1
One day in February 2016, Peng Zhongshi stood dumbfounded by the side of the road, holding several pieces of clothes in his arms and a blanket thrown at his feet.
His wife, Du Ying, was naked at the moment, shouting while weaving in and out of traffic. Everywhere you go, there is the sound of sharp brakes and the sound of a sharp horn. The driver who was forced to stop lowered his window and yelled at her, “Want to die, stupid X!”
My colleague and I chased Du Ying in the traffic, the situation was critical, I shouted to Peng Zhongshi to chase together, but he remained frozen as if he could not hear my voice.
Five minutes later, Du Ying fell head-on into an SUV she had forced to stop, slapping the hood hard. The driver came down from the car, angry and panicked, wanted to pull Du Ying, but did not dare to approach, saw us go over, hurried to say that their car has long stopped, she jumped on her own.
The colleague waved his hand at the driver, indicating that he was not a traffic accident. Then while holding down Du Ying, while looking back for Peng Zhongshi, see him still standing on the side of the road, colleagues yelled at him: “Standing there watching the fun? Quickly bring the blanket over!”
Only then did Peng Zhong Shi react and leaned down to pick up the blanket. Just picking up the blanket, the clothes held in his arms fell to the ground. He reached out to pick up the clothes again, but the blanket fell again.
“Forget about the clothes, hurry up and get the blanket first!” I couldn’t help but shout at him.
My colleague and I were holding one of Du Ying’s arms and holding her on the hood of the SUV. Du Ying hissed and spat at us while turning her head. I turned my head to look at Peng Zhongshi, who was still walking unhurriedly toward us, and yelled at him, “Hurry up!”
Only then did Peng Zhong Shi run two steps.
We put Du Ying under temporary control in the sobering room of the police station, waiting to be sent to the mental hospital.
“Can you fucking move faster in the future?!” A colleague reprimanded Peng Zhongshi while rubbing alcohol on the back of his injured hand. Just now on the street, his right hand was bitten hard by Du Ying.
Peng Zhongshi nodded silently and didn’t say anything. His gaze was a bit dull and he paused for a while before he opened his mouth and asked, “What should we do?”
“What to do? Send the mental hospital ah what to do!” I was also holding fire in my heart, just because of just Peng Zhong Shi’s wheedling, I was spat on by Du Ying.
“No money.” Peng Zhongshi dropped a sentence.
I had expected him to say that. This is not the first time we have dealt with each other.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the market.
“This time you do not say anything, must let her mother’s family to pay, I am so little salary a month, the last time to send the hospital money or I borrowed, until now have not returned ……”
I had to call Du Ying’s father, Du Ying’s old father faltered on the phone and said to me, now Peng Zhongshi is Du Ying’s husband, but also “legal guardian”, he does not make sense to pay this money. After talking for an hour, Du Ying’s father agreed to take the money, but only agreed to pay half of it, and let Peng Zhongshi figure out the remaining half.
Before hanging up the phone, Du Ying’s father accused Peng Zhongshi is now “unload the mill to kill the donkey”, my phone on speaker, Peng Zhongshi heard, excitedly rushed towards the phone shouting: “old X things you give me ‘do cage’ ……” I hurried to stop, hurriedly hung up the line.
Even if only half the money, Peng Zhongshi refused. Du Ying’s father even refused to deal with the police again, we had to try to contact Du Ying’s other relatives. It was only that evening that Du Ying’s sister agreed to come over and pay the other half of the medical bill for her sister.
Du Ying was then admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
2
Peng was 54 years old and the “retired” head of the plant’s administrative section – by definition, he was far from old enough to retire, and he “retired” early because of Du Ying.
Unlike those patients who had acquired drug-induced hallucinations, Du Ying’s psychosis was congenital, with an early onset. The oldest colleague said that Du Ying had a seizure when he was in his 20s, and that was still in the 1980s. These years, as long as the police have worked in the police station, more or less and Peng Zhongshi couple have dealt with.
The couple has no children. Peng Zhongshi said when they first got married, they also wanted a child, but Du Ying has not been pregnant, and then, Du Ying’s illness more and more frequent, it will not be able to conceive a child. The doctor also said that Du Ying’s disease may be hereditary and advised them to give up the idea of having a child.
Peng Zhongshi’s family lives in a 6-story public housing building near the road, the two originally lived on the 6th floor, in 2004, Du Ying climbed out of the balcony at home after an illness, almost fell, then Peng Zhongshi and unit leaders applied for a change of room, moved to the 1st floor.
Every time I check out the mental patients in the district, I have to go to Peng Zhongshi’s house. His house was always lit with a dim incandescent lamp, a few scattered pieces of old furniture, and almost no household appliances except for an old green refrigerator.
In 2011, when I first took over the community, I went to Peng Zhongshi’s house for the first time and asked him about his family’s living conditions. Peng Zhongshi replied to me helplessly: “All smashed, what ‘condition’ ……”, from the big TV, DVD player, washing machine, air conditioner, small window glass, pots and pans, teacups. The company’s main goal is to provide a comprehensive range of products and services to the public.
“The refrigerator is still bought when married, used for more than 20 years, summer leaks water winter leaks electricity, but is resistant to smash, sturdy.” Peng Zhongshi pointed to the buzzing refrigerator and laughed at himself. The refrigerator is scarred, one side of the leg of the base is broken, padded with a thick shell of paper.
“It hasn’t gotten better after all these years?” I asked Peng Zhongshi.
He shook his head, saying “sometimes good, sometimes bad”, when it’s good, he sleeps at home, and when it’s bad, he runs out to beat people up and run naked.
“She was born with this disease, there is no cure ……” Peng Zhongshi told me, Du Ying’s sister-in-law was also mentally ill, exactly like her now, but fell into the river and drowned 10 years ago.
“Did you know about this when you got married?” I asked again.
He paused and said no, “If I knew, how could I have married her?”
At that time, I had just joined the workforce, listening to him say so was very puzzling, and asked him, since Du Ying’s family concealed the fact that she was mentally ill before the marriage, after the marriage found out why not divorce? Peng did not answer directly at that time, but just smiled and said, “A day’s husband and wife have a hundred days’ grace.”
I was touched by his words. For about half a year after that, I tried my best to help Peng Zhongshi. There were times when Du Ying ran away late at night, so I drove around with Peng Zhongshi to find someone. Sometimes when I sent Du Ying to the psychiatric hospital, Peng Zhongshi said he didn’t have enough money, and I gave him a few advances for his treatment, about 4,000 to 5,000 yuan before and after.
3
But later, someone told me that what Peng Zhongshi told me about Du Ying was not always true.
In August 2012, I went to the neighborhood committee, we talked about Peng Zhongshi, I lamented that these years he is really not easy, put on the average person already divorced, “really a good man”.
The officer of the neighborhood committee laughed after hearing this: “How do you know that Peng Zhongshi has never been divorced? He came to the neighborhood committee to open a certificate no less than 3 times, asking the neighborhood committee to prove that his relationship with Du Ying has broken down, so that he can take the certificate to agree to divorce.”
This was indeed unexpected. Seeing that I do not believe, the neighborhood committee officer turned over half a day, find a piece of paper handed to me, said this is the previous Peng Zhong when left in the neighborhood committee copy of the certificate, and then because it does not meet the rules, and then did not open to him.
“The two families are normal to agree to divorce, like his wife is mentally ill, the agreement can not.” The officer told me that Du Ying belongs to the “civil incapacity”, the law provides that divorce can not be agreed upon, only to go to court proceedings.
“Has he been to court?” I asked the officer.
She shook her head and said she didn’t know, “I think he has been there, but at that time he was quite determined to get a divorce.
I did not know what to say, I had to play a roundabout for Peng Zhongshi: “After all, before marriage did not know his wife’s illness, and after marriage and care for so many years, in reason can also be justified.”
“He did not know that Du Ying had mental illness before?” The officer asked me rhetorically, wide-eyed, “He Pengzhong when he gave you that before marriage he did not know?”
I was a little confused by her question, so I had to nod my head, and the officer smiled meaningfully.
“At the time of the marriage he knew that Du Ying had mental illness before marriage, which we do not know, but he certainly knew who Du Ying’s father was.” The officer left with this sentence and left.
Back at the police station, I entered the name of Du Ying’s father into the police integrated platform, the page of Du Ying’s father is an ordinary old man: then 72 years old, and a 67-year-old partner.
I asked the colleague on duty next to me who Du Ying’s father was.
“Who is it? Du Ying’s father!”
This is the same as not saying.
In March 2013, Du Ying’s father called the police, saying that his son-in-law Peng Zhongshi had come to the house to cause trouble, or because of the problem of Du Ying’s medical expenses. I and the master police disposal, I asked the master again, the old man in the end who is?
Master is a veteran police officer in the bureau, nearly 30 years of police service, and Peng Zhongshi family at least 20 years of dealings.
“Du Ying his father? Secretary Du ah.” Master replied.
“Where’s the secretary?” I asked.
“XX factory, but long retired, why do you ask this?”
I told my master about the conversation with the neighborhood committee officer, and after listening, my master also laughed and said, “Peng Zhongshi and Du Ying this matter, indeed some complex.
4
In 1983, Du Ying was 23 years old and had a well-known relationship – at that time, her boyfriend was the son of the public security director of a neighboring city, and the two were high school classmates.
At that time, Du Ying’s mental state was quite normal, but her temper was rather big and she liked to lose her temper. Before a few boyfriends, can not stand her temper. But in the opinion of the people around, this is normal, after all, the father is a hand in the factory, “Princess” a little temper is understandable.
After graduating from high school, Du Ying was placed into his father’s factory to work, the son of the director of public security was also assigned to the factory after his discharge. The two are in the same section, working together every day, their father’s rank is also basically the same – in the eyes of outsiders, this is a “strong combination”, a good match for the family.
But when it came to the point of marriage, Du Ying’s “father-in-law-to-be” suddenly called off the marriage. Not long after, the son of the director of public security will be married to another girl, and soon transferred away. For this reason, Du Ying was so angry that he did not come to work for a month.
No one knows exactly what the reason for the breakup is, only that the two families were also at war over it. Even the daily business transactions between the two units, more or less because of the two hands of the “discord” and affected.
Later, it was rumored that the reason why the Secretary of Public Security called off the marriage was because he learned about Du Ying’s family situation through “some means” and learned that Du Ying’s second aunt and sister-in-law were suffering from mental illness, and Du Ying’s mother was not ill, but also mentally irritable. The director is a veteran criminal investigator, a good way to look at people, the first time I saw Du Ying, I think she “has a problem”, very worried about the condition will be hereditary, they forced their son and Du Ying broke up.
The gossip spread, and soon became “Du Ying family are mentally ill, will be hereditary, determined not to touch”, those who had been with Du Ying men have been secretly glad, from then on, no one dared to introduce Du Ying object.
The words reached Du Ying’s ears, she was ashamed and angry, and went to the home of the Director of Public Security many times, but it did not help. When the director’s son got married soon after, Du Ying really became ill.
My mentally ill daughter, I’m counting on you in the future
“Du Ying was greatly stimulated by this incident. Originally, people with a family history of mental illness do not always develop, but there is a potential danger that once a strong stimulus triggers self-reference, nine times out of ten, they will develop.” The master explained.
“What about Peng Zhongshi? He’s married to Du Ying, doesn’t he know about Du Ying?” I asked curiously.
“He ah, alas ……” Master also sighed, want to say but stop, “some road since it is their own choice, no matter how hard it is also have to go on ah.”
5
The master and Peng Zhongshi age similar, he said that he almost and Peng Zhongshi did a colleague.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. In that year, Peng Zhongshi was a temporary worker in the security section of Du Ying’s father’s factory, and was likewise transferred over to the Public Security Bureau to help.
“The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
This is like a chicken blood, for a time, all the people who were drawn to the vigor. Especially the temporary workers like Peng Zhongshi – he would have been in the original unit the possibility of conversion is very slim, to enter the Public Security Bureau, even if only to do a “staff”, the iron rice bowl is also considered to hold a stable.
“At that time, Peng Zhongshi riveted to turn in the Public Security Bureau, is the most active in our batch of people drawn to work, the best performance.” Master said, “Originally, I should have been his quota.”
By the end of 1984, Peng Zhongshi did get the opportunity to stay in the Public Security Bureau. But surprisingly, he gave up, and when the Public Security Bureau approached him, he volunteered to go back to his previous unit. People around feel sorry for Peng Zhongshi, and some even scolded him behind his back for being silly – not to end up with the iron rice bowl of the Public Security Bureau, but to go back to the enterprise security office to do temporary work.
The master then and Peng Zhongshi relationship is good, asked him why he wants to go back to do temporary work, said so gone how unfortunate. Peng Zhongshi also did not explain much, only that he did not think he was suitable for work in the public security system.
But no one expected that soon after Peng Zhongshi returned to his original unit, he erased the three words “temporary worker” on his identity and became a “universal employee”.
Only then did people understand the reason why Peng Zhongshi refused to stay in the Public Security Bureau – there was no such concept as “civil servant” in those days, state-owned enterprises and government agencies were both “iron rice bowls”, but in state-owned enterprises with good efficiency, employees were given various bonuses every month, every quarter and every year, while government agencies only had a fixed salary.
People have begun to exclaim that Peng Zhongshi has a great ability, a wide range of ways, and a low profile. A young man in his early 20s, from temporary workers to regular workers, but also transferred to the department, this is not “heavenly skills”, is absolutely impossible thing.
The master ran to ask Peng Zhongshi how to do it, but he still refused to divulge a word, so that for a while the master felt that he was very “not jianghu”. When the crackdown was over, the people from various units returned to their original work units, and the connection between Master and Peng Zhong Shi was slowly broken. Later, he only heard that Peng Zhongshi was doing very well in the unit, has become a department leader.
To early 1993, has been transferred to the police station police division received a police situation, only then and Peng Zhongshi met.
“That day the jurisdiction of a unit alarm, said there is a woman for no reason in front of their units cursing, see a cursing, the unit security section can not drive away, so reported to the police, we went to the scene to dispose of, simply can not communicate, suspected of being mentally ill, looking for the woman’s family to come, the results came surprisingly Peng Zhongshi.” Master said.
It was then that Master learned that Peng Zhongshi and Du Ying had been married for seven years.
6
It was not until many years later that Peng admitted to his master that the reason why he was able to “convert” was because he made a “deal” with Secretary Du – at that time, he was already tormented by Du Ying’s situation.
Peng Zhong Shi was 17 years old when he was recruited from the city’s surrounding rural areas into the city, has been in the factory security section as a temporary worker, mainly responsible for night patrols in the factory area, those regular workers do not want to do, not necessarily good work, all by him to do. Peng Zhongshi worked very seriously, and the leadership also appreciated him, and gave him a number of times to cheer him up, saying that whenever the temporary workers in the factory have the opportunity to be converted, he will definitely rank first.
Peng Zhongshi of course wanted to be converted, in addition to coveting the wages of regular workers, more importantly, as a farm boy, to be able to work in the city and hold an iron rice bowl, then it will change the fate of the whole family.
However, Peng Zhongshi has been working in the security department for almost 5 years, and has not waited for the opportunity to be transferred. Before being transferred to the Public Security Bureau, some colleagues in the factory kindly advised him that there was no point in waiting like this, so he might as well take advantage of his youth and think of his own way: “You don’t even look at it, how many family workers in the factory are waiting to be regularized, how many of them are relatives of the section and factory leaders, you are a temporary worker, no skills, no education, and no foundation here, when will it be your turn? When will it be your turn?”
This is almost a word to wake up the dreamer.
That was the year when Du Ying became ill.
In Secretary Du’s opinion, his daughter’s illness was both an accident and an expected event. For many years, he has been worried about his daughter like his two sisters, so after Du Ying graduated from high school, he arranged her directly into his work unit, thinking that his daughter is closer to him, he can take care of, as long as the future married, his worries will be able to remove most of them.
I didn’t expect that my daughter’s love made my previous plans go down the drain, and now the marriage didn’t work out, not to mention that my daughter has become a hot potato.
“So, it was Secretary Du who cheated Peng Zhong Shi?” I asked the master.
“Now that I think about it, it’s not exactly ……” said the master.
Peng Zhongshi himself told the master that Secretary Du originally did not see him, but he had been persistent in his pursuit of Du Ying. It was he himself who took the initiative to express his intentions to Secretary Du back then.
At that time, Peng Zhong Shi had a fiancée in his hometown, was introduced to him by the village matchmaker. He never got married. Peng Zhongshi originally intended to first turn in the factory, and then transfer his fiancée in as a family worker. But later, although Peng Zhongshi turned, but the son-in-law of Secretary Du, the fiancée came to the factory to find him, he avoided seeing.
The master still remembers that the crackdown, Peng Zhongshi was transferred to the police station, the second People’s Hospital, the land, responsible for street patrol. He always “patrol” to the hospital from time to time, people asked him, he only said that his family has relatives in the second hospital.
Later, the master learned that the hospitalization was not Peng Zhongshi’s “relatives”, but Du Ying, living in the second hospital psychiatric department.
“Maybe at that time Peng Zhongshi had plans.” The teacher said.
“Didn’t he think about what it would mean to him to marry Du Ying, who was mentally ill?”
“Later this thing ‘wear’, Peng Zhongshi said the truth – he has a brother, in the old family farming, when his brother helped him out, let him marry Du Ying, Du Secretary will certainly help him solve the problem of conversion, otherwise He is a ‘temporary’ after all, sooner or later will be swept out of the unit.”
“But Du Ying has been sick, married to her, what about the future?”
“Peng Zhongshi’s brother said it is very easy to do, after the marriage turned, find the opportunity to transfer to other units, Du Secretary will not care, then divorce is. Even if you can’t divorce, you can still send Du Ying back home, he is responsible for watching.” Master said.
Peng Zhongshi thought his brother would not harm himself, although this approach is somewhat unethical, but for changing their situation, is indeed a good way. But what Peng Zhongshi didn’t know was that the reason his brother gave him this idea was so that he could get a city account through conversion – according to the rules of his hometown, if he got a city account, he would lose the right to inherit the family’s old house. After marrying Du Ying, when Peng Zhong Shi, who could not bear the torture of his wife’s mental illness, was ready to send Du Ying back to his hometown as his brother had proposed, his brother refused him on the grounds that “his sister-in-law wanted to drink (agricultural) medicine”. The same is true of the Secretary of the Du until retirement, but also let Peng Zhongshi “transferred away after the divorce” of the calculations played.
“The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. The master said, at that time, the Du family was reluctant to admit that Du Ying had mental illness, only to say that she was just stimulated, has been delayed until Peng Zhongshi and Du Ying married after the 1990s, Du Ying first went to do a psychiatric evaluation.
The first time you have to go to the hospital, you will have to go to the hospital. The reason for refusing is that he is “incapable of custody”. Although this is a bit of a pitfall, but in order to have a home for their daughter after a hundred years, is also a way out.
“The two families are counting on each other like this.” The teacher said with a smile.
7
In 1998, Secretary Du retired from the second line, two years before his retirement, his son-in-law Peng Zhong Shi was helped to the position of head of the administrative section, considered to give his daughter a guarantee.
Du Ying’s condition did not improve much, or often sick, sometimes hitting people, sometimes running in the street. Although Peng Zhongshi looked after, but the hearts of the people have long been thinking of change.
“After the old man retired, Peng Zhongshi looked for some units want to transfer work, and even came to the Public Security Bureau.” Master said, although Secretary Du retired, but still has a certain influence in the local, other units of the leadership does not want to offend Secretary Du, but also unwilling to transfer a middle-aged cadres with a burden at home, unable to focus on work to their own units, so Peng Zhongshi has not been successful.
“Peng Zhongshi also came to me to inquire about the divorce of the mentally ill, although I was more disgusted with his person, but still helped him ask, unfortunately, like his case does have some difficulty ……”
Around 2000, Peng Zhongshi took the Du family to court on the grounds that he did not know that Du Ying was mentally ill before the marriage and asked for a divorce judgment, because by then he had already determined that he and Du Ying had no hope of divorce by agreement and could only take the path of divorce by lawsuit.
The court of first instance first conducted mediation, Peng Zhongshi was willing to give all the property in the couple’s name to Du Ying in exchange for a divorce with Du Ying, but the Du family did not agree. Peng Zhongshi filed a lawsuit for a divorce judgment, but the court did not rule on the divorce because Du Ying could not find a valid guardian after the divorce. Peng filed another appeal, and the court of second instance did not support his divorce request.
But after this series of turmoil, Peng Zhongshi and the Du family are already in a tense situation, completely torn apart. Peng Zhong Shi said that the Du family had gotten to him and wanted to ruin his life. Du Ying’s father said that Peng Zhong Shi lost his conscience, relying on the Du family to rise to the top, and then “dumped the lump” when the purpose was achieved, “purely to tear down the bridge”.
The most innocent person is Du Ying, because her husband and her mother’s family are in trouble, her daily care has been a big problem. Sometimes even on-time medication can not be guaranteed, so that the attack is more and more frequent.
“Later, Peng Zhong Shi did some things too much and almost ‘folded’ himself in.” Master said.
In 2004, Peng Zhongshi saw no hope of divorce, simply no longer home, outside the “home away from home” life, Du Ying left alone in the district residence. As a result, in April of that year, Du Ying, who was locked in the house alone, climbed up to the 6th floor balcony in an attempt to go out and almost fell off the building.
The public security authorities to talk to Peng Zhongshi, Peng Zhongshi refused to meet, the public security authorities had to contact Peng Zhongshi’s unit, so that they relayed to Peng Zhongshi, saying that if this continues, may be suspected of bigamy and abandonment crimes.
The company’s main goal is to provide a solution to the problem of the problem.
“I don’t know who told him that mentally ill people who violate the criminal law will be forced to be sent to the hospital at the expense of the government, and around the end of 2005, I don’t know if he intended to or not, but he stopped giving Du Ying her medication completely, and as a result, Du Ying became ill and hit someone on the street, and the other party was slightly injured. The police did give her mandatory medical treatment after they responded, but Peng Zhongshi found himself, as the legal guardian, also responsible for compensating the victim’s losses ……”
“What about Du Ying’s mother’s side? Du Ying is always their daughter, and can’t just sit back and let Peng Zhongshi run amok, right?” I asked the master.
“Secretary Du said, married out daughter splashed out of the water, they really can’t do anything about it now, one is their first wife sister because of a disease has never married, his parents-in-law passed away, he and his wife are also responsible for taking care of his first wife sister; second, he and his partner are also old and in poor health, really can’t afford to take Du Ying home again.” The master shook his head helplessly.
The neighborhood committee, the street office, the police station, and even the retirement office of the unit where Secretary Du used to work have gone to the Du family, but Secretary Du’s side is also determined to eat Peng Zhongshi, only saying that unless someone takes the initiative to assume the guardianship obligations of Du Ying, no one can say.
“I have dealt with this family for half a lifetime, and now the community is under your control, his family’s affairs, alas ……” the master finally sighed again.
8
In February 2015, on the eve of the national “two sessions”, the Public Security Bureau requested a new summary of the registered mental patients in the district. At that time, Du Ying’s mental state was already extremely unstable, and I asked Peng Zhongshi to strengthen his care, but Peng Zhongshi said he recently had liver problems and had to go to Wuhan to be hospitalized, so he couldn’t take care of his wife.
I had no choice but to go to Secretary Du again.
In Du’s home, I mentioned Peng Zhongshi, Secretary Du could not help but open his mouth and scolded. I thought Peng Zhongshi was a down-to-earth and generous person, and I helped him to transfer and promote, and wanted to leave a reliable trust for my daughter, but I didn’t expect him to be such a person.
“Peng Zhongshi now says to the public that he did not know that Du Ying had mental illness when he got married, this is pure bullshit! The whole factory knew about Du Ying’s illness at that time, and he was the only one who was kept in the dark? I also asked him before the wedding, he said that Mose has always been secretly in love with Du Ying, just feel that they do not deserve her, after willing to take care of her for life ……
“Du Ying this disease is properly controlled, at all will not develop to this point, all because of Peng Zhongshi this wolf heart and dog lung things, do not want to give Du Ying good treatment, she has come to this situation ……
“He Peng Zhongshi was a temporary worker who looked after the gate, if not for my help, he would have been able to look after the gate for the rest of his life, more than 300 temporary workers in the factory, why should he be allowed to convert? Why?”
Secretary Du cursed and could not stop, I tried to interrupt several times, but did not succeed, so I had to patiently continue to listen to him. Only when he finally got tired of talking did I try to ask, “If there was no active pursuit by Peng Zhongshi at that time, how do you plan to deal with the matter of Du Ying?”
Secretary Du was flabbergasted, silent for a moment, sighed and did not say anything further.
On Peng Zhongshi’s side, he was likewise full of resentment.
In June 2015, Secretary Du, who had been caring for Du Ying for 4 months, approached the police station and said that Du Ying was sick at home and asked me to “find” Peng Zhongshi to send Du Ying to the hospital.
When I contacted Peng Zhongshi, he first said he was in Wuhan for treatment, and then said he was in Changsha on business, and a colleague at the station happened to meet Peng Zhongshi when he was having breakfast that day, and demolished the lie, and moved him with emotion and reason, before he reluctantly came to the police station.
On the way back from the psychiatric hospital, Peng Zhongshi again began to talk about his own care over the years Du Ying’s difficulties, I had a word to say, until he led the conversation to the police: “You police every time you just follow the send, never said to help solve the cost or something.”
I started to ignore him, but my colleague who was driving didn’t hold back and argued with him a few times. Peng Zhongshi did not stop talking, I was also angry, so I asked him when he sent Du Ying to the hospital to help him advance a few thousand dollars to pay me back.
Peng Zhongshi did not say anything, and did not speak for half a day.
A colleague said: “That is Officer Li’s own money, help still help out the enemy? Peng Zhongshi you are also a monthly salary of people, to do so.”
Peng Zhongshi sighed and complained, “It’s all because of Du Ying, if I had known that there was a mentally ill person in my family in this situation, I would rather be a bachelor for life!”
I simply made it clear that he and Du Ying and Secretary Du back then, I thought he was going to defend himself, but I didn’t think Peng Zhongshi had washed his hands of himself, just bowed his head and said that he had done a lot for the Du family over the years, enough to repay Secretary Du for his “cultivation” back then.
“I now just regret ah, for the sake of a mere X ‘national ownership of employees’ status, married his daughter, the results of this life are hitched ……” Peng Zhongshi began to ramble endlessly again.
He said that his “career” stopped at the retirement of Secretary Du – he was 34 years old when the administrative section chief, and has not been promoted since. One is due to the “big tree” behind the retirement, the second is because his wife Du Ying’s illness has always made him unable to focus on work, moving to take time off to accompany him, the unit of several leaders have comments on him.
In 2008, the factory implemented the “cadre competition”, the 46-year-old Peng Zhong Shi lost the election. Leaders to talk to him, reassured him: “these years, one hand to grasp the work of the administrative section, the other hand to grasp the condition of the family, really hard, it is good to retire, on the one hand, to give the unit of young people a chance, on the other hand, can also focus on his wife’s treatment.”
Since then, Peng Zhongshi has almost become a unit of “supernumerary”, at the beginning Peng Zhongshi also play temper not to go to work, after the leadership called a few times, no one took the initiative to find him. His income is only the basic salary, the unit’s various bonuses, subsidies, benefits and he has no connection.
Peng Zhongshi said that some of the temporary workers in the factory were the same as him, but later, seeing no hope of regularization, they found another way out, some went out to work, some did some small business, and now most of them have harmonious families, cars and houses, and some of them have made a fortune and moved their families to Wuhan. Now look at yourself, “what do not have anything, not even a child, after their old age, who to send to the end?”
“Look, I stayed in the factory for 5 years to do the security section, the results of the people who left have become rich; that year I let the quota to stay in the Public Security Bureau to Lao Song (my master), the results later he caught up with the ‘public security reform’, from the driver of the car into a civil servant, ‘golden rice bowl’! golden rice bowl’! The woman back home, later heard married a rich, gave birth to two children, doing business in Jingzhou; that is, I married a leader’s daughter, thought I could hitch a ride, the results lost half a life ……”
Peng Zhongshi said he had moved countless times to “leave” the idea, but thought about it, and fear of really carrying a “crime of abandonment” in prison, then the original unit will not hesitate to dismiss themselves, even now that monthly basic salary and future pensions are gone.
“You also had the opportunity to work in the Public Security Bureau, if you came over, now the iron rice bowl also on the end, also do not need so much trouble is not it?” A colleague said.
“At that time it was not old man Du who urged? He said Du Ying’s illness is because of that public security director to get out, if I go to work for the Public Security Bureau, this life also do not want to enter his home ……,” said Peng Zhongshi.
“Do you have to fucking stick to him? You came to the Public Security Bureau he can still control you?”
“That ……” Peng Zhongshi may still have something to say, but half a day did not go on, and then silent.
Epilogue
At the beginning of 2018, the master retired. At that time I had left the police station, went back to attend the retirement banquet of the master, which knew that on the way to the hotel, I actually met Du Ying again in the street sick, the original unit of colleagues Xiao Gu and Lao Yang are disposing of, Peng Zhongshi remained in a standstill.
Get off the car to help a little, and back to the car, the master joked at me, “I thought you would also deal with his family for 20 years, I did not think you left quickly.”
“When you leave, there’s me, and when I leave, there’s Gu, and one day Gu will leave and there will be others. For us it’s a job, but for Peng Zhongshi ……” Several years have passed, I suddenly have some pity for his situation.
“The road is their own choice, gritting their teeth also have to go forward is not?” Master said.
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