When Zhang Fulin heard this number, he was dumbfounded. He had lived on the dam for nearly three years, and he knew the horror of being lost.
Looking at the vast sea of sand, all you see is yellow sand. Even the most experienced guides cannot guarantee that they can cross the sea of sand every time.
It is very easy for people to get lost in it.
Anyone with a little common sense knows how terrible the outcome will be once a person is lost in the desert.
The scorching sun and wind and sand will drain the last bit of physical strength from the lost, and then bury the lost in the vast sea.
"Old Zhang."
Looking at the hesitant Zhang Fulin, Li Jie patted his shoulder and continued.
"There are only three paths before you now."
Zhang Fulin looked up at Li Jie, with a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
"Which three?"
"The first is to run away, run away far away, and find a place where no one knows you and continue living."
"The second is to maintain the status quo and continue to stay in Saihanba."
"The third is to surrender."
"No, that won't work."
Hearing the last sentence, Zhang Fulin shook his head repeatedly. If he was willing to surrender, he would have been on the run for several years.
Later, Zhang Fulin carefully considered the first two items. After thinking about it, he still felt that the first one was better.
If he continues to stay on the dam, if his 'good brother' is caught, given his character, he may reveal his hiding place.
However, when he thought about it again, Zhang Fulin was a little confused.
escape?
Where to escape?
The road to Outer Mongolia has been cut off, and it is thousands of miles away. How can a person travel alone through the vast Gobi desert?
After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Fulin decided to read what the letter said before making a decision.
"Technician Feng, can I read the letter first?"
Li Jie smiled slightly, raised his hand and said, "You can read your own letter if you want. You don't need to ask my opinion."
Zhang Fulin stretched out his trembling hands to open the envelope, as if he was defusing a bomb, and he was so nervous that he was sweating.
When he opened the envelope and took a look, Zhang Fulin's expression suddenly changed and he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Then his body began to tremble and sweat poured down his forehead.
'Old Zhang, the administrator I met that day is dead. Brother, I am going to take a long trip...'
For a long time, Zhang Fulin took a deep breath and said with an anxious expression.
"Technician Feng, I... I think it's better for me to leave Saihanba."
"Have you thought of a place to go?"
Zhang Fulin shook his head in confusion, then gritted his teeth and said: "The world is huge, you can always find a place."
Li Jie looked at Zhang Fulin calmly and asked softly: "Old Zhang, tell me honestly, what on earth have you committed?"
Zhang Fulin raised his head and glanced at Li Jie, his eyes a little dodgey: "No...it's nothing serious, just as you guessed."
The matter of murder was so big that Zhang Fulin did not dare to tell the truth.
Although Li Jie knew that Zhang Fulin was hiding something, he would not blame him for it. This is human nature.
"Lao Zhang, do you want to hear my opinion?"
Zhang Fulin nodded hastily: "Yeah, yeah."
Li Jie leaned over and picked up the two gold horseshoes, and said in a calm tone: "Among cultural relics, gold horseshoes are considered to be the most precious. If you are caught stealing such cultural relics, you will probably be sentenced to about ten years."
ten years?
Hearing this number, Zhang Fulin trembled subconsciously.
Ten years, ten years have passed and he will be thirty-six or seventy years old. Will he not be useless by then?
A reform-through-labor prisoner, and a reform-through-labor prisoner who is nearly forty years old. Which girl would marry someone like him?
no!
I can't get caught!
Just when Zhang Fulin was panicking, Li Jie's next words scared him to the point of numbness.
"By the way, Lao Zhang, don't you have anyone's life on you?"
"No! Absolutely not!"
Zhang Fulin waved his hands crazily, how dare he admit such a thing.
What's more, what he said was not a lie. After all, he didn't do anything to the administrator. He just participated in the theft and divided two pieces of horseshoe gold.
Li Jie nodded and said: "Okay, since there is no life-threatening lawsuit, there are two ways left for you. One way is to continue hiding in Saihanba, or find another place to hide."
"The advantage of doing this is obvious, you don't have to live in a prison cell, but the disadvantage is also obvious, you will live in fear for the rest of your life."
Hearing this, Zhang Fulin's eyes flashed with a hint of struggle.
"However, with the current criminal investigation technology, the probability that the official can find you is still very low."
Zhang Fulin couldn't help but feel a sense of hope when he heard this, and said quickly: "Technician Feng, how low did you say it was?"
"As long as you don't commit any more crimes and don't get into trouble, it can be said to be infinitely low."
In the original drama, after Zhang Fulin voluntarily surrendered, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. He behaved well during his sentence and was finally released from prison with a reduced sentence.
From this, it can be judged that Zhang Fulin did not participate in the "murder". Otherwise, according to the laws of the 1960s, as long as he participated in the murder, he would definitely be shot.
In addition, looking at Zhang Fulin's past performance, he is not actually bad-hearted. On the contrary, he has a good heart.
Zhang Fulin said doubtfully: "Really?"
Li Jie nodded and said: "Really, at this time, God knows, earth knows, you know, I know, as long as I don't tell you, and you don't tell me, who will know what you have committed before?"
Zhang Fulin pointed to the horse hoof gold: "Then... what about this one?"
"It?" Li Jie smiled and said, "Brother Zhang, these pieces of horseshoe gold are not the only ones in the world. Horseshoe gold is a precious metal from the Western Han Dynasty. Although this thing is very rare, it is not unique."
"Besides, if you are really worried, it is better to find a place to bury it. It is best never to let it see the light of day again."
After hearing these words, Zhang Fulin was silent for a long time. When he spoke from his heart, his heart moved.
Horseshoe gold is indeed precious, but in Zhang Fulin's view, it is a curse!
If it weren't for it, how could I have become anonymous and left my hometown?
Now he has a home and cannot return. As he thought about it, Zhang Fulin raised his head and glanced at the southern sky.
'I wonder if my mother at home is still well?'
‘Ouch!’
'Actually, I did all this myself. If I hadn't been obsessed with it, how could these things have happened.'
"Lao Zhang, my words have spoken. What you do next is up to you."
Looking at Zhang Fulin with a look of nostalgia, Li Jie threw the horseshoe gold to the ground, then turned around and walked towards the camp.
"I'm leaving first, you can think about it yourself."
When he came back to his senses, Zhang Fulin happened to see Li Jie's leaving figure, and then he lowered his head and glanced at the gold horseshoe on the ground.
How to choose?
Is there any need to say that?
Of course, I threw away the horseshoe gold and stayed on the dam!