After a long time.
The patient's body gradually relaxed. He took a deep breath and said,
"No need."
"Please go on. I can stand it."
Then he continued the previous topic and said, "When people are evil, they can really be evil. Yes, I used to be such a person."
"How evil?"
Fang Qiu asked curiously, but his hands didn't stop moving. He was still carefully touching the bone to find the angle of reduction.
"I was born in the countryside."
As he recalled, the middle-aged man's eyes gradually became blurred.
"In those years, I did countless evil things in the village."
"In our village, every family farmed and raised livestock, so did my family. But I never went to the field. When I was hungry, I looked for food at home. If I couldn't find it at home, I would steal it. I would go wherever there was delicious food. At first, I just stole food, but after a few times, I became bolder and bolder. I even broke into the house brazenly and robbed it."
"At that time, Old Li from our village lived in the east side of the village. His legs weren't good, and his wife had passed away early, so he was alone. His two sons would always bring him delicious food and drinks during Chinese New Year and other festivals. I figured that he wouldn't be able to eat or drink, so I took the opportunity when Old Li wasn't around to barge into his house. I ate all of his good meat, wine, and tonics."
"After eating, I packed all the food and was going to steal it back to enjoy myself. But I didn't expect that when I was about to leave, Old Li came back."
"What do you think?"
Speaking of this, the middle-aged man suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly.
She continued, "I knew that Old Man Li's legs weren't nimble and he could only walk with a cane. So when Old Man Li came back, I hid at the door. When he came in, I snatched his cane and broke it. Then, I ran away. Old Man Li was so angry that he threw the broken cane at me."
"At that time, I was very angry. When no one was around, I took a match and burned the pile of firewood in his yard. I almost burned down his house. I was nine years old that year."
The words "nine years old" made Fang Qiu stop what he was doing.
Then he continued.
"It's not just Old Man Li. I have chickens and ducks at home, but I never eat them. When I want to eat chickens, I steal them from the village."
"One time, after drinking the wine I stole from Old Man Li, I ran to Auntie Jiang's house drunk and killed all ten of her chickens, three geese, and seven ducks."
"I took Auntie Jiang's chicken and ran all the way to the village secretary's field to roast the chicken. At that time, the grain in the field was already ripe and waiting to be harvested. In the end, I burned it all. I was eleven years old that year."
"I even robbed Teacher Yang's child."
"Beat Sun Dazhuang."
"Protection fees from elementary school students."
"During the day, I look for food everywhere. At night, when there's nothing fun to do, I carry firecrackers and go from house to house to cause trouble. Whoever provokes me, I go to their fields and ruin all their food …"
"The angrier they are, the happier I am."
"No one can control me. If they dare to beat me, I will harm their family when they don't pay attention!"
"My parents can't control me either. If they do, I threaten them to commit suicide. I am their only son …"
The middle-aged man became more and more absorbed in his story.
He was immersed in his memories, as if he had forgotten the pain.
"Crack."
Fang Qiu started.
This time, the middle-aged man didn't cry out in pain.
His body just trembled slightly and his muscles stiffened. Then he relaxed and continued to tell the story. "I don't know why I am so bad. I just feel happy that others are in pain. I do bad things every day."
"I don't know how many bad things I have done."
"Until the year when I was twenty years old."
"There was a fool in our village named Gao Gao."
"He was born with a bad brain and was stupid, but the villagers were very kind to him and took care of him."
"I wanted to trick him at that time. I took Gao Gao to a marsh outside the village and encouraged him to jump in. I just wanted to have fun."
"Although Gao Gao was stupid, he didn't listen to me. He knew that place couldn't be jumped."
"I was anxious at that time. In order to force him to jump, I scared him with firecrackers. As a result, before I lit the firecrackers, he was scared to the edge of the marsh."
"But even so, he was not willing to jump in."
"As I was angry, I lit a firecracker and threw it at him."
"As a result, it was this small firecracker that ignited the whole marsh."
"I will never forget that scene in my life. The horrible fire wave rushed into the sky, and the huge explosion blew Gao Gao far away in an instant."
"He fell to the ground, motionless, and never stood up again …"
"Gao Gao died. At that time, I was also scared silly. I really just wanted to play a prank and use him for fun. I really didn't want to kill him, let alone kill him. At that moment, I felt guilty for the first time. "
Speaking of this.
The middle-aged man suddenly stopped.
Tears flowed down uncontrollably.
After a long time, he calmed down and continued to say,
"Later, I was arrested by the villagers and then taken away by the police."
"On the day I was arrested, there were deafening firecrackers and cheers everywhere in the village. Even my parents cheered loudly. I remember everyone's joyful expression. It was more lively than the New Year."
"I know they hate me. Everyone hates me."
"But because of their hatred for me, I was very angry. It was a kind of irrepressible anger."
"At that time, I made up my mind that when I came back, I would take revenge. I would make everyone who cheered, everyone who celebrated, and everyone who hated me afraid of me. I would make them all regret it."
Speaking of this.
The middle-aged man's mood was still calm, without any ups and downs. He was not affected by the memory at all.
He did not fall into the mood of memory, but he fell into the memory.
Fang Qiu listened quietly.
There was not much change in his expression.
His hands kept moving.
"Finally, 20 years."
The middle-aged man paused a little and said, "I was sentenced to 20 years for several crimes. I was not released until three years ago."
"No reduction of sentence?"
Fang Qiu asked casually.
He knew that at present, the maximum single sentence of imprisonment in Huaxia was 15 years, but in the case of multiple crimes, it could be as long as 25 years.
At the same time, good behavior in prison would also more or less reduce the sentence.
It was not common for a person to stay in prison for as long as he was sentenced.
"No."
The middle-aged man said while lying on his stomach, "At that time, I was a wicked man, a wicked man full of hatred! Even in prison, I became the most wicked man in prison. If they couldn't kill me, I would kill them! "
Fang Qiu was silent.
He stopped.
Then he asked, "Did you get this disease in prison?"
"No."
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and continued to tell, "After I was released from prison, I returned to the village, but I couldn't find my parents. Later, I knew that they had left."
"In order to help me pay off those evil debts, they didn't want to see the sick. They took all kinds of dirty and hard work to make money to compensate the villagers. As a result, they died of exhaustion and illness. I heard that they didn't sleep in the end …"
At the same time as he spoke.
The middle-aged man could no longer control his emotions, and tears gushed out again.
"Actually, after 20 years of education in prison, I have already figured it out."
The hoarse voice came from the middle-aged man's sobbing mouth. He said, "But, until the moment I knew that my parents were dead, I deeply understood that I was a scum! A scum who didn't deserve to be a human! "
"I found their graves, slapped myself nine times in front of the graves, and kowtowed forty times. The first twenty were because they had raised me for twenty years, and the last twenty were because I couldn't take care of them for twenty years."
"From that day on, I swore that I must turn over a new leaf and be a new man."
"I swore that I must wash away the shame that I brought to my parents."
"Back to the village."
"I kowtowed three times to each of those who had been harmed by me and apologized to them. I hoped that they would be willing to see me, although the hope was very slim."
"Even if all of them didn't want to see me, I still went to their houses one by one and kowtowed."
"One by one, one by one, all of them declined."
The middle-aged man gritted his teeth, turned his head and wiped the tears on his face on the bed, and continued, "After kowtowing, I began to find work, no matter how hard and tiring it was, as long as I could make money, I would do it."
"I worked in the black coal mine for a year."
"I worked as a stevedore for a year."
"I worked as a construction worker for a year."
"I worked day and night and ate very little. In three years, I saved 150,000 yuan."
"I've been ill for the past three years."
Hearing that.
Fang Qiu's whole body shook slightly.
He couldn't imagine what kind of hellish life this man had lived in these three years.
A life that could torture a person's spine like this was nothing worse than hell.
This kind of life was not only physically beyond the limit, but also sick!
This kind of illness wasn't something that he had gotten in a day or two. It had accumulated over the years. Even when he was in pain, he still had to carry out that kind of terrifying work that could crush his body. The pain he had suffered was unimaginable.
"Two days ago, I returned to the village."
The middle-aged man continued.
"I heard that the village was going to repair the road, so I donated 100,000 yuan."
After saying this, the middle-aged man suddenly smiled. He smiled very happily and added, "It was donated in the name of my parents. Their names are on the Merit Monument. Now, my parents can finally have the face to rest in the village's ancestral grave."
"And I donated 50,000 yuan to those poor students in the poor mountainous area."
"I know that this is all I can do in this life, and I can't make any contribution to the society, so I donated the money to them, I hope they can."
"I hope that they can become useful people for the country and society, not a villain like me, a scum. They still have hope, but I have no hope."
Hearing the middle-aged man's sincere voice.
Fang Qiu took a deep breath.
His eyes were a little moist.
"After I cure your disease, what are you going to do next?"
Fang Qiu asked.
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