Lovers (novella) Zhang Baotong

After falling out of love, my sister hated my stepfather to death, and the two of them were in the same unit, looking up and not looking down. When my sister saw him, she didn't look at him and ignored him, all thinking that he was a stranger. My stepfather's temper was well known throughout the Agency, and he could not tolerate my sister treating him like that. So, he hit my sister with a stick. My sister was so angry that she cried and asked the factory leaders to transfer her elsewhere, otherwise she would die in front of them. The factory leaders saw that there was nothing they could do, so they reported to the leaders of the engineering department, and at this time, there happened to be a place recommended to go to Xi'an Railway Health School. So, I gave this place to my sister.

I was a freshman at the time, and the Xi'an Railway Health School was only two stops away from our teachers' college, so my sister often came to visit me. Soon after, I was introduced to a company-level cadre of the Lanzhou Military Region Office in Xi'an, who met my sister. People call him Company Commander Wu. He was very lively, and he was very kind to my sister, and he often bought some food and goods that were in demand for my sister in the army, and invited me to dinner a few times. At that time, there were no English dictionaries everywhere in Xi'an, so he managed to ask someone to go to Beijing to buy me an English dictionary. In my eyes, I think Company Commander Wu is really good, and my sister will be happy with him.

However, when he took my sister back to his hometown in the countryside of Liaoning, a woman came to my sister and said that she was engaged to Company Commander Wu and had received a marriage certificate. When my sister heard this, she almost fainted in anger and was about to leave Company Commander Wu. Company Commander Wu cried and told my sister that it was an arranged marriage arranged for him by the family, and that he didn't love that woman at all. My sister asked you if you don't love her, why do you want to get a marriage certificate with her. So saying, he left their house. Later, Company Commander Wu chased me all the way to the UNRWA hospital to explain to my sister, but my sister was very sad because she had been deceived by him, so she didn't even see him again.

After graduating from Xi'an Railway Health School, my sister was already 24 years old, and almost all of her classmates and colleagues who worked with her were married and married, and some of them had children, and she began to look for her other half again. There were very few people in the Agency as a whole who did not marry and start a family, and they were all left over after someone else had picked them. My sister could only endure the pain and sorrow caused by the emotional storm and began another emotional journey.

This time, she was looking for a repairman from a repair shop adjacent to the hospital, who was short and not good-looking, and compared with my sister, not only was her appearance too far behind, but her job title and position were not on the same level. But he was kind-hearted, down-to-earth, and obedient to my sister, so he won my sister's heart. Because my stepfather's unit was next to the hospital, he soon found out about it. When he saw that my sister had found a worker on the spot who did not have the slightest eye, many times worse than the one she had been looking for, he ordered her to stop associating with that person immediately. But he forgot that other people's children are also people's hearts and minds no matter how much they don't like them. No matter how ugly and ugly that object is, it is my sister's beloved. The last time he beat the mandarin duck and forcibly demolished the lover, my sister has always been haunted and resentful, so my sister turned a deaf ear to my stepfather's obstruction and interference. However, she forgot that her stepfather was the oldest and most stubborn person in the Agency, and he went directly to the hospital during working hours to make trouble with my sister, and scolded my sister in the most humiliating and ugly words in front of the doctors and nurses. Because he is an elder and a father, my sister can't help it, so she cries angrily. My stepdad even ran to the repair shop and yelled at my sister's object. If it was an ordinary young man, he would have pounced and knocked his stepfather to the ground, but because the man was honest and was in love with my sister, he hurriedly hid when he saw my stepfather coming. The stepfather was so angry that smoke came out of his throat when he saw that his efforts were in vain and fruitless. Moreover, my sister was openly walking with the subject, as if she was deliberately ignoring his existence. This made him even more mad and angry, so he ran to the hospital and yelled at my sister, scolding me for all the dirty and harsh things such as immorality, shame, shamelessness, shamelessness, picking up rags, and never seeing a man. The leaders and colleagues of the hospital came to persuade him, but not only did he not listen, but the more he scolded, the more fierce he became, endlessly. My sister felt that her stepfather had disgraced her and made her unable to live any longer, so she had to fight to the death.

She said to her stepfather, "It's not that you don't want me to live, then I'll die for you." As he spoke, he picked up a large bottle of dichlorvos that had been prepared long ago in front of his stepfather, and drank it like cold boiled water. My stepfather was stunned, and so was everyone present. By the time they pounced on my sister and snatched the bottle from her hand, the pesticide in the bottle had almost dried up for my sister. After drinking the medicine, my sister stared at her stepfather fiercely, and then she fell to the ground in one fell swoop.

The people present hurriedly lifted my sister up and sent her to the emergency room. Although I was not present at the time, I had witnessed this scene of first aid. The secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of our Education Bureau once committed suicide by taking a large dose of sleeping pills. At that time, I had just been transferred from school to the Party Office of the Education Bureau as a secretary. As soon as I got to work in the morning, the director of the party office told me to go to the hospital immediately, Secretary Xu committed suicide by taking medicine, and the ambulance was rushing to the hospital for rescue. I immediately followed the director to the hospital by car. Secretary Xu happened to be lifted out of the ambulance, so we ran over to help carry him to the emergency room. He was already tall, and the person who was unconscious was even more dead, and it took us a lot of effort to carry him to the emergency room. His wife said that she had only been out to buy groceries for forty or fifty minutes, and when she got home, she saw him lying on the ground. Doctors estimated that he had only about half an hour to take the medication.

Secretary Xu was lying on the hospital bed, the corners of his mouth were slightly open, his eyes were closed, his face was pale, there was no blood at all, and he didn't even have any breath in his body, exactly like a dead man. The doctors rushed to give him oxygen, injections, and gastric lavage. So, he had a sling needle in his hand and a leather tube in his nostrils and mouth.

After a while, our director, secretary and others came over, looked at Secretary Xu, who had no breath, and comforted Secretary Xu's wife, asking us to take good care of Secretary Xu, and call the bureau if there is anything. After the leaders left, I asked my trade union colleague Secretary Xu's wife who was a teacher in school, his daughter who went abroad to study in Canada, and his son who was also a school worker in school. I've heard of depression. The mother of a friend I often play table tennis with has a depressed mother, who shouts all day that she doesn't want to live anymore and wants to jump off a building. Therefore, their family not only sealed the windows with iron fences, but also did not dare to leave people at any time.

The rescue began at 9 a.m. and ended at 3 p.m. The doctor said he was awake. So, we walked up to Secretary Xu and watched the corners of his mouth really move slightly, and his complexion was a little ruddy, as if there was a trace of life squirming weakly. I called the director and said that Secretary Xu had woken up and the doctor was going to move him to the inpatient department. The director said that it was hard work, so come back. Later, I heard that Secretary Xu was in the hospital for another seven days, but less than a month after being discharged, he committed suicide by taking medicine again, and this time, the doctor failed to revive him.