Chapter 108: Xue Xiaojie suddenly woke up
It turned out that the girl who jumped off the building was named Xue Xiaojie, a prospective college student who had just taken the college entrance examination and had been admitted to Southeast University, and lived in Beiwangzhuang Village, Qingshui Town.
Xue Xiaojie's family is very poor, and her father worked day and night to make up for her tuition after learning that his daughter was admitted to university, and finally fell ill. There was not even a barefoot doctor in the village, so she had to go to Qingshui Town to buy medicine for her father. However, the money she had with her was not enough to pay for the medicine. As the saying goes, "a penny suffocates a hero", not to mention that she is a weak woman!
Depressed in her heart, she came to the rooftop of the department store with mixed feelings. At first, she didn't want to jump off the building, but just wanted to stand on a high place to breathe and relieve the depression in her heart. However, when she was mistakenly thought that she was going to jump off the building, especially when she saw the "onlookers" heckling, she saw the ugly side of human nature! is such a simple and extreme idea, but it was "instigated" by the people who coaxed downstairs that she finally chose to jump off the building.
It was only after Zhong Lin's simple persuasion that Xue Xiaojie suddenly woke up. And after she woke up, she couldn't help crying in fear, even she didn't know what she was thinking at the moment of jumping down, she just felt that someone under the building had been shouting "jump down", "jump down and be free", "jump down and be a hundred"...... , and jumped down in a daze.
After repeated questioning, when the firefighters finally confirmed that neither the girl nor Zhong Lin had any injuries, they just felt unbelievable, and they both thought that "it's a miracle!", after all, everyone is fine, isn't it the best?! Because Xiong Jianbiao was there, the police in Qingshui Town only asked Xue Xiaojie to make a simple record, and after communicating with Xiong Jianbiao, it could be regarded as a "handover". Of course, this is also what Zhong Lin requested, so as not to bring unnecessary psychological burden to Xue Xiaojie by those policemen who are asking for the bottom of the matter.
At this moment, the onlookers had already gradually dispersed, Zhong Lin and Xiong Jianbiao first took Xue Xiaojie to the pharmacy to buy medicine, and then came to a restaurant. First, everyone is hungry at noon, so they can fill their stomachs, and in addition, they must enlighten Xue Xiaojie again, lest she drill the horns again.
Although Zhong Lin was also a little hungry, he didn't have much appetite, looking at the simple girl in front of him, his heart seemed to be pressed by a big stone, which made him feel breathless! If it wasn't for him and Xiong Jianbiao passing by today, if it weren't for his ability to be different from ordinary people, maybe Xue Xiaojie would have left this world by now, so what should her parents do......
At this time, an indescribable feeling rose in Zhong Lin's heart, and his gaze gradually turned from Xue Xiaojie to the window......
In recent years, whenever Zhong Lin saw the news about jumping off the building on the Internet, his ears always echoed with "Jump if you want, don't hesitate!", "Jump quickly", "Why don't you jump", "Do it again", "If you have the ability to jump, you don't have the ability to die", "Come on, come on", "One jump to relieve a thousand sorrows"......
As the saying goes: "It's better to die than to live", if a person is not forced to be helpless or desperate, no one will embark on the road of suicide. When someone commits suicide, what everyone should do is to try their best to persuade and explain, so that he (she) can feel the warmth of human affection, the love of relatives, and there are many beautiful things in this world, so that he (she) has attachment to the world. For everyone, there is no hurdle that cannot be crossed, and there is no river that cannot be crossed!
It is certainly not advisable to commit suicide, but it is even more undesirable to "encourage" others to commit suicide, or even to stimulate and satirize others, and to add fuel to the fire! Now there are a handful of people who "are not afraid of big things"!
Mencius said: "Without compassion, you are not human." This means that if you don't have any compassion or compassion for a person who is suffering, then you can't be counted as a human being. The ancients knew this, but what about people today? Not only did the heckling spectators not save them, but their actions even directly contributed to the wrong choice of the victims. You must know that ordinary suicides often encounter extremely sad things and are unable to bear unexpected blows before making the wrong choice. As a normal bystander, we should help the suicidal person get through the difficult time when he hesitates, so that they can see the good side of human nature, so as to give up the idea of committing suicide and cherish life.
It's not just the onlookers who jump off the building, but now when they see someone stumbling and falling into the water, some people are indifferent to the sidelines; there are still a few people who believe that it is the end of the mountain and the water; in front of the public, the little girl is insulted by the scavengers, and passers-by turn a blind eye; when they see the righteous and brave people being retaliated and beaten by the gangsters, people are afraid to avoid it......
So much so that during safety education, we will teach everyone not to shout "catch the thief" when encountering a burglary, let alone "help," but to shout "on fire"! The indifference of people's hearts has reached an unbelievable level. So "what the hell is wrong with us?"
More than 100 years ago, a group of ordinary people who also suffered, oppressed and humiliated watched the revolutionaries be beheaded, and when the heads fell to the ground, onlookers numbly swarmed up and dipped the blood of the martyrs with steamed buns. This moment deeply pierced Mr. Lu Xun's heart, mourning his misfortune, angry with him, but also helpless about their ignorance and ignorance, so he gave up medicine and followed literature, and wanted to use the pen in his hand to transform the hearts of the people.
Today, the phenomenon of spectators has not disappeared, but has become more and more intense. If the onlookers and those who stained the steamed buns decades ago were because of the ignorance and numbness of long-term oppression, then what is the reason for the young people who are playing with modern mobile phones and computers, shouting "jump", and "old irons, double click 666"?
Take a look at the shocking and depressing headlines: "Girl insulted by scavenging man in public toilet, more than 40 onlookers and no one stopped"; A five-year-old child fell into a stinky pond with hundreds of onlookers who were unable to help him", and a young girl was raped* in a taxi, while the driver was just a "spectator".
We are indeed in a peaceful and prosperous era, and people's living standards are getting better day by day, can't people's hearts warm up together?
Zhong Lin gradually withdrew his gaze from staring out of the window, and looked at Xue Xiaojie sitting across the table, what a good girl, she almost died from the mouth of the "onlookers" just now.
"Iron shoulders bear morality, and nothing is peaceful"
At this moment, this sentence from Zhang Zhong's testament suddenly appeared in Zhong Lin's mind......
"Morality, morality, righteousness, righteousness, righteousness!"
"Xiao Xue, I just heard you say that you are from Beiwangzhuang Village, Qingshui Town?"
Zhong Lin's thoughts were interrupted by Xiong Jianbiao's question, and he turned his head to look at Xiong Jianbiao and Xue Xiaojie.
"Yes, I'm from Beiwang Village, Xiong ...... , Brother Xiong, do you know our Beiwangzhuang Village?!"
Xue Xiaojie blinked and looked at Xiong Jianbiao, revealing the innocence that a girl should have, looking at her current appearance, no one would associate her with the girl who was about to jump off the building half an hour ago.
"I know, of course I know, Beiwangzhuang Village in Qingshui Town, is it the Beiwangzhuang Village where a foreign-funded enterprise came to build a factory and then built a small villa for every household in the village for free?!" Xiong Jianbiao said, his brows moved suddenly, and his eyes looked Xue Xiaojie up and down again.
Xue Xiaojie saw Xiong Jianbiao's thoughts, first sighed, then picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of water, and then said leisurely:
"Brother Zhong, have you also heard of our Beiwangzhuang Village?! A few years ago, I was on the provincial TV station's ......?"
Zhong Lin nodded and said: "Well, I heard from the people in the village when I was in high school, and almost everyone in the village was very envious at that time, if I remember correctly, the company that invested in building a factory on your side should be an island enterprise, right?"
"Yes, Brother Zhong, Brother Xiong, it is an island country enterprise, because they want to occupy some fields in our village to build a factory, so as compensation, they built a two-story small building for every household in our village before building the factory, and also issued a subsidy, at that time newspapers and TV stations also reported this incident, and then many villagers felt that a golden lump fell from the sky, and they all felt that they had become rich overnight......"
Xue Xiaojie said and looked at Zhong Lin and Xiong Jianbiao, Zhong Lin's expression did not change, just quietly waited for her to continue, and the puzzled expression on Xiong Jianbiao's face was even better.
"You must have a question, we should live a very rich life, why do I say that my family doesn't have any money, not even my college tuition?!"
Xiong Jianbiao nodded heavily and said: "Yes, Xiao Xue, I heard that your side was beautiful before, as the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to draft, even if there are no foreign-funded enterprises in the past, your side will not be so poor, in recent years, the economy has developed, and the living standards of the people in other places in Qingshui Town have also improved a lot, why are you building buildings for free and subsidized, but now your life is worse?!"
Xiong Jianbiao frowned, looking puzzled.
"Brother Biao, don't worry, you wait for Xiao Xue to finish speaking. ”
Zhong Lin's expression was the same, and he made a deferential look.
"At the beginning, the standard of living in our village really improved a lot, and some villagers would wake up laughing when they fell asleep. However, as time went on, things began to change. Just as Brother Xiong said, our village is originally beautiful with green mountains and waters, and the spring water on the mountain and the well water from the ground are all sweet, and you can drink it directly with a scoop, which is better than mineral water......
Xue Xiaojie said as she spoke, a faint smile appeared on her face, it was obvious that her childhood memories were very good for her, but then her words changed sharply, and her expression became serious......