As Lei Lei saw, the meeting between Baoliang and Fei Fei last evening was made at the "McDonald's" restaurant, and they did talk for a long time in a suppressed voice, and there was indeed a fierce dispute.

Of course, the content of the dispute is what happened yesterday morning, under Baoliang's repeated questioning, Fei Fei admitted that Lao Qiu is indeed an underworld figure, and this time he mainly makes a living by selling ***. Selling *** is a dangerous thing, so Lao Qiu doesn't do it himself, and the few dead friends who follow him generally don't go to the field to show their heads, they specially search for those young "cannon fodder" who have no money in their pockets and are bold and reckless, and take risks instead of them. They just tell these people where to pick up the goods, which account to put the money into, and the name of the account is fake, and they can withdraw it from the ATM. Even if these kids sell goods are planted, it will be difficult to affect Lao Qiu and them. The same is true for their purpose of looking for Baoliang to provoke, not to retaliate, but to force Baoliang to "get on the boat".

Lao Qiu knew from Fei Fei that Bao Liang was working in the Dongfu Hotel, and after two days of looking for someone to follow him, he found out Bao Liang's address and whereabouts. The reason for his quarrel with Fei Fei was mainly due to the encounter between him and Lao Qiu at Fei Fei's house. Bao Liang suspected that Fei Fei's intimacy with him that day was a trap set by Lao Qiu, while Fei Fei vigorously argued that it was definitely just an unprovoked encounter and that there was no conspiracy before. However, Bao Liang still believes that Fei Fei and Lao Qiu have become a gang, and he asks Fei Fei to warn Lao Qiu not to provoke him again, let alone trouble Lei Lei. It's useless if there are too many of them, and there are too many people to resist a person who dares to fight hard! Bao Liang threw down this sentence and pulled Lei Lei out of McDonald's. In fact, he also knew that he couldn't fight Lao Qiu, but the only strategy he could adopt now was to put on a desperate face. His strategy is like a kitten, when it encounters danger, it must arch its waist, open its back hair, expand its body as much as possible, and roar out of its mouth to show its strength.

Another measure that complements this tough stance is to flee.

This is really a last resort, and after thinking about it, Bao Liang can't think of any other perfect solution. He once wanted to go to Xia Xuan from the Provincial Department of Old Cadres or the Guling Branch, but after thinking about it later, he didn't dare to act rashly. Because once the police treat this matter as a case, they will definitely have to catch the evidence. If no evidence can be caught, it is impossible for the public security to send people to pick up Lei Lei every day, and he has to face all the troubles and dangers himself. Even if the child is beaten all the time, it is useless to ask the police to come forward. Not to mention this kind of thing to the Provincial Public Security Department, even to the Guling Branch, it is not a big deal. In such a public order case, it is impossible to devote much police force to eradicate the problem once and for all. Lao Qiu can buy a few scoundrels in the market, slap the child today, and throw a stone in the middle of the road tomorrow, until Lei Lei becomes a frightened bird, and distorts Lei Lei's personality, at least makes him timid and sensitive, suspicious, then the child will be ruined.

Therefore, his last choice was to escape.

As the saying goes, you can't afford to hide. This principle is very suitable for dealing with this kind of bullish character. Gambling with this kind of ruffian is worthless, and it is difficult to win or lose.

So he decided that he would take Lei Lei and his sister and disappear into the vast sea of people in the city, and start their life as a family again. Anyway, he didn't go to the places where the old hills frequented such as song halls and nightclubs, he was in a safe corner of this metropolis with a population of millions, and he might never see Lao Qiu again in his life.

He wasn't going to see Fei Fei again!

He even made a more painful decision, he didn't plan to see Li Chen and Liu Cunliang again in the future. Li Chen and Liu Cunliang are both fast-talking mothers-in-law, once they know where he is, they will definitely nag Fei Fei.

For Bao Liang, making such a decision is like a painful cicada, like saying goodbye to the past life. Fei Fei once gave him all the love of a girl, and he was also determined to protect Fei Fei for the rest of his life. He loves her so much and hates her so much, and now that he has made the decision to say goodbye, who can solve the sentimentality in his heart? Jianning Sanxiong is a portrayal of his youth, ten years ago they swore to live and die together, ten years later the two turned against each other, and one of them was going to slip away quietly, which was also an incomprehensible vicissitudes of life, endless sorrow!

Making such a decision will also be a major adjustment for Bao Liang's current life. He first had to give up his already well-established job at the Dongfu Hotel to find a new position, rent a suitable house near his new workplace, and then secure the school to which Lei Lei transferred. It is said that it is more troublesome for students to change schools than for adults to change jobs, but they must also be transferred, because Lei Lei is the purpose and reason for this secret migration.

Make up your mind and without further ado. Bao Liang decided to go home for a nap after the night shift and go out to look for work before noon. But when he had changed his clothes and had not yet walked out of the back door of the hotel, he was stopped by a colleague who came in a hurry. A colleague told him that the hospital had just called and told him to go over immediately if there was an emergency.

Bao Liang was a little panicked, and the first thing that came to his mind might be that his sister's condition was deteriorating, or that the hospital had made some major treatment plan, which needed the nod of his relatives for approval. He hurried to the hospital by car, and when he arrived, he saw that two police officers from the Provincial Women's Prison had also arrived, and only then did he realize that the situation was completely different from what he expected.

My sister died.

Bao Liang cried.

Bao Liang said I don't believe it!

Yesterday afternoon, my sister was still so sober, and she talked to him about her parents, and said that she wanted to go back to her hometown to see, and said that she wanted to go to her mother's cemetery. When Bao Liang left, she slept very smoothly and breathed evenly, how could such a misfortune happen after one night?

But my sister did die.

My sister died of multiple diseases and multiple organ failures. Her sudden soberness yesterday afternoon, and her sudden homesickness, can be explained by the return of light. What's more, my sister did talk about death yesterday, about her funeral, and about the reunion of their family in heaven......

The death of my sister is the shattering of a dream of Baoliang, and my sister seems to be at home. She can go to another world to meet her mother, and that world may be the fairyland that her sister longed for yesterday. And that fairyland, in Baoliang's imagination, is more like a world full of smoke, full of human laughter.

The doctors took Bao Liang to the morgue, where Bao Liang met his sister. My sister's face was calm and serene, as if her soul had really gone to the Land of Bliss. When my sister was peaceful, she was very similar to her mother, which made Baoliang full of retrospection and reverie at that moment. He didn't cry loudly, but with clear tears, he silently assured his sister in his heart that he must let Lei Lei grow up well.

According to the doctor's description, my sister was in a coma before she died, and the pain before the coma was relatively short, and it lasted three hours until the doctor gave up the rescue and declared her dead. During this time, my sister did not wake up and did not have a last word.

In other words, the murmurs of my sister the day before afternoon about wanting to see her mother and wanting to go back to her hometown were her last words.

For a whole morning, Bao Liang was in the hospital to deal with his sister's funeral, and discussed the funeral arrangements with the police of the women's prison. His grief has been able to retreat into the depths of his soul, while the grief on the surface of his flesh is hidden.

Leaving the hospital in the afternoon, Bao Liang first made a phone call to the hotel's executive club and asked Qiao Xiaoou about sending Lei Lei to school in the morning. Thinking of Lei Lei Baoliang's grief seems to be strongly induced, this child who has lost his mother is so pitiful in Bao Liang's conscience.

Qiao Xiaoou had just gone to work and had not yet handed over the work, she heard the choked throat in Bao Liang's words from the phone, and couldn't help but ask Bao Liang in surprise: "What's wrong with you, Baoliang, is something wrong with the child?" ”

"Nope." In a phone booth on the street, trying to calm his breathing, Bao Liang said, "Lei Lei's mother is dead. Lei Lei is fine, didn't you send Lei Lei to school in the morning, he probably hasn't finished class yet. ”

Qiao Xiaoou seemed even more surprised: "No, I didn't pick up Lei Lei when I went to your house in the morning, and I heard the neighbor downstairs say that Lei Lei was picked up by another woman." Are you holding two people at the same time? ”

Bao Liang was shocked, and immediately felt bad: "No! What kind of woman, where did she take Lei Lei? ”

"I don't know. I didn't see that woman, I thought you had someone else......"

Before Qiao Xiaoou's words were finished, Baoliang had already thrown away the phone, rushed out of the phone booth, rushed to the middle of the road, stopped a taxi, and ran towards Lei Lei's school.

…………

Lei Lei was really not at school, and the homeroom teacher immediately judged: Is it that any child in the other class went to the Internet café again? Nowadays, some Internet cafes are so bad that as long as they can collect money, even kindergarten children dare to pull them in...... But the head teacher's judgment was immediately denied by Baoliang.

"Impossible, Lei Lei was taken away from home, and it is impossible to go to an Internet café."

"Who took you away? Have you ever asked your relatives and friends if you have ......"

Seeing that Bao Liang was still a child, the homeroom teacher couldn't help but help him analyze, but Bao Liang had already turned around and ran away with red eyes at this time, and the sound of running out of the building was heavy and urgent......

In the public phone booth at the school gate, Bao Liang dialed Fei Fei's mobile phone.

Fei Fei's phone was turned off.

Bao Liang took a taxi to Fei Fei's residence, went upstairs, and smashed the door. The neighbor who helped Fei Fei cook came out to stop it: "Hey, what's the matter, this door is not strong, why are you smashing it like this!" She didn't come back, she didn't come back all day yesterday! ”

Bao Liang turned around and went downstairs, his steps still heavy and urgent.

A quarter of an hour later, Bao Liang sat in the reception room of the Guling Public Security Bureau, and when Xia Xuan appeared at the door of this room, she saw Bao Liang sitting on the bench against the wall, so pale and thin, shivering as if he had suffered from a serious illness.

After Baoliang reported the case, the Guling Public Security Bureau immediately deployed police forces to search for the suspects Lao Qiu and Tao Feifei, who kidnapped children. In the evening, the search was coordinated by the Municipal Public Security Bureau and expanded to the whole city. Since the two suspects are immigrants, there is no record of household registration information and kinship, and the direction of the search is mainly locked on various entertainment venues in the city, because according to the information provided by the victims, Lao Qiu and Tao Feifei are most likely to haunt the above places.

Until twelve o'clock in the evening, no trace of the suspect was found in the news from all sides. From a waiter at a Hai bar, Inspector Jin found out that Lao Qiu had a residence in the south of the city. Once Lao Qiu got drunk at this bar, and the owner of the bar asked the waiter to send him back to the south of the city. So the police immediately asked the waiter to lead the way, and went straight to the residential community in the south of the city, and after knocking on the door of a unit on the third floor, they learned that Lao Qiu had already moved the place. The tenants here only moved in three months ago, one husband and one child, serious family, not very suspicious, and they didn't know who Lao Qiu was when asked.

At half past one o'clock in the evening, the people's police from all walks of life who participated in the search received an order to withdraw their troops. Xia Xuan drove and sent Baoliang home. Bao Liang's physical strength and spirit had collapsed, and there was no more speech, so that Xia Xuan drove to the downstairs of Bao Liang's house and stopped, and had to ask worriedly:

"I'll send you up?"

Bao Liang pushed the door open and shook his head with what little strength he had left.

Of course, Xia Xuan knew that Baoliang lost two relatives at the same time on this day, and if he couldn't reconcile with his father in the future, he would be unaccompanied in this world. She also knew that all comfort was useless at this time, but she still expressed the comforting words:

"Don't worry, we'll keep looking. Don't collapse your body at this time, now you have to think wider. ”

Bao Liang listened very carefully, but there was no further reaction in his demeanor. After a while, he slowly moved his body out of the saddle and walked into the door without looking back.

Bao Liang knew that he had really collapsed.

He climbed the eight floors very slowly, sat on the steps of the stairs in the middle, rested three times, and three times he could not stop crying. There was not a single light in the building, except for the window at the corner of the staircase revealing a broken moon. Bao Liang suppressed the howl that hit his heart, and suppressed the cry to a thin and hoarse voice, but he couldn't suppress the sound of the big teardrops falling on the steps. The neighbors in the building were all asleep, and no one knew that in this dark corridor, there was a seven-foot man crying like an abandoned child......

Bao Liang climbed to the top floor, and the hand that opened the door with the key was trembling weakly. When the door opened, he thought he was in the wrong place, because he saw that the bedroom was actually lit with a faint yellow light! His brain went blank for a moment before he shouted out with an almost silent shout: "Thunder thunder! ”

In the bedroom light, there was an immediate response: "Uncle! ”

Bao Liang rushed into the room, and the first thing he saw was not Lei Lei on the bed, but the girl Fei Fei sitting on the edge of the bed!

Fei Fei stood up and just shouted: "Baoliang! He was grabbed by Baoliang's hands and pushed against the wall heavily. Bao Liang roared like crazy, and this roar seemed to prove that his injured limbs could still burst out with the last of his strength.

"What the hell are you going to do!"

Fei Fei's throat was fiercely choked by one of Bao Liang's big hands, and at that moment she almost choked out of breath, her face turned red and she struggled desperately, and after breaking free, she coughed so much that she couldn't speak. Perhaps it was Lei Lei's cry that saved her life, and Bao Liang let go of her to hug Lei Lei on the bed. Lei Lei was scared to cry, it was probably the first time he had seen his uncle so furious, and his eyes were murderous.

Fifi ran away.

With tears on her face as she let go of her, she snatched the door and stumbled down the dark staircase like a run for her life.

Bao Liang didn't care about Fei Fei, he hugged Lei Lei and made Lei Lei quiet. He went to the bathroom again and got a towel for Lei Lei to wipe his tears, and before asking Lei Lei what happened to him that day, Bao Liang tried to make him stop crying. He asked Lei Lei what he was crying about, if it scared his uncle. Lei Lei was still twitching, saying that he had just thought Aunt Fei Fei was going to die, and he saw her roll her eyes. Bao Liang looked at his hands, which were actually not big, they were actually very thin, and he didn't know how these hands could burst out with so much strength when his emotions were out of control. He comforted Lei Lei and asked Lei Lei to touch his soft hand, and he said: No, you see, my uncle's hand is weak. Lei Lei really touched Baoliang's hand and touched each of his fingers. Compared with Lei Lei's hand, Baoliang's hand is still very big. Lei Lei didn't cry at all, of course Bao Liang didn't know before this, Lei Lei actually had a lot of fun this day.

What Bao Liang didn't misestimate was that Lei Lei was indeed picked up by Fei Fei, and Fei Fei took Lei Lei away, and it was indeed forced by Lao Qiu. Judging from the nature of this incident, Lao Qiu and Fei Fei must be suspected of kidnapping, and regardless of Lao Qiu's original intentions, they may not want to hurt Lei Lei, but just want to scare Bao Liang and force Bao Liang to comply.

From Lei Lei's mouth, Bao Liang knew that when Fei Fei knocked on the door of Bao Liang's house in the morning, Lei Lei thought that this was the aunt sent by his uncle to pick him up, and this aunt had met him at McDonald's, and the only thing that made Lei Lei strange was that the aunt did not take him to school, but took him to the park. Auntie said that the teachers at school are on vacation today, and your uncle asked me to accompany you out to play. There is a children's playground in the park with lots of fun games and games. Lei Lei has followed his parents everywhere since he was a child, always going back and forth in very dilapidated towns, and always being locked up at home after arriving in the provincial capital, and after going to school, he has never seen so many fun things. Lei Lei had gone crazy that day. At noon, Fei Fei took Lei Lei to a restaurant for a big meal, went to the movies in the afternoon, and took Lei Lei to the China World Mall, bought him several toys, and ate pizza in the evening...... In short, Lei Lei enjoyed this day like the New Year, and was sent home by this aunt very late. The aunt said that she was afraid that he would be left alone, so she stayed with him and waited for his uncle to come back.

In fact, Fei Fei wanted to wait for Bao Liang to come back, not because she was worried that Lei Lei would be afraid, but because she wanted to tell Bao Liang about Lao Qiu's purpose for letting her take Lei Lei. According to Lao Qiu's original instructions, after Fei Fei deceived Lei Lei, she should take Lei Lei back to her own home and wait for Lao Qiu's fate. Lao Qiu took people to the door of Baoliang's house to block Baoliang, threatening and intimidating with "hostages" in hand, but Baoliang came out of the unit and went directly to the hospital, so he was not blocked by them as he wished.

The relationship between Fei Fei and Lao Qiu has long passed the "honeymoon period", Lao Qiu has many new lovers outside, and he has long lost interest in Fei Fei, so he just relies on Fei Fei to help him find cannon fodder and resell pills to make money. Fei Fei can't do it if she gets on the thief ship, she has no money to spend if she doesn't do it, and she will be beaten by Lao Qiu. She didn't want to lie to Lei Lei for Lao Qiu, but Lao Qiu slapped him twice, so she didn't dare to disobey.

Fei Fei took Lei Lei out of the house, hesitated repeatedly on the way, and for some reason, finally didn't bring the child home. In the later interrogation by the public security organs, Fei Fei confessed that she thought that if she didn't take Lei Lei back to her home, just take him to the park to play, give Lei Lei good food and drink, and finally send him home with all the beards and tails, she couldn't be regarded as kidnapping children. And Lei Lei's disappearance for a day also satisfied Lao Qiu's purpose of intimidating Baoliang. In this way, both sides will have their place, and neither will be offended.

That night, Bao Liang did not tell Lei Lei about his mother's death. After he settled Lei Lei to sleep, he went downstairs again, went to the phone booth on the street and called Xia Xuan, telling her that Lei Lei had gone home and that everything was safe and sound. Xia Xuan asked Fei Fei about the process of picking up the child, and then asked Baoliang to take the child back to the branch office tomorrow to make a record. Bao Liang asked, is it okay to wait for the child after school tomorrow? He's missed a day of class. Xia Xuan said it's okay, no problem.

The next day, Bao Liang got up and personally sent Lei Lei to school, telling Lei Lei to stay at school after school, not to run around, and wait for his uncle to pick him up. Then Bao Liang went to the crematorium of Ping'an Cemetery to contact his sister about the cremation. When he went home for dinner at noon, he saw that one of Fei Fei's handbags was still in his bedroom, so he took the handbag and went to Fei Fei's house after dinner. He wanted to take the opportunity to return the handbag to apologize to Fei Fei, he really lost control of his emotions last night and used too much force, which must have caused some damage to Fei Fei. Although Fei Fei deceived Lei Lei yesterday and hurt him, he will forgive Fei Fei, no matter how hateful the person she followed and how hateful things she did, Bao Liang would forgive her from the bottom of his heart. For a long time, he felt like his sister to Fei Fei, always caring about her, always wanting to protect her, although he wouldn't love each other, he couldn't hate it.

When Bao Liang arrived at Fei Fei's house, he did not see Fei Fei. I heard from a neighbor that two policemen came to look for Fei Fei this morning, and after knocking on the door, they found that Fei Fei was beaten and her face was full of hematoma, and it was the neighbor who helped the police to send Fei Fei to the hospital. The police asked Fei Fei who beat Fei Fei alive or dead, but said that she was beaten by a gang of hooligans who robbed the road on the street. The neighbor described Fei Fei's injury to Baoliang, oops, it's miserable, it is estimated that this girl is about to break her appearance.

Bao Liang rushed to a nearby hospital and met Fei Fei in a treatment room. I heard the nurse say that after the police sent Fei Fei here, she left first without asking what was going on. Fei Fei was hanging a bottle and injecting antibiotics, the wound had been cleaned, the head was bandaged, and the bloodshot eye sockets and high swollen mouth could be seen. But Fei Fei was still conscious, and when she saw that Bao Liang could still shed tears, she could reach out and ask for Bao Liang's hand, and pull him towards her tremblingly.

Baoliang approached Fei Fei, and his grasped hand was also gently forced, not only to apologize, but also to give a kind of strength.

He asked Fei Fei: "Is it Lao Qiu, is he beating you?" ”

Fei Fei didn't answer, but her expression obviously confirmed Bao Liang's estimate, and Bao Liang asked angrily, "Why, just because you sent Lei Lei home?" ”

"Baoliang......" Fei Fei could still cry out, "Don't leave me, I want to be nice to you...... I am willing to follow you for the rest of my life...... I'm willing to suffer and starve with you......"

Bao Liang understood what Fei Fei meant, he could understand that Fei Fei had experienced so many men in the past two years, and she had experienced the beauty and cruelty of money, she should know that there is no such thing as the best of both worlds in the world - a short heaven and a long hell, a moment of happiness and a lifetime of stability, people must always understand what they should choose. The mark of a person's maturity may be the ability to allow one's life to be flawed and imperfect.

Bao Liang thought that he was not a truly mature person, he was always pursuing an impossible happy life, although that kind of life was so ordinary for many people, it was natural and did not need to be pursued, but for him, it was so unattainable. It is precisely because of its remoteness that it is particularly precious. Now, even his sister has left him and followed his mother. The kind of life he wants, the kind of family where relatives comfort each other, will there still be it?

The hills, rivers, abandoned kilns, courtyards, and loud laughter in the courtyards in the dreams, will there still be them?

And that beautiful fire-breathing girl, will there still be?

Bao Liang paid a deposit of 5,000 yuan for Fei Fei's medical expenses in the hospital, and then returned to Fei Fei's residence, found the neighbor who often cooked for Fei Fei, and asked her to make a soup or porridge for Fei Fei to send to the hospital. The neighbor took the two hundred yuan from Baoliang and agreed. She was a housewife in her thirties, very warm and a bit chatty. Bao Liang asked three questions from her mouth, and actually asked where Fei Fei's "boyfriend" lived. A neighbor once went there to give Fei Fei her best lentil stewed noodles once, and Fei Fei was not feeling well that day, so she wanted to eat her lentil stewed noodles.

Fei Fei's boyfriend? Bao Liang thought, that must be Lao Qiu!

To Baoliang's surprise, the place where Lao Qiu lived was a dirty and simple bungalow.

These low-slung bungalows are probably less than a decade old, but they look like a world away. The residents of this bungalow area have unintelligible accents and cold faces, and they all look like temporary tenants who have come to the provincial capital to work. The alleys here are criss-crossed, the roads are bumpy, and when you walk in, you find that it is as big as a town, dense as a spider's web. As soon as Bao Liang turned two intersections, he felt that he could not distinguish between north and south, and his direction was lost. Maybe this kind of place is just right for people like Lao Qiu who do illegal business, and hide in the meantime.

But Bao Liang still found Lao Qiu.

When he found the courtyard where Lao Qiu lived, Lao Qiu was coming out of the courtyard with his two accomplices and bumped into Bao Liang head-on, and Lao Qiu was startled. From Bao Liang's eyes, Lao Qiu understood that Bao Liang obviously came specifically at him, otherwise it would not have been possible to meet so coincidentally. What Lao Qiu didn't understand was just whether Bao Liang was going to bow down or negotiate forcefully, he immediately calmed down after being surprised, and immediately took out the trick he was used to before, and squeezed out a sneer that pretended to be affectionate on his face.

"Yo, isn't this Lu Baoliang, you really have the ability to find here, have you eaten? Didn't eat my treat! ”

Bao Liang stepped forward, picked up a brick from a pile of bricks next to the door, and slapped it on Lao Qiu's head without saying a word, only to hear a bang, the pleasant muffled sound fell almost at the same time as Lao Qiu's teasing, and it was only a second! Lao Qiu collapsed on the ground in response, and the two accomplices were also stunned at the door, not knowing how to react for a moment. Until Lao Qiu covered his bloody head and shouted: "Damn! Don't let him run! The two men chased after Bao Liang.

Bao Liang smashed the bloody brick in his hand at the person in front of him, and picked the man's scalp, which felt not heavy, but the man also fell down. With a series of voices: "Stop! Hold it! Two more men rushed out of the courtyard, one of whom was carrying a shovel. Bao Liang thought that the terrain here was unfamiliar and it was difficult to escape, but he didn't expect that it was this dense alley that helped him a lot, each alley has countless curves and exits, and this alley is connected to that alley, Bao Liang ran away randomly in these alleys regardless of direction, and the gang of thugs carried shovels and wooden sticks to intercept them, and several times almost intercepted Bao Liang halfway, and he escaped from another exit. Running and running, Bao Liang found that there was no movement in the alley except for his breathing, so he stopped and looked around breathlessly. There was only a gray brick wall and a closed door on all sides, and there was no second figure, no second voice, except for the sun overhead casting his own shadow on the ground.

Bao Liang couldn't run anymore, he was cautious, probed his brain, walked through the alleys that might ambush the killers, and finally saw the street after walking for a long time. It was only after he took to the street and boarded a bus that he was convinced that he had escaped danger and that he had managed to get himself out of the way!

Bao Liang was in the office of the hotel security department and was taken away by two policemen from the substation. From the time the manager of the administrative club informed him to go to the security department, he knew that it was for Lao Qiu's business.

A few days later, Lao Qiu and Tao Feifei and Lao Qiu's three helpers were arrested in accordance with the law on suspicion of trafficking, kidnapping, injury and other crimes, and entered the criminal proceedings. Lao Qiu and his accomplices were later sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to nine years, and Fei Fei was exempted from criminal responsibility for the minor crimes.

Bao Liang was sentenced to 15 days of detention and a fine of 200 yuan by the public security organs in accordance with the regulations on public security administration punishment for injuring Lao Qiu and one of his subordinates.

On the day Bao Liang was taken into custody, he was released. Because when he was detained, he said that he had a seven-year-old nephew who had no one to take care of, and his sister was going to be cremated in the next few days, and the hospital morgue would not let him save money if he did not pay the money. The Public Security Bureau studied these two realities for a long time, and it really couldn't solve them. Inspector Jin and other people who are familiar with Bao Liang appealed for Bao Liang again, and the leaders re-examined and approved it, revoked the decision to detain for 15 days, and changed it to a reprimand and warning, and Bao Liang only had more than 30 yuan on him when he was released, and Xia Xuan paid the 200 yuan fine for him.

The policeman in charge of collecting the fine said to Xia Xuan: "I don't have any money on me to let him go back and get it, why do you pay it for him?" ”

Xia Xuan glanced at Bao Liang and said, "I'll pay it for him, he will go over...... It's my classmate. ”

Bao Liang was surprised, this was the first time he heard Xia Xuan admit that Bao Liang was her classmate in front of her public security colleagues. He looked at Xia Xuan with touching eyes, wanting Xia Xuan to see his gratitude, but Xia Xuan walked out of the room after paying the money, and his eyes did not communicate with Bao Liang again.

On the night of his release from the detention center, Bao Liang told Lei Lei about his sister's death. Lei Lei was too young to have a simple understanding of the concept of death, and after crying for a while, he still slept very well that night. At breakfast the next morning, he asked Bao Liang: My mother died, should I move back home or stay in the hospital? Bao Liang said: Mom will live with her grandmother in the future. Lei Lei asked again: Then don't you live with us? Bao Liang said: No. Lei Lei began to cry again.

Before her sister was cremated, Baoliang took Lei Lei to Qingpingshan Prison once and told her husband Quan Hu about her sister's death. Quan Hu had apparently received a notice of his wife's death from the prison authorities, and if he still had feelings for his wife, he would have cried a long time ago. When Bao Liang saw him, his expression was calm, and he listened silently to Bao Liang introduce the development process of his wife's condition and the treatment. He did not raise questions or grievances about the measures taken by Bao Liang for the treatment and rescue of his wife, nor did he express his recognition or gratitude. He didn't even ask if his wife had a last word before she died, how the aftermath would be handled, how the inheritance would be distributed, and everything that a normal free man should ask, he was indifferent.

Baoliang didn't take the initiative to convey his sister's last words to Quan Hu, the last words were the natural expression of his sister's dying emotions finally returning to her mother's house, and Quan Hu wouldn't be happy when he heard it, so he didn't say it.

It was still when he was talking to Lei Lei that a little tear flashed in Quan Hu's eyes, and he talked more. Bao Liang couldn't hear what they were saying, and he stepped aside so that Kwon Ho could enjoy the feeling of father and son talking alone.

On the way back to the provincial capital from Qingpingshan Prison, Bao Liang asked Lei Lei: What did Dad tell you? Lei Lei said: Dad asked my uncle if he was okay. Bao Liang asked: Do you say that your uncle is good? Lei Lei said: Okay. Bao Liang asks: It's that simple? Lei Lei replied: Hmm. Bao Liang asked again: What else did you say? Lei Lei said: Dad told me to listen to my uncle, go to school hard, and don't be greedy. Bao Liang was silent for a while, and then asked: What else did you say? Lei Lei said: I didn't say anything. Bao Liang asked: That's all you say? Lei Lei was also silent for a while, and saw that Bao Liang's gaze had been waiting on his face, and he said: Dad asked me if I would forget him in the future. Bao Liang asked: What do you say? Lei Lei replied: I said no. Bao Liang asked again: What did Dad say? Lei Lei replied again: Dad asked me if I would come to see him often in the future. Bao Liang asked: What do you say? Lei Lei replied: I said yes. Bao Liang asked: Is there anything else? Lei Lei said: Dad asked what if your uncle didn't let you come? Bao Liang asked: Then how do you answer? Lei Lei said: I said that my uncle asked me to come. Bao Liang didn't press any further, but Lei Lei himself continued: Dad asked me to write to him in the future and send him photos. Dad said that he would stay here for the rest of his life, and he was no longer afraid of anything, but he was afraid that Lei Lei would forget him.

Bao Liang was completely silent, and barely spoke again.

My sister's inheritance, apart from some clothes she wore during her lifetime, the only thing of value was the white gold earrings set with diamonds.

Bao Liang once wanted his sister to wear these earrings to see her mother, but then he thought that white gold and diamonds could not be burned. Before his sister was cremated, he went to the beauty shop where he had pierced his ear, and still made another hole in his left ear, and the technician suggested that he wear it in his right ear, saying that he could wear it on one side or both, but Bao Liang insisted on wearing it on the left, saying that he would not wear any other accessories except for these platinum earrings. And this pair of earrings he had to keep them together, never to be separated again.

The procedure for the sister's cremation was very brief, and Bao Liang did not inform any of her friends. After he took Lei Lei to say goodbye to his sister's makeup-made remains at the Ping'an Cemetery, the body was pushed away by the staff. He didn't let Lei Lei see the live scene of his mother's cremation, and he didn't want such a picture to be embedded in Lei Lei's immature mind. Lei Lei, who lost his mother, is a little different from his past performance, and what Bao Liang can sensitively perceive is that he has a greater dependence on and obedience to Bao Liang.

Bao Liang did not buy another ash storage box, he divided his sister's ashes into two parts, one was stored in his mother's urn at Ping'an Cemetery, and the other was prepared to be taken to Jianning's hometown and buried on the hill behind his house, next to the riverbank. Bao Liang was only twenty-one years old, but he thought about his own future together, and he thought that in the future, whether it was his father or himself, the bones after death would be like this, part of which would be placed next to his mother in the Heian Cemetery, and part of which would be sprinkled into the soil by the river in his hometown, so that the souls of the four of them would gather together to look back on the beautiful times of their previous lives. He will instruct Lei Lei to come here to worship when the spring flowers are blooming, so that everyone can see the happy sunshine on Lei Lei's face together.

Bao Liang took Lei Lei and his sister's bones back to Jianning.

This is the second time Lei Lei has returned to Jianning. The first time he returned, he was still asleep in swaddling clothes, and that time he had witnessed the scene of armed police rounding up a power criminal gang in the million-dollar mansion, but his memory disk must not have scanned the scene from that time.

Lei Lei's first indelible impression of his hometown must have been standing on the steep hill in early spring, standing beside the old castle-like abandoned kiln, watching his uncle raise a glass bottle and scatter his mother's ashes on the shore of the Jianhe River where the sun was setting. The ashes danced lightly in the orange sky like a misty puffy cloud, and at the moment when all the puffy clouds dissipated, he heard his uncle's calm whisper:

"Mom, I've found her, I'm bringing her home......"

At that time, Lei Lei sat quietly at the mouth of a hole in the brick kiln, watching his uncle come towards him. There was still a tear in the corner of his uncle's eye, but his face showed a smile that had settled down. His uncle held out a hand to him, and they walked hand in hand down the hill. There is a small courtyard at the bottom of the hillside, and a wisp of cooking smoke is faintly rising from the courtyard.