At sunset that afternoon, Xu Sijin was escorted out of the cell again and taken to a room at the detention center where some equipment that he couldn't name was placed. It was quiet inside, but there was already a middle-aged man, who was yelling "Ooh!" He seemed to be in a daze, being pushed and pushed by two policemen to sit in front of an instrument.
Then, one of the policemen asked him, was it you who accidentally set the fire at the cargo terminal? The middle-aged man was the beggar. He had changed into clean clothes and was completely free of the dirt he had when he was a beggar.
At this moment, when he heard the question, he nervously repeated that I accidentally ignited the fire while eating the roasted chicken. It was not intentional and I should not be guilty.
Whether this was true or not, a set of data immediately appeared on the screen. Of course, ordinary people couldn't understand it, and Xu Sijing couldn't understand it even more. A policeman who was debugging the equipment recorded the numbers in a notebook and signaled to the other two policemen. Take the beggar out of the room.
Then the two policemen who were escorting Xu Sijin asked him to sit in front of the instrument for testing. One of the policemen stared at him and asked, was it you who set the fire that time at the cargo terminal? Xu Sijin was already trembling in his heart, and he answered loudly, yes. He also said that the beggar just talked nonsense. It was obviously me who set the fire. He said that he accidentally started the fire. Do you believe it?
The two policemen who escorted him didn't answer, and the policeman who adjusted the instrument didn't say anything. He just watched a set of numbers appear on the screen of the instrument. He recorded them in his notebook as usual, and then said to Xu Sijin, "Polygraph detector" The data measured by the instrument shows that you are lying.
I did not lie. What I said is true. Xu Sijin shouted with determination.
quiet. The policeman who was adjusting the equipment raised his hand and said to take him away. Two policemen escorted him out of the room. This time, Xu Sijin was not sent back to his cell. Instead, he was sent directly to the interrogation room on the left side of the detention center. Unexpectedly, it was Director Xue who interrogated him.
Director Xue said, we meet again. Xu Sijin seemed somewhat calm. He raised his face and said, "Just ask whatever you want!" Isn’t the purpose of meeting someone to ask questions?
A policeman taking notes was writing and preparing to record; a policeman holding a baton was looking at Xu Sijin with a straight face. Director Xue didn't want to turn around with Xu Sijin anymore. He said bluntly that the suspects who were escorted here were all lying. Now it's your turn to tell the truth. Let me ask you again, did you set the cargo station on fire? Xu Sijin replied, "You have asked me many times. I have already admitted that I set the fire, so what's the point of asking?"
You are dishonest. Do you want to eat a baton? Director Xue said and winked, and the policeman holding the baton immediately extended the baton towards Xu Sijin.
Xu Sijing couldn't bear it anymore, and his inner defenses collapsed. He immediately raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, and said tremblingly, "No, no, please take back the baton and I'll tell you." Late that night, I really planned to set fire to the Dongjiang Railway Freight Station, but when I got closer, I saw that there was a person in the cargo shed who was still awake. I was afraid that he would find out and stop me from setting the fire, so I had to retreat to the railway not far outside the station to wait. He goes to bed quickly, and I'll set the fire again. But after a while, the entire cargo shed was on fire. After a while, many people came to put out the fire, and I ran away. I don’t know how the fire in the cargo shed was caused, but I thought about it. No matter how it was caused, I missed it. People who set fires or people who set fires deliberately don't want to be caught and jailed, so they will instinctively evade responsibility. I had a different idea and always wanted to stay in jail, so the day after the fire broke out at the cargo terminal, I pretended to be the arsonist. He surrendered to the railway police station.
You finally told the truth. Director Xue glared at him fiercely and said, if the police hadn't used the lie detector to expose you this time, you would have really been able to get away with it. But now it's better. You can't walk around in circles to eat, and you can't eat prison food either.
Xu Sijin asked with a frustrated look, lying is also a crime, can you be sentenced for the crime of deceiving? Director Xue replied, of course it is a crime to deceive people. If deceiving people does not cause big losses to the country or individuals collectively, then they will not be sentenced! There is a saying among the people that killing people is worth their lives, and deceiving people is not worth their lives. This is the truth.
A few days later, Xu Sijin was released again. He complained secretly, why was it so difficult to make a living in prison? How could he be willing? He plans to commit a crime again, and he must actually commit the crime.
He had been wandering around the Dongjiang Railway Station like a ghost, and suddenly he went to the Dongjiang Railway Work Area. He found that railway workers' helmets and wrenches for tightening rail screws and other tools were placed in a warehouse in the work area. The door Hang a lock, and at night, he breaks the lock open with stones.
Of course there was a noise when he smashed it, which could easily be heard and discovered by railway workers sleeping nearby. He definitely wanted to be discovered, but he also considered that before stealing anything, he would definitely be caught after breaking only one lock. It's meaningless to be detained for a few days and then released without being sentenced. It's even more meaningless to be released after being yelled at or slapped a few times if you can't even go to a detention center.
He thought that in addition to smashing the lock, he would also steal valuable items inside. If he was caught, it would be good to be sentenced to a few years in prison for the crime of theft.
Xu Sijin, lurking in the night, pondered happily. Even though he had a stone in his hand, he did not smash the hanging lock casually. Instead, he waited until the rumbling train passed by and then took the opportunity to smash it hard a few times. In this way, Under the cover of the loud noise caused by the running train, no one could hear the sound of him smashing the lock of the warehouse door in the work area.
Whenever the train passed by and the rumble disappeared, he stopped tapping. When another train came and passed by, he started tapping again. It was not until four trains passed that he lifted the crane. He broke the lock, took it off, pushed the door open, and went in to steal. Stealing what? It was dark inside and nothing could be seen.
He prepared a box of matches, took them out and lit them. There were no valuables in the warehouse, just helmets and wrenches stacked on the table, and a few old woven bags. He couldn't help but pick up a , stuffed the pile of wrenches, about a dozen of them, into the woven bag, and then carried them out, planning to hide them somewhere, and then move them to the city's scrap collection station to sell them as scrap metal during the day, and maybe they could make some money.
These iron goods were quite heavy, and it was quite difficult for him to carry the woven bag. After walking a few steps, it suddenly occurred to me that I should leave a mark to be noticed. Otherwise, no one would notice the stolen property, and the case would not be reported. I couldn't be arrested by the police and imprisoned, tried, convicted and sentenced. How could I survive in jail?
Xu Sijin put down the heavy woven bag on his back, turned around and walked to the door that had broken the lock. He took out a piece of chalk that he had prepared, lit a match and cast the light on the door panel. He wrote a line of words crookedly: Nanzhuang Xu Sijin is here for a visit.
Then he threw away the handle of the match that was about to burn to his fingertips, turned around, picked up the heavy woven bag, put it on his shoulder, and left the railway working area in the hazy night.
While crossing the railway track, he fell. The woven bag on his back slipped down the pit, and one of his legs was still on the railway track. At this moment, a train rumbled by. He panicked, rolled over, and fell into the pit, his body pressing on the woven bag.
Fortunately, his body was not injured anywhere, but his mood became depressed. He said to himself that it was really bad for him to do something bad for the first time after he became famous. He got up and sat for a while. The surroundings were quiet, but his mood was not calm. He quickly put the woven bag on his shoulder and walked towards the brightly lit city center in the distance.
