say, that is, ** allow him to reunite and live with Ji Wenzhu, Ji Wenzhu is filming outside all year round, where can I find her?

Liu Chuan couldn't reunite with his relatives, so he used almost the same excitement and expectation as Sun Peng to pay attention to Sun Peng's upcoming happiness. How many intimate imaginations can be conjured up in these seventy-two hours of happiness, especially when they are about to arrive, they are even sweeter. Liu Chuan chatted with Sun Peng when he had nothing to do in those days, and the most frequent keywords in their common topics were women, children, and reunions.

Sun Peng also comforted Liu Chuan: You are better than me, and I will be able to approve you to go home to visit relatives during the Spring Festival next year, and live outside for six or seven days, what is that like! Besides, your sentence is shorter than mine, and in two years, you can get out completely. If your sentence is reduced again this year and next year, you won't need two years, and you should go to the prison release education study class.

When they said this, no one expected that before the scheduled reunion date came, Sun Peng's wife suddenly said that she couldn't come, but Liu Chuan unexpectedly walked out of this deep prison a few days later in the morning.

Sun Peng's wife told Sun Peng on the family phone call that the leaders of their unit gave her a chance to study, let her go to Shenzhen Technical School for half a year to study, and when she came back in half a year, she had the qualifications for promotion, so she had entrusted the child to her and Sun Peng's parents, and let the children take turns to live in the homes of the elderly on both sides. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her, and she will leave with the team next Monday. Next Monday was supposed to be the day when Sun Peng's wife came to the prison for a reunion, but now it seems that she can only give up.

Of course, Sun Peng was happy for his wife, but at the same time he was depressed for himself, the reunion he had been looking forward to for a long time, that period almost became his spiritual pillar, these three complete days and nights, for him also once-in-a-lifetime. But his wife is going to Shenzhen to study, which is related to the future future, and the future cannot be delayed, Sun Peng has nothing to say, and the taste in his heart is difficult to explain for a while.

And Liu Chuan's sudden release from prison was still for Qin Shui's old Fan's case. The Qinshui People's Court will hold its first trial in two weeks, openly hearing the case of the model underworld gang. The case has a huge impact in Qinshui, and the aspects that the masses are concerned about and involved are relatively complex, so it has become a major event in the local area and has also attracted the attention of the media. Therefore, after the Qinshui Public Security Bureau and the procuratorate contacted the relevant departments in Beijing on several occasions, they demanded that Shan Juan, a prisoner serving a sentence in Beijing Women's Prison, Liu Chuan, a prisoner serving a sentence in Beijing Tianhe Prison, and Fan Xiaokang, a prisoner serving a sentence in Beijing No. 2 Prison, go to Qinshui and testify in court. At the same time, Fan Xiaokang, as a key member of the model underworld organization, will be tried together with Fan Bencai. According to Qin Shui's request, the Beijing Municipal Prison Administration Bureau decided that the Tianjian Repatriation Section, the only repatriation agency in the whole world, would be responsible for escorting Shan Juan, Liu Chuan, and Fan Xiaokang to Qinshui, and the time was also set to depart from Beijing on Monday of next week.

The Prison Department on Friday officially issued an order to carry out the escort operation, which was codenamed "Forward". On Saturday and Sunday, the Heavenly Prison made preparations for two days. Because there are too few prisoners and the time is too tight, it is no longer practical to contact the train to Qinshui. So the Heavenly Supervisor decided to escort it by car. It just so happened that almost all the members of the Prison and Repatriation Section were dispatched on Saturday and Sunday to escort 263 prisoners along the Beijing-Guangzhou line to Henan, Hunan, Hubei, and Guangdong provinces, where they could return in about six days. Therefore, Deng Tieshan, the prison warden, instructed that the first prison district should send people to undertake the task of "advancing" escort. Anyway, Zhong Tianshui, Feng Ruilong and other cadres in the No. 1 Prison District used to be old men in the repatriation section, and they were very experts in escorting prisoners for long distances.

After research, the first prison district decided to let Feng Ruilong and Pang Jiandong participate in this mission, Feng Ruilong has seven years of experience in repatriation work, Pang Jiandong is Liu Chuan's captain of the trumpet, and he is young and strong. Because there was also a female prisoner among the prisoners escorted this time, Zheng Xiaoke, a cadre from the Life and Health Section, was seconded. Among the three inmates, one man and one woman, Liu Chuan is still an active in prison reform, and he only has two years left in his sentence, so he should be relatively stable and easy to manage. What needs to be paid attention to on the way is actually Fan Xiaokang alone. However, three escort policemen, two armed police soldiers, plus two drivers, and seven police officers are certainly enough to deal with a dangerous person.

On Saturdays and Sundays, Feng Ruilong and Pang Jiandong were busy preparing for the task - studying the route, preparing what to bring, contacting the places where the police officers were resting and the prisons where the prisoners were temporarily held. Liu Chuan's Saturdays and Sundays are spent under normal conditions, except for going to the kitchen to help cook for half a day, most of the time is spent endorsing. It was very close to the time for the international law exam, and he had not yet read many must-read books. He was as ignorant of the "forward" action that was about to leave on Monday, just as well as Shan Juan Fan Xiaokang.

Saturday was a sunny day with no clouds and no wind. On Sunday morning, it unexpectedly rained heavily. On Sunday afternoon, another unexpected thing happened, Feng Ruilong didn't know whether he was uncomfortable at lunch or rained before the meal, and he vomited and diarrhea all afternoon, and also had a high fever. After examination by the doctor, it was said that it was caused by wind and cold, which caused acute gastroenteritis. The preparations for Qin Shui's escort had not yet been completed, but Feng Ruilong had to lie down and hang the bottle. On this day, Zhong Tianshui went into the city for something, and he didn't come back until the evening, and he came back in the same car, as well as the wife and three-year-old daughter of Sun Peng, a prisoner in the Third District Prison District. Lao Zhong has been in contact with Sun Peng's wife's unit for the past few days, and used his Sunday vacation time to go there in person, until the leaders of this unit were moved, and finally agreed that Sun Peng's wife could go three or five days late, and then talk about it after reuniting with her husband first, anyway, it would not be a big deal to delay a day or two of study. Lao Zhong simply used his own car, braved the heavy rain, and took Sun Peng's wife and children over in a car, and placed them directly in a reunion room in the reunion building. At that time, Sun Peng was watching the news broadcast in the sub-prison area, and when he saw that half of him was called out of the queue, the captain on duty asked him to go back to the prison to get his toiletries, which frightened Sun Peng to think that he had committed something to enter the training team, and even his walking posture was a little abnormal. None of the prisoners watching television could have guessed what had happened to him and that he was going to be taken alone on this stormy night. But they all noticed that Sun Peng was not handcuffed when he was taken away, and the captain also helped him find an umbrella, which should not be a disaster. It wasn't until he walked out of the door of the first prison area and on the way to the reunion building that the escort police told him the good news that fell from the sky, which made Sun Peng so excited that he was almost out of his mind, and he couldn't tell whether his feet were in a dream or on the ground in reality.

At five o'clock in the morning on Monday, judging from the time, Sun Peng should still be in the reunion building with his wife and children in his arms and did not wake up, and Liu Chuan was called by the police on duty to open the door. Since the Prison Bureau ordered all prisons to abolish the chores of prisoners six months ago, the management of the daily life details of prisoners, such as getting up and going to bed, has been changed to the people's police. Liu Chuan got up from the bed in a daze, washed his face and put his grass alone under the supervision of the night shift captain, and was ordered to tie up his bedding, together with the washing utensils and plastic cups for drinking water, all into one luggage, and then followed behind Pang Jiandong, walked out of the tube with the luggage, walked out of the prison area, and walked in the direction of the repatriation section.

It rained heavily for half a night, and in the early morning the thick clouds slowly faded to the northwest, and the sun had not yet shown its light, and the morning light had already appeared in the sky. The morning light after the rain was gorgeous, but Liu Chuan's heart was dim, and the luggage he was holding in his hands seemed doubly heavy. He staggered through the deserted central playground of the Heavenly Prison under Pang Jiandong's escort, his shoes wet by the rain accumulated last night, and the coldness of his feet made his heart beat like a drum. Judging from the luggage in his hand and the direction he went straight to the Repatriation Section, he seemed to realize that he would be escorted to another place before the sun came out. He tried to ask Pang Jiandong several times where he was going, but Pang Jiandong had a serious face and a selfless face. Liu Chuan finally didn't dare to speak, because it was absolutely not in line with the identity rules of the criminal to inquire about his whereabouts without authorization.

Pang Jiandong escorted him to the main tunnel of the repatriation section, where he saw Zhong Tianshui, the head of the first prison district, and Zheng Xiaoke, a policeman from the life and health department. As soon as he saw Zhong Da and Xiao Ke, his heartbeat hanging in his throat suddenly fell back to his chest, and their presence made him immediately calm down for no reason.

The large tunnel of the Repatriation Bureau is large enough to accommodate 200 prisoners at the same time, and the lights are bright, but empty. After Liu Chuan calmed down, his gaze extended, and he saw a prisoner squatting on each side of the east and west corners of the big tube road, and next to the two prisoners, there was also a piece of finished luggage beside each of them. Liu Chuan was also ordered to squat down against the wall, and when he walked to the wall with his luggage, his eyes subconsciously glanced left and right, and saw that the prisoner on the left was actually Fan Xiaokang from the second prison. The one on the right is not clear; But from the body shape, it can be concluded that it was a female prisoner, and there is no doubt that the female prisoner should be Shan Juan.

The unexpected encounter with Shan Juan and Xiaokang was enough for Liu Chuan to roughly believe that they were about to embark on a common journey, and the final destination of this journey could only be Qinshui, a coal city thousands of miles away.

The captain of the second eunuch and the female eunuch hadn't left yet, and they were talking to Zhong Tianshui in a low voice, and handed over some items. The police from the women's prison and Xiao Ke called Shan Juan and escorted her into a room next to her, and the male policemen who stayed in the tunnel began to conduct routine searches of Liu Chuan and Xiaokang before they were released from prison. First, they were ordered to open their luggage, shake off all the bedding and sheets, and the police rubbed and pinched them inch by inch, and then asked them to re-tie them up. After searching the luggage, it was the turn to search the body, Liu Chuan and Xiaokang stood side by side, two meters apart, and took off their clothes one by one until they were naked. Xiaokang has been squatting in prison for the past two years, and his stomach has begun to be blessed, but Liu Chuan's figure is still the same, his limbs are still strong, his shoulders are quite broad, but his body is slightly thin. Since he was imprisoned, although he has experienced many cleansing searches, Liu Chuan is still a little ashamed to block ** with one hand, unlike Xiaokang, who is unobtrusive and shameless. Each garment was inspected and then thrown to them, and they put it on one by one. While dressing, Liu Chuan listened to Pang Jiandong check the money accounts and temporary storage items with Fan Xiaokang on the side—mobile phones, rings, and so on. It is not difficult to see from this that Fan Xiaokang is gone, and I am afraid that he will never return. And Liu Chuan didn't take anything with him except a bedding and toiletries, which means that he will be back soon.

At this time, Liu Chuan had already guessed the purpose of this long trip, it must still be Lao Fan's case, either let them cooperate with the public security investigation, or let them testify in court. He couldn't see Shan Juan in the next room, and he wondered if she had taken all the money and things and never came back.

After the search, the meal was immediately opened, and the police brought steamed buns and pickles, and each person was given a bowl of cold boiled water. Liu Chuan's mood was very depressed by this sudden early morning and this departure without any warning beforehand. He didn't ask for steamed buns or pickles, just the bowl of cold boiled water. Pang Jiandong, who delivered the meal, asked him: What's the matter, it's early to eat at noon. Liu Chuan said: Not hungry.

Zhong Tianshui stood aside, called Pang Jiandong to whisper a few words, and asked Pang Jiandong to take Liu Chuan to an office in the repatriation department, and Lao Zhong then followed.

There was no one else in the house, only Lao Zhong and Liu Chuan. Lao Zhong handed the steamed bun to Liu Chuan again and said, "Let's eat some to save yourself from hunger on the road." ”

Liu Chuan took the steamed bun and ate it tastelessly. Lao Zhong said: "I'll go with you this time, let's go to Qinshui, it's still Fan Xiaokang's underworld case, and you need to go to the court to testify." On the way, you also help us keep an eye on Fan Xiaokang, this kid probably knows that he won't be able to come back if he goes. This time, the Qinshui Court is afraid that he will be sentenced together, and if he can't get a suspended death sentence, it will be heavier than now. Anyway, he knows it in his own heart. If this kid wants to make any thorns on the road, you have to cooperate with us to keep him down. ”

Liu Chuan stopped chewing and said, "Yes." ”

Old Zhong said, "You eat yours." He also said: "The prison reform activists we reported to you last year have already been approved." This award can generally be reduced by eight months, and the report of the commutation has already been reported to the court, and it is estimated that when you come back from Qinshui, it will also be approved. When you go to Qinshui this time, you may be detained in the detention center of the Public Security Bureau, and we have already introduced you to others, saying that you are a reform activist here, so you must behave well in other people's places, and don't let people think that you are not worthy of your name. ”

Liu Chuan said: "Yes." ”

Lao Zhong said as Liu Chuan ate it, and quickly ate the steamed bun. Every time, as long as Lao Zhong said something to him, his heart would be much more comfortable and brighter. For a long time, he noticed that Lao Zhong always used "I" or "we" to address himself in front of him, and rarely used "**", the most commonly used word in other disciplines. He understood that this was undoubtedly a special psychological care for him from Lao Zhong.

After breakfast, he put the grass again, Shan Juan, Xiaokang, and Liu Chuan, one by one, under the supervision of the police, went into the toilet. The last procedure for them to leave the repatriation section was to be handcuffed. Shan Juan did not wear it, Liu Chuan and Xiaokang wore one handcuff together, Liu Chuan's left hand was Xiaokang and his right hand, and the handcuffs made the two have to be close at hand, but neither of them looked at anyone, left hand and right hand, no one touched anyone. According to the stipulation that prisoners who have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for more than 15 years must be escorted in shackles, the people's police have put shackles on Xiaokang again. After all the shackles were put on, the three prisoners were brought to Zhong Tianshui together, Pang Jiandong ordered them to squat side by side, and more than a dozen policemen from the Heavenly Prison, the Second Prison and the Women's Prison surrounded them. Zhong Tianshui, in a calm tone permeated with majesty, announced the order to set off on the road.

"According to the order of the Beijing Municipal Prison Bureau, you will be escorted to Qinshui today, and I declare that from now on, you will enter an extraordinary period......"