One is a female judge with a national coat of arms on her head, and the other is a man sentenced to prison for hooliganism, this is an extraordinary love affair that transcends the stormy ...... of the world
Chapter 1: Nightmarish changes unexpectedly
It's the season of spring. One weekend night, a rapid ** ringing woke Luo Jun from his nightmare, he seemed to have a terrible premonition, he stretched out his trembling hand and grabbed the microphone.
Luo Jun, what's wrong with you? His wife, Zhang Shaolan, sat up and asked with concern.
I went to the office to have something, and the newspaper leader came**.
It's late at night, what's the urgency to go tomorrow? The wife said.
Lan, if I can come back tonight, I will tell you everything; If you can't come back tonight, you can do it yourself, take the child with you, and I'll go. Luo Jun hesitated.
What the hell is going on? Zhang Shaolan looked at her husband who got up in a hurry in surprise, as if she had discovered that he was so strange for the first time.
A week later, the news of Luo Jun's arrest came, and Zhang Shaolan couldn't believe her ears. Since her husband left suddenly that night, she has been worried about her husband, who is a well-known genius in the newspaper, who can draw, write, photograph, and think quickly, what will happen to him? And since they got married, their relationship as husband and wife has been very good, what will the husband hide from her?
After several twists and turns, Zhang Shaolan learned the facts of her husband's crime, and soon she heard the news that her husband had been sentenced to 15 years in prison and deprived of political rights for 3 years.
A week after the verdict was announced, Zhang Shaolan went to see Luo Jun with resentment, she made up her mind that no matter how he defended and pleaded, she could not forgive his mistakes, and she would resolutely file for divorce from him, for the feelings she had paid, and for their daughter who was about to enter elementary school.
Looking at that familiar and unfamiliar face, Zhang Shaolan's heart was like a knife, she never thought that she would meet her husband in such a depressing environment, could this haggard and bearded man be the talented husband in the past?
Zhang Shaolan's stomach of grievances, reproaches, and the harsh words that poured into her mouth seemed to be shattered by the iron windows, high walls and Luo Jun's painful expression, she couldn't say a word, just looked at Luo Jun who was buried in a daze.
Lan, you know everything you should know, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for the child, I just ask you for one thing: "Let's get a divorce!" ”
The room was quiet, Zhang Shaolan seemed to hear the sound of every word, they trembled in her heart, and she refused to disperse for a long time.
When she got home, Zhang Shaolan picked up the pen and wrote down her feelings to her husband: "Divorce, what a simple two words, but can they exonerate all guilt?" Today, we are going to break up, and you and I seem to be at peace, but this peace is accompanied by resentment, pain, and longing, and only you and I know each other about this terrible word! Speaking of knowing each other, you really disappointed me, and your absurd behavior shattered my dream of 'knowing each other and not doubting each other', and broke my heart.
Countless criminals have been reformed in the Meritorious Forest, and they can all be reborn. If you are also flesh and blood, and you are a man, I want you to see that high wall as a milestone in your life, to say goodbye to your wrong past, and to start your new life today, tomorrow ......
Life is like a canvas, this canvas is supported by time, the spirit is the palette of the picture, and the painting is your words and deeds. When painting, it is inevitable that you will make mistakes in the brushwork, you might as well use the iron window as your oil painting knife, eliminate the mistakes, paint new colors, I have a hunch that the pictures of your life will be brilliant again. That's the advice and expectation of me, my little sister or a friend who has been with you in life but eventually broke up. ”
Chapter 2: His wife's love makes him pick up a paintbrush
Implicated by Luo Jun, Zhang Shaolan transferred from the army, and she returned to her parents in Shanxi with her children from Beijing. The environment has changed, the conditions have changed, and everything has to start from scratch.
In the first year after returning home, she passed the ** college entrance examination with excellent results. The college admission notice came, but Zhang Shaolan hesitated: What should I do with my children when I go to school out of work? After careful consideration, she had to give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and instead use her spare time to study law and devote herself to studying law. Three years later, she passed all the examinations in the legal profession, obtained a diploma in law, and transferred to the court.
After becoming a female judge with the national emblem on her head from an ordinary **, Zhang Shaolan still wrote a letter to Luo Jun every month, and she couldn't figure out why she did it, from the moment Luo Jun proposed to break up, Zhang Shaolan remained silent, and she never explicitly agreed to his suggestion. She just found the notebook she gave to Luo Jun back then, she has been married for 9 years, and there is not a word left on the former love object, and 9 years later, she decided to give this notebook to him again. This notebook contains 48 letters written by Luo Jun's wife one by one, which is not an ordinary family letter, nor is it a shocking love letter, but it supports Luo Jun's life every day in prison.
On the title page of the notebook, four ** poems are neatly written, and at the bottom right is a red bean pasted with plastic tape. Turning the title page, it is Luo Jun's diary in prison:
It may seem counterintuitive for the same person to give the same gift repeatedly, but it can multiply the value of the gift itself. Take a look at this beautiful notebook, I was given twice before and after 9 years, everything in these 9 years is like flowing water, like a whole page blank on the notebook, ashamed of the gift! How can I forgive myself? Friends, please believe that with my devout efforts, I have reinvented myself and comforted that white jade heart, so that this rare book that has been blank for 9 years can testify! ”
Half a year after Luo Jun was imprisoned, Zhang Shaolan brought her daughter to visit the prison.
Nannan, didn't you say okay at home? Come here and see Daddy, look, that's Daddy, he's waiting for you. ”
The daughter squirmed over, her steps sluggish.
Nannan, call Daddy! Luo Jun's voice choked.
The daughter shook her head.
Nannan, can you forgive Dad? ”
I don't know. That time, Luo Jun was very sad.
When she got home, Zhang Shaolan said to her daughter: "Nannan, write a letter to Dad!" ”
Has he changed it? The daughter asked rhetorically.
I don't know, there's nothing to prove that he's changed for the better. ”
Mom, didn't you say Dad was a badass? I don't eat eggs from today onwards, and if I leave the good eggs for my dad to eat, he's not a bad egg, is he? Listening to her daughter's immature words, Zhang Shaolan felt an indescribable sourness in her heart.
During the Spring Festival of the following year, Zhang Shaolan took her daughter to visit the prison again.
I'm here to see grandma, not you. These were my daughter's first words.
Can you blame your daughter? This sentence, like an ice hockey, couldn't melt in Luo Jun's heart for a long time.
Luo Jun took his daughter to the studio and told her about his paintings, it was the god of love that erased the unbridgeable gap between the father and daughter, and the daughter finally called out emotionally, "Dad." ”
The relationship between father and daughter was dredged, Luo Jun insisted on writing a letter to his daughter, and gave her an art lecture in the letter. On his daughter's 10th birthday, he made it himself and prepared 10 gifts for his daughter with the money he saved in prison: a handkerchief, a pen, a little angel, a portrait of his daughter, a poem, a book, ......
After receiving her birthday present, her daughter also gave back a gift - a packet of calendula seeds. It says "with a good wish" in English. This is a bag of flower seeds of understanding, sprinkled into the wasteland of the soul, Luo Jun seems to smell the fragrance of flowers.
The relationship between father and daughter has returned to normal, and the joy of family has occupied the daughter's heart again. When she was 9 years old, she published the first work "Mother's Love", and ran her own "Juvenile Paradise Newspaper", which was sent to the prison every issue, and asked her father to engrave it with a steel plate and distribute it inside and outside the wall, and a total of 22 issues were published in two years.
As a prisoner, Luo Jun underwent reform, and as a father, he had the responsibility of educating his children. As the child grew up and the relationship between father and daughter became closer and closer, he suddenly thought of another serious issue: the child's values and morals should be synchronized with society, and let her know that the father was at fault and a sinner in society. He began to tell his daughter about his mistakes and his determination to repent.
He compiled his daughter's story into a book titled "Whispering": "Dad, you are **, I want to whisper to you." Do you know? Mom looks forward to you coming home every day, and her eyes are red from crying. I went home and asked my mom, can the badass get better? She nodded, tears streaming down her eyes. Please, my good father, I save every meal of eggs so that you can eat more good eggs. Don't worry if no one is playing with you, let my doll talk to you, and promise me to come home early. Don't be the badass dad that scares me. ”
This is the inspiration triggered by remorse and tears, this is the idea of the completion of the repentant heart, and this painting won the first prize of the "Prison Spring Art Exhibition". ”
Chapter 3: He was reborn in Nirvana
The specter of pain has finally awakened the sleeping genius, awakening his inner and outer worlds. Toothpaste skin, matchsticks, hair, wood chips, bricks, ......These cheapest materials, these discarded objects that people are familiar with, are skillfully glued, combined, and carved into works of art, and what is even more touching is that each work contains deep thoughts and fiery feelings.
Listen to his introduction to his work
The painting is titled "Eternal Love" and is made from a towel that I have used for three years and can no longer use. This towel was given to me by my lover when I was imprisoned, and it was brought from Beijing to Changsha for three years. ”
This is a Chinese painting, titled "Let's Return": the path of the hometown, the familiar village, the call of the homeland, and the call of relatives. The wind of my hometown and the clouds of my hometown wash away the clouds of sorrow for me and heal my wounds. "This print uses a discarded packaging board, and it's unbelievable that this work won an award.
Half a moon and half a sun were seen across a wall, and half a woman and half a man were looking. Come back, go back to her hometown, she will open her whole chest, and he will hold the whole love. This is an inscription written on the hair painting "Hope". The hair used in the hair painting was provided by a number of young female prisoners who had lost their footing, and the painting was an extension of their lives.
Studio **, there is a wooden plaque with Luo Jun's inner monologue on it
In this secluded hut
The green vine locks the four walls
Stars peek out the window
The waning moon bowed her head like a cry
Wicked son......
It's like a bird trapped in a cage with two wings
It is like a horse stumbling and it is difficult to move
One thought can ruin half a lifetime's fame
One step away, across the end of the world
Luo Jun, your work is too sad, you have to come out of the painful, low gray mood, jump out of the narrow self-silence, and shape your new life. And through your works, touch more sunken souls. The warden looked at his works, affirmed his initial exploration, and pointed out the direction of his future artistic creation.
Warden, I want to relive a dream that has never been realized in the past and hold a solo exhibition, okay? He asked tentatively.
It's a good idea to turn past dreams into reality, and I support you. The warden readily agreed.
The dream is fascinating, but the reality is hard. Painting without a canvas, he tore his own sheets. During the day, it is hard physical labor, and at night painting is often an all-nighter. He paints spring, paints the sun, completely immerses himself in a realm of beauty, forgetting that he is a prisoner serving a sentence.
In the early winter of this year, he completed 21 new works in one go in 14 long nights, creating his own artistic miracle. In the early morning after the work was completed, he fell asleep soundly in front of the painting, and was awakened by a burning pain in his sleep, which turned out to be a fire under his feet that had burned his trousers, and a large blister burned on his leg, which has not disappeared to this day.
His dream finally became a reality. The warden inaugurated his exhibition and served as the first docent. The people who visited the exhibition came: among them were prisoners, cadres, college students, **, journalists, calligraphy and painting experts, Chinese and foreigners. The exhibition has received more than 26,000 visitors, including more than 70 foreign guests from Japan and 15 countries across the ocean.
The exhibition caused a sensation inside and outside the walls, and there was an endless stream of visitors, and more and more people asked Luo Jun to buy his works. Luo Jun was not intoxicated, he had a new plan, can he let these works of art "go into the homes of ordinary people?" He reported his idea to the prison leaders, and soon got the support of the prison leaders, the report was approved, and the prison arts and crafts factory came into being.
Soon after the establishment of the Arts and Crafts Factory, a merchant saw the wood painting sample, was amazed, and immediately invested 300,000 yuan to order 1,800 pieces.
Luo Jun led 30 prisoners to make wooden paintings day and night, and three months later, 600 wooden paintings were completed on schedule.
Based on Luo Jun's meritorious service, the court of the original verdict again made a commutation verdict. On the day he received the notice of the commutation sentence, Luo Jun was so excited that he stayed up all night. After serving 6 years in prison, he worked as the editor of the prison newspaper for 5 years, publishing more than 200 issues and writing more than 200,000 words; A personal exhibition was successfully held, 6 inventions were patented, and more than 40 works won various awards, generating more than 10 yuan of income for the prison. He has made more than 10 major and minor contributions, and commuted his sentence 5 times......
On the day he received the notice of commutation and commutation of the sentence from the original court, this surprising news told him that there were still five days left in the sentence, and the day of release after the completion of the sentence came so suddenly and ecstatically. There are still 5 days left, and in the last 5 days of bidding farewell to the prison and welcoming new students, he created a large wooden painting "The Soul of the Mountain" with a deep sense of gratitude.
On January 1 of this year, Luo Jun finally walked out of prison. The not so far road from the cell to the prison gate, he felt that it was a long, long one, and he walked for a long, long time. When he came to the particularly conspicuous cordon at the gate, he stopped. This is the boundary between man and demon, this is the division between black and white, step out, one step away from the two heavens!
Standing in front of the cordon, his legs suddenly became extremely heavy. It's been 6 years, what kind of world is out there? Is there still room for your own survival? He wanted to know all this, but he was afraid to know it. With a sense of uncertainty about the future, he crossed the red cordon with trepidation.
For 6 years, during the day, Zhang Shaolan has exercised the power of the laws of the republic under the solemn state micro, and when she returns home at night, she has to fulfill the responsibility of a wife and send hope and expectation to her husband who is serving a prison sentence in a distant place.
Luo Jun, my expectations for you are not too high, as long as you are worthy of my heart and work hard to reform, no matter the length of your sentence, on the day you come back, I will give you a glass of self-brewed wine. This is Zhang Shaolan's promise to Luo Jun.
From Zhang Shaolan's letter, Luo Jun dimly felt the existence of that home: the fence yard, the mud wall, the housekeeper dog, and a small vegetable garden in the courtyard planted a pile of red sorghum, which was used to make wine, and his wife kept brewing it every year, burying the self-brewed wine in the ground, waiting to celebrate that special day.
The dog at the head of the village barked, and Luo Jun couldn't tell whether it was a sign of his return home or a warning of welcome. Step by step, he walked towards the courtyard.
Chapter 4: With his wife's love, he can go further
You're back! The wife trembled slightly and stopped what she was doing, and said in as calm a tone as possible.
There was no excitement of reunion after a long absence, no complaining complaints, and nothing seemed to have happened between them. They sat facing each other, with a bowl of wine on the table.
Drink it, it's a wine made for you......”
Luo Jun took the bowl and tears rained down. This is a bowl of bitter wine that has been brewed for 6 years, how many tears, how much sweat, how much love, how much love it melts into, Luo Jun seems to feel that he can't hold this precious love, and he drank it all.
Lan, today I have been released from prison, but I will always be a sinner in front of you, and I owe you and your children so much that I cannot repay them forever. ”
Stand up, don't lie down again. The past belongs to the Grim Reaper, and the future belongs to you. I don't need you to pay anything back, I just want you to live up to my heart. Look at it, this is my diary, and the second bowl of wine I give you. ”
Luo Jun unfolded his wife's diary, on which was a poem of Yuefu: "I want to know you and live a long life." There are no tombs in the mountains, the rivers are exhausted, the thunder in winter is shaking the rain and snow in summer, the heaven and the earth are together, and they dare to be with the king. ”
That day, Luo Jun was drunk, and he fell drunk in his wife's broad bosom.
Everything starts from scratch, everything from scratch. Luo Jun, who had just come out of prison, was eager to hold an exhibition in Beijing. Zhang Shaolan took out all her savings and took on all the housework as before. Her warmth once again stimulated Luo Jun's creative passion, he used his own gloves, kettles, bamboo mats, insoles, military pants and other creations to complete a military camp series, and then he extended the tentacles of art to family life, collecting his wife's melons, beans, leaves, and seedlings, and conceived and produced a family series.
From his works, it is not difficult to see the bitter pain in his heart, and he uses the scars to infect and inspire people who have similar or different experiences to him.
On the day of the launch, leaders of the Ministry of Justice came to cut the ribbon, and more than 60 reporters from news units attended the press conference. On the day of closing, it was Luo Jun's 43rd birthday, and a friend sent him a birthday cake, and he drew a beautiful end to the 43-year-old annual ring with his true feelings.
After the exhibition, a friend came to the door and said that he was willing to set up a arts and crafts factory with Luo Jun, and after some preparations, "Harrow Art Society" was finally born. Luo Jun is the president, and there are 30 newly recruited students under his command. Among them are unemployed youths, young people with disabilities, and people who have been released. Luo Jun put forward the social motto: self-improvement in learning and art, and mutual love in art. All the staff of the company worked together and worked hard. Soon, the first crafts were put on the market. Market feedback shows that wood paintings are highly sought-after.
Luo Jun knows that every step he takes is inseparable from the strong support of his wife behind him, and in his life, between the ups and downs, what he can never forget is his wife's sincere love.
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