14. Detention centers
When I returned home, in the face of Gao Jiangjiang's inquiry, I naturally said that my college classmate Ding Yuchen helped with relevant matters.
In the next month, while I went to work, I kept thinking about Jinbei while asking people to catch my brother all over the world. Of course, this did not affect my normal state in the family.
A week after my brother went in, my sister-in-law and my second sister found out. Because I didn't call my daughter-in-law for a week on a business trip, it didn't conform to the common sense of my brother's daily life at all. And my second sister had already heard the rumors of the Dongshan supply system incident, how alert she was, and soon found out that my brother was involved. The two of them can be regarded as understanding the matter and priorities, and while they are worried and distressed, they cooperate more with me to hide from my mother.
On the second open day, I took the two of them to Dongshan Er, along the way my second sister cried non-stop, compared to my sister-in-law is a more rational person, sadness, joy and laughter are not too overflowing. And when I saw the note from my brother that said, "Buy meat, cigarettes, buy mattresses", my sister-in-law couldn't help but cry.
It wasn't until my brother was released from detention for a month that we learned that under the arrangement of Cousin Jinbei, Song Dongli changed the prison the next day, but the luggage I bought before was not brought with him, and that week, he lay directly on the bare wooden board and froze for seven days, in a prison with a room temperature of less than 14 degrees.
It turned out that each new detainee would be placed in the same cell where Song Dongli had stayed at first, and if someone outside had passed, they would be strung out.
When entering, the police will "casually" say why the person has come in. Basically, it's a few simple words like "economic", "theft", "fraud", or "rape". It seems that the speaker has no intention and the listener has a heart, but the fact is that it is a potential habit that has been formed for a long time. The "big horse" immediately understands the semantics of the police, and the police will turn a blind eye to what is happening in this room, as long as there is no major vicious incident.
There are relatively few people in this prison, only a dozen or so. On the night my brother entered, he was beaten by seven or eight people in turn by the police with the word "economical".
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are fights. Most of the prisons and detention centers are "wicked people" in people's mouths, and they themselves are more likely to form rivers and lakes. Most of the people here are at the bottom of society, their economic conditions are not good, and they will be hostile to those rich and powerful in society, although they also commit crimes for money, but many people subconsciously think that they are forced to commit crimes. Therefore, for people who commit economic crimes, they will take the opportunity to vent their dissatisfaction with society.
Compared with the contempt for rapists, thieves, and fraudsters out of a sense of personal justice, economic prisoners are more of the public anger of the whole prison.
So my brother naturally attracted more people in the prison to participate in the beating and scolding. But after all, Song Dongli is also a person who has seen the world, and he has heard of the unspoken rules here, so he has to endure it in line with the principle that a hero does not suffer immediate losses.
When it was time to go to bed, he had just fallen asleep, and because of his snoring, he was punched and kicked by the people beside him, so that he did not dare to close his eyes again for two nights; When eating, it is not until the dishes in the soup are cleaned up at the end that it is his turn to serve it, and only water remains. The most outrageous thing is that my brother did not get all the luggage and all the food I gave in, and was completely divided among the people in the same cell.
Song Dongli thought that he was well versed in interpersonal methods, so he planned to use "bribery" to settle them and win a place in the prison for himself, so when I first sent him a note asking him what he needed, he asked for "buy good cigarettes".
Fortunately, on the morning of the second day, he was strung into a prison cell of more than 30 people. It was generally peaceful, with all the detainees not questioning each other, and everyone going about their daily routines and memorizing the law. And after that, my brother's demand for "buying meat" and "fruit" basically achieved the purpose of satisfying his hunger.
In the end, under the strong defense of the lawyer, he was exempted from prosecution, paid a fine of 80,000 yuan, and closed the case.
A few days before the Chinese New Year, my brother returned home. After a month of business trips that had neither shown up nor called, and with the best cooperation and deception of all of us, my mom completely believed the lie that her eldest son was busy with business.
After Song Dongli came back from "Second Entrance to the Palace", he thoroughly experienced the different life experiences inside and outside the walls in the detention center, not only the issue of freedom, but also the experience of human sophistication. In his words, he realized that all human feelings must be paid around the interests of the smallest circle closest to himself. He did not blame anyone in this incident, after all, it is the basic instinct of human beings to safeguard their own fundamental interests. Since then, my brother has looked down on all financial interests, and his personality has become calm, and he is proud of the previous spring breeze. No longer involved in economic exchanges with state-owned enterprises, he felt that the law would be more sound in the future, and there was no way out to exploit the loopholes of the Communist Party