When the innkeeper woke us up from our slumber, it was as if we had traveled from another world.

I washed my face and was refreshed a lot.

According to the agreed time, the four of us set off for a village called "Dasha".

The previous homework was done by our colleagues from the Hepu Police Station, and we just followed them along the winding path.

The night on the remote island is particularly quiet and natural, and the mountains, villages, sea, and beaches in the distance seem faint and unambiguous.

With the flashlights of my companions and the experience of walking at night, it is not difficult to walk on country roads.

In the middle of the line, I chatted with the two local policemen I had just met.

"What is he (A) doing here?"

"Rising tide catch."

I understood that it was a form of offshore fishing, where the boat went out at high tide and the catch was caught in the nets fixed to the sea. It is also a traditional form of small boat operation, with low investment and low output. But the catch is fresh.

"Do all the inhabitants of this place fish?"

"No, a lot of them are farmers."

"It's close to Gaotang?"

"Yes, the big island to the west is Gaotang."

"Gaotang is bigger than Hebu?"

"No, Hepu is the largest island in the whole of Ningbo."

I thought of the hustle and bustle of the passengers on the ship during the day, and the formation of carrying large and small items on their shoulders, and it turned out that I had inadvertently arrived at a very large island, and I was still unaware of it, and secretly blamed myself for my unknowingness.

We first went to the house of a village cadre, and then to A's sister's house.

It is a small garden at the foot of the mountain, and a row of low, old tiled houses should have lived in several families.

We knocked on the door in the middle, and the light was on.

The 25-watt incandescent lamp was the standard for rural residents at that time, and the dim and yellowish light was indeed much brighter than the kerosene lamp that had just been phased out.

It was A's sister who opened the door.

Under the incandescent lamp, two men sat at the edge of the dining table.

One of them is A.

He must have recognized me, nodded at me, didn't even move his ass, and stayed there a little dazed.

I walked over and pulled out the handcuff around my waist.

He handed over his hands very cooperatively, as if he had practiced in advance, and even the signature and handprint on the back seemed to be completing the arrangement of the script.

He gave me the greatest face in front of my colleagues in other places.

In the future, I will meet a lot of such "land snakes", who show off their martial arts and power in the local area, and once they are caught in the field, they are very honest.

When I returned to the Hepu office, I reported to the director that I wanted to leave A in the office for one night and take it away the next day.

"This person was arrested by you, it is not appropriate to stay in our prison, and besides, we have few people and the facilities are not sound, so you should take it with you."

The director's remarks, that is, there is no room for negotiation, are not unreasonable.

I'm not in a position to bargain at all. Besides, if he was placed in the house and asked us to see it together, we took him to the inn where he was staying.

I asked the shopkeeper for a mat, put A at the foot of the bed, and slept on the floor with the mat.

He basically didn't sleep that night, and Assistant Lin and I took turns sleeping for a while.

He was quiet and very obedient to us all the time. Occasionally, I would have a few conversations.

"When did you get here?" “

Early this morning. ”

"Have you been to my house?"

"Yes."

"I knew you were coming."

"Are you trying to hide here?"

"Not exactly, there is nothing to do at home anyway, find something to do here."

Early the next morning, his sister and brother-in-law came to the dock to see him off.

Scheduled flights are the only way islanders can get out of the island.

I asked him to go to the side to eat what his sister had brought, and the two hand bowls with handcuffs were covered with a red T-shirt.

He was in tears as he ate. There were more tears on the faces of his sister and brother-in-law.

I controlled myself and knew that my tear point was relatively low, but I didn't dare to look away.

When he was about to get on the boat, his sister asked him to bring the rest of the food, but he didn't want it, and he took it after a few pushbacks.

Her sister stomped her feet and wept, but she didn't make a sound.

I realized that crying out loud was not an easy task.

There weren't many seats on the ship, and the floor was full of bags and bags, so you had to choose a good position to stand up, and you had to guard against long flat straps and sticks dangling in front of your eyes.

An uncle saw that we were a little "unusual" and gave up his seat for me.

I thought that A would be more difficult to stand than me, so I motioned for him to sit so that we could see him.

He wanted me to sit. I couldn't get through it and sat down.

He approached me a little closer, never leaving my arm's length. No matter how turbulent the ship was, he held on.

There was a bit of a surge when I got off the boat, and he turned his head to help me with his inflexible hands after getting to the dock first.

Although it was a very inconspicuous action, it is very deep in my memory.

Later, I went to Shipu several times on business, and once I participated in the special task force of the Provincial Public Security Department, where I stayed for two whole months. The hand was strong and held my unbalanced body tightly.

When I was a child, after watching a movie, I always discussed with my friends along the way which one was a good person and which one was a bad person. Although he is red-faced, he always understands it. Good people are good inside and out, and bad people are bad to the bones.

I was a little confused at that moment.

This notorious A in the local area is obviously the target of my starry night, but at this time he is like a friend who follows him in the shadow.

While waiting for the bus station from Seokpo to Dancheng, when I followed him to the toilet, he actually asked me:

"Squad Leader Zhang, where are you from?"

I told him the truth: "Zhoushan Dinghai people." ”

He also said, "When I come out, I will have a chance to see you." ”

I also asked him in the waiting room: "You used to be so fierce, why did I cooperate so much when I arrested you?" ”

"I know you're a good guy!"

I never understood how he came to this conclusion, but I never forgot it, and it came from the mouth of someone like A.

On the bus back to Dancheng, he said to me that the handcuffs were too tight, and that he could not relax a little more.

I think it was probably the force of getting off the boat, and he tightened his handcuffs.

And he insisted on not saying anything for so long.

I lifted his T-shirt and saw that the handcuff was sinking a little into the flesh.

I let him go, then put him back in the safest and loosest position.

He politely said to me, "Thank you!" ”

At the turn of the intersection near the Public Security Bureau, he asked me, "Do you want to make the handcuff tighter?" ”

I shook my head.

At the moment of handing over to the detention center, he saw me off in tears.