Pang Jiandong could not have imagined in advance that Liu Chuan accompanied his grandmother to place his father's ashes and could have such a big show.

Pang Jiandong's family lives not too far from Cining Cemetery, he has a good relationship with Liu Chuan, and he heard that Liu Chuan was going to Cining to erect a monument to his father's tomb, so he came over to help.

His police academy classmate Xiao Ke also came along. Xiao Ke is a girl, she loves to play, nominally she came to help, but in fact she came to play. Xiao Ke said that she had never seen a serious cemetery when she was so old, and the imaginary cemetery was similar to a quiet park.

This Cining Cemetery is really like a park, with pines and cypresses, pavilions and terraces, although Pang Jiandong lives close, he has never been in. If it weren't for Liu Chuan's father's ceremony, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to enter here after he died. The smallest cemetery here is said to cost two or three hundred thousand oceans. What's more, the cemetery of Liu Chuan's father is a large tomb where husband and wife are buried together, and it is worth a little Pang Jiandong can't even think about it.

Liu Chuan's father is a big money man and started running an advertising company. Although it was not like securities speculation and real estate that broke out overnight, it was only five or six years of work to basically complete the original accumulation of capital. When Liu Chuan's father went to the sea to adventure, Liu Chuan's grandmother was still in the position of chairman of the trade union of a large state-owned factory, and when the factory was not shut down, the chairman of the trade union enjoyed the treatment of deputy factory according to the regulations, and there was usually a half-new Audi, which served as the special driver of the Liu family all day long. The various treatments of public ownership Liu Chuan have been exposed since childhood. Therefore, in Pang Jiandong's view, Liu Chuan is the most suitable, from childhood to adulthood for more than 20 years, it can be said that the left and right sources are all connected, and in which ownership system is the scenery is occupied.

But isn't it, Liu Chuan's grandmother has been retired for ten years, and she still hugs her when she goes out and goes inside, and the state-matched Audi is gone, but people sit in Mercedes-Benz. Today, the guys in suits and leather shoes who came to build the tomb are all in good cars! They are all generals of the Liu family. They were dressed decently, with ** faces, respectfully gathered around Liu Chuan and his grandmother, standing silently in front of the tombstone, mourning like a ritual, which made Pang Jiandong and Xiaoke stunned.

Liu Chuan has a good appearance, a simple personality, and looks like a child on the surface, he usually fights with Pang Jiandong and them, and he can't see that he can be so ceremoniously surrounded outside.

Pang Jiandong, Liu Chuan, and Xiao Ke were all students assigned to work in Tianhe Prison at the end of last year; Pang Jiandong was assigned to the first prison district, Xiao Ke was assigned to the life and health department, and Liu Chuan was assigned to the repatriation department. Everyone is of the same age, has similar personalities, and comes from the same batch, so they gather more and less after work, especially Pang Jiandong and Liu Chuan, who love to call each other when they go to the toilet. Pang Jiandong has been a classmate with Xiaoke for many years, and he has been very familiar with each other, and he has not been friends with Liu Chuan for a long time, and he is fresh. Liu Chuan did not come from the police academy, he graduated from the Public Security University. Pang Jiandong always asked Liu Chuan: You should go to criminal investigation, why did you come to our wilderness?

Liu Chuan didn't know why he was assigned to this wilderness by mistake.

This is to blame, or to blame Liu Chuan's grandmother.

Liu Chuan's life path, from childhood to adulthood, was planned by his grandmother, even when her son's company was in full swing and the family's wealth was rolling in, she still maintained an eternal psychological dependence on the iron rice bowl-style fixed income. She is even worried about her grandson's life in small clothes, food and food, famous cars, and mansions, thinking that the child will one day be ruined in unearned material pleasures and become a waste who is not diligent and does not distinguish between grains and grains. Besides, what if there is a war, what if there is a sport, can Liu Chuan withstand it? Liu Chuan's survivability is too poor! The old lady spent most of her life in this political movement, and in those days, the threat of war was talked about every year, every month, every day. So as soon as Liu Chuan graduated from middle school, he was designated by his grandmother to apply for the military academy and the public security academy. Liu Chuan told Pang Jiandong and Xiaoke that he estimated that life in a military academy would definitely be more rigid and sad than that in a public security academy.

The four years of OUHK are actually very sad. Every morning out of exercises, evening roll call, presumably not much like a military school. Moreover, it is not allowed to fall in love. Although there are some discussions in private, they are secretly talked about and very unpleasant. Liu Chuan wanted to drop out of school in the first year, but his grandmother was stern and his father was not allowed. When he was about to graduate, his father couldn't afford to be sick, which dragged down Liu Chuan's graduation grades, and the Ministry of Public Security and the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau came to the school to pick people, but they didn't pick him to see the grades, so he was picked away by the Justice Bureau who came to the second place. At first, the Justice Bureau must have been sitting in Liu Chuan's imagination, and it was more comfortable than going to the Public Security Bureau, which made him secretly happy to be a blessing in disguise. How would he have thought that the Bureau of Justice would transfer him to the Prison Bureau again, and the Prison Bureau would put him in Tianhe Prison all at once.

Liu Chuan is different from Pang Jiandong, and unlike Xiaoke, Xiaoke Pang Jiandong went to the police academy from the secondary school, and it is said that when the police academy was transferred from the secondary school to the junior college, he was listed by the prison bureau and couldn't run. Liu Chuan is also different from the college students recruited by the prison bureau every year, those college students are all from other places, and eighty percent of them are willing to work in the prison to get a Beijing hukou, so Pang Jiandong always asks Liu Chuan strangely, why did you come here?

Liu Chuan couldn't tell why he came to the heavenly prison, he was embarrassed to admit to others that his grandmother forced him to obey the assignment, and his father told him to listen to his grandmother when he was dying. He was ten years old when his father told him that, and now he is twenty-two years old.

As soon as Liu Chuan was assigned to the heavenly prison, his father left this last word and left. In the months when Liu Chuan helped his grandmother with the funeral, he had to go to work every once in a while. Today, my father finally slept ceremoniously in this expensive cemetery, slept beside Liu Chuan's mother, and after covering the coffin and sealing the soil, according to his grandmother's opinion, Liu Chuan had to go back to work in the repatriation department tonight.

Liu Chuan's section elder Zhong was supposed to come to the cemetery today, but because he had to prepare for the night's repatriation mission, he didn't come, so he only made a phone call to Liu Chuan and expressed his intentions. Liu Chuan knew that the repatriation section was in short supply at this time, so he had promised the section chief that he would definitely participate in the escort mission to Sichuan tonight.

Pang Jiandong and Xiaoke are both in middle school today, so they will say goodbye to Liu Chuan as soon as the ashes placement ceremony is over. Liu Chuan left them to eat together, and they said that there was not enough time, so let's eat another day. Pang Jiandong asked Liu Chuan to go to the West Railway Station in the evening to pick up his girlfriend Ji Wenzhu, his girlfriend went to his hometown in Jiangsu to make his mother's birthday and came back today, maybe there was too much luggage. Liu Chuan happened to be free in the afternoon, and, more importantly, he also had a car.

After breaking up and saying goodbye, Pang Jiandong and Xiaoke watched Liu Chuan and his grandmother being led by the high-spirited leaders of his company and hugged to the sedan in the cemetery square. They saw that the suits of the leaders were all black, the cars were all black, the sound of the doors opening and closing came and went, and then, the motorcade drove out of the solemn and solemn cemetery gate, and the momentum was not much like the mafia in foreign movies.

The dust kicked up by the convoy obscured their view, and there was silence in front of the cemetery. Pang Jiandong turned his head to look at Xiao Ke, and Xiao Ke also turned his head to look at Jiandong, both of them seemed to want to say something, but then they didn't say anything.

So they went to work.

Maybe what they want to say in their hearts is that now they are rushing from the cemetery to the heavenly prison, and they are still in time for the noon canteen to eat.

At noon, Liu Chuan did not eat, and he and his grandmother, as well as the lawyer Wang, who was the most trusted lawyer in his father's life, talked for a long time behind closed doors in his grandmother's living room.

Lawyer Wang introduced Liu Chuan's father's inheritance to his grandmother and Liu Chuan, and the so-called inheritance is mainly the Wanhe company founded by Liu Chuan's father.

Wanhe Company has one advertising company, one furniture factory and five fabric chain stores. These entities, is the basic industry of Wanhe company in the past, once prosperous, helpless, whether advertising, fabric, or furniture, these years have all been reduced to the industry, the industry is fighting each other, fighting each other to the death. The three main businesses that support Wanhe Company are now all business depression, bleak operation, and barely holding on to the façade. What really made a lot of money for the company was the side business of Wanhecheng, which was built only a few years ago. In the year of Liu Chuan's father's reign, the total book assets of Wanhe Company totaled 116 million yuan, 80% of which belonged to Wanhe City; The total book liabilities are 49 million yuan, and most of them belong to Wanhecheng. The total assets minus the net assets of the total liabilities amounted to 67 million yuan, and in addition to Wanhecheng's own funds, the rest were the houses, land and some inventory of furniture factories and fabric shops. Judging from the business trend of Wanhe Entertainment City, it only takes about four years to pay off the bank loan with its own income, so it should be said that the parents have left a good asset to their elders and descendants.

The question now is, who will be in charge of Wanhe's hundreds of millions of assets and thousands of employees in the future?

When Liu Chuan's father was alive, he held all the important positions such as the chairman of Wanhe Company, the president and the general manager of Wanhe City, and he held all the important positions in front of the stage. Wanhe is a family business, of course, it must be presided over by family members, among Liu Chuan's father's immediate family, except for Liu Chuan's old and weak grandmother, only Liu Chuan is the only seedling. Therefore, the lawyer suggested that Liu Chuan should resign from public office as soon as possible, enter the company, and preside over Wanhe's business affairs.

But at this time, Liu Chuan had just walked out of the university. At this time, Liu Chuan was still a child with no social experience, and he took over the company so early, which was completely different from his grandmother's life plan for Liu Chuan. Grandma has always believed that Liu Chuan still needs to exercise well in a difficult environment before he can finally take on the big responsibility.

So, after being stunned for a few seconds, the grandmother hesitated to ask the lawyer:

"Liu Chuan doesn't know much about the company's affairs, he just graduated from college, and he still needs to find a unit to work for two years, can you let Mr. Lou take care of the company's affairs first, you can also help, you are more experienced than Liu Chuan......"

The lawyer is reasonable, and he is not moved by the heavy responsibility entrusted by his grandmother, he shook his head and said: "I don't know all about the business, although Mr. Lou is familiar with the business, but the company is not his own after all, he is using your money to do your business, this is the most unreliable business model, it is easy to evolve into using your money to do his own business, who can look at him?" Although Liu Chuan doesn't know how to do a business, when he enters the company, he at least uses his own money to do his own thing, how the company's money is spent, at least he can watch. In the future, Mr. Lou can manage the daily business, the company's major affairs, and capital exchanges, or you still have to control it yourself. Besides, Liu Chuan is a college student, and he is also smart, if he enters early, it won't take a few years, and the company's business will be fully understood. ”

Grandma looked at Liu Chuan, and Liu Chuan also looked at grandma. Although Liu Chuan is not interested in being a prison policeman, to be honest, he also hates to go to the business field to set up a company.

Grandma sighed.

Grandma has been very confident and tough all her life, but this sigh revealed the bitterness and helplessness of orphans and widows, and the helplessness.

Grandma said, "Okay then. ”

Lunch was very late on this day, Liu Chuan left home at three o'clock in the afternoon, he drove the car listlessly, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or depressed. Whether he stayed in prison or joined his father's company, he was just as far from his own life aspirations. Although Liu Chuan went to the National Public University, became a policeman, and was good at sports since he was a child, and he was not bad at ball swimming, but in his bones, he was actually an artist! He has been obsessed with rock and roll since he was in middle school, and he teamed up with a few classmates to form a band called "Scream", and he was the lead singer! Although most of his favorite songs belong to the more tender and melodic kind of rock and roll, somewhat similar to the style of "Zero" Zhou Xiaoou, they still give their band such a bloody title, as if otherwise it is not enough to express the young and "angry" heart.

"The Scream" was a total of five people, and later three went to college, but apart from him, the band never dispersed. Because he went to the Public Security University, he had militarized management, militarized work and rest, morning drills and evening classes, police uniforms, and then a hair disheveled, and his ragged clothes were mixed with rock and roll, which was obviously impossible. Leaving the band was the first sad thing in his life, and the brothers swore that they would wait for him, but then they finally found a lead singer, who sang more authentically and rudely than him, but the appearance was a little more miserable, but the "scream" was therefore more like real rock.

He had heard a gangster in the music industry say to the "screaming" drummer: "Your lead singer is not right, and he depends on his face." ”

That's right, they also later discovered that most of the fans of "Scream" are not people who are obsessed with rock and roll, but a group of ignorant girls who are only obsessed with handsome guys.

Liu Chuan didn't expect the West Railway Station to be so congested, and after he picked up Pang Jiandong's girlfriend Ji Wenzhu, he was stuck in traffic in front of the station for half an hour before he barely went around to the auxiliary road of the West Third Ring Road.

Pang Jiandong's girlfriend seems to be really engaged in literature and art, and that kind of beauty is different from ordinary girls. Although the clothes on the body are not all famous brands, every detail is fashionable and decent. Although Liu Chuan also "played art" in middle school, he had no actual contact with the real art circle, and this beautiful girl was the first star he had "close contact". Although he also knew that Ji Wenzhu was just an unfamiliar "North Drifter" in the film and television industry, he was still excited that the girl sitting next to him at this time must be a future star.

As Pang Jiandong said, Ji Wenzhu does have a lot of luggage, probably except for the house furniture, his daily wear is swept over from his hometown, and he looks like he will carry out the North Drift to the end. She took Liu Chuan's car to a bungalow she rented at the Sky Bridge, where she dropped off her bags and bags, and then rushed with Liu Chuan to Tianhe Prison to find her boyfriend, Pang Jiandong.

On the way, the two chatted, and most of the girls spoke, first talking about the weather and diet, and then asking their parents and brothers. Although the topic is rambling, most of them revolve around Liu Chuan - you like winter and summer, you like spicy and sweet, you are the only one in your family, and your grandmother is very strict with you? I don't know if it's because of the girl's extroverted personality or if she is more curious than Liu Chuan, she interrogated so much all the way that it was not until she came out of the space bridge that it was Liu Chuan's turn to ask rhetorically.

It was Liu Chuan's turn to speak, but he didn't know what to ask, he wanted to ask how old Ji Wenzhu was, and he wanted to ask the girl's age. I wanted to ask Ji Wenzhu what the climate was like, and I thought about the climate She had just said, but in a hurry, he actually asked the most undesirable question: "Why do you like our Pang Jiandong?" As soon as the words came out, he found that this question was very abrupt, in case Ji Wenzhu understood "How can Pang Jiandong be worthy of you", wouldn't it ruin the righteousness of him and Pang Jiandong's buddies!

"Who said I like Pang Jiandong anymore?"

Ji Wenzhu's answer made him even more like a man, and he stammered and tried to redeem himself: "You, aren't you Pang Jiandong's girlfriend, Pang Jiandong likes you, and he has told me many times." ”

Ji Wenzhu nodded and admitted: "Ah, Jiandong is very good to me." Thinking about it, he tilted his head and asked Liu Chuan: "Then who do you say I should like?" ”

Liu Chuan's head began to sweat, his mouth was unanswerable, his mood and hands and feet were all messed up, and it happened to turn the corner at the intersection, so he was unlucky to scrape together with a savage taxi that was robbed. Liu Chuan drives a brand-new Volvo S90, which has both top-level performance and simple appearance, and is the most favored car of the Bubo class who advocate quality and do not like publicity. His headlights had shattered the shade in the scrape, and the red taxi had only scratched a few tiny patches. The driver of the taxi, who was dark and fat, preemptively dragged Liu Chuan out of the Volvo, and reasoned with Liu Chuan about responsibility. In Ji Wenzhu's opinion, Liu Chuan is obviously reasonable, the cause of the accident is the other party's illegal merging, she got out of the car, and wanted to come forward to help, but suddenly remembered that Liu Chuan is a policeman, presumably there is no need for many people, so she stood aside with great interest, and watched how Liu Chuan showed his documents and repaired the fat man. Unexpectedly, Liu Chuan not only did not dare to disclose his identity, but honestly followed behind the fat man, went to see his car, just justified two sentences, but was rejected by the fat man's vicious words, and finally obediently paid 300 yuan under the watchful eyes of passers-by, in exchange for the fat man's proud face, so that it can be regarded as a "public case is private".

The taxi left, the onlookers dispersed, and Liu Chuan and Ji Wenzhu returned to the car, saying nothing to each other. Liu Chuan started the car, and before starting, he turned his eyes to look at the girl he had just met, and couldn't hide the heroic shortness of breath on his face.

Ji Wenzhu also turned his face to look at him, but didn't save face for him, she said: "I thought you would let him compensate you." ”

Liu Chuan's face blushed for a long time, and he replied strongly: "That person is so annoying, I don't want to quarrel with this kind of person on the street, just give him some money." ”

Ji Wenzhu's eyes still stopped on Liu Chuan's face, and she said, "I don't understand, since your family is so rich, why did you let you become a policeman?" Why don't you go outside the city to see the prisoners? ”

Liu Chuan opened his mouth for a long time and said, "Our family...... Let me exercise. ”

Ji Wenzhu said with a smile: "Oh, the heavens will descend on the Si people, and they will definitely strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skin, and suffer their minds...... What's next? ”

Liu Chuan didn't dare to answer, suspecting that Ji Wenzhu actually meant to be sarcastic, he interrupted her and said: "Our family doesn't let me do it anymore, I will resign when I get to work today." ”

When Liu Chuan changed into his police uniform and walked into the office of Zhong Tianshui, the head of the repatriation section, Lao Zhong was nagging and scolding.

The one who was scolded was a college student who had just been transferred from the production section to the repatriation section for internship and training, and the repatriation section was going to escort more than 100 prisoners to Sichuan tonight, and Lao Zhong scolded him for suddenly taking temporary leave a quarter of an hour ago. "There are still two hours before departure, where do you let me find someone to replace you!" Lao Zhong said: "Do you think I'm still a university here, just listen to this class if it's okay, and don't listen to it if there's something." I'm a convoy! It's a mobile prison! You are the walls of the prison! One less person is one less wall! Those more than 100 prisoners walked such a long way, and I couldn't bear the responsibility for running one. ”

Liu Chuan was solemnly told from the first day he went to work in the prison that the Beijing Municipal Prison Bureau has been a four-nil unit with no escape, no violent prison, no safety accidents, and no unnatural deaths for five consecutive years, and it bears the honor of the judicial system. Five years in a row! Every police officer is silently reciting this mantra every day, no matter which prison, which prison district, which department, no one wants this golden brand to be smashed in their hands.

The college student came a year earlier than Liu Chuan, and although he has been sitting in the production department, the stakes should be equally understood. But he still stammered and explained the reason for his sudden leave - the water leak in their upstairs soaked his house, he had just received a call from a neighbor, all the people in his family were not there, only he could go back, their house was newly renovated, and it would be a big loss if they didn't deal with it quickly...... Liu Chuan listened from the sidelines and felt that the reason was quite sufficient, but instead of sympathy, Lao Zhong led the topic to Liu Chuan:

"What is that little bit of rag in your house, look at Liu Chuan, who has a lot of money, and doesn't care about such a big company, people drive Volvo to work. Liu Chuan's father was just buried in the morning, and the people rushed over to join the war in the afternoon, and they will go with you tonight. More than 30 hours of train, not eating and sleeping well, people don't go today, can't you, huh? But people go! ”

The college student glanced at Liu Chuan, and Liu Chuan's face turned red. Liu Chuan has been like this since he was in college, it's okay to be criticized, he can't boast, and his face is red when he praises.

The college student left with a sad face, and Lao Zhong was still nagging, still praising Liu Chuan for counting the kid. Lao Zhong seems to like Liu Chuan very much, so he rushed to Liu Chuan that he was born in a wealthy family and could go to prison on an errand, Lao Zhong has always regarded him as an honor, and always preached everywhere: Who said that young people don't know how to dedicate now, Liu Chuan of our brigade understands!

So Liu Chuan expected what kind of expression Lao Zhong should have when he heard the word "resignation" from his mouth - not anger, not surprise, not contempt, even, not regret and regret, but an unspeakable loss and pain. "Are you officially proposing this, or are you just saying hello to me, are you decided?" Lao Zhong's words left a lot of room for Liu Chuan, of course he hoped that Liu Chuan's resignation was just a preliminary idea, and he came to talk to him first, which would be regarded as a slow fart for a dead child. But Liu Chuan didn't say so, he blushed, from the old Zhong praised him just now to the present, he said: "It was my grandmother who asked me to resign, our family is ......" Lao Zhong said: "Didn't your grandmother let you exercise hard after graduating from college?" It's only been a few months, but I'll have to work for at least a year. A year is a blink of an eye. Liu Chuan said: "Originally, my grandmother thought so, but as soon as my dad left, my dad's company was no longer in charge." The old bell was sullen for a moment, knowing that it was irretrievable, and nodded and said, "Oh, that's also true." ”

Liu Chuan looked at Lao Zhong's face, he didn't know what words to use to comfort Lao Zhong, and first said a real sentence: "Don't worry about the mission to Sichuan tonight, I will stand on the last shift." After speaking, he felt that it was not enough, and said another word of lip service: "When my father's company is stable in the future, I may come back......" The old ** forced a smile, not serious, and said: "Oh, okay, welcome back." ”

Liu Chuan has participated in long-distance repatriation missions more than once, he has been to Henan, to the Northeast, and the farthest time is to Xinjiang. Beijing to Xinjiang, round-trip train seat for six days, when I came back, my face was green. Liu Chuan also participated in a short-distance escort to Shijiazhuang, which was by car and on the highway, which was not so hard compared with long-distance bumps on the train.

This time I went to Sichuan, and there were many prisoners escorted, and it was also hard work. But Liu Chuan felt that this mission was particularly precious to him, like a grand farewell performance, in which although he was not the protagonist, he was undoubtedly the hardest working one. Just after 5 o'clock in the evening of that day, together with the cadres and police officers of the Repatriation Section, he escorted the 118 Sichuan prisoners who had been determined to leave tonight out of the prison area and escorted them to the main tunnel of the Repatriation Section, where they were named, grouped, searched, checked luggage, checked luggage tags, returned the temporary storage items of the convicts, checked the accounts of the temporarily stored money with each prisoner, and then gave the prisoners a meal. Two prisoners were handcuffed and sentenced to more than 15 years, and were also shackled. Liu Chuan did everything quickly and quickly, his emotions were always high and full, and even his attitude towards the prisoners was much kinder than usual. Because one of the prisoners said that there was a hundred yuan missing from his deposit account, Jiang Jiang, the deputy commander of the escort operation command and the deputy head of the repatriation section, asked Liu Chuan to check the original accounts.

When Liu Chuan saw Pang Jiandong at dinner, he asked Pang Jiandong strangely: "Aren't you already off work, why haven't you left, what about your girlfriend?" ”

Pang Jiandong shook his head helplessly and said: "I was about to get off work, and the prison office said that there was something to let me stay, so I had to let my girlfriend go first, but not long after she left, the prison office said that it was okay." I called her mobile phone and her mobile phone turned off again, I will cushion my stomach first. ”

Liu Chuan asked, "What is the prison office looking for you?" ”

Pang Jiandong said: "I heard that I was temporarily selected to participate in the escort of an important prisoner. ”

Liu Chuan said: "Escort mission? That's supposed to be our repatriation section looking for you, how is it the prison office? ”

Pang Jiandong said: "Who knows. Hey, I just heard from you in the prison office that you are going to resign, is it really fake? ”

Liu Chuan said: "I have to eat first, or it's too late, when I come back from Sichuan, let's talk slowly." ”

People often encounter unexpected things in their lives that change your life, change your course, and even, change your character.

For example, Liu Chuan couldn't imagine that his parents would leave so suddenly. Although he was raised by his grandmother since he was a child, and the time he spent with his parents was not too long, in any case, the successive deaths of his parents still made him feel like an orphan. Although he also has a grandmother who loves him and a ready-made fortune, psychologically, he still feels very pitiful. Perhaps because of this mentality, Liu Chuan still feels extremely warm about the job of the Tianjian Repatriation Brigade, for the collective, and for the captain Lao Zhong, who is about the same age as his father, and feels extremely reluctant at the moment when he is about to leave.

Another example, tonight.

If there is any unexpected change in Liu Chuan's future life line, if he tries to trace the origin of this change in the future, then the first thing he will think of must be tonight.

Tonight, at 8:20 p.m., the westbound train to Chengdu will depart on time at the West Railway Station. At 7 o'clock in the evening, night fell, and the building of the Beijing Tianjian Repatriation Brigade was brightly lit, and 118 prisoners in gray-blue prison uniforms were escorted out of the gate of the repatriation section and escorted to the Tianjian Square, which was illuminated by huge searchlights. The iconic sculpture of the Heavenly Prison, the Phoenix Nirvana, stands in the center of the square.

The long-distance escort operation was codenamed "Phoenix," and the commander-in-chief of Operation Phoenix was Lao Qiang, the deputy warden of the Heavenly Prison, who stood in the shadow at the edge of the searchlight, his eyes calm and expressionless. Four prisoner vans converted from buses had already started, their police lights flashing, their doors open, and they lined up majestically on the playground. Dressed in white helmets, the policemen who were ready for the long journey stood in groups at the front of the prisoner carts, and pressed the four teams of prisoners lined up in the detachment. Deputy commander-in-chief Jiang Shuiyun walked to the front of the team. His presence made every prisoner and police officer aware that the escort operation was about to begin.

Jiang Shui shouted in a clear voice: "Listen to my command, squat!" ”

The prisoners replied in unison: "Yes! At the same time, he squatted down, because he was holding his luggage in one hand and wearing handcuffs in the other, so he squatted unneatly.

Jiang Shuiyun announced: "According to the order of the Beijing Municipal Prison Bureau, you will be sent to other prisons to serve your sentences, and from now on, you will enter an extraordinary period. Now, I declare a few disciplines: first, all actions must obey commands; 2. It is forbidden to pick up the car and look around, not to talk to each other, not to make noise, not to leave without permission or change seats without permission, and not to stand up without permission; 3. When the train passes through villages and towns or turns around, after hearing the order to bow its head, quickly bow its head, and only after permission can it raise its head; Fourth, raise your hand to report in case of trouble, and are not allowed to act without permission; 5. Keep the car hygienic and do not damage the facilities in the car. Did you hear me clearly? ”

Although the prisoners were all squatting, the voices of more than 100 voices were still strong: "Yes! ”

Jiang Shuiyun shouted again: "Pay attention to the password, bow your head!" ”

One hundred and eighteen heads sank neatly.

Jiang Shuiyun shouted: "Pay attention to the password, first team, stand up!" ”

The two rows of prisoners on the far side stood up, and Jiang Shuiyun ordered: "Get on the bus!" ”

The prisoners began to get on the bus, and Liu Chuan was in charge of the last group of prisoners and would take the last prisoner car. He wanted to call his grandmother on his phone and tell her he was leaving, but now was not the time to call. At this time, his attention was caught by a cadre of the prison office who hurried from the office area, he saw the man muttering something in the ear of Deputy Prison Director Qiang, Deputy Prison Director Qiang asked a few more words, then nodded and walked over to Liu Chuan.

"Liu Chuan, you go to the prison office."

Liu Chuan was stunned for a moment and said, "Isn't this going to start soon......"

Deputy Prison Director Qiang had a serious face: "You don't participate in this mission, you have other tasks." ”

Liu Chuan was ignorant and followed the cadres of the prison office out of the prison area and into the office building, and the man did not take Liu Chuan to the prison office, but led him into a conference room.

At the head of the conference table, Deng Tieshan, the prison warden, was sitting precariously, and on his left side sat Zhong Tianshui, the head of the repatriation section, and Master Yang, an old driver from the prison. Liu Chuan only knew that others called him Master Yang, but he couldn't call him by his specific name. There are two other people opposite Master Yang, Liu Chuan not only can't name them, but also has a very unfamiliar face, and these two people are not wearing police uniforms, so they are definitely not cadres of the Heavenly Prison. Liu Chuan has been assigned to the Heavenly Prison for several months, although because his father is sick and he has to go to work for three days to fish and two days to dry the nets, almost all the cadres and workers of the Heavenly Prison have taken pictures, and even the two armed police soldiers sitting on the other side of the old bell have half-familiar faces.

Sure enough, Deng Tieshan, the prison warden, first introduced Liu Chuan to the two strangers: "This is Liu Chuan, who just graduated from the Public Security University, and is a close relative of you. He introduced the two strangers to Liu Chuan: "This is Director Lin and Section Chief Jing of the Dongzhao City Public Security Bureau. ”

Liu Chuan saluted in a proper manner, took the slap from Director Lin and Section Chief Jing with both hands, shook it, and then sat down on a chair beside them according to the instructions of the prison warden. Before Liu Chuan could figure out what was going on in front of him, the prison warden had already opened his mouth to ask:

"Liu Chuan, have you heard about the bank vault robbery in Dongzhao City last year? Published in the newspaper, do you have any impressions? ”

Liu Chuan said: "There is an impression. ”

The warden said, "What's your impression?" ”

Liu Chuan said: "It seems that this case has been solved, it has been published in the newspaper." ”

The section chief nodded and took over the conversation: "Yes, it's broken, four people were killed by us, and one was given a suspended death sentence." ”

The prison warden then said: "The convict with a suspended death sentence has been sent to us from the detention center a few days ago. According to the instructions of the Ministry of Public Security and the notice of our Prison Bureau, this prisoner will be escorted to Dongzhao by car tonight. ”

Liu Chuan straightened up and nodded his head in order, but his heart was full of suspicions. When there is a shortage of manpower, the prison administration section will deploy its forces in a unified manner, and there is never a need for the prison director to give orders in person, let alone such a solemn and appropriate order. Moreover, he was pulled into this conference room from the "Phoenix" operation that was about to be on the road so suddenly, and there were so many two criminal policemen from other places who were inexplicably involved, this is obviously not an ordinary and routine escort mission, and there must be another reason for it.

Sure enough, the next details were specifically arranged by the section elder Zhong of the Repatriation Section: "This escort mission, codenamed 'Sleep', will be carried out by you and Feng Ruilong of our department. Feng Ruilong has already gone through the custody procedures, and our Lao Yang is responsible for driving, with two armed policemen. You will set off on time at 10:30 p.m. this evening, leave Beijing from Zishikou and enter Hebei, and arrive at the Bauhinia Pass near the Qingxi Tomb at about 3 o'clock tomorrow morning. As soon as you pass through the Bauhinia Pass, an armed police officer will suddenly fall ill, and then you drive to the nearby Lingbao Village, where there is a repair shop, where you escort the prisoner out of the car, and you and another armed police soldier will take care of it on the spot, and the critically ill armed police soldier will be taken by Feng Ruilong and take Lao Yang's car to the nearby Zhuozhou City for rescue. After they are gone, the prisoner may ask for the release of the man, whether he wants to release the big hand or the small hand, you will take him out, there is an open space behind the house, and the prisoner will definitely run away there, and if he escapes, ......"

Liu Chuan didn't know why the section chief would be so proficient in saying such a series of future things, he was so nervous that only instinctive reactions were left, he blurted out: "Don't worry, section chief, I won't let him run!" But before his words fell, the calm expression of Director Lin opened his mouth, and he categorically intercepted Liu Chuan in a voice that was even calmer than his expression:

"No, you let him run, it's in Lingbao Village, twenty miles east of Bauhinia Pass, you let him run!"