Early in the morning of January 6, the barking of the beloved dog Bobo cut through the silent night sky.
“Is that the police? ” Cen Aohui (Lester) asked himself sleepily.
“Rumble, rumble, rumble! ” someone tapped on the iron gate. It was still his girlfriend, Si-Lang Yu (Nicole), who went downstairs to see what was going on. “Oh, it’s finally coming. “She was stunned inwardly at that Time, and calmly coped with it. Soon after, several thick boots stepped into their Home, trampling her beloved clean white carpet into a dirty mess.
That day, the police arrested 53 people in various districts on suspicion of “subversion of state power” in violation of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, and arrested them for participating in the July 2020 Legislative Council primary election. The police arrested fifty-three people who participated in the primary election of the democratic camp in July 2020, as well as Tai Yiu Ting and Au Nok Hin, Sham Ao Hei, a total of fifty-five people, Sham Ao Hei is one of the fifty-five. “To participate in the primary election is subversion of state power? Ha, ridiculous as that? This thought kept circling in his mind.
During the 38 hours he was detained, he said “I have nothing to say” hundreds of times; ate an extremely difficult meal of egg and intestine; and slept a very long sleep. –He described folding two pieces of felt into a pillow and wrapping them in three pieces of felt to give his body a kind of temporary warmth.
On January 7, near 9 p.m., he walked slowly out of the West End police station and was released on bail.
On January 9, he called his lawyer, and the first thing he said was, “Pick up the case… we’re getting married. “
What kind of hardship or expectation is experienced, so that they are sure of each other, such as their wedding vows, “in the hardship of still embracing each other, the moon and the day, but unswerving”? What is it?
“We will live together in the future. Lester’s voice is a little husky, but not without tenderness. After the words, his eyes fell on Nicole.
The police reminded him to “bring his lawyer and bond papers”. The police also reminded him to “bring his lawyer and bond paper”, so it is expected that the case will be formally prosecuted. They all know that the road ahead is not easy. However, in the most can not talk about the future of people, she saw the future, he firmly believe to live together.
Seriously.
It is true that many people in the social movement circle have been getting married quickly lately. The most straightforward idea is inevitably that the prison is spread out in front of them, and if the other party is “rightful”, the right to visit the prison will be greatly protected. Is it because of this that Lester and Nicole have the idea of getting married?
The worst thing we can do is to be sent to a wife or girlfriend, because there have been cases with 12 Hong Kong people, some girlfriends are in a very difficult situation, and it is deeply understood that the immediate Family has more rights. “He described, under the name of functionality, does account for thinking about Marriage one of the parts, but this is by no means the most important reason,” I instead do not want to get married because of so. ” Lester holds a beer can in his hand and squeezes it a little tighter; Nicole sits a short distance away, left hand on her cheek, right hand petting her cat, listening to her new husband’s theory.
“What I think is, (when you meet someone) if you are, you are, if you’re not, you’re not. Don’t think you can commit to it, it’s not good to delay people (others), no so much time to waste (not so much time to waste). “He described, when the situation to kill in front of the face and operating relationships, are on the unprecedented gaze, frame by frame review of every detail of Life, his mouth continuously shattered. “life, to live seriously, to live seriously, to live seriously. “The important thing he said three times, the high wall is high, blocked with the body, but can not stop that serious, the two run to each other’s courage, in January 6, after the more clarity.
“I think, in the face of totalitarianism, can do ‘scum’ space are much less. “After the words, the two looked at each other and laughed out loud.
“If there is peace and prosperity, we may be able to be ‘scum’ for a while. “
Lester continued.
“What a pity ah? “Nicole used his foot to end him a little.
“What a pity. “Lester smiled back.
So, turn to Nicole and ask her if anyone has ever warned you that being Lester’s other half is risky and that the marriage is really necessary? There must be, there must be, so many people say so. She said frankly.
But on second thought, she feels that she is being harassed by totalitarianism in every detail of her life, so that she is affected by whether or not to date/marry/whoever she marries, and she feels “so angry. “If we have to calculate whether ‘so called has a future’, then every day people are being dragged or sentenced to jail. If you want to calculate the ‘so called have no future’, then every day people are pulled or sentenced, that many people seem to have no future, if everyone is so thought, Hong Kong dead stems. “She believes that both action and mentality, to resist the totalitarian harassment of this blood and bone, although it is difficult, but try not to be affected by each decision made, she said, a stubborn face.
“So in that sense, I am objectified, I am a tool that you use to reach your own desire to resist totalitarianism. ” Lester suddenly snaps.
“Crazy! ” Nicole responded without good grace.
The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. The two of them sat side by side on the sofa.
The two sat side by side on the couch, discussing and debating everything, and not sweeping the issue under the couch, which is their most direct, honest and open way of getting along.
Freedom from desire
On January 25, on a sunny afternoon, he wore a khaki suit jacket and she wore a long lace white dress and tied the knot in front of a crowd of family and friends.
Before the vows were read, the lawyer laughed at the security guards (police) outside, and Lester looked terrified and confused. Fortunately, the wedding went smoothly, and some witnesses even said that they could participate in this happy event, which is the most rewarding thing in the whole month of January.
A wedding, originally intended to be low-key, but it seems to be added a layer of public significance; originally sad face, out of a different bright and gorgeous. I’m not trying to quote, but it’s a bit like trying a way to resist totalitarianism, and we’re not declining. “Lester recalled. “It’s good to live like that, it’s a strength. It’s a strength,” Nicole echoed.
In the stormy days, the two hold tighter, eyes do not leave nor abandon. The future days, as long as the two support each other, probably easier than one person to live?Lester but categorically shook his head.
He told a story. Since last year, he has always maintained the habit of visiting prisons, going to Lo Wu Correctional Institution two days a week and Stanley Prison two days a week, building relationships with people who were imprisoned or remanded due to the anti-Sending China movement, thinking that those people could feel that they were not left behind.
One day when he visited the prison, the handlers he visited told him, “If I am convicted after the trial in June, I will break up with my girlfriend. “He immediately scolded him:” scary, what do you do to help people pick? Break up or not you should let her own choice. “At that time, the hands and feet to repeat his sentence:” I want to be free to sit in prison. “
Lester listened, immediately understood up, “If his heart with a person in prison, forever also with. There are ties and hang-ups is a burden. “
He described, someone together to move forward of course, but away from the desire is the most difficult part to deal with, he paused, silent for a long time, before slowly spitting out a few words like wisps of light smoke: “If there is no other half, simply put, nothing to lose. I rely on the family system have I have something to lose, to a certain extent, it is difficult, painful a lot, but although painful, still have to do. “
Poor environment, poor Food, and even labor alienation, Lester is not particularly afraid or worried, “to write letters, read books, do sports, intellectually more powerful. “But the human heart is made of flesh, to be temporarily separated from his wife, beloved dog, beloved cat (he calls them children), is the most difficult subject he faced behind bars.
The sentence
On the afternoon of February 10, the 29th day of the year, Lester reported to the police station for the first time and his bail was successfully renewed.
A day earlier, he had an early New Year’s Eve dinner with his mother. During the meal, they did not say much to say goodbye and did not shed any tears. He convinced his mother with reason that he would be able to be released on bail that day, so she did not say much.
He suddenly recalled that on the day of his arrest on January 6, his mother had gone to his office in Tsuen Wan to see her son in a hurry while waiting for the police to come and search him. “What was she like then? Lester then asked his wife, who was with his mother at the time. “She was so calm, so calm, so calm, so after watching the words back to the house. “
In 2014, Lester was charged with contempt of court for allegedly violating a restraining order during the clearing of the Chamwang site. He remembers very well, then sentencing the eve of dinner, his mother cried into tears, he said bluntly, the most afraid of such scenes, repeatedly staged.
Did she ever advise you to leave? “No, she knows what I think, what my temperament is. Lester said firmly.
He said his mother now uses more euphemistic methods to try to probe him: “For example, she would ask me, “What about Chung’s row? Is it all right? Have you ever thought of leaving? Will not be better? “Lester did not agree, try to explain to her, he has decided to stay:” go or not, either way is not good, are very bad, this is what our generation has to face. This is what our generation has to face, there is no way. “
Admittedly, he observed that his mother’s level of acceptance has actually evolved a lot: “She will think that a prison term is ‘good’ However, when the sentence becomes a clock, the minute and second hand on the clock is also transformed into a clock. However, when the sentence really becomes the minute and second hand on the clock, also into an endless wait and absence, and is it so acceptable?
Moving forward
The visit took place during New Year’s Day, when the two of them were lazily playing Go at the dining room table, with three spring scrolls glued to the cabinet door. “.
When it comes to prison equals a long separation and waiting, they coincidentally point to the handwriting.
“He wrote it. “
Nicole said.
“I like that word so much. He doesn’t guarantee that you will get there, that you will make progress, but that there is this process, like sharpening on a whetstone, going forward less, going back less, and going forward again. “
Lester explained.
“So there’s nothing to it, just eat it when it’s done. If you don’t eat it, you admit defeat. “
Lester continued.
“You can’t lose. “
Nicole interjected.
“The fear, the negative emotions must be there. “
Lester said frankly.
He glanced at Nicole at the end of his eyes.
“I don’t think she’s going to be able to handle it. “
Nicole: “I don’t even think I’ll get it. “
Lester repeats the same sentence, “I don’t even think I’d do it, but…”
“I don’t think I’m going to do it, but…” “So what do you want? “
Nicole finished her sentence.
It was a warm feeling to see the two of them talking to each other.
“Sometimes it’s an ability not to lose. “
Nicole is stubborn again.
“I have faith in her. “
Lester blinked, his eyes, finally landing on the cabinet door to the far right of the waving spring that
It reads
“Love you ten thousand years.”
Regardless of the charges on February 28; regardless of imprisonment or not; regardless of whether the District Council seat will be subject to DQ; regardless of whether the road to the system will be exhausted; he kept his promise, like the wedding vows, how the future, to live together.
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