July 3, 1998, 20 o'clock, Zhongshan Avenue

How can Sun Yadong's mood be calm? has been a discipline inspection cadre for so many years, and he has really never encountered a case like He Zhuoxiao. At first, he was not even sure about the characterization, and the Anti-Corruption Bureau reported it on the basis of the characterization of the crime of corruption, but when he looked at the legal provisions on the crime of corruption, he always did not get the number right. Later, after seeing a case of deliberately impersonating a huge amount of medical expenses in other provinces and cities a year ago, he instructed the Anti-Corruption Bureau to characterize the fraud.

In the past, some comrades talked about the law without conscience, and Sun Yadong always had to criticize it face to face, saying that the law represents justice and also represents conscience in essence. Now it seems that there is a real contradiction between the law and conscience. If he were not the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee in charge of discipline inspection, he Sun Yadong would definitely be like Gao Changhe, Jiang Chaolin and Wen Chunming, and open up to He Zhuoxiao; But as this deputy secretary, he can only act according to the law, and no matter how painful his heart is, he can't desecrate his duties. In this position of presiding over law enforcement, all he can do is help the parties to actively atone for their crimes in order to reduce criminal responsibility. If He Zhuoxiao can repay the more than 39,000 yuan of stolen money, according to the relevant regulations, it is entirely possible to give a suspended sentence.

Thinking about it like this, Sun Yadong had the idea of paying off some of the stolen money for He Zhuoxiao, and wanted to make a phone call to his wife when he was on duty at the municipal party committee during the day to discuss it with his wife, but the office was always full of people, and there was a mess of things in the flood fight, so he was busy forgetting it, and only after he went home from work and had dinner did he talk about it with his wife.

Mrs. was surprised and asked Sun Yadong: "Do you know how much we have in total?" ”

Sun Yadong didn't know, and estimated that he said: "There are always one or two thousand, right?" ”

Madame said angrily: "Do you think you are the part of the people who got rich first?" I tell you, only nine thousand! ”

Sun Yadong was very disappointed, according to his idea, it was best to come up with 10,000, but he didn't expect that the total deposit was only 9,000, so he thought about it and said: "Then let's take 5,000 to help Comrade Lao He!" ”

Mrs. smiled bitterly and said: "Yadong, look at you, an official, don't go home, and stick it upside down!" ”

Sun Yadong also smiled bitterly: "I'm going to go home and become a corrupt official?" Won't you be another Geng Zijing? It's better to stick it upside down, money is such a thing, if you don't bring it with you in life and don't take it away from death. ”

Madame was still reluctant: "Do you think Lao He is a loss, so you will show mercy to your subordinates, why should we post it?!" ”

Sun Yadong immediately lowered his face: "Why do you say such things?" Law is law, love is love, two different things! ”

Mrs. didn't dare to resist, but she was not convinced, so she said tactfully: "Yadong, it's not that I feel sorry for the 5,000 yuan, but I don't think it's appropriate, what do you think, you are the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and the secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, presiding over the case, and giving your own money to the criminal to return the stolen goods, what is the impact of passing it on?" ”

Sun Yadong thought deeply and said: "I have also thought about this during the day, I have to do it quietly, isn't our money stored in the savings bank on Zhongshan Road?" It seems to be open day and night, right? Just go tonight, take the money and send it to He Zhuoxiao's son, let him hand it over to his son, 5,000 yuan won't help much, do your best! Let He Zhuoxiao know that he has not done anything in vain all these years, and he cares about him in the organization and society! ”

Madame had no choice but to say, "Then you give me the address, and I'll go." ”

Sun Yadong said: "Don't, don't, let's go together, let's take a walk." ”

And so I went out.

Because they didn't want more people to know, Sun Yadong and his wife did not notify the driver to get out of the car, nor did they alarm the duty room of the municipal party committee, which laid the line of a catastrophe-

At about 9 o'clock, when Sun Yadong and his wife took out 5,000 yuan in cash from the Zhongshan Road savings house and were about to go to the Chaoyang community where He Zhuoxiao's son lived, a white Santana suddenly rushed from east to west, knocked Sun Yadong, who was walking on the side of the road, 45 meters away from the savings center, and fell heavily into the road.

The white Santana obviously wanted to put Sun Yadong to death, and he was not in a hurry to escape after hitting someone, and he reversed sharply and ran over Sun Yadong who was struggling in pain again......

When this sudden incident happened, Sun Yadong's wife was stunned, and first instinctively sat on the curb of the road. After getting up, I saw that the small bag in my hand had fallen, and many hundred-yuan bills were exposed, so I instinctively went to pick up the money. When the white Santana ran towards Sun Yadong for the second time in the reverse car, Mrs. Sun Yadong woke up like a dream, frantically pounced on the sparsely populated street, and hissed: "Help! Help me! Hit and kill someone......"

Due to her nervousness and hecticism, Mrs. Sun Yadong only noticed the three numbers of the white Santana license plate number: "B-23". When the young man ran over to rescue Sun Yadong, he paid special attention to the license plate, and what he saw was only "B-23", the area number in front of the license plate and the number behind it were all sludge, and the car was dirty, as if he had just returned from the flood control line.

Mrs. Sun Yadong and the two young men and women stopped a taxi and sent Sun Yadong to the People's Hospital, at this time, although Sun Yadong was seriously injured, his mind was still sober, his face was covered with blood, and he said intermittently: "Today...... Not ...... today It's not a car accident, it's a ...... It's ...... Premeditated murder...... Murder ......"

At 9:34, Sun Yadong, deputy secretary of the Pingyang Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, was sent to the operating table of the emergency room of the People's Hospital.

At 9:58, Gao Changhe and Jiang Chaolin heard the initial report and rushed to the emergency room of the People's Hospital in the same car.

Mrs. Sun Yadong, who was waiting outside the door of the emergency room, was already crying at this time, and when she saw Gao Changhe and Jiang Chaolin, she cried out heartbreakingly: "Changhe, Secretary Jiang, you have to call the shots for Yadong in the organization!" He...... He's been killed by the bad guys! He...... He's too stubborn, too hated by bad guys! I've encountered this kind of thing in Changjiang City! He said, this is a premeditated murder! Murder! ”

Gao Changhe comforted Mrs. Sun Yadong while learning more about the situation and asked, "Why don't Yadong bring a car when you go out?" What are you and you doing on Zhongshan Road so late? ”

Mrs. Sun Yadong cried even more fiercely: "...... Our Yadong is too kind-hearted, saying that the case of He Zhuoxiao, the director of the flat rolling mill, cannot be handled, but he is very uneasy in his heart, so he has to force me to take out the 5,000 yuan of savings at home with him, thinking ...... I want to give it to Lao He's son overnight, Changhe, look at it, look at it, five thousand yuan is here! But who ...... Who would have thought that they would be targeted by the bad guys?! Who would have thought?! He has offended so many people! He...... He is in the light, and the bad people are in the dark! ”

Gao Changhe was shocked, and in the blink of an eye, tears came out of his eyes, oh my God, how could this be!

Mrs. Sun Yadong held Gao Changhe's hand tightly: "Changhe, you and our Yadong are classmates of the Central Party School, others don't know him, you know him!" He never thought of himself except for work and work! He is offending the bad guys for our party and our people! ”

Gao Changhe nodded again and again, and sprinkled big tears on the floor: "Yes, yes! ”

Mrs. Sun Yadong said to Jiang Chaolin again: "Secretary Jiang, tell me, what are we Yadong trying to do?" Why is he so annoying? Hate? After the car accident in Changjiang, I told him and begged him not to do this, but he just didn't listen! Now it's okay, even ...... Even his life is on the ......"

Jiang Chaolin was so sad that he couldn't listen to it anymore, and ordered the public security chief who had just rushed to hear the news with tears: "Immediately set up a special case team and make every effort to solve this murder case!" Thoroughly check all the white Santanas related to B-23 in the city! Check it thoroughly! Don't catch this murderer, I'm ...... I don't see what I'm going to do! ”

Gao Changhe further instructed: "Not only our city, but also Changjiang City must be notified overnight to make every effort to assist in the investigation!" The Provincial Public Security Department and the Armed Police Force should also be invited to raid passing vehicles on all traffic arteries throughout the province! At the same time, he instructed the director of the hospital who came to report to them to do their best to rescue Sun Yadong at any cost.

That night, the rescue operation on Sun Yadong lasted for more than five hours, and it also alarmed the provincial party committee. Liu Huabo, secretary of the provincial party committee, personally dispatched two well-known brain surgery experts from the provincial capital to Pingyang overnight to preside over the operation, and finally saved Sun Yadong's life.

However, it is regrettable that Sun Yadong's brain tissue has been seriously damaged in many places, and the development trend is inevitably brain death, and modern medicine has no power to return to heaven.

As soon as the sweat came out of the operating room, the experts in the provincial capital and Pingyang quietly reported to Gao Changhe and Jiang Chaolin without hiding Mrs. Sun Yadong, who was rippling with tears, saying that unless there was a miracle, Sun Yadong would turn into a vegetative person nine times out of ten.

This result made Gao Changhe and Jiang Chaolin very sad and surprised.

……

On the way back from the People's Hospital, Jiang Chaolin, the former secretary of the municipal party committee, and Gao Changhe, the current secretary of the municipal party committee, were silent.

A glittering twentieth-century metropolis is a splendor that never sleeps amidst the rustling of wheels, but the two former and current city's top leaders sitting in the car have little interest in appreciating it. In the splendor of this nightless metropolis, the two past and current top leaders of the city fell into deep sorrow, and their hearts were full of emotion: they all used to be so indifferent to Sun Yadong, so disgusted with Sun Yadong, and they all thought that Sun Yadong was impersonal and would only add to the chaos, but who would have thought that this Sun Yadong, the comrades and comrades-in-arms of the old and new teams, would be so plotted on the way to send money to He Zhuoxiao, and would be deliberately knocked down by gangsters on the streets of this glorious city!

The car drove past the International Exhibition Center Building, and the sea-crossing bridge appeared in the distant sight, Jiang Chaolin looked at the brightly lit sea-crossing bridge, and asked Gao Changhe softly with a sigh: "Changhe, do you know what I'm thinking at the moment?" ”

Gao Changhe smiled reluctantly: "I'm going to work in the province, I'm reluctant, isn't it?" If you can't bear to, don't go. ”

Jiang Chaolin shook his head: "I remembered the two sentences in "The Internationale": the blood is already boiling......

Gao Changhe blurted out movingly: "Fight for the truth!" ”

Jiang Chaolin withdrew his gaze from the car window, and old tears overflowed in his eyes: "Yes, you have to fight for the truth!" What is this truth? Isn't it just to boost the comprehensive national strength and let the Chinese people live a good life? In the past 20 years, how many good comrades have struggled for this simple but heavy truth in their different posts! How many! Which city in China does not have a large number of such and such good comrades behind the glory? They are really bleeding and crying! Don't talk about it far away, let's just say that the one in front of us is like Sun Yadong and Tian Liye......"

Gao Changhe sighed: "Yes, the price is too great, a vegetative person, a living person and a dead body!" ”

Jiang Chaolin both blamed and blamed himself: "And what about us squad leaders at all levels? How's it going? In the face of the price they paid, ...... How should we feel about it? We had to watch them bleed and die when they were in danger, and they were ...... I often watch them cry and feel sad! ”

Gao Changhe said sympatheticly: "In a sense, it is even brewing tears and sadness for them!" ”

Jiang Chaolin looked at Gao Changhe, sighed, and introspected: "Does this also include you and me?" ”

Gao Changhe nodded wordlessly......