Bullets and Opium by Liao Yiwu

Author:Liao Yiwu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers

The Accomplice

One day, at home in Sichuan, I got a call from someone claiming to be my “accomplice.” When I went downstairs to meet him, I saw a plump, ruddy-cheeked man entering the main gate of our apartment complex, opening his arms toward me from a distance. It was the former poet Li Qi, who once played a small role in the production company for my film musical Requiem, which landed us all in jail. Now he was in the “alternative book business,” a gray market where people purchase excess print runs directly from the printer and sell them off on the side. There was no trace of the suave young man he once was.

Li talked about how other accomplices of ours—friends also sentenced in connection with Requiem—were doing. “Most of them have made some money, but there are exceptions like L, who still lives in the county capital. The woman he married snorts heroin. Whenever she’s on the stuff, she starts cutting her wrists. The whole family hit rock bottom. Not to mention W, who lost two wives in ten years and now spends his days drinking, stuck in a dream world.”

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