At that time, I often dreamed that I was married to Anxin. We crossed the wide Chang'an Avenue in a wide car, draped in red silk and sprinkled with confetti, with balloons bobbing in the wind on the doors on both sides. Behind us was a huge convoy of friends and family, and in the convoy sat my dad and my mom, my mom was still the same as when she was younger, and she made me feel extra warm and attached to her. In this convoy with no end in sight, there are still Anxin's father and mother, and their image in my dream comes from the photos Anxin showed me. There are also some friends and classmates from childhood to adulthood, as well as Liu Minghao. Actually, somehow, there are Zhong Ning and her brother Zhong Guoqing, who are also talking and laughing in the crowd of relatives. I probably brought in all the people I knew, the people who used to be nice to me in the past. These kinds of dreams and these people appear again and again in my dreams, and I can't tell whether I am happy or depressed. Later, a roadside fortune teller Mr. Yin and Yang helped me solve this dream, he said that I am an extremely kind person, do not hold grudges, yearn for a happy ending, and have a tolerance for anyone...... I am very happy that he uses dreams to evaluate my character and character, whether I am as good as he says but I think it is not easy. There is only one thing I still don't understand about this dream of getting married, and that is that for some reason, I always see some uniformed police officers. I was very confused when I dreamed of them, and I couldn't tell who they really were. The fortune teller was also very confused by these inexplicable policemen, and he asked me hesitantly if I had committed anything or who had committed a crime before, in short, it was not a good omen, and asked me to be careful and act on my own. I told Anxin about this fortune telling, and she smiled and said that the police have something terrible, I am the police. I said you're not anymore. She said, that's Captain Pan and them, if I get married, I will definitely invite them to come. But I can't get married, otherwise I wouldn't have dreamed of such a good thing?

In fact, I was just dreaming, and I had a good time in my dreams, and it was really impossible for us to get married at that time. We were shy, empty-handed, and had a sick child, and the most serious problem we faced at that time was survival.

In order to cure Xiaoxiong's illness, I sold my 29-year-old Panasonic color TV to the uncle of my middle school classmate. The color TV bought for more than 5,000 yuan has been sold for more than 1,000 years after watching it for more than a year, and it is definitely vomiting blood. It turned out that the old guy only gave 1,000, and our classmates helped me sell it for a long time like a "nursery", and I took the initiative to take a Jianwu brand electric coffee pot, so the old man was moved. He said 1,000 2 is 1,000 2, but I'm not used to drinking coffee at my age, so you can change this blender. I knew he wanted the blender, and he had his eye on the blender from the moment he entered the kitchen, and the blender was eighty percent new and also a Ken wood. I took the opportunity to say: I simply even brought the coffee pot with the blender, one thousand four, how about it? The old man smiled not stupidly at all: One thousand four? You, wash and sleep as soon as possible, and sell it, so that such a valuable thing can rise in the future. I said, "Then your old man will give me another price." The old man said: I said one thousand two is one thousand two, otherwise I don't want the mixer, just one thousand. When our classmates saw that we had come to an end, they stood up and said something to end: "That's it, I want the coffee pot, and I'll give you the two hundred!" That's the deal.

It happened to be the Lantern Festival that day, and Anxin bought a few Lantern Festivals on the way home at night, and also bought a Chinese cabbage and said that he wanted to make dumplings, and when he wanted to use a blender to stir the cabbage filling, the blender couldn't find it. She looked for a long time and asked me if I saw it, and I said, "Ah, I've sold it." She was a little surprised, and said in a daze, why did you sell it? I said, pick up Xiaoxiong and be discharged from the hospital in a few days, isn't there still a lot of money, let's not look for Liu Minghao again. I stood for a long time, depressed. I said, what's wrong? She said, Yang Rui, I feel uncomfortable when you sell things. I said, "Ahem, it's not a sale of children." I also see that there is no need to use a labor force like you, and I can't let you be idle. In the future, you can chop the stuffing with a kitchen knife yourself, and use the blender to pay for that electricity.

Anxin smiled bitterly and said, "How much did it cost?" ”

I said, "One thousand four." ”

An Xin was startled: "One thousand four, it's impossible!" ”

I said, "Let's build a coffee pot, we won't drink coffee anyway." ”

She said, "That's impossible, right?" ”

I said, "And a TV." ”

She immediately turned her face, and sure enough, she saw that the TV was gone. She came over, hugged me, and cried. She wept silently on my chest, tears wet my shirt, and she said softly, "Yang Rui, how can I make you so bitter." ”

Later, I sold some other things in the house, such as handicrafts and decorations that many people had given me in the past, as well as carpets and lamps, as well as my BP machine. Sell whatever you can sell for some money or if someone wants it. Liu Minghao bought me a set of stamps that were very ×. At that time, he had already begun to hook up with Beibei's cousin Li Jia, and he was in the stage of relentless pursuit. Li Jia loves stamp collecting, and Liu Minghao does what he likes, collecting treasures everywhere. I took the opportunity to knock Liu Minghao and asked him for 800 yuan, but Liu Minghao didn't say a word and paid it on the spot. Later, I heard that my set of stamps could sell for at least 1,000 yuan. In terms of doing business, I am certainly no match for Liu Minghao.

Liu Minghao later got cheap and sold it to me: "You don't know that the stamps have fallen now, and people still say that I give too much." If you think it's worth it, you sell it, and if I think it's worth it, I'll buy it, and I can't listen to what others say. ”

Liu Minghao saw that I was silent, knowing that I was not good at stamps, so he smiled and said: "You still have to find a job, and it's not a matter of selling things like this." What else do you think you have in your house? If you go down further, it's time to sell yourself. ”

Liu Minghao later introduced me to a job as a mechanic in the laundry of Rendezvous Hotel. He said that this job is good, with a monthly salary of about 1,000 yuan, two meals in the morning and one lunch, and he can get medicine in the infirmary of the hotel for minor illnesses, and he is also given work clothes...... Besides, don't you learn mining machinery, the mechanical principle is similar, and you can be regarded as a professional counterpart. In a unit, if you are professional, you will not be bullied.

I was so happy that I went home and told Anxin about it. Anxin said that this matter is also wronged by you, if you are willing to go, do it temporarily, like yours I believe that sooner or later there will be a career. I don't have a career, but I'm realistic now, I just want to support you, feed your children, and support myself.

I urged Liu Minghao to help me contact me quickly in those days, and he said that the director of the laundry factory had nothing to do with him, but the factory had to report to the hotel personnel department for such a thing, so I don't worry. So I waited. Because I didn't have a BP machine, I didn't dare to leave home all day, for fear that Liu Minghao would come to me, and I wouldn't be there. I've been waiting for almost a week, and I've been distraught, and there's been an incident in the middle of the week that has made me very angry.

This morning, Anxin had just left work, and before I got up, someone knocked on the door. I thought it was Anxin who forgot to bring the key back to get it, so I got out of bed and opened the door, and when I opened the door, I saw that there were two strangers, a man and a woman, and hurriedly returned to get dressed. When I got dressed and looked again, I realized that both of them were wearing big caps with a red national emblem on them. I was startled, thinking of the alarmist words of the policeman and the fortune teller in my dream, and felt that it was unlucky to see these two big caps in the morning. When I looked closely, it wasn't the police, I didn't know if it was the industrial and commercial department, the tax department, or the security company, until they sat down and introduced themselves, and I realized that the clothes were originally from the procuratorate.

The woman was older than the man, probably in her forties, the age I could call her aunt anyway. She spoke first and said, "We came today to find you to understand something, and I hope you can truthfully reflect the situation, what do you say, okay?" ”

Her rhetoric is a bit like handling a case and examining the parties, but the tone is more charitable, so it didn't make me resist. I said, "Okay, what do you want to know?" ”

The man took out the notebook and made a record, and the woman asked: "Do you remember that when you used to work in Guoning Company, you were in charge of an infrastructure project, that is, the project that built the Guoning Taekwondo Gym, were you in charge of?" ”

I said, "Yes, I am the deputy commander-in-chief of the project, and the commander-in-chief is the Bian Xiaojun, the border of the frontier, the dawn of the dawn, and the army of the army." The two of us worked together. ”

"What do you do?"

"We don't have a clear division of labor, anyway, that's what happens every day. He's in charge, and he'll do whatever I tell me to do. Because I haven't done infrastructure projects before, I don't understand. ”

"Which company did you contract this project to?"

"Later, it was contracted to Longhua Building Decoration Engineering Company."

"Has it been decided that this company will contract the project, and has it been tendered?"

"No, Guoning Company is not a state-owned enterprise, so it did not conduct social bidding through the city's bidding office, but negotiated the bid internally, and found two companies to compare qualifications and prices, and it was decided."

"Who's going to decide?"

Zhong Guoqing, chairman of Guoning Company. Of course, because this project is a joint venture with the Beijing Normal Sports School, the procedure has to go through the board of directors of the club, which is actually to say hello to a vice principal sent to the board of directors by the sports school. ”

"Then what is Zhong Guoqing based on this company, has this company cooperated with Guoning Company before?"

"Nope. This company was reported by our preparation headquarters, and the specific work was done by us, and we reported the materials and approved it to Zhong Guoqing. ”

"Then can you say that you actually set the decision to use this company?"

"It must be Zhong Guoguo, we provide the situation, and it will also play a role."

"Who are we talking about, you and Bian Xiaojun?"

"It's mainly Bian Xiaojun, what's wrong, is something wrong with him?"

"What do you think went wrong in the process of selecting a contractor? For example, has there been any corruption? ”

I thought about it, and I couldn't think of anything for a while, so I said, "Our project is generally okay." Now the civil works have been completed, and I heard that the quality is good. If there is something to do, it is also Bian Xiaojun's business, it will not be Zhong Guoqing's corruption, this company is his own. ”

The woman glanced at the man, and then asked me, "How can you be sure that apart from Zhong Guoqing, only Bian Xiaojun is likely to be corrupt, and no one else is possible?" ”

I smiled: "Others, others may want to be corrupt, but it is not their turn." But anyone who wants to engage in some corruption must have some power. ”

The female prosecutor also smiled: "Do you want to be corrupt?" ”

I was stunned, knowing she was joking. But the jokes of judicial officers like them are eerie. I said, "I'm not guilty of corruption." ”

"Why? Is there any difference between you and Bian Xiaojun? ”

"Of course it's different."

"How is it different?"

I was speechless for a while, and I didn't know whether to say that I was the concubine of Zhong Guoqing's family at that time, and I was a quasi-member of the Guoning family. And Bian Xiaojun is just a part-time worker, don't look at him as my head.

"What's the difference between you?"

The woman didn't know why she was staring at this topic, as if she had to ask to the end, I didn't want to talk about the old things between me and the Zhong family, so she said perfunctorily: "Don't look for me for corruption, I haven't reached that level yet." ”

The two prosecutors were silent and were silent for a while, and then the woman said, "Okay, let's talk about this today." If you think about the questions I just asked, if you think of anything that you feel needs to talk to us, come to us. We'll leave you a call. ”

I heard it a little awkwardly, as if I had something wrong with me to be honest. I think this is probably an occupational disease of the public security and law enforcement personnel, and everyone thinks that there is a problem, and they will not be able to say anything well. I didn't say anything, I watched the woman write a phone number and leave it on the coffee table, and when they said goodbye, I was also quite cold.

The day after this incident, Anxin and I took Xiao Xiong out of the hospital. The bear is closer to me than to see Anxin. When this child is happy, he can't tell how touching he is, his hand is hooked to you, and his face is sticky. I never liked children before, and I don't like them now, except for the bears.

When the bear was taken home, the house was lively and full of life. My mood has also improved, and I don't have to worry much about work, and it's up to fate whether I can succeed anyway. Often don't think about things but come faster, two days later when Liu Minghao passed by the Third Ring Furniture City, he went in and told Anxin, I was done, let me bring my ID card and academic certificate or something on Monday to the Longdu Hotel Personnel Department interview.

I arrived at the Rendezvous Hotel at 8 a.m. on Monday, and the interview was very simple, I asked a few questions, read the documents and certificates I brought, and then asked me to fill out the form. Two days later, I was told to report to work. The director of the laundry factory saw that I looked very pleasant, chatted with me seriously, and decided not to let me work as a mechanic and instead became a salesman. Their laundry is very large, employing nearly 100 people. The work inside the Rendezvous Hotel is enough to eat and half-fill, and they also have to do social work, there are many embassies and foreign trading companies where they wash clothes, wash curtains, and invite them to come to wash carpets and so on. They used to have a business salesman, but their image was too shabby, and they couldn't speak a foreign language, so foreigners couldn't do business.

So I worked at the Rendezvous laundry. is similar to what Liu Minghao said at the beginning, the monthly salary and bonus are 1,000 and zero, two meals are managed, you can take a bath in the unit, and there is a shuttle bus to and from work. Moreover, I was engaged in sales, and I was equipped with a Hanxian BP machine, and I was also sent a suit that didn't fit well, which I didn't wear. Every day I go out, I wear my original suit, my suit has "Dupen", "Valentino", and the last is "Pierre Cardin", which is very close to the body. Our factory director also agreed to give me a free iron. As soon as this suit was worn, the masters in the factory said that this young man was really beautiful, and a master wanted to introduce her daughter to me to fall in love.

In the first month of work, I brought in four new customers, one of which was a small hotel without its own laundry, which suddenly increased the turnover of the factory by nearly 50,000 yuan. According to the sales incentive method in the factory, I personally received a commission of more than 900 yuan, and my life with peace of mind suddenly seemed to be more comfortable. What I earned that month, plus what she earned, totaled more than 3,000 yuan, and as soon as we went to bed at night, we discussed what to do with the extra money, what to buy for Xiaoxiong, how much money to pay back to Liu Minghao and Captain Pan, and so on.

I have been working in the laundry of Rendezvous Hotel for more than a month and am in a good mood. Maybe it's because I've experienced the trials of life, or maybe it's because I've experienced the rarity of job opportunities, and sometimes my performance is so good that even I can be surprised. When I don't go out to sell, I often take the initiative to help other masters work, dry cleaning, hot ironing, delivery, order taking, and I have done all kinds of work. I have only been here for more than a month, and I have received a red smile card issued by the hotel service quality committee, and it is said that nearly 2,000 people in the hotel only give out six or seven red smile cards every month, and most of them are obtained by front-line employees. The laundry is a second-tier unit, and it is the honor of the entire laundry that I got this red card, and my photo is also hung on the honor list at the door of the staff canteen.

Unfortunately, this life did not last long, and before my novelty was over, my hard-won job suddenly ended in an unexpected way.

That day, I didn't go out to sell clothes because I had to wait for a diplomat from an African embassy to pick up the clothes. The diplomat was my new client, with a strange temper and a bit picky, and I was afraid that others would not handle it well, so I stayed in the factory and waited for him, and by the way, I helped others deliver tablecloths to the restaurant. We delivered it from private room to private room and delivered it to the big dining room, and a manager in a black suit came over and asked me, "Is your name Yang Rui?" I don't know which department this person is, but his face is familiar, as if I have seen it at a meal in the staff cafeteria, so I replied, "Yes." Then he said, "Come." I followed him, still holding a stack of washed and pulped tablecloths, and walked to a cigar bar outside the restaurant. The cigar bar wasn't open yet, but there seemed to be someone inside. I walked in with the black suit. The cigar bar is old-fashioned, with dark furnishings and dim lighting, and it takes a while for the eyes to get used to it when you walk into the cigar bar from the large sunny corridor. But I could see that there were two cadres from the hotel's security department in the room, and two policemen, wearing big hats, standing in the shadows, as indistinct as in my dreams. There was another middle-aged man standing in front of me, and I recognized it, it was the person from the procuratorate who had come to my house more than a month ago, and it was the man who was silently taking notes.

When the security department of the hotel saw me come in, they nodded to the man from the prosecutor's office, and the man opened his mouth to me first. He had obviously seen me, and when he came up, he asked as usual:

"Is your name Yang Rui?"

His tone was much more horizontal than it had been in my house that day. I frowned and replied:

"Ahh

The man continued: "According to the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China and the Anti-Corruption and Bribery Regulations, you are suspected of accepting bribes, and you are now arrested in accordance with the law!" ”

I froze in the room, still holding the stack of tablecloths in my hand. A security cadre came over and took the tablecloth from my hand, and the two policemen next to me immediately came out of the shadows and handcuffed me. I wanted to say something, I wanted to tell them that it must be a mistake, but I couldn't say anything for a while, maybe I had never seen such a scene and was stupid all of a sudden. When I was calm enough to speak, I didn't speak again, I calmly thought about it and decided to forget it, I thought it would be useless to say anything here, this is not the place for me to plead.

They asked me to sign the arrest warrant, and I signed it, and as requested, I put the red mark mud on my index finger and pressed my fingerprint. When they took me out, I suddenly remembered that I was relieved, and I stood down and said to the prosecutor:

"I need to talk to my family."

The prosecutor said, "We'll let you know." Before he could finish speaking, the policeman next to me grabbed me and said:

"Let's go."

They escorted me out of the hotel through the staff aisle, and many of the employees were terrified when they met me. Some of the girls were usually very fond of teasing me, and they were so shocked that they couldn't speak when they saw me handcuffed out by the police. The men whispered about who I was, who I was, and I felt as uncomfortable as if I was being paraded through the streets.

I was put in a police car and taken to the detention center of the nearby public security bureau and locked up.

No one looked for me on the first day I was in the detention center. I sat in the corner of the number, feeling very sad, not for myself, but for peace of mind. I don't know what I'll do if I can't go back, and I don't know if my dad will take back the house and kick them out, or if Anxin will think I'm really corrupt and take bribes and be disappointed in me and empathize...... Thinking about this, I couldn't help but feel sad and wanted to cry.

There were also a few old prisoners in the number, and when they saw that I came in and ignored everyone, they came over and wanted to bully me, and asked me what I came in, did I bring cigarettes, and what did I cry about...... Wait a minute. I wasn't in the mood, I didn't want to talk to anyone, and my tears couldn't stop flowing. The way I look makes these social scum think I'm a sissy kid, and they laugh at me inch by inch, and even slap me in the face and turn my pocket. I stood up and tried to get rid of them, but they thought I was not convinced, and several people squeezed me into the corner of the wall, slapped me in the mouth, and hit with their knees below. I was in a hurry, all my stomach was full of grief and indignation, I thought at that time that Lao Tzu was fighting, not alive, I even had the heart to die today!

Of course, those people underestimated me, and I couldn't see my skills in volleyball in college and then taekwondo. I shook them off, and without waiting for them to come up, I used a series of downward splits, forward kicks, and back swings to kick the old prisoners who had been locked up for a few days, and their mouths and noses turned red, until the police in the detention center heard that something was wrong and rushed over to open the door and pull me out, and the fight was over.

I was locked in solitary confinement in a small room without sunlight, and the police kept me handcuffed for three hours. I didn't pick it until dinner in the evening. After eating, I saw the new policeman coming over again with handcuffs, so I begged him, saying that my arms are numb, don't put them on me. The night policeman asked: Why did you wear it during the day? I said, "Because they are bullying me." The police said: Why don't they give them clothes when they bully you? I said, "They bullied me, and I resisted." The policeman said, "I heard that you are a college student, right?" I said, "He who came in because he was wronged." The policeman said: "It's all said that whoever wants to admit that they have done bad things." I knew it was useless to argue with him, and if he didn't get upset and handcuffed me again, I kept silent. The policeman said: You said yourself, do you still wear it? I said, "No." The policeman said: What should I do if I don't wear it and hit someone again? I said, "Are you going to lock me up?" The policeman said, "If you want to be beautiful, you should stay here alone." I said, "Who am I going to hit alone?" The policeman was stunned for a moment and said, "Why are you so poor, tell you, you can be honest when you get here, and I will handcuff you again if there is any moth." I kept my head down and didn't answer again, and the police locked the door and left.

The next day, the prosecutor's office came and interrogated me. It's still the same man and a woman, or the woman asks, and the man remembers. Only then did I know that I folded in because Liu Minghao and the boss of Longhua Company gave me 20,000 yuan.

They only verified the details of the matter with me this time—where I ate, who gave me the money, what it was in it, what we said at the time, and how I "squandered" the money, etc. Every time I tried to explain, they interrupted me and told me to just answer their questions, yes or no, and nothing else. Today we are here just to verify the situation, and in the future, there will be time for you to explain what you are anxious about!

From their words, I analyzed that something was probably wrong with the boss of Longhua Company, and it seemed that he was also arrested, and the plot of my bribery was brought out by his case. But some of their other words made me feel that I was reported and exposed by someone inside Guoning Company. Maybe both of these analyses are valid, didn't Zhong Guoqing say that he was going to take care of me. If I hadn't sat here in front of the prosecutor today, I would have almost forgotten his words.

After the arraignment that day, I was asked to go to an office in the detention center to get a quilt, and the police said that my family had sent it. As soon as I looked at the futon and a few clothes, I knew that Anxin had come. I hurriedly asked the police: "What did my family say?" The policeman glared at me and asked, "What did you say, huh?" When you can meet in the future, you can listen to what she says, and what you can say now! ”

The policemen here spoke as if they had eaten gunpowder, and they were so angry that they didn't seem to be enough to suppress the arrogance of our prisoners. I hugged the quilt, my head full of thoughts, and was escorted back to the tuba where I had been held when I first entered. When the prisoners who were beaten yesterday saw that I had returned, they were silent. I deliberately made a face-to-face and looked around viciously to deter them. Actually, I'm still afraid of them in my heart, and I don't know what they will do to get revenge on me.

Later, I found out that these people are all masters who bully the weak and fear the hard, and they are also very afraid when I come back, and they are afraid that I will retaliate against them. Later, they got acquainted with me, and they all got along with me, one by one.

My life in the detention center has also become better, and I no longer have to worry about it every minute, be highly nervous, and be on guard against plotting as I did when I first came in. When people stay in an environment for a long time, they will naturally get used to it, relax and relax, and no matter how bad the environment is, they will taste some happiness. Humans and beasts are of the same origin, and the adaptability of humans is actually similar to that of animals, or even surpassed.

Later, the procuratorate interrogated me again, and it was the man who came alone. This time, I mainly asked me to explain how I managed to make them win the bid after getting the benefits from Longhua Company. Secondly, I was also heard to defend their accusations. After I finished arguing, he didn't make a statement, whether it was criticism or approval, there was no tendentious expression. After listening to it, he wrote it down briefly in his black notebook, and left.

A few more days passed, and there was no news of anything. I sleep every day except eating, unlike when I first came over, I couldn't eat or sleep. I want to feel at ease, and I think about it numbly. Occasionally, I think of my dad. I think my dad has been a leader for so many years, and there must be a relationship between the public procuratorate and the law, if he really wants to save me, he won't be unable to do anything at all. But I haven't been to see him since the last time I got into an argument with him. I know his temper, like our father and son, and the opposite of the temper of those old prisoners, they are both soft and not hard. The more I don't look at him, the more angry he becomes, otherwise how can I get Liu Minghao to tell me that he wants to take back the house I live in, how ruthless! He must have been angry to a certain extent to do this, not that he couldn't live without this rent. I think maybe my dad will have some relief pleasure knowing how much I was caught, and he will show his foresight to others, at least Liu Minghao: I expected that he would have to fall a big fall one day if he followed that woman! What am I talking about......

If my dad thinks he's right, it's too late for him to get complacent, can he still save me? I don't want to.

Then, one morning, I was brought out again. When I entered the interrogation room, I saw that neither of the prosecutors had come, but a young woman who had asked me to sit down at the table, with a serious attitude, but very relaxed. She gave me a business card, and before I could look down, she said:

"I am a lawyer at Hongguang Law Firm, and I am ready to serve as your defender in the bribery case at the request of your friend Anxin, do you want to raise objections to me defending you?"

I was dumbfounded, without any mental preparation, I seemed to think about it for a while, maybe I didn't think about anything, and blurted out a rhetorical question:

"Peace of mind, how much does it cost?"

The female lawyer was a little surprised by this question, but she still answered me seriously:

"Our firm collects agency fees and defense fees according to the standards set by the Ministry of Justice, and as for how much you should charge for this case, it depends on the difficulty of the case and the time of trial, and whether there are appeals and protests after the first trial."

Immediately after the following words, I knew that I couldn't ask a lawyer, but I still asked to myself, stupidly:

"Where did she get the money?"