Chapter 12: The Watchmen

"What should I do? I can't wake up, why don't you take Teacher Han to the sink?" Ishminaya was helpless when she saw Han Ting unconscious.

Gu Biao originally wanted to avoid the suspicion of men and women, and didn't want to blaspheme the teacher, so he tried to get the younger sister to wake up the teacher at first.

But looking at Isminaya's 1-foot-5 waist circumference and her delicate body that had just recovered from her injury, how could Gu Biao be embarrassed to let her work hard.

"I'm sorry. Gu Biao said silently in his heart, picked up Han Ting and walked to the bathroom.

Nowadays, there is no domestic water heater, but the dormitory provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the most high-grade after all, you can burn the boiler in winter, use copper tube radiators for heating, and in summer you can also directly turn the faucet to adjust the hot and cold water (it is the hot water boiled by the boiler room, which is supplied through the water pipe, not every household boils it by itself)

Gu Biao took the cleanest-looking strip from the towel rack and should be used to wash his face, and then moistened it and put it on for Han Ting.

Nothing happened.

He could only gradually increase the amount of hot water, and finally woke Han Ting up.

"Teacher Han, are you okay? Are you drunk? Otherwise, I'll call an ambulance!" Gu Biao patted her face.

Han Ting's shirt was also wet, and now that it was summer, she was only wearing a white shirt, and some of the black inside inevitably showed through.

Gu Biao also knew that it was rude not to look at the other party when talking to someone. But in order to ignore the indecency, he could only twist his head away, hug Han Ting and put her back on the sofa, and then drape her with a towel blanket.

"Teacher Han, what's wrong with you? Is it just that you're feeling sad? Ishminaya sat beside her and persuaded at a loss, brought her some hot water to drink, and took out essential oil to rub her temples to refresh herself. The wine was slightly sober, but Han Ting still didn't say a word.

Gu Biao helped clean up the mess on the ground, found a total of two rum bottles, and threw them all into the trash can in the kitchen.

I actually drank two bottles of 750ml rum, which are still Cuban products.

Gu Biao could see that the other party's face was a little ashamed, and there should be something unspeakable or shameful, so he was embarrassed to confide in the student.

Otherwise, what is the majesty of the teacher?

He thought for a moment and said in a mature tone: "Teacher Han, if you have something embarrassing and embarrassed to tell the students, then forget it." But don't drink it, or we'll be worried and we'll have to stay outside your door for a day - you don't want Mina to be tired like this just after she recovers, do you?

If you think two people are embarrassed to say, then it's okay, you name it, whoever I and Mina go out for a while, it's okay, as long as you don't drink anymore, everything else is easy to say. ”

Han Ting's expression was complicated and confused, and with a little sadness, she looked at Gu Biao, and then at Ishminaya. Originally, I seemed inclined to talk to the girl, but in the end, I turned my eyes back.

"Mina, you go to my bedroom to rest for a while, let me be quiet, I'll tell Gu Biao about it. ”

This decision is a bit of a ghost and not very logical, but after all, it is due to the fact that Gu Biao is more mature, and he can understand some words better.

Without any hesitation, Ishminaya went straight into the inner room, closed the door, and obediently did not eavesdrop. She believed that the senior would relay it to her in a moment.

The moment the door was locked, Han Ting seemed to be suddenly relieved, and confided in self-deprecation: "My ex-husband remarried." ”

"This ......" Gu Biao was a little confused, and he didn't know where to persuade him.

The amount of information is too large and too strong to digest for a while.

They are a group of good students who have got internship opportunities, and sometimes they occasionally talk about the teacher's family situation, and they all know that Han Ting is single.

But no one has ever offended her privacy, so I didn't know that she was divorced, and I thought she was a foreign celibate.

Gu Biao thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure out what Han Ting's position to be sad about since she was divorced, and finally she could only speculate: "Could it be ...... He was sorry for you in the first place, so you always wanted him to change his mind?"

However, Han Ting's next answer once again blocked Gu Ao's angle of relief:

"No! I'm sorry for him - in '74, a group of people in the ministry went down, and the next year it spread to him, so he also went to the northwest to plant trees. When he had an accident, I took the initiative to divorce him and draw a line. ”

It turned out to be assigned...... No wonder there was no movement at all.

But since you're sorry for others, what do you have to be wronged about!

Gu Biao could only enlighten euphemistically: "Teacher, there is a sentence I don't know whether to say or not - since you are sorry for him, and now he wants to start a new life, it seems that there is no reason to stop it......"

Han Ting glanced at him lonely, a little anxious: "Even you look at it like this, you are really too young to understand the times at all." I shouldn't have told you that. ”

Gu Biao knew that she had a bad temper due to her alcohol, so he naturally didn't care about her. And if it weren't for the fact that the wine hadn't woken up, it is estimated that she would not have had the courage to confide the truth with the students after drinking and talk about the unbearable experience in her heart.

"Teacher, don't be angry, I'm really young and don't understand, is there something else hidden?"

Seeing that Gu Biao was so humble, Han Ting finally felt better, and continued to babble sluggishly: "He and I were the last class before the school was abolished, and we barely graduated in 69 years. When I first set foot on the job, I didn't have any boys in my eyes, but I just wanted to do something for the country, and in those days, young college students were so fanatical.

After two years of work, when I was 23 years old, I caught up with the United States, and there were many other countries that came with the Americans. The ministry gave everyone a lot of reception tasks, and I plunged into it wholeheartedly, and foreigners asked me to accompany me to drink, no matter how much I would drink, dance, guide, and do anything.

It's a pity that I was young and ignorant at that time, and I worked too hard, and finally I drank too much and was ...... by a foreigner Defiled. At that time, I had thoughts of suicide and felt that there was no hope in this life. As a result, a year later, he came out and said that he knew my character and didn't dislike it, and I was very moved, so we were together.

It's a pity that after two years of marriage, I met him and had an accident. At that time, although I mentioned the divorce, I also had a clear conscience, and I never felt sorry for him in the past four years, and I was all clean and self-conscious. My thoughts were nothing more than this: if I didn't draw a clear line at that time, if I was also implicated, who would get him back? Who would help him appeal?

He also discussed it with me at the beginning and agreed with my approach. For the first two years, he was also very confident, and kept writing to me until I could figure out what to do—but unfortunately after 77 years, he gradually ran out of patience. He didn't understand, *** had already been shattered, why he and a few other comrades couldn't come back yet.

After waiting for another year, he secretly married a young lesbian who had also made a mistake and was sent to the northwest to plant trees. Because I didn't reply to the letter later, I didn't even know, but the woman was still married for the first time, how embarrassed I was to go back and entangle, alas, it's all fate.

Last month, I finally waited for 'intellectuals are part of the working class', and a number of ordinary cases that were not implicated in major cases came back, and I hurriedly tried my best to find someone to hand over materials and help him...... As a result, the day before yesterday, I waited for him to bring back a woman younger than me. ”

After saying the last sentence, Han Ting paused on the sofa again and cried hysterically.

Gu Biao felt that his brain was not enough for a while.

In this era, how can there be so many bizarre and complicated entanglements between men and women, and I don't know which one of the men and women to blame......

Perhaps, it is the characteristics of the times?

However, he also knows that in the final analysis, this tragedy is still a matter of patience - when the state overturns the case of the wronged person, there is also a gradual process.

Small local mistakes are generally put back in a wave in 77 years.

However, the mistakes of those who have been Beijing officials, especially intellectuals, have indeed come out a large number only after the great man said last month: "Intellectuals are part of the working class."

Later, there was a wave of 81 and 82 back at the peak of the wave, and there were more people, and the positions of those years were also higher, mainly involving some major cases, and they had to wait for the country's "resolutions" on certain historical issues to come out before they could be moved.

And Han Ting's ex-husband should not know when there is hope, so he is desperate in waiting.

Because in the face of adversity, people often need to set a benchmark for him and tell him how long to hold on to the end, which is easy to inspire perseverance. Once the benchmark he thought had passed, but the end had not been reached, many people would give up on themselves.

However, regardless of who is right and who is wrong, the problem still has to be solved.

Gu Biao thought for a while and proposed awkwardly: "Teacher Han, from your point of view, do you still want to remarry your ex-husband?"

"It's no longer possible. ”

Gu Biao said euphemistically: "Don't say it's impossible - some people can share weal and woe, but not wealth and prosperity." Although the woman is married for the first time, she may also want to find someone to live with in a desperate situation to tide over the difficulties.

After coming back, everyone has to face different units and even live in different cities. It may not be a good thing if you can let her leave without hurting the woman and return to her hometown to find a happier home. ”

The reason why Gu Biao persuaded him so much is also because in his opinion, divorce is actually nothing. Especially because of the tragedy of the times, the parties did not make mistakes, and they should still be able to find a new home.

Of course, he also knows that this era is still relatively conservative. I'm afraid that the woman's original unit or hometown is particularly conservative, then it will be troublesome - take a step back and assume that if that woman can be as advanced as Han Ting, and even know foreign languages and can go abroad, it will be no problem to marry a foreigner in the future, anyway, white people almost don't look at marriage and love history, everyone is so messy.

In the same way, if Han Ting herself can let go of her ex-husband and start a new life, Gu Biao feels that it will be more convenient. On her terms, it is not too easy to find a foreigner in a few years.

Han Ting pondered silently for a while, and suddenly laughed bitterly:

"You have a point...... I really didn't expect you to be quite mature, and you would ask a young man of your age to enlighten me. I'll make a phone call right now and ask the couple out for coffee in the evening, and it's a showdown. A person can't solve the problem by holding back and drinking, and if he really thinks it's better to live that way, I'm dead. ”

"That's right, you can afford to put it down. It's nothing if you can't get along with yourself. Gu Biao was also relieved, and then called Isminaya out.

Han Ting snorted coldly: "Hmph, you men have nothing to lose if you are divorced, of course you can afford to put it down." I'm 32! If I had known four years ago that he would be like this today, it would have been a little possible for me to start a new life, but now, I really don't hope that I will live my own life, and there are many such women in foreign countries. ”