Makugen

Chapter 2 Dream and Judgment

"elder brother...."

An early morning urge.

The hazy morning light covered the eyelids like fog, feeling a little glaring.

A fuzzy mind, forgetting and still thinking about the beautiful dream just now.

Frowning, stretching out his arms to his forehead, blocking the morning light.

"Well, get up."

"Eat." My younger brother turned around and walked out, instead of closing the door, he pulled up the curtain, afraid that I would fall asleep again.

He got up, threw the quilt aside randomly, sat up straight and rubbed his eyebrows and shook his slightly heavy head.

Putting on the slippers, I was dazed for a while, picked up the cup on the side table, took a sip of the cool water from last night, and the ignorant drowsiness dissipated before I knew it, and then I regained my strength.

"Wow.Wow.Wow.."

Looking at the blue sky above Chen Shi's head, he stretched himself.

The white porcelain tiles on the wall of the house reflect the early morning sunlight and are not dazzling.

Taking a deep breath, the fresh and cool air in the countryside in the morning can always fill up the tired body quickly.

The cool morning breeze was blowing the luxuriant palm trees in the courtyard.

The fan-shaped palm leaves rustle.

Birds always get up earlier than people, "twitter-twitter-"-calling non-stop.

The puppy at home is also full of energy in the early morning, raising his head to say hello to the sparrows. The rising sun can always dispel the clouds on the horizon, making the whole morning brighter.

After brushing his teeth, he wiped his face carelessly with a towel, and walked into the kitchen without drying himself.

Grandma held the lid of the pot in one hand and picked up steamed buns in the basket with the other.

The freshly steamed steamed buns are always so hot, and the figure of the uncle picked up a few and quickly blew his hands, touching the earlobes between the silver-white hair.

The steaming white-faced steamed buns, just looking at them, seduce the gluttons, and the stomach that has slept all night is gurgling and urging like human words.

He took the pot lid from grandma's hand and put it aside, picked up seven or eight in the basket, and walked to the stone table in the courtyard.

The puppy also looked at the steamed buns in the bamboo basket in his hand and bounced along the way.

"Go and scoop the porridge yourself." Grandma came in with two simple stir-fried vegetables and put them on the stone table, wiped the oil stains on the apron casually with both hands, and turned to get the chopsticks from the stove.

"Call your dad up."

The old man always sleeps so little. Looking at the crooked figure who put down his apron, he put down the white flour steamed bun he was about to take a bite of, and yelled a few times towards the back room.

"Dad, Dad. Get up and eat."

"Oh"

Dad's dull voice can always be heard steadily from the back room, but not loudly.

Walked to the grass on the side of the road in front of the gate, looked around the street, and urinated happily.

The grandmother in the "Patch" courtyard called the puppy's name.

As soon as he turned around, he saw the puppy happily rushing into the kennel with a steamed bun in his mouth. He couldn't help smiling and snorted.

Looking at the stone table, grandma is holding fried cabbage and steamed buns, chewing slightly at the corners of her mouth covered with old lines.

After the faucet rinsed the handle, he was ready to go to the table.

The door of Dad's house is open, he should be up.

The stone chair in the early morning was a bit cold, and he yawned and shivered, but the coolness was quickly dispelled by the freshly steamed white flour steamed buns in his hands.

Two plates of stir-fried vegetables on the table, hot and fragrant porridge, and a comfortable environment can always make people forget all their troubles.

"What about Lin Zhen, didn't you call me just now?"

The old man didn't respond.

Staring at the food, turning my eyes to grandma, I don't know why, grandma's face is blurred and distorted...

.......

Leng Shen didn't have time to think about his reaction.He was interrupted by a slight shaking of the top of his head.

"Get up. It's your turn."

In the dim room, the figure standing with the light behind him, the face under the police cap cannot be seen.

He twisted his chair and curled up in the corner with his sore neck all night, straightened his already numb back, and just stood up while supporting the ground, when the man pulled his pillow-numbed arm and pushed outward.

Another guard at the door saw this, and the two pushed each of them to the bathroom with one arm.

"Wash your face quickly, there are still 20 minutes."

The handcuffs on his hands were not tight, he turned on the faucet and patted the seeping chill on his face,

Looking at the familiar but gloomy face in front of the mirror, he frowned slightly, turned around and walked towards the guard.

The inner door of the hall is still waiting for people to arrive, leaning against the wall in the aisle, listening to the chatter of the two guards not far away.

"Looking at the young and beautiful, this thing can be done."

"I heard that death is still a township head"

"There's nothing I can't figure out."

"Hey..."

Watching the two chatting with each other.

"Brother, can you smoke a cigarette?"

The older guard turned his head to look around, and then looked at the polished floor.

He took out a pack of Hongtashan from his pocket, smoked one, took out a lighter, lit it and handed it over, and walked back to the other guard with a blank expression.

Neither of them was talking, as if they had left some free time for the young man.

I took a puff of cigarette and went in, as if I wasn't so hungry anymore.

Staring at the cigarette between the two fingers full of scars, the burning flame of the cigarette butt, the aisle in the dark is gradually covered by ash.

The guards standing at the window were not chatting, and the young man looked at the police badge in the sun with a slightly dejected look, a little absent-minded.

The two guards also looked over quietly, as if people from two worlds were staring at each other.

There was a sound in the hall, and the guards came over.

"go in."

The two stood side by side behind them.

The person inside opened the door, and the guard behind him gently pushed the young man inside.

Eyes swept over.The viewing platform was full of people.

Behind the plaintiff's lawyer, a woman about 40 years old grinned fiercely and stared fiercely at the young man who bowed her head and said nothing.

Gritting his teeth, as if he wanted to tear people apart, his eyes were full of hatred.

As if they wanted to cut him into pieces with their eyes, the crowd behind them also had the same look of resentment on their faces.

The young man raised his head, looked at them indifferently, then walked towards the fence with his head down.

Standing for the guard to close the gate, he straightened up and took a deep breath.

He looked indifferently at the aloof judge, behind him were the observers of the major media, reporters and many comrades-in-arms.

......

The clock strikes at nine o'clock as scheduled, and the interrogation proceeded like a process and the plaintiff's lawyer reprimanded him. Like a bird in a cage, he didn't say much, but he was a little bit bleak.

Until the presiding judge was a little disturbed by the noisy crowd and knocked on the small wooden hammer in his hand, and shouted a few silences.

The young man cleared the unwatered rice, and his somewhat hoarse throat opened.

"Thirty years ago, my grandfather started from scratch. In that poor era, the children of this family were well-clothed and well-fed."

"At that time, the leader of the town asked my grandfather to partner with him to open a gas station. The land was produced in the town, and my grandfather paid for it."

"30 years ago, ah, the era of eating bran swallowed vegetables, 19, how many people of the older generation dare not even think about it."

"It's written clearly in the contract that the town will be given a dividend of [-] yuan every year. Since my grandfather was alive, it has never been less than a penny every year."

"I still remember when I was young, when the gas station had no business, my dad sold blood for money in order to let my brother and I eat two more eggs in the morning. Heh, he thought I didn't know."

"Slowly, as the country becomes richer, the poor can afford to eat, the life of the family is getting better and better, and more and more people have evil thoughts."

"Third aunt and third uncle teamed up with people from the bank to secretly take away my grandpa's life savings, which made my grandpa mad."

"Grandma saw everything and didn't sue them, but took my dad back to the countryside,"

"My mother was also deceived, took away the remaining savings of the family, and gave the last knife to this family that lost its pillar."

"Grandma is a kind person. She has never read any books and can't read. She just knows that she doesn't want to cause trouble for her five children."

"But she doesn't know, my aunts just want to get the inheritance that didn't exist after grandpa died."

"Father fell on the ground and lost a leg because he had no money to see a doctor. Grandma took care of the whole family for 20 years."

"We've had no complaints, no."

The young man's hoarse voice narrated as if talking to himself.

Swallowing saliva, Xingzi moistened his somewhat uncomfortable throat.

"After my father became disabled, the gas station was leased to a man named Chang Tong. The rent was not too low at the beginning, so that the family's food, rice, oil and salt can be regarded as settled."

"My brother and I also dropped out of school early to join the army, which can be regarded as contributing to the motherland."

"Ten years have passed like this. When the town wants to develop and demolish, Chang Tong has evil thoughts."

"With someone, I rushed to the house at night, held down my 80-year-old grandma, and threatened my father to sign a shit power of attorney."

"The next day, I received a call from my father. I went home overnight and saw my father with a bruised nose and a broken leg, and my grandma lying on the bed."

"I went to the police station to report the case, but the police didn't ask any questions, and let me go back and wait for clues and other news."

"Oh, I know it's not easy. They dare not take care of it. My father persuaded me to hold back."

"When I arrived in the town, a shitty director told me that my father had entrusted Chang Tong, and now they are talking, and our family gave up this right."

"What kind of bullshit?"

The young man said this, with a hint of sneer at the corner of his mouth, and scanned everyone sitting in front of him and behind him.

"Grandma went to the hospital. The doctor said that she was frightened by her age and had a heart problem. It cost more than 40 yuan."

"It's ridiculous that none of my aunts came, and the kind nurses are still serving grandma."

"I took my father to find a lawyer and wrote a letter of termination, but the mayor Liu Liting told me that the matter has come to an end, and the compensation you get is the 19 yuan invested by your grandfather back then."

"Isn't it ridiculous? 30 years ago, you could buy 30 houses, and the price will be the same [-] years later? The price of pork has risen, and these people have the final say on such a big family business?"

The young man snorted, his voice full of sarcasm.

"The 50-year-old father struggled to get out of the wheelchair and begged him on the ground. The state paid more than 700 million yuan in compensation, and we only need 40 yuan to keep the old man alive."

"Liu Qiao held Erlang's legs high and said coldly: That's all, if you don't accept it, you can sue me."

Speaking of this, the young bleak figure gritted his teeth and smiled grinningly as if he was asking everyone.

"What kind of irony are the big characters serving the people on Liu's back? I dragged the bloody father out of the gate of the agency, looking at the blue sky. What I thought was the fairness advocated on TV. just."

"But the reality has already torn apart my dreaming heart."

"None of the lawyers I found was willing to take over, and every time I was rejected by the discipline inspection."

The words and desperation uttered in the young man's words, and the desperation and compassion contained in them, made the guards who were holding their arms tightly behind him a little dazed, and the tension in their hands eased a bit.

"The grandma in the hospital bed, the urging from the hospital, the desperate father, I don't know what to do."

"My life is as dark as looking up at clouds through which light cannot penetrate."

"Walking out of the hospital, I tore up the medical certificate that revealed a brain tumor, looked at the gray foggy sky, and thought that I asked Liu and he answered me, he was very fair."

Speaking of this, the young man turned his head to look at the people sitting in the plaintiff's seat under the stands. Their eyes were as indifferent as his, but there was one thing missing.

That's called: dead heart.

"You also know what happened afterwards. One life pays for one life. There is nothing to say."

After listening to the young man's statement, the presiding judge raised his hand and pressed it, signaling the plaintiff's lawyer to shut up.

Pushing the eye sockets, he took a deep look at the young man standing upright in the fence.

"The court will be adjourned for 10 minutes and the trial result will be announced."

He got up and walked out of the hall with the two judges back and forth.

The young man turned his head to look at the middle-aged woman, looking into her complicated eyes.

The middle-aged woman did not speak. She knew that the young man who was about to die in front of her was not lying.

She also knew that they were not worthy of letting him lie.

The young man moved his dry lips, and said three words to himself without making a sound, which she understood.

"sorry."

The young man closed his eyes, quietly waiting for the final judgment in his short life.

After about 10 minutes, the presiding judge and two younger judges walked into the hall, sat down one by one, picked up their notes, got up and said.

"This court pronounces that the defendant, Lin Yuan, accidentally killed Liu Liting during the dispute, and was convicted of intentional homicide. He should have been held accountable."

"But there is a reason for thinking about it, and there is no intention to kill people subjectively, and he has performed well in the army and made outstanding contributions."

"Therefore, the sentence is 15 years in prison."

"Out of humanitarianism, Nian Qi is terminally ill and time is running out. This court has decided to order him to go back to his hometown under the supervision of the guard until the end of the remaining time, and the sentence is over!"

There was an uproar in the auditorium, and there were loud curses one after another.

The presiding judge tapped the small wooden hammer to stop the noise behind the plaintiff's seat and the discussion behind the defendant's seat.

"What else do you have to say?"

The young man looked at the presiding judge's eagle-like eyes, and the solemn national emblem behind him seemed to exude majesty all the time.

Scanning the abuse and anger, complex pity and sympathy revealed in everyone's eyes, the young man pursed his lips.

"I was born in this sacred and great country. It has experienced countless blood and wars, pain and sacrifices along the way, in exchange for the prosperity and peace of the people, but behind the light, there are always shadows."

Sighed deeply.

"I hope that the unfortunate experience of my family can make more people who yearn for the light dispel the darkness in their hearts."

"That day will come, no matter how much innocent blood and fearless sacrifices are accompanied, we must just embrace it in our arms and hold it in our hands."

The young man shook his head mockingly.Watching the morning sun shine through the window.

The first sun is so warm.

"It's a pity I can't see it anymore, but for the rest of my life, I hope I can do something."

"Even a little..."

After finishing speaking, the whole hall suddenly became very quiet, and the quiet sound of a needle falling on the ground could resound in everyone's ears.

Suddenly, thunderous applause sounded, Lin Yuan turned to look at the guards, and gave them a smile.

As if to get rid of the shackles around him, he walked out of the hall and faced the sun.

......

Outside the gate, the supervising guards were ready to escort them home.

Lin Yuan saw that the woman was about to get in the car and leave, and signaled the guards to go over.

Walking in front of him, he took out a bank card from the pocket of his clothes and handed it to her.

"Auntie, this is the 19 compensation from the town. Grandma didn't save her. I hope you can use it."

The woman gave Lin Yuan a deep look with a complicated expression, but she didn't speak, nor did she accept the card that was handed over to her.

Lin Yuan bowed deeply to her.

"The hospital said there are still three months at most, and I can't use it anymore."

"My younger brother can take care of my father, so please keep it."

Without allowing her to hesitate, Lin Yuan stuffed the card into her hand.

The woman was stunned, looking at the bank card in her hand.

Suddenly, tears gushed out like a spring, and she squatted on the ground crying with tears streaming down her face.

After a while, she suddenly got up and hugged Lin Yuan's body, which had been covered by the disease and was sinking day by day.

She murmured into Lin Yuan's ear.

"sorry."

After finishing speaking, she took a few steps back and bowed deeply to the young man in front of her.

The breeze was blowing, gently blowing the willow trees beside the road, and the slender willow branches swayed with the wind.

The newly sprouted buds add a touch of spring to the cold winter.

Lin Yuan looked at her with a smile, and smiled, the tears on his face were also blown by the morning wind, and it was no longer so cold and depressing.

"It turns out that warmth is such an easy thing..."

Maybe she also knew that even if his man went on like that, he would eventually walk into darkness.

And the result of waiting for her and the child may be even more bleak than Lin Yuan, it will be a new pain.

The sunlight scattered from among the clouds, gradually dispelling the smog that shrouded the land.

The dark clouds that are gradually being driven away by the light, the morning light slowly spreads.

The ice and snow gradually melted by the river, and an egret flapped its wings from a distance and kept floating on the river...