In the summer vacation of my freshman year in August 2017, Meng Fu, a junior high school classmate, invited me to attend his wedding in September. However, I couldn’t find the time to go back to my hometown at his wedding, so I sent him a message in advance. The next day, I received his reply: “Blessing received, happy! Hey hey, endure so many years, be a virgin no longer finally, you boy, can’t envy me.”
I was relieved to hear that he was no longer the shy little boy he once was. Maybe he would start a new life instead.
At the end of this year, by chance, I met Meng Xue in lanzhou, the provincial capital. Meng Xue with me in the same village, age and I and Meng Fu about the same, but Meng Fu is her father’s little brother, according to generations she had to call Meng Fu brother-in-law. We three grew up together, after junior high school graduation, Meng Xue and Meng Fu dropped out of school.
In the cafe chat, I asked Meng Xue meng Fu wedding how to do, her look slightly changed.
My heart is tight: “Is it…”
Meng Xue slightly nodded, softly said: “Yes, he went in, it is not my grandpa’s fault.”
Then she told me a lot about their family.
I listened to the heart side sigh with regret: should come, after all, or come.
1
Meng Fu told me that he first carried drugs for his father, Meng Xue’s grandfather, meng Jingshan in 2002 when he was just 6 years old.
One day after breakfast, Meng Jingshan suddenly put in the street with small partners playing meng Fu called home, mysteriously to give him a black bag, let him send to the next village bridge on a black Santana, also said to him, “as long as the safety to you to buy a new toy. Meng Fu a listen to new toys, skipping with a bag to the village bridge mouth, handed in a black leather coat in the hands of the man.
His father actually bought him a new toy four-wheel-drive car. That is our village children in the hands of the most cool toys, after accepting our worship, Meng Fu and ran home and asked: “Dad, after I give you something, you give me to buy a toy car, ok?
Meng Jingshan felt his head and laughed: “Of course I will. When you grow up and make money, you can buy whatever you want.”
After that, every time a car stopped at the xiachunqiao entrance, Meng Jingshan would ask meng Fu, his youngest son, or Meng De, his third son, to “send bags”. Occasionally, he would ask them to send some small plastic bags containing “flour” to a house in the village: “Uncle XX is sick. Only by taking this medicine can he get well. Don’t lose it, and don’t tell anyone.”
After the safe arrival of things, as a reward, Meng Jingshan is not to give the little brothers pocket money, is to buy new toys. At that time, Meng Fu alone had more toys than all the children in the village combined, and he carried enough pocket money for my mother to cut some new clothes for me.
One day, Meng Jingshan let Meng Fu send “life-saving medicine” to the village Yang Nianshu. Before he left, he also told him in a very serious way, that Uncle Yang was very ill, do not be seen by others when sending medicine, or Uncle Yang will be angry.
Meng Fu did not understand the meaning of his father’s words – send life-saving medicine, is a glorious thing, why can’t let people see? Why did Uncle Yang get angry?
He chuai “life-saving medicine” came to Uncle Yang’s door, knocked at the door, loudly shouted: “Uncle, open the door, I am Meng Fu, I come to send you medicine.
Inside no one answers, Meng Fu pushed open the wooden door, to the courtyard. Suddenly, the west house suddenly heard a slight cough, Meng Fu ran past, lift the curtain, see Uncle Yang is curled up lying on the ground kept twitching, red eyes, arms black and purple, really like a serious illness. Meng Fu is a little afraid, quickly spread out the palm, pointing to the bag of “life-saving medicine” said: “Uncle, my father let me give you the medicine.
Yang Nianshu hard raised his head to see meng Fu, and then like a mad dog to get up, a grabbed meng Fu hand of the “medicine”, with lightning speed ran into the toilet. Meng Fu think Uncle Yang that “crazy” appearance is very scary, before Uncle Yang came out of the toilet, he ran back home.
When he returned home, he ran to Meng Jingshan and asked, “Dad, what’s the matter with Uncle Yang? He looks terrible.”
Meng Jingshan sat on the sofa, beckoned meng Fu to sit by his side, and then took out a piece of 10 yuan old banknote, put it on the table, and asked him: “Do you want it?”
Meng Fu nodded. Meng took out a new 10 yuan note and placed it next to the old one. “Which one do you want?” he asked.
Meng Fu said to new, Meng Jingshan asked him why, Meng Fu said, “Because it is new, but also to buy toys and snacks.”
“But this old one is money, so it can also buy toys and snacks?” Meng Jingshan asked him, pointing to the old coin.
Meng Fu mentioned this scene to me many times when he was a child, and said that his father used it to tell him a big truth — a good life is to rely on their own hands to fight, to make money, is to catch people’s curiosity to new things and their boredom with the same life, which is called “means”. People should be able to make the means, but also can resist the temptation, only in this way, in an invincible position. “My dad also said, no matter what happens, you have to believe that in this world, only money won’t hurt me.”
Meng jingshan irrelevant answer type “education”, meng fu at that time can not understand. However, at that time, the Meng family in the village was one of the best conditions, but it was really Meng Jingshan with this theory to earn.
2
Our village is called Mengjia Village. All the ancestors lived in the same family. Except those wives who married in the village, most of them had the surname Meng and were all relatives. In the 1980s, meng Jingshan was one of the impoverished people living in the northwestern countryside who went to big cities to make a living. At that time he had already stood up, married and gave birth to two sons, Meng An and Meng Kang.
Most of the villagers were illiterate, and even when they got to the city, they did the lowest level of dirty work and backbreaking work. Even so, Leaving his wife and children to go out and make a living, Meng is still full of hope for the future. “Doing these jobs is better than planting crops, which only cost a few yuan a year!”
Meng Jingshan on the site to know a workmate Li Jiang, Qujing, Yunnan people. He saw Meng Jingshan eager to make money, one day privately to Meng Jingshan said, he has the way to make a lot of money, do not need bullshit culture, as long as the courage to go.
As soon as Meng Jingshan heard that he could make a lot of money, he became excited and said that he would kill his head as long as he could make money.
Li Jiang said carefully: “Drug trafficking, do you dare?”
Unexpectedly, Meng Jingshan on the head without thinking.
“My grandfather said he knew the dangers of drugs at the time — if you haven’t eaten pork, who hasn’t seen pigs run? He also knows how hard the country is cracking down on drug crime, but what does that matter compared to the huge profits that drugs bring? He didn’t want to live a hard life any more, he just wanted to make money, so he decided to take a risk.” Meng Xue said, but shook his head.
In the spring of 1987, on Li’s recommendation, Meng reached an agreement with a man named “White Dove” on the Yunnan border. In order to hide himself from the public, Meng Jingshan let his 13-year-old eldest son Meng An — meng Xue’s father — drop out of school, and took him across the mountains and mountains from the Yunnan border to our county and town with drugs, through dance halls, billiard rooms and other venues, drugging, confusing, cheating, luring… Go to great lengths to sell drugs to restless youths. Of course, there are also people who can not resist the temptation, saying “I will taste, what can happen”, a pinch down, there is no turning back.
For a while, the county, the town appeared a large number of drug addicts. Meanwhile, Meng jingshan, once as poor as everyone else and living in a mud hut, went home and built a two-story cottage, showing the villagers for the first time what Mercedes cars looked like. He has also installed street lights in the village, renovated his ancestral temple, paved a main road with cement and built a bridge. Although everyone in the village knew what he was up to, his actions attracted a lot of good will.
The villagers all thought Meng Jingshan will “chase” victories, but he chose the “closed”, to surrender the “big market” for the bengals village, lung maang brothers – Meng Jingshan provide channels, and let them to “purchase” in yunnan, then together with drug back to the local market on the distribution, the condition is to earn money he will divide the twenty percent.
Mengjingshan’s overnight wealth has led a group of villagers who “close their eyes and feel like elephants” to carry their bags and resolutely go south: “One year’s hard work is better than drugs. If you want to make a lot of money, you can go to Yunnan once.”
According to the records of our local police station, in 1990, the “strong men” who “threw the land and the fields” to the south accounted for half of the village’s labor force. Only less than a third of them finally returned home safely. And those who came back, nine out of ten “goods” had not been distributed, they rushed in; The remaining few fish, not meng Jingshan so wide supply, so they do not have a “market.”
In one year, there were many more orphans and widows in the village. Rumor has it that Meng Jingshan did not have little contact with the police during that time, saying that he “tipped off”, but it is only speculation, there is no evidence. Some of the farmers can not sink gas women, ran to the door of meng Jingshan home sprinkle roll, a snivel a tear to “bully” Meng Jingshan, let him put “his father” back to them.
Meng Jingshan was born a standard harmless face, in the village is also a pair of “good man” image, no matter who comes to act wild, he can be “instigate”. After telling the truth, the peasant women felt it was their own fault, not Meng Jingshan’s.
After this wave of disturbance, Meng Jingshan again “come out of the mountains”, the Meng Long that cooperates with him hand to help rises, Meng Hu, controlled the drug market of periphery village thoroughly. At the helm of Meng Jingshan, they act well, steady low-key, peacefully “fishing” for 4 years of “black gold”.
Eldest son Meng An gradually became the right-hand man of Meng Jingshan drug business.
After Meng got married in 1994, Meng wanted him to “wash his hands of gold”. But Meng An strongly disagree, he worried that one day, father was unable to resist. Meng Jingshan could not persuade his eldest son, so he had to let him go.
The second son Meng Kang also proposed to join the “business” – he sent several “goods” for his father and eldest brother, very enjoy the kind of water like “hua Hua” into the money. But Meng Jingshan did not agree, spend money to trust the relationship only read the first day of Meng Kang arranged into the township government work.
“My grandfather is also hiding selfish, he was thinking that if he and my father had an accident, my two abba outside to help run the relationship.” Meng Xue said without a thought, then sighed, “In those years, in fact, my grandfather also wanted to stop and rest. The money we earned was enough to spend many years in our family, and the wind was getting tighter and tighter. Unfortunately, my father didn’t want to.”
Meng jia had an accident really in this year, only what have an accident is not Meng Jingshan father and son, but Meng Jingshan’s wife Lu Mei.
That morning, Meng An with Meng Long, Meng Hu to “buy”, Meng An wife back home, Meng Kang went to the township government to work, is going to move to the city meng Jingshan is going to the city to see the house, leaving only Lu Mei in the home. Later, neighbors heard lu Mei arguing with a man. When they entered the courtyard of meng’s villa to see what was happening, they found Lu Mei had been strangled to death at home.
Meng Xue said that shortly after her grandmother died, the village Meng Feipeng’s wife will come to her, that is her drug man disappeared, let Meng Jingshan her man back to her.
“My mother said that a few days before my grandpa remembered grandma’s death, Meng Feipeng stopped him on the road to ask for drugs, but also admitted that he didn’t have money, he blamed grandpa to kill him, also threatened my grandpa said, ‘You don’t promise me today, I will go to your home in the future’. My grandfather gave him a little out of his bag. No idea, meng Feipeng later committed drug addiction, but also really make home.”
Meng Jingshan wanted to call the police, let the murderer blood debt blood repayment. But at that time the county are in drug inspection, Meng Jingshan thought twice, put their priorities straight – he gave up the police. He would not allow himself to get into any more trouble at this juncture.
“My grandfather believed in Buddhism and karma, and he attributed his grandmother’s death to god’s retribution.”
3
After Lu Mei was killed, Meng Jingshan gave up going to live in the city, and again hand over all the drug business to Meng Long, Meng Hu, let them control the market, he no longer accept any share, Meng An also follow him “out of business”.
Six months later, Meng renewed his marriage with a second wife, 10 years younger than him, from a neighboring county. Meng jingshan’s third son, Meng De, was born the following November. In the same month, he married his second son, Meng Kang.
Mengjingshan this time to stop, once again to our local those who coveted his “poison boss” status of young people opportunity. This time, there are a lot of people after the adventure “back home”, smart people hurry up to hoard land, buy houses, “black money” washed clean, simple people, but also want to sell drugs to earn huge profits, soon by the police.
“Grandpa hasn’t worked for two years. The family is not as well off as before. My father was afraid of being poor again, so he went back to his old business without telling my grandfather. Meng Xue said, also some sad.
At that time, the younger son Meng Fu was just born, Meng Jingshan wanted to lead a quiet life, the eldest son went back, natural escape but his eyes, but he did not stop, just indirection, let Meng An be careful.
A year later, Meng Xue was born. “My mom said that after I was born, my dad wanted to stop, too, but he wanted to do something big before he washed his hands.”
Unfortunately, “Sorry things didn’t work out”, the moment meng An entered the territory of Yunnan, was targeted by the joint police (county public Security Bureau and local police), but he did not know. At the scene of the drug deal, he and “White Pigeon” were arrested by the police. Among those arrested was Li Jiang, the “Lord” of Meng Jingshan.
Meng Jingshan got the news, know that the eldest son committed the crime shot ten times are not enough, hurriedly fly to Yunnan, find the previous along the “amulet”, spend a huge amount of money to ask people dredger relationship. Money can pass god, the final trial, Meng an was only sentenced to life imprisonment, to keep his life.
After this “loss of wealth”, the life of the Meng family is no longer bright. After all, the eldest son was caught, including Meng Xue mother and daughter, Meng Jingshan had to bear the life of six people at home.
“Once, when the village was talking about renovating an old ancestral temple, the village leaders came to ask grandpa for advice — to ask for advice, but in fact to get money. But grandpa didn’t have enough money to give them, so they went off in a huff without losing face.” Meng Xue said, her second uncle Meng Kang untimely proposed to take the eldest brother’s class, was rejected by Meng Jingshan, also mercilessly criticized him, let him work well, don’t delusively get into the drug business.
But privately, Meng himself was not comfortable with the difference in quality of life and social status, so he went out again. He didn’t want to do it. After all, he was no longer young, but he was just used to drugs.
Then, meng Jingshan’s “drug business” contracted to let Meng Fu, Meng De for him to send “life-saving medicine” to the village drug addicts. Such “small business” for four or five years, although not as profitable as before, but also to maintain a relatively bright family life.
In 2003, Meng Fu and I began to study in the town primary school, the same table. He and third brother Mende to the town to study, occasionally listen to his father’s arrangement, “life-saving medicine” sent to a home along the way, the reward is still money and toys.
Rich Meng Fu by many students “support”, but he did not become completely so fly domineer, still simple temperament, generous and kind, every morning he took bread, milk, eggs to school, eat not over, to share with us to eat. Some adults who knew mengjingshan’s business couldn’t get used to Meng Fu’s “little master” appearance and teased meng: “Oh, little master, isn’t this money clean for you? What your father earns is all black money, do you dare to use it? You are not afraid of retribution!”
Drug traffickers family
On several occasions, Meng Fu was too frightened by these people to come to school. But when he arrived at school, he spoke proudly of helping his father deliver “life-saving medicine” to someone who was seriously ill. “This is what cha’s heroes do,” he said.
We kids, hearing him say that, also regarded his father as a hero.
4
2004 autumn harvest just began, the village suddenly came a news of death – under the village of Menghua for drug trafficking was shot, the body will be the next day back.
Because of the ancestor of the same ancestor, the ancestral motto “descendants, no matter who is the dead, no matter what the cause of death, no matter the living and the dead have any hatred, after receiving the obituary, must come to mourn”, When the funeral of Meng Hua, the whole village people came, but only did not see Meng Jingshan and Meng Long, Meng Hu.
I learn from the adult chat, actually originally is Meng Hua and Meng Jingshan, Meng Long, Meng Hu 4 people outside drug trafficking was caught, Meng Hua was sentenced to death, executed by shooting, executed immediately; Meng Long and Meng Hu were given suspended death sentences of two years; And because spend money to deal with relations at home, Meng Jingshan quickly “ran” out, just more on the body of a drug trafficking and prison break “wanted”.
I did not know at that time “wanted” is what, ran to ask Meng Fu, he only said, home and he said, “Dad happened, can not go home”.
Since then, Meng fu’s living conditions have plummeted. He no longer carries as much pocket money, doesn’t buy new clothes as often as before, and rarely brings breakfast to school. For a few days have not eaten the students, like to discuss the general came over to ask him “why not bring us something to eat?” Meng Fu rubbed his fingers, red face, whispered: “My mother won’t let with”. The students hissed and then scattered, bored, back to their seats. As the deskmate, he blushed again and said sorry to me.
After school home, I put meng Fu his mother did not let him take food to school this matter told grandma. Grandma smiled and said: “His father had an accident, their family life is not easy.”
“I was in elementary school that year, and I remember there was a long time when my mother didn’t buy me new clothes. I want a new schoolbag, but she won’t buy it for me. She says it’s hard for me to use my uncle’s schoolbag. I even burst into tears.” Meng Xue talked about these, a wry smile.
After meng Jingshan accident, their home only left a “labor” – the second son Meng Kang. There were “Auntie” (Meng Jingshan’s new wife), sister-in-law (Meng An’s wife), 10-year-old third brother (Meng De), 8-year-old younger brother (Meng Fu), 7-year-old niece (Meng Xue), and his wife and newborn son meng Zheng’s salary as a civil servant was not enough to support his large family.
The family pedigree of the Meng Jingshan Family
Forced to make a living, the family had to pick up hoes and go to the fields. Meng Jingshan’s new wife and big daughter-in-law came from a poor family. Although they had lived in the Meng family for several years, it was not difficult for them to do farm work again. It is bitter Meng De, Meng Fu, Meng Xue these children, they contain the “golden spoon” was born, did not eat bitter, so a field cried, provoked a lot of our children have to laugh at them.
The Meng family, who had always been rich, tended to be ordinary. In the school, Meng Fu is no longer the object of our support, his words are less and less, more and more introverted character. Sometimes he was called to play, but he should not, but sat very quietly in his seat, and painted on his book. As he grew up, he also understood what his father was doing. When his classmates talked about his “medicine delivery” intentionally, he would walk away unnaturally.
I was one of his few good friends, and he said to me firmly in private, “I will not do such a wicked thing as my father did!” He also wrote a composition about drugs in particular, writing in a very firm tone: “Drug trafficking is a crime, and drug use is a shame!” The teacher praised him in class, saying that he had learned a lot about anti-drug propaganda by using the ubiquitous anti-drug slogans in his essays.
Actually, Meng Fu heart is very kind. Boys have a naughty side. When school is over, they will either climb trees and dig birds’ nests or go fishing in the river, or they will chase someone’s little cat, and the prey will be tortured to death by us in all kinds of strange ways before long. Often this time, Meng Fu will drag my arm, red eyes, said: “small animals so lovely, why torture them?”
Before I could say anything, my companions burst into laughter: “Your father has done so many bad things!”
Meng Fu bowed his head again.
One day, between classes, Meng Fu and I sat on the parallel bars of the school playground, he rubbed the work was grass cut palm, then looked up at the sky, do not know what to think, suddenly said: “If my father did not have an accident, our life should be pretty good.
5
Although Meng Fu was virtuous, he did not study hard. Every time he took the exam, he was the last one in the class. In contrast, Meng Xue is clever and clever, every time is the first grade, the only regret, is that she has not seen his father Meng An’s true face.
Primary school graduation, Meng Fu left a class, with Meng Xue, I went to the county on the junior high school residential school. The second year, Meng Fu and Meng Xue rose up, we go to school in the same school.
I read junior three, Meng Kang do not know where to make a windfall, and leave no stone unturned to find a relationship, the wanted meng Jingshan “buy out” – escape meng Jingshan 8 years, and returned to the village. At that time, Meng Jingshan was 58 years old. He had a long beard, white hair on his temples, and a wrinkled face.
Meng Jingshan this home, stable down, when the spring ploughing he with his family into the field sowing, autumn harvest with the old and young busy autumn harvest, Meng Kang earn salary subsidies, Meng De quit school early to help the family farming, a family life but also get by.
After junior high school graduation, I was admitted to the city key high school. The following year, Meng Fu and Meng Xue graduate, according to the result they can rise in, but at this moment, Meng Jingshan does not let them go to school again: “go up what learn? I go to school to learn the art of making a living, which I can teach you without you.”
The meng Fu of bad achievement obeys to father’s word, the Meng Xue of outstanding achievement does not want to give up the opportunity of study, but the face of grandpa “be resolute”, have to give up again.
“I can’t figure out why Grandpa wouldn’t let us study — that was not the case with him. He said that only by studying hard could we not be corrupted and have a better future — but then he stopped us!” Meng Xue said this, there is obviously blame Meng Jing shan meaning.
Can’t go to school, Meng Xue is at home to learn cooking, embroidery, shoes, feed chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, take care of the daily lives of grandparents, and Meng Fu and Meng De together to help the family farming, farming leisure time to the town’s furniture factory as a helper. A year later, Meng Jingshan let just over 18 years old Meng De into the army for two years, and Meng Fu has been staying in the furniture factory to do odd jobs.
Meng Fu is not happy, after work, he either do not go home, go home after he shut himself in the house, if not forced, he even eat alone. He really didn’t want to face his father, because he knew he needed to face more than his father.
When I would come home on vacation, he would come to me, lie in my bed, eyes empty, and say, “Changed, everything has changed.”
“What has changed?” I asked him.
Instead of answering, he continued very seriously, “I don’t want my life as it is now. I want to be a child again.”
During the winter vacation of my senior year, my mother caught a cold and I took her to the town hospital for transfusion. When coming out from the hospital to buy things, he saw Meng Fu from afar. He was wearing a black coat, black sunglasses and a black leather bag. He looked left and right into a billiard hall. When he came out again, his black clothes had been changed into a red cotton-padded jacket, the leather bag and sunglasses had disappeared, and there was a small schoolbag on his back.
When he came out, he still looked around. When he saw me, he froze. He looked down for a moment, pretending not to recognize me, then turned and walked back into a nearby bar.
I chase forward, want to go in to look for him very much, but I do not like the atmosphere of the bar, so waiting at the door, but waited for a long time, did not see Meng Fu come out. I thought my mother would run out of medicine, so I had to go back first. But feel meng Fu behavior is eccentric again, return home that day, I send message to him, he does not return, make his phone call, he also does not answer, finally call past, it is shut down.
The next day I went to his house to look for him, but his little nephew Meng Zheng said he was not there. On the way home, I met with meng Shaodong who grew up together. Talking with him about Meng Fu, he first looked around, and then attached in my ear said: “I heard that Meng Fu is now taking his father’s road.”
“How can that be! I shook my head. “He said he could never do such a wicked thing in his life.”
“Really! Now the village people all know, Meng Fu is the second Meng Jingshan, Meng Jingshan before two years don’t let Meng Fu continue to go to school, is to take over his class. Just think, how good their life used to be, and how high Meng Jingshan’s status in the village used to be, but now he’s mixed up into this B shape, with no money and no status. Can he accept it?”
Meng Shaodong’s words I dare not believe all, but let me think of Meng Fu said that sentence, “I want to go back to childhood” — he is to return to childhood that kind of “beautiful jade food” life?
I believe meng Fu has a good reason, want to listen to his explanation, but he still avoid me. It was not until I was admitted to the university that Meng Fu contacted me. He said on the phone, “I am really happy for you. Congratulations on your escape from the misery.”
I proposed to see one side, Meng Fu did not refuse. We go back to primary school, or the pair of parallel bars, we dangle legs sitting above, Meng Fu carried two bottles of snowflakes, we blew against the wind.
As I hesitated, he volunteered, “Yes, what they say is true. I can’t help it, my father said. A good life is all about hands and guts. At first, when I didn’t want to, he hit me. He never hit me, I don’t know why, it was like a different man. I’m so sad, I don’t know what To do.”
This, of course, was not what I wanted to hear. I did not want to believe that Montfort had really gone that way, but I did not know how to answer.
“The eldest brother is still in the reform-through-labour camp, the second brother was promoted to section chief, the third brother is still in the army, and I am the only idle person in the family — that’s what my father said. He called me a pansy and said I wasn’t a man. And he praised me when I was a boy, and said, ‘How brave you were then’ — and he lied to me all the time, damme! The less I wanted to do it, the more he forced me to talk about his theory that money is everything. He said that as long as you have money, you can have whatever you want and whoever you want to listen to will listen to you. I said I didn’t want to be rich, and I didn’t want anyone to listen to me. I just wanted to be alive. But in the end he got angry. He said he had given me everything, including my life, and he wanted me to give it back to him…”
Here, Meng Fu eyes are full of confusion, eyes slightly red, I patted his shoulder, to show comfort. His fists were clenched, and his face was as shy and timid as when he was a child, with a hint of helplessness.
“I don’t know why it happened to him. He was never like this. I have no choice but to listen to him. He said that for some time, my third brother came back from the army, he arranged for us to ‘do things’ together. Do you think it’s funny? Depend, I true his mama want to return childhood, what all don’t understand, he deceive me, deceive me, let me ‘send medicine’, I also willingly. He who doesn’t know is innocent, isn’t he?”
I didn’t know what to say, but Froze there.
6
Meng, 40, was released from prison in April 2017. He spent 19 years in prison, his wife and daughter also waited for him for 19 years, in the year before he came out, Meng Xue had been married to the provincial capital Lanzhou under the arrangement of Meng Jingshan.
Meng An returned home, the most happy is Meng Jingshan, one is their Meng family finally reunited, two is his most capable assistant came back.
“Of course, my grandfather didn’t let my father sell drugs with him. My father has been in prison for so many years that he doesn’t want to be involved.” Meng Xue said.
Son on the left Meng Fu has not married, Meng Jingshan want to “but his one pile of worry”, soon for Meng Fu find the village girl Meng Xiaoyun married. Meng Xiaoyun’s father also used to be the local well-known drug offender, but later wash white turn to make jewelry business, the family is very rich. It seems that Meng Jingshan played a good game of chess again.
Meng Fu was also very happy, so I was invited back to attend the wedding. That was the last time we ever communicated, and I don’t know if it was the last time in my life.
Meng Xue said that 10 days before her brother-in-law got married, he suddenly received instructions from his grandfather, let him come back from the army with the third uncle to Chongqing “purchase wedding items” – needless to say, brother-in-law of course knew what they were going to do. At first, her father did not agree, said do not want to brother to risk, but it is a mouthful but already red eyes grandpa: “don’t block, lost things I must get back! We could do it before, and they can do it now. Wealth and wealth in danger, we are so over, let them go!”
Meng Jingshan also arranged two young men along with his two sons. The route information that 4 young people provide according to Meng Jingshan, in Chongqing nuptials need articles for use complete, also connected head with mysterious person at the same time, bring back meng Jingshan “goods”.
Two nights before the wedding, they drove back to the highway intersection in their neighboring county and met a traffic policeman who was checking for drunk driving. Meng Fu saw the police began to panic, meng De and other two people are also full of sweat. The police pulled them over and asked The driver to check for alcohol.
Meng, who was psychologically strong, sat in the car and smiled as he greeted the traffic police, preparing to blow on the breathalyzer. But at this time, panic meng Fu suddenly in the copilot crazy shake up, the whole body clothes soaked by sweat through, straight pant heavy breath, feel to suffocate like. The traffic cop noticed something was wrong and walked up to the co-pilot and asked, “What’s wrong with you, little brother?”
Mender saw the matter is not good, a foot accelerator, the car forward to the past. But sweaty palms, slipping on the steering wheel and the brand new Toyota head-on crashing into a roadside barrier. The airbag popped, protecting Munford and Mendel, two young men in the back seat, who also suffered minor bruises.
Traffic police caught up with them, pounced on them, frisked them and searched the vehicle, eventually finding nearly 2 kilograms of net heroin under the co-pilot.
Police detained the four men separately for immediate questioning. Meng Fu and Meng De confessed to the transport of drugs, also do not hesitate to their father – the case of the “mastermind” Meng Jingshan gave out. The other two people, at first insisted that they know nothing about this matter, just employed meng Jingshan “help transport goods”, but two people in the time and commission on the confession is not together, the police take this as a breakthrough, respectively pry open their mouth — they admitted to participate in the transport of drugs, also for the “mastermind” Meng Jingshan.
Meng Jingshan got the news that his son was caught, hurried to pack up and escape overnight, even the family do not know where he went. Meng Fu’s wedding, there will be no more.
Meng Kang asked a lawyer for two younger brothers, after the lawyer understand the specific situation, let them find Meng Jingshan, advised it to surrender, take the initiative to admit drug trafficking, under the main responsibility, so that the burden of two sons lighter, but the meng family do not know the whereabouts of Meng Jingshan.
Before the principal criminal Meng Jingshan is not caught, the case has not been tried.
When the coffee was finished, meng xue added my WeChat before saying goodbye, sighing with regret and helplessness: “I hope my grandpa will come back as soon as possible, and I hope my uncle and uncle will come back as soon as possible.”
Afterword.
Meng fu was arrested in early May nearly two years ago. ‘The county court suddenly decided to hear the case,’ Ms. Meng said. Meng Fu 4 people from the detention house to the court. In the court, the two young people suddenly shout grievances, said they know nothing about this matter, not to admit guilt, also said that all this is manipulated by Meng Fu, Meng De, and they have nothing to do with Meng Jingshan. They also give meng De had joined the army, into the party, for meng Fu sent poison when a child, after junior high school graduation drug trafficking.
The case became so complicated that the judge had to adjourn the trial until it was ascertained at a later date.
Summer vacation, I do propaganda with county drug control office, passing through a primary school in a mountainous area, in the school’s “cognitive wall” to see meng Jingshan wanted notice. The paper of Meng Jingshan white hair, impressively is a vicissitudes of the old man’s image. His crime notes read:
“Meng Jingshan, male, 65 years old, is the mastermind of many drug trafficking cases.
At the beginning of this month, I went back to my hometown to see my grandma and chatted with her. Only then did I learn that Meng Jingshan had actually escaped two months ago. My grandma said that he had been living in a cave during the time he had been avoiding capture and had contracted a bad disease.
(The characters are pseudonyms.)
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