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The Windows of the detention center hang from the walls four meters high. The steel Windows are stained with rust and are always covered with paint.
Three dozen prisoners sat cross-legged four metres beneath the bars. On Sundays, after breakfast, everyone sat quietly for an hour, with closed eyes, to repent of their SINS.
Of course, some may indeed be full of regret, some dwell on the past, and some just nod off.
Kan Jun was sitting in my front row, looking so restless. His thigh ligaments were so strong that it was particularly painful to cross his legs, and his unruly antics were a constant source of trouble in one of the six rows of sitting prisoners.
“Second row, fourth. Come out. Second in the sixth row, come out…”
The correctional officer opened the iron door of the prison and walked in, carrying a half-meter long rubber stick. The trumpets singled out the prisoners who had behaved badly during the sit-in introspection, and they were prone on the planks.
“Every time you are a dog! So short of memory?”
The rubber stick left a few hot, bloody streaks on Kan’s hips, and every Sunday he was one of those punished for his substandard posture of sitting quietly and reflecting.
“Keep this dog in handcuffs for two days. I don’t think he has a thick skin.
Before discipline left the iron gates of the prison, he threw the captain a pair of blackened irons. Kan Jun was ordered to squat next to the toilet after a row of metal floor rings were installed in front of the house’s wood-planked floor.
“Size twenty centimeters.”
“You never have a damn long memory, and you can’t sit still for an hour? Cadres think I can not manage the group, you dog day let me ugly, I will not give you mercy.
Kan Jun’s hands were chained to the ground ring, leaving him with only a few centimeters of movable iron chain. He was allowed to lie on his side when he went to bed, and to remain squatting the rest of the time.
The light rain on a December winter night turned into moisture on the concrete floor, and Kan Jun, sleeping on his side, had to endure two cold nights. Two months ago, kan Jun, who had been in love for less than a year, threw the greatest happiness experienced at the age of 25 into the whirlpool with her own hands.
2
Kan Jun is lianyungang Guanyun county, all the year round in Zhangjiagang work, in 2007, he was introduced to a fellow township girl Liu Yun. In the humble shed, two people crowded in a bed of 90 cm wide lower berth, under the curtain of grain curtain carefully to love and touching.
Compared with other girls her age, Liu’s simplicity makes Kan’s heart ache. The construction site had only a few hundred yuan a month to live on, and all the kindness he wanted to show his girlfriend was limited to an empty purse.
One wholesale market in Zhangjiagang had a row of shops, which Mr. Kan had helped build and decorate. He knew that the self-made shutter doors could be opened easily with hydraulic tongs. After torturing himself with this thought for several nights, he finally arrived in the deserted streets just after 2 a.m. with his hydraulic tongs.
It took Kan Less than five seconds to cut the lock ring of the first store, but his back was still wet with sweat. The sound of opening the shutter door was particularly loud in the quiet night, making his hands shake and his back wet again. He packed some high-end cigarettes in his bag, rolled all the spare cash from the cash register, and then walked to the rolling door of the second shop…
During the intense night, Kan completely lost track of time until an early shop owner and his workers spotted kan, who had been on a crime spree, and surrounded him.
After nine o ‘clock in the morning, the owners of the shop all arrived. After retrieving their stolen goods from Kan, they tied him to an acacia tree in the backyard of a restaurant.
A few middle-aged men slapped Kan’s hands with a bamboo stick they had taken off their brooms, then took off his pants. The women watching were screeching and laughing to one side.
In the whirlpool of “wrong”, everyone is a victim, everyone is bound to become the perpetrator. In the whirlpool of “wrong”, everyone is a victim, and everyone is bound to become the perpetrator. (Still from Residual SINS)
The triumphant counterattack continued into the sweltering afternoon, when the restaurant owner brought Kan a bowl of well water. The water was muddy, with grains of rice stained black from soy sauce in it, and Kan jun drank it down, even though he had just seen a small yellow dog in his yard eating its lunch.
After drinking the bowl of dirty water, the boss asked Kan Jun: “My shop’s wealth cat is not you broke it?”
“I took the coins inside.”
“You’ve ruined me, you know? How does it count?”
Kan Jun promised to pay 4,000 yuan to the boss, who also promised to get the money and let him go privately.
A few hours later, Liu Yun received a call from the boss, with all his savings rushed to the yard. After giving him the money, the boss did not immediately release Kan Jun, but pulled Liu Yun to the courtyard under the grape arbor to talk for a long time.
In the faint heat, Kan Jun faintly felt Liu Yun’s shadow more and more solemn, as if black had become a mass of ink.
Waiting for him to wake up, he had been lying in the shed, Liu Yun lying on his side. On his table stood instant noodles and steamed buns. In the whole night of silence in the same sleep, Liu Yun opened his mouth to say the first words: “Jun brother, I’m going back to my hometown.”
Kan Jun himself was also unable to say any words to retain Liu Yun. After sending Liu Yun to the long-distance bus station, Kan Jun returned to his laborious work life.
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One unremarkable early autumn morning, Kan Jun was working on a gangplank filled with cement when she received a phone call from her hometown. It was the shocking news that Liu Yun had drunk a bottle of pesticide and sent it to a township hospital, feeling stiff.
Kan jun jumped directly from a 4-meter high springboard and, with his feet in the cement slurry, went straight to the long-distance bus station without changing his shoes.
Jumping out of the car, the cement on his feet was gradually set, he walked all the way to Liu Yun’s house, the yard was already crowded with villagers to help the funeral, two sisters and a brother kneeling in front of the black paint coffin in mourning.
When They saw Kan come in, Liu Yun’s parents rushed into His arms. Their sharp nails dug into his back and neck…
He was beaten to the ground several times by liu Yun’s relatives, they took him kneeling before Liu Yun’s coffin, over and over again to question Liu Yun’s suicide reasons, over and over again to let him confess to Liu Yun’s injury.
Kan Jun could not answer a word, because it was also a question he longed to solve immediately.
“I was just caught stealing things from people’s shops. Liu Yun brought money to me to solve the problem. I thought she hated my dirty hands, not a proper person, put forward to break up. I sent her back a month ago. Why would she want to die for all that?”
“Put your mother’s fart, Liu Yun just came back a week ago, came back only a few days to drink the medicine.”
Kan Jun himself did not know where Liu Yun had gone. No one believed Kan’s explanation. After liu yun’s funeral, Kan’s parents paid the Liu family 20, 000 yuan in compensation, which settled the matter.
4
Kan Jun was so tired that he lay in the shed for several days. When he was hungry, he ate at random. When he was thirsty, he drank some leftover tea from a few days ago. That quilt, it seems that the breath of Liu Yun has not been dispersed, let him countless times produce a kind of looking for that breath together with the impulse of decay.
“During the days I was lying in bed, I had a dream in which Liu Yun was standing under the grapevine, smiling darkly. When I woke up, I suddenly realized that on the day I sent Liu Yun to the long-distance station, she didn’t go home. Where did she go?
The day after I was handcuffed to the floor, Kan Jun said this to me.
It was night, it was my turn to watch, watching him lying on his side on the wet ground tossing and turning, I gave him a no one wants to get the moldy quilt. In return for his own story, he helped me kill two hours of my boring shift…
After realizing the cause of Liu Yun’s suicide, Kan Jun got up from bed and decided to go back to the courtyard of the hotel to find the answer.
Halfway there, Kan Jun returned to the shed and put his workmate’s fruit knife lying idle on the table in his waist.
When he entered the restaurant, the owner did not recognize him and told him to sit down and order. He grabbed his boss by the arm, pulled him into the yard and asked, “Wasn’t Liu Yun here the other day? What will you do to her? ‘
The boss recognized him and pulled away from him, pointing to the bridge of his nose and cursing: “You boy dare to come? Last time it wasn’t for your girlfriend’s sake, I sent you to the police station. I his mother privately put you, several shop owners have a problem with me! Do you know that if it weren’t for me, you’d be in prison?”
“I ask you, Did Liu Yun come here?”
“And what of it? You’re still stubborn with me, and I’ll tell you the truth, if it weren’t for your girlfriend’s sake, wouldn’t these bosses and I call the police? Now if you’re a young thief, I’ll tie you up again.”
“What did you do to her?”
‘What else can a man do to a woman? Get out of here, you idiot!”
Kan Jun took a fruit knife from his waist and cut it with thorns. “You have killed Liu Yun,” he said.
5
After being taken to the police station, Kan couldn’t speak for a while because of his anger and grief, and he made statements for two days. The owner suffered more than 30 strokes all over his body, four severed fingers and two broken tendons in his arm.
Then one of the thieves who had been forgiven dared to come back to seek revenge. Then the owners of the whole store reported kan’s crime and cooperated with the police to check the value of the stolen goods. People testified: “Kan jun slashed the knife and shouted, I killed you!
Kan was eventually sent to a detention center on charges of intentional homicide and burglary.
Kan Jun’s character, into the detention house can not avoid suffering. When he first entered the room, the captain asked him what he had committed, but he answered only that it was theft, for he did not consider himself guilty of hurting the proprietor of the restaurant.
Of course, he was not aware of the difference between the ways in which thieves and violent criminals were “passed over”, so he did not enjoy any privileges of violent criminals, but suffered a great deal from burglars.
Kan Jun told me about him the night he was punished, and the next morning I reported to the captain the identity of his violent offender.
Although the horn commander and I were not on good terms, after hearing my story about Kan Jun, the old criminals around me complained bitterly. It seemed that his serious eyes were also full of anger caused by sympathy.
6
At the end of his two days’ punishment, the captain untied Kan Jun two hours before it was due. After that, Kan Jun was not one of the prisoners who behaved badly on weekends.
On the last working day before the Spring Festival, Kan Jun called his name at the iron gate of his prison. Kan Jun a face at a loss, the old criminals told him: “your boy to go to the prosecutor’s attitude to meet a little bit better, say their own situation clearly.”
Without waiting for a while, the discipline opened the iron door of the prison house. Kan Jun stood facing the wall and was handcuffed and sent to the interrogation room. When he came back, the old criminals asked him, “The D.A. told you the sentence would be about how many years?”
“They didn’t have the patience to listen to my narration. They asked me if There was any evidence that the restaurant owner coerced Liu Yun into having sex. I said That I had no intention of killing anyone, that I had not shouted ‘kill’ during the attack, and that they asked me for proof. Where did I get it?”
The old criminals asked him again, “How much did you value the thing you stole? What was the result of the injury test?”
“They said it was more than twenty thousand. My statement doesn’t say that much. Serious injury, level five.”
After years of illness, kan gave him a pre-sentence, which he described: “You should be ready to go to prison for more than 10 years.”
As soon as he finished speaking, kan Jun rushed to the door and banged his head against the iron gate of the playground, making a loud bang. They pulled him apart, and he shouted at the bars hanging high above his head: “Very wrong!”
The shrill echoes reverberated for a long time in the strange, narrow, towering space before they finally calmed down. Sounds seem to get through, but nothing seems to happen.
Afterword.
After the dreary winter, when Kan Jun received his sentence for 12 years, the only way for his jailers to feel sorry for him was to stop making trouble for him, for there was no excuse for any sin, just as there was for them, just as there was for me.
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