The next day, when the horn rang, we washed up, folded the quilt into square tofu cubes, and went out to find that the snow I saw last night, before the last light was gone, was not an illusion.

At this moment, the courtyard has accumulated a thick snow as deep as the ankles, and when I look over the high wall, it turns out that the outside world is the same as here, and it is all white, clean and elegant, and there is no trace of dirt in sight!

The new year begins quietly in this solemn whiteness that is not stained with fine dust, and the wheel of time has begun a new round of rotation over and over again, neither fast nor slow, neither increasing nor decreasing......

I didn't do any more exercises this morning, and after the assembly, I opened the small room where the cleaning tools were placed. Without saying anything, the security officers of each prison number went in in an orderly manner to receive the tools and distribute them to us.

So, in silence, we began to clear the snow in the courtyard. I've never seen an organization so efficient before, two or three soccer balls, dozens of people, cleaned up in a few moments, piled up at the mouth of the sewer and flushed with a hose and all turned into water and ran away.

Next, each person has a mop in their hands, and after mopping the stagnant water, they are mopping it with a dry mop, and the whole venue instantly becomes clean and bright. If it weren't for the fact that the roof and courtyard walls were still white, there would be almost no signs of snow falling here.

After breakfast, it was free time, and the discipline threw two basketballs out and went back to the room to warm up, as if deliberately letting us relax completely and leave us unsupervised.

The courtyard suddenly boiled, and two waves of people took basketballs and ran to play basketball under the basket not far away.

Ah Song gestured to me and Don Jr., and Don Jr. and I both shook our heads, so he ran into the crowd to play basketball, and seeing their elated looks, I thought it was probably the only entertainment here.

Don Jr. and I sat silently on the steps and watched the two groups of people in front of us play basketball in a chaotic manner. Xiao Tang didn't know where to get a cigarette, and took out a box of matches to light the fire, the matches were probably damp, and he drew several sticks before he finally drew the flames.

He took two beautiful puffs, his handsome face becoming a little misty in the blue smoke, and handed me the cigarette.

I took two puffs and gave it back to him, and the cigarette burned to the end as we passed it back and forth. Xiao Tang tore the cigarette butt open, tore off the sponge on the cigarette holder and threw it in the air, and a gust of wind blew through and no trace could be found.

"You're not going to play?" Xiao Tang bowed slightly, and gestured to the field.

I smiled wryly and shook my head: "I'm not used to it!" ”

"You'll get used to it! We're going to be here for a long time, time will get you used to everything here! Xiao Tang's face showed his poet-like expression again!

"Maybe!" I said lightly, Xiao Tang's words made my heart flutter for no reason.

I suddenly remembered an American movie, a movie about prisons, in the movie there is an old prisoner named Lao Bu, who stayed in prison for decades, and he gradually got used to everything in that small world, until he was finally able to get out, he was extremely scared, and he didn't even dare to step out of the prison, and finally chose to hang himself in a small hotel because he couldn't face the strange world outside.

In the movie, it is said that Lao Bu's tragic fate is because he was institutionalized, and I think he just feels that he doesn't have enough time to familiarize him with another strange world, and he uses it

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It took a lifetime to become familiar with that small world, and now suddenly he was faced with that completely strange and huge world, and he chose to escape.

However, he can never return to the world he is familiar with, and perhaps only by ending his own life can he escape the fear in his heart......

Don Jr. is right, we still have a long time to spend here, and I'll get used to everything here. Will I eventually be like Lao Bu and no longer be able to face the world I once lived in and choose to escape? Lao Bu chose a rope, what would I choose?

I couldn't help but feel a wave of fear!

In addition to the two groups of people playing basketball in the courtyard, there were other scattered people who stood or squatted or sat together, their faces were happy because of this short time without work, and they all showed excited looks, I think they are probably used to life here, and have gradually been institutionalized......

I'm probably not far away!

My gaze inadvertently swept to a corner of the courtyard far away from the crowd, where a young man with a thin face was squatting, staring blankly at the outside of the fence, his expression motionless, and from his loose clothes, he was probably afraid that he was only a pile of skeletons.

"That person's name is Xiaozhuang, he is a college student, and he came in three months before me!" Don Jr. probably saw me looking at the man, and explained.

"He was just helping a pregnant woman pick up a package in a supermarket locker. In the end, the police seized that the package was full of contraband, and it was the kind that was sentenced in grams! The police finally found him in the supermarket surveillance, and at that time, he was just in time for the crackdown, and he confessed that he did not know the source of the package......"

"If he can live forever, the weight of the contents is enough for him to sit for more than a thousand years!"

Listening to Xiao Tang's words, my heart churned, and I felt nauseous and nauseous! Thinking about what Xiao Tang just said, thinking about the so-called conclusive crimes of myself and Xiao Tang, I can't help but wonder what kind of world is this? Sin grows all around us all the time and we don't know it, so how can we be cautious in our words and actions to avoid the dangers of this reality?

Thinking of this, I suddenly felt that the so-called freedom is really freedom? What's the difference between the outside and the inside? Isn't the so-called outside a bigger inside? Where else can we escape? Where is the Pure Land? Is it true that the soul can only be truly free when it is taken out of its shell? Is this the freedom that Ferdofi speaks of?

A week's worth of vacation was soon over, trucks that had disappeared for days rumbled in from all over the country, and we began to toil again for our humble lives. This is probably the meaning of the labor reform, at least it made me realize that if I can get out, even if I live humbly at the bottom of my life, I must be cautious and never violate even the slightest law.

In this kind of high-intensity labor, coupled with the conceivable diet, my body quickly dried up and lost weight, even if there was no mirror to show me, just by touching it, I could clearly feel my gradually bulging cheekbones and ribs visible to the naked eye! Isn't everyone here just like me?

At the end of the first month, I won my first visitation day since I was imprisoned. I was thrilled for no reason when I heard the news, but I was instantly snubbed again.

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Who will come to see me? I have long been unrelated, and there are many so-called relatives, but since the man named Wei Jianguo abandoned me and my mother, I have long since ceased to regard them as relatives, and I even felt ashamed of my surname Wei for a while.

This is also the reason why after my mother's death I tried my best not to agree to bury my mother in the family cemetery, and chose another burial place for my mother, in my heart my mother and I are no longer members of the Wei family.

Over the years, I have never taken the initiative to visit the so-called elders of the clan, let alone have the slightest contact. I'm afraid they won't know about my imprisonment, so how can they come to see me?

So will anyone come to see me? Probably yes, I think! Xiang Dong will probably come to see me, it seems that he is the only one, my good brother! Thankfully, there is you, and if it weren't for you, how desolate would I have been with all the long-awaited visitation and no one cared about me......

Maybe there's someone else besides you, right? Will she come? What should I say to her......

As it turned out, I never underestimated the brotherhood between me and Xiang Dong, and he did.

Outside the glass window, he was still wearing a leather jacket and Martin boots, looking cool. He stared at me for a long time, and suddenly the bearded man burst into tears......

My nose couldn't help but feel sour, and my throat felt bitter!

He made no secret of his emotions, reached out to wipe the tears from his face, took a deep breath, and then he smiled......

Only then did he pick up the phone and pretend to smile lightly and said, "It seems that the food inside is not very good!" But you're still thinner and better-looking, more like a man! ”

I couldn't stop hearing this, my jaw couldn't help shaking, and the figure facing east outside the window instantly became blurred! I tried my best to control my emotions, I didn't want Xiang Dong to see my weakness, and I didn't want to waste these short fifteen minutes on this sigh and emotion.

I wiped my eyes, smiled at him and said, "I just want to lose weight, and it seems that the effect is obvious!" ”

Xiang Dong lowered his head and smiled, and then the smile was collected and his expression became solemn: "Brother, I'm sorry!" I knew too late and didn't do anything to help! His tone was full of infinite remorse.

I smiled faintly and said, "How can I blame you for this, they came prepared, even if you knew it early in the morning, I am afraid that there is nothing you can do!" ”

Xiang Dong fell silent again, and after a while, he raised his head and said: "Behave well inside, I have consulted a lawyer, it doesn't take that long to behave well, and it is not impossible for three or four years to behave well." Buddy is waiting for you to come out, I will bear everything for you, and then we will start a business together! ”

I smiled, this product really won't comfort people, you have already achieved a successful career and created a ball industry! But I nodded as if encouraged, and I was at his mercy.

"What else do you need here? I asked the leaders here, as long as they are compliant, a lot of things can be sent in! Money can also be sent in! "To the east.

I pretended to think about it and said, "There is no shortage of anything here, there is no place to use money, daily necessities can be exchanged for work points, you don't have to worry about it, everything is fine here!" ”

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