Xu Sijin was shocked. He couldn't say that he had stolen it. If he said that, how could he sell it? He was quick-thinking and answered immediately. Railway workers work in the railway department and are rich. They don't want these 70% to 80% new wrenches. Now they are all replaced with new wrenches. The old man said, oh, that's what happened. As a result, he bought one without negotiating the price.
Then a few more people came and sold a few more wrenches. Finally, only one was left. A smoking man passed by and squatted down to ask the price of the wrench.
Xu Sijin quoted the price. The smoking man exhaled a circle of smoke from his nostrils, took out a half-smoked box of cigarettes from his clothes, took one out and handed it to Xu Sijin. Seeing him take it, he again He took out a lighter and threw it to him to light it up. Xu Sijin closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
After that, only a small amount of smoke came out of his nostrils, and more smoke entered his throat and lungs. When he opened his eyes, the smoking man was looking at him and complimented him, "You look so cool when you smoke!"
Xu Sijin started talking nonsense, "What's this? I learned to smoke when I was a child. Once I got addicted, I would pick up discarded cigarette butts at stations and streets and smoke them."
In fact, this kind of thing has happened to him, but not many. Now when I talk about it like this, I think I am showing off his "cool" background.
The smoking man raised his long and thin face, with high cheekbones facing each other. Because he loved smoking, it was easy for people to associate his face with an empty, flat, hollow-shaped cigarette box.
At this moment, he handed the half box of cigarettes to Xu Sijin and said, buddy, can I trade this half box of cigarettes with you for a wrench? Xu Sijin shook his head and said no. The man who smoked said he didn't want to do it, but I thought it was not worth it. These are brand-name cigarettes, costing dozens of yuan a pack. As he said this, he opened the half box of cigarettes and counted them, saying that there were 13 more cigarettes inside, each worth 2 yuan, equivalent to 26 yuan. Your old wrench is only worth 10 yuan a piece. It would be a loss if I exchange it with you.
At this time, there was another man standing next to him. When he saw the smoking man bargaining with Xu Sijin, who was selling wrenches, he interrupted and said, "It's worth every penny. If you trade the wrench with him for half a pack of cigarettes, you'll really make a profit, not just half." Cigarette boxes are mainly for making money. Take out this kind of cigarette and smoke it, and when people see you, they will feel that you have a different identity.
Xu Sijin was moved by this, and with the half-smoked cigarette in his mouth, he thought it tasted good, so he said, OK, I will trade this wrench with you for the half pack of cigarettes. The smoking man made a deal with him, picked up the wrench, and said with a smile, it will be difficult for you to encounter such an opportunity in the future.
After selling out the goods, it was time for Xu Sijin to leave. He suddenly remembered that when he went to the Dongjiang Railway Work Area to steal a wrench last night, he wrote a line of chalk on the door panel: Nanzhuang Xu Sijin is here for a visit.
This is undoubtedly telling others that the person who stole the wrench is a man named Xu Sijin from Nanzhuang. As soon as the case is reported, the police at the Dongjiang Railway Police Station are familiar with this name, because he has only been released from prison not long ago.
If the police failed to catch him in the city, they would probably leave the city and rush to Nanzhuang. In order for the police to catch him without missing a beat, he planned to take a car and rush back to the countryside - his hometown of Xu's home in Nanzhuang.
However, when passing the Dongjiang Bridge, I saw a locomotive and a train car on the railway bridge across the river derailed and almost flipped into the river. However, it was connected to a long train car above that had not yet fallen over. The shape was like a horse. A huge zebra is stretching its neck to drink water in the river. If that is the case, it would be a sight worth admiring. The problem is not that, but that something happened on the iron bridge.
Many people over there and on the bridge here were watching silently, some with their mouths wide open, looking very surprised and very sad. Xu Sijin was shocked and didn't dare to look too much. He walked away from the bridge quickly and got into the crowd on the street. He lowered his head as if he was afraid that someone would recognize him and catch him. He seemed to be shrinking a bit.
Now he planned to take a train to the countryside to hide as soon as possible, but he also changed his mind and stopped going to Xu's home in Nanzhuang, his hometown, to wait for the railway police to arrest him.
Now he was afraid of being caught because he estimated that the accident where the locomotive derailed and fell into the river on the iron bridge must have been caused by the loosening of the railway track. The looseness of the rails must have been caused by him stealing the wrench, which left the railway workers without the tools to tighten the rail screws.
This is a big disaster. If he is caught, he will definitely be beheaded, let alone getting a piece of jail food. Xu Sijin was very scared and was considering not returning to Nanzhuang Xu's home, nor to Qijiazhuang, where his mother and stepfather lived, because the railway police knew that he might be hiding in this place.
Just that morning, Xue Jie, the director of the Dongjiang Railway Police Station, received a call to report that the tool storage warehouse in the railway work area had been broken into by someone last night, and sixteen wrenches and a woven bag were stolen. There were still marks on the door. A line of white chalk was written below: Nanzhuang Xu Sijin came here for a visit.
Hearing this, Xue Jie said he understood. He immediately arranged for police officers Xiao Wu and Xiao Jiang to go check it out. He sent the two of them out of the police station door and told them to come back after checking the scene. It didn't matter if they didn't catch the boy named Xu Sijin, maybe he would surrender again.
Xiao Wu grinned. I knew that Xu Sijin wanted to commit crimes and live in prison. Xiao Jiang patted the dust on his police uniform and asked them, can he succeed this time in his conspiracy to get a piece of prison food?
Xue Jie chuckled and said he couldn't succeed. He stole a dozen wrenches and a woven bag and they were not worth much money. Although the nature of breaking and entering was bad, it was not serious enough to warrant a sentence. Even if he was sentenced to six months or a year at most, It's about to be released. Generally speaking, in a case like his, he might only be detained for half a month or a month.
After the two policemen went out on duty, they did not return to the police station until noon. When the sun was about to set in the afternoon, Xu Sijin was nowhere to be found and surrendered. Xue Jie had some doubts, but was unable to resolve them. He decided to send the police to Nanzhuang the next day to arrest Xu Sijin.
The next day, two policemen, Xiao Wu and Xiao Jiang, went to perform their tasks. They drove to Nanzhuang and spent the whole morning exploring. They asked some villagers and they all said they had not seen Xu Sijin coming.
Xiao Wu knew before that Xu Sijin had a grandmother in Nanzhuang, so he asked someone to find out. The villagers said that Xu Sijin's grandmother died of illness two years ago, and a copper lock was hung on the house all year round. If you don't come back to clean up, you can smell the musty smell in the room when you walk to the door.
The villagers also told the two police officers that Xu Sijin might have gone to Qijia Village, and his mother was married to a man named Qi Liang from that village. Xiao Jiang pulled Xiao Wu and said, let’s rush to Qijia Village!
Driving to Qijiazhuang, before the car stopped, I heard a dog barking. As soon as the two policemen got out of the car, they asked several villagers in the field if they had seen Xu Sijin?
An old man wearing a straw hat pointed to an old woman washing clothes on the dock in Dangjiatang and said that she was Xu Sijin's mother. Go and ask her. Xiao Jiang walked out of the place, walked along the rim, and went down to the pier where the water was about to be drawn. He asked the gray-haired mother who was beating the clothes with a yellow mallet, "Can your son weigh four pounds at home?"
When my mother heard the sound, she stopped working and looked back to see a man in police uniform standing behind her. She didn't answer directly, she just said, did Si Jin commit another crime outside? Xiao Jiang said that if he committed a small crime, it was not too serious, but it was still a crime, and we should look for him.
My mother is a sensible person. She said that Sijin came back very late yesterday and he was at home. Comrade policemen, wait a moment. I will take you to find him at home and let him receive your education.
My mother sped up, beat the remaining clothes a few times, soaked them in the water, squeezed the water out, put them into the basket that already contained several pieces of clothes, then stood up and walked across the pond, carrying the clothes with her. He led two policemen towards the house in a single-family house.
Along the way, the dogs kept barking. When we arrived at the gate of the courtyard, my mother didn’t even dry the laundry, so she yelled at the open door. There was no reply from inside, so Xiao Wu whispered, stop shouting and go in and take a look.
