Back to 1978

Chapter 212: Are you kidding me?

Xie Hushan was trapped in the back seat of a jeep between two police officers, one on each side, with handcuffs on his hands.

The road was already bumpy, and driving in the dark caused his tailbone to hurt from the shaking of the jeep.

"I say, government, which bureau are you from? This road doesn't look like it leads to the county bureau or the municipal bureau?" He looked at the two public security comrades on his left and right who were guarding him like wooden sculptures or clay statues, and asked loudly.

However, the four public security comrades remained silent in the face of his questions, just like their behavior when Xie Hushan questioned them several times over the previous hour.

The car has been driving for more than an hour. Not to mention going to the Bingyang Branch, it should have reached the Yaoshan City Bureau as well.

But now, let alone the Municipal Bureau, I couldn’t even see the urban area. There was no light outside the car window and it was pitch black.

"You are not the people the other party is looking for, right? The other party is obviously mad because his son was beaten and disabled. He thinks someone dared to touch the tiger's beard, so he must make a big deal out of it and kill the chicken to scare the monkey. Isn't it the right way for you to do this?" No one paid attention to him, so Xie Hushan talked to himself.

Taking him to a certain bureau for interrogation and confirming his confession that he hired Song Tiesheng to kill someone, this is what the other party should do. This is what Yang Liming has always been worried about.

But Song Tiesheng was loyal and worried that he would not be able to bear it, so he committed self-harm and went to the hospital, waiting for news from his side. If the problem could be solved, that would be the best. If not, Song Tiesheng would definitely find an opportunity to do something more severe to his body, so he kept dragging it out.

Although Xie Hushan often boasted that he was tougher than iron and more ferocious than a tiger, he knew in his heart that he might not be able to withstand the tactics used against him after he went in.

No matter how healthy your prostate is, you will most likely have to urinate. Even if you don't urinate after one or two electric shocks, you still have to urinate three, five, ten or eight times.

With such a big enemy, it would be difficult to come up with any ideas, because no ideas could fill the gap in status and power between the two sides.

The most effective way is to just get angry and do it.

That's why he was ready to resume the ancestral profession of the men in Zhili Province. This profession has been the specialty of Zhili Province since ancient times. People are not afraid of death, but they are afraid that they will not be able to take anything with them before they die.

Besides, if I still feel uneasy after going to Hong Kong Island, I can still go to other countries with my Hong Kong Island identity. At worst, I can bring two bags of snacks to the number helper to apologize, and ask the other party not to care about this personal grudge and send me to the eastern part of South Bay to reclaim wasteland.

Maybe by then I can embroider the red flag in advance and become a patriotic overseas Chinese who will never return to China.

Unfortunately, he was interrupted by these four public security comrades. Xie Hushan suspected that these four comrades were hired by Da Qiao's family, and they might want to control him and sell him at a high price?

First find a place to lock him up, and then see how the situation develops. When can you sell him for a high price and when can you hand him over to the other party?
Or give yourself to the other party in exchange for the other party's promise not to involve Da Qiao?
While Xie Hushan was lost in thoughts, the jeep finally stopped in front of a row of bungalows. Four men pulled him out of the car and without giving him a chance to catch his breath, they pushed him directly into one of the houses.

The police officer in charge of driving took out the key, unlocked Xie Hushan's handcuffs, and then took out the cigarette lighter that he had searched from his pocket. He used the lighter to light a kerosene lamp in the room, and then returned it to Xie Hushan, saying stiffly:

"I can't give you anything else now. Eat when you need to, sleep when you need to. If you feel cold, wrap yourself in a blanket and bear it. I will let you go when it's time for you to go."

After saying that, he turned around and led his people out, locking the door from the outside.

Xie Hushan looked around the room. It was a typical rural bungalow with a window covered with plastic sheeting for warmth, and an earthen kang. On the kang was a tattered army green patched bedding roll. At the end of the kang was a cloth bag of old-fashioned dry bread produced by the Yaoshan Food Factory. Next to it was a thermos, and there was a urine bucket on the ground.

Apart from the presence of windows, the layout was somewhat similar to the confinement cells used by the local garrison to make soldiers reflect on their mistakes, which Xie Hushan had visited before as a militiaman.

He took off the lid of the thermos and used it as a cup. He poured himself a cup of hot water and held it in his hands to warm his hands. When his fingers relaxed, he lit a cigarette and took a puff.

There was a fishy smell in the air, and the room was damp, which meant that the room he was in was probably not far from the beach.

Do you want to let yourself run away on the boat?

The thought flashed through Xie Hushan's mind, and he felt that it was unlikely. Why would he lock him up first if he was going to let him escape?
Da Qiao went to Zhongping with these four public security comrades, but she did not get on the car when they left. When she was stuffed into the car, the other party seemed to be apologizing to Taozi sincerely.

An apology would not affect the killing of her entire family.

If you can only curse but not take responsibility, Xie Hushan thinks it is better not to curse, because cursing is just being mean.

The bedding had not been exposed to the sun for who knows how long, and it was very damp, making it impossible for anyone to lie down on it. Helplessly, Xie Hushan could only rely on hot water, half a box of cigarettes, and his own righteousness to spend the New Year's Eve in this cold bungalow.

If it weren't for the trouble caused by Da Qiao, I should have been eating dumplings with grandma, Taozi, and grandpa's family last night, chatting and laughing. Maybe Taozi would even rub my back.

There was no other movement until the sky was bright outside. Xie Hushan, despite the consequences of freezing, tore a hole in the plastic sheet on the window with his hand and looked outside. Only then did he see clearly that he seemed to be in a large, dilapidated courtyard with many marine parts piled up in the courtyard. The two public security comrades who brought him here last night were using an air pump to inflate several earthen swimming rings that were obviously made of car inner tubes.

Xie Hushan felt uneasy when seeing this scene, it was more terrifying than if someone was trying to do something to him.

Could it be that Da Qiao is using her connections to arrange for herself to sneak across to Hong Kong Island by sea?
But brothers, have you never learned geography? Good fellow, don't you think that if you put two swimming rings on Xie Hushan and throw him into the sea, and hang a cloth bag with bread around his neck, he can swim all the way from Bohai Sea to Hong Kong Island?

Is this to help me or to hurt me?

"Government, I want to surrender. Can you please let me go back?" Xie Hushan shouted from the window to the two public security comrades outside who were inflating the tire with an air pump.

Maybe because the man who was in charge of driving last night and looked like a leader was not there, the two police comrades did not remain silent any longer. They glanced at the half head exposed behind the plastic sheet and said:

"Stay still. We have received a notice that if there is no news by 3pm today at the latest, we will not be able to return your gun, but your Hong Kong Island ID card, wallet and other things will be returned to you. We will then send you to Yaoshan Port, where a ship is leaving today for South Korea. You can find a way to return to Hong Kong Island when you get to South Korea."

"What if there is news?" Xie Hushan became more and more confused when he heard the other party's arrangements.

Did the people associated with Da Qiaotuo really treat him as a commodity? If the price was right, they would sell him, but if it wasn't, they would let him go to Hong Kong Island in exchange for a favor?

The other party was busy with his work and said, "Then let's deal with it according to the news. Let's see whether to continue to wait until Song Tiesheng comes and can go with you, or send you back directly."

Xie Hushan was stunned for a moment. My goodness, this sounded like something that girl Da Qiao would do. She knew that it would be difficult to clean up the mess after causing trouble, so she somehow figured out how to send away all the people who might be affected.

That is, Da Qiao is not here. If Da Qiao is here, Xie Hushan would like to ask her if she is stupid. If she can send Song Tiesheng away, then she doesn't have to send herself away...

Now that Song Tiesheng was gone, the other party couldn't bite him at all.

He continued to ask the two young comrades: "Comrades, you are not from the public security department, right? It doesn't look like it. Also, where is this?"

"We are from the Yaoshan Mobile Fishermen Emergency Supervision and Law Enforcement Team of the Bohai District Fisheries Command. We have two sets of uniforms. We wear police uniforms internally and military uniforms externally." The other person smiled at Xie Hushan, finished the work in his hands, and went back to the room next door.

Xie Hushan retracted his head, muttering the name of the Bohai Sea Fisheries Command. He had been staying in Zhongping, where he couldn't see the sea, for a long time, and had never heard of such a unit. However, their staff had two sets of uniforms, one of which was a military uniform. It didn't sound like this kind of unit was something that a leader of Yaoshan's level could manage.

I glanced at the watch on my wrist. It was only 8:10.

Xie Hushan sat there until noon. He was so sleepy that he sat on the kang, covered with a quilt, leaned against the wall and dozed off. At this moment, two jeeps drove into the yard. One of them was Xie Hushan's. Before the car was turned off, Taozi's crying voice rang out in the yard:
"Third Brother!"

Xie Hushan's squinted eyes suddenly opened, he shook off the quilt, stood up from the kang, kicked open the window, and jumped out: "Don't be afraid, Third Brother is fine."

Seeing that Xie Hushan was safe and sound, Tao Zili stayed where she was, with a smile in her eyes, but she covered her mouth with the back of her hands and cried silently.

"Why are you crying? Nothing happened to me." Xie Hushan walked over and hugged Taozi: "Why are you here?"

"I took you home. I told grandma that you attended a meeting at Yaoshan too late yesterday and stayed in the city and didn't come back. Grandma said she would make dumplings for you when she gets home today." Taozi said sobbing.

At this time, Yang Liming, Da Qiao, Lu Yuan, and the policeman who drove the car last night all got out of the two jeeps. Xie Hushan saw Da Qiao, patted Taozi gently and pushed her away, indicating that he wanted to go over and talk to Yang Liming. But just as he pushed Taozi away, Xie Hushan suddenly turned around and stood in front of Da Qiao, raised his hand and slapped her!

Before she could react, Xie Hushan had already grabbed her hair and slammed her against the door of the jeep!
"Bang!"
"Don't move!" The policeman who was driving nearby saw Xie Hushan beating someone, and immediately kicked Xie Hushan, making him stagger. Seeing that Xie Hushan was trying to rush forward, he pulled out the pistol from his waist and pointed the gun at him!

Yang Limin, Lu Yuan, and even Taozi rushed over. Yang Limin helped Xie Hushan up, Taozi protected Xie Hushan behind her to block the opponent's gun, and Lu Yuan helped Qiao Yanni, whose forehead was directly hit by Xie Hushan and was bleeding.

"Someone come! Cuff him! Send him to Qinyu Command Center!" The policeman took a look at Da Qiao's miserable appearance, his facial muscles twitched, and he shouted loudly.

Several young comrades who were watching the excitement in the next room were about to rush towards Xie Hushan upon hearing the noise. Qiao Yanni was covering her bloody forehead, her eyes were bloodied and she couldn't open them. She grabbed Lu Yuan's arm and barely stood up, shouting:
"Don't fucking touch him! I'd be happy if he beat me to death!"

As soon as she shouted, everyone else followed suit.

Xie Hushan carefully took Taozi back to his back, stared calmly at the armed policeman for more than ten seconds, and then grinned:
"Are you still going to cuff me? If not, I'll go home for the New Year, government."

He pulled Taozi and jumped into his jeep. Lao Yang gave Lu Yuan a few instructions, left Lu Yuan to take care of Da Qiao, and got into Xie Hushan's car.

Xie Hushan started the car, turned it around, and rushed out of the compound with a roar!
As soon as he left the compound, Xie Hushan slammed on the brakes and stopped the jeep!
He opened the car door and jumped out, saying, "Wait a moment, the gun and passport are still in their hands."

"Taozi and Da Qiao have settled this matter for you. Don't go. Wait for Lu Yuan to take her back. I have told her and she will help you take her back. Let's go home first." Yang Liming did not grab Xie Hushan's arm this time. He sat in the back seat and spoke softly.

Xie Hushan looked back at Taozi who was smiling at him in the passenger seat, and then looked at Yang Limin:

"Two women can settle such a serious matter as beating the son of the second-in-command of Yaoshan into a cripple? What a joke."

(End of this chapter)