Chapter 1 Who will attend their own funeral
Who will sit in their car and wait for their funeral?
Shen Huai sat in the car, looking out the window and through the shade of the ancient elm trees on the street in front of the temple, the sun's rays were mottled like glass in the shadows, like the sleep of death, making him look at the emptiness of his heart.
In the back of the tower cemetery, there are three pagodas built during the Republic of China, next to the thousand-year-old temple Tianning Temple.
These three pagodas, originally the largest national capital family in Donghua City during the Republic of China, the private pagoda garden built by the Sun family, once provided three statues of Guanyin in gold, silver and jade, and were famous in the province for a while.
On the eve of liberation, the Sun family and their families moved overseas to settle down, and the Sun family's farm property and this pagoda garden were confiscated subsequently.
In the 50s, after the pagoda garden was opened as a people's cemetery, most of the nearby citizens deposited the urns of their relatives in the pagoda cemetery. The big trees in the garden can be seen everywhere, green and lush, and the water pavilion mountain stones are also all over the garden, if you are not afraid of the bad luck of the dead, the tower cemetery is the most worthy scenery in the southern suburbs of the southeast and south.
There is a small square outside the gate of the tower cemetery, Shen Huai parked the car on the edge of the small square, parked under the shade of the verdant trees, and watched a liberation brand truck slowly drive over and stop in front of the gate of the tower cemetery......
After Shen Huai saw his long-time friend and colleague Zhao Dong, who was also his colleague in the city steel mill, parked the car, he got out of the car first from the driver's seat, walked around to the right side of the car, and opened the door-
The little sister got out of the car with a lead-gray urn, there were tears on her beautiful face, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and Shen Huai, who was sitting in the car, saw the tears falling straight down and dripping on the steering wheel......
The relatives and friends who accompanied the funeral came down from the back compartment one after another with wreaths, and the couplet was written with the official letter of the little sister Juanxiu: "The sorrow is irretrievable, and the crying is accompanied by the wild cranes: mourning brother Sun Haiwen." ”
Three days have passed, and the initial shock and confusion have not completely disappeared, but at this time, seeing the little sister so grief-stricken, Shen Huai's heart is more clearly a tingling pain, how much he wants to open the car door and rush out, and tell the sad little sister loudly:
Xiao Li, I'm Haven! I'm not dead, I'm still your brother......
It's a pity that he is now living in someone else's body, and no one knows him anymore from his little sister, relatives and former colleagues.
Shen Huai's hands clung to the steering wheel, his nails dug deep into the flesh, and he felt no pain:
He should have died, and the urn held by the little sister contained the ashes of his dead body after cremation, but his consciousness and soul were living in someone else's body......
Two of the funeral attendants were his colleagues in front of him, who did not enter the pagoda cemetery, but walked this way, standing in the shade of the tree and smoking a cigarette to rest, not noticing that there were still people sitting in the car parked on the side of the road......
"It's a shame that Haven just died. If I had known this ending, it would have been better to transfer to the city with Lao Xiong......"
"Lao Xiong went to the city to transfer Haiwen away. It's just that at that time, the factory cooperated with Little Japan to carry out technological transformation, and to build a continuous casting furnace, the factory was inseparable from Haiwen......"
"In the final analysis, Haiwen is also soft-hearted, he followed Lao Xiong to the city with all his heart, and he could stop him at that time by licking Gu Monkey, who came to power by licking the eyes of the city leader? Tell me, Haiwen has not yielded all these years? Why has he lived so subtly, isn't it because his family has no power and power? The more talented Haiwen is, the more he will be suppressed under someone like Gu Monkey - in the final analysis, isn't he afraid that Haiwen will end up riding on his head? Haiwen has lived a really hard life over the years, this time he was admitted to Yan University as a doctoral student, he could have stopped looking at the monkey's face, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen, this old thief is unfair......"
"Haven is dead, his sister Xiao Li was originally dependent on him, and suddenly became lonely, in fact, she is the most painful in her heart, and she doesn't know what to do in the future!"
Listening to his former colleagues, standing next to the car and hugging for himself, Shen Huai had mixed feelings in his heart: Sun Haiwen's life is his life;
He graduated from the provincial university in 86 years, and then assigned to the city steel mill, with a solid discipline foundation, it only took more than a year to understand the production technology of all links of the city steel mill, and became the absolute technical backbone of the factory.
Even if he has no background, he is also quite valued by Xiong Wenbin, the former director of the city's steel mill (that is, the old Xiong who was discussed by his colleagues just now), and served as the director of the workshop in two years, almost setting a record in more than 300 state-owned enterprises in the city. Later, the city steel mill built a branch in Xinjin, and Xiong Wenbin proposed to let him serve as the branch director, when he had only been in the city steel mill for less than three years.
However, after Xiong Wenbin was transferred out of the city steel mill, especially after Xiong Wenbin was quickly transferred to the idle department in the city, his defects without background were completely exposed.
Maybe he was too sharp before, and his extraordinary talent and technical foundation also made him doubly excluded and suppressed, and he was completely kicked into the boiler room in the past two years......
In fact, if you go to the city with Xiong Wenbin, the situation may not be better.
Xiong Wenbin can be said to be one of the most capable people in Donghua to engage in enterprises, in the middle and late 80 years, in the management of the city's steel mills, has created an annual profit and tax of more than 300 million brilliant achievements.
Xiong Wenbin was initially transferred to the city as the deputy secretary-general of the municipal government and the director of the enterprise office, and everyone thought that Xiong Wenbin would soon be transferred to a more important position.
Who knows that Xiong Wenbin's transfer is just a trick by some people in the city to let others control the city's steel mill?
Within a year of Xiong Wenbin's arrival in the city, he was kicked to the Policy Research Office of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government as deputy director, as if he had become a marginal figure in Donghua officialdom, and he still has no way of showing his future.
If he and Xiong Wenbin go to the city, how much better will the situation be than in the city steel mill?
Thinking back on his past life, Shen Huai sat in the car, and his heart was full of bitterness.
He can be regarded as having seen it thoroughly, in a place like Donghua, the economy is underdeveloped, and there are few opportunities to get ahead, and they are all controlled by those with backgrounds and powerful people, even if he is capable and talented, it is difficult to have a great opportunity for development.
In particular, it is the most fatal mistake for others to snatch and take advantage of the horse, and your self-cleanliness is the most fatal mistake.
This world is never fair.
It's not that he didn't think about leaving the city steel mill, but in the area of Donghua, leaving the city steel mill, there is not much that can allow him to play a skill.
There are several private enterprises in Donghua City, which seem to be okay in scale, but they are not necessarily cleaner than state-owned enterprises behind the scenes, and the management of these family enterprises is also controlled by nepotism.
Another one, at that time, his father had passed away, and his mother was seriously ill, and his little sister was still young, so the situation did not allow him to leave Donghua and go to other places to develop - although he lived a miserable life in the city steel mill, his income was quite stable, and he was able to support the family alone.
His mother died of a serious illness a year ago, and he was successfully admitted to the doctoral student of the Department of Economics of Yan University. I thought that this was an opportunity to jump out of the small circle of Donghua with my little sister, but I didn't expect an accident to happen three days ago.
On the same day, Vice Mayor Chen Mingde led a team into the city's steel mill to inspect the city's most important technological transformation achievements in recent years.
Just when he climbed onto the thermoelectric blast furnace and explained the technical transformation of the city's steel mill to Vice Mayor Chen Mingde and his party over the years, the rusted railing under his hand suddenly broke, causing him to fall from a height of 20 meters......
The time of the fall was very short, and his mind was blank, only remembering that before falling to the ground, he hit the left shoulder of Vice Mayor Chen Mingde's secretary, and then he was completely unconscious.
When he woke up, he was already lying in the hospital, and the doctors around him, as well as other people who seemed to recognize him and had a strange feeling that could not be ruled out, all looked at him with concern: "Secretary Shen, Secretary Shen, you have finally woken up......"
He couldn't figure out what happened at that time, and the specific experience was still heard from other people's mouths: "It's really dangerous, that worker almost rubbed the tip of Mayor Chen's nose and fell, Secretary Shen, you are also fatal: just rubbed to the left shoulder, in addition to dislocation, the abrasion is more serious, and you need to be hospital......ized for observation."
“…… The city steel mill should really be put in order, and it would be enough to kill one or two workers this year, if Mayor Chen inspected the enterprise, but the news of the workers was smashed, the officials of Donghua would still have the face to go out. ”
It seems that at that moment, he should have been Sun Haiwen, but inexplicably became Shen Huai, the secretary of Vice Mayor Chen Mingde......
It took him a long time to figure out what was going on:
When he fell to the ground, his consciousness had already detached from his body, and he should have completely dissipated and said goodbye to the world, but the accident happened at the moment when he hit the left shoulder of Deputy Mayor Chen Mingde's secretary before he fell to the ground.
The impact of hitting his left shoulder was not nothing, but the shock of the sudden accident, which made Chen Mingde's secretary lose his soul at that moment.
If consciousness was a tangible existence, at that moment, Secretary Chen Mingde's consciousness collapsed due to intense shock, and his consciousness burrowed into Secretary Chen's mind and survived.
To put it more colloquially, Secretary Chen Mingde was actually scared to death at that moment, and he was parasitic in the body of Chen Mingde's secretary Shen Huai......
Shen Huai's injuries were not serious, and he spent three days in the hospital in a groggy state. Today, an elderly patient passed away in the hospital, and the cries of his family woke him up, only to realize that when he parasitized other people's bodies and adapted to his new identity in shock and confusion, Xiaomei must be grieving for his "unexpected death", and will become lonely and helpless from now on......
Shen Huai woke up in shock, how could he care about the doctor's dissuasion? He immediately rushed back to the city hall to get a car, and rushed to Meixi Town, which is next to the southeastern suburbs of the city.
Shen Huai was like this, starting from noon, he witnessed his little sister holding a funeral for himself with the help of relatives and friends, sending his body to the crematorium for cremation, and watching the urn be sent to the Tianning Temple Pagoda Cemetery for storage......
Seeing that the little sister was grief-stricken, Shen Huai was so powerless: the little sister, as well as the relatives and friends he was familiar with, all regarded him as a stranger-
If it is said that one person is one world, from the moment he crashes to the ground, he must live in the world of Chen Mingde's secretary Shen Huai, and can no longer return to Sun Haiwen's world......