The Guling Public Security Bureau is also the public security bureau of Baoliangjia. When Bao Liang's family moved from Jianning, a leader of the sub-bureau also brought the director of the police station in the jurisdiction to visit Bao Liang's father at home.

Five years have passed, and no one here can still recognize Baoliang, and no one knows that among this group of men and women suspected of drug abuse, there is a son of a public security hero.

In the compound of the Public Security Bureau, in the center of the façade is a new building that has just been opened, and the original old building is dwarfed and squeezed aside. Bao Lianghe and the more than 30 people he brought from the nightclub were all detained in the dilapidated wing, where they were ordered to empty the pockets of their clothes and the backpacks and handbags they carried with them, and all the identity documents and suspicious items in the bags, such as small pill bottles and condoms, were registered and confiscated by the police. They were then separated from the men and women and taken into two detention cells with iron bars.

They were ordered to sit on the ground, with their heads in their hands, and not to speak. Bao Liang looked down at his crotch, trembling with remorse, wondering how and what kind of process this sudden bad luck would end tonight.

Outside the iron grille, the footsteps were messy. The cops talk to each other about tonight's work schedule, interspersed with a few inconsequential jokes. A woman's voice seemed to have been heard somewhere, with a familiar brightness and clarity, and followed the footsteps in a mixed manner.

Bao Liang raised his head slightly and saw the situation outside the iron fence, at least seven or eight male and female policemen were busy going in and out. A young and tall policewoman was walking towards the door with a stack of files, someone called her and said something to her, the policewoman looked back and smiled, her eyes were bright, and her short hair was fluttering. Bao Liang's heart jumped to his throat, although it was just a smile back, a short moment, but Bao Liang was completely sure that the name he heard in his ears and the face he saw in his eyes was clearly the beautiful alumnus who once made his heart flutter, Xia Xuan, a girl who hit every shot on the shooting range!

Xia Xuan walked out of the room outside the iron fence, and his conscience suddenly panicked, of course he didn't want to be in this kind of place, with this kind of relationship, with this kind of girl, awkward.

Soon, the police began to call people out for questioning one by one, and Bao Liang couldn't figure out how many people he was called out. He was taken to a room, and as soon as he entered the room, he was asked, "Have you eaten ***?" Bao Liang instinctively denied: "No." The police immediately disagreed: "Is it true or not?" Bao Liang also lied again programmatically: "Not really. ”

The police didn't ask much, took him to a toilet, gave him a small glass bottle, and told him to pee in it. Under the positive eyes of the police, Bao Liang couldn't pee out, so he urinated a little bit for a long time, and the urine was innocent. But Bao Liang was so desperate that his brain was completely empty, and he knew in his heart that he could no longer be innocent.

Then he was brought back to the bar, and he sat on the ground, full of thoughts, imagining that all the troubles of the night would pass safely, that the police would release them before dawn to-morrow, and that he would be able to catch the morning bus, and that he would be able to catch the morning exercise, which the school had recently ordered to be forbidden.

One after another, the people in the iron fence were called out and brought back, and some were called out and never came back, and the situation gradually became clear. The man's side was left behind, and there were only five or six people, including Baoliang. Bao Liang also didn't know how many of the women left, how many they put in, whether the little girl was also tested for urine, and whether the urine was also unqualified.

It's dawn. Bao Liang was again called out of the bar, taken to a room, and began to be formally interrogated. As soon as he entered the room, his steps began to be sluggish, because he saw that among the three policemen sitting on the other side of the table, there was a woman, and that was Xia Xuan. From Xia Xuan's gaze at him, Bao Liang was completely desperate, obviously, she not only recognized Bao Liang, but also was surprised.

The male policeman in the center ordered Bao Liang to sit down, and then began to interrogate. Bao Liang's eyes avoided Xia Xuan, but he could see that in this interrogation, Xia Xuan had a record.

"What's your name?"

"Lu Baoliang."

In fact, when Bao Liang entered the house, he had already seen his ID card on the table, but the police still had to check the household registration and asked from the beginning.

"Age?"

"Nineteen."

"What do you do?"

"Students."

"Which school?"

This question made Bao Liang can't help but glance at Xia Xuan on the left, Xia Xuan lowered her head to record, and at that moment Bao Liang seemed to feel it, her eyelashes picked at Bao Liang's side, but she didn't look up.

"Provincial Public Security College."

"What?" The male policeman in the middle didn't seem to hear clearly, "What academy?" ”

"Provincial Public Security College."

"Public Security Academy?" The policeman's questioning paused until it was enough to release the huge surprise, "Are you a student at the public school?" ”

"Yes."

"What major?"

"Criminal Investigation Major."

"Yo, I can't see that we are still walking together, what grade are you in?"

"Freshman."

There was another pause, and the officers didn't seem to know what to say. Bao Liang could feel that Xia Xuan's head was raised, and she was looking at him. Even though his eyes were lowered, he could feel the confusion and burning of those gazes.

"I'll tell you, your urine sample has been tested." The policeman in the middle spoke again, "I'll ask you again, have you taken your medicine." ”

Bao Liang was dull for a moment, and whispered, "Eat." ”

"What kind of medicine are you taking?"

“***。”

"How many times have you eaten?"

Bao Liang knew that at this moment, in this room, every word he said would become evidence in court and would determine his destiny. But his resistance had been completely abandoned, and he decided to confess it from now on:

"Twice, no, three times."

"Do you know that eating *** is a problem of drug use? Did you know it's illegal to eat it? ”

"Yes."

"I know, but I still have to eat! Where did you get that? ”

"A friend."

"What friend, how did you give it to you?"

An interrogation, confession, and then a fingerprint is placed on the interrogation record. When he pressed the handprint, he and Xia Xuan could see the slender and clean hands, but he always lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, not daring to look at the eyes on the other side.

He was then not brought back to the bar, but was officially taken into custody in the detention center of the substation.

He knows that the matter is irreparable, he will definitely not be released today, he will definitely not be able to participate in today's morning exercise at school, the school will definitely know that he was detained by the public security for entering and leaving entertainment venues and taking ***, and there will definitely be an unknown level of punishment waiting in the future!

He thought of his father.

The father's old face filled Baoliang's eyes with tears.

Only later did Bao Liang understand that the nature of his problem determined by the Guling District Public Security Bureau was even more serious than he had expected. His problems were characterized as: participating in ** group activities, taking illegal drugs such as *** many times, and hindering social morality. The handling opinion is: three months of acceptance and education.

When Bao Liang was just taken to the Guling Branch, his initial anxiety was mainly about whether he could catch up with the morning exercise of the academy that day, he had been absent from school many times, and the impact was not good. After he knew that not only would he not be able to exercise in the morning, but that he would be absent from school all day, his main concern was the reaction of his classmates when they learned of the scandal – shock, bewilderment, ridicule, sarcasm, alienation, disgust...... and, the extent of the school's disciplinary action – warnings, serious warnings, demerits, major demerits...... He didn't even think about staying in school for probation, he just went to the nightclub to dance a few times and ate some things to cheer up, even if it damaged the image of the students in the public school, it didn't have much impact. He was more concerned about whether it was the class counselor or a certain leader of the department who would come to the detention center to take him out, how he would face them, and how he would plead with them, begging them to hide this ugly matter from his father.

How could he have imagined that two weeks later, it would not be the head of the department, the counselor or teacher in the class, or any cadre of the school who came to the detention center to pick him up, but someone else.

That man was his father.

How did his father learn that Bao Liang was locked up in the sub-bureau detention center, and Bao Liang had no way to understand. His father's first reaction after knowing about this matter, Baoliang couldn't guess it. But he later learned that his father had found the leaders of the provincial department, the city bureau, the college, and ...... Many, many leaders, these leaders have also made instructions for Baoliang's case. The police of the sub-bureau now knew that the person they arrested in the nightclub was the son of an old public security officer, the son of a first-class public security hero, and a young man who was preparing to inherit his father's business and inherit the mantle of the police. Although the instructions of leaders at all levels first emphasized that things must be done according to law, they also demanded that the Guling sub-bureau handling the case should conduct a detailed investigation, find out the original situation, and distinguish responsibilities, so as not to let go of a bad person or wronged a good person...... In the all-encompassing clichés, the tendency to refer can still be heard.

In accordance with the requirements of the instructions, the Guling Branch re-conducted a detailed investigation, and in the past two weeks, it talked to Bao Liang many times, and also interrogated Xiao Liang and other illegal personnel who danced in the same room with Bao Liang. In the end, the original decision to deal with Bao Liang's interrogation and education for three months was revoked, and the punishment of administrative detention was changed to 15 days, counting from the date of detention, and after 15 days, Bao Liang walked out of this high-walled power grid and stood face to face with his father in front of the detention center.

On his first day in the detention center, Bao Liang was bullied by fellow inmates and was covered in injuries after a vicious fight. On the third day, the detention center learned of Bao Liang's background and gave special attention, and the police personally came in and instructed the old prisoner not to bully the new prisoner. After that, Bao Liang was not beaten again, but the fifteen days of detention were like a hundred years of purgatory for him. For fifteen days, he couldn't eat anything and didn't want to talk to anyone. During the day, his mind was in utter confusion, with both the panic of being isolated and the fear of getting out of here and returning to freedom. At night, even when the prisoners were sleeping outside of the watchman on shift, he never had a moment of complete sleep. Fifteen days later, when he walked out of the gate of the detention center with his ID card, wallet, and diamond-encrusted platinum earrings issued to him by the police, his father may no longer recognize him, he was no longer the handsome and upright student of the public school, a master of track and field, a sunny boy, but a scrawny, weak, withered prisoner, like a terminally ill real drug addict.

He stood in front of his father, swaying, his neck elongated, barely able to support his slightly trembling head. He heard his father call out to him: "Baoliang ......" He couldn't hold back the tears anymore, and hugged his father with open arms.

His father let him hold him motionlessly, he could feel that his father was crying like him, but the difference was that his father pressed all the crying in his heart, except for the rise and fall of his chest, not allowing himself to show a trace of embarrassment. It was a long time before my father moved his crippled legs, resolutely left Baoliang's weak body, and turned to walk towards the main road.

Bao Liang lost his support, his body shook a little, and he cried out pitifully: "Dad, do you forgive me?" ”

The father stood, he stood firmly, his feet did not look at all like he was disabled, like a hero who never fell. He turned around and walked back, without pause, without hesitation, raised his huge palm, pumped it on Bao Liang's face with all his strength, and knocked this unscrupulous son to the ground with one palm!

The father tearfully glanced at Baoliang who fell to the ground, turned around again, and left. The foot was very lame.

The scandal of Lu Baoliang participating in the party, eating, and sucking, and being investigated and dealt with by the public security organs, spread like the wind in the Provincial Public Security College at the fastest speed and in the most fancy version. In the classroom, in the cafeteria, in the dormitory, everyone talks about it. On the second day after Bao Liang returned to school, he had morning exercises, had a day of classes, and went to the library in the evening to find the books that the teacher prescribed to read. Before going to bed at night, the classmates who were better in the dormitory also asked him about the situation in private, and comforted and persuaded him in the form of friends. On the third day, the counselor asked Bao Liang to go to the department head's office. In the department head's office, the head of the department and another teacher from the student department who Bao Liang was not familiar with announced to him the decision that the Provincial Public Security College had just made to expel Bao Liang.

Bao Liang had expected it, he had learned to think of the worst, but he still felt every muscle in his body tremble as he heard the head of the department read out the decision in a calm and composed voice. By the time the head of the department had finished reading it out and routinely solicited his opinion on the decision, Bao Liang was already shaking:

"You ...... You and my dad ...... Did you say that? ”

The head of the department said, "After the college made this decision, it has already talked to your father. Your father understands the decision of the academy and has no opinion. ”

Bao Liang wanted to make some defenses and make some pleadings, but his father's attitude made him give up the remaining illusions. When he walked out of the department chair's office, he found that his police uniform, which had been very formal, had become wide and large-sleeved, which did not match his thin figure, like someone else's clothes, which he occasionally borrowed to wear. He has imagined countless times that on his empty epaulettes, after accumulation of time, meritorious service awards, and constantly adding stars and bars, he imagined that when those stars and bars will one day surpass his father, what kind of gratifying smile his father will use to express his rewards to him on behalf of the Lu family's family and ancestors.

Bao Liang returned home, brought back all the things that belonged to his personal family, and left behind all the items that were related to the "public security", including police uniforms, school emblems, textbooks on public security business, and corresponding lecture records. For a whole week after returning home, he barely stepped out of his bedroom, and even the food was brought to his house by Aunt Yang. He could barely hear his father's voice in the bedroom, could not hear his father talking, could not hear him walking. My father walked lightly and heavily, and his voice was easily recognizable. In those days, even Aunt Yang was light-footed, and even Dudu consciously restrained the noise, and from the suffocating air at home, Bao Liang could imagine what kind of expression his father's face should be.

The father did not come to him, did not speak to him.

He was so eager for his father's footsteps to suddenly knock on his door from far and near. He longed for his father to come in and talk to him, even if he scolded him, beat him, listened to his confession, and listened to him cry. He longed for their father and son to face each other, no matter what way, so that this shameful thing that disgraced his father would become history, and that the page of shame, the page that ruined his father's glory and dreams, would be turned over.

But his father didn't come to him and didn't want to face it.

A week later, Bao Liang walked out of the bedroom, out of the house, out into the harsh sunlight, and he looked up at the sky to see if he had gone mad, had collapsed, and was deaf in both ears...... The sun he saw was still shining in all directions; The sky is still blue and dazzling; He heard the noise of people and cars in the streets. Although his body is weak, his limbs can still move freely, and his organs are as sharp as ever.

He walked down the street, for a long, long time.

Since moving to the provincial capital to attend middle school, he seems to have never been like today, as an idler, with a marginal mood of being abandoned by society, on the street, in the sea of people, so blindly, with the crowd.

Unconsciously, he walked to the billiard hall where Li Chen worked.

In the billiard hall, there are not many customers, and the sound of hitting the ball stimulates Baoliang's eardrums. He saw Li Chen, who was wearing a dark suit, explaining something to a waiter who was delivering drinks, raising his hands and eyebrows, every move and style, all of them looked decent. Li Chen also saw him, and walked over to him, with a surprised expression: "Yo, Baoliang, why are you here, you don't have class today?" ”

That night, in the middle of the night, in the snack bar of Aunt Fei Fei's husband, Jianning Sanxiong was so drunk that everyone lost their shape after drinking. Li Chen couldn't stop laughing, and Liu Cunliang cried when he was drunk. Speaking of Jianning's hometown, talking about the red hill in his hometown, talking about the abandoned kiln on the hill that looks like an ancient castle, talking about the pride of standing on the top of the kiln and looking at the surging river, talking about the loneliness and helplessness of leaving his hometown, and the hardships of food, clothing, housing and transportation, how can he not be sad, tears flowing, and even Li Chen's laughter contained a trace of unconcealable sighs.

But Bao Liang didn't cry.

Bao Liang was also drunk, but he didn't cry.

Bao Liang asked Li Chen: "Li Chen, what do you want most now, what do you want the most?" ”

Li Chen said: "What I want most is a house of my own. We don't know how long it will take to have a house of our own in the provincial capital. Nearly half of the monthly salary commission he earns now is earned by his mother for the landlord. ”

Bao Liang asked Liu Cunliang: "Cunliang, what do you want most?" ”

Liu Cunliang said: "Money! ”

Bao Liang said: "Money? It's as simple as that? ”

Liu Cunliang said: "As long as you have money, you have everything, a house, a career, and whatever you want." You said that after eating ***, what do you want, it's not just for a while, as soon as the strength of the medicine passes, everything is a passing cloud. ”

Bao Liang said: "It is not rich that there is a career, the order should be just the opposite, only if the career is good, there will be money." ”

Liu Cunliang disagreed, although he was drunk, he still had a clear understanding of the lifestring of money: "Illiterate people like us with a secondary school degree, and we have no background at home, if we want to succeed in our career, we may not be able to survive until the Year of the Monkey." Only by earning money first, and then relying on money as a capital, can you do a career. ”

Li Chen retorted disdainfully: "What do you have to make money without a career and rob the bank?" Don't let you go to be a robber, the last time you were asked to pretend to be a policeman, you were trembling. ”

Liu Cunliang also retorted disdainfully: "Only you will be stupid enough to rob a bank, there are many ways to make a fortune, as long as you can use your brains." ”

Li Chen said: "Tell me, what kind of brains are you using? It's been more than a year since you've been in the provincial capital, and I really haven't noticed the difference in your head. ”

Bao Liang said: "Cunliang has been buying lottery tickets, maybe one day he will win!" ”

Li Chen said: "Buying lottery tickets depends on the sky to eat, and no matter how stupid your brain is, you can win." ”

Liu Cunliang said: "Buying lottery tickets is actually a lot, at which point to buy, what number to choose, the probability of winning is absolutely different, I have studied this aspect for a long time, I won't tell you. ”

Li Chen said: "Ho, yes, then the trick to making a fortune is better for you to cover yourself, maybe you can really cover a golden egg, just be careful not to cover it." Li Chen turned his face and asked Bao Liang again, "Bao Liang, what do you want most?" ”

Bao Liang said: "What I want most is to go back to class at the Public Security Academy, that incident was just a nightmare I had, and when I woke up, I realized that nothing had happened." ”

Li Chen said: "Cough, this is nonsense, which means that you didn't say it." ”

Liu Cunliang said: "Don't you want to look for your sister, before your mother died, didn't you let you find your sister no matter what?" ”

All night, only this sentence made Baoliang's throat tighten and his eyes moistened. He thought for a moment, not knowing whether he was suddenly sober or really drunk, and muttered numbly with his tongue: "If you don't look for it, if you keep looking for it, I should lose it myself." ”

In the middle of the night, they left the snack bar drunk and got into a taxi, which took them to Xingfu New Village, where Li Chen and Liu Cunliang lived. Bao Liang forgot how they went upstairs to open the door, and how they lay on the bed, only that their clothes and trousers were not gone, horizontally and vertically, and slept until noon the next day.

From that day on, Bao Liang often spent the night here. For Bao Liang, home is like a tomb, without light, silent. He no longer wanted to see his father, he even deliberately avoided his father, and occasionally met his father at the bathroom door or in the hallway, and his father also walked silently with a calm face in his eyes, and the atmosphere was so overwhelming that Bao Liang's instinct to call him "Dad" was suffocated.

On the contrary, Aunt Yang was somewhat kind to him, and when he went home, she brought him some food, reminding him to find a job early, support himself, and not to do nothing all day long, wasting his good youth. Bao Liang thought, no matter whether Aunt Yang is really good to him or thinks he lives at home for nothing, he really needs to replan his life. Whether or not his father will be responsible for him to the end, the first thing he should do is to support himself.

He decided to go out to look for a job, he first went to Li Chen to give some ideas, and there Li Chen unexpectedly met Tao Feifei, who had just returned from Jianning. Tao Feifei is much thinner than in the past, but on the contrary, she has added a little bit of girlish beauty. Her mother suffered from severe asthma and was in pain when she walked and lay down. The purpose of her leaving her hometown and returning to the provincial capital was to earn money for her mother's medicine as soon as possible.

Fei Feibi was also silent a lot in the past, and even the vicissitudes of life such as Baoliang being detained by the public security and being expelled from school did not arouse much repercussions on her face. She even said to Bao Liang lightly with a somewhat mixed expression: Okay now, you can be on an equal footing with us now. Tomorrow we can go out together and go to work together.

The next day, Bao Liang really partnered with Fei Fei and wandered the streets looking for work. At this time, Bao Liang was already penniless, and he didn't want to be cheeky to ask his father for it, so Fei Fei paid the bill for eating out and taking the car. Every time Bao Liang saw Fei Fei open her increasingly deflated wallet, he felt ashamed and ashamed. He knew that every bite of food he ate was devouring the flesh and blood of Fei Fei's mother. The money, which was supposed to be used to alleviate her mother's illness, was now turned into rice noodles, which she ate into her stomach one bite at a time under Feifei's watchful eyes.

There is not much left in Baoliang's mobile phone. He forwarded the call from his mobile phone to Li Chen's mobile phone, in case his father or Aunt Yang suddenly wanted to find him. On this day, Li Chen's mobile phone really received a call to find Baoliang, and the caller was a woman, Li Chen interrogated again and again, but he didn't ask who the woman's surname was. The woman only told Li Chen that she was a friend of Bao Liang, and asked Bao Liang to call her back when he was free.

Bao Liang returned.

When I went back, I realized that this woman's name was Yezi, and I remembered that she was a girl who played with Xiao Liang in a nightclub. Ye Zi may just be another name for her, or simply a pseudonym.

Ye Zi said that there was something he wanted to meet with Bao Liang, Bao Liang asked what was the matter, Ye Zi said that he couldn't tell me on the phone, when are you free, we had better meet and talk.

Bao Liang and Ye Zi made an appointment to meet at a bus stop not far from Xingfu New Village, and Ye Zi led him to a quiet teahouse nearby. The age of the leaves is slightly older than that of Xiao Liang, and the grease powder also looks like twenty-eight or nine. According to Bao Liang's estimate, she may have been the second wife who was covered by a large amount of money in the past, but now she has become a "resentful woman" with little savings, just like Xiao Liang.

When he saw Ye Zibaoliang, he would naturally ask about Xiao Liang and ask her whether she was locked up by the public security or had been released. Ye Zi said that he had been released a long time ago, and it was the same as Baoliang, he was detained for more than ten days, fined a sum of money, and let Boss Ma bail him out. Bao Liang asked: What is she now, is she still with Boss Ma? Ye Zi said: No, a few days ago, Xiao Liang jumped off the building, was rescued in the hospital for four days, and died yesterday.

Bao Liang was taken aback: "Jumping off the building, why?" ”

Ye Zi said lightly: "Ahem, it's all *** food, and the little guy can't do without that." I said I wouldn't eat it, but I ended up going out with my friends and eating it again. She is also too lonely, she doesn't love the person surnamed Ma, and the surname Ma is tired of playing and she rarely looks for her. She is raised by the surname Ma, and she can't live freely and openly with the person she likes, so she thinks that *** is the best thing. ”

Bao Liang seemed to understand, he remembered that Xiao Liang almost flew out of the window of the nightclub on the sixth floor once, if he hadn't been hugged down, there would have been no follow-up.

Ye Zi said: "Fortunately, I was not there at the time, as soon as the little girl flew out of the window, this matter was a big problem, and all the people who were playing with her in a private room at that time were arrested by the police, and found out who ate *** or light, and almost didn't let the police suspect who was the one who deliberately pushed the little girl down." ”

Bao Liang made this terrible news panic, and he didn't know what to say for a long time, whether to express regret or regret. Ye Zi said: "But this little girl is quite righteous, when I went to the hospital to see her, she still had a breath, she asked me to go to her house to help her clean up her things, and take out the money in the passbook and send it to her parents." Let me find this business card in the drawer and give it to you. The last thing I heard from me was your phone number. ”

Bao Liang took the business card handed over by Ye Zi, the name written on the business card was Ma Jialin, and the address and telephone number of Ma Jialin's company office. However, the address on this is completely different from the office where Bao Liang went, it was an unfamiliar neighborhood, and it was an unfamiliar house number.

"This is where Magalin used to live, and after meeting Xiao Liang, he rented her current house to Xiao Liang. His company office was moved. ”

Bao Liang nodded incomprehensibly and said, "She asked you to give me this, didn't she tell you?" ”

"She said she's sorry for you, and that what she promised you hasn't been done yet. She said that the house where Ma Garin used to live was rented from a man named Quan Hu. You're looking for this right tiger, right? Maybe Quan Hu has rented this house to someone else again. If you can find someone to rent here, then you will definitely find Quanhu! ”