◎ Chapter 10 Gardenia Blossoms

The murderer lived on a quiet street lined with gardenias, the white petals of which made the nearby air fragrant. At that time, he had a house where he and his heart rested for many years, and the whole teenage years passed in a flash. Then, his parents died, he married a wife, had children, got married and divorced, and lived an ordinary life.

The vines in the yard were planted with his wife, and after the divorce, he often looked at the vines in a daze, he sat in the shade, got up from the shade, and waited for his son to get out of school. In the corner of the courtyard wall, the cabbage in winter is next to each other, and the watermelon in summer is next to each other, and time is like flowing water, year after year. Whether it was heavy snow or heavy rain, he had no idea of remarrying.

He spent most of his life in a car, driving a variety of cars: motor tricycles, tractors, coaches, sprinklers, large trucks with trailers, excavators, Santana cars, taxis......

He had only one profession: driver.

His fellow taxi cabs called him Master Jane. Master Kan doesn't like to talk and likes to joke, such as patting someone on the right shoulder behind his back and standing on the left. He also has a hobby of buying lottery tickets, but he has never won the jackpot.

The life of a driver is very boring, so many drivers love to be poor. Taxi drivers are well-informed, well-informed, and when they gather together to gossip, they often burst out with astonishing words that shine with the light of truth, such as the following passage:

Driver A: "Universe? Cut, testicles explode. ”

Driver B: "That's right. ”

Driver A: "The explosion of the testicles is the Big Bang." If the camera could broadcast the whole process of the birth of the universe live, magnify the picture of the TV countless times, and then multiply it by countless times, first find the solar system, and then find the earth, and finally see your own stupid face. ”

Taxi drivers also like to talk about current affairs, and unlike ordinary citizens, they can often see through the essence of things, for example, a driver and a passenger talk about Taiwan relations like this.

Passenger: "There's going to be a war." ”

Driver: "If they want to bomb Taiwan, let them blow it up, if they want to kill the Japanese, let them do it." If you don't see it, the emperor will turn into dust, goose goose goose, chicken feathers floating in green water, and a river of ashes will flow eastward. Whether you and I live in the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, including the Tang Dynasty, we are all people without names, and nothing can be changed or stopped. ”

Master Kan loves to drive in the rain. Sometimes, he would park his car in the heavy rain, on the side of a tree-lined road, and he would stay in the car and smoke a cigarette, opening the window a gap to let the smoke out and let the moist air in the rain in. Mixed with the sound of the rain, the music played on the radio in the car became even more beautiful, and the windshield wipers blurred and sometimes clear the outline of the city.

He peed in a bottle of mineral water and threw it out of the car. In fact, many taxi drivers do this.

He threw the plastic bag of feces out of the car window, and the of youth fluttered in the wind.

He likes to play pranks, which shows that he is not old.

Rain is always associated with romance, and Master Kan is not a romantic person, but sometimes there are some very poetic ideas. For example, he pulls his car on the side of the road, wears a raincoat to buy a pack of cigarettes, and he stands at an intersection and thinks like this:

If it rains heavily, if it rains all the time, the place where he lives will become a lake, and the surface of the lake, where he knees, will be full of lotus flowers. He stood in the water and watched the boat go round his knees.

Chef Kan is also humorous at times, for example, when tourists refuse to take a taxi and choose to wait for the bus, Chef Kan will say to them: "The chicken is all stewed, and you are reluctant to put salt?" ”

The taxi driver is more like a traveler, watching the traffic flow and the flow of water, sending others home, and then going home himself, repeating every day, this is his life. Sitting, but shuttling through the hustle and bustle of the city. Whether it is an obscene man wearing a vest and playing mahjong, or a bewitching woman who has sprinkled perfume and eaten spicy hot, no matter who it is, what time it is, someone beckons, he will go over, and he will take his car with him. He could feel the car being his body, his skin. He observes every passenger out of the corner of his eye, and when he meets someone who is good at talking, he will talk a few words; When you meet someone who is silent, you have nothing to say.

Once, at the intersection of the People's Hospital, Master Jian pulled a strange guest, a woman in a hospital gown, with a pale face, a haggard face, and the strange thing is - this woman has no hair and is a bald woman.

Him: "Where?" ”

Woman: "Where are there fewer people?" Just take a few turns, I don't know, are there any mountains around here? ”

Him: "No. ”

Woman: "Lake, is there one?" ”

Him: "There's a river. ”

Woman: "Just go to the river, alas, I'm afraid of water." ”

The two stopped talking, they were silent all the way, the car stopped by the river, the woman wanted to get out of the car, Master Jian reminded her that she hadn't paid for the car yet, the woman threw down a medical record, and said, "You want even the money of the dead?" ”

Master Jian looked at the medical records and did not continue to ask for the fare, this woman was a leukemia patient, and her hair should have fallen out due to chemotherapy.

Master Jian glanced at the bald woman, and she got out of the car, smiling and tearful, and walked to the river.

Master Jian thought that this woman was just out to relax, but he didn't expect that a few days later, a female corpse wearing a hospital gown was salvaged from the river, and he realized that this woman had committed suicide!

This incident shocked him so much that from that day on, he thought about a problem so much that he often wandered while driving.

In fact, this problem is also something that each of us may face:

What happens if you have a terminal illness and can't afford the high medical bills?

Waiting for death to come?

Perhaps suicide is a relief, ending one's own life, relieving the financial pressure on one's family, and letting one's pain and the family's grief end with the leap of oneself.

After a long time passed in this incident, Master Jian still said to himself: "That woman must have a child...... She just wanted to find a place where no one was and die quietly. ”

Master Jian remembered that on the day he divorced his wife, his son Sanhammer hid his shoes in the quilt, and he and his wife searched for a long time, until they went through the divorce procedures, and he found the shoes hidden in the quilt after returning from the Civil Affairs Bureau alone.

At that time, his son Sanhammer was only six years old, and the son stood at the door, standing under the vine, not crying or laughing, but very calmly asking, "Mother, are you still coming back?" ”

He didn't speak, he felt a wave of sadness, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Father and son depend on each other, and he vows to make his children's lives better. Sanhammer grew up, dressed in fancy clothes, with a weird hairstyle, he just felt that he couldn't keep up with the times, but he could see that his son was not happy.

The rebelliousness and decadence in a teenager's eyes are not disguised.

There is a detail that has to be said, on the day that Sanhammer and his friends found the body on the water tower, he took the bus home, and an old lady with a cane came up, there were many people in the car, there were no empty seats, Sanhammer - this non-mainstream teenager with tattoos, earrings, and explosive hairstyle, stood up and said politely: "Old woman, you sit here with me." ”

The people around him smiled and thought the boy was cute.

From the initial heart of planting trees to the final heart of killing, what happened in between?

In the winter of 2006, Master Jian suffered from hemorrhoids. At first, it was only the size of peanuts, he tried to take medicine to recover, he took Huaijiao pills, hemorrhoids, warm water sitz bath, applied ointment, and every evening, when others got off work, he started to work. After taking his medicine, he put the bowl on the frozen table in the courtyard, and drove to work in the cold.

The chair he sits in is always half a foot off the ground, balanced with the exhaust fumes of the car.

A lot of drivers suffer from hemorrhoids, so it's really not a big deal. It's just that every time I step on the brakes or clutch, I feel a burst of pain.

During the Chinese New Year, the hemorrhoids began to worsen, and the original peanuts grew into hideous tumors, like a tomato sitting under the buttocks. After the operation, it was the Spring Festival, he endured the pain and wrapped dumplings, waiting for his son alone, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, his son spent all night surfing the Internet in an Internet café, and brought a girl back the next morning.

He wasn't angry, he was happy and felt that his son had grown up.

Three hammers and Huali began to live together, and Master Jian implicitly warned his son that pregnancy was a very troublesome thing.

Three hammers said, "Don't worry, it won't." ”

Hua Li also said in a nonchalant tone: "We are just playing, we don't want to get married and have children." ”

In the summer of 2007, his hemorrhoids were committed again, this time it was very serious, with severe stomach pain, blood in the stool and vomiting blood, and the stool pulled out was not round but crescent-shaped, which indicated that there was a tumor in the intestine, he thought it was internal hemorrhoids, and went to the hospital for an examination: rectal cancer was in an advanced stage, and it had metastasized and spread to the liver and lungs!

The doctor comforted: "Rectal cancer is not terrible, just have surgery, insert a tube into the body, and make an artificial anus." ”

Master Jian said, "I have spread to my liver and lungs, how long can I last it?" ”

The doctor said, "Looking at the effect of chemotherapy, it should be fine for three or five years, but if it is not treated, it will be three months." ”

Master Jian said, "How much does it cost?" ”

The doctor said, "The surgery is not very expensive, but you have to undergo more than a dozen chemotherapy treatments, and you have to ...... in the later stage."

Master Jian said, "All of them add up, how much is it in total?" ”

The doctor said a number.

Master Jian couldn't believe his ears, he had otitis media, and his ears often bleed pus, and the doctor said it out loud again. When he heard the number, it was cloudy outside the window, and a rolling thunder got into the pus in his ear, and he shuddered, and the doctor advised him to hurry up for surgery, but he turned and walked out of the hospital and into the rain.

A millionaire may be just a hospital away from bankruptcy, let alone an ordinary person?

What can a small citizen do if he is terminally ill?

What can a busy ant do in the face of fate?

For so many years, Master Jian did not have much savings, and the family house belonged to his father's unit, and he only had the right to live, not the right to sell.

If you have a terminal illness, you can only wait for death!

During that time, he quickly lost weight, from a middle-aged fat man to a thin man, before and after his illness, he was like two people.

Master Jane's neighbor was a wealthy old man who had just celebrated his sixtieth birthday.

The old man had a heart, and the old man regarded the day of the successful transplant as his birthday. The old man kept silent about the heart that gave him a new life, and later heard from an insider that the old man's heart came from a murderer. Some medical experts believe that the brain is not the only organ that has a memory function, and that the heart can also store memories. A typical example is that after an eight-year-old girl transplanted the heart of a murdered 10-year-old boy in the United States, the little girl always had nightmares that someone was going to kill her.

Master Jian asked the old man some questions: "What is an artificial anus?" ”

The old man replied, ", hang a on your body." ”

Master Jian: "You changed this heart, it's okay to use it, right?" ”

Old man: "To be honest, I want to kill!" ”

Perhaps it was this sentence that struck him to get an idea, and a black bat flew out of his mind. Anyway, he was going to die, and he decided to kill and leave a sum of money for his son. He parked his taxi in front of the sauna city gate, and the guests who came here to spend money were rich people. Jin Kui carries a bulging bag, and when he kills him with a nail gun, he discovers that there is not much money in the bag. For the first crime, he was completely inexperienced, and the body was thrown in a hurry, so he transferred the body from the water tower again.

Every taxi driver, especially the night shift driver, will have a dagger, fire axe, machete and other self-defense weapons in their car, and many drivers know that Master Jane's self-defense weapon is a nail gun. Once the police find the body and trace the murder weapon, it is likely that Master Jian will be found. Out of an anti-investigation idea, he transferred the body after committing the crime and buried it in his own yard.

What did he think when he walked in the rain and carried a carrion on his back?

He was thinking of his son, he remembered that his son had a seizure when he was a child, and he took his son to the hospital, and when he came back, the little one was asleep, and the street lights were dim, and the shadow was long.

On that rainy night, he carried the body down the water tower, and did not forget to talk to the dead: "Brother, I can't help it, you have gone over there to enjoy the blessings, and I am still suffering here." ”

He left the body in the trunk of the taxi, completely oblivious to a teenager hiding in the bushes of the park, looking at him with a pair of eyes, it was none other than his son Three Hammers. When he buried the body in the courtyard, his son came in, his lips trembling and said, "Dad, I have seen ......"

Master Jian asked his son, "It's all for you, if I die, what will you do?" ”

The son said, "I don't know. ”

Master Jane: "Can you take care of yourself?" ”

The son said, "I don't know ......"

Master Jane: "Will you think of your father in the future?" Don't think about your father's badness, think about your father's good. ”

The son said, "I ......"

Master Jane: "Let Dad carry all the sins alone, for you, Dad is willing to go to hell, as long as you are well." ”

The son said, "Daddy......"

Master Jian: "Alas, you will be a person in the future, and you will be a good person." ”

The son lowered his head, tears streaming down his face.

The deep love of a father is always difficult to express, he is a murderer and a father.

Although father and son rarely talk and rarely communicate with each other, father's love is like a mountain, and father's love is silent. On the night of the burial of the body, the father and son were silent, they sat at home, did not speak, the father smoked a low-quality cigarette, bowed his head, and the son had a sentence in his heart, but never spoke, that sentence was:

"Dad, I'm scared. Dad, I love you. ”

At dawn, my father thought of a countermeasure. He knew that the body on the water tower had been found by Sanhammer's friend, and the police would know about it sooner or later, so he chose to call the police. At that time, Huali happened to return to Sanhammer's house from the Internet café and planned to sleep, Master Jian pretended to be that he had just come back from work, and sent Sanhammer who pretended to be sick to the hospital with Huali, and then called the police.

In many cases, the informant is the murderer. In 2004, there were many fires in Chongqing, and arsonist Cui Youping called the police and fought the fires at the scene; In 2006, on the mountain road behind a warehouse on Huancheng Road in Jinzhou, a person whose legs were cut off, this person named Zeng Jinqing, called the police after self-harm and tried to defraud the insurance money.

Master Jian asked his son to pretend to be crazy and stupid in the hospital, and then he used the deceased's mobile phone to send a text message about the ghost asking for his life, just to mislead the police, distract the police, and ignore some real clues, so as to buy him time to continue to seek money and kill people.

The illness of the three hammers is actually not pretended, how can a child accept that the man carrying a corpse in the park is his father? Moreover, Triple Hammer knew that there was a corpse buried under the vines in his yard, and knew that a second corpse would be buried there.

Master Jian said to his son: "Since I have done it, I will do it to the end, the big case is the same, the small case is the same, it is all a death." ”

During the days he was waiting for murder and robbery, he often wondered if in a few years, his son would inherit his bad habit of smoking and drinking, and then quit it. After getting married, will you divorce again and turn a good home into fragmented memories? He remembered his son's girlfriend Huali, the young but watery Yanghua girl, every morning, called uncle, and then walked into the room with his son hand in hand to sleep, sometimes, when her son was not there, she would call other boys, very intimate, which made Master Jian feel extremely disgusted, so he killed Huali.

He wanted to give his son a new life, a life that was completely different and unrelated to the past.

Master Kan killed the tobacco bureau accountant with a nail gun in his taxi, and the accountant pleaded before he died, telling the password to the bank card, but he did not spare the innocent man. The password was correct, the accountant did not deceive him, which upset him and he decided to stop.

That day, he took his son out of the hospital, bought a train ticket, and he put all the money in his bag and gave it to his son.

Son: "Where am I going?" ”

Father: "You can do anything, you've grown up." ”

Son: "Are you coming with me?" ”

Father: "Leave me alone, I'm dying...... You go, go far. ”

Son: "Dad, I ......"

Father: "Remember, never come back." ”

Son: "If there is an afterlife, Dad, I still wish I could be your son again!" ”

The father was uneasy, felt that he had forgotten something, and thought for a long time and said: I forgot to lock the door, and I didn't take the key to the house.

Master Jian asked his son to find a barber shop, get his hair cut first, he went home to get the keys, and then sent his son to the station. When he returned home, the special task force happened to go to his house to investigate, and he saw four people standing in the courtyard, one of whom was digging something under the vine with a shovel. He realized that the four men were police officers, so without even thinking about it, he picked up the nail gun and rushed out......

The palm of the dragon was injured, but it did not hurt the muscles and bones, and it was not life-threatening.

The nail gun hit Professor Liang in the chest, and Su Mei turned pale with fright, this shot was enough to kill, but Professor Liang was not dead, unharmed—he had a Bible in his jacket pocket, which saved his life.

Master Jian fled in a car, like a lost dog, and did not know where to go, Bao Chu took a taxi in hot pursuit, and at the same time notified the police to intercept him. Eventually, Master Jane's car flew in an arc in the air, honked its horn, and crashed from the bridge into the river beach, and before he died, he smelled the scent of gardenias, and he remembered the face of the suicidal woman, the face with a smile but tears streaming down her face.

The case was solved, and after the incident, the police did not find the three hammers.

The non-mainstream teenager had a new hairstyle, and even changed into new clothes that his father bought for him, and he sat in a taxi with a bag of money, intending to go home to see his father, who had been waiting for a long time, but saw the police busy at the door, and he realized that something had happened to his father, who had gone home to get the keys.

The child reluctantly took one last look at his home, and then resolutely said to the driver: "Let's go, go to the train station." ”

His tears flowed...... The gardenia on the side of the road, white and fragrant, blooms silently.

Perhaps, it will take a lifetime for the three hammers to feel the deep love of their father.

There is another thing that must be explained clearly, when the special case team left, the director of the fourth street bureau held a banquet to see him off, and after the banquet, the director of the fourth street bureau quietly gave the special case team a letter, according to him - this is a letter of thanks, through the envelope you can find out that there is a bank card inside, the director of the fourth street said that the sauna city was not opened by him, and I hope that the special case team will not mention this matter after returning.

The special case team rejected the letter of thanks, and on the plane back, the four members of the special case team had the following conversation:

Su Mei: "Naked bribery!" ”

Prof. Leung: "Most of the pornography establishments in a city are protected by the local public security department. ”

"Sherlock Holmes, guess what's on that card?" ”

Bao Shu: "I think, it must be more than the money that Master Jian grabbed by killing three lives......"