1
In 2007, the weather in January in the north was as cold as usual.
The sun shone brightly in the afternoon and the temperature rose somewhat. Xiao Bao, the 5-year-old grandson of tang Zhengyi, a retired university professor, woke up in the afternoon and demanded to kick a ball in the yard. Tang zhengyi, who had just taken over the care of her grandson, did not want to go out for fear of freezing the child. But the grandson said with tears in his eyes that grandma would take him out to play every day before. Perhaps the comparison between her and her in-laws inadvertently made Tang Zhengyi feel a little loose in her heart. She turned her head and looked out of the window with the ice edges, feeling the sunshine was just right, so she agreed.
Baofu community is the city’s organs family members of the courtyard, the house inside are more than 200 square meters. The square of the village under winter warm sun, lively and genial, a few old people wearing overstaffed silver hair sitting on the yellow wooden chair to chat. Xiao Bao found his a few small friends, gathered together ha Bai qi chase after the ball, a careless, the ball was kicked far, Xiao Bao eagerly forward to chase past, want to pick up the toy.
Unable to keep up with the running grandson, Tang Zhengyi had to squint at his presbyopia and watch him from afar in case something happened. She saw that Xiao Bao finally caught the ball, but did not return immediately, but fell on the ground, did not move.
“Sprained ankle?” Tang Zhengyi quickly got up from his chair and hurried over, dragging his sick leg and breathing heavily. When we got closer, we found That Xiao Bao was sitting on the ground, with his eyes wide and his whole body shaking violently and his face full of fear. When he saw grandma, Xiao Bao did not immediately embrace her for shelter. Instead, he tried to hold her with his small hands and pushed her outward.
Just as Tang Zhengyi was wondering, a fishy heat wave hit her neck, accompanied by a dull growl. She turned her head so sharply that her heart jerked upward at what she saw: not a metre from her, a giant dog with a grinning head staring fiercely at her, but fortunately with a wire net between it. The dog was huge, with a thick mane, and as black as a lion. Recovering himself, Tang Zhengyi realized: It was a Tibetan mastiff!
Without raising his head, Tang zhengyi instinctively picked up Xiao Bao, dragging his little grandson all the way home, his heart still beating violently. Two people arrived home, the past for a while, xiao Bao just cried out. When She heard the cry, Tang zhengyi felt relieved. She thought that people who were frightened should be ok as long as they could cry.
Night, my daughter son-in-law home in succession, the small treasure still crying, killed nearly forty years old have to son’s daughter, a real power in the government department as a place pair place long son-in-law’s sink, analysis says: do not let a large breed, arguably village are civil servants used to live, no one dare to overstep too much regulation, in the last few retired deputy director-general of the go abroad together with their children, sold the house, to the new people. Houses with a level of more than 200 square meters were taken over from officials at the rank of deputy director, afraid they were also rich and powerful people.
“No matter how powerful you are, you can’t be unreasonable!” Tang Zhengyi complained.
In the night, xiao Bao woke up several times from his sleep, his body convulsed, Shouting “I’m afraid! I’m afraid! Don’t bite me! Don’t bite me!” I was in a cold sweat and my hair felt washed. Worried, the family stayed up all night and stayed up until dawn. They hurried to the hospital with their child.
The doctor diagnosed that the child was frightened by the dog, developed stress disorder and was given some medicine. Before leaving, the doctor said regretfully, the child was frightened by animals in the past, let him more close contact with the dog, pet play, generally will be ok, but scare xiaobao is only a Tibetan mastiff, even if you can find one, also dare not let the child and it close contact. “I’m afraid the little fellow will have a problem.”
When Tang Zhengyi heard this, she looked at her tearful daughter and complained that she did not care about the child. She pointed her emotions to the man who her son-in-law said might be very powerful. In her old age, Tang Zhengyi was still straight and scholarly. This time, she thought, no matter what the power background of her opponent, she would argue for reason.
But this dispute was the end of ten years.
2
Come back from the hospital, until the evening, Tang Zhengyi found the place where xiao Bao fell the day before, find the family raising the Tibetan mastiff, her intention is very simple: one, the community can not raise a large dog, the government regulations have written provisions, the community more children, not allowed to frighten others, hope each other quickly take the dog away; Two is, want to let the other side compensate a gift, say an apology.
I rang the door bell of the other unit. It took me a while before someone answered.
“Hello, your big dog, yesterday frightened my little treasure, you…” Before Tang zhengyi could finish his sentence, the other party began to shout in a hurry, “Don’t talk! I didn’t even take Dabo out yesterday. Are you trying to confuse people?”
Then the man in the door hung up the intercom and Tang Zhengyi was shocked. After a while, she rang the bell again, and there was only a whirring noise.
Tang Zhengyi was so angry that he covered his chest and went home to tell his daughter and son-in-law the story. The whole family felt very angry and said, “Is this reasonable?”
The next night, the daughter rang the doorbell again, but no one answered. And so it was for days on end.
Tang Zhengyi found the neighborhood committee, will be the original story said. Resident committee director is the fat aunt of more than 40 years old, the person is very enthusiastic, promise immediately, can contact mediate this matter. Tang Zhengyi formally put forward two demands: an apology, to bear more than 100 yuan of medical expenses. It wasn’t a big deal, it wasn’t a lot of money. All she wanted was to get it right.
After that, Every few days, Mr. Tang would visit the neighborhood committee to find out how things were going
In a flash to February, close to the end of the year, one day, the director of the neighborhood called: “the dog owner will come to the neighborhood tomorrow morning, to solve things with you. They say you must be here by nine o ‘clock.”
My daughter and son-in-law were busy at work and worried that the old lady would get excited easily, so he invited a male colleague to accompany him. The next morning, just before 10:9, Tang Zhengyi arrived at the neighborhood committee on time, but the other party was nowhere to be seen. The director of the neighborhood call, the other side has been busy. It was almost eleven o ‘clock when a young man in a suit came running in.
After sitting down, Mr. Tang solemnly handed over a copy of the “Regulations on dog Management,” which indicated that the policy was issued on May 27, 2005. Just as Tang Zhengyi was about to speak, the young man pushed the document away with his hand and said with a smile, “I am the secretary to the owner of the Tibetan mastiff, Chairman Ma. Some time ago, and you talk is our ‘childe’ driver, he has no quality, you don’t see!” “As he spoke, he took some money out of his handbag and put it on the table.” Here is your doctor’s bill. One thousand yuan.
When Tang Zhengyi heard this, he was startled for a moment. He just grabbed the other’s arm subconsciously. The young man was very surprised and asked, “The money you paid for the doctor is not only 100, but I gave you 1,000. Is that still ok?”
Tang Zhengyi glared at the other man and said slowly, “I’m not here to deceive people. The government has the document that large dogs are not allowed in the community. Your dog frightened my grandson, and I want the owner to make a formal apology to me.”
The other side listened, also one zheng, then some impatiently say: “old man, stop that now! The dog is owned by Chairman Ma. Do you want Chairman Ma to personally apologize to you?” Then he made an effort to break free.
Between tugs, the young man’s cell phone rang. He glanced at the screen, stopped pulling away, and immediately bent down, beaming, and said, “Yes! Is!!! Is!!! Chairman Ma, you can rest assured.” Putting the phone down, the young man smiled and grabbed Tang’s arm. “Grandma! My good grandma! Why didn’t you say so? Just now chairman Ma personally called me and said that your son-in-law is the deputy director wang who lives in this courtyard. He promised to pay you ten thousand for your spirit!” Then he took his money out of his bag.
On hearing this, Tang zhengyi felt more insulted than respected. She raised her voice and said, “I am not here for blackmail! You think wrong and I want the owner to apologize to me!”
Young person did not think of, the other side is still such answer actually, the facial expression changes again come back, deadlocked for a long time, impatiently say: “old lady, I still go back and chairman ma report once.” And hurried away.
Tang Zhengyi stood there, recalling “chairman”, “childe” these words, for a moment unexpectedly some absentminded.
After a few days, the director of the neighborhood went to Tang Zhengyi’s house, took her hand and said mysteriously: “Mr. Tang, do you know? What is the background of the Tibetan mastiff family? He’s a billionaire! They say it’s worth over a billion!”
According to the director of the neighborhood committee, the male owner’s surname was Ma, and his hometown seemed to be in the rural area of Yimeng (The former name of The city of Ordos). More than a decade ago, he contracted the village’s coal mines. At that time, coal sold for one or two hundred yuan per ton, which was worthless. A few years ago, when coal prices soared, he bought up all the mines in his village.
After his sudden wealth, Ma opened a number of companies and became chairman of the board of directors of the group. He also liked to be called “Chairman Ma”. He is also said to be a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
In recent years, Mr. Ma has bought apartments in Beijing and Shanghai, as well as villas in the United States. His wife wore four diamond rings. The family had a son and a daughter, and the son was called “Childe Ma”. When the daughter got married, her dowry was worth tens of millions of yuan.
“That Tibetan mastiff is said to be worth two million yuan!” The director of the neighborhood said, some time ago, Ma Childe with Tibetan mastiff to baofu residential area for two days, and then the air is not good, and went. “Tang teacher, I advise you also don’t seriously, you accepted that ten thousand dollars, you and money still have enemy yao!”
Tang zhengyi looked closely at the director of the neighborhood committee for a long time and said, “I am not here for blackmail again. Why doesn’t their dog apologize for freaking out our child? I just want a statement.”
Hearing this, the director of the neighborhood committee just smiled lamely: “Alas, Mr. Tang, somebody else’s boss will make an apology to you for this matter? Alas!”
3
In the Spring Festival of 2007, just after the snow stopped outside, a middle-aged woman in a mink coat appeared in front of the House, pointing and talking. Nearby stood a big black man with a huge gold necklace around his neck and a Tibetan mastiff on his hand. The Tibetan mastiff squatted on the ground like a lion, spewing large masses of white air from his nostrils.
Recognizing the dog through the window, Tang assumed the owner had finally come to apologize and hurried out of the house with the family.
The middle-aged woman saw tang Zhengyi’s family come out, raised her head and said to the sky: “It said that your little treasure was frightened by our big treasure. I also want to say, is your bear child frightened our “big treasure”! Our home ‘big treasure’, other people give 3 million, I did not sell, if really frightened, you can compensate? I’ll give you 10,000 yuan for compensation, don’t you want it? A fart big point of the deputy director, also really take himself seriously. In front of my house, and put on AIRS? Want our family to apologize?” At this time, the side of the black big man, mercilessly inserted a sentence: “the ball door son all have no!”
The tangzhengyi family was trembling with anger, and the son-in-law was about to argue with them when the big black man made a show of letting the dog loose.
After the Spring Festival holiday, the office resumed normal work, son and daughter accompanied Tang Zhengyi, went to the court to Sue the ma family, the request is still: apologize, assume more than 100 yuan medical expenses. The lawsuit was simple, and Tang won without a doubt, but he was too slow to apologize.
Tang Zhengyi went to the court executive board several times, although the staff is very polite, but all said, ma boss industry, every day across the country, contact no one. “You go back first and we’ll try to contact you.”
After more than a month, the director of the neighborhood and ran to the Tang Zhengyi home, said the horse home driver went to the neighborhood, put down the words: “again, say let your whole family…… Oh, don’t say it.”
Tang Straightened up and said, “Tell me exactly what they said.”
The director of the neighborhood hesitated, said: “He said again make go on, let your whole family eat, want to cry to let you find tune!”
After Listening, Tang Zhengyi held the table and did not get up for a long time.
4
Tang zhengyi’s son-in-law was the first to feel the pressure. In the office, the leaders’ attitude towards him changed abruptly and often criticized him in small meetings of the general assembly. He found an opportunity, privately invited the leader to have a meal, asked the leader to express, the leader dipped his hand in the wine, wrote a “horse” on the table, and then patted him on the shoulder, said: “Xiao Wang, let’s do the leadership, don’t spend all day thinking about governing the country, peace the world, but also want to properly think about qi family.
Tang Zhengyi’s son-in-law understood what was going on.
Tang’s daughter got a more direct warning. When she was called to the bank’s office one day as a loan officer, the president was blunt enough to say: “Don’t you want your year-end bonus? If you do, you’ll have to get your mother out of court. Now, ma boss is not ready in our line of loans!”
At that time, coal prices were skyrocketing every month, and Mr. Ma was one of several bank customers vying for loans.
Tang zhengyi’s eldest son is also in trouble. The university teacher, who had been steeped in scholarship and teaching, was to have been awarded a professorship in the middle of the year, but was unexpectedly stopped. The vice president in charge also looked helpless, and said, “Don’t be busy with studying. Go back home as often as possible to accompany your old mother. Oh, do you understand what I mean? If not, go home and ask your sisters.”
At home, tang Zhengyi looked at his children’s faces and did not say a word. He just closed his eyes and began to cry. In the Cultural Revolution, because she was a university professor, she also suffered from criticism. She swept the toilet and suffered from the fists of students. At that time, Tang Zhengyi did not shed a tear. Now, even in his declining years, he has to face this kind of cowardly spirit.
A few days later, Tang Zhengyi fell ill for half a year. During this time, the driver of the Ma family also ranted in the neighborhood: “Old Lady Tang family are all cucumbers, they owe slap ah, this time, it is time to learn to behave.”
When Tang Zhengyi heard this, he was almost choked with anger.
At the beginning of 2008, coal prices reached an all-time high, with the price of a ton of coal at around 800 or 800 pitholes. On the fourth day of the first lunar month, the owner of a ma back to the community to do business, also with the Tibetan mastiff. On the same day, to pay a New Year’s call to the horse family limousine, the community roads are blocked.
That day, more than a dozen students from Zhengyi’s graduate school visited her and were filled with indignation at what had happened to her tutor. One straight-talking male student said, “I’m going to buy some meat buns and stuff them with two packets of rat poison. Leave it at that bastard’s house at night, and as soon as they come out to walk the dog, poison the Mastiff.” .
Tang Zhengyi waved his hand slowly and everyone became quiet. The old man looked at his middle-aged disciples and said gently, “It is the fault of human beings, not dogs.”
There was silence.
After the Spring Festival, Tang zhengyi never went to the court’s executive board or went out of his house. Every day, he locked himself in a small room and looked out of the window at the sky for three or four hours. Once the old man lost his spirit and spirit, his face suddenly collapsed. Tang Zhengyi’s eyes became cloudy and the whiteness on his head became clusters of old cotton wool. The children looked, are very heartache, they know the mother’s heart has a thorn, but no one has the ability to help her pull out.
In the past, all families went to sweep the tomb, but This time Zhengyi resolutely refused to visit his wife.
When the Qingming Holiday ended, Tang zhengyi’s children took their mother to the court’s executive board. The staff of the bureau were surprised that the family came to the house again. Faced with the elderly’s request for enforcement, they had to deal with it perfunctorily. Later, the family went to the letters and Calls office again, but to no avail.
Several years have passed, but the judicial process and the channels of letters and visits have not yet echoed.
5
After the second half of 2008, coal prices went into a downward spiral, and many once-mighty coal bosses were in trouble.
Six years passed quickly.
In March 2014, Tang zhengyi’s daughter was called to the office by the president. The president was very impressed and said, “What a surprise! Back in the day, because your mother and Boss Ma litigious. As a result, the old horse is angry, not in our line of loans. I and you at that time, but also by the branch to withhold year-end bonus, by the leadership of the scold. But now coal prices have collapsed. I heard that the old horse could not bear it, not to mention the interest, he could not pay the principal. That year the loan to him seven or eight bank presidents, before the New Year, the withdrawal of the withdrawal, grasp the arrest, one heard also jumped the building. How fickle the world is!”
A month later, the director of the neighborhood committee, who was about to retire, went to Tang Zhengyi’s house in person and said mysteriously: “Mr. Tang, a few days ago, the security guard of the community saw someone coming in and going out of ma’s house in the evening. The original name of the horse is not completely, the two hundred square meters of the house also sold. When I come to think of it, he hasn’t apologized to you yet! ‘
The next day, The Family hurried to the court’s executive board. As he poured the tea enthusiastically, the clerk told them, “Don’t worry, ma can’t run! Now more than 30 creditors are suing him in court, they’re all looking for him, and he doesn’t pay his employees back…”
The court promised that once Mr. Ma was found, the sentence would be enforced and he would have to apologize to Mr. Tang.
On the morning after qingming in 2017, Boss Ma was caught.
Mr. Tang later relayed to a neighbor what he had heard: He was found before dawn at the head of Mr. Ma’s hometown. At that time, Ma boss and his wife were offering incense and burning paper to their parents who had died many years ago. After burning a few pieces of paper, they were surrounded by people from the collection company.
The young men threw Him to the ground, stepped on his head with dusty shoes, and made him shout for grandpa. Ma boss wife’s cry for help drew many people, there are ma boss’s hair small, looking at his old neighbor grew up, but the villagers just watching, but did not dare to step forward to rescue. Boss Ma, who was once prominent, was thoroughly disgraced in front of his fellow villagers.
The people of collection company looked at the villagers gathered more and more, the boss ma and his wife escorted away. Later, the owner of the horse debt collection company on the money, but he asked the owner of the debt collection company to his hometown village, in front of his own people, to apologize to him, the other side naturally do not agree.
Ma boss, however, ready to Sue the owner of the collection company, there are two demands: one is a public apology; The second is to bear the medical expenses. In the face of his boss ma, the court people threw the paper verdict that Tang Zhengyi won 10 years ago in front of him.
After reading it carefully, Ma let out a sigh, hung his head and murmured, “I was wrong. I was wrong. I know.”
6
The last time I saw Her was in The Baofu neighborhood. She was in her 80s and her hair was neatly combed and she was hale and hearty.
Tang said that one day in early May this year, ma’s husband and wife in the neighborhood committee office, in front of everyone, solemnly apologized to her family, Ma’s waist nearly bent 90 degrees.
Later, it was said that Boss Ma’s Tibetan mastiff, which was said to be worth 3 million yuan, had been sold to a slaughterhouse for less than 2,000 yuan due to the collapse of the Tibetan mastiff market two years earlier.
Mr. Tang only shook his head with a sigh and said, “Poor thing, the dog made no mistake.”
(The names and communities in this article are pseudonyms)
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