When I woke up, I didn't know what time it was, the whole world was silent, and I could hear the sound of breathing, which was a rare experience.

I got up and got out of bed to go to the toilet, washed my face, drank some water, sat against the wall, lit a cigarette and took a deep breath, a deep hunger came to me. Looking up at the incandescent light above my head emitting a dim light, thinking about what time it was now but having no clue, I smiled self-deprecatingly, I really overestimated myself, I secretly despised it in my heart when they talked about confinement like a flood of beasts, and when I really encountered it, I knew that everything was not groundless. Luckily, the court is about to begin, otherwise I don't know what would have happened to me after three days of confinement. After surviving a day and two nights, I have a feeling that I am about to go crazy, if it really goes down for three days, I don't know how much loneliness, depression, and irritability will be tortured to what extent. At this time, when I looked at the wall of the confinement room, I realized that this was all to prevent the prisoner from harming himself!

When I woke up, it should be very early, after a few cigarettes smoked, there was still no movement outside, I continued to force myself to calm down and start chanting, the effect was not very obvious, chanting and unconsciously making a sound, it seems that the effect of the heart sutra has been greatly reduced, so I got up to wipe the floor that had just been deliberately soiled.

When the cigarette on his body was about to run out, the small window under the iron door opened, and the foreign worker reached out to take the empty rice bowl and handed in another one. I immediately crouched down by the window and asked, "Brother, it's Tuesday, right?" I'm in court today, when will I come and open the door? ”

When the window was closed, a pack of cigarettes was thrown in, and the foreign worker said in a low voice: "Come on, the court's car will come and open the door for you when it comes to pick up people." ”

After eating the head and tail, I knew that it would not be long before I had to go out, so I got up and cleaned up the floor, folded the quilt, then turned on the faucet and washed my face properly, and then used my fingers instead of a toothbrush to come up with a rudimentary version of "brushing teeth". Then sit on the bed and wait for the iron door to open.

It didn't take long to hear the sound of the iron door key turning, the iron door opened, and a cadre and a foreign worker stood outside the door.

"Zhou Shaoqing, go out for court, come with me!" The cadre said without any emotion, I heard the answer, immediately walked out of the confinement room, followed the cadre and walked out, the blue vest patted me lightly behind me, I turned my head and saw that he made an OK gesture to me, and his left eye winked at me, showing a smile. I knew that he must be the one who sent me the head and tail in the past few days, so I took out the cigarette I hadn't finished smoking and handed it to him, and nodded at him. The foreign worker took it and smiled knowingly, and then stopped making a sound.

Through the two fingerprint gates, I came to the courtyard of the detention center, and looked back at the building where I had been locked up for several months.

There were a few Iveco cars parked in the courtyard, the words "court" were painted on the body, and I was not the only detainee standing in the open space, and a group of people were wearing yellow vests printed with the words "XX City Detention Center" and standing in handcuffs under the sun, with different expressions, but they could all be summarized into the category of numbness, broken cans and brokenness.

I turned my head to look around and saw Li Yin in the parking space on the other side of the courthouse's car. Standing next to a black car, covering his mouth with one hand and staring at me blankly, his eyes should be full of tears, but I can't see it from a distance. Outside the four car doors stood Li Yin, Zhang Youxue, Deng Ge and the lawyer they had met last time. I guess they saw that I had spotted them, and all three of them raised their hands and waved them at my side. I nodded at them, and then started looking around again to see if my boss and a few of my fellow defendants had come out.

After some roll call, Iveco's back door opened, and he listened to his name and sat in the car, where six detainees and two police officers were seated.

There were four people in my case, and my boss and I were in a car, along with three men and one woman. The woman looked about thirty years old, with a good face and a very calm expression, I was a little skeptical that she was Dai Hongmei, and couldn't help but look at her a few more times, but the other party didn't notice my attention, sitting quietly on the chair, leaning against the window with her eyes slightly closed, her hands on her legs, and slowly alternating ten fingers.

The car started slowly, and I saw the car driving out of the gate of the detention center from the opposite window, I didn't suppress my impulse, and asked the woman sitting opposite, "Are you Dai Hongmei?" ”

"Shut up, don't talk!" As soon as I asked the question in my mind, the young bailiff sitting in the car yelled loudly.

"What's wrong? Don't you want to talk anymore? What right do you have to restrict us from speaking? When my boss heard this, he immediately turned his head to look at the bailiff who had just yelled at me and said, "We haven't been sentenced yet, are we just suspects?" Why can't you speak? ”

"If you are not allowed to speak, you are not allowed to speak, where did so much nonsense come from!" The bailiff glanced at my boss and said.

"Young man, don't be too arrogant, do things according to the rules, don't bully us for not knowing the law or anything." My boss said lightly, then raised his hand and pointed to the back of the car, "See, there are our lawyers in the two cars in the back, they understand, you go talk to them." We just talked, what's wrong? I didn't talk about the case and didn't collude with confessions, so I couldn't speak. Besides, even if it is a collusion, what is the matter, you put us in a car, and we don't even have the right to speak? ”

My boss is obviously a little messy, and the bailiff obviously rarely encounters such a situation, and he doesn't know what to say at all. I looked at the back of the car, and the car driven by Brother Deng was following behind the car we were sitting in, I smiled and continued to ask the woman opposite: "Are you Dai Hongmei?" ”

"You are?" Apparently my guess was right, the woman put away her breezy expression and asked me in some surprise.

"Wu Jianguo." With the bailiff around, I swallowed what I almost said, and answered her question instead.

Dai Hongmei showed an expression of disbelief after hearing this, obviously saying in the letter that she was an uncle in her forties and suddenly turned into a young man younger than her, so she didn't react at once, but it was inconvenient to say if she had questions, she looked at the two bailiffs in the carriage, didn't speak again, just looked at me with a questioning look.

I nodded at her, didn't say anything more, looked at Li Yin, who was following behind the car, sitting in the co-pilot and waving to the front, raising his hands and waving at her, I don't know if she can see it.

The car drove to the courthouse, and six people were led to a waiting room to sit down and wait for the court time to come. The bailiff stood in the doorway with his hands behind his back, but did not remind him that he could not speak. I turned to my boss and asked, "Wait a minute, are we going to court together or one by one?" What do you say? ”

"I don't know, it should be in court together, and when the time comes, I'll just tell the truth if I ask anything, and if there is a lawyer, they will do it. We'll just wait for the results, there's nothing to worry about. The boss said indifferently.

After waiting for a while, I clicked on Dai Hongmei's name. Dai Hongmei got up, glanced at me, nodded, and followed the bailiff out. I saw a lot of questions in my boss's eyes, but he also knew that there might be something hidden in this, and he didn't ask me.

One by one, people called out, and soon it was our turn.

Following the bailiff to the courtroom, the other two co-defendants had already arrived, standing in front of the judge, and behind each stood two bailiffs with serious faces. There were a few people sitting in the audience behind me, and in addition to the few I knew, there were a few relatives who were supposed to be my boss.

The process of the trial is very simple, there is no-for-tat scene between the lawyer and the prosecutor in the court in the TV series, the prosecutor of the public prosecution seat stated the case again, I saw that the people's assessors seemed to be about to fall asleep again, and several of our clients had nothing to say to defend them, and I didn't care too much about what the lawyer said, which roughly means that there is a good attitude of admitting guilt and actively compensating for the incident, hoping to be sentenced lightly.

The verdict was pronounced in court. The main offender was sentenced to 10 months in prison, and the three accomplices were all sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment, everything was expected.

After the verdict, we were taken out of the courtroom, and Li Yin's crying voice came from behind us: "I'll come to see you in a few days!" ”

When I got back to the waiting room, my boss said to me, "You're not going to appeal against the verdict, are you?" ”

I shook my head and said, "No, that's it, it's mainly up to you, you have four months longer than us, do you still want to appeal?" ”

"No, it's not much use, so be it, how much is your lawyer's fee, I'll give it to you when I go out, and call me when I come out when you go out." I'll make up some money for you, this time you followed me, it's me who can't stand you. The boss said, shaking his head.

"Well, let's talk about it!" I didn't say anything politely to him, but returned softly.

On the way back, everyone else in the car had already gotten into the car, and after the iron gate was closed, the car drove out and took us to the detention center. Looking at Dai Hongmei, who was sitting opposite, I asked, "How long?" ”

"Two years." Although Dai Hongmei was very strange about how Wu Jianguo suddenly became a young man, she still answered my question.

Looking at the unfriendly face of the bailiff, we didn't say anything, and everyone looked down and thought about their own questions, I was silently calculating how long I would have to leave the detention center? Are you still thinking about whether you will continue to be confined when you return to the detention center today, or will you be sent to a regular cell?

The car drove to the detention center, the door opened, and the correctional cadres took over and took us through the fingerprint door again to the hall outside the prison, called foreign workers, and took us back to the cell one by one.

As soon as I entered the cell, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at me with a question mark.

"Half a year." I didn't wait for them to ask, I took the initiative to tell them about my verdict. No one felt strange after hearing it, after all, this result was the result of everyone's mock trial a long time ago.