Chapter 214 Tragedy and Comedy
Shenyu Valley Prison is the largest prison in Taoyuan City. It is located in an inaccessible ravine on the outskirts of Taoyuan City. The top of the mountain is a wind power plant that was built in recent years. There is a place at the bottom of the valley. A long abandoned jade mine.
Masons from Zanju Town would come to this valley to quarry stone in the early years. Later, this craftsman town famous for its jade and stone carvings gradually declined. In addition, environmental protection issues were put on the agenda. Another discovery was made underground in Taoyuan City. Rare earth mineral deposits... Various reasons accumulated, and the mines in Shenyu Valley were abandoned.
The abandoned mine site was later converted into a prison. Due to its geographical advantages, there has never been a single successful escape since the prison was built.
After many expansions and renovations, this 'Shenyu Valley Prison' has become the largest and most famous prison in Taoyuan City. Most of the local criminals in Taoyuan City serve their sentences here.
In the past two months, the crime rate in Taoyuan City and surrounding areas has suddenly soared, and most of them are vicious crimes involving violent injuries or killings. Regarding these vicious criminal incidents that have occurred recently, the Taoyuan City Court adheres to the principle of stern and speedy sentencing and strives to reduce the impact as soon as possible, whether it is public opinion or political impact.
As a result, Shen Yugu Prison has become extremely busy recently. Many new faces are sent in every week, and most of them are first-time offenders with no previous convictions.
Prisoners in prison are also ranked according to seniority.
Financial prisoners and political prisoners, who sound superior to each other at first glance, are superior to others even in prison. There is no shortage of people in prison who want to have a good relationship with such people. They dream about whether they can have a good relationship after they get out. Being carried away. Sexual offenders, especially those who commit sex crimes against minors, have long been at the bottom of the contempt chain.
Generally speaking, violent criminals such as robbery and murder will be labeled as "untouchable" by the inmates, but the new batch of prisoners are somewhat different. Almost none of them have repeated robberies. Most of the gangsters who have been caught repeatedly are honest people.
An honest person who has never committed a crime.
“I said, Lao Li, you are just a farmer who doesn’t know a single Chinese character, how dare you stab the village chief with a knife?”
In the cell with the lights out, a man sleeping The inmate on the upper bunk couldn't help but ask.
Lao Li, who was sleeping in the lower bunk, was silent for a long time, and then replied dully: "I, I don't know... I was just impulsive and passionate, and when I came to my senses..."< br>
Killed the head of their village to death.
Li Tie, male, 53 years old, single, farmer, semi-illiterate in education, farming in the countryside for a living, was imprisoned in this prison for killing in passion, and the person he killed was the head of his village.
"Old Li, I have heard from others in the past two days that your village chief is really nothing..."
The voice from the upper bunk was very low, because in the prison No chatting after lights out:
“I I heard from Brother Wang that the cement road was only opened in your village last year. The village chief got a lot of money from this road and used it to build his villa..."
Everyone in the country has it. The village chief is no exception to the soil-keeping mentality, even though he does not have to farm.
The village chief of Lao Li Village used the stolen money to build a western-style two-story villa on his family's abandoned farmland. It was very beautiful, but Lao Li's farmland was under the village chief's villa, and the foundation of the house had just begun. , all kinds of construction sewage flowed directly into his fields along the terrain, killing all the rice that Lao Li had worked so hard to grow.
That year, he had no harvest.
Lao Li tried to complain to the village several times, but all failed. He could only watch the village chief's villa becoming more and more beautiful, and not a single seedling could grow in his field.
On the day the villa was completed, the village chief laid out twenty tables of housewarming wine and invited the entire village, including Lao Li, to congratulate him. In the joyful atmosphere, Lao Li drank one glass after another. He looked at the village chief's old face smiling like a chrysanthemum. The glazed tiles on the roof of the villa shone in the sun, and he hated him in his heart.
Whether it was due to alcohol or hatred, Lao Li left the table with a sullen face before the dishes were served.
He took out a hatchet from the ditch beside the field and stuck it on his waist. He rushed to the villa that was too splendid for the country people and chopped down the village villa in front of all the guests. Have that beaming head.
Killing in passion, the circumstances were atrocious, and there was no subsequent repentance. No matter how the mediator tried to persuade him, he was unwilling to bow his head and apologize to the village chief's family. He only regretted that his knife was too sharp and allowed the dog official to die. It's so enjoyable.
Then he was sentenced to this place harshly and quickly, one of the most difficult prisons in Qinzhou to escape from.
“I was sentenced to 25 years, and my land was foreclosed and used to compensate the village chief’s family. After I was released... I was seventy years old.”
Lao Li was lying on the bed, two lines of tears sliding down the corners of his eyes and into his ears.
How can a country man in his seventies live without a field or land?
But do you regret it? Lao Li's answer is that he has no regrets. Even if he had to do it again, he would still choose to pick up the hatchet. He only regretted that he was too nervous at that time and only chopped down the village chief, allowing the dog official's family to continue to be arrogant and bully the poor in this world. ...
Yes, his family.
Lao Li opened his eyes wide in the darkness and silently clenched his fists.
He was in his fifties, and his body was exhausted from all the years of farming, and his waist was not in good condition. If the court's attitude was not too tough, the prison would not be willing to accept someone like him, for fear that something might happen to him in prison.
"I heard people say that if you behave well in prison, your sentence will be reduced...I am so old, the prison guards will definitely not want to serve me all the time. I have to fight for a reduced sentence..."
Yes Yes, he has to fight for a commutation of his sentence, fight for his early release from prison, and fight for his freedom so that he won't be too old to use the knife.
Lao Li gritted his teeth in the darkness, hatred replaced confusion and filled his mind.
"Twenty years later, the village chief's youngest son should also get married..."
A gust of wind blew in Shenyu Valley, causing the fan blades of the wind power plant on the top of the mountain to rotate continuously, and also blew away the dark clouds that covered the moon. A new moon appeared in the turbid pupils of the uneducated farmers, and the cold moonlight penetrated Through the bars.
The gloomy life regained momentum, and Lao Li fell into a deep sleep contentedly. He was determined to perform well tomorrow.
Lao Li, who was asleep, did not see that in the silver moonlight, a beautiful butterfly, bathed in snow-white silver light, landed gently on the iron window.
“Another tragedy caused by the stamp of thought.”
Ning Zhe closed his icy blue wings and landed on the iron railing. He tilted his head and stared at the old man lying on the bed with his compound eyes. Li, murmured in his heart:
"But even without the influence of the ideological stamp, would his life become a comedy of happy endings?"
(End of this chapter)