In an interrogation room at the Public Security Bureau, Tian Xiang's left hand was handcuffed to a radiator, and four or five policemen around him took turns kicking and beating him, and he had been tossed for nearly an hour. Tian Xiang languished beside the radiator, his waist was very painful, and he couldn't move because of the pain; his left foot seemed to be dislocated, and there was a kind of pain in his heart; his eyebrows and feet were bleeding, so that he couldn't open his eyes. He wanted to kill people, kill the whole family of the third and fourth children, and kill these indiscriminate and wanton policemen in front of him.

An old policeman finally couldn't stand it anymore, "Stop, if you continue to fight, you will die." ”

"Lao Yu, this kid cut my uncle, how can he be ruthless if he doesn't beat him. A stubby young policeman said.

"Okay, okay, if it's going to take a human life, no one can afford it. The old policeman then persuaded.

"Phew", the rough black policeman spat at Tian Xiang's face, stretched out his big foot and stomped on his face, and kept scolding in his mouth, "Dog mongrel!"

Tian Xiang's face had already been distorted and deformed, and his head had a feeling of wanting to burst. He wanted to die, but he was unwilling, because it would be too cheap to die like this.

The old policeman's face was not very good, because the last sentence of the rough black policeman sounded like he was scolding him. "That's enough! it's good for you to make trouble!" the old policeman yelled with a stiff face.

The rough black policeman looked at him, and then smiled, "Okay, for your old Yu's sake, I'll spare this bastard today." After saying that, he waved his hand and led a few policemen out of the interrogation room.

After a brief silence, the old policeman asked, "Why did you cut people?"

There was another deathly silence, and just as the old policeman sighed and was about to leave, Tian Xiang replied weakly, "They should die!"

The old policeman looked at him, shook his head gently, opened the door and left, leaving Tian Xiang lying motionless in the empty room.

After the old policeman left, it was extremely quiet, with resentment and sadness surging together, blood donation and pain tormenting in turn. Since he was arrested last night, he hasn't closed his eyes at all, and at night he is full of anger and unrest, and he has been beaten by four or five people in turn just now, and he has long been exhausted. Gradually, he fell asleep in a daze......

In the dream, his grandfather and grandmother came to his side, and the two old men looked at him with tears in their eyes, and he didn't want his grandfather and grandmother to be sad, and tried to force a smile, but his grin was crying. The grandmother reached out and tried to touch his cheek, but the distance seemed to be far, far away, and she didn't touch him for a long time. Suddenly, his grandfather and grandmother were gone, and fairy-like beauties came to him, followed by crumbling walls, floating corpses, and mountain-like beasts......

Tian Xiang woke up excitedly, and the old policeman was sitting behind the table watching him.

"Wake up, eat something!" the old policeman walked over and handed him a steamed bun and a bottle of water.

Tian Xiang was stunned, and slowly stretched out his right hand to take it, crying while gobbling it up.

The old policeman sat back in his seat, looked at him quietly, and said after a long time: "You may be criminally detained, and if the person you injured is serious, you will even be sentenced, are you afraid?"

Tian Xiang looked up at him and shook his head, "Don't be afraid! My grandmother has been forced to die, what else is there to be afraid of." ”

The old policeman looked at him with a complicated expression, and felt indescribably uncomfortable. Out of curiosity, he got up in the morning and looked into the whole thing, and knew that the poor boy had been forced step by step to this point. "Hurting others is also hurting yourself, and if your grandmother has a spirit in heaven, she wouldn't want to see you like this. You used to be the pride of her old man, but now you are not. The old policeman looked at him and said calmly.

Tian Xiang's tears burst out of his eyes instantly. He didn't want to shed tears in front of people, but when he thought of his grandmother, he felt uneasy, and quickly lowered his head. After a long time, Tian Xiang said in a desolate tone: "I am superfluous. ”

"Child, no one is superfluous, only you don't give up on yourself. At least I know that there are still people who care about you. Lao Lao said and took out a mobile phone and shook it in his hand. It was Tian Xiang's, and when the police arrested him last night, they took everything from him, including the worn-out mobile phone.

Tian Xiang shook his head helplessly, "Grandma is gone, there will never be ...... in this world again" Before the words were finished, he couldn't cry.

"You're wrong, you've received a lot of text messages since last night. ”

"It's all classmates, New Year's greetings!" Tian Xiang said very calmly, because this was expected.

"A girl called in the morning and I answered. The old policeman stared at him.

"Yuxin?" Tian Xiang raised his head suddenly, hoarse and anxious, "What did you say, what did you say about my current appearance?"

The old policeman stared at him, "What should I say?"

Tian Xiang's body seemed to have fallen into an ice cave all of a sudden, and he was slumped on the ground, right, what else could a policeman say? The only little comfort left in his heart seemed to be gradually drifting away, leaving only despair. He slowly closed his eyes, and his body seemed to be gradually hollowed out, as if the whole body no longer belonged to him. He wanted to cry, but he couldn't, he tried to open his mouth, and what he made was laughter, laughter, he was laughing at himself, laughing at his body, laughing at the superfluity of his existence. Wrong, really wrong, this life is a joke, a big joke, but I don't know it, and I've been doing those meaningless efforts. The laughter echoed throughout the police station, for a long time, for a long time......

The old policeman got up and walked slowly to him, "Let's make a call!"

Tian Xiang looked at him angrily, his right hand stretched out half and retracted, shook his head with difficulty, and shrank on the ground, leaning against the radiator. He closed his eyes, wishing he would never open them again, that no one would ever disturb him, and that would be it, that it would all end like this, as if he had never existed, as if nothing had ever happened. This may be the end, but it came too late, too late, and if it had come more than 20 years ago, maybe everything would not have been like this. Yes, one's birth is the beginning of the whole thing, and these twenty years are too short, too short to turn back, but too long, and the long ones begin to get tired of themselves.

The old policeman still stretched out his mobile phone in front of him, "Justice is in the hearts of the people, and there is still life in the desperate place." Child, as long as you don't give up, no one will give up on you!"

Tears drilled out of Tian Xiang's slightly closed eyes and continued to flow on his face, for some reason, suddenly there was an indescribable taste for the old policeman's words, people's hearts, vitality, the moment when grandmother was lying on the bed in despair, where was the human heart? Where is the vitality? Last night, grandmother's voice appeared in front of her eyes again, what a clear last words, but because of his ignorance, the old man lost his last attachment. Xue Yuxin's pretty face gradually became clear in front of her, smiling at herself, just like in the past, with a hint of brutality.

Tian Xiang took the mobile phone and dialed the familiar number.

"What are you doing? Finally remembered to call me?" "Busy man, you won't set up a stall at home during the Chinese New Year, right?" Xue Yuxin's voice was very sweet, and it sounded on the phone.

Tian Xiang shed tears, forced to calm and hesitantly answered, the wandering duckweed in his heart gently rested on the crisp water lily, gently swaying in the still water lake.

The old policeman left in amusement, smiled at him before going out, and closed the door gently.

An hour later, the old policeman came in with two policemen. A tall policeman looked at him, "This kid is really kind." Tian Xiang glanced at him, turned his back and didn't want to take care of it.

The old policeman spoke, "Everyone knows that this child is not easy. After speaking, he turned his head and said with a smile, "Let's go! Do a physical examination, and go to the detention center for the New Year!"

Immediately, two policemen stepped forward, released the handcuffs, dragged him out, and stuffed him into a police car. Handcuffed and dragged by the police to wander around the hospital for a long time, attracting a lot of strange eyes. If in the past, Tian Xiang should have been self-conscious, but today he is super thick-skinned and holds his head high, as if he was inspecting.

At the top of the stairs, two old women whispered to the side.

"Tsk, this looks like a repeat offender!"

"It's not like that, it's bloody, it can't be a killing, right?"

"Definitely, if you kill people and set fires at such a young age, you will definitely be shot. ”

"It's a shame......"

Tian Xiang glanced at the two of them, and the two old women hurriedly turned around to avoid his gaze. He didn't bother to take care of it, so he walked away.

In the detention center, the room where Tian Xiang was arranged had four high and low beds, and four people were already living in it. To tell the truth, except for the bed, the conditions are not as good as the room in the interrogation room, there is no heating, and it is cold and cold.

"Yo, another one! There are a lot of Chinese New Year's Eve here. As soon as Tian Xiang entered the house, a short and thin man on the bunk under the south wall said in a loud voice.

"I can't sit down at the mahjong table, the detention center is really humane!" said the man with a meaty face on the north wall as he played with the playing cards in his hand.

"Come on, a thief, a gambler, I'm making fun of you, I'm really embarrassed, don't you say?" said the fat young man looking at the bald man lying on the bed.

"Ballball! Fucking say I'm going to beat you up. You're not a good bird, drunk driver, and a fucking killer. After the bald man scolded, he stared at Tian Xiang and asked, "Boy, what did you do?"

Tian Xiang's heart tightened, it seemed that he was going to be beaten, instead of twisting and pinching, it was better to come straight up, if he was beaten, he was not afraid of death. With a bald glance, he pulled up a bench and sat at the table at the door, and said coldly: "Cut people!"

"Damn! The thief shouted at the top of his voice.

"Ouch, interesting, our house of drunk driving, gamblers, **, thieves, slashing, it's not the same!" the drunk driver grinned.

"Dead?"

"Nonsense, can a hacker come here, go straight to the prison and report to the prison!" said the gambler as he played his cards.

"Covered in blood, this shape, not to mention that cutting people is killing people, some people believe it!" ** said and pointed to a few empty beds, "Pick your dragon couch." ”

"It turned out that I was not beaten. Tian Xiang muttered as he spread the dirty futon he had just received on the top bunk near the door.

Dinner in the detention center was a pot of mushy noodles, so muddled that there was no vegetable hair, boiling water to boil white noodles, and sprinkling some salt was a meal. But Tian Xiang ate very fragrantly, and he didn't have a full stomach, so he swallowed the bowl that the drunk driver put on the table.

"You kid haven't eaten, can you eat this thing?" the gambler exclaimed, his eyes wide.

"I eat this a lot. Tian Xiang didn't even look at him, got up and left. What he said was the truth, for a few years in school, it was common for the rice jar to boil water and boil white noodles. But to a few people, it seemed that this kid who didn't talk much was a frequent visitor to the detention center, and he was stunned.