Even though Zhou Bingxing was unwilling, he had no choice but to go to the police station.
Zhou Bingxing only has one son, Zhou Jiaxiang, and he will have to rely on Zhou Jiaxiang to take care of him in his old age and see him off in his final days!
After Zhou Bingxing arrived at the police station, he was caught and scolded by Xiao Geng.
Xiao Geng can't stand parents who neglect their children and let them go astray.
Zhou Bingxing bowed and scraped as Xiao Geng scolded him, repeatedly saying, "Yes, yes, the police officer is right. I will pay attention in the future."
"Don't just say that. If the child steals again and gets caught, he'll be sent to a juvenile detention center," Xiao Geng warned.
In reality, Xiao Geng was just trying to scare Zhou Bingxing.
Children who commit crimes at the age of fourteen are sent to juvenile detention centers.
"Huh? What's a juvenile detention center?" Zhou Bingxing didn't understand.
"Juvenile detention centers are where juveniles go to serve their sentences after committing crimes. If you parents don't raise them properly, the state will have to teach them how to be good people. Let me tell you, once your child goes to a juvenile detention center, there will be a stain on their record. They won't be accepted into factories or the military if they want to work there in the future," Xiao Geng continued to warn.
Zhou Bingxing finally listened.
If Zhou Jiaxiang doesn't correct his habit of stealing, he won't be able to work as a factory worker in the future.
"Officer, my child definitely won't do it again next time. I'll give him a good talking to when I get back," Zhou Bingxing assured him repeatedly.
Zhou Bingxing was hoping that Zhou Meimei could find a job for Zhou Jiaxiang after he came of age!
Otherwise, they would have no choice but to stay in the countryside and farm.
"Alright, sign here, and you can take the child away later." Seeing that Zhou Bingxing's attitude was fairly proper, Xiao Geng finally stopped lecturing him.
Zhou Bingxing and Zhou Jiaxiang were about to leave the police station when Xiao Geng called them back.
"Hey! Zhou Bingxing, you're Ding Ermei's son, right?" Xiao Geng asked.
"Yes, what are your instructions, comrade police officer?" Zhou Bingxing asked with a fawning smile.
"Sign this document and take your old mother home." As Xiao Geng handed the document to Zhou Bingxing to sign, he muttered, "What kind of person is he! My mother was arrested and taken to the police station, and he doesn't care at all, not even bringing her food."
Xiao Geng was filled with resentment.
When Ding Ermei entered the prison for the second time, she was initially calm and composed, not worried about her situation at all. She even boasted to the other people in the same cell that her son would bring her food and bedding soon.
Unfortunately, Ding Ermei waited from dawn till dusk, but Zhou Bingxing never arrived.
Ding Ermei wailed loudly, cursing everyone in her family as she cried. The noise kept the people in the detention cell awake, and they beat her up before they stopped.
The next day, when Director Jin came to work, he criticized Xiao Geng for not managing the prisoners in the detention room well.
Xiao Geng felt he was being wronged to death. He was on duty that night, but he was interrogating Zhou Dazhu in the interrogation room and had no time to deal with the people in the detention room.
Ding Ermei was shameless; when she had nothing to eat, she would steal from others.
She'd still steal it even if it meant getting beaten up.
The detention room was in complete chaos thanks to Ding Ermei. Finally, the police put her in solitary confinement, and only then did things quiet down.
However, the police couldn't let Ding Ermei starve to death! They had no choice but to grit their teeth and provide her with two meals a day.
Recently, the police officers at the local police station have been extremely busy due to the "espionage case." Sometimes they haven't slept at night and have been working around the clock.
Ding Ermei's existence seriously affected the work of the police.
Director Jin originally intended to send Ding Ermei to a farm for labor reform.
After thinking about it, I felt that Ding Ermei was quite old, and it was really pitiful that no one brought her food during her two detentions.
Chief Jin, moved by compassion, decided to let Ding Ermei go. This morning, he ordered Xiao Geng to release Ding Ermei.
When Xiao Geng went to Zhoujia Village to investigate the case last time, he saw that Zhou Bingxing and Ding Ermei were a family, so he asked Zhou Bingxing to take Ding Ermei away as well.
After signing the papers, Zhou Bingxing remembered Ding Xiaocui and couldn't help but ask, "Officer, may I take Ding Xiaocui's body with me?"
"Ding Xiaocui's body is in the town hospital morgue. Go to the hospital to pick it up. Remember to pay the freezing fee when you go to the hospital," Xiao Geng said, waving his hand.
"Wasn't Xiao Cui's body kept at your police station? Why was it taken to the hospital?" Zhou Bingxing asked anxiously.
Zhou Bingxing now gets scared whenever he hears the word "payment".
Zhou Bingxing's pockets are now emptier than his face.
The twenty-odd yuan that Zhou Bingxing spent on hospitalization these past few days was actually tricked out of Zhou Jiaxiang by Zhou Bingxing when Zhou Jiaxiang went to the hospital yesterday.
"Where else would you put a body if not in the morgue? You don't mean you want it to rot here, do you? What kind of person are you! You're utterly despicable!" Xiao Geng was angry.
Zhou Bingxing shrank back, not daring to speak, and sheepishly led Zhou Jiaxiang out of the office, standing in the courtyard waiting for Ding Ermei to come out.
"Dad, Mom is dead? Why didn't you tell me yesterday?" Zhou Jiaxiang questioned.
That day, after Zhou Jiaxiang ran away from the hospital, he spent the day at Cao Laoliu's place and only returned to the village to sleep at night.
Ding Ermei, Zhou Bingxing, and Ding Xiaocui were not at home.
Zhou Jiaxiang always thought that Ding Ermei and Zhou Bingxing were taking care of Ding Xiaocui in the hospital.
The day before yesterday, Zhou Jiaxiang and Liang Xiaobao stole money together, and Zhou Jiaxiang got a share of over twenty yuan.
Zhou Jiaxiang went to the hospital to show off to Ding Xiaocui. He didn't find Ding Xiaocui at the hospital, but he saw Zhou Bingxing in another ward.
Zhou Bingxing asked his son where he had been these past few days.
Zhou Jiaxiang said he had gone to make money and told Zhou Bingxing not to worry, as he now had money to treat Ding Xiaocui's illness. He also asked Zhou Bingxing where Ding Xiaocui had gone.
Zhou Bingxing was afraid that if he told his son that Ding Xiaocui was dead, he would stop giving him the money. So he deliberately concealed the news of Ding Xiaocui's death and told his son that Ding Xiaocui was with Ding Ermei.
This time, even though Xiao Geng exposed his lie, Zhou Bingxing didn't take it seriously.
He didn't lie to his son; he just didn't say whether it was the living Ding Xiaocui or the dead Ding Xiaocui who was with Ding Ermei.
“Didn’t the police just say that your mother died and is in the hospital morgue, waiting for us to collect the money?” Zhou Bingxing said.
"Dad, then hurry up and bring Mom home!" Zhou Jiaxiang said, tears streaming down his face.
Zhou Jiaxiang regretted it.
He shouldn't have stayed at the hospital to take care of his mother because he was too busy having fun.
Now, his mother is dead, and he has no mother anymore.
“I don’t have money, but your grandma does. Let’s wait until she comes out before we go to the hospital.” Zhou Bingxing said, his face full of shame.
"How can you be so useless? Your third uncle can make money, your eldest uncle can make money, how come you have nothing?" Zhou Jiaxiang exploded.
As soon as Ding Ermei came out, she heard Zhou Jiaxiang yelling at Zhou Bingxing. She couldn't help but angrily scold him, "Zhou Jiaxiang, you little brat, how dare you talk to your father like that!"
"Grandma, my mom is dead, my mom is dead! Waaah..." Zhou Jiaxiang rushed forward, hugged Ding Ermei's waist, and cried loudly.
Ding Ermei had always doted on Zhou Jiaxiang, and Zhou Jiaxiang thought that Ding Ermei would comfort him as she had before.
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