Early in the morning, Huang Long tidied himself up, stood at the door, chatted with Wu Jianguo, and waited for the cadre on duty to be the most cordial figure in his eyes today. Tian Zeliang seemed to be more calm than him, and he had been helping to do some brine processing.

Sometimes the more you look forward to it, the more disappointed you are. Tian Zeliang received a notice of release before the head and tail were sent in at noon, and followed the cadres on duty out of the Seventh Prison, but Huang Long did not wait for the figure of the cadre who arrived to inform him that he had been released. When it was time to start the task of bagging, it was obvious that Huang Long was starting to get impatient, leaning his head against the iron door and staring at the corridor at the other end of the duty room, eager to stick his head out between the two steel bars on the iron door.

"Come over here and help with the bagging!" Wang Yongfei saw him walking around like an ant on a hot pot, and shouted, "The more anxious you are, the more you can't wait, didn't you say that you were arraigned the day before yesterday, that you should be able to go out today, and you didn't say that you will definitely be able to go today." Hurry up and fart! If you do it well, you can naturally go, and you have been panicking for half a day? It's a big deal, I'll leave tomorrow. ”

"You're a crow's mouth! It's hard for me to ignore you. After Huang Long answered his words, he moved a small stool and sat down to help us pack the bags.

In a proverb, it should be Wang Yongfei's iron-clad sentence, when the shipment was made, Huang Long took the initiative to ask for help, and when he arrived in the corridor, he asked the cadres on duty why they hadn't come to release him yet?

"Your case-handling unit will release you if the release notice is delivered, and it must not have been delivered yet. If it is sent late, it will have to be released tomorrow morning. The cadre on duty obviously knew that Huang Long belonged to the person who had already stepped out of the iron gate of the detention center with half a foot, so he still answered him.

"Then why was Li Xuhua's old man released yesterday when it was almost twelve o'clock?" Huang Long asked a question that everyone was concerned about.

"It was the people from the police station who worked overtime, and in the middle of the night, they all sent a release notice, and their son came to pick him up. If the notice arrives and someone picks you up outside, I can let you out. After the cadre on duty finished speaking, he went to the next cell to supervise the shipment.

At dinner, Huang Long no longer insisted on skipping meals, and he couldn't resist the hunger caused by not eating two meals.

"Wang Yongfei, give me a pack of cigarettes, I damn it, I thought I was already at home at this time, how do I know that I am still here with you, a white-eyed wolf!" After dinner, I watched the time pass the normal end of the day. Huang Long knew that Wang Yongfei's words should be right, and he still had to spend the night on the Chase bunk in the detention center.

"You didn't even read the last time you signed, it won't be the signature of the arrest, right? No, you don't need us to sign the arrest, you won't sign the warrant, right? Wang Yongfei threw a pack of cigarettes to Huang Long, and began to show off his recent law studies.

"It's not your fault that you shut up and can't speak, but it's your fault that you bite indiscriminately! Don't talk to no one when you're dumb! Huang Long seemed to want to go up and compete with him.

Zhao Changping found me and borrowed cigarettes from me: "College student, borrow a pack of your red plums from me!" You see that Tian Zeliang has been out for a long time, and now there are no cadres to come to the two of us, he must have taken out the letter you wrote for me, or I will send me money at home in two days, and I will return you two packs at that time! ”

I seem to be able to imagine that before I came, Zhao Changping saw the first time he asked Cadre Xia to help him call his brother-in-law to send a receipt for living expenses, and then asked Brother Du, a student at the time, to borrow cigarettes, he was a little timid and seemed to be very confident. Seeing his expectant look, I took a pack of red plums to him and told him that it would be okay to return one when the time came.

When he was on duty, Huang Long asked to be on the first shift with me, and I guess he was expecting him to hear the pleasant sound of the iron door and damper opening and closing when he was on duty, like Li Xuhua, and hear the cordial call of the cadres on duty. However, it didn't.

"Wang Yongfei, bring two packs of cigarettes! You've lost! Boss Xu looked at the time past twelve o'clock and said to Wang Yongfei. He was the only one who took over Wang Yongfei's gamble yesterday.

"Okay, I'll get up tomorrow morning and bring it to you, in the cabinet over there." Wang Yongfei is very single, willing to gamble and lose.

I know this is one of the few ways Boss Xu has fun in his cell. He once said that if there is only life left, then you should also convince yourself to be happy. Since the crushing of life cannot be resisted, it is better to accept it calmly, which is not negative, but actually a kind of resistance, a resistance that does not be crushed into mud.

It wasn't until the militia on duty knocked on the window to signal a shift change, Huang Long accepted the reality, and went back to his bunk to sleep sullenly, watching him lie down, I guessed that he was very likely to lose sleep after staying overnight.

The next day, Huang Long was the first to get up again, and he was much calmer than the day before. No longer standing at the door waiting for freedom to come, but sat down and ordered raisins, I remembered what he whispered to me yesterday when he was on duty, that night when he heard the interrogation policeman say that he could go out, he actually "ran away"! It's been almost two months since I came in for the first time! So the next day he wrote my QQ number again on the inside of his panties.

Today did not let him wait long, after the head and tail were sent at noon, when Huang Long was making a fierce ideological struggle over whether to eat or not, the cadre on duty appeared at the door of the cell, and before he knocked on the iron door, Huang Long rushed to the door with an arrow step.

The cadre on duty still routinely shouted: "Huanglong, pack up your things, you have been released!" ”

Huang Long heard the sound in his ears, raised his right hand, waved his hand behind our backs, and strode out of the iron gate.

Huang Long went out and really went to find Wang Yongfei's brother and helped him convey Wang Yongfei's newfound way to make money. When I met him after I was released from prison, he himself said that he was about to freeze to death that day, because the ice disaster seriously affected the business, Wang Yongfei and his brother's KTV stopped their daytime shows, and he waited until after 6 o'clock in the afternoon to wait for his brother. After listening to Huang Long's words to help his brother bring him back, Wang Yongfei's brother invited him to take a bath in the Dalang Taosha Bathing Square, threw away all the clothes he wore from the detention center, and changed into a new set of clothes bought for him by his girlfriend before returning home.

When I was on duty with Huang Long, he asked me a few times if there was anything he could do to help when he went out? I thought about it and didn't have anything, and finally asked him to find Li Yin's QQ account with the net name "Once upon a time there was a goblin" through the message in my QQ space and add her, ask her what the situation is, and tell her my situation and the case inside, because I guess she is still in the city and has not left, if this is the case, let Huang Long tell her what she should do, don't waste time here.

"Women are stupid!" This is what Huang Long said when he was drinking with me, "I went online and entered your QQ space the day after I came out, and found Li Yinjia and her friend." In the evening, she passed my application and chatted with her. She really didn't leave since she knew that you were arrested and came here, rented a house at the university where you studied, and was ready to spend the New Year here alone. Look at Xiaolei too, she obviously told her that I didn't meet her when I was inside, and I ran to the detention center every day, and my face was frostbitten. Li Yin too, when I went to look for her with Xiaolei the next day, it was night, the house she rented was in the commercial street outside your sister's school, the students were on vacation, and the business people went home, it was freezing and terrible, and the place was empty like a ghost town. ”

"I told her that it's useless to wait here now, and that if you want to see you, you can only wait until the court decides before you have the opportunity to visit the prison and let her go home for the New Year. Do you know what this stupid woman says? She said that she wanted to go and suffer with you when she thought of you suffering in the detention center, and when she heard me say that life in the cell was very bad, she was going to go to the detention center to send you living expenses, and I told her sister, don't make trouble, it's night, everyone else is off work, and the people on duty are there, and now it's the same to send money in, and she won't give up until the next day. ”

"I also saw Wang Yongfei's kid's girlfriend, when he brought him that bullshit and told his brothers to do something fast. That kid is really wonderful, and the eyes of women are also wonderful, his girlfriend is only as tall as my navel. Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xiao Lei, who was accompanying us on the side.

"Brother Zhou, don't listen to Huang Long's nonsense, Xiaoxiao is short, but it's not as exaggerated as he said, well, half a head shorter than me...... Most of the head............ At most one head like this! When Xiao Lei gestured, Huang Long laughed beside him so much that tears flowed out.

"College student, you say, Wang Yongfei, I think he's almost 1.9 meters, find a daughter-in-law and clip the limb socket to clip the head, or she wears high heels, haha! He's the only one who can do that! Gotta a toast to him! Huang Long laughed and said, and then said to me a little embarrassed: "It's all out, I should call you Brother Zhou, and call you a college student, that's smooth, I'm sorry!" ”

"It's okay, you can call it whatever you want, it's just a title." I really didn't pay much attention to it, and it was quite pleasant to hear.

"Why didn't you come with Li Yin? After the Chinese New Year last year, we had a hot pot together, just downstairs in her rented house, at a Sichuan hot pot restaurant, where she worked as a waitress, you know? She said she'd wait for you to come out and make other arrangements. Oh I'll go, I always thought I could eat spicy, oh that day, it was so spicy that I didn't dare to go to the tuba for a few days after that,, I wanted to be pinpricked. When I received your call, I thought it was you who came together, and I specially chose this authentic Sichuan hot pot restaurant mainly for Li Yin, not for you, when I came to see you, Xiaolei also said that she and Li Yin went shopping when we were drinking! Huang Long asked me seemingly casually.

"Go back, she's from Yingxiu." I replied with a sigh.

"Well, that's the time to go back!" Huang Long said in a deep voice, "You should go and accompany her!" You must go, or I will look down on you. ”

At the end of the day, Huang Long should have been drunk, and when he walked out of the hot pot restaurant, Huang Long looked up to the sky and shouted on the crowded street: "Stupid woman! ”